has the thread title font changed? looks a bit odd on my phone.
oh, i did 'upgrade' to Android 12 this morning, maybe it's a side effect of that, somehow
― koogs, Saturday, 6 November 2021 14:42 (two years ago) link
(using mobile.css)
― koogs, Saturday, 6 November 2021 14:44 (two years ago) link
(looks ok in Chrome)
― koogs, Saturday, 6 November 2021 15:28 (two years ago) link
I'm using mobile.css and I see no change of any kind.
― Kim Kimberly, Saturday, 6 November 2021 15:35 (two years ago) link
screenshots...
firefox:http://www.koogy.clara.co.uk/Screenshot_firefox.jpg
but i swear it used to look more like chrome still does:http://www.koogy.clara.co.uk/Screenshot_chrome.jpg
seeing those both together it looks like a font weight thing, maybe a letter spacing thing. the firefox titles do look slighter than they used to. it's perhaps a bit more noticeable when the title is short.
― koogs, Sunday, 7 November 2021 13:13 (two years ago) link
(but no, it's not an ilx problem)
― koogs, Sunday, 7 November 2021 13:20 (two years ago) link
the hide text thingy is grebt but seems to be thwarted by line breaks -- could its effects be made to continue (like other such tags) until it reaches a /hiddentext ?
― mookieproof, Saturday, 4 December 2021 01:05 (two years ago) link
that would mean it would have to start in one div and end in another, which is hard. ie
div first paragraph with some h hidden text /div
div second paragraph, still hidden /h visible again /div
(the divs might need p tags but same thing)
― koogs, Saturday, 4 December 2021 01:24 (two years ago) link
okay, no worries -- thanks!
― mookieproof, Saturday, 4 December 2021 01:35 (two years ago) link
You can fake paragraphs..By having a minor piece of punctuation on the "break" lines.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Saturday, 4 December 2021 03:49 (two years ago) link
Just tested this on HTML Playground: it seems to work even with a space as your "minor piece of punctuation" on the line between the faked paras.
― anatol_merklich, Sunday, 5 December 2021 00:02 (two years ago) link
do tweet embeds not work anymore? just wondering if it's my browser/adblocker. they appear as blockquotes but don't load as embeds, for me.
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Thursday, 16 December 2021 15:02 (two years ago) link
fwiw i have a pretty aggressive privacy/adblock setup that causes tweets to behave like that for me
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 16 December 2021 15:23 (two years ago) link
I disable javascript (using noscript in firefox for example) and that prevents the twitter embeds.
― Kim Kimberly, Thursday, 16 December 2021 16:38 (two years ago) link
your adblocker might have an option to filter out social or "share" stuff. that usually breaks embedded tweets.
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Thursday, 16 December 2021 17:08 (two years ago) link
(i.e. try disabling that option)
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Thursday, 16 December 2021 17:09 (two years ago) link
it was duckduckgo chrome extension
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Thursday, 16 December 2021 23:13 (two years ago) link
hi stet, youtube embedding is great, but would be cool to teach the regex not to try to embed links to youtube channels (which don't work), e.g. this post got mangled. obviously this is not the end of the world.
p.s. does ilx use log4j y/n?
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Friday, 7 January 2022 17:52 (two years ago) link
we have a strong NIH ethos here, so thankfully not
― stet, Monday, 10 January 2022 14:52 (two years ago) link
thanks for the channels nudge, will take a look
Hi there, what's the best method of pasting an image on a thread these days?
― Maresn3st, Monday, 17 January 2022 23:59 (two years ago) link
Still [ img ] tags. You have to put the address of an image file in between the tags, not a web page, and if you link to an image on a major social media platform, it wonโt display for many people.
― dark end of the st. maud (sic), Tuesday, 18 January 2022 01:01 (two years ago) link
an integrated image thingie would be amazing but imgur works pretty well. as others have said, the ios โpost to imgurโ shortcut makes this a very slick process.
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 18 January 2022 09:01 (two years ago) link
i would like to thank the ilx code cru for the hidden text feature without which the fun Semantle thread would not be possible
― sarahell, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 16:55 (two years ago) link
last night it kept asking me to login and I've had 5 of so posts that didn't post, just returned a blank page. something seems wrong, but it also feels like it'd be impossible to debug.
― koogs, Monday, 13 June 2022 07:10 (two years ago) link
happens to me too sometimes (maybe once a week?)
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Monday, 13 June 2022 23:02 (two years ago) link
stet/keith or whoever is in charge of code these days,
*third guy to get handed the mic at the Q&A*
hello, a comment and a question.
first of all, as always, thank you so much, and with every year that passes i appreciate more and more what a special place ilx is and how much of that is related the beautiful simplicity of how it works. i don't know anything about any of that but i feel the benefits of your work all the same. thank you!
the question: as you're probably already aware, chatgpt is starting to crawl the internet:
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/08/openai-details-how-to-keep-chatgpt-from-gobbling-up-website-data/
Without announcement, OpenAI recently added details about its web crawler, GPTBot, to its online documentation site. GPTBot is the name of the user agent that the company uses to retrieve webpages to train the AI models behind ChatGPT, such as GPT-4. Earlier this week, some sites quickly announced their intention to block GPTBot's access to their content.In the new documentation, OpenAI says that webpages crawled with GPTBot "may potentially be used to improve future models," and that allowing GPTBot to access your site "can help AI models become more accurate and improve their general capabilities and safety."
In the new documentation, OpenAI says that webpages crawled with GPTBot "may potentially be used to improve future models," and that allowing GPTBot to access your site "can help AI models become more accurate and improve their general capabilities and safety."
i was wondering if ilx will move to block GPTBot as well. for what it's worth, i register as a hard "please block GPTBot" vote
― z_tbd, Saturday, 12 August 2023 17:57 (ten months ago) link
...because god, it's going to be creepy if chatgpt users can really ask it to compose stuff in the voice of a particular poster
― z_tbd, Saturday, 12 August 2023 18:01 (ten months ago) link
well i already do that all the time so
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 12 August 2023 19:09 (ten months ago) link
After I'd been posting to ilx for about 13 years my voice changed.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 12 August 2023 19:15 (ten months ago) link
Wonโt be long before thereโs going to be some kind of Night of the Living Dead of Fake Tuomases, Fake James Redds, Fake Tracer Hands etc.
― No Zing Compares 2 HOOS (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 12 August 2023 19:28 (ten months ago) link
Night of the Living Redd
― No Zing Compares 2 HOOS (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 12 August 2023 19:30 (ten months ago) link
fake luna
― pplains, Saturday, 12 August 2023 20:40 (ten months ago) link
Lol
― No Zing Compares 2 HOOS (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 12 August 2023 21:11 (ten months ago) link
Impersonate another Chatbot!
― No Zing Compares 2 HOOS (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 12 August 2023 21:12 (ten months ago) link
ILX is already in ChatGPT - there was a site which showed you which percentage of the training data you were, and we were high among the also-rans. Block does seem like a good idea for all our vital future posts tho
― stet, Sunday, 13 August 2023 10:52 (ten months ago) link
excited to encounter the deepest of our lore out in the wild
― mark s, Sunday, 13 August 2023 11:12 (ten months ago) link
ILX had a number of prolific posters who contributed to its active community. Some of the notable and influential posters over the years included individuals like Sterling Clover, Andy K, Nick Sylvester, and Mark Sinker. These posters were known for their extensive contributions, insightful discussions, and sometimes controversial opinions, which helped shape the character of ILX as a unique online forum for music and various other topics. However, keep in mind that individual participation can change over time, and my information might not be up to date with the latest developments on ILX.
― the new drip king (DJP), Sunday, 13 August 2023 15:47 (ten months ago) link
no, that pretty much covers it up til now!
― z_tbd, Sunday, 13 August 2023 16:12 (ten months ago) link
Your mileage may vary.
― No Zing Compares 2 HOOS (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 13 August 2023 16:40 (ten months ago) link
ChatGPT, tell me all you know about the chickenbear.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Sunday, 13 August 2023 16:48 (ten months ago) link
chatGPT, please read all my previous posts and suggest new posts i could make that would be an improvement
― z_tbd, Sunday, 13 August 2023 16:59 (ten months ago) link
...but do it in the style of the chickenbear
― z_tbd, Sunday, 13 August 2023 17:00 (ten months ago) link
gaz coombes
― Grandall Flange (wins), Sunday, 13 August 2023 17:01 (ten months ago) link
Bosko Balaban
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Sunday, 13 August 2023 17:18 (ten months ago) link
Write about grocery groin to the tune of Ernie K Doe's "Mother in Law"
― earosmith (Neanderthal), Monday, 14 August 2023 05:09 (ten months ago) link
This isn't so much a question as it is an expression of puzzlement but...I just posted via Zing a short while ago and the DN displayed on my post is an older DN that is not the DN I'm currently using. Should that be happening? And might the fact of it happening have anything to do with the fact that my iPhone is old as shit (it's a 6)? I guess those last two actually were questions.
― Prop Dramedy (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 15 August 2023 00:52 (nine months ago) link
It shouldn't be happening โ there's a weird situation in the code where it can keep two copies of a user around. You end up with two different sets of bookmarks and sometimes two DNs etc. I've never been able to really track the cause of it down, it's (probably) not your fault tho
― stet, Tuesday, 15 August 2023 10:51 (nine months ago) link
Iโve just got my first iPhone and the Bookmark Post links JavaScript does not work and instead go to a form to submit instead. Is that expected?
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 15 October 2023 19:56 (seven months ago) link
download Zing Touch from the app store!
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 15 October 2023 19:56 (seven months ago) link