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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
I haven't been following it very closely but looks like Mastodon's monthly active user count climbed back up to 2.1M over the last couple of weeks. Not far off from our last peak!
Mastodon FeedMastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org ("Ian Campbell") wrote:
Adblockers are a valid and necessary security measure, especially since instead of fixing the negative security impact of the ad-served internet, Google and other actors are looking to capture and control internet service deliverability so you can't opt for another path.
Mastodon FeedSo.... decided to see if I could improve (lower CPU, better performance) by enabling Metals-based acceleration by re-compiling with that option...
Well I got 1/2 of that... CPU usage now at ~1% but it's ULTRA slow.
Probably because this 2018 Mac has a Radeon Pro 560X GPU?? Not sure.. I HOPE it's not using the Intel one 🤔
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Ex-GOP candidate who preached 'thoughtful' approach charged in Capitol riot: report
Mastodon Feednadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
Getting my Apple Studio Display to work properly on my Windows laptop required a bit of tinkering. In order to help others who may run into the same problem, I've written a quick blog post: https://nadim.computer/posts/2023-07-22-studiodisplay.html
Mastodon FeedInteresting...#LLaMA2's conditions seem quite reasonable
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...If, on the Llama 2 version release date, the
monthly active users of the products or services made available by or for Licensee,
or Licensee's affiliates, is greater than 700 million monthly active users in the
preceding calendar month, you must request a license from Meta, which Meta may
grant to you in its sole discretion..
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Mastodon FeedBeen running #LLaMA2 locally using #llm-rs.
* Completely crushes my 2018 Intel Mac wrt CPU usage...600% easily when it's doing stuff. And this is with a quantised model.
* Already caught it in a lie 😂Neither are surprising (my Mac is from 2018 2.2 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i7) but it actually made me fact check whether EPFL and/or Lightened were acquired by IBM in 2022 (spoiler: they haven't)!
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
fugueish@infosec.exchange ("Chris Palmer :donor:") wrote:
A great discussion of how Chrome does product security review, by @quidity, one of the greatest to ever practice the art: https://security.googleblog.com/2023/07/a-look-at-chromes-security-review.html
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
RickiTarr@beige.party ("Ricki Tarr") wrote:
The entire Star Wars Franchise was purchased for 40 billion dollars less than Twitter. I think about that sometimes.
Mastodon FeedIt seems like you cannot even view people’s profiles on Twitter now without signing in.
Is this new?
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I’m at Barbie. Old Q/Fox News couple in front of us were here to see Sound of Freedom—their disappointment gave me joy. They left looking so sad. Sorry you missed your propaganda, you creepy fucks.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):
The Dream Machine (unpreserved, cracked by Passport, Protected.DOS, same as Ultima IV)
https://archive.org/details/TheDreamMachine4amCrack
Thanks to LoGo for the disk!
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Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
Also interesting that TJ's route only has a couple of inconsequential choices.
In Flynn's route, it's implied that you're playing as an entity external to Chase, the seeming viewpoint character. Its agenda becomes apparent as you get "choices" that are just 3 copies of the same thing. You don't get those in TJ's route! But it IS implied that Chase is being manipulated by a *different* external entity. Maybe that's why even the superficial choices dry up
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
I just finished off TJ's route and lmao Flynn is really hard done by in this game. The best case scenario for that lizard man is that his friends call him an asshole and shunt him aside while story events happen to them instead.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Deglassco ("D. Elisabeth Glassco") wrote:
On August 19, 1863, the draft was resumed with the presence of 20,000 soldiers, but it proved to be largely unsuccessful. Very few men were ultimately conscripted, as the majority of the army remained composed of volunteers. However, the government found an untapped resource by enlisting a significant number of African-American volunteers, with approximately 180,000 serving before the end of the war.
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ServerHighlights ("Server Highlights") wrote:
One of my favourite servers is https://masto.nyc/ A regional server for the people of New York City, it almost makes me wish I lived in NYC, so I could join them.
They have a cute and whimsical thumbnail, and here in mastodon we love cute and whimsical, clearly a lot of love and care went into creating and running this server.
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jayrosen_nyu ("Jay Rosen") wrote:
Amazing story. Have you followed it?
Texas A&M announces a new journalism dean. She's black and she's qualified— and an alum of the school! Ex-New York Times too.
They announce her appointment in a splashy event.
Dark forces of reaction mobilize.
The offer is watered down to one year, with no tenure. She says no way, and withdraws. National news is made. It's negative. And today, the president of A&M resigns!
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/21/tamu-president-resign-journalism/
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/11/texas-a-m-kathleen-mcelroy-journalism/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:
Alabama lawmakers refuse to create 2nd majority-Black congressional district in defiance of SCOTUS
Florida schools teaching that slavery was beneficial to Black people
Texas troops pushing brown migrant kids into the Rio Grande to drown them
Two thoughts from all this and more.
White supremacy is thriving in GOP. It’s a feature, not a bug.
GOP was never about law and order—they were always about advancing racism, and their defiance of their own right wing court is further proof.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Deglassco ("D. Elisabeth Glassco") wrote:
Black Americans, who wanted to save the union for freedom and equality were denied access to that privilege, whereas many white Americans fought to decimate it.
The Black press and community groups collaborated to assist in rebuilding communities and shed light on the violence faced by Black individuals and the heroism and charity of those days.
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lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social ("Low Quality Facts") wrote:
Spending a ton of money to advertise my "I heart ad blockers" shirts but the ads don't seem to be reaching their target audience for some reason.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ScienceDesk@flipboard.social ("Flipboard Science Desk") wrote:
One of our favorite things about Mastodon is the huge presence of members interested in the environment and climate change.
Here are just a few of our favorite green voices:
@kathhayhoe is a climate scientist
@breadandcircuses focuses on the "distraction from what's REALLY happening"
@Ruth_Mottram is a climate scientist
@gwagner is a climate economist
@Brad_Rosenheim is a climate scientist
@gerrymcgovern focuses on e-waste
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
We should all want a world where design discussions are low-stakes and collaborative. The alternative is groupthink and go-fever, and we know how that turns out (*cough* AppCache *cough*). Processes need to favour iteration and learning, rather than adversarial mudslinging.
There will be plenty of time and space to stone late-stage work before it does harm, I promise. Just don't bring that energy to design-phase incubations and early Explainers.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
*Particularly* in the early design phase, lots of ideas are bad! And that's OK! API design requires a journey through a problem space, and the best way to redirect this sort of thing isn't to extrapolate to worst-case scenario, it's to ask that folks show their work and demonstrate value.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Don't know who needs to hear this, but assuming bad faith regarding standards proposals just because you don't like someone's employer is basically never going to have the effect you hope.
Mastodon Feedxor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
🫡 looks like my twitter bots have finally been shut down
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
I wondered why the ‘fan’ setting was not pushing more air
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
I've noticed recently that I less and less rely to search engine suggestions when I come up with programming problems. I tend to read the docs of the corresponding projects right away.
This doesn't give me answers immediately, but shapes the future code I write.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
GW@newsie.social ("Greg W.") wrote:
Nebraska Teen Sentenced to 90 Days in Jail After Self-Managed Abortion
The case of Celeste Burgess illustrates "the real, human cost of mass surveillance of everyone's private digital communications," said one digital rights
Advocates for digital privacy rights and reproductive rights alike were outraged Thursday over the jail sentence of a 19-year-old in Nebraska who self-managed her abortion last year highlights how prosecutors will "stretch laws
https://www.commondreams.org/news/nebraska-teen-jail-abortion
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“Burgess, who was 17 at the time, had procured pills for a medication abortion shortly before the stillbirth, and had discussed the outcome of the pregnancy on Facebook Messenger with her mother, Jessica Burgess.”
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Thomas 🔭✨:verified:") wrote:
Just deleted the Threads app.
Someone somewhere compared it to having an appeal that compares to the “light news” stuff that’s playing on gas pumps.