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

I love that there are, even in this advanced stage dystopia, little, quiet places on the internet where you can find a page where a celebrity just talks about some of their favorite records and that's it.

https://www.synthhistory.com/post/elijah-wood-s-favorite-records

I also enjoyed the little podcast series. It's the only one I've listened to in a while at 1x speed. Production is wonderful.

https://www.synthhistory.com/podcast

The articles look like a lot of fun too, but I haven't tried to dig into them all. But I did enjoy the interview with the creator of Synth History, Danz CM.

https://www.synthhistory.com/post/ela-minus-interviews-danz-cm

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jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (good kind)") wrote:

to be clear - what does this one extremely simple feature reflect for the user?

In the "traditional way," the user can go to a website and see an example of how to do this themselves with information that's derived from the actual values used in computation. cool.

In the "LLM way," the user has no agency, can't see why the LLM might fail because they can't see the system prompt is directly feeding in the metadata about the available fields and thus has no idea that the model is capable of being wrong about its own fucking code and so they are shown wrong fucking values.

So the cost of transforming something to the "just prompt it" modality is "it being completely fucking wrong" even when that thing is literally just a feature that refers to the program state that is entirely owned by the fucking program" - to say nothing about how that pattern of development being recursively applied to the develpoment of the tool causes it to be fucking wrong as a matter of practice.

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jbz@indieweb.social wrote:

Gabe Newell Is Shitting Yacht Money into Flatpak and You're Still Arguing about Init Systems | S3kshun8's Lair

｢ Most saddening of all is that the legitimate and valid communal focused ideology that the old guard purports to hold up - is actually being lived and expressed by the corporations those same people would argue are capturing the ecosystem ｣

https://s3kshun8.games/blog/flatpak-won/

#flatpak #systemd #opensource #rant

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SnoopJ@hachyderm.io wrote:

@jonny computer says no

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0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:

The train just passed a presumably disused length of track where they have stored many hundreds of glass windows upright right across the tracks, presumably waiting to be used to rennovate a station somewhere. And I can’t stop thinking about a miscommunication leading to a very loud, very inconvenient but very funny disaster

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az@scorpinc.social ("Az") wrote:

50 years on and space travel has become the techno utopia we have always wanted, as summed up in this quote from NASA's Artemis II livestream

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da_667@infosec.exchange wrote:

RE: https://labyrinth.social/@nash/116178591588359360

y'ever write code so inefficient you have to bribe your buddies at the EPA to let you run gas turbines on site, poison the local wildlife and community, and consume all of their water for your datacenter?

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RadicalGraffiti@todon.eu ("Radical Graffiti") wrote:

Anti-ICE poster spotted in San Diego, California

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johnrogers.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("John Rogers") wrote:

This feels like they medicated him to the gills for the Wednesday speech, he barely managed that low energy mess, so they realize the just can’t guarantee he’ll be coherent anymore. He’s just the old guy they show cool AI briefings to so they can use the king powers the Supreme Court gave him.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xzlvsk4ty7ecwigbjpxah6yb/post/3mir64a5jed2v

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rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

Happy ninth Mastodon Won't Survive Day to all who celebrate!
https://mashable.com/article/mastodon-wont-survive

#Fediverse #Mastodon

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alice@mk.nyaa.place ("Alice :neocat_flag_transbian:") wrote:

@lunareclipse@snug.moe @chirpbirb@meow.social same as what happened with duckstation

the developer got so fed up with linux users he changed license to one that prohibits distribution (i.e. you can use the provided builds or build it yourself, but not package it) - and ofc linux users respected it and quietly left...

...haha no, they declared the developer the devil, and were (and still are) like: I don't care, you can't stop me

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chirpbirb@meow.social ("taco, bird/cat :verified420:") wrote:

open source software developers are getting fed up and are finally recognizing that they can just fucking leave.

• the owner of nvim-treesitter gets a really shitty comment from a user saying that the update to a required version broke their workflow
• the owner replies saying "hey just pin what you need instead of mainlining it if you need this for an older version"
• the shitty user replies back saying "go switch to something that doesn't require interacting with people"
• the owner says "OK." and ARCHIVES THE REPO

https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter/discussions/8627

like, holy shit, what a power move.

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quephird@tech.lgbt ("Danie🏒🏒e is officially a PWHL fan") wrote:

OMFG… I just heard Mission Control tell Artemis II literally, “Everything but email is go”

LOLSOBBING MY ASS OFF NOW

jwz wrote:

Today I woke up and chose violence.

Arguing with robots has become something of a hobby of mine.
https://jwz.org/b/yk5y

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mcc wrote:

I wonder if any t-shirts survive from this era of TWA branding

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anolandria ("Nol Malone ☭") wrote:

The merger of state and corporate power requires us to recognize that corporate power is military power.

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taylorlorenz ("Taylor Lorenz") wrote:

Love to see people using vibe coding tech to build tools to fight back against the government.

For months, lone vibe coder Rafael Concepcion has obsessively built tools to counter the federal immigration crackdown—pivoting as he’s been outmatched. https://www.wired.com/story/opposing-ice-might-save-the-country-could-also-ruin-your-life/

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paninid@mastodon.world ("Coach Pāṇini ®") wrote:

@rysiek @dgodon

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lycansubscribe@furry.engineer ("Facade") wrote:

@soatok many of these look to me like russian state (bot?) accounts, which makes sense if u consider russia would greatly benefit from an american civil war

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

it rhymes with 'smunches his face in'

this is where we've gotten with algorithm appeasement, is it?

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

you're not allowed to punch people on a plane

more's the pity

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
ashur@front-end.social ("Ashur Cabrera 🐦‍⬛") wrote:

@sstephenson I’m all for being less self-serious in our terminology* — may I humbly submit we use “pigtailing” instead 💁

*ex., “deploy” vs. “publish”

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
mwl@io.mwl.io ("Michael W Lucas :flan_on_fire:") wrote:

This writer never uses AI.

The purpose of AI is to produce minimally viable text.

My purpose is to produce text that expands your mental foundations to be more skilled and more compassionate. Tech book, fiction, doesn't matter, that's the goal.

These purposes are incompatible.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

this is also my first time trying jackfruit as a meat replacement.

i think i prefer when the fruit doesn't jack off into my dinner actually.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

i think surprising rice is almost ready

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

I can't overstate this. NASA's use of pounds and cubic feet in its outreach efforts does not come across to science-literate people, inside or outside the US, as a sign that the country is a badass superpower that can do what it likes and ignore everyone else.

Instead it suggests that the US is a provincial nation of dungaree-wearing banjo players.

#science #nasa #artemis #space

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Gina@fosstodon.org wrote:

Inspired by Germany's #DiDay ("digital independence day") and the Danish #DanmarkSkifter, the Netherlands now has #DoeiDag ("bye day"), every first Sunday of the month. 🔥🇳🇱

DoeiDag is a montly day to say goodbye to big tech and to try open alternatives. It's organized by the good folks of @doeidag

More info: https://doeidag.nl

#TheNetherlands #opensource #foss

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

RE: https://urbanists.social/@markstos/116352916831364345

I _really_ wish my store didn't have a single place a bike can park, chained to a railing. Even then my trailer sticks out a bit.

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markstos@urbanists.social ("Mark Stosberg") wrote:

@yy on why urban grocery stores should prioritize bike parking over car parking:

- You don't need a car for groceries
- Grocery access is an equity issue
- Car parking is expensive and subsidizes the rich
- We can have 10 more customers park per spot
- Induced demand works both ways
- Spillover benefits
- Built for the future

https://yyahn.com/wiki/Bike-parking-at-urban-grocery-stores/

#urbanplanning #bikeTooter #cycling

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

If you want to use some character (Superman, Jesus, the sexy werewolves from that Van Hellsing movie, whatever) as an abstract ideal to strive for, okay, sure.

But the first step towards committing atrocity is failing to recognize one's own capacity for harm.