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box464

@box464@mastodon.social

Coder, manager, dog dad. Tech tinkering is my joy. Be kind.

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box464, to random
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I’m looking for new shoes. Zappos presented me with this croc fever dream in my personal recommendations.

box464, to random
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@stefan provides the fediverse with a lot of great apps and research. Go give his work a gold star (seriously, that's all he's asking for).

https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/112464783923839162

box464, to random
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Embarrassing. I absolutely believed Phanpy did not have quote posting capabilities. I have even been jumping over to a different app on the rare occasion I use that feature, copying the post url, etc. over so I could find it. 🤦‍♂️

How could I miss it? The only thing I can think of is that at one time it didn't have them (I have been a Phanpy fan for a very long time), so I just blinded myself to them not being there out of habit.

I even run my own personal phanpy client instance. :psyduck:

box464,
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@cheeaun "purposely hidden" - it worked! :)

box464, to random
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There's too many cool web things to learn in a lifetime. But I'm still going to try.

box464, to random
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The three things that have helped me find a safe, happy social home on a larger instance are carefully curating who I follow, the hashtags I follow and keyword muting. This is my own self generated algorithm.

Still getting my bearings about how to make a smaller instance just as vibrant. Relays? Being more lax about who I follow? Maybe some of the newer fedi platforms like @newsmast and @Flipboard can help. I know @mammoth has hand curated topic feeds as well.

Jeremiah, to random
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Apparently my husband and I are so obviously gay a South Korean taxi driver felt the need to put on praise & worship music when we got in.

Jesus said be a light unto the world and I’m flaming, honey.

Also, TIL Hillsong in Korean is A Thing.

box464,
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@Jeremiah 🔥

box464, to random
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I saw a post today about another Mastodon API endpoint that is kind of in a zombie state (I looked into Featured Profiles awhile back).

This one is a “Mastodon Wrapped" end of year review.

On m.s. it's accessible but as expected doesn't return any data. Currently, the admin would have to jump to the console and run a task to populate the reports.

Like other "wrapped" end of year summaries, it's only available to the user.

box464, to random
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The next session is now live for and @manton is talking about improvements from the past year and what's next for micro.blog. Check it out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BTu-y09QgA

matej_svancer, to random
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RIP Twitter. Long live open social media

box464,
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@matej_svancer That’s amazing! I’ve been looking for posting to be added, definitely keeping my eye on this app.

box464, (edited ) to random
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Micro.camp is today! If you've ever used micro.blog, or want to take a closer look before diving in - this is the day.

https://micro.camp/

andycarolan, to random
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Is there a name-and-shame list of companies forcing AI tools into the products we use?

Perhaps with instructions on how to opt out of or block these tools... and even alternatives which don't include AI?

If it's made unprofitable or financially damaging for companies to force AI upon us, then perhaps they will think twice before doing it?

I realise that coming back from this dystopian AI hellscape is unlikely of course.

box464,
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@andycarolan AI will be jammed into hairdyers soon.

As we talk with vendors at work, I ask "How does [specific AI integration point] enhance my team's use of your platform?" and the answer is commonly hem and haws and finally "you can turn it off, it's optional."

There are a few instances where I do think it has been beneficial. As a rubber duck for developers. As a way to empower non-techie users to build reports is another (with guardrails on which datasets the AI has access to).

box464, to random
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I watched a few of the ChatGPT 4o demos today and what disturbs me isn’t the usage, but the men’s behavior demoing it.

Most of the time, the voice assistant was a female voice. When the AI didn’t do exactly what was desired or they just wanted to move forward, they would interrupt it in mid sentence and ask it something else.

It gave me the same perceived emotion as when I saw this video for the first time. Sad and sick to my stomach.

A robot attempting to keep its balance, while a man comes in and kicks it down, harshly.

box464,
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@wlf_warren Yeah, agreed. I get it is bits and bytes. But the behavior itself is gross, and with the conversational pattern being so lifelike and somewhat flirty (just…why?) how long before we start seeing this behavior becoming worse than it is already in meetings and conversations with real people.

cheeaun, to threads
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👀 So, this is what they've been working on: https://www.threads.net/@mosseri/post/C7CXVYIpI0G

Article: https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/16/threads-testing-pinned-columns-on-the-web-like-tweetdeck/

Observations, judging from screenshots:

  • It allows pinning accounts 🤔
  • It introduces gray background to fill the white space for this layout instead of the single-column version 🤷‍♂️
  • Corner radius got way more rounded, including the images/videos, for some reason…
  • Make sense for them to build it as there won't be any 3rd-party clients.
box464,
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@cheeaun It looks familiar somehow. Catch up next? 🧐

box464, to random
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I was using a testflight app and thought I was setting up a list of instances to view their public timelines - turns out it was an instance block list. 😖

So I lost all my hachyderm.io followers and follows. If you followed me, I didn't block you on purpose. Sorry! Please feel free to re-follow.

Luckily, Mastodon kept a backup of those lists for me, so I was able to identify the losses and re-import my follows at least.

box464, to random
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My team has a few positions open. We've been working through our candidate lists but there is still a little time to apply if you're interested.

All are new positions in a growing national non-profit, established back in the 90s and still going strong.

Data Analytics Manager
IT Project Manager
Helpdesk Technician

https://www.aanp.org/aanp-careers

mark, to random
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Texas has some of the strangest town names.

box464,
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@mark Bald Knob, AR always made me giggle.

box464, to random
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🪑⑁💺 Looking for home office chair recommendations. 🪑⑁💺

I work from home full time. I spend 8 hour plus extra at night sometimes for study sessions / programming hobbies. Fairly regular sized person, looking for back support - I currently sit at the edge of my seat for some reason. Probably not good.

Willing to spend some money on this, although I will mumble and grumble about it.

Thanks!

box464,
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@aj Thanks! I started searching around and found one with a foot warmer and massager, even. So many options.

hrefna, to random
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Making LLMs sound more human while being a spicy version of Bob/Clippy is the opposite of what we should be doing, but here we are.

box464,
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@hrefna The spicy take was so weird. Why put effort into that. Also the demo felt like I was watching an episode of The View or a late night infomercial.

cory, to random
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That works. Release date + the purchase link from the albums table, query the linked artists table for the #MusicBrainz link and genre. #Music

box464,
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@cory 👀 What's this. Playing with MusicBrainz API? Cool!

box464,
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@cory I'm using eavesdrop to push my Plex plays over to Listenbrainz and have been wanting to add the now playing / pinned song to my site. Small potatoes comparatively, heh.

Bookmarked your music page for inspiration. 🎸

https://eavesdrop.fm/about

box464, to LGBTQ
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Raise your glass to Mable Peabody’s Beauty Parlor and Chainsaw Repair. 🍻

Reminiscing about a time when lgbtq bars were more than a tourist attraction or profit margin, serving as a safe space for the local community to gather.

Is it progress, and we just don’t need them? Or have safe spaces moved online because it’s easier.

https://wedentondoit.com/blog/2017/9/6/a-farewell-to-mable-peabodys-beauty-parlor-and-chainsaw-repair

pipilo, to iOS
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Version 1.1 of on is out. Pipilo is a unique fediverse app where you view posts one at a time in a horizontal timeline.

New in this update is support for notifications. Following the core idea of the app they are displayed in horizontal groups organized by days.
Premium users can also enable push notifications with quick reply action.

Check it out, share and enjoy!

Full release notes: https://pipilo.thanel.me/changelog
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/pl/app/pipilo/id1584544719

Screenshot of push notification in Pipilo. The notification is expanded and text input field is focused allowing for quick reply.

box464,
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@pipilo GoToSocial working as well! Only issue I found is currently GtS doesn’t support following hashtags and that feature shows up (with error).

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