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   Veronica Olsen 🏳️‍🌈🇳🇴🌻 (veronica@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 00:04:21 JST Veronica Olsen 🏳️‍🌈🇳🇴🌻

   I just felt like sharing some random every day thing.

   It's my birthday, so I took the day off from work and instead had lunch with my sister. I missed her baby shower last month since I was sick that weekend, so we went shopping for some things for her soon to arrive baby. I also got her other kid a toy. An alpaca, and apparently she loved it! She's almost 2. 😊

   Glad to see she's inherited the "must have lots of stuffed animal toys" gene the rest of us possess!

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   Dan Fixes Coin-Ops (ifixcoinops@retro.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 01:17:57 JST Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

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   You scroll through today's posts and get to the Pam Chunk

   The Pam Chunk is your phone's way of dealing with the Pam Problem; some folk post more than others. Jim only posts a couple times a week, and Pam posts twenty bloody times a day. So unless you follow a lot of folk who post about the same amount, your phone becomes The Pam Show.

   The default behaviour of every app (that anybody actually uses) is of course "Show your friends' posts in the order in which they're made, no exceptions, no messing around," but the majority of apps also have some kind of Pam Compensation Mechanism.

   The most common of these is to only retrieve the six most recent posts from any given friend's phone in any given day; hence, the Pam Chunk that jumps out at you around noon. Most days Pam remembers that anything beyond her sixth post today means that folk probably won't see her "Good morning," but some days you get Pam Chunk. Sometimes she posts "Please put your fetch limit up!" but most people don't know how to do that. It's in the settings somewhere, but nobody looks at settings.

   The second Pam Compensation Mechanism is the more civilized option, but it totally messes up your timeline. It's called Take Turns, it goes and gets everybody's most recent post and shows them in order. Then it goes and gets everyone's second-most-recent post, and shows those in order. Then everybody's third-most-recent post, and so on. Everybody takes turns to speak, kinda thing.

   It means that if you scroll far down enough you'll see a Jim post from last month on top of a Pam post from an hour ago. The further back you scroll, the more messed up the times get, but it means you see Everything that your friends posted. So yeah, it's an "Algorithm" you guess, but at least you know how it works and it's not hiding anything you want to see, so it can stay, so long as it behaves. You've got your eye on it.

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   goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 23:34:30 JST goatsarah

   So anyone on Bsky can’t help but have noticed the whole sudden Sisters of Dorley thing.

   It’s just made me realise how much I profoundly miss the stuff we had around 2008 in London. That was such a time. If you were there, you’ll know.

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   Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 19:35:21 JST Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

   Dear #Fediverse I am trying to find a thing.

   It is a screenshot I remember seeing a couple of times of an Xitter post from some dudebro talking about their #AI startup that focuses on training an LLM to do math.

   The tweet contained a heatmap of how "good" their "AI" is in multiplication. For small operands it was like 95% and up "accurate", for operands larger than 5 it quickly dropped off.

   It was hilarious and a great illustration of AI hype. Can't find it though. Help?

   :boost_requested:

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   Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 05-Oct-2024 01:24:09 JST Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

   In principle I could even see myself supporting Mozilla's advertising thing.

   It would not be a bad idea, in general, to have a privacy-preserving, ethical advertising network. It would serve as an alternative for vendors, and as an example to regulators that this is possible – and that banning targeted advertising can be done without hurting organizations that rely on ads to stay afloat.

   Problem is, I don't trust Mozilla to hold up their side of this.

   I used to, but not anymore.

   #Mozilla

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   Roni Laukkarinen (rolle@mementomori.social)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 00:54:51 JST Roni Laukkarinen

   Fediverse pro tip: Re-boost your own content.

   There is no algorithm. Posts are equal like they should be. It doesn't matter what you like, how many followers you are or how prominent you are as an "influencer". The time, moment, content, frequency and boosting are the only things that help your visibility here. It's a good thing.

   It's funny that sharing function is almost obsolete in other places. Here it still serves a purpose.

   #Fediverse #Mastodon