With ActivityPub you know who's following you and in RSS you don't. This may sound like a negative until you think about it from the user's standpoint: no spam, spyware, etc. Which is probably why Google didn't like RSS btw.
@davew But with RSS it's still easy to understand number of downloads and potentially unique user downloads based on IPs/user agents since these are logged on servers anyway. Anonymous, big picture stats.
@davew Sure, I commented only on the passive, stats part. Partially possible. The rest does not apply as there is no direct way to contact subscriber/downloader.
This is a long shot I know, but my brain won't stop trying to figure out what these two games were. Ideas welcome.
The first was a top-down adventure RPG thing, I'm pretty sure for the Jaguar, but there's a slim chance it was a Megadrive game. I remember you started out on a path, possibly in a village, and if you followed the path you came across a couple of knights and would get attacked. I basically always died there, or managed to get a sword but couldn't progress much further.
What the actual fuck, Mastodon.social?
They now interstitial wall links out like other social networks they bitch about? Really cool leading by example, not. Link is to be clicked without your backward warnings. #openinternet#mastodon#ux#ui#links#hypertext#mastodonsocial
Somebody asks for a desktop alternative to MacWhisper for Windows (i.e. speech to text transcriber) and somebody else recommends a cloud Google service. Should we call that second person a simpleton with a cloudy mind?
"After the world's governments began their above-ground nuclear weapons tests in the mid-1940s, radioactive particles made their way into the atmosphere, permanently tainting all modern steel production, making it challenging (or impossible) to build certain machines (such as those that measure radioactivity). As a result, we've a limited supply of something called low-background steel..."
"Generative AI models are trained by using massive amounts of text scraped from the internet, meaning that the consumer adoption of generative AI has brought a degree of radioactivity to its own dataset. As more internet content is created, either partially or entirely through generative AI, the models themselves will find themselves increasingly inbred, training themselves on content written by their own models which are, on some level, permanently locked in 2023," #ai#LLM
Wannabe #AI is often used for tasks for which tools have existed forever. But hypers and lazy people will rather go to stochastic parrots and spend minutes prompting them (and often not even reaching their goal) instead of searching for and using a primitive, but highly useful tool.
Examples? Generating CSS selectors, regexex, cron instructions etc.
That's what wannabe #AI usage is about these days. #hype#idiocracy#llm
After 25 years in HTML, it’s clear browsers/AT aren’t going to expose it consistently, never mind some set of users will always miss some piece of information.
Don’t use <abbr> (with or without title). Explain the thing on first use.
Visual filter challenge! I want an #SVG filter that, when applied to an HTML element like an image or video or heading or whatever:
• divides the element into a grid of cells (say, each cell is 10x10 pixels)
• finds the average color of all the pixels in each cell
• fills each cell with its average color
Basically, a pixelator, but done in this specific way, so I don’t have to dilate points, as in other solutions I’ve found. Anyone got ideas, or even a pointer to an example of this approach?
I had almost forgotten about Lotus Agenda and the whole PC software category it belonged to, Personal Information Managers. A good reminder is this post which rediscovers Lotus Agenda and takes it out for a spin:
@amoroso wow, that autopopulating fields functionality like category and person from free flow text is better than what's the most web planners and task managers can even do today. Instead they just polute their UIs with plenty of unnecessary form fields.
