Thanks for the reminder. It was really easy to tip with Apple Pay. Just did it for this article.

The Bob Ross Mountain Dew video is incredibly eerie. Don’t think Bob Ross would have ever done anything like that.

It’s a little hard to imagine for us Americans, but internationally WhatsApp has a thriving unofficial ecosystem of businesses operating solely out of the chat app.

I love to hate on Meta as much as the next guy on Lemmy, but this is probably one of the sounder business decisions Meta has made in awhile.

MUDs. Text based (generally RPG) games with incredibly immersive story telling, near infinite levels of character customization, and many even feature ways for players to build on the world itself.

I’m surprised it’s not more popular amongst D&D enthusiasts.

In its hey day, people spent thousands of dollars just to boost their characters on massive for-profit MUDs like those created by Iron Realms. But smaller MUDs like Ancient Anguish were just as quality.

Sadly they’re going extinct. Only a few MUDs are still actively maintained.

Image file format with excellent compression. It’s designed for web browsers, so what you’re probably running into is compatibility with other programs. It’s fairly easy to convert though to GIF or JPEG formats though.

Bluesky: https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats Mastodon: https://fedidb.org/software/mastodon

There isn’t a 1:1 comparison. But the closest comparison looks like Mastodon is on a bit of a decline at 800k MAU. Bluesky is roughly 400k daily likers.

This..... is actually a pretty fucking good idea.

Curating your follows does take a minute in the beginning. This is a good starting point: https://discover.fedified.com/

Now he’s going to pay the bots! 🤣

Making crabs even more appealing is that they’re native to Florida, just in relatively low numbers. (“Everything eats them,” Spadaro said.) Adding them to the reef is unlikely to have any grave unintended consequences for the ecosystem, Spadaro said, especially considering that there are few other herbivores.

Yeah

This is the original post that went viral. People started posting beans memes to prove that it’s true for themselves.

https://sh.itjust.works/post/715364

Views basically. The number of times your tweet gets shown in someone’s feed.

It would need to be on a credit system. $0.01 is going to get eaten up in processing. It would be extra funny to buy 100 fucks for a dollar though.

This is true for all browsers that have an incognito mode, not just Firefox.

Unless you’re using Tor, there’s not really a way to go 99% incognito.

I’ve been coming to terms with the politics behind the Lemmy devs myself and I have to say I agree with the sentiment here.

It’s going to be a long road ahead if we cancel everyone with an opposing viewpoint.

Ultimately Lemmy remains free and open source. If new, more incriminating allegations show up about the devs, I hope that kbin would’ve made more progress by then. In the mean time, Lemmy works.

Tweet impressions. Still pretty high though.

This is a really thoughtful and educational answer. I learned a lot from this. Thank you!

Haven’t physically LOLed in a long time. Excellent work sir.

…she shared her small enclosure with a male orca named Hugo for the first decade of her captivity. In 1980, Hugo died from a brain aneurysm after an extended period of banging his head against the tank's spectator glass during fits of depression.

+1 for Lemmy.zip! Great folks here and an admin who cares a lot for the community.

I spun up Plausible for my company site. Pretty straight forward honestly. It’s completely dockerized so there’s not a lot going on.

Your biggest problem is exposing the service on your home server to the internet. I personally wouldn’t recommend it, but if you know what you’re doing it’s possible.

I don't disagree. You're probably unlikely to find the same people on Mastodon that you followed on Twitter or elsewhere. Despite the growth it's still a drop in the bucket of global social media users.

If it means anything, I started out with Mastodon hoping to follow popular figures and very quickly stopped caring for that. It was a lot more fun and interesting to talk to normal people with normal lives. But maybe that's just me.

Who're you hoping to follow? I might be able to recommend a few folks.

💸

That’s awesome! I’ve noticed it on lists of top voted MUDs for a long time, but never quite got into that particularly flavor.

We’ve reached far beyond practical necessity in model sizes for Moore’s Law to apply there. That is, model sizes have become so huge that they are performing at 99% of the capability they ever will be able to.

Context size however, has a lot farther to go. You can think of context size as “working memory” where model sizes are more akin to “long term memory”. The larger the context size, the more a model is able to understand beyond the scope of it’s original model training in one go.

Just wanted to drop in and say that I love the unique design! It’s a little unhinged maybe but we absolutely need more fun apps like this for the fediverse. Will be trying it out. Thanks for working on it!

This is exactly what I’m looking for! I also often check the weather to get a gauge on whether it’s clear to walk my dogs. 2-3 hours ahead is perfect.

I had a similar relationship with my father. He was an alcoholic. These days I don’t have much of a relationship with him. I recognize that he’s a better person now that he’s older, but I don’t really see him as “dad”. Just “father”.

My mom sometimes asks if I will regret not spending more time with him. Honestly, I’m not sure I would. I don’t have many fond memories with him at all. It’s weird saying this knowing that I have a father who loves me in his own way when others might not have one at all.

It was bumped up some, but it’s all really on Elon’s whim. https://www.zdnet.com/article/twitter-rate-limit-exceeded-heres-how-many-tweets-you-can-read-per-day-now-and-why/

First western headline that doesn’t mince

Sounds like the system is just stuck on old tech. If I can tell that rain will reach my area from a precipitation radar map then I’m fairly certain an ML based system can do this too.

I suppose there’s just no money in it.

That’s what I already do. Which got me thinking about why apps are so bad at this considering they can do the same thing.

Makes sense. Could also give the mastodon community a little longer to mature.

Whoa that’s a nice piece of trivia. Did some googling and it definitely has roots in MUDs, but Andrew obviously had higher ambitions visually. That’s cool.

I see your point. Rereading the OP, it looks like I jumped to a conclusion about LLMs and not AI in general.

My takeaway still stands for LLMs. These models have gotten huge with little net gain on each increase. But a Moore’s Law equivalent should apply to context sizes. That has a long way to go.

What drastically better results are you thinking of?

Gotcha. All I can add is a vote for Plausible. It’s great!

It’s not fluoride, it’s #tdazzle.

https://piped.video/watch?v=8c0JrJdJrBA?si=-odO3ntcUYWS0-JF