mini_here @mini_here@qoto.org

Meta. OpenAI. Google.

Your AI chatbot is not *hallucinating*.

It's bullshitting.

It's bullshitting, because that's what you designed it to do. You designed it to generate seemingly authoritative text "with a blatant disregard for truth and logical coherence," i.e., to bullshit.

Computers were a mistake

If you've "never been wrong," you absolutely have.
You simply lack the capacity for self-reflection.

Elder Scrolls

I've seen some chatter suggesting that Mastodon uses "algorithms" and "AI" for different functions. This is false.

1) There are no special "algorithms" for generating feeds; your home feed is stuff you follow, your local feed is stuff from your server, the federated feed has stuff from other servers, hashtag feeds show hashtags.

2) No AI is used to do image detection or content warnings. There is no AI or ML code in the default stack; any feature like that would have to be added.

#debunk

Was anyone realistically thinking about creating a #dotnet implementation of #mastadon ?

I sorta started on it, but wasn't going to continue if there's a #Microsoft led effort.

If there's no existing project, I'll try to gather some collaborators and continue.

Who's interested in trying to get a #dotnet7 version going?

#OSS #foss

Please boost to help me find people or a project! Thanks!

"Even split between us, this will pay way better than the Jumanji sponsorship I came into the date with."
https://xkcd.com/2698/

it costs $8 to log out now

.NET 7 is out 🥳

.NET 7 release notes: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-dotnet-7/

ASP.NET Core release notes: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-asp-net-core-in-dotnet-7/

Entity Framework release notes:
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-ef7/

C# 11 release notes:
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/welcome-to-csharp-11/

#dotnet #csharp

Lots new in C# 11. Here's a great overview from Mads: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/welcome-to-csharp-11/ #dotnet #csharp #visualstudio

"Currently, the predominant business model for commercial search engines is advertising. But the goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users.

We expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers.

Furthermore, advertising income often provides an incentive to provide poor quality search results.

In general, it could be argued from the consumer point of view that the better the search engine is, the fewer advertisements will be needed for the consumer to find what they want".

Quote: Sergey Brin / Larry Page, from the seminal 1998 paper that kickstarted the #PageRank algorithm - and #Google with it (see Appendix A).

Reading the paper that started it all after so many years is a quite interesting experience. 25 years ago they knew *exactly* what a search engine may have become if it chose the path of an ads-based business model. They were very aware of the conflict of interest that arises when you have to provide relevant results to the users, but also boost those that pay your bills.

In other words, were warning us about the risks of the business model that their own company eventually decided to embrace.

http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/papers/google.pdf

lmao

The four stages of Mastodon user:
* what’s a Mastodon
* I feel lost and alone how does this work
* oh wow this is actually pretty cool
* I’m an instance admin now

Some Mastodon tips for someone with ONE DAY'S EXPERIENCE. Turn on the Advanced Web Interface - it's like tweetdeck. Make Columns. Verify yourself with links in your sites and rel="me". Consider your sounds/notifications for sanity. Go to https://fedifinder.glitch.me or https://twitodon.com and get an export of who you follow on twitter and import it here to follow the same folks. Turn off sounds. Note that Bridges exist to Twitter for your favs.