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julian

@julian@fietkau.social

Human-computer interaction #HCI, computer science & programming, home server & self-hosting, games and other fun stuff.

Increasingly into making tools for the fediverse: FediRoster, Pinhole, more to come(?). See https://fietkau.software/tag/fediverse for project info and downloads. If you do HCI-related research, check out https://directory.hci.social.

He/him. Posting mostly in English, but you might see the occasional German boost.

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brethudson, to random
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Looking for follow more folks doing cool stuff in the game dev space! Who do you suggest?

julian,
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@brethudson Game dev, let's see, here are some people I follow:

@brentendo @Tearcell @cosmicvoid @russmatney @AsherVo @Danc @Ridion @mortallymoonstruckgames @kenney @dphrygian @johanpeitz @NovaSquirrel @popcannibal

Didn't check whom you're already following, but tried to skip people mentioned in other replies. 🙂

I meant to pick up game dev again this year, although it's not looking good w.r.t. free time / priorities. You can check out my old stuff here if you like: https://fietkau.media/games

J12t, to random
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Imagine two identical with mainstream users. Same number of users, same connectedness of the social graph, same demographics etc.

Social network A only has an algorithmic feed. Social network B only has a chronological people-I-follow feed.

What would the usage numbers look like in comparison? Numbers of posts, numbers of likes/replies/boosts, growth trajectory, etc?

I would expect somebody has done some research on this. Anybody know of any public results?

julian,
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@J12t I respect the empirical observations, but I think in this conversation it's important that we be tediously explicit about the distinctions between what people want, what people say they want, what they use the most, what makes them happiest in the moment, what leaves them most satisfied afterwards, etc. etc.

Word has broadly gotten around that engagement maximizers cause doomscrolling and FOMO, but I still see too much conflation of "time spent on feed" with "this is what people want".

mpesce, to random
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Now it can be told:

While doing some AI engineering work for a client, I developed a prompt - completely inadvertently - that reduced every AI chatbot to gibberish (except Anthropic's Claude 3). I then spent a week trying to alert the LLM vendors to this issue - and largely failed. There is no mechanism to report flaws in these models that are already deployed to billions of users. Read the whole story in @theregister

https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/23/ai_untested_unstable/

julian,
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@mpesce Do the responses you're getting look like they could be related to the LLM phenomenon dubbed "anomalous tokens"? https://www.vice.com/en/article/epzyva/ai-chatgpt-tokens-words-break-reddit

(I understand this is beside your main point about vendor responsibilities, but if you haven't come across this report, maybe it's illuminating in some way.)

eniko, (edited ) to random
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can someone count the number of unique bosses in SMW for me? minibosses count but a recurring boss with slightly different patterns is still just one boss (like boom boom in 3)

i'd do it but i have a headache and it feels hard

EDIT: looks like its 7, thanks!

julian,
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@eniko As in SMW on the SNES? Let's see:

  1. Iggy/Larry
  2. Morton/Roy
  3. Lemmy/Wendy
  4. Ludwig
  5. Bowser
  6. Big Boo
  7. Reznor

I just quickly checked an "All SMW bosses" YouTube compilation just to make sure I haven't missed anyone, and they actually showed the Reznor fight four times. 😏

kerrielake, to pixelart
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There's also only 2 days left to get 35% off my itchio packs for my birthday week! I'm at 39% of my goal so it would mean a lot if you can support or share!

Link to my itchio page in bio

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julian,
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@kerrielake Are you using a crossposter to post the same text to multiple social platforms? If not, I'd recommend putting the link in your post here. There's no penalty for it, and it makes it much easier for people to find. 😀

https://itch.io/s/123398/birthday-week-sale-35-off-everything

aeva, (edited ) to random
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graphics research lifehack: you can cut out a ton of paywall scams and inscrutable academic wankery by excluding "we present" from your searches

julian,
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@aeva IME the biggest factor is that academics are often simply bad at writing. The eternal style guidance by journals and educators boils down to "clarity above all else," but many brilliant computer scientists have no clue how to convey a series of thoughts in a way that makes sense.

Though strict length limits on paper submissions can hurt additionally. I've gotten "your definition could use an example" in reviews, oddly they never seem to say what should be cut in exchange. 😏

@topher_batty

Dozer, to retrogaming
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Several still frame grabs showing the source footage used for the rotoscoped character animation in the game "Karateka".

Developed by Jordan Mechner and published by Broderbund (1984).



julian,
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@Dozer Obligatory note (for some reason I find myself telling people about this often): Jordan Mechner is on Mastodon @jmechner and posts about his older videogame titles as well as his current artistic work. I can recommend following him. 🙂

hongminhee, to mastodon
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The max_id, since_id, and min_id parameters in 's Timeline API assume that the post ID is a sortable number. (Is this correct?) , the implementation I'm building, uses UUIDs for post IDs internally, so I'm stuck on how to implement a Mastodon-compatible API.

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/timelines/

julian,
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@hongminhee Does it assume that? I don't see it clearly stated in the documentation that the IDs themselves need to be numerically sortable, just that, when given a specific ID, the server needs to be able to retrieve newer or older posts based on it.

Of course sortable snowflake IDs make implementing this easier on the server side.

Jeremiah, (edited ) to webdev
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Hey @MDN, with Stack Overflow’s ongoing community implosion, now would be an excellent time to launch MDN Answers so people have a better place to help each other learn.

https://answer.apache.org/

Edit: Or @nodebb / other ActivityPub-enabled forum/threaded discussion community server software

#WebDev

julian,
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@Jeremiah Might not be wise to count on @MDN to avoid similar issues long-term: https://github.com/mdn/yari/issues/9208

smallcircles, to fediverse
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Call to Participate: Help update with the original lead author at the

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/call-to-participate-help-improve-webfinger-rfc-with-its-lead-author/4208

julian,
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@smallcircles The question is, participate where? Is the mailing list still getting shut down soon? Should I reply to the linked SocialHub thread with my WebFinger concerns? I don't have much experience with development mailing lists, and I don't see a straightforward way to reply to a specific email there if I wasn't on the mailing list at the time it was sent...

julian,
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@smallcircles I saw the reply button, but that just opens a regular mailto window that would result in a top-level thread reply, instead of the reply to a specific message that I would want. 😦

Maybe it's kind of a generational divide, but joining a mailing list just to quickly chime in on an ongoing conversation seems like a lot... but I'll consider it.

gamingonlinux, (edited ) to random
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I want to do a test on how much traffic and resources the Mastodon embed takes on my server, so boost this plz

Edit: all done, you can stop sharing now lol

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/steam-deck-most-played-for-april-2024-has-plenty-of-fallout/

julian,
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@gamingonlinux @rdnielsen The "Mastodon effect" is a real thing, but its impact will depend heavily on how a site is set up. I'm surprised a news site would struggle with it.

Discussion on the Mastodon GitHub here: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/23662 A fix seems to be currently planned for 4.4.0.

andresmh, to random
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Good morning 🌤️ Hanging out in the PNW for a week!

julian,
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@andresmh That's a real place, huh? I always thought they made it up for What Remains of Edith Finch. 🧐
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julian, to fediverse
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I recently saw someone complain that they missed several recent @itchio game bundles. And I thought, okay, building a notification bot for newly live bundles could be a cool little side project.

Looking at https://itch.io/bundles I realized that it's (a) not sorted nor sortable by anything that makes sense, and (b) incomplete. The current big Palestine charity bundle isn't even on there.

Is there any way to get a list of all current itch.io bundles? Or a news feed of any kind?

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