💻 Issue 421 - How Meta trains large language models at scale ⌘ Read more

Open Source A.I. Definition to include Closed, Secret Data
The Open Source Initiative – backed by Microsoft, Amazon, Meta – is pushing for a “Closed” definition of “Open Source Artificial Intelligence.” More from The Lunduke Journal: http://lunduke.com ⌘ Read more

Is the Ray-Ban Meta mash-up worth putting on your face?
Meta and Ray-Ban’s smart glasses put cameras, microphones, speakers and a little bit of AI into an object you would probably be wearing anyway. ⌘ Read more

Workshop in Barcelona: How to Build a Low-tech Website

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Website technology is becoming increasingly complex and energy intensive, with big companies like Meta and Google leading the dance. ​Is this necessary? What does it really take to get our content online?

​Low←tec … ⌘ Read more

logs/blog: more poetry; garden/equipment: update computers, welcome obsidian; meta: update pubkey

[Updated] Free Mobile-Friendly Layout Wizard
Updated: The
Free Mobile-Friendly Layout Wizard
has been updated. It will now place the meta charset tag before the title in the head section (so that it will
be in the first 1 KB of your page even if you have a long title). In addition, if you select HTML5 as the output type,
the shorter meta charset tag will be used. ⌘ Read more

Comment on Fewer Games To Be Included In Ubuntu Lucid Lynx by End of the Road for Solitaire, Sudoku and More in Ubuntu 24.04 – ServerHost Hosting Solutions Blog
[…] blog, Ubuntu came with around 15 games (the entire gnome-games meta-package, I believe). In 2010 it reduced the number of games it offered to a smaller selection and, excluding the occasional modification in the […] ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org its a hierarchy key value format. I designed it for the network peering tools i use.. I can grant access to different parts of the tree to other users.. kinda like directory permissions. a basic example of the format is:

@namespace
# multi
# line
# comment
root :value

# example space comment
@namespace.name space-tag 

# attribute comments
attribute attr-tag  :value for attribute

# attribute with multiple 
# lines of values
foo :bar
      :bin
      :baz

repeated :value1
repeated :value2

each @ starts the definition of a namespace kinda like [name] in ini format. It can have comments that show up before. then each attribute is key :value and can have their own # comment lines.
Values can be multi line.. and also repeated..

the namespaces and values can also have little meta data tags added to them.

the service can define webhooks/mqtt topics to be notified when the configs are updated. That way it can deploy the changes out when they are updated.

If we call Alphabet “Google” instead, we could have:

BAG MAM

BAM GAM

If we also replace Meta with “Facebook” it could be:

FB-MAGA

FAB-MAG

🤔 ⌘ Read more

So the six #DMA gatekeepers are Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, and Microsoft.

Whats the FAANG / GAFAM equivalent acronym for those six?

MAMBAA?

AMAMBA?

BAAAMM? ⌘ Read more

meta: umm… call me Iris? (new key)

I’ve added myself to the registries at registry.twtxt.org and twtxt.tilde.institute. I wonder if there’s a list of registries. #meta

How to Delete a Threads Account Without Leaving Instagram
When Threads debuted from Meta (FaceBook), it was intricately linked to Instagram, and initially when you went to delete or deactivate a Threads account, it had the unfortunate side effect of also deleting the related Instagram account. But that is no longer the case. Now you can choose to delete a Threads account without impacting … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2023/12/31/how-to-delete-a-threads-account-without-le … ⌘ Read more

meta: it’s official - I am transgender, and this site now runs on FreeBSD and hydropower

@prologic@twtxt.net Perhaps we should add a meta flag to Twtxt to stop indexation by ChatGPT and consorts? I already use robots.txt for this.

Meta har nu et activitypub(-ish) socialt medie, og Microsoft er lige begyndt at sponsorere Mastodon.

Har #DMA faktisk fået de store huse til at deltage i fødiverset?

Det går jo fremragende, det her! ⌘ Read more

Run Threads on Desktop with Mac, Windows PC, Linux
Threads, the social network microblogging Twitter/X competitor launched by Meta (Facebook), is typically thought of as a mobile only experience, with users having the Threads app on their iPhone or Android device. But, if you have a Mac, Windows PC, or Linux computer, and you want to use Threads on your desktop computer, you can … Read More ⌘ Read more

Hvis nu Instagram Threads begynder at føderere med Mastodon - synes du så at servereren her skal blokere threads.net serveren?

Nej - jo flere jo bedre!

Måske - kommer an på hvordan de opfører sig her

Ja - Meta skal ikke være med i mit fødivers!

👽 ⌘ Read more

Time to add

<meta name=”googlebot” content=”noindex,nofollow”>

to everything I guess.

Defederate Meta? ⌘ Read more

@stigatle@yarn.stigatle.no @prologic@twtxt.net @eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club I love VR too, and I wonder a lot whether it can help people with accessibility challenges, like low vision.

But Meta’s approach from the beginning almost seemed like a joke? My first thought was “are they trolling us?” There’s open source metaverse software like Vircadia that looks better than Meta’s demos (avatars have legs in Vircadia, ffs) and can already do virtual co-working. Vircadia developers hold their meetings within Vircadia, and there are virtual whiteboards and walls where you can run video feeds, calendars and web browsers. What is Meta spending all that money doing, if their visuals look so weak, and their co-working affordances aren’t there?

On top of that, Meta didn’t seem to put any kind of effort into moderating the content. There are already stories of bad things happening in Horizon Worlds, like gangs forming and harassing people off of it. Imagine what that’d look like if 1 billion people were using it the way Meta says they want.

Then, there are plenty of technical challenges left, like people feeling motion sickness or disoriented after using a headset for a long period of time. I haven’t heard announcements from Meta that they’re working on these or have made any advances in these.

All around, it never sounded serious to me, despite how much money Meta seems to be throwing at it. For something with so much promise, and so many obvious challenges to attack first that Meta seems to be ignoring, what are they even doing?

meta/now: finished Metroid Dread. 5 stars

RT by @mind_booster: No âmbito do 20º aniversário da Convenção de Salvaguarda do Património Cultural Imaterial, é amanhã lançada a campanha Wiki Loves Living Heritage. Vejam como assistir ao lançamento no link:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Wiki_Loves_Living_Heritage/Wiki_Loves_Living_Heritage_launch_event #Patrimonioimaterial #Portugal @cultura_pt
No âmbito do 20º aniversário da Convenção de Salvaguarda do Património Cultural Imaterial, é amanhã lançada a campanha Wiki Loves Living Heritage. Vejam … ⌘ Read more

RT by @mind_booster: ❗Breaking: Meta Tracking Tools unlawful
In a groundbreaking decision in one of noybs 101 complaints, the Austrian Data Protection Authority decided that the use of Facebook’s tracking pixel directly violates the GDPR: https://noyb.eu/en/austrian-dsb-meta-tracking-tools-illegal?mtc=tw
❗Breaking: Meta Tracking Tools unlawful

In a groundbreaking decision in one of noybs 101 complaints, the Austrian Data Protection Authority decided that the use of Facebook’s tracking pixel directly violates th … ⌘ Read more

** week notes **
I’ve been experimenting. I’ve been concocting a recipe for vegan kugel, and rediscovering little features and edges of my website I’d forgotten I baked in. Like chocolate chips hidden in an oatmeal raisin cookie.

One chip most recently re-discovered: support for per-page custom styles?! All I gotta do is include an optional bit of meta data, bespoke-css, that points to a style sheet. I may play with this feature more. I do love myself some css. I can tell exactly when in my life I added this feature because th … ⌘ Read more

**Ciência: os planos actuais não são suficientes para atingir as metas estabelecidas

Comissão Europeia: vamos ser ainda menos ambiciosos**
Ciência: os planos actuais não são suficientes para atingir as metas estabelecidas

Comissão Europeia: vamos ser ainda menos ambiciosos

nitter.net/ZEROasts/status/1625784479418818560#m ⌘ Read more

Inscryption er årets bedste spil.

Det er et poleret og flot spil, som formår at flette plot ind i kortspils-formatet. Det er tæmmelig spooky. Der er også en rimelig omfattende og overraskende meta-fortælling igennem det hele.

Inscryption opleves bedst, hvis du går ind i det uden at vide noget som helst - du vil helst ikke have overraskelserne spoleret.

(¾) ⌘ Read more

“Para Portugal, […] seria necessário garantir uma redução de emissões de pelo menos 61% até 2030 relativamente aos níveis de 2005, em vez dos atuais 55% na Lei de bases do Clima, para alinhar o país com a meta de 1,5°C”
“Para Portugal, […] seria necessário garantir uma redução de emissões de pelo menos 61% até 2030 relativamente aos níveis de 2005, em vez dos atuais 55% na Lei de bases do Clima, para alinhar o país com a meta de 1,5°C”

[nitter.net/ZEROasts/status/1575415098352586760#m](https://nitter.n … ⌘ Read more

pondering about the difference between my use of the tags #idea and #halfbaked . halfbaked looks like something in a more advanced stage, merely lacking execution #meta

(cont.)

Just to give some context on some of the components around the code structure.. I wrote this up around an earlier version of aggregate code. This generic bit simplifies things by removing the need of the Crud functions for each aggregate.

A domain object can be used as an aggregate by adding the event.AggregateRoot struct and finish implementing event.Aggregate. The AggregateRoot implements logic for adding events after they are either Raised by a command or Appended by the eventstore Load or service ApplyFn methods. It also tracks the uncommitted events that are saved using the eventstore Save method.

type User struct {
  Identity string ```json:"identity"`

  CreatedAt time.Time

  event.AggregateRoot
}

// StreamID for the aggregate when stored or loaded from ES.
func (a *User) StreamID() string {
	return "user-" + a.Identity
}
// ApplyEvent to the aggregate state.
func (a *User) ApplyEvent(lis ...event.Event) {
	for _, e := range lis {
		switch e := e.(type) {
		case *UserCreated:
			a.Identity = e.Identity
			a.CreatedAt = e.EventMeta().CreatedDate
        /* ... */
		}
	}
}

Events are applied to the aggregate. They are defined by adding the event.Meta and implementing the getter/setters for event.Event

type UserCreated struct {
	eventMeta event.Meta

	Identity string
}

func (c *UserCreated) EventMeta() (m event.Meta) {
	if c != nil {
		m = c.eventMeta
	}
	return m
}
func (c *UserCreated) SetEventMeta(m event.Meta) {
	if c != nil {
		c.eventMeta = m
	}
}

With a domain object that implements the event.Aggregate the event store client can load events and apply them using the Load(ctx, agg) method.

// GetUser populates an user from event store.
func (rw *User) GetUser(ctx context.Context, userID string) (*domain.User, error) {
	user := &domain.User{Identity: userID}

	err := rw.es.Load(ctx, user)
	if err != nil {
		if err != nil {
			if errors.Is(err, eventstore.ErrStreamNotFound) {
				return user, ErrNotFound
			}
			return user, err
		}
		return nil, err
	}
	return user, err
}

An OnX command will validate the state of the domain object can have the command performed on it. If it can be applied it raises the event using event.Raise() Otherwise it returns an error.

// OnCreate raises an UserCreated event to create the user.
// Note: The handler will check that the user does not already exsist.
func (a *User) OnCreate(identity string) error {
    event.Raise(a, &UserCreated{Identity: identity})
    return nil
}

// OnScored will attempt to score a task.
// If the task is not in a Created state it will fail.
func (a *Task) OnScored(taskID string, score int64, attributes Attributes) error {
	if a.State != TaskStateCreated {
		return fmt.Errorf("task expected created, got %s", a.State)
	}
	event.Raise(a, &TaskScored{TaskID: taskID, Attributes: attributes, Score: score})
	return nil
}

The following functions in the aggregate service can be used to perform creation and updating of aggregates. The Update function will ensure the aggregate exists, where the Create is intended for non-existent aggregates. These can probably be combined into one function.

// Create is used when the stream does not yet exist.
func (rw *User) Create(
  ctx context.Context,
  identity string,
  fn func(*domain.User) error,
) (*domain.User, error) {
	session, err := rw.GetUser(ctx, identity)
	if err != nil && !errors.Is(err, ErrNotFound) {
		return nil, err
	}

	if err = fn(session); err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}

	_, err = rw.es.Save(ctx, session)

	return session, err
}

// Update is used when the stream already exists.
func (rw *User) Update(
  ctx context.Context,
  identity string,
  fn func(*domain.User) error,
) (*domain.User, error) {
	session, err := rw.GetUser(ctx, identity)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}

	if err = fn(session); err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}

	_, err = rw.es.Save(ctx, session)
	return session, err
}

malign prior as an idealized case of meta-optimization

Thanks for the feedback! This site was designed to look perfect on good old 800x600 monitors (I even left a comment next to the meta tag). Maybe I’ll add a mobile-friendly version someday :-) P.S. Nice try with SQL injection, haha. Do you have any plans for XSS attacks? :D

the right level for solving the hard problem of consciousness is within existing science/within philosophy/within meta- or pre-philosophy/needs a fully new paradigm of thought

Instagram hides some posts mentioning abortion with ‘sensitive content’ label
After accounts run by abortion rights advocacy groups found their stories hidden, the Meta-owned platform described the issue as a ‘bug’. ⌘ Read more

Yahoo joins Facebook owner Meta in testing metaverse tech in Hong Kong
The US internet company says it will hold virtual concerts and exhibitions on a metaverse platform, after Facebook owner Meta announced similar plans. ⌘ Read more

Upgraded my Twtxt feed to 2022 with the twtxt.net meta-data extensions.

The Liminal Web: Mapping An Emergent Subculture Of Sensemakers, Meta-Theorists & Systems Poets ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de

Don’t miss step 0 (I should have made this a separate point): having a meta header promising appending twts with strictly monotonically increasing timestamps.

(Also, I’d first like to see the pagination thingy implemented.)

In jenny I would like to see “don’t process previously fetched twts” AKA “Allow the user to archive/delete old twts” feature implemented ;-)

I think it is long due dropping Facebook (now Meta) from the S&P 500 index funds. As an owner of some, I really have a problem with it—and yes, I know there is little I can do but voice it everywhere I make noise online.

What about a meta header for setting charset?

I myself stumbled upon .txt files not being delivered with charset: utf-8 by default.

I had to set/modify .htaccess to correct that.

It would have been easier if there had been a charset header entry “overwriting” what http server is delivering.

What do you think?

My thoughts about range requests

Additionally to pagination also range request should be used to reduce traffic.

I understand that there are corner cases making this a complicated matter.

I would like to see a meta header saying that the given twtxt is append only with increasing timestamps so that a simple strategy can detect valid content fetched per range request.

1. read meta part per range request
   
2. read last fetched twt at expected range (as known from last fetch)
   
3. if fetched content starts with expected twt then process rest of data
   
4. if fetched content doesn’t start with expected twt discard all and fall back to fetching whole twtxt
   

Pagination (e.g. archiving old content in a different file) will lead to point 4.

Of course especially pods should support range requests, correct @prologic@twtxt.net?

My thoughts about pagination (paging)

Following the discussion about pagination (paging) I think that’s the right thing to do.

Fetching the same content again and again with only a marginal portion of actually new twts is unbearable and does not scale in any way. It’s not only a waste of bandwidth but with increasing number of fetchers it will also become a problem for pods to serve all requests.

Because it’s so easy to implement and simple to understand, splitting twtxt file in parts with next and prev pointers seems a really amazing solution.

As in RFC5005 there should also be a meta header pointing to the main URL, e.g. current or baseurl or something like that. This way hashes can calculated correctly even for archived twts.

http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/~checkout~/ports/meta/gnome/pkg/README-main?content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup gnome openbsd

How to Insert Meta Tags into a Web Page with BlueGriffon ⌘ Read more…

@prologic@twtxt.net the meta info on the top I added manually. it’s following what I have seen from some other twtxt feeds. the new parser will read them.

@lucidiot@tilde.town “nuclear realtor” I like this twtxt. [meta: I guess I’ll often just reply with “I like this” or , although perhaps liking could be a primitive. I’ll do it rarely enough to not clutter my timeline tho]

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xdwbX9pFEr7Pomaxv/meta-honesty-firming-up-honesty-around-its-edge-cases?commentId=rfYQjT8SfzfQPLWYH lel

added a !meta page. this proof of concept integrates with the weewiki !zettelkasten I am developing to produce something similar to this !feed.

meta-not-caring

Usbek & Rica - « QAnon » : le méta-complot ultime de l’ère Trump ⌘ https://usbeketrica.com/fr/article/qanon-ou-le-meta-complotisme-ultime-de-l-ere-trump