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A long time ago I wrote free software for USENET and the early days of wikis. I generally do not post or boost messages at this time (July 2023).

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CatsOfYore , to random
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Back before they could trample the remote to turn the tv on. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

wikicliff ,
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@CatsOfYore
Looks like early 1970s brown to me, before they started adding orange to liven things up. 😜

hrefna , to random
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Well my model was faster but it was also not working, so I'm not sure that's an improvement -.-

wikicliff ,
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@hrefna Not when you say it like that! Try "Model performance improved with some loss of accuracy." If it works for LLMs... 😜

hrefna , to random
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I regret to inform everyone that I am back on my BS.

wikicliff ,
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@hrefna
Oh, good. For a moment I was afraid you were back to ActivityPub. (Please tell me that isn't ActivityPub! 🤪)

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@hrefna Eeek. I think the last modeling I did was with Play-Doh, and advanced modeling was not eating it. 😜

Is it something like a simulation with lots of things interacting? I used to think about these things back in the day when I wanted to write a better Dwarf Fortress simulator. Otherwise I have no idea what you are doing.

wikicliff ,
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@hrefna That does sound like an interesting model to play with. Unfortunately this 500 character margin is too small... 😜

From a technical/simulation side one also has lots of interesting choices. I might start with prototype object-oriented code, but I also like Entity Component Systems. (I wonder if a lot of ECS-style coding could be adapted for modern GPUs turning nasty/slow control flow into data.) Of course I'm sure you've gone lots of steps past that already. Hope you have fun (or Fun)!

hrefna , to random
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Apply Blu-Kote to a rooster without getting it on yourself challenge (Difficulty: Impossible)

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At least you haven't sprayed yourself in the face with Blu-Kote! Yet. The day is still young. 🤪😜

CatsOfYore , to random
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“Go outside” they said. “You’ll enjoy the fresh air” they said. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

wikicliff ,
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Outside has a distinct lack of comfy soft things to sleep on!

hrefna , to random
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Mustards: "I can take 2 years to eliminate from a pasture!"
Kochia: "I take 3!"
Thistles: "We can take 5+ years!"

Bindweed and Russian Knapweed, speaking together: "Amateurs! AMATEURS!"

wikicliff ,
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@hrefna
"I say we nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."

CatsOfYore , to random
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Katherine Gertrude Dobbie, born 1894. https://digitalnz.org/records/38444750/katherine-gertrude-dobbie

wikicliff ,
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That's quite a name for a cat! 😜

hrefna , to random
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Hmmm, maybe it is time to get back to learning

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How about an ActivityPub library in Rust? Shouldn't be too hard... 🤪🤪🤪

jenniferplusplus , to random
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but I'm getting tired just thinking about the testing path you would need to follow in order to fork mastodon and keep it as an in-place upgrade from baseline.

  1. stand up a baseline mastodon instance
  2. federate with some peers
  3. fill it with realistic data
  4. migrate to the fork
  5. test the fork
  6. test federation
  7. repeat across several combinations of mastodon base versions and other fedi servers
  8. rapidly, during development
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@hrefna @jenniferplusplus
I think that working with other projects could be useful even if one's goal is eventual Mastodon migration/replacement. One could try implementing some of the ideas about safety/etc. in other projects (which have less inertia than Mastodon), then work to bring those implementations to Mastodon (or a fork if still necessary).

IMO a call for a fork should have some concrete implementation, not just a general call for other people to do work.

hrefna , to random
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Horse. That is the wrong side of the fence.

wikicliff ,
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Well, the grass IS much greener over there!

hrefna , to random
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My major conclusion looking at the market and tech companies behavior is that, if you accept the spoken values of economics classes, that execs are either really bad at their jobs, that there is some other consideration that economics isn’t accounting for, or both.

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insert "Both? Both. Both is good." meme here 🤪

CatsOfYore , to random
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Photobomb! From my collection, no date or other info known.

wikicliff ,
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Rude of those people to photobomb a good cat picture! 🐈📷

CatsOfYore , to random
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Illustration from Joey Goes to Sea by Alan Villiers and illustrated by Victor J. Dowling, 1939.

wikicliff ,
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Maybe kitty just wants to BOOP the goat? :blobcatboop: 🐐

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