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• Post #2398156

  A protocol (read: norm) whereby the value of the content attribute for a <meta name="generator"> element is a URL, and for any given page following this protocol, you can load the appropriate page designer/CMS interface/whatever for the page that you're on because it's a simple matter of appending a <script> element whose src attribute is the URL in step 1.

• Post #2398155

  Trying out something new.

• Post #1828078

  It feels to me like a big oversight for anything that implements its own flavor of followable profiles not to also support generic RSS and Atom feeds. (Note I'm not referring here to server software *generating* RSS/Atom feeds of its users' profiles—though that's important, too. I'm referring to the ability of any user to paste in an ordinary RSS/Atom feed and be able to "follow" it, too, alongside everything else in their timeline. For exampl...

• Post #1828077

  Shouldn't the focus on LLMs and the incorporation of them into workflows have by now started to look towards "lowering" (as in compilers/autocoding) the workflows that involve/depend on them into ones that instead use pseudo-natural language processing systems (like Inform7) to provide conversational interfaces, instead of wasting all that expensive compute on what often turn out to be rolls of the dice trying to get the LLM to do the right thing?

• Post #1828076

  Reminder in response to yet another billing incident involving insanely high surprise charges (<https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/unexpected-54k-billing-spike-in-13-hours-firebase-browser-key-without-api-restrictions-used-for-gemini-requests/140262>): The Purpose of a Billing System Is What It Does See also: mrkurt commenting on why Fly.io also went with the standard playbook of having no limits on spending and refused to let you set a self-service hard cap so you wouldn't...

• Post #1828075

  A total conversion mod for Discourse to make it look and work like Discord (to further confuse the difference between the two).

• Post #1828074

  Friends don't let friends use the term "web engine".