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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
the world is a lesser place without his light
Mastodon FeedMastodon FeedBoosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
binarydigit@social.lol ("BinaryDigit 💾") wrote:
Happy Thanksgiving! I’m grateful for the fediverse and small web 😊
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: Arthur Honegger dies near Paris, 1955
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: Jimi Hendrix (Johnny Allen Hendrix) born in Seattle, 1942
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: Friction match invented by John Walker, 1826
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in Histyory: Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize, 1895
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: Bruce Lee born in San Francisco, 1940
Mastodon Feedchipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:
I have lost my Arq backups through a series of tragicomical misadventures (on my end, not Arq's, although I think their UI for backup management could be a wee bit clearer). The first new one, for the Mac Studio in its new role as a server, finished in 48 hours—with 2355 errors.
Mastodon Feedchipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:
I'm fairly sure 99% of those errors have to do with iCloud, which was apparently not syncing properly. I'm going to let it run again tomorrow and check the errors, then decide whether to set it to "materialize" cloud files. (It's one banana, Michael. What could it take up, 10 terabytes?)
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achadwick@urbanists.social ("Andrew C") wrote:
Hey Fediverse, I heard this is the sort of content you like
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
It's Thanksgiving! The spiders get a special treat for dinner.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/11/27/the-thanksgiving-feast-is-ready/
Mastodon Feeddb@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:
I'm led to believe it's "Thanksgiving", so happy that if you're into it! 🫡
Mastodon Feedjoeri_s@mstdn.social ("Joeri Sebrechts") wrote:
Porting React code to vanilla JS for fun, the video of my talk at Frontmania conference. (I make no apologies for where I get my entertainment.)
Mastodon Feeddb@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:
blogged: iOS Web Browser Latency
https://dbushell.com/2025/11/27/ios-web-browser-latency/
does the iOS Safari issue happen to anyone else? feels like a just me problem but I'm clueless how to fix it 🫠
Mastodon FeedBoosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
rogueren@vt.social ("Ren") wrote:
"Linux is too complicated for anyone"
Windows users:
Mastodon FeedWe're happy to be in good company with other non-profits we admire, to work with WE AID to accept donations. https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/mastodon-joins-forces-with-we-aid/
Mastodon Feeddb@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:
Web Install API 👀
https://brucelawson.co.uk/2025/a-first-look-at-the-web-install-api/I look forward to Apple supporting half of this many years from now, claiming how they always did — and were indeed the first to — champion PWAs (somehow)
Mastodon Feeddb@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:
hmmm I'm so confused by https://slopdetective.kagi.com by @kagihq
it offers advice for identifying slop images, but uses old illustrations and a tapestry as examples of "authentic human photography"
I've yet to see a real life photograph where this advice actually applies
Mastodon Feeddb@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:
i just ran 5k, possibly a marathon, who knows because I forgot to start my watch! this is devastating, console me
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
Follow-up on this: the comment section on this series (Burnout Syndrome is on YouTube) are basically hundreds of variations on “I hate AI!”
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silvanomarioni@mastodon.uno ("Silvano Marioni") wrote:
Secondo Ilya Sutskever, cofondatore di OpenAI, l'era della scalabilità sta per concludersi. Per arrivare all'AGI sarà necessario ritornare alle attività di ricerca con nuove idee, invece di costrure modelli di IA generativa sempre più grandi.
https://www.implicator.ai/ilya-sutskever-declares-the-scaling-era-dead-his-3-billion-bet-says-research-will-win/
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LillyHerself ("LillyLyle/Count Melancholia") wrote:
Mastodon Feeddb@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:
noted: on Zig, GitHub’s ensloppification, victims fleeing "AI", and the bubble
Mastodon Feedjscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
He's in the soup now
Mastodon Feedjscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
Ending the war in Ukraine on Putin's terms would be one of the most shameful things we could do, and the US has done a lot of shameful things over the years
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SecureOwl@infosec.exchange ("Mike Sheward") wrote:
“Another, and make it a double!” He said, sliding his glass toward the barman.
“Don’t you think you’ve had enough?”
The question obviously riled the disheveled patron, who locked eyes with the barman.
“My executive team asked me today how we can leverage AI as part of our quantum strategy,” he began. “We don’t even have an asset register.”
“My god. This one’s a triple, and it’s on the house.”
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fastfinge@interfree.ca ("🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦") wrote:
@RachelThornSub So as an actual blind user who uses AI regularly...no, not really. If you include AI generated alt-text, the odds are you're not checking it for accuracy. But I might not know that, so I assume the alt-text is more accurate than it is. If you don't use any alt-text at all, I'll use my own AI tools built-in to my screen reader to generate it myself if I care, and I know exactly how accurate or trustworthy those tools may or may not be. This has a few advantages:
1. I'm not just shoving images into Chat GPT or some other enormous LLM. I tend to start with deepseek-ocr, a 3b (3 billion parameter) model. If that turns out not to be useful because the image isn't text, I move up to one of the 90b llama models. For comparison, chat GPT and Google's LLM's are all 3 trillion parameters or larger. A model specializing in describing images can run on a single video card in a consumer PC. There is no reason to use a giant data center for this task.
2. The AI alt text is only generated if a blind person encounters your image, and cares enough about it to bother. If you're generating AI alt text yourself, and not bothering to check or edit it at all, you're just wasting resources on something that nobody may even read.
3. I have prompts that I've fiddled with over time to get me the most accurate AI descriptions these things can generate. If you're just throwing images at chat GPT, what it's writing is probably not accurate anyway.If you as a creator are providing alt text, you're making the implicit promise that it's accurate, and that it attempts to communicate what you meant by posting the image. If you cannot, or don't want to, make that promise to your blind readers, don't bother just using AI. We can use AI ourselves, thanks. Though it's worth noting that if you're an artist and don't want your image tossed into the AI machine by a blind reader, you'd better be providing alt text. Because if you didn't, and I need or want to understand the image, into the AI it goes.
Mastodon FeedRust projects don't have an FAQ, they have a "Why Rust?" manifesto that's five times longer than the actual codebase.
Mastodon FeedSaw someone post something with this text in it and it took me a few tries to figure out WTF "sound the Fez" means.
Mastodon Feedjscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
Fucking good.
RE: https://www.threads.com/@hollywoodreporter/post/DRimpHBjiPJ