Notices by Joseph Szymborski :qcca: (jszym@cosocial.ca), page 2

@floatybirb Giovanni, but the one from the Pokémon musical play

@evan I hope the next poll is "Which CC license do you typically use?" because that's something I spend a lot of time thinking about.

@evan It would be interested if, for example, every Mastodon server was an IPFS end-point, but that raises the question of who would be responsible for pinning the content, moderation, etc...

As interesting as it is, I'm generally skeptical on the utility/practicality of IPFS.

@evan That E.T. game was pretty killer though.

@evan @mtlgazette "fewer train cars" is a word longer and a world clearer

This month's blog post comes courtesy of @boris 's suggesion.

I share some thoughts on using Mastodon as a blog comment section.

(Commenting on this post will leave a comment on the page!)

https://jszym.com/blog/mastodon_blog_comments/

#blog #mastodon #indieweb #selfhosted

Who else is preparing their abstracts for #ismb2024 👀

#academia

@evan bEST Timezone

@evan Don't think I saw Walking on Sunshine by Katrina and the Waves or Sunshine of Your Love by Cream in the replies.

@evan a Canadian classic

@evan The Fediverse or The Fedi. I'm a habitual over-capitalizer. Trying to embrace the minimal-capital life. I'll never do the Financial Times thing and do the e.g. Nato vs NATO thing.

@evan As a biochemistry student in Montreal, this was a personal favourite.

@evan I don't think I want to interact "socially" with any "thing". The best I can think of is something that belongs to the commons. Like I can see an "Eagle Cam" from a national park on Fedi, or like hitchBOT. Somehow, neither of those really fit what I think of when I think IoT.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HitchBOT

@evan "Free-PC.com's founder, Bill Gross, says the company will spend about $600 on each PC..." $600 USD in 1999 is just over $1,000 USD today. That's a lot of capital to pay today on trickling ad dollars tomorrow.

I wonder if ad spends were bigger then, or if we even had a good idea of what the digital ad spend market would be like.

Anyway, I think we tolerate ads in a lot of other spaces because they are monopolies/oligopolies w/o alternatives.

@evan @alkatandan @sylvain @Sebprovencher I'm in!

@evan What did the bad brother bring?

@evan @statistics I love these sort of graph analysis questions, and I'm going to do some more reading but my immediate thought is that you might have more success dividing by the log of total posts.

Also, using the number of accounts rather than posts sounds like a better approach intuitively. I think the log of the # of accounts my be interesting.

@evan I'm a qualified yes. I think that ISPs and mobile providers should be regulated, ideally even publicly owned, utilities, and providing services like open social media sounds like a perfect kinda example of what they should do.

But they are not, and I would never rely on any of my local telecoms to provide the service.

@evan I feel like if I wasn't there I'd say that sounded rad, but (and maybe this is because I was a teenager) the apps people would put on their page were so awful lol.

It was like it took the worst parts of MySpace's customizability (which was very cool but for the exploits), where pages weren't really quirky self-expression but a wall of the same gimmicky, scammy joke widgets

Again, might be I just had friends with bad tastes in wall apps :P

@evan @Gargron Ya, I think that's the heart of the question :)

What I'm trying to communicate is that when I ask an LLM "what is on the inside of an orange", the programme isn't consulting some representation of the concept of "orange (fruit)". Rather, it's looking at all the likely words that would follow your prompt.

If you get a hallucination form that prompt, we think it made an error, but really the LLM is doing it's job, just plausible words. My bar for intelligence is personally higher