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@ryan@social.miyaku.media As far as I know, the team behind the project hasn't used LLM assistance.
I didn't use an LLM to write that post. I did use ordinary software tools, including DeepL, to check parts of my English, because English is not my native language.
And, frankly, I don't think I should have to disclose my blood type every time I publish something just to prove that a human was involved.
I've been writing software and publishing things online for around thirty years, long before LLMs existed, and I find this growing assumption that everything must be AI-generated unless explicitly stated otherwise rather depressing.
I'm perfectly happy to answer the question. What makes me uncomfortable is the idea that not proactively listing every tool I may or may not have used somehow amounts to a lack of transparency.
At some point, humans are going to get tired of constantly having to prove they’re human. And then perhaps only the AIs will be left publishing anything.
I have been running my own GoToSocial instance for a couple years and I totally forgot the joy of the Local Timeline. I was on Fosstodon in the early days when you got to know people via the local timeline and then it got too big and slowly that sense of community fades.
This feels like one of those early days of meeting new and interesting friends. Hi Local Timeline folks! I hope for many little littleFedis.
@fiend_unpleasant this is some good testing and feedback writing, love it.
Might I suggest trying to turn this excellent post into blog in the edit menu?
@stefano this is totally an user error feedback!
In Notifications I clicked the "clear all" when in my mind I was trying to "mark all as read". I wonder if it's reasonable to have both those options?
I am playing with Visual Editor
The first time I ever used an editor like this was in Wordpress approximately 100 years ago.
I was a thinner man back then, less grey, in less pain.
I could often be hear proclaiming:
Who the fuck are you? Why have you been following me around? Is that a camera!? Are you some kind of cop!!?
In a panic I would run :
sudo rm -rf /
in an attempt to destroy all of the evidence of the crimes I had not committed.
This thing appears to be working well and I smell I really appreciate the effort that goes into something like this.
I am not much of a programmer. I studied it once at University and failed out. You can see just how bad it really is on Codeberg.
I am however really good at:
- Breaking things
- trying to do weird stuff
- documenting what I did
- explaining what I thought would happen
- explaining what actually happened
This is important because:
- not every system is the same and software can behave unexpectedly on someone else's computer
- "idk this shit dont work" is a shitty bug
^ That horizontal rules!
The only thing that was slightly confusing was knowing when to turn the buttons off. I did have to edit the numbered and bulleted lists once because I toggled the button off too early and it unlisted the last item. Not a bug, every visual editor handles that one differently.
@stefano ---
@stefano I said most of this in our DM but wanted to share some enthusiasm publicly 💛
Something to consider: as the options for posts grow (which is truly wonderful) I wonder if it makes sense for all the formatting and post meta options to be revealed after the user clicks on the text box. It is taking up a lot or visual space and might look intimidating to first time users when they see that at the top of their home feed before seeing any posts.
woahhhh!! Visual editor would be clutch for non technical people. On mobile and already loving the [ ] full screen editor.
I love that you can toggle back and forth from Markdown and PREVIEW is the real killer feature. I'm buzzing with excitement (only some of that is the coffee I just has 😂)!
Hola mundo!
Rozando el medio siglo de existencia creía que lo había visto prácticamente todo, no era así.
De vez en cuando, entre toda la miseria que se mueve en este nuestro planeta, surgen iniciativas que te transportan a otras épocas. Unas en las que todo era mucho más sencillo, menos complejo y donde la tecnología era algo comunitario, casi mágico en algunos aspectos.
@stefano ha conseguido con #littlefedi poner de nuevo el foco en lo esencial, en lo simple, en lo eficiente. Volver a tener el software a tu servicio y no al revés.
Larga vida a littlefedi!
@epn4littlefedi
or die fighting for it :-)
he's actually a pretty decent guy. I read somewhere the whole thing is in rememberance of his late brother.
@stefano don't worry, I'll give it a good bashing.
This is my chance and I ain't gonna lose it !!
PS: don't forget the emoji picker 😼
@ltning@pleroma.anduin.net @ltning@weirdr.net You're covered 😉:
stefano@brewer ~/littlefedi-public (main)> make allreleases
=> littlefedi-aix-ppc64
=> littlefedi-android-arm64
=> littlefedi-darwin-amd64
=> littlefedi-darwin-arm64
=> littlefedi-dragonfly-amd64
=> littlefedi-freebsd-386
=> littlefedi-freebsd-amd64
=> littlefedi-armv6-freebsd-arm
=> littlefedi-armv7-freebsd-arm
=> littlefedi-freebsd-arm64
=> littlefedi-illumos-amd64
=> littlefedi-linux-386
=> littlefedi-linux-amd64
=> littlefedi-armv6-linux-arm
=> littlefedi-armv7-linux-arm
=> littlefedi-linux-arm64
=> littlefedi-linux-loong64
=> littlefedi-linux-mips
=> littlefedi-linux-mips64
=> littlefedi-linux-mips64le
=> littlefedi-linux-mipsle
=> littlefedi-linux-ppc64
=> littlefedi-linux-ppc64le
=> littlefedi-linux-riscv64
=> littlefedi-linux-s390x
=> littlefedi-netbsd-386
=> littlefedi-netbsd-amd64
=> littlefedi-armv6-netbsd-arm
=> littlefedi-armv7-netbsd-arm
=> littlefedi-netbsd-arm64
=> littlefedi-openbsd-386
=> littlefedi-openbsd-amd64
=> littlefedi-armv6-openbsd-arm
=> littlefedi-armv7-openbsd-arm
=> littlefedi-openbsd-arm64
=> littlefedi-openbsd-ppc64
=> littlefedi-openbsd-riscv64
=> littlefedi-plan9-386
=> littlefedi-plan9-amd64
=> littlefedi-armv6-plan9-arm
=> littlefedi-armv7-plan9-arm
=> littlefedi-solaris-amd64
=> littlefedi-windows-386.exe
=> littlefedi-windows-amd64.exe
=> littlefedi-windows-arm64.exe
Done - dist/
Not heavily tested and probably still full of bugs, but I just shipped the visual editor build.
Looking forward to your feedback!