Oh wow that’s neat

Does the ecosystem have something like Mealie and Tandoor, where a nontechnical user can drop in a link to add a recipe?

No problem!

I looked around a bit, and I think the relevant code for it will be here: https://gitlab.com/diasporg/poduptime

They have a guide page here where server owners can request manual fixes: https://gitlab.com/diasporg/poduptime/-/wikis/Podmin/Server-Owner-Help

The link for location changes is dead, but I think they were trying to link to this page: https://www.maxmind.com/en/geoip-data-correction-request . For those behind cloudflare, they ask for manual PRs, and I found this issue where a Mastodon instance requested manual changes: https://gitlab.com/diasporg/poduptime/-/work_items/42

This will likely be a more involved fix on our end, since a number of the data points need us to contact third party organizations (the coordinates, the greenhosting, etc). I’ll add it to our todo list for later :)

Oh wow that’s embarrassing, I must have been saying it wrong this whole time.

I’m sorry about the other errors as well, I blame being tired while trying to get the shields.io icons working through trial and error. They don’t have the best support for alternative git platforms: https://shields.io/badges/gitea-forks

I think it should all be fixed now: https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/threadiverse/alternative-uis#mlmym

It could be some AB testing or regional differences

Ah, ok that makes sense. That would be wasteful for something that is only useful on the rare occasion.

In that case, a troubleshooting mode might work better, where the user can run tests somewhere in the user settings. Or a button somewhere on the feed that the user can click on to run the analysis on demand.

I can confirm that lemmy.ca, piefed.ca, and pixelfed.ca are located in Vancouver Canada, hosted out of a colocation space in the city. We wrote about it here: https://fedecan.ca/en/announcements/2025-01-18_update-finances-new-server#new-server

Meanwhile yes sh.itjust.works is hosted on the east coast of Canada. Some of that may change as things are upgraded / reorganized but for now that is true

I haven’t had a chance to read through your post yet since I’m about to head out, but are there specific ways that we could be more transparent about our location? I’m happy to look into it to add that information.

Cool post, from what I read so far :)

Out of curiosity, are there any updates on this from Sal? I’m not in that Matrix currently

I wrote that line 😄

The situation was still ongoing at the time of that change, and I figured that a new user doesn’t want to read a bunch of lore if they’re just there to pick a UI. Anyone that is curious can ask here or simply search for it

Geocaching is free. You mentioned you are in a city so chances are that there are lots of them nearby.

On android look for c:geo, on iOS you might be restricted to free ones only unless you have a friend with Android you can explore with

Libraries have lots of other fun stuff, such as books and games

!geocaching@lemmy.world

!libraries@literature.cafe

You can also contribute to openstreetmaps while walking between geocaches. I recommend StreetComplete to start

Your instance runs the following

https://m.lemmy.zip/

https://blorp.lemmy.zip/home

https://a.lemmy.zip/lemmy.zip

https://old.lemmy.zip/

You can read more about it on this page:

https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/threadiverse/alternative-uis

IMO there’s a difference between the vibe coded one-shot projects (which tend to have those AI generated looking websites), and using LLMs for targeted and focussed suggestions. The contents of that file and a quick skim of the PRs and commits doesn’t change my mind on that, the project still looks like it’s made by competent developers who may or may not use AI for debugging/brainstorming.

I know some people will still prefer having zero AI usage and that’s fine too. For me their AI use doesn’t meet the threshold for me to have doubts about the quality and longevity of the product.

I also found this: their website / blog uses the Eleventy static site generator: https://github.com/bonfire-networks/website-blog

They’re probably using a static site template, maybe Astro.

They’ve put a lot of work into Bonfire, off the top of my head

• working with activitypub stakeholders to get a proper standard for groups (which helps us directly)
• tooling for other platforms to use
• a separate platform focussed on academics with integrations to academia services

It’s far from some vibe coded project

How many versions of this diagram did Cisco make 😄

Since this account doesn’t fit the pattern of the other harassment accounts from before, I haven’t banned the account.

However, I do see a number of downvotes on your comments during a very short time span.

@FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world, please do not go through a user’s history in order to downvote unrelated comments. We consider that to be vote manipulation and harassment, as voting should be intentional and specific. We recommend that if you do not want to see content from a particular user, you should block the user instead: https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/threadiverse/how-to-block#blocking-a-user

I don’t think it would work out well for americans, not that this administration cares though. They might do it regardless

Unless they can get other countries to stop using the local models, American companies will have a much harder time competing if everyone else can use cheaper and more efficient models while they need to use expensive american ones.

I don’t disagree but I’m curious what government regulation can do to create that moat? What are they trying to get out of the recent fearmongering, I can’t figure out what the end goal is

TIL 😄

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tit_(bird)

The tits, chickadees, and titmice constitute the Paridae, a family of small passerine birds which occur mainly in the Northern Hemisphere and Africa. Many were formerly classified in the genus Parus.

Eurasian and African members of this family are referred to as “tits”, while North American species are called either “chickadees” (onomatopoeic, derived from their distinctive “chick-a dee dee dee” alarm call)1 or “titmouses”, the latter being an older name that was used for all tits. The name titmouse is recorded from the 14th century, composed of the Old English name for the bird, mase (Proto-Germanic *maison, Dutch mees, German Meise), and tit, denoting something small. The former spelling, “titmose”, was influenced by mouse in the 16th century.2 Emigrants to New Zealand presumably identified some of the superficially similar birds of the genus Petroica of the family Petroicidae, the Australian robins, as members of the tit family, giving them the title tomtit, although, in fact, they are not related.

Not much, what about you?

I don’t really see why environmental policy shouldn’t be mentioned in the contribution policy. If it’s there as the justification for why a part of the policy exists and it is accurate about what the environmental impacts actually are, it seems to fit in fine within the policy? Not wanting the point there doesn’t make KDE pro-AI (since they might just want to mention it elsewhere), but it is valid criticism if they don’t acknowledge it anywhere.

However I do feel that the other points in the post are weaker. KDE’s stance is in line with what the SFC recommends when it comes to AI in FOSS, specifically around contributions. I came across the SFC recommendations a while back and it’s held up well in similar discussions so far: https://sfconservancy.org/llm-gen-ai/llm-backed-generative-ai-recommendations.html

Devs rejecting any notion of transparency by disclosing AI usage in code submissions

I don’t think they rejected the transparency part? I agree that transparency is necessary. Rather their reply is telling the commenter to not shun people. Both of those points are reflected in the SFC recommendations (point 5 on disclosure and point 3 on shunning)

And all of this is coming right after the debacle with an AI slop project being allowed to give a presentation at Akademy, and the person asking how this was allowed being blocked by KDE

I get the feeling that KDE does not curate much of anything, for better or for worse. There is a good bit of content in the KDE ecosystem that is outdated or straight up shovelware.

On top of that, Akademy is a conference that is intended for discussion, rather than a presentation about KDE.

Akademy features a 2-day conference with presentations on the latest KDE developments, followed by 4 days of workshops, Birds of a Feather (BoF) and coding sessions. It is an opportunity to meet key KDE contributors, learn about the latest features and enjoy the great atmosphere. You will meet developers, artists, translators, upstream and downstream maintainers, users, and free and open software industry leaders from all over the world

It wouldn’t work well if they had to curate every presentation at such an event. It is indeed deceitful to imply that the presenter is going to change the direction of KDE if in reality they rarely contribute and have little say in the direction of KDE. Also IMO it’s good that they let that guy participate in the conversation because it let everyone else raise points about why the idea is bad.

The difference is that every form of domestic abuse is awful and should face zero tolerance, whereas with “AI tools” there is still nuance in what that phrase means.

Even if we talk specifically about generative AI, there are models trained on only licensed data, and it’s possible to train and run models locally for the specific tasks that it is good for. The end of the day, it is an algorithm and there are some tasks that it is better at doing.

The point the other user is making is that a contribution policy should take those factors into account.

IMO a more effective principled stance would be to ban the use of specific “AI” tools that are proven to be abusive.