I've discovered the Baywatch channel on Plex; a show that deals with lost dogs, homelessness, autistic children, shoplifters, trying to find an apartment, fundraising, learning CPR to save lives, etc. Kind of a refreshing break from multiverse, space cowboy, superhero, serial killer TV shows we have today. https://watch.plex.tv/live-tv/channel/baywatch
20 years of Wordpress, huh!? https://www.meetup.com/wordpressnyc/events/292924681/ #NYC #Event
WooHoo! I got this awesome FormSpammerTrap code (https://www.formspammertrap.com/) to work with PHPMailer's (https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer) SMTP sender!
You don't need to use link shorteners on Mastodon!
All links on Mastodon count as 23 characters towards your post limit, no matter how long the links actually are.
Link shortener services like bit.ly, t.co etc track users who click on their links, so Mastodon removed any practical need to use them. If you still use link shorteners on Mastodon, it will be obvious to everyone that you are just doing it for tracking purposes.
More info at https://fedi.tips/you-dont-need-link-shorteners-on-mastodon
Hey #fediverse Hive Mind: ❓
If you had to recommend a set of #hashtags to follow for brand new users, not knowing their particular issue set they cared about, what general, noise-free, but active hashtags would you suggest? Here is a thread of mine, please add in comments:
(HT top @feditips for some of these)
🧵 1 of X
#Introduction & #Introductions - New people on here, say hello
#Befound - lists of other lists of Fedi users
Dolly 2.0 is a really big deal: https://www.databricks.com/blog/2023/04/12/dolly-first-open-commercially-viable-instruction-tuned-llm
"The first open source, instruction-following LLM, fine-tuned on a human-generated instruction dataset licensed for research and commercial use"
My notes so far on trying to run it: https://til.simonwillison.net/llms/dolly-2
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