time for some kind of anonymizing location data sharing service, peer to peer or federated protocol? that might be interesting, or sketchy, not sure which.
time for some kind of anonymizing location data sharing service, peer to peer or federated protocol? that might be interesting, or sketchy, not sure which.
Pretty sure you can download the maps ahead of time, GPS doesn’t require data, then upload the fixes when you get home.
Go map keeps crashing for me, does it for you?
I’ve been using Go Map! but it keeps crashing… Maybe I’ll try Streetcomplete if it’s on apple.
Crawling and indexing lemmy inter-instance would be an incredible boon to discoverability on the platform.
I decided to translate the worksheet into GLSL code on shadertoy. It was really cool to see the gradients and sub-coordinate systems represented by the intermediate variables in the calculation. Smoke and mirrors. Maybe you might have some insight into some of the calculations. https://www.shadertoy.com/view/cllBzM
Any ideas?
I was thinking of doing three separate GOL simulations, one on each RGB channel, and letting the colors mix that way into like 6 colors. right now, I clamp the pixel brightness values to 0 or 1, so that’s why it’s black/white, or rather black/green.
2nd on the keep notes suggestion. I work on lots of unrelated projects, and each time I end up learning a bunch of new command line utilities, so I try to leave behind a text file describing some of the most useful commands I’d discovered that day. Usually helps me come back to a project and not be back at square one every time.
I thought there was something slightly peculiar about the narration.
The internet is a series of tubes.
I decided to give it a try over the weekend on a road trip, through the apps Organic Maps and Go Map!! I really liked Go Map!! except that it crashes occasionally, and won’t restart until your reinstall it :( loosing all the GPS tracks and unsubmitted data :(( If it was more stable, I’d recommend it to everyone.
There is one more step once you found an community you’d like to subscribe to. Take the link to the community (something like https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/c/freemediaheckyeah ) and copy it into your home instance’s (the one you’ve made an account on) search page. for me it looks like this:
Sometimes, it will say “No Results.” Just wait a view seconds, and maybe try to refresh. The server it mostly likely retrieving some posts and comments for the first time. Eventually, it will show up, click the result, and you’ll be directed to something like https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/freemediaheckyeah@lemmy.fmhy.ml (with your home instance’s domain in place of mine) and you can subscribe from there.
looks like https://lemmyverse.net/ is doing a decent job with indexing at the moment. I do honestly feel that indexing should take place on every instance, since each instance has a unique position in the network, and the indexing parameters/ranking algorithms could be under per-instance control rather than an outside third party.
I really like the idea. There one major issue that I see currently, and that is discoverability. It takes some real effort and time to explore things outside of your own instance. I think the federation of pre-federation content will be important for discoverability, since the foundation of a community is in it’s ranking of posts, which takes time and interaction. Right now, votes, comments, and most posts pre-federation on another instance are just not reachable.
I believe this problem can be solved, and there are a lot of motivated developers here, so I’m all in on lemmy.
Maybe we need a discover tab. Something different from ‘All’. It would request top posts, or highly active posts, or whatever, from as many instances as it can find by crawling instance-to-instance trying to explore the entire network periodically. Does federation take place after the first post request from a new instance, or from the first subscribe request?
Follow up question: After the first contact, will all new posts, comments, votes always be federated between the two instances?
And also, after federation occurs, I guess that means that new posts from the other instance will now show up in the ‘All’ feed, where as they wouldn’t have before.
Thanks for the insight.
This is a major hurdle for discovery. My workflow to find new communities is basically to search for them on several different instances, visit their instance domain directly, search for their url through my home instance, and even then it’s occasionally useless because the only posts available to view in a feed from my home instance have no votes, no comments, and are pretty random. All the interesting posts that have had a moment to be voted on and commented on are a couple days old, and thus the only way to find things to interact with is to use the instance through it’s native domain. I suppose I could manually search for each URL of posts and comments as I browse in the native domain back into the search engine of my home domain, but this is insanity. Is this really the way we want to do things?
What if there was a way for one instance to request not the entire backlog of posts at once in these situations, but a series of posts long enough to fill one page of a feed at a time that match some search criterion when they attempt to directly explore a new community/instance, even if they are posts created pre-federation. Then the ‘most commented’ or ‘top of the week’ or especially ‘Top of All Time’ and old pinned posts, basically the ones people would want to see, that define a community, would over time be federated as users browsed, accumulating a select subset of pre-federated posts on-demand. Something like that seems like it would be a huge step in usability and discoverability, especially for users on newer, smaller instances. I don’t know much about how the system works though, so I don’t know it this is the right idea.
That’s a super interesting project. For anyone else, the project overview has some great system level diagrams:
https://github.com/opentraffic/otv2-platform