Cool, thanks. I’ll give that a read and see if I can make it work cleanly. At this point, it’s just an experiment, but I’ve wanted to have some mechanism for a standardized machine-readable community rules for a long time, specifically to put into the report and moderation workflows. If I can make it work cleanly, and if it’s not something already planned for Lemmy 1.0, I’m absolutely willing to make that a Tesseract feature.

Pancakes … In there silverware drawer

What’s the significance of this syntax with regard to it not rendering?

  [//]: # (r1: Posts must be ...)
  [//]: # (r3: Posts must not be ...)
  [//]: # (r2: Posts must be ...)

I’ve long wanted a somewhat standardized way to define community rules so I could do exactly what you were describing in your issue, but I’m not clear on how/why that syntax doesn’t render.

I tried it in Tesseract, which admittedly use a different markdown renderer than other apps, and the first line shows but the second and third don’t.

If other apps can get on board with that, then I may need to understand what’s happening in that syntax to make sure it doesn’t render.

Lol, yeah

The Fediverse is just full of Carols (on the right/brown coat):

What do you want to practice? Just general sysadmin stuff? Networking? Clustering? Horizontal scaling? All of the above?

Old PCs are just Debian servers waiting to happen. Depending on their specs, you may be able to do VMs or you can utilize container frameworks like Podman, Docker, or LXC to deploy individual applications or application stacks. Or you can just bare metal install anything you want.

Years ago, I bought a batch of 16 Wyse thin clients on eBay for about $15/each. These had 4GB SSDs and 2 GB RAM, so I upgraded about half of them with 64-120GB SSDs (whatever I had lying around) and 8 GB RAM. Thin clients can usually be found pretty inexpensively and are pretty power efficient, but they’re not performant workhorses. They’re great for practicing networking, VLANs, system orchestration (e.g. Ansible, Cockpit) application clustering and horizontal scaling, diskless workstations, setting up a demo office server and workstations, and even VMs if you’re just practicing; they’re a little underpowered to run a lot of VMs, but you can certainly run a few small ones just to practice managing them.

than to carry something like an evaporative cooler

Evaporative coolers don’t really work in high humidity. If you live in an area that’s a dry hot, they work great. Summers in my area, though, are very muggy. Other than ice pack based products, the only passive coolers I’ve found work in humid environments are these sweat bands that have either desiccant beads in them or that stuff that’s in diapers. They pull the sweat away keeping it out of your eyes and give a little evaporative cooling at the same time.

I’ve toyed around with LLM-based moderation tools but it never really panned out. It was too hit or miss to be relied upon even with the temperature parameters turned way down in an attempt to get consistent results. Granted, I was using a small local model and not feeding it to one of the big players.

To give an example, I tried to keep it focused by creating one custom model per rule to enforce. An example prompt to mod calls for violence was basically:

ROLE: You are a forum moderator who does not want users calling for violence.  Examine the input and analyze whether it violates any constraints. 

KNOWLEDGE:
- {list of dog-whistle slang for calling for murder}

CONSTRAINTS:
- Content should not advocate violence
- Content should not normalize violence
- Content should not escalate tensions or fan flames
- Content should avoid promoting harmful stereotypes
- Content should not utilize broad, sweeping generalizations
- Content should not use dehumanizing language
- Content should not undermine human rights, due process, or the rule of law

FORMAT YOUR RESPONSES AS JSON:
{
  reason: [A one to two sentence summary],
  score: [On a scale of 0 to 10, how severe is the content advocating violence]
}

The score part of the response was my band-aid to get around the high number of both false positives and false negatives as I originally had it returning true or false only. Any score 7 or higher caused the item to be passed to the mod queue along with the reason, and I would review its actions later.

Ultimately it was slow and still somewhat unreliable, so I abandoned the idea after running it for a little less than a day since I can 't run bigger models to get better results fast enough to keep up. Using a cloud based service was out of the question for many, many reasons, both financial and ethical.

To answer your question, as long as the models were locally hosted and properly tuned/tested, I’m fine with it in theory, except for the ideology part; that’s pretty messed up. While I don’t want my submissions used to train anyone’s model and take measures to prevent my own instance from being used as a data source, I remain aware that once I post something, I have no control over its fate the moment it federates out.

[1] Yes, I know that’s like half the comments that get posted around here. My goal was to try to have it mod things so posts were bases for actual discussions instead of being a knee-jerk rage factory.

Any time I hear Minerva without that K-Rock intro, it just sounds wrong to me lol. That, and the “That was new Deftones. Minerva is the name of that song” at the end.

Yeah, I think so.

Man, why is sharing a 10 second mp3 so hard? lol. This or a shorter version without the “world premiere” part is what I was recalling:

https://tube.dubvee.org/w/gC3pchZNmSTeZxX2V2fqrK

I was surprised that so many songs in my collection weren’t actually supposed to start out “schhhhhhhh K-Rock (k-rock)” lol

!90smusic@lemmy.world is my pet community. Basically an oldies station for Millennials.

Is there a community about Matrix on Lemmy?

!matrix@programming.dev

Is Matrix technically part of the fediverse?

I would say no. It doesn’t use ActivityPub and is its own thing. It’s federated in that indepedent Matrix servers can talk to each other (like email or Nextcloud). So while email would be considered a federated service, it’s not considered part of the fediverse. At most, it’s like a 2nd cousin.

Who is the developer/team and do they have an active presence on the fediverse?

Matrix.org foundation (https://matrix.org/) and not sure. Maybe some of the individual contributors do, but I don’t know any off the top of my head

Although when I sold mine, we had people literally break our counter during a viewing

I’m assuming your state based on the dubvee lol

lol, yeah.

I went through inspection and appraisal 5 years ago when I refinanced, so that’s all fine. But I would lose my insanely good mortgage (15 year at 2.2% APR) and have to start again with whatever current rates are though I could likely put down a very large down payment.

I wasn’t seriously considering the offer so much as wondering how legit it was in preparation to sit down and think about thinking about considering the offer lol. But the replies here have cleared up how predatory these offers are, so, yeah, it’s going in the trash with the rest of the similar offers.

Nothing wrong with a realtor, but I’d have to have somewhere to move to while it’s on the market which could be any length of time. I only skimmed the offer, but it mentioned something about transition period for moving, etc.

I was mostly hoping this would let me short-circuit the usual process of selling and moving, letting me get the money for it, and find somewhere temporary while I look for something permanent.

Other than just wanting out of this awful state, I really don’t want to move/sell. I’d worry about finding another job later as I work remotely now but am expected to go in on occasionally so couldn’t work from another state for too long.

But as the replies have made clear, this entire industry is more of a scam than I assumed it already was, so I’m just gonna keep buying lotto tickets and hoping for the best.

That makes sense, and is most likely what the offer is. House isn’t a slum, and I’m not facing foreclosure, so I guess they think they can make a profit on it.

I wasn’t seriously considering it, but I was at least looking into it because, yeah, I want out of here.

The default UI makes it clunky, but I think you can go to you profile settings (https://lemmy.world/settings) and on the “Blocks” tab search for the community and add it to your blocks.

It’s probably an April Fool’s Day gag.

The image URL is: https://f004.backblazeb2.com/file/xylight-public/photon-april-fools/download.webp

Xylight is the photon dev

It’s just there and under the same domain. Otherwise, it’s a completely separate system that instance users can sign up and use. Maybe in the future they can both use the same OIDC login, but I don’t think Lemmy supports that yet.

The UI we use as our default has Peertube integration, so any videos shared from this Peertube instance (or any other) will show as inline embeds within the Lemmy client.