Category: Rave🎉

• Across the Fediverse: Testing Tags

  

  As I was writing my previous post on how tags with spaces (and dashes and underscores) were federating, I wanted to test this more systematically. So, this is that post. It is merely a test balloon to assess current behavior. I will be editing this post with the “Results” in the section below. But let…

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  January 3, 2024

• Across the Fediverse: Tags with Spaces (and dashes)

  I have been wondering: how would WordPress tags federate when they have spaces? In a couple of recent WordPress posts I absentmindedly end up using such tags (i.e., with spaces): “Year in Review” and “user feedback”. Here are the screenshots of two such tags (two different blog posts): When federating over to Mastodon it seems…

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  January 3, 2024

• Federated comments going to spam, and one other Comment subtlety

  In my post yesterday I noted that not all replies from Mastodon were federating as blog post comments. I did not think much of it back then. But today I saw those comments (and several others) in the spam section of my blog’s comments – they were also pending approvals. Guessing that this is happening…

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  December 27, 2023

• Post Edit Timestamps are federating

  

  WordPress is able roam/federate the edit timestamp, for when a user edits a published blog post. Edited posts on the Mastodon web client show up with an asterisk (*) next to the pretty-printed time stamp. In the screenshot below, you know that the post was edited after publishing, because of the asterisk next to the…

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  December 26, 2023

• Setting up Activity Pub for a WP.com blog

  

  … and early experiences for Winter Rant on the Fediverse and Mastodon. Yesterday I enabled ActivityPub for my WordPress.com blog (this blog – Winter Rant!). This means that Winter Rant is now an ActivityPub server that is discoverable as rant.vpalepu.com@rant.vpalepu.com – on ActivityPub clients, such as Ivory, Ice cubes, or any Mastodon client application. This…

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  December 26, 2023

• Winter Rant is now part of the Fediverse

  rant.vpalepu.com@rant.vpalepu.com

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  December 25, 2023

• Professions Unsung

  Vijay admires professionals who engage in high-impact, often under-acknowledged work, characterized by sacrifices and dedication beyond a typical workday. They express their respect by using a line from Tennyson’s “Ulysses” to prompt Midjourney to visualize these workers: a passionate journalist, persevering scuba diver, diligent archaeologist, and resilient geologist.

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  October 30, 2023

• Midjourney on “between a rock and a hard place”

  

  Vijay explored how an AI, Midjourney (MJ), interprets the phrase “stuck between a rock and a hard place.” He experimented with adding “Watercolors,” swapping “stuck” for “trapped,” and removing “stuck.” Regardless of the modifications, MJ consistently depicted open landscapes with rock formations, perhaps suggesting that it interprets the landscape as the “hard place.”

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  October 24, 2023

• I broke Midjourney with “a roadmap”

  I thought about exploring “roadmaps” as a concept with Midjourney. It did not quite go as planned. I think I broke it!

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  October 22, 2023

• Midjourney 2023/10/14: Animals Wearing Robes in Ancient Rome

  prompt template I used: “a/an [animal] wearing ancient robes, in Ancient Rome.”

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  October 14, 2023