@hellsop Ooh, yeah that's after I switched it off, it was on when I got there and I poked that button faster than I could take a picture

@teleclimber Sure, but also... country TLDs aren't just for fun

@teleclimber Candy's not a great building material :blob_grinning_sweat:

I am really interested in Bluesky's notion of Feed Generators, especially as applied to the Fediverse.

Bluesky has the "advantage" of aggregated firehoses from across the entire known network, so you can pipe that into a central feed generator.

On the Fediverse, I'm thinking Feed Generators need to be leaf nodes. Super-clients for users that attach to smaller hoses - like the streaming endpoint of a Mastodon instance.

Of course a problem with leaf-node Feed Generators is a lot of "redundant" effort as each user has their own firehose yet still see much of the same data.

An upside is that much of the same data is not exactly the same data - and the difference lies in what particular users are permitted to see by way of delivery & access controls between instances & users.

Still, there's a lot of "duplicate" effort between users here

I'd also kind of like to find a way to make a Feed Generator portable. Like, a shareable code bundle that drops into an optionally self-hostable feed engine sandbox. Maybe something WASM? Sort of daydreaming at what kind of API and data storage needs something that that would need.

Some example feeds I'd like to get out of my Mastodon firehose include things like:

• Top shared links over the past 24-48 hours.
• New posts this week from my least active follows.
• General topics in the Discourse while I was asleep.
• Everything about crows and other corvids.

Most of those aren't simple cat-and-grep filter pipelines, some need to collect some analysis over time and in windows before producing feed output. Maybe something WASM with access to a lil IndexedDB-like store would be practical?

No time for lunch? Just grab fistfuls of meat and cheese from the fridge and shove them into the mouth hole

@kellogh After years of vague reading, seems like this is the year I need to actually start learning how to practically user ML and models :blobsweat:

Just saw a comment on TikTok where someone wanted to combine a Hurdy-Gurdy and a crank-driven artificer auto-crossbow for their bard - and my mind immediately went to some kind of magical magazine like a Quiver of Ehlonna or Bag of Holding.

Just make sure no one sneaks up on you and throws a Portable Hole over you in a kidnapping attempt. :blobfoxExplosion:

@jrconlin @mhoye Takes a year to reload, but dang is that a great few rounds of combat

@jrconlin @mhoye Now I want to see a high-level campaign where that bard's personal mission is to set up a whole industrial complex to keep ammo flowing through a portal into the magazine

Just realized that I am "made the sign of the horns at an email from my city reminding me tomorrow is garbage-garbage and not just compost & recycling pickup day" years old

(we only get garbage-garbage picked up twice per month, so it accumulates over 2 weeks and is annoying and excuse me while I go yell at a cloud)

@ubernostrum I kinda don't like that you can build a leaderboard of top-blocked from the public data though

https://wolfgang.raios.xyz/top/blocked

Just got an invite to take a survey about chatbots from my healthcare provider. I was challenged to find 17 different ways to strongly express "DO NOT WANT" across all the pages of the survey

Like, on one hand, it seems amazing that we have computer vision tech to bolster a doctor's ability to diagnose disease from x-rays and photos

On the other hand, I don't want to spend an afternoon having a chat with a bot to fill out an appointment form. Or have it tell me the medical equivalent of how to melt eggs

Mind you, I have confoundingly high levels of anxiety when using the phone and I'd absolutely love it if I could just talk to a robot to get things done. But, even I don't think this is gonna work out well

@jalefkowit How was it so perfectly framed behind him? haha

@kellogh Yeah, I think that sums up my thinking pretty well - especially since I just got a letter from this same health provider talking about money and negotiations with my insurance provider

All these DNS shenanigans make me want to build a "social network" which consists of a little server on the roof of the co-op grocery down the street hooked up to a private LAN wifi router. If you're within a block of the place, you can get enough signal to sync your scuttlebutt or download some .qwk mail packets. Unless it rained too hard and flooded the pelican box or whatever.

(i kinda miss .qwk mail packets)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWK_(file_format)

@dreid Yeah, a lot like that!

@mos_8502 absolutely none of this list was an exaggeration