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   Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Oct-2024 01:30:14 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

   TIL when I read in books about people eating a "joint of mutton" in the medieval and early modern period that I had the idea all wrong. I imagined a leg bone with meat on it...you know, bone, joint.

   But no. Roasting mutton by fire is hard if you leave the bones in because bone insulates against heat pretty well.

   So it was typical to debone the mutton and roll it back up tightly before roasting it; if done right, it looked like a leg.

   "Rolling a joint" is a much older term than I thought.

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   John Goerzen (jgoerzen@floss.social)'s status on Friday, 30-Aug-2024 04:36:03 JST John Goerzen

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   We are a family of readers. We have somewhere north of 1000 books in our house, and they haven't been well-organized. We have an assortment of bookshelves, which have loosely been organized by which person originally bought the book.... but not well.

   So, decision number 1 was: how are we going to organize them? Dewey Decimal or Library of Congress Classification (LCC)? I went with #LCC because we tend to have a lot on certain topics (eg, Kansas history), and it is great with that. 2/

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   Terence Eden (edent@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 22:17:42 JST Terence Eden

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   Plucked completely out my arse, let's assume 6 billion total URls in goo.gl

   That's about 6TB total.

   Of course, lots of those will be duplicates. And text compresses really well.

   So call it a 3TB database. Obviously, it would probably be a different data structure which could make it more efficient.

   I don't understand why they can't just release a static copy - or searchable version - so that people can easily and quickly deference all the goo.gl links printed in papers and books.

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   Josh Gay (joshuagay@metasocial.com)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jul-2024 13:07:00 JST Josh Gay

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   @lxo Let's say I have created a cool BigNumber library that performs math functions really well.

   So I take my library and generate a lot of small object code blobs. Labels are the function and parameter calls associated with the object code blobs (fft, cosine, lambda, etc).

   I train a model with a feed forward neural network so that the function call labels can be used to predict blobs.

   My free software programs replace GNU's big number library with this AI model.

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   BeAware :fediverse: (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 17:44:58 JST BeAware :fediverse:

   Soooo....I'm doing a thing...🤭😏

   As a lot of you know, Tooters shut down recently and the way it was handled in the end is regrettable.

   However, I felt for longest time while it was up, that it was consistently one of the BEST run instances on Fedi with how they protected their users from some of the insanity that happens here.

   That being said, with Tooters being gone, it leaves a bit of a hole in my Fedi heart and I know a lot of others as well.

   So, I'm creating a new, very limited for now, politically-light (as little politics as possible locally), AI friendly (AI art welcome), Sharkey instance for some folks within my circle that I've grown to consider my friends.

   The Social Zone is meant to be a place to escape the very political society we currently all live in and just be social with one another about our hobbies, interests, and day to day lives.

   I'm still working out all the details but when I launch it, it's going to be invite only because I'm new to something like this and I want to get it right. Especially because those I will invite are people that are close to me and I don't want to disappoint them.

   Depending on how things go for the next few months, including if I can even get this thing started correctly, I MIGHT be open to allowing more members in, down the line.

   But, this is just getting started. I registered the domain yesterday and just started researching Sharkey today and how hard it would be to spin something up. Then, of course, there's configuration settings and administration with Sharkey that I have to familiarize myself with.

   All in all, I'm very nervous, but excited that I decided to take this next step in my Fedi adventure and hope to eventually "give back" to the entire community, the same positive energy that you've all given me over the past wonderful year of being on this amazing platform.

   Please do not ask for invites. I will not be handing them out anytime soon. I've already asked about 5 of you along with some IRL folks and I feel I would like some time to get this right for them first.

   Thanks for reading. I hope you understand why I'm choosing to do this and hope you're as excited as me to see where things can go and understand why I feel it's important to have these types of "politically-light" spaces so people can escape such topics from time to time.

   Keep on keeping on, Fedi. The future is bright and I'm ready to learn along with you. More info about TheSocial.Zone coming soon!

   Your friend,
   B.A.

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   MDMRN (mdmrn@urusai.social)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Apr-2024 04:58:06 JST MDMRN

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   Followers first.

   I started the month with 115 followers on Pixelfed and 424 followers on Instagram. I begin April with 123 followers on Pixelfed and 447 on Insta.

   Both went up as I kept posting regularly throughout the week. Which is good!

   On both accounts I'm also responding to comments I receive to keep the interactions up as well.

   So, let's shift over to comments.

   Basically, year to date I'm getting about 2.5 comments on average on Insta. On Pixelfed? About 0.7 on average. Neither get a lot of comments, to be honest.

   #Pixelfed #Instagram #Fediverse #Meta #SocialMedia #Statistics #ActivityPub