Posts by laurenshof@calckey.social
(DIR) Post #AVJJsQKXLyHhHtX2h6 by laurenshof@calckey.social
2023-05-03T21:35:16.986Z
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@anderspuck@krigskunst.social Interesting, thanks! I'm having a hard time making sense of it all tbh
(DIR) Post #AVJJsQyax2KLI8H28G by laurenshof@calckey.social
2023-05-04T11:46:57.755Z
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@anderspuck@krigskunst.social ISW going for staged. Reiterating that I'm having a hard time making sense of this all hahaha.https://understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-may-3-2023
(DIR) Post #AVg9B6yhNnQaTZORuq by laurenshof@calckey.social
2023-05-14T19:17:54.039Z
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@rysiek@mstdn.social @pkreissel@chaos.social This is exactly why a spam attack from a 10k MAU sized server would be so much worse. Those instances dont have 24/7 mod support, so its easy to hit the attack when mods are not available. And other admins will indeed choose defederate way quicker instead of mute, which will irreversibly sever all follow connections.Im really not sure why you're so excited about the possibility of earlier/easier defederation.
(DIR) Post #AVg9B7cP0BBeShy9nk by laurenshof@calckey.social
2023-05-14T19:37:32.530Z
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@rysiek@mstdn.social @pkreissel@chaos.social like, to make this very practical and concrete: mstdn.social has 1 admin and 2 mods, all publicly known, and all very easy to find out which overlapping timezones they operate in. It also has open signups, so you can execute the exact same crypto spam attack as is happening now.Having other admins go like 'oh this is a smaller server, so we can defederate, its fine', would suck pretty bad.I think there is a lot of criticism to be had that there is not better tooling to deal with spam (see Matt Blaze about DM's for example). I just dont see how criticizing m.s. would actually solve the spam issue as it would just move to the next biggest open signup server.
(DIR) Post #AVqoEfewoLBIrA0zOy by laurenshof@calckey.social
2023-05-20T08:49:50.739Z
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good job everyone, we reached the next stage: handwringing by wired about how decentralization is bad, actually https://www.wired.com/story/the-hidden-dangers-of-the-decentralized-web/
(DIR) Post #AWKNK6jkDukF9NKtFI by laurenshof@calckey.social
2023-06-03T21:16:25.530Z
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(DIR) Post #AWNq4AOQLIhw07zhFg by laurenshof@calckey.social
2023-06-05T14:06:28.800Z
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@liaizon@social.wake.st I hadnt heard of this, so based on your post I started diving into it, and found out about the misskey app bounty. theres so much going on in japanese fedi that ive got no idea about lolwill give this app a shot later today, sounds really interesting
(DIR) Post #AWeoeYR3rxivjtvY4u by laurenshof@calckey.social
2023-06-13T18:16:32.338Z
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One aspect of Meta's new microblogging platform Threads that is heavily overlooked is that it completely changes the dynamic for Tumblr.Automattic CEO is on record during the Twitter migration that he was considering ActivityPub support for Tumblr. A few months later he was more hesitant about this. His problem was not with federation per se, but with Tumblr overrunning the fediverse due to the size difference.Now that Meta is joining soon, the balance is completely different. Would not be surprised at all if we hear more from Automattic about Tumblr in a few months.
(DIR) Post #AWshnxILf4qdsWfdFA by laurenshof@calckey.social
2023-06-20T11:32:57.580Z
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@stux@mstdn.social @liaizon@social.wake.st @threadcount@botsin.space yeah I think its safe to assume that a lot of fuckery is happening with both spam and spoofed user counts
(DIR) Post #AWtWES0H6dVeMA2nj6 by laurenshof@calckey.social
2023-06-20T20:40:52.914Z
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ATProto federation is now available for testing for developers.Turning out to be a spicy summerhttps://atproto.com/blog/federation-developer-sandbox
(DIR) Post #AWzuOs2ehrs2dhMiFE by laurenshof@calckey.social
2023-06-23T22:55:36.905Z
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@anderspuck@krigskunst.social @Nigel_Purchase@mstdn.social looking forward to your take on this at some point Anders!
(DIR) Post #AX37IbRDPMqeHg4fWy by laurenshof@calckey.social
2023-06-25T10:52:02.203Z
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this seems relevant. one major factor in the current AI hypecycle is the supposed rapid speed of improvements of models. Turns out that GPT4 is just GPT3, but stacked 8 versions of itself on top of each other. Sure, thats a nice idea and improves performance, so smart idea. But at the same time invalidates this idea of super fast exponential growth where models get orders of magnitudes powerful with each release.https://thealgorithmicbridge.substack.com/p/gpt-4s-secret-has-been-revealed
(DIR) Post #AX3aH8exohrbPY9vZg by laurenshof@calckey.social
2023-06-25T17:26:04.704Z
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this is at its core why I think its so worthwhile to spend all my time on the fediverse. Its also why I think its worthwhile to persist, even with all the drama. Finding alternative ways to organise human activity on this scale is crazy fucking hard. But you gotta fight for something thats worth itRE: https://indieweb.social/users/emc2/statuses/110605790383961309
(DIR) Post #AX8JFO9gzWtVWKaNoe by laurenshof@calckey.social
2023-06-26T18:35:02.294Z
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Challenge: comment on this post with an account that runs the most obscure, esoteric, unique or strange ActivityPub software that you can think of!Very curious what people can come up withBoosts welcome