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Alex Schroeder

...when some random Matrix handle invites you to a chat, and you have no idea who they are or what it's going to be about before accepting.

Seems like a bad way to design something like that?

Alex Schroeder

Ok raisin time!

This is how most of the raisins in the US are made.

They just pick the clusters off the vine, lay them on a piece of kraft paper between the rows, and leave them there until they're raisins.

That's it that's the whole process.

Alex Schroeder

@alex didn't gts only just implement the direct messages api? Maybe they were just never seen (from that api) by your client?

Alex Schroeder

“OpenAI’s stated corporate mission remains “to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.”

Lol

Alex Schroeder

I think that fact that we're using AI to write emails because we find it hard and AI to summarise emails because we can't be bothered to read them suggests that we should take a look at how we communicate rather than boiling the oceans to have LLMs hallucinate at each other on our behalf.

Alex Schroeder

Yesterday we went for a walk along the river and saw a kingfisher bird – flying along the river with its glittering blue feathers glittering like a glitch in the landscape. I love birds. 😍
And today we went for a walk in the forest and heard a strange bird call. A woodpecker but not quite. I switched on the Merlin app and it confirmed my suspicion: a black woodpecker! My wife suggested we follow the call and try to spot it. And we did it! After a few dozen steps there it was, flew towards us, landed in a try, examined it, flew on.
Birds are the best.
#birds

Yesterday we went for a walk along the river and saw a kingfisher bird – flying along the river with its glittering blue feathers glittering like a glitch in the landscape. I love birds. 😍
And today we went for a walk in the forest and heard a strange bird call. A woodpecker but not quite. I switched on the Merlin app and it confirmed my suspicion: a black woodpecker! My wife suggested we follow the call and try to spot it. And we did it! After a few dozen steps there it was, flew towards us, landed...

Alex Schroeder

I brought the macro lens out for our walk yesterday. I was hoping to find some beautiful mushrooms but we were late. Towards the end we stopped by a little pond in the middle of the forest. The sun was about to set and we saw a red dragonfly resting on a stone. Then we saw two green dragonflies examining the shoreline, occasionally going after each other and we hunkered down, trying to take pictures. And then one of the dragonflies landed in front of and looked like it was laying eggs, turning around and around, touching the ground with the tip of its tail! And then it was attacked by the other dragonfly right in front of our eyes, turn on its back and feigned death until the aggressor moved off! Amazing. (The video of that encounter is on my wife's phone and she didn't share it with me, so it's not on the website for the moment.)
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2024-10-28-dragonfly

I brought the macro lens out for our walk yesterday. I was hoping to find some beautiful mushrooms but we were late. Towards the end we stopped by a little pond in the middle of the forest. The sun was about to set and we saw a red dragonfly resting on a stone. Then we saw two green dragonflies examining the shoreline, occasionally going after each other and we hunkered down, trying to take pictures. And then one of the dragonflies landed in front of and looked like it was laying eggs, turning around...

Alex Schroeder

My #GoToSocial instance is back up. Here's a helpful reminder to fellow admins: don't be like me and leave Monit watching over your site. The migration takes longer than the 10–15min that my Monit config would allow, restarting the server even though migration wasn't finished.
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2024-10-27-upgrade-gotosocial

Alex Schroeder

Another thing to note for the #GoToSocial upgrade is that I ran 16.0 using a ssystemd MemoryMax of 200M; today the upgraded instance with 17.1 ran fine for a while and then locked up. A restart didn't bring it back. It remained stuck after a log message saying something about compiling WebAssembly. I increased MemoryMax to 300M, no change. I increased it to 500M and the instance came up. Just in case you're as memory-stingy as I am...

Alex Schroeder

Is there a way to insert more unusual characters on iOS like a non-breaking space and the like? A cool unicode picker app that goes beyond what’s available from the regular keyboard?

Alex Schroeder

I spend so much of my time sitting at a table that I’ve taken to eating breakfast and drinking my morning coffee standing up, at the kitchen counter.

Alex Schroeder

My grandmother was a secretary in a Nazi concentration camp, filling out death certificates (“heart attack”); they issued these for people they didn’t immediately murder on arrival.

This was 80 years ago & I’m two generations removed.

I think about it often.

Don’t let it come to this here.

Alex Schroeder

Does anyone else remember planets? I haven't seen much talk about them in all the renewed interest in personal #blogs, #RSS, and #webrings.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_%

Alex Schroeder

Today I heard a piano on the radio and the composer of the piece was Erkki-Sven Tüür. I'll have to listen to a few more pieces!

Alex Schroeder

There are actually 3 varieties of 'mokusei' (木犀 'sweet olives'): kinmokusei (金木犀 osmanthus fragrans var. aurantiacus), the less fragrant ginmokusei (銀木犀 osmanthus fragrans var. fragrans), and the much less common usugimokusei (薄黄木犀 osmanthus fragrans var. thunbergii).

#osmanthus #sweetolive #sweetosmanthus #kinmokusei #usugimokusei #ginmokusei

Alex Schroeder

Ein «infulierter Prälat» ist

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Alex Schroeder

Want to feel old? Excel just entered its 40th year

theregister.com/2024/10/22/exc

More senior than Windows itself, and still runs the world

← by me on @theregister

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Bernd Böckmann

@lproven @theregister Awesome article, as always! Did not know before about Lotus Improv. Very interesting!

Majnūn

@lproven @theregister
I worked for a community college in St. Louis, MO, and was handed Excel to do some work for the Math dept. I'd been using VisiCalc and dove into it. One of the professors called me names because of my dexterity. 😂

Alex Schroeder

In honor of the autumn weather and the long hours of darkness ahead I am adding about 10–20% chestnut flour to my regular spelt and whole rye meal mix for the bread I bake every two to three days. One of them is just about to come out of the oven and the sweet chestnut smell already fills the apartment. Closing my eyes and smiling before having breakfast.

Alex Schroeder

Ralph Nader said there was no difference between Bush and Gore. This is what some are now saying about Trump and Harris.

Those of us who lived through 8 years of Bush say this:

"Fool me once, shame on...shame on you. Fool me...you can't get fooled again".

JackieM

@davidho we could have done something about climate change 20 years ago…

I still think someone should organize an ad campaign with Nader voters warning their gen z and millennial counterparts.

Bruce Mirken

@davidho 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Alas, the people who need to hear this won't get the reference.

Alex Schroeder

"[...] about 5 percent of the population has had nightmares since birth without anyone knowing how to explain it."

How Dreams Reveal Brain Disorders | Scientific American
scientificamerican.com/article

/via @evanprodromou

#dream

Alex Schroeder

I wrote a new article : How to contest a Content ID claim from a song you made.

If you are composing and sharing music under Creative Commons license, you may be in this situation at some point. So here are ways to contest/remove a Content ID claim and to make your music free again from Content ID abusers. :CreativeCommons:

Don't hesitate to boost ! :boost_ok:

rrrrroseazerty.neocities.org/p

#freemusic #creativecommons #contentid #musiquelibre #musiconmastodon #music

I wrote a new article : How to contest a Content ID claim from a song you made.

If you are composing and sharing music under Creative Commons license, you may be in this situation at some point. So here are ways to contest/remove a Content ID claim and to make your music free again from Content ID abusers. :CreativeCommons:

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AxWax

@rrrrroseazerty

Wow, this is super detailed and useful thanks for writing and sharing!

I hope I'll never have to use it 🤞

Randulo.com

@rrrrroseazerty These strikes are annoying and spurious, done by agencies hoping to make money.
You should be able to whitelist your YouTube channel as well.

Rikard

@rrrrroseazerty Wow, that's complicated! I only deal with YouTube, but have dealt with Content ID claims on recordings I've made of old music, not covered by copyright. Each time so far, it's been successfully solved through the built-in appeal process.

I assume the reason you're taking the longer route is to get rid of it from all platforms at once?

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