@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".
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
(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.)
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 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. 😏
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!
@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. 😀
@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. 😏
@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. 🙂
The max_id, since_id, and min_id parameters in #Mastodon's Timeline API assume that the post ID is a sortable number. (Is this correct?) #Hollo, the #ActivityPub implementation I'm building, uses UUIDs for post IDs internally, so I'm stuck on how to implement a Mastodon-compatible API.
@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.
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.
@taylormccue It looks like something that would be interesting to play! 🙂 Can't tell from this what kinds of feelings it'll evoke, but if it's helping crystallize some ideas, I'd be happy to see it come together.
@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...
@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@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.
im thinking about just going back to using a spreadsheet for non-anime shows. trakt sucks, simkl sucks, letterboxd is hardly worth mentioning. trakt is the one ive used for the longest time and it just fucking sucks. why is the history tab and ratings tab and progress tab and collections tab different tabs?? these could all be put into one. if i want to see the shit i've rated i have to go to ratings and i can go to history if i want to see everything and then i can't clearly see ratings. the site is done in such an obtuse way. you need to pay to use dark mode. you can only use a 10 point scale. it SUCKS. anilist brought anime tracking into the modern era compared to myanimelist (not happy with how the last actual feature release was in 2021 though, their roadmap is a joke). backloggd made game tracking actually good compared to backloggery. we need something like this for non-anime stuff. hell if it included anime too that'd be perfect. i see no reason why anime and non-anime needs to be separated. someone PLEASE MAKE IT AAAAAAAAAAAAAA
@SweetAmelia I've been keeping a close eye on the fedi project space and I recently learned about NeoDB: https://github.com/neodb-social/neodb Apparently it's a federated media tracker where you can have a profile with your own entries and be followed from other fedi platforms. I've yet to try it out, but if it's any good I might eventually migrate my own anime list to it. The website makes it look remarkably mature.