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it is worth noting that one might make the case that this is just like Github, but even if we fully handwave our way past any problems with dependency on Github, it makes sense and is wildly cost-effective for Github to provide a free, great experience for open source maintainers, who are tastemakers among software developers generally. code hosting is incredibly cheap and scalable infrastructure-wise.
famously, LLMs are not
Mastodon FeedI tend to believe that "superintelligence" is a meaningless term and "AGI" is functionally unachievable (certainly with the current generation of technology), but nothing makes me believe in the superintelligent machine-god than Them sending Their time-traveling agents to tell us all, wild-eyed and panicked, that we have a "moral imperative" to use a specific product to achieve a specific goal
Mastodon Feedthis is not me saying that the VCs are particularly good at predicting outcomes. this is a "house always wins" situation.
a) it doesn't work, but you get dependent on it for achieving the same result; your skills atrophy, they jack up the price, they make a ton of money, they win
b) it works TOO well; you actually get way out ahead of proprietary alternatives and start harming their bottom line. they jack up the price so much that only proprietary alternatives can afford it, they win
Mastodon Feedwhy do you think those venture capitalists are subsidizing this thing. do you think that they are hoping that you will just increase the collective social value of the commons, and rejoice? https://mastodon.social/@juliank/116974045503028965
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jilleduffy wrote:
Open question:
Say a loved one dies and you want to look up information about how to get access to their online accounts and non-physical belongings, like digital photos. What kinds of words or phrases would you enter into a search?
Or if you use AI for search, how would you phrase the question?
Mastodon Feedneatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:
RE: https://beep.town/@wopr/116974367948435222
Q: What is omg.lol?
A:
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Elizafox@treehouse.systems ("Elizabeth :therian: :cascadia:") wrote:
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futzle@old.mermaid.town ("Deborah Pickett") wrote:
Have you ever deliberately introduced a syntax error into a program to check that the code you’re editing is the code you think you’re running?
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molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:
My newest Citation Needed project made an appearance on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver! It’s a work in progress, but you can see the new interactive version of my map of the Trump family’s crypto ventures at https://map.citationneeded.news/.
The map contains hundreds of business entities and links to the Trump family (with more being added!), augmented with data from the president’s most recent financial filings to estimate how much money is flowing in. It will be queryable by other researchers/journalists.
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iris_meredith ("Iris") wrote:
Sometimes it feels as though all the world wants us trans women to do is die beautifully and in a morally correct manner, because it certainly seems as if any way in which we can actually *exist* in the world is considered immoral.
Mastodon FeedTaking a photo of a postit note instead of taking the note can be perfectly rational.
It's technologically a massive overkill too. Often the same content could be saved as a few ASCII chars needing thousands of times less storage and compute.
And the whole idea was absurd before digital photography. Why would you lug a camera, use one of 36 frames, and then go to a lab and wait 1h+ to get a print of a piece of paper on a more expensive paper, instead of taking the note in front of you!?
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TheOnion@flipboard.com ("The Onion") wrote:
Profits Soar As Taylor Farms Rebrands As Biological Weapons Manufacturer
https://theonion.com/profits-soar-as-taylor-farms-rebrands-as-biological-weapons-manufacturer/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypubPosted into Latest @latest-TheOnion
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drumsensei@social.lol ("Mike Mathew") wrote:
RE: https://social.lol/@neatnik/116993781902129570
I had missed some ALT text on recent images of our dog Luca, now updated.
It takes only a moment to add a description to an image, which helps everyone out!
Mastodon Feedneatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:
RE: https://social.lol/@neatnik/116993264793748554
There was a lot of thoughtful and insightful discussion about this throughout the day. My own takeaway is that there are lots of strong, valid, intersecting feelings tied to the use of generative AI, and it would be a challenge to reach any kind of consensus that addresses issues of authorship and attribution with respect to generative AI use.
I think it's a topic worth continuing to explore, but I'm in no rush to impose any changes or to set any new expectations. Ultimately, everyone here continues to have full autonomy over their feeds. You can always block, mute, filter, or unfollow anyone who shares content that you don't like, for any reason, and you don't owe anyone an explanation or apology for that.
Mastodon Feedkevinevans@hachyderm.io ("Kevin") wrote:
It'd be great to one day work at a company that isn't deadset on enshittifying their product 🫤 I hate how we're about to put (more) ads for the sake of profit.
Mastodon Feedaredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:
Seriously, quote tweeting to dunk on someone is a tool but it's not one you should just use all the time, and it cuts the target pretty good at times.
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gsuberland@chaos.social ("Graham Sutherland / Polynomial") wrote:
it's honestly sort of embarrassing that it costs so much to operate and still generally has a user experience worse than just downloading the video file from a static website.
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gsuberland@chaos.social ("Graham Sutherland / Polynomial") wrote:
predictably, just got my first email from a peertube instance who are moving to a paid operating model because storage is unsustainably expensive.
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silvermoon82@wandering.shop ("Mx. Eddie R") wrote:
RE: https://flipboard.com/@blogto/blogto-8o12e3orz/-/a-VnNts89-SH6hg1e12nI0kg%3Aa%3A3332572087-%2F0
So if we were hung up deciding who to guillotine first...
Mastodon FeedNfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️🌈") wrote:
#Claude (& other LLMs?) by default will add itself to #git commit messages with a line like: "Co-Authored-By: Claude".
I originally thought that it was a form of advertising. "Look at all the things that Claude is doing!"
But I realized today there's a saying that probably better encapsulates the reasoning:
"Don't shit where you eat."
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
mood
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robin@gts.icewind.me ("Icewind") wrote:
Bandcamp has the music buying experience figured out.
Like, sure I can save some money if I spend a bunch of time going through every album of an artist to filter out any I don't really vibe with. Or look for overlap in song between albums, singles, etc.
Or, I can just press the big "buy entire discography" button and save me the effort at the cost of the artist getting a bit more money.
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josephcox@infosec.exchange ("Joseph Cox") wrote:
New: a person opposing a data center was arrested for clapping at a city meeting
Read more here: https://www.404media.co/person-opposing-data-center-arrested-for-clapping-at-city-meeting/
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josephcox@infosec.exchange ("Joseph Cox") wrote:
New from 404 Media: Wikimedia will not voluntarily recognize union a supermajority of its workers want
Wikimedia waited until the days following its largest worldwide conference to issue a statement saying it would not voluntarily recognize a union of its workers.
Mastodon FeedEmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️") wrote:
Wedge modeled and printed. Hopefully it’s the right size, I just eyeballed the diameter and shape of the pipe mount adapter. I’m going to wait until the heat index is under 100 before trying it out (maybe tomorrow morning).
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eleanor@chaosfem.tw ("Eleanor 🫖🍵📚") wrote:
I dont know how to explain to cis people what it feels like to live in your body after spending most of your life living outside of it. #TransJoy
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
a headteacher is the sort of victim that has an endless pool of suspects
😂
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JEmphatically@mstdn.ca wrote:
My 81-year-old mom, who's a widow and has no current photo ID was rejected today when we tried to get her a photo ID card. She's been living in Alberta since 1978 and has no current passport.
She had her birth certificate but because she changed her last name when she got married in 1964, they could not issue her an ID card without her marriage certificate.
We did not know where she may have stashed her marriage certificate since she moved into a senior's residence three years ago and had to downsize a lot of her things.
These new rules are going to disenfranchise a lot of people hoping to vote in the referendum. We need to get the word out. If you are contacting another province for birth or marriage certificates, that will take time.
Luckily for my mom, after searching through an old trunk with multiple albums and brown envelopes, we found the original marriage certificate. We'll be back at the registry in a couple of weeks to try and get that ID card.
This UCP government is pure evil.
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TodePond@mas.to ("Lu wilson") wrote:
new blog post:
"Organising events with no one in charge"
https://www.todepond.com/sky/in-charge
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doctormo@floss.social ("Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary:") wrote:
All free software maintainers will be randomly assigned a local user. You must go to their house and watch them install your rust crate, python wheel, flatpak and you must watch them use it all the way through.
If they like it you will be given a cup of tea.
Library maintainers will be assigned a nearby junior developer and script writers will be assigned a fresh faced junior admin.
I don't make the rules, this is just the law now.