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i saw this sticker on a water bottle today and thought of a certain irish twink #VOTV #VoicesOfTheVoid

i saw this sticker on a water bottle today and thought of a certain irish twink #VOTV #VoicesOfTheVoid

last night i dreampt that is was reading one of my posts, but it was all jibberish. i couldn't remember typing any of it, also i noticed, it contained the words "gwenridge recorder" i don't even know what a "gwenridge recorder" is. unfortunately i awoke before i had chance to search it up. i will do it later if i can be bothered. i made a note of it so i don't forget.

This is what #AI should be used for
https://www.businessinsider.com/winter-storm-robot-snow-blower-yarbo-driveway-tom-moloughney-2026-1

Man uses $4,999 autonomous snow blower to clear his driveway during winter storm: 'I'm inside sipping a coffee'
Forget robotaxis — a man and his robo-snow blower were the envy of X during the weekend's winter storm.

In a Kleiner podcast interview, DOD official Emil Michael says he will "never forget" nor "forgive" Uber investors that ousted him and Travis Kalanick in 2017 (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.…

Emil Michael, now a senior Pentagon official, says he'll never forgive Uber investors who ousted him and Kalanick | TechCrunch
When asked whether he was still "salty" about about being shown the door at Uber, alongside co-founder Travis Kalanick, Michael didn't equivocate. "I'll never forget that, nor forgive," he said.

@… so, @… or @…
Just figured I’d mention them before I forget! 😂
Feel fr…

After the latest snowfall it will be interesting to see how bad the walking to/from the bus stops is tomorrow and how messed up the schedules will be.
They like to plow the roads, but forget to clear the bus stops plus the sidewalks and while I am able-bodied it is a challenge to clamber over knee to hip high snow to get on/off the bus. I don't know how those who are handicapped get around.

Long ago I decided subbed or dubbed doesn''t matter much because I often forget which one I was watching after the fact and end up switching back and forth.
#anime

I'm sending all my gratitude and all my love to everyone who participate to #ThursdayFiveList yesterday!!
You are great!!!
And if you didn't participate, I still love you! But don't forget next time!!!

> The quirkiness is calming. In the Ukrainian wartime setting, I associate traditional production values with the propaganda of criminal invasions, with the Russian television I have to watch. The Russians distinguish themselves on their state-controlled channels with sparkling backdrops and horrifying lies, whereas the Ukrainians sometimes scramble on the set but provide actual reporting.
> When we forget others, our oblivion invites indifferent kings to rule us, to envelop us i…

And I'm ashamed to be an American
Where fascist thugs are free.
And I won't forget the ones they killed
Or maimed or took from me.
And I'll gladly stand up, next to you,
And shame and film today.
'Cause there ain't no doubt I love my home.
Let's free the USA.
#uspol

Hey dude , don't forget that I don't want any mustard on my hot dog, and I want it on a sourdough bun!
#HotDog #cycling #bici

RE: https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei/116087233502113204
While I don't think this will change things, I do think it's nice to be reminded that we are not alone. Direct action is always better than asking nicely for the horrible thing to stop. We are powerful enough to stop it.

But there is also a theatrical element to politics that's easy to forget. The "show" of something like this can be inspiring, and can inspire others who have been afraid.

I want to forget about the world

In all excitement et all I tend to forget how solid nwg-shell on Sway actually is. All frills if you want them, it just works. Foot as terminal is making a strong comeback also. Slackware Tilers has been my main home for 40 days now. Ain't leaving anytime soon.
#slackware #nwg_shell

So, spent most of the day getting Handbrake compiled with the `svt-av1-psyex` and `svt-av1-essential` forks of the SvtAv1 encoder. However, I did win that battle and both are now available in the `sisyphus-client` containers. Definitely a pain in the ass, but it's nice to have options depending on what you want to use. Also updated the documentation to make sure I don't forget which is which.
I still need to implement some pipelines to build these, but holy crap the Handbrak…

If you ever catch me making fun of older folks struggling with technology, just remind me of the numerous times I've tried to switch from vi to nano. Ever damn time I open nano for some dumb reason, I forget by the time I'm ready to save and quit. [Esc]-w-q-[Enter] is forever burned into my brain.
#linux #vi

If you're interested in how I quantified natural #CO2 emissions from "mofettes" near #Tübingen with a low-cost sensor network, and want to join my PhD defense tomorrow at 10:00, DM me here and i might send you the link (if I don't forget it 😅).
I'll be mostly talking about …

Quantification of natural CO2 emissions from mofettes using a low-cost sensor network at the Starzach site in South-West Germany
We present a top-down method to derive CO2 emissions from mofettes, using only point measurement time series at irregular locations. Notably, no wind vector information is needed, as gas transport is derived from cross-correlations between sensor stations and subsequently integrated using Gauss’ divergence theorem. The method is applied to an existing low-cost sensor network at the Starzach site near the Black Forest in Germany, for which no comprehensive estimate of the total emissions exist…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@KraftTea/116261630218900926
I guess it's easy to forget that these are people when you make it like a first person shooter computer game.

I have autism, and I tend to forget things quite often. That’s part of why I’m currently reading Rudolf Rocker – Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice for the fifth time.
If you’d like to read it too, you can find it in my “Entry to Left-Wing Anarchist Reading” document, which I’ll keep updating over time with new books, media, and resources.
Docs:

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

" You ARE The Culture, and dontchu forget it!! " a beautiful woman exclaimed to me yesterday. Then 3 philosophical zombies climbed out of her pussy and I was all alone

This report sounds quite plausible, exactly how I expect this would be going inside the Trump administration. Maybe Iran can distract Trump enough to forget about Greenland for a while 🤔.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1

Donald Trump 'orders army chiefs to draw up plan to invade Greenland': US President emboldened by success of Maduro capture operation
Donald Trump has ordered his special forces commanders to draw up a plan for the invasion of Greenland - but is being resisted by senior military figures, The Mail on Sunday has learned.

How many seconds are there in a year? If I tell you there are 3.155 x
10^7, you won't even try to remember it. On the other hand, who could
forget that, to within half a percent, pi seconds is a nanocentury.
-- Tom Duff, Bell Labs

I gaveled in Congress on Jan. 6. We can never forget what happened. (Rep. Eric Swalwell/MS NOW)
https://www.ms.now/opinion/jan6-capitol-riot-insurrection-eric-swalwell
http://www.memeorandum.com/260106/p78#a260106p78

The thing that Renee Good now knows, that Tortuguita knows, that Heather Heyer knows, that I only know because I glimpsed for a second, is that when you die fighting oppression you live forever in that memory of resistance. When we carve their names into a monument, along with all the other names of the murdered and disappeared, that will stand, perhaps, across from the statue of Willem in the park where the Northwest Detention Center once stood, they will always be reminders of what it looks like to sacrifice everything in order to be on the right side of history.
The names of those who resist live as ghosts, summoned by name to haunt future oppressors, summoned by name to awaken our own conscience to the call. Martyrs, whispered like the White Rose or yelled as a threat like John Brown, cannot die so long as any of us with a bit of spine carries even an ounce of humanity.
It is possible to die knowing you did the right thing, and I have felt it. There is an acceptance that is impossible to imagine without being there, without feeling it for yourself. You have nothing to fear in resisting, even if it ends you. But you will never forget the shame of doing nothing if you fail to.

Ansible playbook done "enough", everything is now matching. Evidently I did forget to transition one server over to Debian, but got that sorted and now everything is running pretty well.
#ansible #homelab

I was about to forget about #FunkyChickenFriday
The chicken is Extremely funky today!!
Red Lip Cream

• YouTube
• Spotify…

No-one has "the right" to talk to you, to take up your time with their un-requested interaction.
You do not owe anyone your time.
This is true IRL, I think we all know that.
Why people forget it online is beyond me.

I also have been thinking about this connection, it is so damn obvious, but no one in the media is talking about it.
The rise of authoritarianism, and the deep connection to the oil industry.
It has been obvious to anyone willing to stop for a moment and think... but #TheAmericanFascist, in his infinite wisdom and/or senility, has thrown down the veil.
#Venezuela is about access to #Oil in South America.
#Greenland is about access to Oil and Minerals in the #Arctic.
#Alberta Separatism is about access to Oil and Gas in #Canada.
Deposing the Iranian Regime is access to Oil and Gas in the Middle East. (Get #Iran, and you might get #Iraq too)
And lets not forget #Russia... fighting the #RussiaUkraineWar funded by their oil reserves and all about returning to an old empire in oil-rich Central Asia and Eastern Europe.
So is the fight to end fossil fuel use in order to preserve a liveable, recognizable planet, also a fight against authoritarianism and fascism?
You're damn right it is.
#Canada #CanPoli #CdnPoli #USA #USPoli #Alberta #Separatism #Fascism #FarRight #ABPoli #BCPoli #EndFossilFuels #climatechange

Damn, how could I forget FreeBSD. This year needs a deeper dive into BSD. Probably xfce. Xfce on MX was great. No KDE or wm, I have enough of those.

Did I, by any chance, forget to post about my new Mao Mao plushie? Let’s fix that
#manga #anime #maomao

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Blakroc feat. Nicole Wray:
🎵 Why Can’t I Forget Him
#Blakroc #NicoleWray
https://open.spotify.com/track/4kL1AzRmTw86mXeNNWSZfa

New on #blog: "Money isn’t going to solve the #burnout problem"
"""
The xz-utils backdoor situation brought the problem of FLOSS maintained burnout into the daylight. This in turn lead to numerous discussion on how to solve the problem, and the recurring theme was funding maintenance work.
While I’m definitely not opposed to giving people money for their FLOSS work, if you think that throwing some bucks will actually solve the problem, and especially if you think that you can just throw them once and then forget, I have bad news for you: it won’t. Surely, money is a big part of the problem, but it’s not the only reason people are getting burned out. It’s a systemic problem, and it’s in need of systemic solution, and that’s involves a lot of hard work undo everything that’s happened in the last, say, 20 years.
But let’s start at the beginning and ask the important question: why do people make free software?
"""
#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #AI #NoAI #LLM #NoLLM #Gentoo