So, boosts.

In a world without algorithms, we rely on boosts to get 'out there'. And when I see something I like, I want to share it.

However -- when others see something they like, they share it too. I get annoyed when I see the same post for the 19th time. Then I worry that I annoy people by sharing.

Is there any way to turn off seeing the same post more than once? That way, knowing that it's possible, I'd worry less about sharing.

#FediBrain

Is there any way of looking up which band t-shirt designs were available in/before 2006? I'm specifically interested in Gojira t-shirts from that period. I can find plenty of Gojira t-shirt designs, but I have no idea what year they were each released in.

#Gojira #Metal #HeavyMetal #FediBrain

Ok. I need a #fedibrain source piece of info.

I'm sending a message from Alice to Quincy. Alice knows Bob, and Barry, and Belinda, so she asks them to pass it along. She doesn't know if any of them know Quincy, although she's got a high confidence that she'll run across someone.

Ah, and she just ran into Fred. Did he know Quincy? Nope, but he's willing to pass on the message to his friends Gina, Gary, and Greg. Dunno if they know Quincy.

Now somewhere along the way there is a path from Alice to Quincy, she just doesn't know who knows who, so she just asks everyone she runs into.

At a certain point, this is going to cause Eunice to have a nervous breakdown because 47 people have asked her to pass on messages. So to minimize this, Alice will hand out messages, but they'll only have a shelf life of 5 handoffs. Or 10, or whatever. They also get thrown away after a week.

Where my question is falls asking the reason of what an I talking about? This feels like a graph or some type of n-tree, and yes a tree is a graph, let's just accept the special case.

Additionally, is there a paper or 10 that I could read up on this?

Please and thanks,
Oatmeal

Ok, #fedibrain , I need some help. I'm recovering all my mp3s from a crashed drive. So far, so good, and I'll survive if some of them have turned to garbage noise. There's thousands, I'll survive.

However, they're all getting dumped in general collective directories.

I need to find an app on Windows that will try to organize them into some reasonable directory structure. I've been usually good about providing ID data, and my filenames were identifiable, like Ben_Folds_Brick.mp3, though a quick peek shows it becoming something like Ben_Folds_Brick_0025852.mp3 🤔

So, if anyone can help out, please let me know. Yes, I have Linux boxes, a couple of Macs, even a Chromebook or two, but I don't want to hear about an app on any of those. For this use case, the only acceptable environment for this task is Windows.

I bought this stud finder but it seems to detect a lot more metal/wires in my walls than I expected. I played around with it a bit, and sometimes a patch of wall sets it off, sometimes that same patch seems fine. Sometimes a patch sets it off unless I touch the wall at the same time (this also happens with my bookshelves which certainly shouldn’t have any wires in them).

Anyone know what might be going on? Can I even trust this device, or am I using it wrong?

#FediBrain #Electricity #DIY

#fedibrain This is a question about an annoying client for a questionable server, but bear with me. One of my kids was messing about with Schildichat on Ubuntu 22.04 and somehow zoomed the window to unreadably tiny. They think they were using ctrl-minus. They cannot undo it. Ctrl-plus has no effect. Nor does ctrl-r, shift-ctrl-plus, or anything else I could think of. It persists across programme termination, reboots, etc.

Question 1: is there an obvious way to fix this with keystrokes?

If not, then...

Question 2: Schildichat is an ElectronJS glorblet, or whatever it's properly called when you forcefeed users all that extra guff. I hunted around in .config/SchildiChat to see if I could find where it stored persistent values for screen magnification but couldn't find anything obvious, or anything that I could edit with useful results. If there is one among you with the cursed knowledge of that webapp framework...where might I look?

And yes, we are trying to migrate away from matrix. As an #actuallyAutistic family various among us often go mute and need to use a chat server to communicate. We moved from Mattermost to Matrix several years ago, and I will probably just go back to XMPP rather than deal with self-hosting "new" matrix. But I haven't got time to do that migration right now.

I propose a navigation plugin for the AI slop era. Tool should help us find LLM-free sites based on Web of Trust crowd verification. Browsing the web, you label a site as either free from or polluted by LLM slop. One button in your browser toolbar with a keyboard shortcut. An icon indicates how the community assesses the page. Let's rid ourselves of the constant suspicion that all we read is AI-generated bullshit and put the collective intelligence to work.

Could someone build this?

#FediBrain

If you want to buy movies on DVD, especially older or more "obscure" movies, and you don't want to buy from Amazon ... where do you buy them these days?

Preferably in the EU so I don't have to pay import fees, which are a pain in the ass and ridiculously high in my experience.

#AskFedi #FediBrain #Movies #Films