@KarenKeiller@cosocial.ca @dawn@cosocial.ca I actually wouldn't mind seeing libraries running something along the lines of Bookwyrm or NeoDB! Being able to federate an entire library catalogue would actually be really cool.

@RickiTarr we've missed you - hope all is well.

@sara_objectionable@app.wafrn.net @Dee@fedi.underscore.world @gaditb@icosahedron.website

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@gabboman @sara_objectionable @Dee Honestly that looks sick as HECK

@chrisjrn My spot keeps moving further to the right on the skills distribution curve

Lemmy does this to itself, too - when you create a post it federates out and then every Lemmy instance that receives it makes a GET request to retrieve the post from the original server. Even though it just received the exact same data. Some other fedi software is even worse - Akkoma does a GET of the id of every activity it receives, not just for posts but for Likes too.

It’s insane.

Anyway, proper caching at the reverse proxy / Cloudflare level solves it. The same kind of caching setup would do the same for sites serving HTML, like NPR too.

I shared a link from NPR Tiny Desk but there was no image preview or video embed. After investigating this I learned that when you do that, each instance picks up the link and individually retrieves the link preview nearly simultaneously. For gargantuan sites like YT or Reddit, this is a trivial amount of traffic and not a problem, but for smaller sites like NPR this results in a sort of botnet DDOS attack on the site’s servers. More here. Another example here . For that reason, NPR has blocked Fediverse servers like Mastodon.

I have experienced this on my personal server as well (DDOS), but at the time didn’t know why, exactly.

This isn’t the end of the world, but certainly is not great and hurts engagement with the content. Is there a solution for this? Perhaps using some sort of webtorrent service like PeerTube where they just fetch the information from another fediverse server instead of the source server? Maybe fetching embeds client-side? At least that would stagger the requests.

@Mrfunkedude
I, for one, will be pro-Ai when it can make acceptable phone calls to family members from whom I've been alienated for decades. (Through no fault of their own, I should add, in their defense.)

@cwebber @bkuhn @copiesofcopies hm, reading this blog post, i think i'm gonna be adopting "vibe bobsled" as a term. in theory, it's possible to use LLMs for coding, in practice, it's very hard to make that choice make sense (especially as these things get better) without yielding more and more unchecked control to the LLM, bobsledding down the slippery slope of vibes. it's not that they *can* be trusted more the more accurate they get, it's that they make not trusting them more and more of an annoying chore to do, subtly pressuring you into letting them take the wheel fully (and in turn falling for various rationalizations for doing so).

in turn, i'm also gonna offer up my own terminology contribution (see also my pinned post), describing more or less the same phenomenon this blog post (inspired by @glyph) calls vibe sickness: "lyssanetic", adjective, see also my pinned post but i'll concisely define it here as the property of LLMs to cause vibe sickness. chosen so to place the emphasis on how it's a thing LLMs *do* to people, not some personal failure (though those may also play into it), chosen to be a portmanteu of "lyssa" (greek word meaning madness, but also very specifically one that is also associated with rabies, a virus that makes animals lower their guard and fear humans less), and "cybernetic" (from a greek word originally meaning "being good at steering", sort of subverting/repurposing this meaning).

i have yet to regret not ever touching these things so far.

Remember.
No matter where you are in life or what twisting path you're traveling down, you're never too far away from a mossy haunted cottage waiting in the forest for a new sacrifice. I mean friend.

@Techmeme In what else were the individuals responsible involved?

@pho4cexa the first couple of places i had a unix shell in the 90s, a default login would give you a TUI menu rather than dropping you straight into the command line. it had mail, chat, news, an exit to csh or whatever it was back then - all the stuff a typical user would want. i think it's kind of been forgotten, but when these were systems exposed to end-users as a primary interface, this kind of scaffolding was pretty common.

@aurynn it's always nice to wake up and discover that your relative competence is greater than you thought it was the day before

@cwebber @baconandcoconut How far does a squash have to deviate from the phenotype to qualify as a mystery?

AI generated posters are trained on all of the harvested amendment request emails that graphic designers receive from their clients aren't they

GNUnet provides privacy-by design

Money doesn’t want us to have privacy.