@at I think I know of only a couple of clients that work on the Linux side, and as far as I know, none of them have that feature, sorry.

Elk might be one to try since it’s web-based. I haven’t tried it since I think it doesn’t work with Akkoma either 😛 But this whole not supporting Akkoma thing is stopping me from testing out a bunch of things and so I might have to set up a secondary Mastodon account just so that I can be sure of the features available with the various clients …

@at I don’t know how to do that with the Mastodon web-client (or if that’s even possible) but on macOS/iOS, the following apps support it for sure: Tusker and IceCubes.

There might be other clients around which does too, for example, I have a vague recollection of Ivory maybe supporting it but I used Ivory only for a short time before switching to Akkoma and Ivory does not support Akkoma and so I can’t verify now 🙂

@wavesculptor I misread what you wrote originally, I thought you were saying that that’s how lists worked, but I realize now that you were saying that that is how it *should* happen. And you are right, that’s how it should have been implemented.

But looks as if it wasn’t implemented that way and so lists are basically a pointless feature at the moment since it duplicates content and is generally annoying 🙂

Will somebody fix it from the server end? I have no idea. But if I can find a good JavaScript open source client (not one with lots of libraries that require yarn or webpack) which is fairly feature complete, I might attempt the task on the client-side using that. Haven’t found such a client yet though 😞 Which was why I was thinking of implementing it on the client that I use now but that would limit the number of people who can use it to people running iOS or macOS …

@wavesculptor Personally, I wasn’t seeing non-followed people on a list as a rights violation but more of a privacy violation since those people might not know that you are monitoring their posts and they have not explicitly agreed to you seeing those posts …

I know that there are arguments for both side on this but I can see how this can be misused to stalk people without their knowledge. So I do see the issue there.

What the Mastodon issue I linked to in the previous reply discusses is around the fact that you can require following to add a user to a list but that if the user is on a list, their posts are filtered out from the main timeline. That seems like a good compromise to me, but unfortunately, I have no idea if they’ll actually implement that or not 🙂

@wavesculptor To be fair, most people won’t be able to engage since they might not know what to do about it either 🙂

There is an open issue for Mastodon for this feature but I’m not sure if it’s being actively worked on:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/6982

If it’s not, then some of the things that can be done would be:

1. Implement it yourself (I do realize you’ve said that’s not an option for you but just listing it for the sake of completeness …)

2. Get a build from somebody who implemented it (If you are on macOS I’d be happy to share my build if you want it … provided I get it implemented right)

3. Lobby your favourite Masto/Fedi client developer(s) to implement this feature for you …

I originally thought that this didn’t work for unfollowed Akkoma accounts but I’m not absolutely certain now since I’m getting some posts on the list I created for accounts that I’m not following. But I’m not sure if this is Akkoma, a fluke, or some sort of federation delays. So I’ll have to give it a few days and then see what might need to happen. But if it works for Akkoma, then you also have option #4 — set up your own instance of Akkoma or move to an Akkoma server since that might resolve the issue for you.

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Aargh!!! Haven’t watched YouTube videos for a while but I think they actually make you even dumber now 😛

In the space of like 10 minutes, I saw two videos — the first tells me that servers are designed to run only one service at a time (e-mail, web server etc.) and you can’t really run more than one on one server and that you have to add more servers if you want other services …

Then I have somebody telling me that you don’t need to look at videos or follow courses but you can have ChatGPT teach you how to program! That it will go on the Internet and pull the information (this is absolutely false as far as I know …).

Sure, ChatGPT will teach you programming, but it’ll also put in a healthy amount of imagined commands whenever it feels like it and if you don’t know anything about programming, you would have no clue as to what you’re learning is accurate info or if it’s BS.

I think it’s time for me to retreat from the world …

#YouTube #Stupidity #RelianceOnAI #Misinformation

@mairhart My guess would be that was “SimEarth” 🙂 Now that you remind me, I kind of vaguely recall Gaia and looking it up on Wikipedia seems to (somewhat) confirm this in that the game was based on James Lovelock’s Gaia hypothesis …

I think I played most of these on an early laptop with 5MB of RAM and a black-and-white screen. So I have no colourful images in my head, but I do recall my absolute disappointment with “SimLife” because I had expected something magical … but I was young back then 😛

@broximar

Is Ralf Little leaving “Death in Paradise”? Will we get our first female inspector on the show?

Haven’t done any checking online about these, but just random thoughts floating through my head after the latest “Death in Paradise” (hopefully, the above are not considered spoilers since they haven’t happened yet …) and seeing Ralf on “Would I Lie to You?” this week …

I think Ardal O’Hanlon appeared on “QI” or “Would I Lie to You?” after he stepped down as the inspector …. (as opposed to the Dr.) Is it just me who feels as if “Death in Paradise” is following “Dr. Who” a little bit too closely? 😛

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It was a quicker run through than normal, but boosted 7 papers in the cs.CV category on arXiv.org that I found interesting out of a total of 94 new and updated papers today.

On to other stuff …

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""Help Me Help the AI": Understanding How Explainability Can Support Human-AI Interaction. (arXiv:2210.03735v2 [cs.HC] UPDATED)" — A study of how explainability can support human-AI interaction using a real-world AI applicaiton.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2210.03735

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"Which country is this picture from? New data and methods for DNN-based country recognition. (arXiv:2209.02429v2 [cs.CV] UPDATED)" — A framework to identify the country where an image was taken, which could be useful in debunking fake news and many other applications.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2209.02429

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"Consistent Diffusion Models: Mitigating Sampling Drift by Learning to be Consistent. (arXiv:2302.09057v1 [cs.LG])" — A possible solution to fix the sampling iterations drifting away from the training distribution when generating images using diffusion models.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.09057
Code: https://github.com/giannisdaras/cdm

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"LayoutDiffuse: Adapting Foundational Diffusion Models for Layout-to-Image Generation. (arXiv:2302.08908v1 [cs.CV])" — A method for generating images based on a semantic layout which describes the positioning of the various component elements in the final image.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.08908

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LayoutDiffuse is able to genera…

@broximar Back then, I think I would have played anything since there wasn’t much to do beyond read 😛 I knew this guy who had a huge collection of games and he would grudgingly give you a copy of a game if you gave him something new.

Given that there was no Interenet (and BBSes were not quite heard of in Sri Lanka at that time), this “sneakernet” was the only way to get games back then where I was. And everybody wanted the popular stuff like “DigDug” or “Need For Speed” — not “Sim” games 😀 But yeah, “SimLife” was disappointing after all the stuff I’d conjured up in my head based on the description …

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"Paint it Black: Generating paintings from text descriptions. (arXiv:2302.08808v1 [cs.CV])" — Explores generating paintings based on text input.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.08808

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Talking about “Sim” games has brought up a lot of old memories 🙂

@mairhart reminded me about “SimTower” — I still remember the cover that a British gaming mag ran for it, but I don’t remember the name of the magazine 😛 It was a rather interesting entrant in the “Sim” series and got you to do a lot of the city management stuff on a more smaller (but not quite microscopic vs. Macroscopic) level.

Then there was “SimAnt” which I think was all about managing an ant colony? I know I played it but I remember very little about it now …

“SimLife” was what I was really excited about back then because I thought I could create new electronic life, run my own planet, etc. But in reality, if I remember now (30 years later) it was rather boring 😛

But there’s also all the “Civilization” spin-offs. I knew I was forgetting something, but for the life of me I couldn’t remember “Alpha Centauri” till I looked it up 🙂 I still don’t remember much.

And speaking of forgotten games, apparently there was also “Sid Meier's Starships” — despite being one of the newest in the series, I remember nothing about this either. I don’t know if I knew of it and forgot or if I’d just lost all interest in “Civ” games by then and simply didn’t care. But I think I’ll try to find a copy and play it just to see how it goes …

#Gaming #Civ #Sim #Reminiscences

"Fine-grained Cross-modal Fusion based Refinement for Text-to-Image Synthesis. (arXiv:2302.08706v1 [cs.CV])" — Another text-to-image generation approach where, instead of generating the final image from a noisy image, you generate an initial low-resolution image based on the input text and then use a GAN (Generative Adversarial Network) during the second stage to generate the final output.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.08706
Code: https://github.com/haoranhfut/FF-GAN

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Samples generated by Attn-GAN, …

"Foundation Models for Natural Language Processing -- Pre-trained Language Models Integrating Media. (arXiv:2302.08575v1 [cs.CL])" — An open access book about Natural Language Processing (NLP) models and how to build and improve them.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.08575

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