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kraft, to random

Alright junkies, I'm a Mastodon instance admin and I'm an engineering group lead at Automattic (think the company of WordPress' founder) who is leading the work to add Mastodon as a supported service for our Jetpack Social product.

That said, what's the sell to get me to spend more time here?

indieterminacy,

@kraft @panos @smallcircles The Fediverse is a heterogeneous environment, with different communities, tools and ideas interoperating through common communications transfer norms and protocol technologies.

A generalist tool like Wordpress would be undermining its creative capacities and reach should it be confining itself to a subset of the Fediverse.

Given the acceptable barrier of entry here its within Automattic's capabilities and competences to overcome your stated inhibitors.

:)

ilumium, to internet
@ilumium@eupolicy.social avatar

corporations like are using targeted commercial advertising for EU officials in strategically selected subway stations to sell their crap as something desirable.

This is possible because we accepted to plaster our precious with space in exchange for a few bucks for our local public budget.

Instead we should the hell out of big tech.

indieterminacy,

@ilumium Indeed, there have been some nasty one off ones in Brussels metros in order to validate positions to further domestic politics within Europe.

Theres a long history of this stuff for instance. The infamous 'Labour Isnt Working' poster (UK) from Saatchi and Saatchi has a limited advertising run, it was carried through the media as an exaggerated controversy for free publicity ;)

LeanderZeichnet, to random

Let’s have . I draw something. I tell something, and in my thread you choose what comes next.

It is still in the middle of the night. You can’t sleep. The moon is bright. The bed looks cozy. But where are you in this picture?

(choose in the following toot)

indieterminacy,

@LeanderZeichnet

... the suspicion that the owners may come back from the concert sooner than expected

civodul, to random
@civodul@toot.aquilenet.fr avatar

My dream: a -backed build daemon, used as the foundation of a Goblins-backed Cuirass/Build Coordinator/Data Service. A bunch of focused actors (microservices? :-)) working hand in hand.

We’d pass “read” capabilities to packagers so they can inspect their state, and “admin” capabilities for developers and maintainers to fiddle with the build queue, query an evaluation, etc.

indieterminacy,

@civodul The problem with you is that you keep converting dreams into practical tooling.

There will be a dreams shortage if you dont slow down :)

niconiconi, to random

Q: How do Lisp hackers escape the police?

A: car.

indieterminacy,

@niconiconi
@shanecelis
Surely?:

(falco (cdr kommissar) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-bgiiTxhzM)

szczezuja, to random Polish
@szczezuja@mastodon.online avatar

I’m looking at (https://yarn.social) thread at:
https://social.wake.st/@liaizon/110330944764446712
and I started thinking about cooperating and formats. They have the same data structure, the difference is the notation only. So Yarn could easily translate the both notations into one ecosystem. Yarn docs is aware and has mentioned small net protocol in specification for eg.:
https://dev.twtxt.net/doc/twthashextension.html

indieterminacy,

@szczezuja You pretty much only need Awk to switch around the formats, needing anything else could be overkill.

btw, did you come across this Gemini instance for the fediverse?

gemini://hd.206267.xyz/

indieterminacy,

@szczezuja I did a parser in Awk form Gemtext but I think I banjaxed it and havent had the time to debug it
https://git.sr.ht/~indieterminacy/1q20hqh_kq-owo_interpreting_gemtext-glint

Keep me informed on your progress, Ive been wanting to do something equivalent using so it would be nice to compare approaches

indieterminacy,

@zksmk The Brits failed to condition Seagulls to identify submarines during WWII

indieterminacy,

@zksmk well, Brexit was a consequence of squirrels, so anything is possible...

indieterminacy,

@ned @zksmk One seagull fought for the allies and dived into the water

... hes Stalin there...

indieterminacy,

@ned @zksmk Enough of this waterboutery!

blinry, to random
@blinry@chaos.social avatar

Finally, a solution to the unfairness of authorship ordering in scientific papers! 😂

"Every Author as First Author"

https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.01393

Abstract We propose a new standard for writing author names on papers and in bibliographies, which places every author as a first author — superimposed. This approach enables authors to write papers as true equals, without any advantage given to whoever’s name happens to come first alphabetically (for example). We develop the technology for implementing this standard in LATEX, BIBTEX, and HTML; show several examples; and discuss further advantages.
Bias. A fundamental limitation to any approach that lists the authors in a fixed order arises when citing papers with several authors. In the body of a paper (as opposed to the bibliography), it is most common to write “X et al. [#]” when referring to a paper [#] whose first author’s surname is X. In author—year styles such as APA, this is even built into the citation itself, e.g., (X et al., 2023). As a result, author X gets their name effectively promoted with every citation, which is inconsistent with multiple or all authors being equal. In our own writing, we try to avoid this practice, and instead write all authors’ surnames whenever citing a paper, e.g., “X, Y, and Z [#]”. But this workaround becomes impractical for refer- ences with over a dozen authors, such as some of our papers (four examples with a lot of author names overlaid on top of each other, with publication years.)
Figure 3. Circular arrangements of the authors of Fisimindon (2020). Drawn in Inkscape using Circular Align and Distribute, onto a circle of radius 50 (left) or 200 (right); followed by 90° rotation (left); and rotating 180° to make names upright (bottom). 4. Future Work A final issue is that overlapping name stacks are not easy to read. It may be possible to write names in a way that has no first name but still makes all names clearly readable. For example, a circle has no beginning or end, so arranging the names in a circular pattern avoids arranging any author “first”. Figure 3 shows some initial experiments in this direction. Related, traditional round- robin documents (Wikipedia 2022) are signed by authors in a circle to prevent identification of a ringleader (such as mutineer sailors). It remains unsolved how to fit such circular arrangements in with the rest of a text document, which feels inherently sequential. Circular arrangements also seem difficult to apply to small numbers of authors such as 2.

indieterminacy,

@Matt_Noyes @blinry Did they ever arrest Bill Posters however?

indieterminacy,

@wiersdorf @blinry Tikz now has an animation feature, so that could be feasible declaratively.

indieterminacy,

@steve @ben_zen @simulo @blinry Consider hashes for all contributors - though the choice of algorithm could then become contentious.

indieterminacy,

@StuartDNeilson @blinry

Its beautiful.

Is it weird thinking that seeing something like that as a Moebius Loop would be more terrifying?

Loukas, to random
@Loukas@mastodon.nu avatar

Media literacy tip:

The surge of climate-change conflicts will be presented to us as "ethnic tensions lead to violence" in the newspapers.

The rise in climate refugees will be presented to us as "migrants seeking work."

When you try to read a new situation using the language of the old broken economic system it's hard to see what's happening.

indieterminacy,

@Loukas The French Revolution was in part a consequence of Icelandic volcanic eruptions resulting in massive crop failures.

The genocide taking place in Ireland during the crop failures is the case study for linguistic devices to avoid culpability.

Investigate The Distress Papers for example

https://www.rte.ie/history/2021/0603/1225835-the-distress-papers-a-road-to-nowhere/

Its worth stating that Ireland was a net exporter of food during that period.

Queen Victoria donated 5 Pounds to help, whereas the local Quakers did much to alleviate the crisis.

rysiek, to fediverse
@rysiek@mstdn.social avatar

Is it just me or have discussions on / (aka Reddit-like corner of fedi) become longer and deeper since started doing a stupid with third-party client API?

[Narrator: they have]

indieterminacy,

@ernest @rysiek It pleased me to discover your interaction with Lemmy content, for me symbiosis is a very important thing as it allows unexpected and new things to occur - without the intentions of original creators or distributors.

This is why I consider ecosystems like the Fediverse very interesting and worthy of attention.

indieterminacy, to random

@helge Ive just noticed that your feed is highly cow flavoured (if thats the correct term...).

Boy will you enjoy this talk of mine:

https://archive.fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event/minimalsyntaxes/

indieterminacy,

@BillySmith @helge Will do!

Im in the mood for doing it Kamishibai theatre with cutouts for the set and characters, using chopsticks and string.

I do have an idea of a greenscreen version spoofing Lemmings, using my toy penguin, Bingbong to herd many Cowsay cows but Id need ato develop some technical skills I dont have yet (nor that time atm).

One day, one day...

Check our The Crystal Maze, another party game RGP for UK telly, which features the guy behind the Rocky Picture Show compering

indieterminacy,

@BillySmith @helge I once tried a trick where using Sype I aimed the laptop camera and spun it around.

Curiously the effect was that the room around the mirror rotated around the reflection.

Experiment with your hackerspace re that concept!

indieterminacy,

@BillySmith @helge Having seen your name Ive just realised that you probably know The Crystal Maze, sorry :)

In a Streatham lad, though I absconded to Brussels a long time ago.

How is the hackerspace scene in London these days?

I had to drop my local here, theres a toxic leadership environment that wore me down.

indieterminacy,

@BillySmith @helge Butoh looks great

Ive seen many performances like this in Croydon around closing time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ms7MGs2Nh8

indieterminacy,

@BillySmith @helge Great.

May I ask to do a workshop on something next time Im passing through the city?

indieterminacy,

@BillySmith @helge

Decentralised and fediverse technologies?

Parsing and regular expressions?
Knowledge management?

Lisp?

It doesnt matter, just useful to have an excuse to visit.

Ill message about that next time Im planning.

joeyh, to random

Buffet bought 79800 solar panels at $15037 a panel. That's about 2x the cost of a whole pallet of panels.

I can't believe that this grift was not apparent to a majority of the businesses involved.

https://archive.is/MkRBx

indieterminacy,

@joeyh @simon Did you ever see this dodgy initiative?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_Heat_Incentive_scandal

You can imagine how significant the implications of such behaviour can be to the fragile setup in Northern Ireland

jensclasen, to random German
@jensclasen@mastodon.social avatar

The German language is actually quite veggie:

Da haben wir den Salat (There we have the salad) = What a mess!

Gurkentruppe (cucumber troop) = bad team

Tomaten auf den Augen (tomatoes on the eyes) = blinded

Bohnenstange (bean stick) = tall person

Spargel (asparagus) = thin person

Erbsenzähler (pea counter) = nitpicker

Interessiert mich nicht die Bohne (I'm not interested a bean)= I don't care at all

wie Kraut und Rüben (like cabbage and turnips) = messy

Enjoy our langveg!

indieterminacy,

@jensclasen This could be transposed into an emoji form surely?

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