#Fediverse growing pains: The smallish #PeerTube and #Funkwhale instances I use have gotten big enough that handling all of the data is starting to cause issues, slowdowns and whatnot. The reality of distributed/federated computing coming home to roost?
Crossing this one off my "I've always wanted to do this" list: I got my fourteen-year-old single-player #Minecraft world running on a private Bukkit server so I could run DynMap (the dynamic map that you've seen on Bahaicraft videos). Finally, we can see the world in its fullest, most discontinuous glory.
It's all about renewal in our fourteen-year-old single-player #Minecraft world this week. After deleting some chunks to make way for new world generation, we wandered across the map and discovered weird and wonderful things—in both old and new chunks!
"O Thou kind Lord! Unite all. Let the religions agree and make the nations one, so that they may see each other as one family and the whole earth as one home. May they all live together in perfect harmony." (‘Abdu’l-Bahá)
It's not every day that we're on Bahaicraft at the same time as someone else! Today we spent time hanging out with Jinyuaki, scoping out his latest builds, and getting lost in the nether.
Got a nice, clean stream on Bahaicraft with very little lag. We checked out the new sorting system and took a walk down the new nether road. Oh, and the lilDudes and friends popped in for fun too.
I heard that #Ramadan and #Lent are both happening at the same time this year. Add to that the #BahaiFast, and you have three different religious fasts happening together 👀
I was going to play some #SimAnt or #SimCity this weekend to celebrate #MARCHintosh, but now I'm thinking I may just do an evening #HyperCard dev stream to show off the #zine I've been working on (slowly).
Here's one for the #ResearchEthics crowd. Eventually, I want to write an #HCI-related paper, or at least an article, about @xyzzy. I'll need to learn from and cite examples of user interaction. What ethical principles should I follow in approaching this? Here's what I'm thinking but need your feedback:
▫️ Treat all analyzed data confidentially - no PII, even if the post was "public"
▫️ Is it OK to screenshot posts if PII is removed? What about quoting? Assuming permission should be sought.
Y'all need to remember there's a natural endgame to all of this indiscriminate application of generative #AI. The more ubiquitous #LLMs become, the more they'll start to learn from each other. Feeding LLM output back into an LLM essentially poisons it and makes output degrade. Same thing with AI art generators. It's like making a copy of a copy; quality naturally trends downwards.
The upshot is that most* organizations that bank on generative AI will eventually, and naturally, fail. #SALAMI
A few days ago, I dusted off an old #Minecraft single-player world (and I mean over ten years old) and gave it a visit on stream. I'm thinking I'll start playing in it a little more often, since we've had some lag problems with the Bahaicraft server lately. Watch this space.
Speaking of #Marchintosh, is this the year when the content page links to "Content on the Fediverse"? I'll definitely put out one or more SimCity/SimAnt playthroughs on PeerTube: https://diode.zone/c/dragfyre_games/videos
Ayyám-i-Há is a time of celebration when Bahá'ís spread good cheer, perform charitable works, show hospitality, give gifts, and so on. This festival falls in the four or five days that fall before the Bahá'í Fasting month; these are "intercalary days", as they are days added to the Bahá'í calendar to help sync it up with the solar cycle. 🌞
Speaking of #spam, did you know that open registrations on your instance can lead to another, somewhat less irritating, but no less spammy type of spam?
Here are some fake businessperson profiles that were created recently on the instance mstdn.business (@jraitamaa did you notice these?). They're actually pretty funny, so I figured they were worth more than just a simple report.
