@Richard_Littler see, I'm worried now. Are you doing better? Check in with a doc?
@[email protected] @[email protected] "Let he who has never put their mobile in the fridge throw the first cucumber."
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Ah, rain in the basement. Just what I always wanted.
@sjvn Similar: In approximately 2002, a recruiter talked to me about a senior position working with a J2EE stack. I was told that although I had led the team that shipped JProbe—the first integrated suite of server-side Java development tools—my 7 years of Java experience were insufficient to work in a bank.
Java first shipped in 1995.
@[email protected] @[email protected] Something about IT seems to bring this out in people. I was once asked to help word an email to a customer explaining that we could not honestly assert that the bespoke software we were being commissioned to write had been deployed for at least two years in a production environment without a major security incident given a) it didn't exist and b) it running in anyone else's production environment would suggest a rather brutal breaking of the NDA we'd already signed with them.
@mavnn @evan In the ordinary course of events, to see the boosted post, you would have to be following the bot. If the argument is this service will help expose hashtagged posts to broader audiences, that value is only realized if the bot has followers. Some number of those who follow the bot will probably also follow people they find through it.
I think where some of us see this potentially getting sticky for very narrow or personal hashtags, the bot may be seen as an adequate substitute for following the original person. And in the case that kicked off the debate, a hashtag used by one specific person for some of their more intimate work, a bot that exists to repost that hashtag *looks like* an attempt to do exactly that. Whether intended to or not, I understand the icky feeling that gave people.
As I've expanded on elsewhere, even though I don't specifically think Evan intends this, inserting the bot in the middle is an intermediation and poses some risks. If people follow the bot as a substitute for a hashtag feed, that's fine, but it's still an account, not a feed. The controller of the bot could begin to make editorial decisions about which posts to boost or censor, could start inserting other original content, could change direction entirely, etc. And to whatever extent that works, it would have been done on the back of the original work of others plus some non-consensual mass aggregation.
@[email protected] @[email protected] Thank you
@maxleibman @steve lol
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] Running my own instance I like the idea of tags pub as I don't want to set indiscriminate relays (which are not fully supported by the server yet anyway) of manage a massive federation list that would never include other single user instances I don't already know about in some way.
@evan @alice I didn’t say you targeted Alice specifically (the opposite, in fact), but they are a specific example of the problem. But hundreds of thousands of accounts makes it worse, not better. That means you’re doing the same problematic thing to every other hashtag that has a small number of contributors and/or is primarily associated with one particular person.
And setting aside the attention-harvesting aspect of this, I also think this is a boil-the-ocean solution to something that could barely be called a problem. Who was clamoring for this? Who had “hashtag apartheid” anywhere on their lists of reasons the Fediverse didn’t work? To the extent this is even an issue, small servers that can’t see hashtags well is solved by better federation. Other services that can’t follow hashtags are *different services* and are allowed to offer different feature sets. Your service might “solve” those problems, but I think the costs and externalities are too high.
I will say, my previous posts may have implied you are doing this in order to harvest follows and attention that would otherwise go directly to the original posters; having read several of your replies this morning, I believe that’s not your intent. To whatever extent your service has uptake, though, that *will* be an effect of it. That’s why I find it problematic.
@[email protected] @[email protected] I'm following along as I'm finding both sides of the debate making good points here. Would you be able to expand a bit on why the effect of a bot boosting a hashtag would be "to harvest follows and attention that would otherwise go directly to the original posters"? A boost, by definition, is the original posters post so I feel like I must be missing a second order effect that is obvious to you.
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I of course see an endless stream of people saying that "modular monoliths" are the default approach now for building enterprise-y systems. As one of the guys who builds development infrastructure, I'm telling you right now, that's not an easy slam dunk that there's worlds of complexity behind that!
@[email protected] It's almost like picking a different architecture changes how you solve your problem, rather than removing it. Who would have thought?
(Not that some problems aren't easier or harder to solve with some architectures, but I do get a bit tired of the 'do this, it will make it easy!')
Nowadays I'm more plugged in.
I hear about scumbags, creepers who are geek trade influencers, every single fucking week.
These are names you know.
@[email protected] Some of it is so much more banal than the creepiness and directly sexual as well. The very first professional tech conference I went to, I chatted to a female speaker and found out that (in context of the conference having paid to fly her across the atlantic to give a technical talk because she was a world class expert on the subject) she had just been told that she needed to choose between taking a pay cut to move to "developer relations" or get sacked because "a really good engineering candidate came on the market, and you're so good with people skills". No points for guessing the gender of the new team member.
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Blue coder needs coffee, badly
'Mercury' would be a good name for a heavy meta band.
@[email protected] You are not alone in thinking this metal-archives.com/bands/Mer...
@[email protected] @[email protected] Early in my career I accidently wrote a parser for an open source project that restarted from the beginning of the string every character, going one further each time. Never been quite so embarrassed by a release note before or since: "[x] parser performance improved by three orders of magnitude on average config file"
@[email protected] @[email protected] The release note was from the next release that included the fix, given I apparently haven't had enough coffee to write clearly this morning yet.
@evan
Definitely is great when you see the solution and the performance improves significantly.
@[email protected] @[email protected] Early in my career I accidently wrote a parser for an open source project that restarted from the beginning of the string every character, going one further each time. Never been quite so embarrassed by a release note before or since: "[x] parser performance improved by three orders of magnitude on average config file"
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Shhh! It's (kind of) secret. I'm running an online course for teens creating assets for visual novels, and last week one person couldn't make it. So if you're curious about some beginner tips on creating game characters with varying expressions and nice environments in Krita without running out of time to actually write your game, you can be nosey. The video is unlisted because it's a but rough and ready for people see without context, but given you've got enough taste and distinction to be following this account you now have context!
youtu.be/8W7L2-0f2RE #VisualNovel #krita #GameDev #Layers #MoreLayers #YouCanFixThatProblemWithLayersToo
Orcs In Corridors
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My wife is now begging me to make this for dinner. 😅
@[email protected] @[email protected] Yeap, gluten free food required over here and we do something like this regularly. Also chonky varient with embedded veg: soften some sliced courgette, pepper, or spinach in a pan and tip a slightly thicker layer of the egg mix on top. Try and have enough veg to cover the base of the pan so the egg at the bottom doesn't over cook before the top sets. Bit of garlic with the courgette or nutmeg with spinach goes nicely.
@[email protected] Ostensibly the person using the word ostensibly meant ostensibly
"Ostensibly for Risus of all things. Takes me back."
"He wrote Risus as well."
"Ah!"
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Whelp, found out today that someone wanting to improve the clarity and engagement of their #ttrpg writing hadn't heard of 'Toast of the Town' so I was able to give them enough experience to immediately level up.
Thanks, @[email protected]
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@[email protected] You'd hope tactics like this would be self-defeating, but unfortunately that "hope" is bearing rather a lot of weight I'm not sure it can support.
@[email protected] But like a pineapple does it contain neither apple nor sauce?
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Chatting with someone about #ttrpg writing and was reminded of Nobilis 3rd edition, a game that contains my all time favourate example character and that has writing in its rules that you could quote for days. Like... how the interaction between your supernatural connection to things you value (the Treasure stat, think things like Thor's hammer) interacts with the Aspect stat (your ability to personally perform tasks beyond mortal limits, or opposed to say Domain where you control the thing you're a Power of to create miracles):
If you possess something using Treasure, you can wield your Aspect through its body. This draws on the natural limits of that body, however, rather than your own — if you’re possessing one of your hopes, for instance, you’re not going to be able to lift a great weight very easily because hope has no arms and legs. All you’ll be able to do is coil more tightly about your own heart, or shine in yourself with greater strength.
