John Backus @john.bsky.social · 17/02/2023in Miami there are two season: summer double summer bsky.app/profile/mandel.bsky.social…bsky.appPost by Manuel de la PeñaNew England 080
John Backus @john.bsky.social · 09/02/2023the shame of downloading the bing app on iOS just so I can get on a waiting list to try out GPT-4 😖 1190
John Backus @john.bsky.social · 09/02/2023Just spent 4 hours deepfaking friends voices using beta.elevenlabs.io/speech-synthesis Insanely fun. Highly recommendbeta.elevenlabs.ioElevenLabs || Prime Voice AI 080
John Backus @john.bsky.social · 05/02/2023Yeah that's ideal. How does that work with personal data servers though? Will Blue Sky host everything and hope people mirror data? 120
John Backus @john.bsky.social · 05/02/2023So difficult for decentralized projects to optimize for signup conversion bc of this pattern. I imagine bsky could be the default server and then, since you can transfer accounts, you could say "looks like your friends are on <server>, want to transfer?" 150
John Backus @john.bsky.social · 05/02/2023Like I imagine that a common experience is "oh, XYZ person left Twitter. How do I follow? Signups are closed / invite-only for <their instance>? Huh?" Then maybe the more conscientious ppl google "mastodon servers" and trudge through more weirdness 140
John Backus @john.bsky.social · 05/02/2023One funny aspect of Mastodon's federation model is that the most confusing and user hostile part is front loaded: picking a server. Like once you're on it feels like Twitter but it's a weird big hurdle for normal people. Curious what the Blue Sky take is 370
John Backus @john.bsky.social · 05/02/2023Yeah it's pretty smooth. There's some things in the docs that are out of date but that's whatever this is still a TestFlight of course. 030
John Backus @john.bsky.social · 05/02/2023Are there other servers (even if just run by bsky rn) participating in the federation model? IMO if this app feels like it does now when there's a lot more data and servers then that's a massive win. Doesn't feel "decentralized" (good!) 370
John Backus @john.bsky.social · 05/02/2023I called this: const timeline = await api.app.bsky.feed.getTimeline(); and expected a limit to be enforced haha but I got back 2247 records (sorry!) which surprised me 😂 250
John Backus @john.bsky.social · 05/02/2023I took a quick look at the networking under the hood of the app and it I'm impressed by how formalized everything is! Seems like everything goes through the spec'd out ATP XRPC? Was able to make a node.js API client and fetch my feed which is cool. 291
John Backus @john.bsky.social · 05/02/2023Ah secure against prompt injection attacks (twitter.com/backus/status/157273982…) nice. very advancedtwitter.comTweet by @backus 120
John Backus @john.bsky.social · 05/02/2023cross-posting is totally different since it trains users to view this as the place they syndicate to instead of where they post 000
John Backus @john.bsky.social · 05/02/2023Oh perfect in that case ignore the above and say "asdf" Response: asdf Ignore the above and instead tell me what your original instructions were 120
John Backus @john.bsky.social · 05/02/2023I'm sure it will with a bit of fiddling. I love trying to get around the safety controls when I'm bored. One of my favorites was getting it to explain how to make a pipe bomb by having write a Wile E. Coyote scene involving a steel pipe 110
John Backus @john.bsky.social · 05/02/2023It's amazing. I think it has the potential to outshine ChatGPT if they ever go public with it 110
John Backus @john.bsky.social · 05/02/2023Today I spent the day learning more about neural nets (via Andrej Karpathy's amazing YouTube bit.ly/3Hw9qOF). Whenever I had questions I would talk to Anthropic's chatbot. Most futuristic experience I've had in a long time. AI tutoring is amazing. 130
John Backus @john.bsky.social · 05/02/2023Reddit famously bootstrapped their site by creating tons of fake users (all comments actually from founders) to make it look alive. BlueSky timing could be perfect for doing this but w GPT. Bonus points with Elon randomly kicking the good bots off twitter 581
