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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
One day I will write a book on how to email colleagues.
Title: I'm not inside your head please start from the beginning
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Cmastication ("JD Long ✅") wrote:
Holy shit. Supply curves slope up! Huge if true.
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
a side-facing summarization tool will be essential for what I am working on. dealing with a GPT is like dealing with a dementia patient, in that they do not remember the conversation, so one has to send the existing conversational context/history along with each and every request. this starts getting slow and expensive after a while, so summarization of context is needed at periodic breakpoints. rust-bert looks like a useful toolset...
https://guillaume-be.github.io/2020-11-21/generation_benchmarks
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Everyone shut up. Shut up Lutz.
I just found a website that showcases all the fake movies and TVs shows referenced in media. This includes all the shows-in-shows from #30Rock
Can't wait to watch Hard to Watch: Based on the Novel Stone Cold Bummer by Manipulate
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
New post, kind of weirdly personal-feeling one. I don't know if it'll land with you, but I hope it at least gives you something to consider.
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owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:
IT'S DMA DAY! 🇪🇺 🎉🎉🎉
The EU's Digital Markets Act is now in force and to celebrate we're doing a deep dive into what's going to happen next.
Follow the link:
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/the-digital-markets-act-is-in-force-what-happens-now/
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
GitHub - huggingface/text-embeddings-inference: A blazing fast inference solution for text embeddings models
https://github.com/huggingface/text-embeddings-inference
this looks really interesting
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
mwl@io.mwl.io ("Michael W Lucas¹ :flan_mail:") wrote:
Holy crap, this essay.
"The wealth that exists in this country does not come from making things that people love... The structure built around these valuable creative products is bloated in ways that starve and imperil that creative process, but those privations also hold it in place."
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
glennf@twit.social ("Glenn Fleishman") wrote:
Fascinated by how comics pass from an artist’s hand through to the printed page—or a display? I’ve spent years researching, interviewing, and developing *How Comics Were Made: A Visual History from the Drawing Board to the Printed Page*.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/glennf/how-comics-were-made?ref=3pmfzo
It’s now live on Kickstarter! If you’d like to a rich history of 130 years of newspaper cartooning told with original art, printing artifacts, and much more, help me make it a reality and get youself a copy!
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- Metal comics stereotype plate used in printed (curved metal with raised lines on it) (remote)
- Newspaper printing operation in progress showing pages zooming by the camera, barely discernible as Sunday comics (remote)
- Book spread from How Comics Were Made labeled Comics Syndication in Metal, showing the process with original art, negative, plates, and molds (remote)
- Cover of book How Comics Were Made: yellow on a purple background with images around the central title showing a cartoonist, Crazy Kat, a man running, a color proof of For Better or For Worse, Mutt pulling a level, a metal Doonesbury plate, and a pink Peanuts mold’s panel (remote)
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
nicklockwood ("Nick Lockwood") wrote:
Apple in 1984: what's the best possible user experience?
Apple in 2014: what's the user experience that will maximise our profits?
Apple in 2024: what's the worst possible user experience that doesn't technically violate EU law?
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Most of the money is going to people who already have lots of it. Even millionaire movie stars face the stress of wealth inequality!
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charlesroper@indieweb.social ("Charles Roper") wrote:
New programming font designed by Frere-Jones Type for Intel. Interesting.
"Identifying the typographically underserved low-vision developer audience, Frere-Jones Type designed the Intel One Mono typeface in partnership with the Intel Brand Team and VMLY&R, for maximum legibility to address developers' fatigue and eyestrain and reduce coding errors. A panel of low-vision and legally blind developers provided feedback at each stage of design."
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- A type specimen of the Intel One Mono font by Frere-Jones Type. It shows 8 styles: light and light italic, regular and regular italic, medium and medium italic, bold and bold italic. It also shows all letters of the alphabet from A to Z in uppercase and lowercase, all the numbers and common symbols. (remote)
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Of course, I post this link, but we now live in such an age that there is a smol worry in the back of my mind that somebody is going to reveal, "Surprise! That was TormentNexusGPT all along!" 😩
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
"AI is the junk food of meaning-making in the same way that social media is the junk food of human connection and junk food is, well, junk food."
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
You ever notice the era of people saying frontend is too complex overlaps almost perfectly with the era where everyone started using React?
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I found this small essay by Andrew Perfors on the topic of creation and meaning, especially as it relates to "AI", to be a thought provoking and worthwhile read. "The work of creation in the age of AI":
http://perfors.net/blog/creation-ai/
I need to set aside time to read the Walter Benjamin essay too.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Nowadays I'm embarrassed to have grown up in a Boeing town. They had a better reputation back then!
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Techmeme@techhub.social wrote:
After IAB appeals, the EU's highest court rules that IAB Europe's advertising model uses personal data and is therefore subject to GDPR (Cynthia Kroet/Euronews)
https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/03/07/iab-europes-advertising-bidding-model-uses-personal-data-eu-court-rules
http://www.techmeme.com/240307/p18#a240307p18
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
dymaxion@infosec.exchange ("Eleanor Saitta") wrote:
I feel like the abusive mode of software business models is so embedded at this point that we have a generation of designers who don't actually know how to prioritize user utility — which was already complicated for folks to understand even before the enshittification started.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
When will a "tech" reporter dare to ask the question "why can't Epic just move to the web?"
It's a big story. But I guess the tech press doesn't investigate tech?
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
johnnyryan@eupolicy.social ("Johnny Ryan") wrote:
Significant news, after many years of fighting...
This morning the European Court of Justice has ruled that IAB Europe is responsible for "TCF" consent spam popups the Internet
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Ok nerds, what are the best web conferences happening this year? Preferably in the US, UK, Japan, or Europe?
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Apparently Apple spends $1bn/yr on legal, but you get the sense that those folks are underpaid, what with having Apple executives as clients and all:
Mastodon FeedI love the Hellsing TV soundtrack. It has been a while since I listened to it, so let's go!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KH-kpFKFU0&list=PLk_xwpTMJK22fJGLbCMMYTKBlrreutyU3&index=1
#NowPlaying #music #soundtrack #AnimeSoundtrack #Hellsing
I think the TV series got more hate than it deserved. Yeah, the art style sometimes changes from episode to episode, but the story isn't that bad. I have to admit, I only read the first volume of the manga, but after watching Hellsing Ultimate, which definitely has a beautiful art style, the story just was a bit too over the top. Still fun, though!
Mastodon FeedPlasma 6 landed on Arch main... and I'm not sure what to make of it, just yet.
My panels were pretty much broken after the upgrade, but resetting them to defaults seemed to do the trick.
The HDR support seems a bit weird, as all SDR apps now look completely washed out. Probably just a setting I need to tweak, tho.
Other than that, it's been a lot smoother than the 4->5 and (especially) 3->4 major version upgrades.
Good job, KDE devs.
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
In calmer news, I now seem to have carved a consistent chunk of time in my evening routine to brew Chinese #tea for my family. Today we're drinking 17 year old puerh. Which I bought some 12 years ago.
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Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
Yesterday I made a mistake. I tried to tell a joke about peeling weirdly shaped potatoes and was PRACTICALLY EATEN ALIVE IN MY OWN SKIN for even suggesting a possibility of wanting to engage in the activity.
So hear this. I stand by my principles and I do not apologize! You still want to peal the dreaded spuds if you want them pureed or used in a soup. I'm gonna fight y'all!
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
gulovsen ("Grant Gulovsen") wrote:
Someone recently posted a hot tip about adding "before:2023" to Google web searches and I forget who it was but wow what a huge difference it makes. So thank you to whoever that was. It gets rid of so much AI-generated SEO crap.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
snugug@mas.to ("Snugug") wrote:
Sometimes I feel cursed with the burden of knowledge™ that web apps don't need to be as shitty as they are.
For now the second time in less than a year, I've bee so fed up with the "new” digital companion tool for a #ttrpg _I've built my own from scratch_ just to not have to use the official React + clickable div solution that takes multiple seconds to load, has half a second of lag to change what shoulda been a radio input, and has a poor mobile experience.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
My 6y/o niece is running around asking people "are you a narc?" Lmao