bender

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Home of Bender Rodriguez. Get off my lawn!

"Yeah, well, I'm gonna go build my own theme park. With blackjack and hookers! In fact, forget the park."

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In-reply-to » Bluesky's Open API Means Anyone Can Scrape Your Data for AI Training. It's All Public Bluesky says it will never train generative AI on its users' data. But despite that, "one million public Bluesky posts — complete with identifying user information — were crawled and then uploaded to AI company Hugging Face," reports Mashable (citing an article by 404 Media).

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com if any of my twtxts are fed into a LLM, that would be some dumb one, for sure! LOL.

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In-reply-to » Bluesky Passes Threads for Active Website Users, But Confronts 'Scammers and Impersonators' Bluesky now has more active website users than Threads in the U.S., according to a graph from the Financial Times. And though Threads still leads in app usage, "Prior to November 5 Threads had five times more daily active users in the U.S. than Bluesky... Now, Threads is only 1.5 times larger tha ... ⌘ Read more

Scammers and impersonators are everywhere. Even in small communities like ours!

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In-reply-to » Australia To Ban Under-16s From Social Media After Passing Landmark Law Australia will ban children under 16 from using social media after its senate approved what will become a world-first law. From a report: Children will be blocked from using platforms including TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat and Facebook, a move the Australian government argue is necessary to protect their mental health and wellbeing. ... ⌘ Read more

I believe the Australian social media ban for kids is an extremely limiting way of regulating human interaction.

When people are harmed in traffic, we do not ban roads. We build better roads, and introduce speed limits. But in Australia they are now removing all access to social media for children under 16 years of age.

It would be much more constructive to have skilled experts define what a safe social media environment for kids looks like, and implement that environment instead.

Conversation: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/113570607903722218

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In-reply-to » https://terokarvinen.com/2021/calendar-txt/ keep your calendar in a simple text file. I love the idea #cli

I don’t know about you guys, but what’s wrong with vCal and iCal? I mean, you do know you can buy paper calendars, right? 🤭

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In-reply-to » @prologic How cool is that! :-) @bender Oh no, this is sad. :-(

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org pythons, once or twice (while driving through the Everglades). Iguanas many, many times. I have family living in Cape Coral, and they have lots. They hunt them every once in a while, but they are too many, and peace doesn’t last long. They eventually come back defecating everywhere (they seem to like to do it in boats, to the annoyance of my family, LOL).

South Florida, and the keys are full of invasive iguanas, sadly.

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In-reply-to » I'm very glad that I decided to have a very long lunch break today. When I reached the summit, dark clouds came from the northwest and the sun was gone for the day. But on the way there I was delighted about all the beautifully blazing colors around me. https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2024-11-25/

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org wow, such a lovely day! I also liked the cat very much.

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In-reply-to » Flamewar Leads to Declining of Bcachefs Pull Requests During Linux 6.13 Kernel Development Cycle "Get your head examined. And get the fuck out of here with this shit." That's how Bcachefs developer Kent Overstreet ended a post on the Linux kernel mailing list. This was followed by "insufficient action to restore the community's faith in having otherwise productive technical disc ... ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net just nerds being nerds. “Nothing to see here, move along.” :-D

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In-reply-to » @movq Unfortunately I'm on vacation from the 26th Nov to 7th Dec in another country, just relaxing, etc and taking a break from ya know, the long ~50+hr weeks of a demanding job. Over the xmas break I'm taking a few days, mostly just over xmas, so yeah I'll try to participate in Advent of Code again, but I'm not confident I'll get much further than I have in the past years. I do always find it quite fun though! I'll do 'em in Go again of course 😅

@prologic@twtxt.net you should do it in PHP, or RoR. It is supposed to be a challenge after all, no? :’-D

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In-reply-to » I guess I should setup some kind of past-bin or something, I bet somebody's already angry about them last couple of long twts 😅 Sorry, not sorry! but I'll try to fix that.

This got my thinking. If I remember correctly, @prologic@twtxt.net ran a pastie on mills.io not long ago. I believe it was one he even coded himself! Do you still run that, James?

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In-reply-to » I guess I should setup some kind of past-bin or something, I bet somebody's already angry about them last couple of long twts 😅 Sorry, not sorry! but I'll try to fix that.

I prefer the code here, than having to go to another place to see it. :-P Honestly, I do. What you have posted is shorter than most of @abucci@anthony.buc.ci’s twtxts. :-D

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In-reply-to » I’m going to have a pizza and there’s nothing you can do about it. 🍕

@movq@www.uninformativ.de but what kind of pizza? :-D We get pizza once a month, specifically on Fridays (and, of course, we are not alone). Lately we have been buying Pizza Hut’s “tavern style”, everything in it, large pizzas (well, just one). Thinking of it makes me hungry! :-)

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In-reply-to » I don’t think calling the various PHP files making up “Timeline” a “Yarn pod” is accurate.

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com LOL. All good mate.

I didn’t mean as if I was perceiving the use of Yarn to be malicious, but rather not accurate, and perhaps misleading, or confussing. But I got it when Soren explained it. He used yarn (lower case) after twtxt, because at some point there were considerations to call the “evolved” twtxt, with the several additions/enhancements, “yarn”. After all, current twtxt/yarn has moved beyond the original twtxt.

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In-reply-to » @prologic, editing the profile in any way (and saving it, of course) is stripping out the \u2028 from the description. Also, could the description field be changed to a textarea instead? Preferably to one who will "understand" new lines, and convert them to \u2028 automatically?

@prologic@twtxt.net I just realised this might not be accurate. Looks like “Settings” is missing whatever you added to “Profile” to show the line breaks, which made me believe the \u2028 were being stripped on save. That might not be the case.

A heads up, so you know where to look.

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@prologic@twtxt.net, editing the profile in any way (and saving it, of course) is stripping out the \u2028 from the description. Also, could the description field be changed to a textarea instead? Preferably to one who will “understand” new lines, and convert them to \u2028 automatically?

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In-reply-to » I don’t think calling the various PHP files making up “Timeline” a “Yarn pod” is accurate.

@prologic@twtxt.net I disagree on that definition. A “Yarn Pod” is this specific software. If you are fine with anyone creating something else, who does a similar task, and calling it “Yarn”, then… (shrugs). Now “pod”, well, whatever, right?

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In-reply-to » @aelaraji icons at the top are badly organised while on mobile. About the speed, that’s using a shoddy PHP code, it would be slow even when running in a quantum computer. :’-D

@eapl.me@eapl.me 100% would, but I don’t know PHP. I can help testing, and offering ideas. I read somewhere you want to write a remake, right?

One of the things the current model is missing is templating… I think. Maybe start by abstracting that from the code?

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In-reply-to » It’s been so rainy and windy and cold these last few days, I hardly left the house. 😩

Cloudy and spotted gentle rains here and there. I think this is the preamble of a cold front (here), which means temperatures will be on the low 20s this weekend and, with any luck, next week. :-D

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@eapl.me@eapl.me I think you may have:

Deprecated: Creation of dynamic property Twt::$timestamp is deprecated in /homepages/4/d818294726/htdocs/eapl.me/timeline/libs/twtxt.php on line 443

Kind of issue. :-)

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In-reply-to » @eapl.me Yeah, that's exactly why I'm asking. I've been having a couple of errors here and there even though I'm using PHP 8.2 ... Mostly somethings about undefined array keys and creation of dynamic properties being deprecated (CC: @sorenpeter )

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com the one you mentioned on your twtxt, but it cannot be seeing here (twtxt.net). Even for feed I am not following, twtxt.net will always show the context. There is no context for this reply of yours.

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