Thanks for the offer! I got sidetracked last night because I discovered a spider mite infestation in the pepper plants I’m overwintering indoors and it needed a quick response. I think I’ve got everything set up, but I was kinda hoping to let just you in to take a poke around before publicly posting the invite link. Unfortunately, I’m getting a 404 when I try to message you on Matrix – should I just DM you here, even though its in the clear, or…

Somewhere, Aldous Huxley is kicking himself for not thinking of the turn of phrase “extremism on migration.”

I do too, but if you want to participate in the broader international community, there are certain laws and rules you have to abide by.

I mean I guess you could have a Kid Rock residency.

Of course, ai will continue to improve. But it is also likely to get more expensive. At present Silicon Valley heavily subsidises its price. That cannot last for ever. OpenAI expects to burn $17bn in cash this year.

These kids should have paid better attention in D.A.R.E. The drug dealers always give you the first hit for free. (Drug dealers actually don’t give you the first hit for free, that was a person called a “pusher” and they don’t exist anymore and maybe never did but that isn’t material to my joke).

Most stats are at the instance level, rather than the community level, because indecipherable fediverse technobabble. Here’s lemmy, piefed, and mbin

I was a Netscape navigator user back in the day, so I’ve come and gone from Firefox a few times. I already switched to librewolf on desktop and Vivaldi on mobile. I appreciate them doing this, but I’m not switching back until there’s another forcing function.

For sure. Reading recent right-wing “political theory” is wild because UET is very transparently an argument for dictatorship, and it’s not even particularly hard to see, even from just reading what the actual euphemism says, word-for-word, out of context.

It’s the ✨unitary executive theory✨

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Nooooo, effective delegation is my greatest weakness!

Yeah I’ll take a look this evening.

I love it. Seems like something that would make sense to stand up a matrix instance for. If I were to participate this month, I think I’d want to work on something meta, like building a way to make pitches and form teams for the hackathon.

Hey yeah, sorry you had a rough first day. We’ve got a real problem with people creating a new account, shoving five-ten posts, and then deleting their account. Fedi does get touchy about ads; I can’t see the post so I don’t really know how ad-y it was, but generally speaking self-promotion is accepted. You’re in the right place. In order, the fediverse apps you’re looking for are: Pixelfed, Friendica, Mastodon, dunno, dunno, Funkwhale, PeerTube, you don’t want this one on fedi.

Oh Sharon. If you are going to count the minutes early I leave, I’m going to count the minutes late I leave, and I promise you I will cash them in at the least opportune moment.

Thanks for sharing this. To answer your question”you know…, right?” questions — no, I didn’t, and that is why I was asking.

The greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing cities that running a freeway through the middle of their city would be economically beneficial.

Sorry to have deleted my comment out from underneath you. I wasn’t trying to be a jerk, I just read it back and was like “yikes that’s a bit much” and didn’t have any responses yet.

Right, but I don’t want to enter the isbn to say that I’m reading a book, I want to search by title or author. Once you achieve any kind of scale, whoever your client is querying to get the book data for those kinds of queries is going to block you; practically speaking you need to keep an index of books on your server to allow people to discover the books that are available? Clients have pretty limited abilities in practice, because there aren’t a lot of services that vend well-curated data for free.

Edit: I’m not trying to disagree, I’m seeking to understand because it is clear you have a vision that I haven’t got my head around.

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I’m still not sure I quite get it. Like, Bookwyrm has to have all of those books for me to create a message that embeds the book I’m reading. Without knowledge of all of the books that one might read, I can’t select the one I want to read? Or are all of the books objects stored on activitypub and I get the data from the social graph itself? Does the subject-verb-predicate structure of json-ld allow for embedding the full complexity of data that not only represents the social graph, but also everything else you might want to reference?

Also, thanks for the link. Looks like the docs are also a reasonable reference on Activitypub as well as being for your server.