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Just ran a lil LLM on my . 7b with 4bit quantization so it's pretty small and dumb. I'm calling it stink-demon.

I'm gonna try to get it to do simple formatting tasks from text I've selected with my mouse based on the speech to text I'm adding to my deck via Vosk and steam-dictation.

It is genuinely baffling how much discussion of passkeys omits the extremely basic question of WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU LOSE YOUR PHONE theverge.com/2023/5/3/23709318

After two hours of fixating on it I have discovered I am not hardcore enough for a split keyboard. 🤪

The ones that seem most appealing are custom built and I just don't have the hardware knowledge or expendible income go gain it / the tools for it at the moment.

Dear developers: I don't want to use your app on my phone. I want a mobile web version, and you can do that.

Thanks kindly.

Anyone know of an alternative to 1password and the such which is self hosted and supports acting as a app?

Fug. I really don't want to do the dance of setting up my 2FA on for everything again. Might just leave it on my old computer and VPN in whenever I need it. 🤪

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Ugh. I wish things that required authenticator apps were required to support having multiple apps. I've been using KeySmith on KDE and I have no way to reuse my data on a second device. 🙃

4. Federated moderation

It's likely we won't have time for this in our current sprint, but I'd personally love to collaborate with groups thinking about how we can more easily opt into blocklists. For example, if you run a distributed press instance, it should be useful for all the sites on your community to opt into a blocklist instead of having to moderate everything on their own.

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3. Word filters

In a lot of cases it's pretty safe to just say "We don't want any slurs, or anything that looks like a slur on our blog. Or similar with particular trigger words if you have a community that would be vulnerable to them.

Similar to blocking instances, we'll have a way to paste a list of words you just want auto-filtered out before the mods even see them.

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2. Allow/Block lists.

In addition to the manual processing, we will also have a way to say "Filter out anything from this particular domain" or "Filter out anything that isn't from this domain.

We'll have a way to add to these lists one by one, but from what I've heard having a way to send a newline delimited list is something a lot of folks have wanted from Mastodon to make it easier to paste in entire block lists.

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1. Moderation queues on webmentions before they show up on the blog.

Before a mention shows up on your blog, it'll go into a (currently central) queue which will need to be manually approved. Publishers can also opt into auto-accepting if they feel automatic filters they have will be enough.

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Hey folks! Distributed.Press is venturing into the world of federated social and are working on our moderation tools. Specifically this will be on getting into published blogs.

What sorts of tools do you wish you had for making easier? I'll document some of the ones we're already planning in this thread too.

Boosts and shares appreciated.

Not to toot my own horn, but I'm still very happy with this I wrote that uses with a MongoDB-like interface.

github.com/RangerMauve/hyperbe

serious question, why do people use #substack or medium instead of just making their own blog? I assumed for monetization, but some ppl who certainly know how to make their own just write free blogs over there and idk what the deal is with that

Excellent demonstration of why a few ultra-rich people owning everything is inevitable unless we redistribute wealth.

And it has everything to do with math and nothing to do with how clever they are.

pudding.cool/2022/12/yard-sale

Twitter cancelled our API access which broke the ability to login to Shodan via Twitter (SSO) . Email us at support@shodan.io if you're currently logging in via Twitter and would like to migrate to a regular Shodan account instead of using SSO.

Ahh! The sweet taste of deleting a bunch of my code to make room for other code. 🥰

ActivityPub can support portable identities, using the infrastructure and protocol that we already have: https://shadowfacts.net/2023/activitypub-portable-identity/

The crux of the issue with current software like Mastodon is that people and posts are identified by where they’re hosted, not who they belong to. It’s as if the URL for my blog post was https://5.161.136.163/2023/activitypub-portable-identity/. It moves the post from being controlled by me, the owner of shadowfacts.net, to my hosting provider who controls that IP address. But the web doesn’t work like that, and nor does ActivityPub have to.

Mmmmm. Hate me some Google Calendar. Barely usable outside of their proprietary front end.

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