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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: Bernardo Pasquini is born in Tuscany, Italy, 1637
Mastodon FeedMastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: Harry Chapin is born in New York City, 1942
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: Independence Day in Panama
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: Independence Day in Ivory Coast
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: Delaware Day in Delaware
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, 1941
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
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Mastodon FeedBoosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
podfeet@chaos.social wrote:
Saw this on Threads:
To commemorate Alan Dye moving from Apple to Meta, here's one of his best quotes.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
czottmann@norden.social ("Carlo Zottmann") wrote:
I hate that by default #macOS hides scroll bars at rest. I mean, look at that settings tab in #FaceTime. It appears to show everything, but there's more if you scroll down which isn't obvious because scroll bars are hidden.
The fix, for you and future Carlo: System Settings → Appearance → "Show scroll bars" → set to "Always"
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
Found it. The app does the bullshit “hide features until we think you need them” thing that has been a bad idea for decades but devs keep repeating because they’re allergic to learning anything useful from other fields
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
I've never worked for a co that wanted me to write. I've had employers that discouraged me from writing or ignored it, but never one that saw any value in it, so I hadn't realised that much of people's experience with editing is more properly conformance
That is, the argument and voice of the text doesn't matter. What matters is the language, logic, and vocabulary of that corporate world. You don't edit text to sharpen it to a point or clarify its voice, you edit it to remove all that crap
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
So it's no wonder I keep seeing statements along the lines of 'the more I edit my posts the worse they get' in my feed reader even though the posts they write are manifestly under-edited. (Over-editing is a thing.) The process they've learned at work is the opposite of what they want
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
Idle Sunday thoughts on why so many people love LLMs for 'editing' even though it gives that 'je ne sais qua' of corporate blandness. I'd assumed it was the perceptual con: chatbots keep making generic statements that users interpret as specific
It works a bit like a "soup stone". You're the one providing the work, observation, and analysis—the ingredients—while the credit goes to the 'soup stone'. Except the stone is charging you Michelin star prices for the soup
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
Didn’t the Toot! app on the iPad use to be able to post threads! Feel like I’m being gaslit by my software
Mastodon FeedBoosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
benroyce ("Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩") wrote:
Sometimes there is no why, only do
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Mastodon Feeddb@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:
Advent of Code day 7 status: done ★★
https://dbushell.com/notes/2025-12-07T09:56Z/
AoC is heating up! :sweat_blob: I'll have to start waking up at 5:30am to find time next week.
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
“Artificial intelligence research has a slop problem, academics say: ‘It’s a mess’ | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian”
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/06/ai-research-papers
> The cost of this, says Farid, is that it is almost impossible to know what’s actually going on in AI
Remember that bit I wrote ages ago about it being impossible to trust research during a bubble?
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
What Google did here makes me livid:
Mastodon FeedBoosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
Leander@loops.video wrote:
Linus Torvalds calls a spade a spade
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Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
geist@xoxo.zone wrote:
After an extended side-quest getting befuddled by dependency errors, I reflect on testing philosophies and learning how to learn: https://geist.is/adventuring/2025/error-code-for-coder/
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Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange ("Em :official_verified:") wrote:
If corporations make more money from the infraction than the fine, they will always choose the infraction.
Regulations and regulators need to make fines an actual deterrent.
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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Whatever we may feel about AI and its longterm usefulness, we can agree that #Anthropic and #OpenAI's regulatory capture strategy to kill #OpenSource doesn't benefit anyone but these companies.
We don't need another telecommunications style monopoly. We don't want OpenAI to become the Comcast of AI.
Why, then, is Hank Green pushing #AIDoomerism to his largely #Liberal audience?
I wrote about it here.
https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/hank-green-and-the-fantastical-tales-of-god-ais/
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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Bernie Sander's Labor Committee asked CHATGPT how many jobs CHATGPT will take from humans. They asked a chatbot to *predict* the future, then published it.
Jesus lord we're fucked.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:
Latest Freebooters podcast: Getting busy with bash, FOSS sound formats, and why YouTube has outgrown us
https://freebooters.uk/media/20251206-getting-busy-with-bash.mp3
Chris shares the bash projects he's been working on, we talk about MP3 vs other FOSS audio formats, and we talk about why YouTube isn't the best place for smaller creators any more....
Mastodon FeedBoosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
freebooters.uk@rss-parrot.net ("🦜 The Freebooters Podcast") wrote:
Getting busy with bash, FOSS sound formats, and why YouTube has outgrown us
freebooters.uk/media/20251206-getting-busy-with-bash.mp3
Chris shares the bash projects he's been working on, we talk about MP3 vs other FOSS audio formats, and we talk about why YouTube isn't the best place for smaller creators any more.
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jon@henshaw.social ("Jon Henshaw") wrote:
Mastodon Feedjscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
(and for those of you now asking "What? A church property? What?" Here's a FAQ for that)
Mastodon Feedjscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
A vacant parcel next to our church property went up for sale, and I bought it this month, so I guess you could say that, unlike Mariah Carey, I did want a lot for Christmas
Mastodon Feed...and how cool would it be for Logitech to sell your differently colored and sized rubber shells for your mouse?! Purple? Softer? Bigger?
If they could still sell you a brand-new mouse every two years, they'd do it in a heartbeat.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
therivercrow@bardicperspiration.club ("River Crow") wrote:
If you vote labour thinking they're the lesser of two evils, stay the fk away from me.
Latest news is they're banning Trans women from their women's conference - they can't even sit in to hear the speakers, and won't be able to vote on motions.
This isn't a fair interpretation of the supreme court bullshit, this is disgusting bigotry on full display.
This on top of the ban for Trans youth healthcare, the planned Bathroom Bill, and the "review" they intend for adult Trans healthcare (we all know what that means).
Support for labour is support for hatred and legislative genocide against my people. So yeah, stay the fk away from me with your "but at least they're not the conservatives" shit.
The lesser of two evils is still evil.
Burn. Them. All.