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Anthony Sorace
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mastodon 4.7.3I do systems architecture (and sometimes implementation) when not playing with food or getting lost in the woods. Looking to use my powers for good. He/him.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@gvwilson/116997366488785600
I see arguments like this *all the time* and it’s so depressing. It’s just not true that most opponents to genAI don’t understand its utility… it’s that we think the ethics *actually matter*.
I have a good understanding of the capabilities of these systems. I understand their utility. But if the ethics are crap (and they are), why should I care?
This framing is just to make people who want to use them feel more comfortable setting ethics aside.
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In his essay on Salvador Dali, Orwell argued that because Dali was a repulsive human being, the right wouldn't admit that he was a great artist; conversely, because he was a great artist, the left wouldn't admit he was a repulsive human being. I'm seeing the same thing with AI: because it's unethical, one side won't acknowledge that it's useful, but because it's useful, the other side won't acknowledge that it's unethical.
Time to make another cup of tea…
Open quoted post6yo has been on-and-off afraid of spiders recently, but also watched Into the Spider-Verse last week.
Me: “Want to check the mail?”
6yo: “If there’s no spiders or webs, yes.”
Me: “But spiders are your friends now!”
6yo:
Me: “Maybe if you get bit you’ll get special powers.”
6yo: “Not in this world.”
Me: “Oh, that’s not where special powers come from in this world?”
6yo: “Nope.”
Me: “Where do they come from in this world?”
6yo: “Your heart.”
😳😭
Tonight while watering the garden w/ 6yo we made clarinets out of squash stalks. It was absurd fun.
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friends, if you're exhausted by arguing with boosters, please consider just stopping that completely once you realize what's happening…
Strong agree. Might I suggest: http://txtpunk.com/foac
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@yngmar@social.tchncs.de @fribbledom@mastodon.social The documentation is likely to also include a link to a discord.
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@karen@floss.social Unfortunately I’ve had to shorten my trip: I’m driving up Thursday and back very early Sunday morning. :-(
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@atax1a/116836527918659501
Where’s the CompSci version of this?
I just went to the store to buy a bunch of air filter refills, and learned that they now have Bluetooth enabled ones. Not, like, the whole machine, but the actual individual filters have little tags on them with some sort of Bluetooth ability. I considered buying one just to see what it does/shows up as, but didn’t want to encourage that BS.
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@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io I knew three sisters with your last name. People would often talk about “the white girls”; about 50% of the time it was followed by “uh, wait, uh, I mean…”.
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@flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange @technomancy@hey.hagelb.org I’m flexible on the other parts, but Plan 9 for sure. Probably on a raspberry pi on a wooded mountain.
Which, um, is also mostly today’s setup…
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@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place Yes, please, still and forever. This is the phrasing I couldn't quite figure out.
https://pdx.social/@a/115967994307784786
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The blowtorch was a whole lot of fun, and the oiling process was very calming. The end results look really nice (sort of a shame they’re getting buried in the ground, mostly; if I had known, I might’ve budgeted more time and materials to do the whole thing); I want a lot more things to look this way now. I can feel the call of the programmer-to-woodworking pipeline.
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@anderseknert@swecyb.com @dasparky@spore.social Nonsense — Electron is gigantic and keeps getting bigger!
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@ifixcoinops @rose_alibi I was in a pizza place yesterday with my kid and there were two coin-op video games. We walked up to the register, talked to the actual human behind the counter, turned a few dollars into quarters, put them on the face of the machine, and just had a lovely time. There’s an arcade-ish place we go to once in a while that uses the card system, and at their scale I get why they do it, but this just felt so much nicer.
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@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io The youngest was a Molly, incidentally, which when I’m groggy occasionally makes your posts confusing.
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@phako@chaos.social @karen@floss.social Or just tap in the address bar and select “find in page” at the bottom. I’ve never heard of an app for that; that’d be absurd.
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@rk@mastodon.well.com I initially thought this said “I’m sad about humans“, and that felt pretty relatable.
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@fds@mastodon.social @tg@indieweb.social @benbrown@masto.hackers.town no, what I think would be best (for me, at least :-)) would be for it to check all the configured accounts at startup, and update the time on any of that have been modified.
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@tg@indieweb.social @benbrown@masto.hackers.town @fds@mastodon.social Plan Poke is wonderful. I wish it had auto-refresh and change detection, but it’s very nice as-is, too.
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@aka_pugs@mastodon.social @me_@sueden.social Incidentally, Richard Miller is also the main person responsible for the plan 9 port to the raspberry pi.
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@inthehands “There are a lot of possible explanations for this:”
For sure, but I think you gave the most likely in the talk title mentioned in your previous post. 🤣
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@thgie What’s frustrating is that while this “proof” might be new, model collapse has been known—and observed!—for years. But even when it’s observed, sycophants and the very gullible say these things are “creating new languages” or whatever, as though it’s a step *towards* AGI… no, they’re just breaking, failing to do the job for which they were built!
The term “model collapse” did help with the meter for my Taylor Swift rewrite: https://pdx.social/@a/113400143539613625
I just read someone complaining that the Raspberry pi zero 2w was too slow again, and, like, okay, it’s not the fastest thing you could buy. But also: it’s got 4 1Ghz cores. I built a “jukebox” that played compressed audio it pulled off the network with a 90Mhz Pentium. Friggin’ web browsers…
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@technomancy@hey.hagelb.org @liberachat@fosstodon.org This is a really well done policy stance overall. From the network management side, I think it’s basically perfect, although I do wish the statement about code contributions simply banned them outright.
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@ottsatwork@mas.to @kayserifserif@sunny.garden I’ve never heard this term before, but I basically made one of these for my daughter (and niece, when she lived with us). A notebook per kid, various writing implements, post-its, index cards, binder clips, sometimes tape or stickers. It was a hit. I threw a bunch of those into my own bag afterwords.
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@edox I know it isn’t it’s focus, but I’ve used it for many, many years, and this is the first time I have seen this issue. I have heard good things about MakeMKV, though.
I'm in a weird situation at home where we currently have *three* internet connections (which is between 2 and 3 too many), each of which sucks, and one sucks in very different ways than the other two.
Are there any home options (e.g. OpenWRT?) that can do anything clever with multiple upstream connections, beyond just fallback/warm spare? Can you split traffic meaningfully without the upstream provider's help?
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@atax1a@infosec.exchange Yes, and: there's also some mutated anti-corporate drive that missed the point. Making managers and stuffed shirts uncomfortable is great, but doing that by being an ass to vulnerable people is still crappy.
[Edit: answered; see thread.]
Y’know those “Map of the ARPAnet” things from ~1977? I’ve seen a bunch at different specific dates (or at least months). Is there a consolidated archive of them somewhere?
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@th@social.v.st @quixoticgeek@social.v.st @maartje@blahaj.social @me_@sueden.social Agreed. They hosted us for IWP9 last year and the tour was amazing. I think our guide was unprepared for the level of geek in our group; she had to keep dragging us forward.
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@terribletowelie@mastodon.social @aleen@wandering.shop Corollary: if it doesn’t have an ass that can be kicked, it isn’t a person.
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(To be clear, I think “almost uniformly viewed as an outstanding success“ is about a general read of his job on net. There are certainly plenty of things to criticize before this 18 month flame out; I’d start with the emphasis on services revenue, which I’d argue has come at the cost of overall experience.)
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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems @CyReVolt@mastodon.social @azonenberg@ioc.exchange Definitelynot all power: this is the only cable going to the display controller board. The video signal is definitely in there somewhere.