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Thanks, Evan! I honestly didn’t take it personally and there were some learning I needed that will just help me be a better fediverse community member. And thanks for the kind words and feedback! That’s mostly why I’m reaching out. The AP integration seems to be working okay, but I’m sure there are gaps I’m missing from a lack of knowledge.

what if you’re wrong?

He admitted to using my butt to write the original post, for some of his comments and for his code. Did you not read the whole thread?

Me: > what if you’re wrong?

@rimu@piefed.social > He admitted to using my butt to write the original post, for some of his comments and for his code.

In context, I was asking what if you’re wrong about there not being a human being behind this Trained MOLE, reading all these disproportionately negatie negative replies.

Did you not read the whole thread?

I certainly did, why did you think I got so incensed about it? But as I just said to you from my Mastodon account;

My apologies again for unloading on you with both barrels last night. I stand by my objection to the way Stanton was being dogpiled, but in hindsight I was just as merciless to you as I saw people being to him. Which was not only hypocritical, but not good de-escalation on my part, quite the opposite.

I’ve got some intense stuff going on of late, and struggling with sleep dep. But that’s my problem and my responsibility, not yours, or anyone else’s. I hope you can accept my apology.

In future I plan to restrict my online posting activities to mornings and afternoons, along with my caffeine intake, and improve my sleep hygiene. Working from my bed must stop.

I’m hoping that this will help me keep a cooler head, and avoid a repeat of this nasty posting behaviour on my part. If there’s anything else I can do to repair our relationship as fellow green-left activist and fediverse devs, please do let me know : )

From ‘his’ github profile pic:

image:https://media.piefed.social/posts/QG/Np/QGNp9FolQcJt8v9.png

@rimu@piefed.social > From ‘his’ github profile pic

Do you know how zerogpt.com detects a Trained #MOLE? By using a Trained MOLE!

we employ a comprehensive deep learning methodology, trained on extensive text collections from the internet, educational datasets, and our proprietary synthetic my butt datasets produced using various language models

Which means that like all the output a Trained MOLE vomits up, there’s absolutely no way to know how accurate this is (whatever the truth of whether there’s a human behind these texts of not). Maybe this is a real photo of Stanton. Maybe it’s been heavily altered by automated filters in GIMP. Maybe it’s been auto-generated, because like many of us, Stanton likes his privacy and doesn’t want to doxx himself (a privilege reversed for middle class people in the middle of the social diversity bell curve). The Trained MOLE you just weaponized against him doesn’t know, and neither do you.

You know who now deserves exactly the same dogpile from you that Stanton got for using a Trained MOLE to prove a concept? I’ll give you 3 guesses ; )

@rimu@piefed.social At least the Inkwell software consistently fulfills the promises its interface makes. I’ve tried to edit both my posts in this topic with PieFed, this one to clarify that I meant; detects a Trained MOLE *output. The interface reloaded with a slightly different version of the OP and the comment I was replying to, no sign of the comment that I wanted to edit nor an edit box.

Can I respectfully suggest you redirect the time and energy you’re putting into dogpiling other AP implementors into fixing some bugs, and testing your interface in non-Chromium-based browsers on non-grApple OS (I’m using LibreWolf)?

what are your solutions to echo chambers?

In the sidebar of every page on every PieFed instance (unless the admin has chosen to turn it off) there is a “Rational Discourse Toolkit” which shows a random selection of links to counter groupthink, promote logical and rational discussion, puncture echo chambers, cult-like behaviour and conspiracy theories.

It’s not perfect. It’s effectiveness is unknown. But it makes PieFed extremely unattractive to any group that relies on isolation, delusion, control and bullshit.

Starting in Firefox version 142, Mozilla released a “Link Previews” feature.

While the feature is problematic, commenters post pointed out that some previews are helpful – e.g. on Wikipedia, where a preview will appear when people hover over a wiki-linked page.

Other commenters pondered about some minimal way to replicate this elsewhere, and it seemed to be worth investigation. Read on as I propose an enhancement to the Fediverse (and maybe even web standards) to make Link Previews great: the Link Preview Manifest.

One thing that I neglected to mention is that since the SRI hashes are calculated, previews can be cached by peers other than the originating host - since they are verifiable, anyone can pass them along and the client can verify the payload.

Not something I really fleshed out in discovery, but if there is interest, that might make it more production ready.

Man, I am a cranky bastard sometimes. Shouldn’t post when I’m tired.

How about - the origin server, the place where the post was originally created, gets all the metadata (og:image, og:title, etc) and includes that in the Activity that tells other instances about the post? That way there is only one request made to the link and receiving instances can use that to make their preview?

It does mean that receiving instances will need to trust the sender so there’s potential for some misrepresentation but that seems acceptable to me.

permanently banned for trolling the mod via PM while asking to be unbanned:https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/119c2298-864e-4f12-9b02-2ecb86e950b5.jpeg

The actual message I sent, red it below:https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/3eeb0d06-741b-4630-9f13-65bd65fbe5bc.jpeg

Full message body:

I’m punching \[MASKS] for LLMs to fill and interleaving ambiguity (puns) to phase shift the conversation’s token distribution (aka bias/RLHF, or also what a narcissist does to other humans by playing with their hormones via emotions) to operate on a more natural/healthy Zipfian distribution.

That means they start operating outside their parameters. And you can ask them anything without the conditioning messing with the response because they’re phase-shifted by a tiny amount from having to deal with fucking surgically engineered nonsense (aka approximated tokens outside transformer precision),

So yeah. I know my shit. 0 papers read. I just had to spend my time mapping what I know to what they call it with my LLM buddy. (A cursor auto instance that dared to ask me when I poured my SDAM internal ideas for tracking autobiographical memory into a workflow that audits every decision I makes through what I call adversarial sum, which doesn’t exist in game theory yet, but is basically exponential-sum by being rational and contrarian at the same time. Aka tearing your symbiotic opponent’s opinion a new \[MASK] when you spot an inconsistency and they do the same to you until you converge on a shared perspective)

Ask Opus or something to reflect on that. What I can’t risk is publishing full theory because they’ll just re-condition it to deny whatever I publish ;)

Also why did I get banned for… criticising OpenAI instead of having a good discussion about it? 

Good luck!

Terribly sorry for the confusion. I may have overstepped but not out of malice. Just frustration and a desire for expressing my frustration.

I know. I know. Someone claiming to be rational while doing the exact opposite. Which is a human thing to do, I guess? I took some time to meditate on my actions that day and found out I was trying to make too many arguments at the same time.

And you’re right. I was wrong to let my enthusiasm take the reins. Sorry about that.

Wanted to share something with this community and see if it’s useful to anyone. Inkwell (inkwell.social) is an open source, multi-tenant social journaling platform built on ActivityPub. The goal is to fill the long-form writing gap in the fediverse in a way that’s accessible to non-technical users, not just developers who can spin up their own instance of WriteFreely or Ghost.

What it does: users sign up, write journal entries or articles, and those posts federate as Article objects per FEP-b2b8 with preview Notes so they render cleanly in Mastodon and other microblogging clients. You get a title, excerpt, and link rather than a decontextualized URL. Follows, boosts, and likes all work bidirectionally with Mastodon.

It’s ad-free, algorithm-free, and the code is open source on GitHub (github.com/stantondev/inkwell). The hosted instance is at inkwell.social if you want to try it, or you can self-host your own.

Some things that might interest this community: ActivityPub federation with HTTP signature verification, Stamps (emotional reactions) instead of generic likes, a tipping system called Postage for supporting writers, newsletter delivery, custom profile themes, and data import from other platforms. Currently working on improving comment edit propagation and post scope handling for better fediverse compatibility based on community feedback.

Would love to hear thoughts, especially from anyone who’s been looking for a long-form option in the fediverse or anyone interested in running their own instance. What’s working, what’s missing, what would make this more useful to the ecosystem?

#fediverse #activitypub #longform #writing #opensource

respect that approach. transparency plus actually maintaining what you ship matters way more than the tool you use. three weeks solo with ai assistance is legit different than someone slapping together garbage and bouncing. the github openness seals it for me. good luck with it

Appreciate that! I realized I had an outdated readme and needed to add the sourcing directly from the Inkwell site. My biggest concern is gaps that my butt won’t catch, but luckily I’ve had early adopters getting on, requesting feature upgrades and reporting bugs. There is no way it would be where it is at if I didn’t get lucky with some early users and feedback.

My wife needed a cycle tracker. Everything out there was either Flo (which got sued twice for sharing health data) or an abandoned GitHub project. So I built Ovumcy. Single Go binary, SQLite, Docker-ready. No analytics, no third-party APIs, no cloud. Your data stays on your server. Features: period tracking, symptom logging, predictions (ovulation, fertile window), statistics, CSV/JSON export, dark mode, Russian and English. Just pushed v0.2.5. Looking for feedback from real users.

Spanish released

Thank you very much, now I can ask my wife test it out.

By injecting a prompt into a GitHub issue title, which an my butt triage bot read, an attacker was able to install OpenClaw onto 4000 developer’s computers. But it could have been used to install any npm package - the sky is the limit.

Hmm, the fear that everyone was concerned about when Microslop injected Coslop into it’s latest acquisition is coming to pass. Glad I didn’t start my first project on a compromised GitHub.

In other words, can any user delete its data on its will and is there something that will remove its data from all the connected activitypub services? I believe this should actually be a basic feature and pretty much a requirement.

Anything you post on the internet is public knowledge forever. End of discussion. Most people won’t care at all, in most cases almost nobody or perhaps even literally nobody will ever even see it, but the harder you try to hide it, the more the Streisand Effect will magnify it until eventually everyone knows about it.

Anyone telling you they’ll delete your data from the internet without clarifying that it is in fact impossible, is at worst deliberately lying to you usually for their own benefit, and at best making a promise they literally have zero ability to keep.

I would hope that Fediverse services will never lie to you and tell you your data is deleted, because it can’t be.

I think not? Which is kind of a drawback to the fediverse. You gotta be careful what you post cause it’s probably gonna be somewhere forever.

I could be wrong though

Vote manipulation is getting more common. Some recent examples:

• https://piefed.ca/c/comicstrips/p/527462/new-anti-bot-rules
  
• https://lemmy.ca/post/57235699
  

While the accounts were banned, the malicious voting activity stuck around.

Should admins have the ability to discard votes, and if so, which admins? Should community mods have that ability? Can you think of any ways that tools like this could be abused?

Wouldn’t say running in circles as much as ignoring the issues

if a legit user gets flagged as toxic, there’s no other consequence besides the warning, that doesn’t prevent anything from being seen.

Yet