robryk @robryk@qoto.org
I enjoy things around information theory (and data compression), complexity theory (and cryptography), read hard scifi, currently work on weird ML (we'll see how it goes), am somewhat literal minded and have approximate knowledge of random things. I like when statements have truth values, and when things can be described simply (which is not exactly the same as shortly) and yet have interesting properties.
I live in the largest city of Switzerland (and yet have cow and sheep pastures and a swimmable lake within a few hundred meters of my place :)). I speak Polish, English, German, and can understand simple Swiss German and French.
If in doubt, please err on the side of being direct with me. I very much appreciate when people tell me that I'm being inaccurate. I think that satisfying people's curiosity is the most important thing I could be doing (and usually enjoy doing it). I am normally terse in my writing and would appreciate requests to verbosify.
I appreciate it if my grammar or style is corrected (in any of the languages I use here).
Joined Nov 2020
There's a concept of "groups". They are bot actors that do something like boost everything posted at them. This could create a stand-in for the channels you mean, which as an added benefit could be operated so that it's not tied to a particular instance (OTOH it can be easily tied to one instance by making the instance that has all the groups not federate with anyone else).
One thing that I'm missing in terms of transparency is knowing whether an instance of a user I'm responding to is blocking my instance (I can still see their posts if they are boosted by someone not blocked by their instance, but then I respond into the void).
Aside: do you know what's the reason people use defederation so very often instead of silences? I haven't really asked directly, mostly because the cases I noticed and I was most puzzled by were the ones where my instance was blocked in that way and I didn't want to appear argumentative.
> But more clear handling of federated feed moderation would be great
Do you mean "admins providing more clarity on what they're doing" or something else?
> that's curating the local timeline
You mean curating by causing more content that wouldn't be there otherwise to appear (because people wouldn't want to post it nonlocally)? Otherwise I don't see what curation you refer to.
bad opinions (not mine)
@fasterthanlime@octodon.social Even if you ignore the expectation of predictable output (which is terribly for some subset of people), this still excludes most projects where we can't tell how to do the whole thing from day one. This seems severely limiting, even with a workforce handpicked to be able to operate in such an environment.
@aredridel
Ah, I see: it's not about the number of users so much as the "typical user" finding this negatively surprising and not bearing any fault. I agree completely and am very sad that instance-level blocks (aka suspensions) are so widely used instead of silences (which do not prevent communication by individuals who explicitly wish to communicate).
@jacob What is the difference between what you want and replying+boosting that reply?
I'm somewhat sad that a significant part of the reason for this being considered bad (unless I'm misreading) is that it's popular enough that most people would expect to have a relationship with it. Using such reasons invites centralization by means of incentivizing the use of large entities, because they are "too large to fail^Hbe blocked".
@redder66@swiss-talk.net
Generell: mit einige von den Punkten wird jeder einverstanden sein, aber Leute werden sie in verschiedene Weise verstehen (z.B. die Punkte über die {Links,Rechts}extremen). mMn ist Konkretiesierung da sehr empfehlenswert.
Das Instanz wird sich (hoffentlich) mit anderen föderieren. Was soll zu Föderationsverweigerung führen (und welche Art von Verweigerung)? Ich würde erwarten, dass die Regeln da lockerer sein werden, aber ich kann nicht vermuten, in welche Weise.
Things that are very weirdly broken in a nearly-necessary way: https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=15101
Elongate, birdsite saga
@rysiek I am most curious what happened with their equivalent of security surveillance team.
Elongate, birdsite saga
@rysiek Did mcmillen make his posts available to followers only in the meantime, or am I holding the link wrong?
https://www.msri.org/people/staff/levy/files/MCL/Zvonkin.pdf
This is a:
a) tale of trying to teach young (preschool) kids actual mathematics (not counting),
b) description of an approach to that
c) book that contains problems that are simply stated and sometimes nontrivial (in particular games, where the winning strategy is very unobvious).
@schratze I'm _really_ curious whether this is a difference in perception or events: I've read accounts of people doing this and classified them as USAian weirdness, because I don't recall ever seeing that happen to me (or me and my parents). @grrrr_shark
@grrrr_shark Sadly(?) can't compare, because few people use shopping carts round here (probably because parking next to the stores is somewhat annoying, and people don't come shopping with 50l+ backpacks or panniers). @schratze
Hmm~ Do you have examples? I can't recall people in local grocery shops doing anything that I'd label as unproductive aggression, and am curious whether (a) I'm not noticing (b) I'm not labeling that way (c) there's an actual difference in what we see (i.e. other than how we perceive it).
Czy w innych krajach partie polityczne etc. mają profile na mastodonie?
@matthew_d_green Also, anyone who might wish to do nasty things to Twitter knows this too, and I would expect them to be planning their various kinds of DoS attacks for right about now.
robryk
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Another standard electronics practice is slapping a cheap and huge electrolytic capacitor on the DC power line, even in low-power devices. Clueless audiophiles would tell you it's like a pool of water that buffers energy to smooth the voltage. Until you realize their high series resistance and inductance make them useless at > 1 MHz in modern electronics, and often makes no sense.
What's the true reason? Resonance damping and control-loop stability. The inductor and capacitor are the input of a PSU form an LC resonator. At its natural frequency, noise voltage is not filtered but is significantly increased, ringing like a bell. Also, a regulated power supply has negative resistance, resonance turns a power supply into an oscillator.
A cheap and huge capacitor has high series resistance, it works as friction to dissipate energy, making it unable to ring. The capacitance also needs to be huge, since resonance occurs at a low frequency, the AC reactance must be low. For bonus, you get DC energy storage as explained by "conventional wisdom". All from a cheap low-quality capacitor... "It's not a bug, it's a feature!" #electronics
I enjoy things around information theory (and data compression), complexity theory (and cryptography), read hard scifi, currently work on weird ML (we'll see how it goes), am somewhat literal minded and have approximate knowledge of random things. I like when statements have truth values, and when things can be described simply (which is not exactly the same as shortly) and yet have interesting properties.
I live in the largest city of Switzerland (and yet have cow and sheep pastures and a swimmable lake within a few hundred meters of my place :)). I speak Polish, English, German, and can understand simple Swiss German and French.
If in doubt, please err on the side of being direct with me. I very much appreciate when people tell me that I'm being inaccurate. I think that satisfying people's curiosity is the most important thing I could be doing (and usually enjoy doing it). I am normally terse in my writing and would appreciate requests to verbosify.
I appreciate it if my grammar or style is corrected (in any of the languages I use here).
Joined Nov 2020
