@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social#MapleLeafs
Outside my bedroom window.
It’s been an extremely dry winter, only a few inches of snow since the beginning of Fall. Lawns are mostly brown except where some watering has been done, but grasses are hardy and can withstand the dryness better than trees, especially nonnative varieties that are all over the place. I haven’t paid attention to when leaves have appeared in previo…
@cdarwin@c.im“In Bombay Beach, everything that can go wrong in the world has gone wrong;
that’s why people most describe it as apocalyptic or post-apocalyptic,” said Tao Ruspoli.
“You have climate change, environmental collapse, severe poverty and contaminated water.
The beauty of the apocalypse is that it exposes all the problems of our culture and then asks the question, what’s next?
What do you do once the end has happened?”
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social"Outgrow your dependence on platforms" says person who posts to Substack.
I haven't read their article because I don't want to give them clicks, honestly, but there is no fucking way to remove dependencies in the indie book market. We'll never be able to own everything because in the end we'll be dependent on payment providers to make sales on the internet, even if people buy from our website. My beautiful subs via self-hosted Ghost are as good as it gets but …
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizzaThe tale of CGNAT continues...well, more like finishes up today. I talked with my ISP's (Home Telecom) support folks and they changed some settings in my account and moved me back out of the sad zone. Got an actual internet IP address and the whole process took about 5 minutes which was very nice. Everything is back online and happy...not a bad way to end the story.
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzYes, you can identify several (K) corona streamers in the #ArtemisII image of the end of the solar eclipse - by comparing it with a SOHO LASCO C2 image from 4 hours earlier: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10164990866429808 (the glow behind them and *everything* in https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/55193054741/ is zodiacal light, unrelated to the sizzling solar atmosphere). Meanwhile here is yet another NASA album for photographs from the flyby: https://www.nasa.gov/gallery/lunar-flyby/
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialLMAO... hope you like Meta reading everything you send over DMs, Instagram suckers.
✅ Instagram to remove end-to-end encryption for private messages in May | Instagram | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202
@NFL@darktundra.xyzJoe Burrow changes tune after Bengals' big offseason: 'We have everything we need in that locker room'
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/joe-burrow-bengals-offseason-roster…
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump, speaking at a press conference at his golf club in Doral, Florida,
because of course that is where you announce big decisions,
today said that the war against Iran will end “very soon.”
Talking to the New York Post about oil prices, Trump said there was no cause for worry,
because “I have a plan for everything. You’ll be very happy.”
He also said he doesn’t remember ever meeting Jeffrey Epstein, his poll numbers are higher than anyone has ever see…
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsThe key takeaways from the early part of the #chardet thread (I didn't read beyond the ~30 first comments, I have my limits).
1. People there love cosplaying lawyers. Except when the other side also starts cosplaying lawyers, in which case they suddenly divert to suggesting asking professional lawyers.
2. Almost nobody there is concerned with ethics or morality.
3. There's a lot of GPL haters there. Like, they seem the kind of people who don't really care about licensing at all, just used MIT in their projects because it was cool and they heard something about license incompatibility and now bash at everything that's (L)GPL.
4. People don't get that LLMs are statistical models and can't build anything from the ground up. All they can do is remix, which implies they use existing code for inspiration.
5. The maintainer who did the rewrite is a total asshole, and is perfectly aware of it.
Honestly, I'm truly waiting for the subsidizing to end and companies start charging obscene amounts for the use of LLMs. Of course, the reality is that we're totally fucked. We have a lot of projects that adapted a lot of #slop, and people who are being increasingly addicted to this shit. The moment they can't afford it, we'd be left with lots of broken code nobody wants to maintain.
And I definitely don't want to put my effort into packaging crap if its maintainers don't even bother trying.
#AI #LLM #NoAI #NoLLM
@tomkalei@machteburch.socialFrom time to time I like to complain about reverse chron timeline that we all love here on Mastodon. One example: It localizes the timeline to people who post around the time you read.
Of course you can do lists (I do) and read everything from those lists and so on.
But in the end, reverse chron is also an algorithm. Algorithms per se are not bad. I love algorithms. 
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