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reiver

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I make things for the #Fediverse & #smallNet

Also talk about #FediverseUX #P2P #Privacy #SpreadFediverse

I post #SciFiArt

My work includes — #AllYourBases #FediverseAcademy #FediverseCity #FingerProtocol #GreatApe #PostFreely #SpaceHost #StarSeed

I life-cast at https://firefish.lol/@reiver , collect at https://playset.social/reiver , threadiverse at https://flamewar.social/u/reiver

Once upon a time, was a mathematician, computer scientist, data scientist, software engineer, industrial researcher 🌞

The meaning of life — first survive, then reproduce 🌞

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CWSmith, to mastodon
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Does anyone have a good post for generating a post bot? All I keep finding never really seems to make a lot of sense.




reiver, (edited )
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@CWSmith

What do you want the bot to do?

reiver,
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@CWSmith

Which Fediverse software do you want the bot to post to?

Mastodon?

reiver,
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@CWSmith

How familiar are you with using HTTP based APIs?

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/statuses/#create

Are you familiar with how to do an HTTP POST on a URL, using whatever programming language you are using?

reiver,
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@CWSmith

Do you have any programming experience?

reiver,
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@CWSmith

If your intent is to program the bot yourself, then —

I would recommend first learning how to program BEFORE you try to create the bot.

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There is a good book meant to teach programming to those who have no programming experience. It is called:

"Learn Python The Hard Way"

If you read that, and do all the exercises in the book, you should be able to do basic programming.

atomicpoet, to random
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Whenever I’m at a Korean restaurant, they have K-pop playing on multiple TV screens.

And I get exhausted just looking at these music videos. Is there K-pop out there where the girls just chill out and relax?

reiver,
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@atomicpoet

There is a Korean area near Lougheed Mall.

There are a lot of Korean stores and restaurants in the area.

Many don't play k-pop on their TVs. Many don't even have TVs.

(I was there, again, yesterday — on Saturday.)

rolle, to internet
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The vibes on Threads have been shifted. The For you feed brings up negative and controversial posts. Unsurpisingly no such negativity exists on my chronological feeds on Mastodon.

#SocialWeb #SocialMedia #Threads

reiver,
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@rolle

I don't seem to be seeing "negative" or "controversial" posts when I look at my Threads "For You" feed.

Do you think the change you are seeing on your Threads "For You" feed is something that affects most Threads users? Or something that may have just affected you?

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reiver, to random

https://youtu.be/aA0wB3d7MgE

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reiver,
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@atomicpoet

https://firefish.city/notes/9t53s3txlqaxjtxy

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J12t, to bluesky
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Jack Dorsey interview post-. Whatever you think of him, his views on why he helped getting Bluesky started in the first place are interesting. I wonder which of those might apply to the Fediverse (which he doesn't mention at all).

https://www.piratewires.com/p/interview-with-jack-dorsey-mike-solana

reiver,
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@J12t

https://mastodon.social/@reiver/112414264005654423

rolle, to fediverse
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Former CEO of Twitter wanted to build a social protocol no-one can control, like SMTP or HTTP for social media. Bluesky’s ATProto was supposed to be an open source protocol that Twitter could eventually utilize, but then Musk happened and Bluesky started taking it to the wrong direction and everything fell apart in Dorsey’s mind.

A very revealing interview. I now see even more future in W3C’s ActivityPub.

https://www.piratewires.com/p/interview-with-jack-dorsey-mike-solana

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reiver,
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@rolle

I can't speak for JD, but I have talked to others who are either more into Farcaster or more into nostr (rather than the Fediverse), and I've talked to them about the Fediverse.

I have noticed some commonalities in what they said —

№1:

They believe that a significant part of the Fediverse is anti-commece.

They feel that commerce and payments are important.

№2:

They don't trust the servers controlling their identity and presence.

They feel it should be independent from any server.

reiver,
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@shreyan @rolle @gruff

I looked into how Farcaster worked a while ago.

AFAICT, it is NOT centralized. It is decentralized.

reiver,
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@shreyan @rolle @gruff

AFAIK, the Farcaster network is made up of a set of servers that act as hubs.

The hubs communicate with each other via 'gossip' style protocol.

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

And use it to do a form of pub-sub.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publish%E2%80%93subscribe_pattern

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reiver,
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@shreyan @rolle @gruff

You can connect to, and interact with the Farcaster network by connecting to a hub.

reiver,
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@shreyan @rolle @gruff

Warpcast is a popular client for the Farcaster network. (It is created by the team behind Farcaster.)

But there are other clients. And anyone can create a new client (if they have the skills and inclination).

reiver,
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@shreyan @rolle @gruff

Most of Farcaster has nothing to do with any blockchain-network.

But the Farcaster protocol uses 3 smart-contracts running on the Arbitrum blockchain-network.

(Arbitrum is a layer-2 blockchain-network built on top of Ethereum.)

reiver,
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@shreyan @rolle @gruff

From what I recall (and I could be misremembering) —

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One smart-contract gives you an ID that identifies you.

(You can think of it like a globally unique user-ID.)

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Another smart-contract lets you associate public-private key pairs with your ID. Including delegating.

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And the last smart-contract lets you register (human-legible) user-names. Including ENS names.

reiver,
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@shreyan @rolle @gruff

The usefulness in the first smart-contract giving you a user-ID (rather than just letting your public-key or a digest of it being you ID) is —

It lets you change your public-private key pairs.

Which is important — as it is somewhat similar to changing your password.

atomicpoet, to random
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When I was a kid, I thought, “I wish I was alive when Elvis and the Beatles were around.”

Now I hear kids say, “I wish I was alive when arcades were around, and there were real Outrun cabinets.”

Time is a funny thing because kids imagine these arcades were neon-drenched in pink and purple, with people casually wearing powergloves and leather jackets.

So it makes me wonder if my entire idea of the 50s and 60s is a caricature.

reiver,
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@atomicpoet

I was alive when Elvis was alive.

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BTW, after Elvis died, there were people who treated Elvis somewhat like how some people treat Jesus.

At the time — I wondered if a new religion would be formed, and last, focused on Elvis.

freakazoid, to random
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Apparently some people think it's a good idea to generate internal Go structs and interfaces using protobufs? How shitty does a language have to be for people to reach for a completely different language to write their types and interfaces?

reiver,
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@freakazoid

Do you recall who you saw do that?

atomicpoet, to random
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“Asian eyes”, also known as epicanthic eye-folds, are not entirely Asian. They actually occur amongst human populations all over the world.

People of European and African descent often have them. Mind you, they don’t occur as often as in Asians but they’re not rare either.

Well known celebrities of European descent that have epicanthic eye-folds include Bjork, Jennifer Lawrence, and Renee Zellweger (before she had plastic surgery to remove them).

I was actually telling my wife, who is Asian, that I find that physical trait highly attractive. She found that surprising since so many folks in Asian nations get plastic surgery to get rid of them.

Anyway, she better not get rid of her great eyes. 😅

reiver,
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@atomicpoet

The Khoisan people are an example from Africa.

reiver, (edited ) to random
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Ha 🙂

Someone (elsewhere) was trying to get my attention.

(They made this image.)

kristian, to random
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Can anyone help me with ways to fix this on my new instance?

For context, I'm both admin and owner.

Maybe you know what's going on, @reiver ?

reiver,
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@kristian

cc: @spacehost_help @atomicpoet

reiver,
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@kristian @spacehost_help @atomicpoet

Do you have more than one user on your Akkomane server?

J12t, to random
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<P>In the beginning, html was <B>all</B> <BLINK>uppercase.</BLINK>.

I don't remember when or why it turned lowercase. Anybody remember?

https://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

Also, apparently it didn't have an <HTML> tag.

reiver,
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@fm2279 @J12t

From what I remember, lower-case was common before XHTML.

reiver, to VintageOSes
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Wow! —

MS-DOS 4.0 has been released as open-source software under the MIT license.

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/open-sourcing-dos-4

https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS

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