Notices by Osma A (osma@mas.to), page 3

@dansup
Will it backdate the posts to their original timestamps?
@pixelfed

@aaribaud
well, you read that completely wrong.

@aaribaud
I mean there is a difference between the LLM referring to itself as "I", and generating text on behalf of its operator, referring to him/her as "I". But is that difference clear enough?
@emilymbender @jeffjarvis @kotaro

@emilymbender
I've been thinking that languages may need a new "animate object" pronoun class. Finnish uses the equivalence of "it" for both objects and animals - and when learning English, it takes us a while to adapt to using third person pronouns for pets (though the practice has been leaking into Finnish as well).

Would it be acceptable for an LLM to generate first person text if it also identified the subject as the user identity?
@aaribaud @jeffjarvis @kotaro

@jeff
At no point did I "write off a protocol". If you're trying to say a published protocol spec somehow reduces the risk of current user content being locked in to an orphaned, currently-private prototype implementation that has no existing migration path, you'll need to be clearer about your arguments.
@FinchHaven @tchambers @activitypubblueskybridge

@jeff
So far, what we have is a random key in someone else's closed source database, a random key generated by a closed source application inserted into a DNS record, and a text string matching said DNS record in aforementioned closed source database.

It is hard to see which part of this makes it less proprietary than a text string which does not match a DNS record.

@FinchHaven @tchambers @activitypubblueskybridge

@mike@thecanadian.social @mike@flipboard.social @mmasnick
I was the only one in my class with my name. Nationally. For an entire decade. :)

@mike@thecanadian.social @mike@flipboard.social @mmasnick
Why is it that all interesting moderation conversations happen between Mikes and do I need to change my name? :)

@patak @elk @daniel Adding mentions makes sense to leave as type-their-name behavior. Removing mentions needs a clear UI though. One option would be to allow navigating to the mention line (keyboard or click/tap) and backspace-to-delete (or long-press-to-delete, etc) names you no longer wish to involve in the reply. This would be fairly similar to how inlined mentions behave, yet retain the mentions-are-separate presentation.

@patak @elk @daniel https://github.com/elk-zone/elk/issues/1567

Oh, and: There's no UI affordance to the editor behavior where I can click-to-unmention someone in the reply. I was certain it would break me out of the reply editor and show the person's profile instead, so when the person was actually removed from the mentions with a click, that was a surprise. Separate issue, but related to the larger "how mentions work" theme.

@fchollet hey @elk @daniel @patak do you see Elk swallowing the start-of-toot mention of fchollet in the ^^ toot? This is how it shows up for me on elk.zone 0.6.2 - but it certainly is there when I check on Mastodon UI.

Also, how would I edit his mention OUT of this reply? Can't delete or uncheck from the mention line.

@fchollet pointed out (on Twitter, boo!) that #ChatGPT correctly thinks that 3458467549867459867492 is not a prime, but also thinks it is such a large number (over 50 digits) that its primality can not be proved.

"So while it is possible that 3458467549867459867492 has a small factor, it is unlikely."

https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/1620868751632797703

#ChatGPT has been upgraded with a mathematical model and it no longer trips up (easily, at least) on questions involving unit conversions. It's extremely slow to respond though (overloaded?) and comes up with completely unrelated answers for a new class of questions. This doesn't seem like a model-derived issue, rather than some kind of bug in the chat system implementation. Perhaps my session was mixed up with someone else's?

@mmasnick

oh, wow. This looks super nice. Perhaps good enough for me to ditch the modified Pinafore playground I've been using last couple of weeks

@mmasnick

oops, a design error (the author mention doesn't resolve for me, btw)

@mmasnick

Mike, since you know so many of these Fedi tools, do you know of a way to analyze (de)federation networks? gleasonator.com seems to be the second time I run into an instance ban on mas.to, and I can't immediately see any reason why such a ban exists.

@mmasnick

Ah, yes, scrolled up to the other discussion, thanks. Ok, that would explain defederating the instance, but extending that to the software as well? That's as nonsensical as defederating mastodon.social because Truth Social also runs Mastodon. These banhammers remind me of the oldendays with BBS admins drunk with imagined power.