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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
had a waking-dream early this morning that the GPT3.5TURBO LLM I'm banging on remotely was returning responses indicating idempotency... had to whip up a quickie commandline program to run the same prompt twice and compare.
good, it is not idempotent. we likes this.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
The most beneficial writing habit I’ve acquired is to remember to just write first.
When I stopped worrying about things like tone, grammar, spelling, and structure, my first drafts got longer.
Longer first drafts gave me more clay to mold or remove later.
And you know what? Sometimes I keep the non-traditional sentence or two, that make the piece fun. I don’t get that opportunity when I edit as I write. (I still edit as I write but I’m getting better ☺️)
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
I saw at least 3 #blåhaj at #FOSDEM so far which is delightful.
Mastodon FeedWe are running out of mugs, so come quick if you want one! We also have screen printed cotton t-shirts and enamel pins. Building H, level one! #FOSDEM #Merchtodon
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
lextenebris@vivaldi.net ("LexTenebris") wrote:
@fromjason I just decided to make it my whole blog because the cross-linking you can do as part of a digital garden is incredibly convenient. Especially when you want to go back and revisit some of your earlier work or earlier articles; you can literally transclude the text that you wrote before and comment on it, expand on it, reference it.
If you're going along and think "somebody might want more information about that later," you just make it a link to a note you haven't written yet and then go ahead and write that when the mood strikes you. You automatically get connection between articles that talk about the same things.
At this point flat blogging just wouldn't satisfy me anymore. I wish wiki-style reference interfaces were the norm for such things so that maybe we could get cross-platform wiki-style reference and transclusion.
(Ah, PROJECT XANADU. How we miss you.)
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
So I figured out how to set up my #ObsidianPublish using a subdomain and Netlify toml file. If anyone is curious, that may be my first entry to my notes wiki ayyeeeee
Mastodon Feedcmiksche ("Christoph Miksche") wrote:
When I started hosting projects we had #vServer, then everybody called it #VPS and now Big Cloud renamed it #ComputeEngine
Am I the only one sick of all this marketing bullshit? Why don’t we just settle with „VM“?!
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
fitz@tech.lgbt ("Kenny 🏳️🌈") wrote:
@fromjason Who said I've been alive forever? Always happy to meet a fellow fan!
Here's the cake!
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Elon Musk looks like an Apple Vision Pro avatar of himself
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Lots of people came to the #Mastodon stand at #FOSDEM today. That was pretty cool. I’ve had a number of lengthy conversations about features, challenges, and so on. We sold a lot of mugs, which makes me happy because it’s my favorite item we’ve made. We’ll be there again tomorrow. Building H, level one.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
grippingyarn@infosec.exchange ("Gripping Yarn :donor: :bone:") wrote:
@fromjason I haven't. But Nicole has a lot of info on approaching that sort of project. https://www.youtube.com/@nicolevdh
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Who loves #30rock
I want to be friends with you
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
20 lines, that's all it takes. I love this
Mastodon FeedReblogged by nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi"):
jensorensen ("Jen Sorensen") wrote:
When a government attempts to discredit The Hague, it's a sign something has gone terribly wrong in that country. My latest:
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Thinking about adding my #Obsidian to a subdomain of my blog. Thoughts?
Anyone do this and want to share?
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Surely that could never be used to suppress #mastodon posts.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/02/critical_vulnerability_in_mastodon_is/
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Critical vulnerability in Mastodon sparks patching frenzy • The Register
"Using specially crafted media files could have allowed attackers to create or overwrite any files, allowing for denial of service or remote code execution."
Huh. #Meta #Threads https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/02/critical_vulnerability_in_mastodon_is/
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Critical vulnerability in Mastodon sparks patching frenzy • The Register
"“This is one of the major trade-offs between Mastodon and a centralized social media company like Meta or Instagram, there’s just not the same investment in security because there’s not massive revenue supporting the platform, and each owner of an instance has to perform security management on their own. "
Here it starts. #meta #threads https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/02/critical_vulnerability_in_mastodon_is/
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Kinda want a ceramic keyboard 😅
Feels great to post this here knowing I won't get a million ads for it in my feed.
I mean, sure, #Meta already added this account to my file, so I'll see the ads on IG, but that's show biz baby.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
That's some cold blooded QRTing, Joyce. lmao
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
The Rise of Techno-authoritarianism - The Atlantic:
"Silicon Valley, under the sway of its worst technocratic impulses, is following the playbook established in the mass scaling and monopolization of the social web."
I think this article is the closest thing we have to understanding the #Threads / #Mastodon interpolation initiative. At the very least, it gives us a framework to understand what feels like a heavily coordinated march. 🧵
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/03/facebook-meta-silicon-valley-politics/677168/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
smitty@halibut.com ("SmittyHalibut") wrote:
It took me two days to layout this power supply section and do all the math/tweaking to optimize it for BOM count and still be within spec. BUT! If it does what I want, it's "some wildly variable voltage in (+9 to +15v), +5v/-5v out, and switched for battery use efficiency.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
okay: so writing a #Rust command line program that bangs on a (remote) #GPT (a large language model) really *is* simple, and putting together reasonably readable cross-platform GUI code in Rust has *also* become pretty easy & even more lightweight… color me A Happy 🐶
these are Very Good Things
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Some days it's a victory if you can just hold on, friends:
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
I made a playlist of my app defaults.
This is the worst thing I've ever done and I'm sorry.
Mastodon FeedCome and grab a mug at #FOSDEM before they’re gone! They’re quite popular! The 3D printed elephant is not for sale but you could pet him! #Merchtodon
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
yogthos@mas.to ("Yogthos") wrote:
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I'm teaching a semi-new course in eco-devo this term, and I take a few minutes to assess how it's going. Only of interest if you're curious about how teachers' brains work.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/02/03/self-assessment-time/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
BethanyBlack ("Bethany Black") wrote:
At the age of 40 my friend reconsidered whether she wanted to help deliver babies anymore, she was having a midwife crisis.
No, you fuck off.
