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Re: Improving support for adult content on Mastodon

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Post by viraptor »

piaste wrote: post #67
viraptor wrote: post #31

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You could say that hash is a very aggressive, lossy compression. Same image will result in same hash. Different images will often result in different hashes. That makes it a valid hash.

> You could say that hash is a very aggressive, lossy compression. You could but it would be about as misleading as a sentence could possibly be. The purpose of compression is to preserve content as much as possible: similar inputs should give similar outputs, and the output should provide as much information about the input as it can. Hashing deliberately does the exact opposite - slightly different inputs should gi…

If you want specifically a cryptographic/indexing hash, where 1 bit of change in input changes ~50% of bits in the output, then that's one possible goal/restriction. But that's just one kind of hash function.

But you can have hash functions with the goal of preserving similarity. For example soundex is a hash function with that constraint. From: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/06d6/8587c27058dd6ab3fb8238...

> For example value 1 = "Damieva" and value 2 = "Dameiva." These two values will produce the same Soundex hash value, creating a match.

There's also the whole class of LSH https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locality-sensitive_hashing

Re: Improving support for adult content on Mastodon

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Post by WAHa_06x36 »

jonnycomputer wrote: post #70
jonnycomputer wrote: post #6

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mastodon's tooting...

to be fair, tooting also means to blow one's horn. Which come to think of it, also sounds pretty funny. More seriously, the American Heritage Dictionary gives the following definition: v. To sound a horn or whistle in short blasts. v. To make the sound of a horn or whistle blown in short blasts or a sound resembling it. v. Slang To snort cocaine. None of which is to fart. I do wonder if that meaning is a regionalism?

It very much is, and those who live in those regions have no idea that it is.

Re: Improving support for adult content on Mastodon

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Post by olah_1 »

M2Ys4U wrote: post #25
all2 wrote: post #7

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I hear mastadon and I immediately think of that metal band, Mastadon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6WGNd8QR-U

Probably because the software was named, in part, after the band

Really goofy move, in my opinion. The next big social network, Aerosmith! Well, a lot of people don't like that band, but that's cute.

Re: Improving support for adult content on Mastodon

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Post by olah_1 »

WAHa_06x36 wrote: post #65
ravenstine wrote: post #35

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It depends on who's being marketed to. If CockroachDB was being sold to the average person, it'd be an awful name from a branding perspective. In reality, it's being sold to nerds who probably aren't as off-put by the name and are more interested in what it does as a database. To hit the point home, the database is designed with resilience in mind, just like actual cockroaches! For something being marketed to the mas…

You know, you should really be able to just look at the current landscape of popular services to see pretty clearly that having a good name means absolutely nothing whatsoever in terms of becoming popular. Every single popular service today has an utterly awful name. It did not stop them.

>Every single popular service today has an utterly awful name. It did not stop them.

Like what? I can't think of any bad ones that people use on a regular basis.

Re: Improving support for adult content on Mastodon

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Post by olah_1 »

daveid wrote: post #51
ravenstine wrote: post #35

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It depends on who's being marketed to. If CockroachDB was being sold to the average person, it'd be an awful name from a branding perspective. In reality, it's being sold to nerds who probably aren't as off-put by the name and are more interested in what it does as a database. To hit the point home, the database is designed with resilience in mind, just like actual cockroaches! For something being marketed to the mas…

> Nobody thinks of Mastodons when thinking of any form of communication, but we all hear birds tweeting every day and have been used in real life to send messages This seems like backwards reasoning. If you named a new platform after pigeons, which were actually used for transmitting information, you'd get critics saying "It's so archaic, nobody has used pigeons for 80 years!" Birds carrying messages is just as "exti…

"Pidgin" or some variation is actually a great name for a communication tool. You're better at naming things than you realize.

Re: Improving support for adult content on Mastodon

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Post by WAHa_06x36 »

olah_1 wrote: post #74
WAHa_06x36 wrote: post #65

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You know, you should really be able to just look at the current landscape of popular services to see pretty clearly that having a good name means absolutely nothing whatsoever in terms of becoming popular. Every single popular service today has an utterly awful name. It did not stop them.

>Every single popular service today has an utterly awful name. It did not stop them. Like what? I can't think of any bad ones that people use on a regular basis.

Google, Facebook, Twitter...

You are USED to them, so they don't sound stupid. If you heard them for the first time, they'd sound utterly stupid.

Re: Improving support for adult content on Mastodon

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Post by jonnycomputer »

WAHa_06x36 wrote: post #72
jonnycomputer wrote: post #70

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to be fair, tooting also means to blow one's horn. Which come to think of it, also sounds pretty funny. More seriously, the American Heritage Dictionary gives the following definition: v. To sound a horn or whistle in short blasts. v. To make the sound of a horn or whistle blown in short blasts or a sound resembling it. v. Slang To snort cocaine. None of which is to fart. I do wonder if that meaning is a regionalism?

It very much is, and those who live in those regions have no idea that it is.

but which regions. i'm from california.

Re: Improving support for adult content on Mastodon

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Post by kermitismyhero »

echelon wrote: post #13
jonnycomputer wrote: post #6

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mastodon's tooting...

Exactly, it's really gross. This isn't going to catch on in the mainstream. Mastodon seriously needs a rebrand.

Mastodon and similar projects like Pleroma are old school wild-west open source distributed endeavours, not "notice me, Facebook-senpai!" SV startups. Anyone who thinks that the developers and users involved in those projects give a damn about branding is deeply out of touch with that culture.

Re: Improving support for adult content on Mastodon

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Post by r00fus »

olah_1 wrote: post #75
daveid wrote: post #51

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> Nobody thinks of Mastodons when thinking of any form of communication, but we all hear birds tweeting every day and have been used in real life to send messages This seems like backwards reasoning. If you named a new platform after pigeons, which were actually used for transmitting information, you'd get critics saying "It's so archaic, nobody has used pigeons for 80 years!" Birds carrying messages is just as "exti…

"Pidgin" or some variation is actually a great name for a communication tool. You're better at naming things than you realize.

http://pidgin.im was a great chat client when I had friends/clients who gtalk, XMPP and sametime. Even supports OTR encryption.
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