Teflo

The memory system is terrible, I've always had it off. It starts to really impact replies and bias them in strange ways after you've got even just a few of them.

COVID genuinely ruined everything, didn't it.

Can we have a vote to keep it like this?

Yeah, that's fair enough. Maybe I'm a bit too harsh on them. I'm sure there's very good ones out there (like the ones that you've pointed out), but I'd feel like quite a few would descend into hall monitors.

I just feel like the blocklists will naturally gravitate to being managed by absolutely neurotic individuals since that's reasonably the only individuals who'll go through the effort of maintaining such a blocklist. I suppose that doesn't apply to smaller more niche blocklists.

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It's picture 13/22 on the SMH photo reel. They're constantly adding new photos though so it might change.
www.smh.com.au/national/cyc...

A screen shot of two individuals standing between a grid of four screens with a tropical cyclone being shown off the coast of Brisbane on the screen. There is a caption with "A map is seen in the background at the National Situation Room during an update on Cyclone Alfred in Canberra on Friday - Alex Ellinghausen"

@zoom.earth
Did you guys see that zoom.earth was used in the National Situation room?

The guy arguing as well seems to have a foot fetish, wetsuit fetish and motorcycle gear fetish.
So you know, this platform is just going fucking great.

About as inevitable as the fucking tides they're going from somewhat moderated platforms to barely moderated platforms.
And before anyone asks, no, under 16's were barely using Twitter/X.

It's specifically designed to built echo chambers and block criticism. It's insane.

Fucking morons.

There's a pretty good reason why companies don't tell you what boosts you in the algorithm and what does not, it's to avoid stuff exactly like this.

It brings me great sadness to say that he might actually be right with this one.

I feel bad for the authors of the study at this point.

"There is also a fire behind Albo for some reason"
Because he is ON FIRE FOR AUSTRALIA 🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿

Just had Cadbury Chocolate Coated Peanuts and honestly, 3/10. Aldi's Dairy Fine Chocolate Coated Almonds on the other hand are a 9/10.
I love almonds and peanuts equally so I think it's just bad chocolate with Cadbury, a shame.

Thanks for the explainer! I'm surprised people see things like global search as abusive? There's definitely some arguments to be made against open API's (although I am hugely supportive of them) but I don't see one for something like a global search. Each to their own I guess.

Seems pretty huge for the performance that I've seen from it so far, I think Qwen2-VL is still better in general. Which is surprising considering how much smaller it is. This feels closer to InternVL2 to me which is practically a gpt-4o distillation.

As I noted on my blog: Hacking on Bluesky feels reminiscent of the massive diversity of innovation we saw around Twitter back in the late 2000s and early 2010s.

Very interesting, but what happened with the Mastodon API? I haven't seen anything about it? Did the community reject/block it in some way?

I saw that post along with their charts and it didn't honestly seem like there was much of a change? The biggest shift was in 2021 where obviously, people thought that we could then take in more migrants (what a surprise)
It doesn't seem to be on the mind of policymakers though.

I know I'm directly contributing to this now.. but I'd also wish we'd shut the fuck up about what the other platform is doing and get to making our usual miserable posts about our boring, empty lives. I used this platform last year and they are STILL talking about it.

Considering that these are the individuals who have directly been working with tech companies on such things for a long time and would have a better understanding of their internal processes. Them being skeptical of the whole thing should be a huge red flag.

So now we've got a parliamentary inquiry that didn't include it as a recommendation and even the eSafety commissioner doesn't seem confident in it? At this point it should be dead in the water.

Yeah, although it's harder because you need to be logged in, although you're right and a regular polling would be easy and likely work just as well (minus the delay). I'm just trying to think of a more fun way that's instant without having to poke the bear too much :P

I thought about it a bit further and in theory you could actually not require polling the API at all, you could do something like web notifications and that should be a push from Twitter to your server, which could then cross post for you to Bluesky. You can use push notifications with Selenium.

I think the bigger issue would be the chance of hitting the usual bot protection rather than any scrape limits. I never dug through the internals of the Twitter web API but I'd probably focus on their mobile API instead. Those tend to be looser and I think some have already used that?

Can't believe that we need community notes here already. Still the best feature on Twitter honestly, but I fear how a smaller platform would wield it.

You'd have to self-bot most likely due to the API changes that Twitter went through but I don't see why it wouldn't be possible. Thankfully I wasn't too much of a chronic tweeter, but I did reply a decent amount.

There's a few bots/accounts that block everyone automatically, some of the others are probably manual and some might be from Blockenheimer (block anyone who liked a specific post)