Tootfinder

Cultural differences in technology platforms are a funny thing.
On Twitter, you'd be venting and make some complaint ("I hate when the waffles are dry!") and you'd have to add a disclaimer ("yes, I know NOT ALL WAFFLES") to preempt the endless trolling and strawmanning.
Here on Mastodon, you're making the same complaint but have to add a disclaimer to preempt the problem solvers ("THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR HELP MAKING WAFFLES").

Hab gerade angefangen Ghostty unter macOS lieb zu gewinnen, aber einen nervigen Bug entdeckt wenn Vim über SSH verwendet wird.
Die gute Nachricht: Es gibt wohl einen Fix.
Die schlechte Nachricht: Der Fix ist erst im kommenden Release, für das es noch keine geplante Veröffentlichung gibt :(
https://githu…

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Wenn ich davon schreibe, daß (irgendwelche) „die“ das und das zu diesem und jenem Zweck machen, dann muß das nichts großes, orchestriertes sein. Ich glaube nicht an irgendeine große Verschwörung.
Das ist erstmal rein deskriptiv und beschreibt, was passiert, wenn unterschiedliche Menschen mit unterschiedlichen Interessen in diesen System wirtschaftliche oder politische Macht erlangen. Du kannst sogar Scheiße sein, ohne daß es dir überhaupt bewußt ist.¹
Wir müssen …

well in the UK duty on wine varies according to the alcohol percentage, so £2.44 if it is 11%, up to £3.32 if it 15%.
So given other costs the amount actually paid to the vineyard for cheap plonk can be derisory.
I do have to differ slightly about your seeming rejection of the possibility of good white wines, though agree with Tom that finding a good Chardonnay takes care, especially on my budget.
Disclaimer: I have no no wine diploma, but my dad was the Wine and Spirit Manag…

If your "AI" has to have a disclaimer on it, it is bad and nobody should use it.

Seit heute sind in Mastodon nicht mehr alle Server sichtbar. Bisher konnte man im Menü die ungefilterten Postings anschauen. Jetzt ist der Menüpunkt in V4.6 verschwunden.
Wie kann ich die wieder anzeigen?
Im übrigen ist dieser Disclaimer damit auch obsolet!

@… let me just skate by these government regulations
(LEGAL DISCLAIMER: THIS IS A JOKE)

Burning platform news:
A Bluesky thread suggesting the non-Russian parts of (former US site) LiveJournal may be going away - since they can't accept payments due to sanctions.
https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3mbebi2xfxc25

rahaeli (@rahaeli.bsky.social)
Okay, I will preface this with the GIGANTIC disclaimer that I promise I know how this looks, and I *swear* this is not personally motivated: If you have an old #LiveJournal account, and it has things you still care about in it, download it or import it to Dreamwidth SOON. Details:

Disclaimer: it's not that The vOICe vision BCI is so good, it's that the invasive implantable alternatives are so bad #BCI

Das in die "Academic AI" der EINRICHTUNG einführende Video wird von einer KI-generierten Stimme gesprochen. Auf Deutsch. "tailored AI" wird "thailord" gelesen, das "AI" dann komischerweise als "Ei". "Disclaimer als "Diskleimer".

from my link log —
Doing gigabit ethernet over my British phone extension wires.
https://thehftguy.com/2026/01/22/doing-gigabit-ethernet-over-my-british-phone-wires/
saved 2026-01-24

Doing Gigabit Ethernet Over My British Phone Wires
Disclaimer: None of this is written by AI, I’m still a real person writing my own blog like its 1999 I finally figured out how to do Gigabit Ethernet over my existing phone wires. Powerline adapter…

The latest #WokeSalaryman strip might not give you a full-blown existential crisis but it’s still a pretty hefty piece of food for thought.
https://thewokesalaryman.com/2025/12/23/…

Did I choose the wrong path in life?
DISCLAIMER: DO NOT PROCEED IF YOU DON’T LIKE ORGANIC CONTENT THAT GIVES YOU NEW PERSPECTIVES.

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Wir, die @…, betreiben jetzt seit mehr als 7 Jahren social.saarland – und ich möchte heute mal offen ein paar Gedanken teilen, die mich beschäftigen.
Disclaimer: Es handelt sich hierbei um meine persönliche, eigene Meinung.
Ein Thread 🧵
#Fediverse

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I don’t know if this is a sick burn (by a FOSDEM organiser spilling the truth about FOSDEM) or an own goal.
🤷‍♂️ https://pleroma.debian.social/objects/f49df30a-d65e-4195-833d-29b7481b3aba

Disclaimer: IANAL I am not well-read on applicable laws.
POTUS executive military authority without Congressional Declaration of War should be limited to when full Congress can't be consulted due to urgency and secrecy. Best example I know is raid to get bin Laden — limited in scope, possibly limited time to act on intel, would've leaked the more who knew.
None of that applies to the slowly simmering situation with Venezuela.

„Auf's Land ziehen ist halt blöde und kann auch gefährlich werden, weil es in strukturschwachen Gegenden kaum mehr Ärzte gibt.“ Und dann lese ich von Stadtmenschen, die wochen- oder monatelang auf einen Arzttermin hin warten. #justthinkin
Disclaimer: ich lebe in einer solchen strukturschwachen Region im Nordosten Deutschlands. Es stimmt soweit, dass hier die wenigsten einen Arzt i…

Cynicism, "AI"
I've been pointed out the "Reflections on 2025" post by Samuel Albanie [1]. The author's writing style makes it quite a fun, I admit.
The first part, "The Compute Theory of Everything" is an optimistic piece on "#AI". Long story short, poor "AI researchers" have been struggling for years because of predominant misconception that "machines should have been powerful enough". Fortunately, now they can finally get their hands on the kind of power that used to be only available to supervillains, and all they have to do is forget about morals, agree that their research will be used to murder millions of people, and a few more millions will die as a side effect of the climate crisis. But I'm digressing.
The author is referring to an essay by Hans Moravec, "The Role of Raw Power in Intelligence" [2]. It's also quite an interesting read, starting with a chapter on how intelligence evolved independently at least four times. The key point inferred from that seems to be, that all we need is more computing power, and we'll eventually "brute-force" all AI-related problems (or die trying, I guess).
As a disclaimer, I have to say I'm not a biologist. Rather just a random guy who read a fair number of pieces on evolution. And I feel like the analogies brought here are misleading at best.
Firstly, there seems to be an assumption that evolution inexorably leads to higher "intelligence", with a certain implicit assumption on what intelligence is. Per that assumption, any animal that gets "brainier" will eventually become intelligent. However, this seems to be missing the point that both evolution and learning doesn't operate in a void.
Yes, many animals did attain a certain level of intelligence, but they attained it in a long chain of development, while solving specific problems, in specific bodies, in specific environments. I don't think that you can just stuff more brains into a random animal, and expect it to attain human intelligence; and the same goes for a computer — you can't expect that given more power, algorithms will eventually converge on human-like intelligence.
Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, what evolution did succeed at first is achieving neural networks that are far more energy efficient than whatever computers are doing today. Even if indeed "computing power" paved the way for intelligence, what came first is extremely efficient "hardware". Nowadays, human seem to be skipping that part. Optimizing is hard, so why bother with it? We can afford bigger data centers, we can afford to waste more energy, we can afford to deprive people of drinking water, so let's just skip to the easy part!
And on top of that, we're trying to squash hundreds of millions of years of evolution into… a decade, perhaps? What could possibly go wrong?
[1] #NoAI #NoLLM #LLM