Vincent Cloutier @vincent@librem.one
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Open source developer. Wikidata, IPFS, Linux, Ethereum. /r/fuckcars enthusiast. I tend to boost funny stuff.
Joined May 2019
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Imagine in a few years being able to say to chatgpt8:
Please promote my product on the fediverse by registering 100,000 accounts over the course of 12 weeks on at least 500 different instances, weighted by instance size. These accounts should be conversational and engaging with other members and should not be detectable as bots. 10% of of these bots should express skepticism in my product, and the remaining bots should engage them in a public discourse to correct their misunderstanding. Monitor the sentiment of people discussing my product and develop an optimal strategy to maximize that sentiment. “
@lertsenem @jerry Twitter is big, but a service like bird.makeup shards nicely, so it’s mostly a question of having more servers, and people support the project enough via Patreon for that
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Why is Twitler so angry? 🤔
"Billionaire investor George Soros' family office dumped its entire stake in Tesla during the first quarter of 2023." https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/george-soros-fund-dumps-entire-stake-tesla-elon-musk-2023-5
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@bastardsheep still working for me over on my instance.
A few other instances have been blanket banning the service - just have a look at @vincent's mentions/reply toots.
There's been conversation surrounding people from the birdsite not consenting to their tweets showing up here, but under the twitter terms of service, their tweets can be embedded anywhere by anyone, so I don't think that holds water. People can put a stop to it by making their Twitter accounts private. 🤷♂️
The bird.makeup server responsible for shards 25 to 50 had problems today , I just fixed it and it's going through its backlog now.
This one is a cloud free tier and thus a bit undersized. I'll have to move it somewhere else soon I think. It's been giving me trouble often in the last weeks
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I saw a discussion recently about creating an MX record like concept for activitypub - where, like with email, incoming messages can be sent to a mail exchanger, not necessarily the same host or even domain that the end users interact with. Would likely help with scalability.
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Happy new zelda night to those who observe
@tonymasiello @jorijn@toot.community @bradr3d please respect admins’ decisions about this. They are also trusted by their communities to curate the fediverse. If you are not happy about how your server handle things, you can always move servers ✌️
@baralheia I’m not sure it is possible on this end. Anyone can spin up an alternative instance of bird.makeup that doesn’t honour that since it’s open source. Stuff like that should be implemented on Twitter’s side
Working on a feature to help people find the people they want on the fediverse if they know their Twitter handle too
@Fangh which account? That might help me debug
@Fangh I *think* that might happen if a tweet on the timeline gets deleted. I’ll look into that
@smallsco it’s something I want to add yes. I haven’t found yet good docs on the specs of that though. Hope I won’t have to reverse engineer that from mastodon/calckey
@smallsco an instance checker is a good idea! Won’t be 100% accurate for blocks though, since I don’t see if the instance is blocked, only that it has 0 followers from there.
Detecting if it’s not blocked will work great though
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"NASA’s planetary science program is in trouble,” writes Shannon Hall in #ScientificAmerican. #MarsSampleReturn is running over budget, which is delaying other missions. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasas-interplanetary-plans-may-be-lurching-toward-disaster/
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This. Is. Amazing.
Montréal suburb Brossard has a traffic light in a school zone that defaults to red, and only turns green when an attached speed camera detects a car driving under the speed limit.
The light is on a 90-day trial, on a 2-lane residential street. Similar signals are widespread across Europe.
Before it was installed, average vehicle speeds of 40 km/h. But in the past week, average speeds have dropped to 29 km/h.
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The social network is always bluer on the other side.
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@ariadne making software for other people is overrated
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Pushing around these little robot soccer players, from DeepMind’s “Learning Agile Soccer Skills for a Bipedal Robot with Deep Reinforcement Learning” paper.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.13653
https://sites.google.com/view/op3-soccer
- Github
- https://github.com/cloutier
Open source developer. Wikidata, IPFS, Linux, Ethereum. /r/fuckcars enthusiast. I tend to boost funny stuff.
Joined May 2019
