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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

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   Futurist Jim Carroll (jimcarroll@futurist.info)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Aug-2024 18:49:52 JST Futurist Jim Carroll

   Daily Inspiration: "It’s never too late to realize it’s not too late!" - Futurist Jim Carroll

   Trying new things is the root of all innovation. Taking initiative is the key to innovation success. Admitting that things need to change is the first step in the path to innovation success. And yet, too many people don't do these things, because they make the excuse that 'it's too late.' 

   Personal growth is all about breaking boundaries, accepting reality, and taking action. Yet, many people don't do that - they are scared to confront change. Too many people stop growing and start stagnating because they always say that 'it's too late.' 

   How many times do you say to yourself "I would have done that, but it's too late!"

   It's never too late! The only thing holding you back is your mindset.

   So always remember .... it's never too late to learn new things.

   It's never too late to take the initiative.

   It's never too late to chase that thing you always wanted to do.

   It's never too late to do the right thing.

   It's never too late to apologize.

   It's never too late to rethink your plans.

   It's never too late to learn to golf.

   It's never too late to chase a new career.

   It's never too late to quit the job you hate.

   It's never too late to learn a new skill.

   it's never too late to implement that new idea you've been thinking about.

   It's never too late to confront that difficult situation you've been too busy ignoring.

   It's never too late to try to do something you've never done before.

   It's never too late to improve yourself.

   It's never too late to stop doing the thing that deep down you know is destroying you.

   It's never too late to appreciate other people more.

   It's never too late to start saying 'thank you' more often.

   It's never too late to admit you have a problem.

   It's never too late to start right now.

   See how easy it is to get going?

   Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2024/08/daily-inspiration-chasing-initiative-its-never-too-late-to-realize-its-not-too-late/