Big Ducky

@bigducky
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574 Following
216 Posts

I have been using Mastodon since the first Twitter exodus and have a wide range of interests, including, among others:

Arts
Music
Cinema
Humanities
Nature
Environment
Science
Technology
The human experience
Making the world a better place

Looking to interact with interesting and talented people.

I strive to be kind, have a sense of humor, and keep an open mind.

Avatar: a ship-sized yellow rubber ducky floats in a harbor.

Banner: calm open ocean with sparsely clouded sky over the horizon.

Big DuckyFeb 16
Chloe G artistFeb 16
Nobody ever looks at a screen in a sci-fi show where they have displays, dashboards, or an engineering report and think “God I hope Star Fleet licensed those fonts” or “I wonder who decides what file type they should use on Klingon vessels” or “Do Daleks use retention schedules on their file systems?” “Do cylons have a standardised report format?”
Big DuckyFeb 16
PlayPug ✨ Learn GDScriptFeb 16

🚨 New Devlog!

We just published our weekly update of our Learning GDScript the Right Way.
Updated Preface and Introduction chapter!

You can find it down below ⬇
#gamedev #godotengine #tutorial #devlog

https://playpug.itch.io/learning-gdscript-the-right-way/devlog/1383451/towards-v01-

Big DuckyFeb 15

I was glad to learn that #Mastodon now allows you to block specific domains individually. I've just taken advantage of it and blocked threads.net (Meta's Threads) and bsky.brid.gy (Bluesky bridge) because I'm not interested in interacting with massive corporate #SocialMedia.

In the same spirit of #decentralization, I'm preparing to move this account to a smaller instance too.

I hope that more people will consider making similar changes to help keep the #fediverse healthy.

Show threadBig DuckyFeb 15
@coreysnipes @fedops @slothrop @hikingdude @elperronegro @elperronegro the way I see it, different Fediverse apps optimize the experience for their specific use cases. For example, Pixelfed optimizes for posting pictures (I believe Mastodon limits you to 4 pictures of a certain resolution per post and Pixelfed has higher limits), Lemmy optimizes for threaded discussion communities, etc. So even though you can consume and interact with a different app, the experience may be better on that app.
Big DuckyFeb 14
Nuwagaba GiftFeb 14
The most interesting part of #gardening is not harvesting but seeing life being created from something that has been dead.
Show threadBig DuckyFeb 14
@webs32 hey, you may want to skip the url shortener. I believe that it doesn’t count much towards the character limits on Mastodon, and many people here won’t open a URL shortened link.
Show threadBig DuckyFeb 11

@danvolchek @cwebber @spritely I found out about a reverse-engineered open-source clone of Discord just yesterday on a discussion about this on Lemmy. Fluxer. The screenshots make it look exactly like Discord, but I haven’t used it. It appears to be in beta: https://fluxer.app

Edit to add that as a Discord clone it’s probably not federated or end to end encrypted, so my post was more a reply to Dan instead of to Christine.

Edit 2: https://spacebar.chat is the reverse engineered one!

Fluxer: A chat app that puts you first

Fluxer is a free and open source instant messaging and VoIP platform built for friends, groups, and communities.

Fluxer
Big DuckyFeb 10
Alt Text Health CheckFeb 10

Results from tracking 16,666 images across 1,087 instances from the mstdn.social federated timeline.

Then filtering down to the top 1000 instances by active user from instances.social who had posted at least 23 images (1.5x the average).

Big DuckyFeb 6
Colin DevroeFeb 6
Please reply with Mastodon accounts and websites making and posting great art. Paintings, music, generative pen plotters, photographs, crochet, paper folding, solargrams, basket weaving, leather EDC, 3D printing, performances! I love all art made by humans whether or not they were assisted by analog or digital tools or not. Send them all. Boost! Thanks!
Big DuckyFeb 6
The Conversation U.S.Feb 5

In 2023, a sci-fi magazine shut down submissions after being flooded with AI-written stories. That problem is now everywhere — AI-generated text overwhelming courts, journals, newsrooms, and HR departments.

AI text detectors are good, but they can’t keep up with #AI, which is getting faster and more sophisticated.

https://theconversation.com/ai-generated-text-is-overwhelming-institutions-setting-off-a-no-win-arms-race-with-ai-detectors-274720

AI-generated text is overwhelming institutions – setting off a no-win ‘arms race’ with AI detectors

People are using generative AI to flood courts with filings, legislatures with constituent letters and publications with submissions. AI detectors are no silver bullet.

The Conversation