R. A. Dehi @radehi@qoto.org
I read a lot. Sometimes I learn things. I like making things. I think reading and doing are complementary.
Joined Nov 2022
@worldsendless @freemo Thanks! I wonder why I get results that are so much worse.
birdsite, cryptocurrency, musk
@mathlover Yeah, could be a big disaster for his reputation if goes badly enough. So far I haven't seen a failwhale or evidence of a drop in engagement, though, and is hard to imagine what non-operations problem would be worse than what Twitter already did before he bought it, like getting Trump elected president of the USA.
Advertisers do seem to be staying away, and that may be one reason he wants to move Twitter into more lucrative services like money transmission.
R. A. Dehi
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WARNING: BIRDSITE DISCUSSION
Whatever I think about Trump, his politics, Jan 6 — I have opinions, everybody has opinions, I wrote a book if you want to read it — is not really the point here. It’s what the decision to me says about what the business model of Twitter is.
Twitter works as a business, if it does, by engaging you. And often, it engages you by inciting emotion. Largely negative emotions. Anxiety, anger, FOMO, outrage, contempt, glee. 2/
@freemo @worldsendless Does it work for you, at least to the point of successfully doing a full-text search over toots you've been mentioned in?
@freemo @worldsendless Also, even though you just now tagged me in a toot that says "markdown", text search for "markdown" doesn't return that toot either. I think free text search for toots is just broken, maybe there's a process that's not running that's supposed to build a full-text index or something.
@freemo @worldsendless The documentation that pops up under the search box when it gets focus says, "Simple text returns toots you have written, favourited, boosted, or have been mentioned in, ..." and this is a toot that I wrote, yesterday, so either it should have been returned or the documentation under the search box shouldn't claim it will be returned. But that second option is obviously a lot worse, just easier.
@freemo @worldsendless I can't parse that, but I haven't been talking about LaTeX rendering for two hours!
@freemo @worldsendless By the way, I hope I'm not hurting your feelings by criticizing your code. I appreciate that there are some beginnings of Markdown support on Qoto! I want to help make it better! (I just don't know where it is or how to run it outside of Qoto yet.) But the first step to making it better is cataloging its deficiencies.
yt-dlp has #Nitter support now!
$ yt-dlp --write-auto-sub --sub-lang en,es -f '[height<800]' https://nitter.net/elonmusk/status/1595250835096621057#m
[Nitter] 1595250835096621057: Downloading webpage
[Nitter] 1595250835096621057: Downloading m3u8 information
[info] 1595250835096621057: Downloading 1 format(s): 320
[hlsnative] Downloading m3u8 manifest
[hlsnative] Total fragments: 4
[download] Destination: Elon Musk - Found in closet at Twitter HQ fr 🤣🤣 [1595250835096621057].mp4
[download] 100% of 484.92KiB in 00:12 at 39.13KiB/s
@freemo @worldsendless Actually, if you count "newlines are ignored inside code blocks, but inside normal paragraphs newlines are treated as `<br>`" as two bugs instead of one, that post documents five bugs in Qoto's Markdown support rather than four.
birdsite, cryptocurrency, musk
@mathlover Probably so. I mean, they trust Tesla cars with their lives and their children's lives, and SpaceX with their lunar rendezvous missions.
@freemo @worldsendless Search on Qoto is also broken (finds no toot hits for the search "markdown", without quotes) but I was able to find my post on the matter chronologically by scrolling down to yesterday: https://qoto.org/@radehi/109385091125963094
This documents four or arguably three separate bugs in Markdown support, one of which is the one you mention. I've seen a fifth one as well that I can't remember right now, but finding three new bugs in the Markdown implementation while trying to find a workaround for the first one makes me think there are probably dozens.
So, there is a place to document these findings so they don't get lost, no?
R. A. Dehi
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f(x,y) = ((((~x) + (-y)) / ((x % 24) % (y ^ x))) % (((y % y) + (-x)) % ((x - 3) ^ (y ^ y)))) % 2
Extent: 256x256 (scaled x2)
"Onebit" colouring scheme.
birdsite, cryptocurrency
#Musk plans to support #cryptocurrency transfers over #Twitter. Which, I mean, you can already post a Bitcoin address in your profile or in a Tweet.
@freemo @worldsendless The Markdown support is also spectacularly broken, as we documented in detail yesterday. I'm glad to hear you're on a path to getting Mathjax fixed! Let me know if I can do anything to help.
R. A. Dehi
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@blakereid @mmasnick No, needs to be low enough stress for the people operating the system so they don't quit, and needs to attract or create people with the necessary technical competence to keep it running.
A communication platform like Mastodon can survive with 30 people or 300 million people, as long as one out of every 30 or so people is able to fix problems as they arise, and as long as no group of people can make the platform useless to everybody else.
Whether regular people can use it or not obviously affects the regular people, but its effect on the survivability of the platform itself is very small and possibly negative. Consider how many Commodore 64 users there are today versus how many Macintosh 512K users. Or how many IRC users (about a hundred thousand) versus how many AIM users (zero). Or how many FidoNet users (about a hundred thousand I think) versus how many Minitel users (zero).
I think you didn't think your ideas through before tooting to see if they made sense.
@neauoire Hey, this is fantastic!
R. A. Dehi
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I've completed the implementation of Uxn, in Uxn, which allows me to spawn sandboxed processes(think uxn roms in windows). But I think while I'm here, I will make a little standalone toy which will be a step debugger with a pdp like panel that communicates each step of the evaluation with little blinking lights.
@freemo @worldsendless So, I'd like to do more things in LaTeX, but I've noticed LaTeX (well, Mathjax) is broken on Qoto, and every time Terence Tao posts LaTeX it blows up my home page with giant letters. I'm told this is a known problem. There is a known Qoto problems list somewhere? What is known about the problem, and what do you know and not know about what needs to be done to fix it?
@blakereid @mmasnick No, needs to be low enough stress for the people operating the system so they don't quit, and needs to attract or create people with the necessary technical competence to keep it running.
A communication platform like Mastodon can survive with 30 people or 300 million people, as long as one out of every 30 or so people is able to fix problems as they arise, and as long as no group of people can make the platform useless to everybody else.
Whether regular people can use it or not obviously affects the regular people, but its effect on the survivability of the platform itself is very small and possibly negative. Consider how many Commodore 64 users there are today versus how many Macintosh 512K users. Or how many IRC users (about a hundred thousand) versus how many AIM users (zero). Or how many FidoNet users (about a hundred thousand I think) versus how many Minitel users (zero).
I think you didn't think your ideas through before tooting to see if they made sense.
I read a lot. Sometimes I learn things. I like making things. I think reading and doing are complementary.
Joined Nov 2022
