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Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

thereisnocat@toot.cafe ("Ralph Brandi") wrote:

Petapixel has this article about Dall-E 3 and how it will let photographers opt out of having their images train it:

https://petapixel.com/2023/09/21/dall-e-3-announced-photographers-can-opt-out-of-its-image-training-data/

So I went and looked at the form.

https://share.hsforms.com/1_OuT5tfFSpic89PqN6r1CQ4sk30

You have to submit a different form for each image. In other words, don't opt out.

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

regret to report that the new top of the travel lodging power rankings is "booking a hotel at the very last minute"

Reblogged by pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑"):

androcat@toot.cat ("Androcat") wrote:

@pzmyers Just in case anyone read Loeb's text and got confused:
Current LLMs do NOT have more nodes than we have synapses.
They have to the order of one billionth of the nodes we do, at very very best.

LLMs are running on vastly, vastly inferior hardware compared to our brains, and their "intelligence" even when constrained to a single domain (text) is dubious.

Reblogged by lloydmeta ("Lloyd"):

scala_space@softwaremill.social ("Scala Space") wrote:

Announcing a new tapir project: Pickler! 🐗 🥒

Pickler is new way to derive JSON codecs, combining the derivation of uPickle encoders/decoders (for client/server side logic) with that of Schemas (for docs) into a single functionality!

More below 🧵

#Scala

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

"Why not just implement Feature Flags as #authorisation
^ has probably popped into someone's head more than once.

It's a fairly reasonable thought, but the devil is in the details. IMO it's like saying we should put up traffic lights instead of using traffic cones.

https://ntietz.com/blog/feature-flags-and-authorization/

#featureflags vs #authz #rbac

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

I made a stupid Smoke Room/Bonequest comic edit

Does this count as fan art

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• The Bonequest comic "Up Late" edited so that it takes place at The Hip. Panel 1: "Up Late, starring Clifford, Harlan" Panel 2: Clifford standing at the bar, smiling, hands clasped. He says, "WHAT ABOUT NUTS" Panel 2: Same location. Clifford blushing, Harlan looking stern. Cliff: "WHAT ABOUT BALLS" Harlan: "WHAT ABOUT THEM" Panel 3: Same location. Clifford screaming, Reed scowling, Sam looking shocked in the background. Cliff: "WHAT ABOUT FAT QUEER DICKS" Reed: "KEEP IT DOWN"

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Oh, no. You mean I can't get rich by selling links to badly drawn monkeys?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/09/21/no-one-could-have-predicted-this/

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• Bored Ape NFT (remote)

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Avi Loeb wants to find another speck because it'll make him feel good.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/09/21/loeb-sure-sounds-like-a-religious-kook/

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• We are just a speck, on a speck, orbiting a speck, in the corner of a speck, in the middle of nowhere. (remote)

Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

jalefkowit@octodon.social ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

Just me, a person who has been working on Unix machines for 25 years now, once again googling the difference between "adduser" and "useradd"

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

Scarlet/Violet have mostly been pretty well-behaved for me after a rocky launch period, but yesterday the game softlocked right after I started hosting an online raid. I finally had to force quit from the home menu. And of course the game got mad at me for ditching an online raid mid-battle even though they were at fault.

Reblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):

lori@hackers.town wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnUvneNxoz8

There's a DIRECTORS CUT???

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

It's release day! #Mastodon 4.2 will drop later today. I'm very excited for all the improvements we've been working on since January to become available to all server operators and their users.

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Interesting map of pollution. Coal-loving Poland is an embarrassment.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2023/sep/20/europes-pollution-divide-see-how-your-area-compares

Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

gotime@changelog.social ("Go Time ⏰") wrote:

It's time once again for Unpopular Opinions! 🎸

@carlmjohnson thinks XML is better than YAML 🔥

👀 https://changelog.com/posts/xml-better-than-yaml

After hearing him out, do you agree or disagree? Vote and reply with your thoughts! #golang #xml #yaml #unpopularopinion

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

mia@movsw.0x0.st ("miacelium") wrote:

😬 U+1F62C FACE WITH USB TYPE-C CONNECTOR

Reblogged by fribbledom ("muesli"):

craftamap@chaos.social ("Fabian") wrote:

new duolingo update just dropped 👀
#golango #go

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• UI similar of duolingo. At the top the text says "finish this code snippet". Below, there is a image of a golang gopher. Below that, buttons are displayed, each showing a tokens of a go program. (remote)

Reblogged by mbrubeck@mefi.social:

stellarskylark@solarpunk.moe ("jan Sukajala 🦉🏳️‍⚧️ :lisp:") wrote:

@NoraReed

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• Writing on notebook paper made of cutout letters, words, and phrases from other documents. Goblin Time It's time to talk about goblins. You know, a little wild, a little green, kind of like Muppets? Well, they need your help. Goblins in our community are suffering, exhausted by the internet, and want to snuggle in for their holiday hibernation. Your support is crucial in helping provide them with year-round access to their daily needs: cuppa joe, weird radish waffle, a cedarwood candle. Please donate today. All gifts are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. $15 can help feed and vaccinate a goblin. $25 can purchase them a cozy flannel nightie. $50 can help them receive a lot of weird new bugs. Any amount helps! Wrap a bit of cash in brown paper and place it in any garden on a crisp morning. We'll find it. (remote)

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

opal@ioc.exchange ("Opalescent") wrote:

@ian

8675309 (as in, Jenny's number from the Tommy Tutone song) is a prime number. What's more, it's the bottom half of a twin prime pair: add 2, and you get 8675311, which is ALSO prime.

If you're writing software that implements number-theoretic algorithms, it can be problematic to test it using small primes like 7 or 11, because small primes tend to have a lot of weird properties tend to trigger exceptions and edge cases. Having a pair of easy-to-remember, "big enough" prime numbers like the Jenny primes is really useful.

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

th@v.st ("Trammell Hudson") wrote:

It’s an A and B tier sort of day

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• Energy label sticker with a - g levels of walking, biking, train, car, boat, plane and a hell tier with a tank (remote)

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

USB-C cables showing power consumption are cool, especially when powering a laptop. Doubles as a CPU load indicator.

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• Cable with LCD screen showing 25W, plugged into MacBook

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

my brain simply cannot reclassify LGA as "a nice airport," physical evidence notwithstanding

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

bodil@treehouse.systems ("Bodil") wrote:

I'm just so sick of this idiot country and its idiot slide into fascist kleptocracy.

Let this be a lesson to anyone who thinks emigration is a viable personal solution to fascism, that was exactly what I had in mind when I left Norway in 2013 after the local Tories formed a coalition government with the local Nazis. And I even made sure to emigrate to an EU country so I could eventually get the EU citizenship my idiot countrymen voted to deny me in 1994, hash tag lol sob

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

TFW you rush through the morning and barely get the kiddo to the school on time only to realize it's a late start day.

Reblogged by pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑"):

The_Whore_of_Blahbylon ("The Whore of Blahbylon") wrote:

This candelabra.

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• 12966d8b9c04cc02.jpg

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

My least favorite thing.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/09/20/grading/

Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

adamchainz@fosstodon.org ("Adam Johnson :django: :python:") wrote:

🕺 From #Python 3.13, virtual environments created by `venv` will come with a #Git ignore file, thanks to @brettcannon ’s PR merged yesterday. There’ll be no need to add `.venv` (or whatever) to your `.gitignore` file then..

FYI the `virtualenv` package already does this 😁

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/e218e5022eef369573808a4f8dda9aeeab663750

Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

EU_Commission@social.network.europa.eu ("European Commission") wrote:

🌐 Did you know that Europe is home to 3 of the world's top 5 supercomputers?

And guess what? They're about to become accessible to AI start-ups!

Their use already brings new opportunities to:

🔸 improve quality of life of Europeans,
🔸 advance science,
🔸 boost industrial competitiveness,
🔸 ensure Europe’s technological autonomy, and
🔸 help SMEs develop.

Thanks to our investment in the last years, Europe has now become a leader in supercomputing!

#DigitalEU

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• LUMI, the European Union supercomputer in Finland, at JRC - Photo credit CSC Fade Creative (remote)
• SUPERCOMPUTER - Getty - Barcelona Supercomputing Center Photo by Adri SalidoAnadolu Agency 2 (remote)
• SUPERCOMPUTER - Getty - Barcelona Supercomputing Center Photo by Adri SalidoAnadolu Agency (remote)
• SUPERCOMPUTER - CINECA - Leonardo photo CINECA all rights reserved (remote)

Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

mrundkvist@archaeo.social ("Martin Rundkvist") wrote:

#books #reading

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• eac41942eeb7347f.jpg (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Making people pay to tweet should be the nail in the coffin for #Twitter; but then again I thought turning it into a glorified Parler would've been that nail already. As they say, the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.

Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

dan@discuss.systems ("Dan Ports") wrote:

Happy 41st birthday :-)

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• 19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman :-) From: Scott E Fahlman I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers: :-) Read it sideways. Actually, it is probably more economical to mark things that are NOT jokes, given current trends. For this, use :-( (remote)