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akrennmair

@akrennmair@mastodon.beer

🇦🇹 living in 🇩🇪. Software developer. I like, brew and write about beer.

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larsmb, to random
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We are more prone to anthromorphizing LLMs than to humanizing suffering humans

wxcafe, to random
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lmao this makes me want to die

jake4480, to microsoft
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With the impending doom of ICQ in June and the new crappy version of Teams coming in July, I would like to post this meme one final time

GossiTheDog, to random
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From Scarlett Johansson re OpenAI stealing her voice:

yabellini, to random
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This research shows that aptitude for learning foreign languages is a stronger predictor of learning to program than basic maths knowledge.

"These results provide a novel framework for understanding programming aptitude, suggesting that the importance of numeracy may be overestimated in modern programming education environments."

Relating Natural Language Aptitude to Individual Differences in Learning Programming Languages. Prat, et.al. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-60661-8

boakandbailey, to beer
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GOOD MORNING! News, nuggets and longreads is up, with some great balanced, nosy, inquisitive writing from @Laura and @willhawkes among others. 🍺🍻

https://boakandbailey.com/2024/05/news-nuggets-and-longreads-18-may-2024-children-of-the-stones/

rstockm, to random German
@rstockm@chaos.social avatar

Oh das ist sehr schön. Menschen halt.

Quelle: https://vis.social/@infobeautiful/112400215689617040 von @infobeautiful

markarayner, to animals
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Shades of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Two horses, their owner, and an exceptionally dangerous bunny.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/AnimalsBeingDerps/comments/vntgr9/that_thing_could_rip_us_to_shreds_julia/

two horses are frightened by a bunny and their owner tries to coax them past it, but they won't go. Eventually the human scares the bunny away. The horses talk in australian accents in the video and explain how scary the bunny is, while the human tries to convince them it safe

boakandbailey, to beer
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BLOG POST: "On a recent trip to Manchester we didn’t plan our drinking beforehand and encountered two contrasting Alberts." 🍺🍻

https://boakandbailey.com/2024/05/a-tale-of-two-alberts-in-manchester/

grapefrukt, to random
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my entire feed right now

scy, (edited ) to random German
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oh wow

aufgenommen vorhin (22:45 Uhr) zwischen Göttingen und Braunschweig (51.9 N, 10.1 E) mit nem Google Pixel 6a

Blick geht nach Westen, im Norden hab ich nichts gesehen

Kommt auf dem Foto auch deutlicher raus als in echt

(Edit: Bildbeschreibung ergänzt, Infos aus Replies hoch in den Ursprungspost gezogen)

SmudgeTheInsultCat, to random
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Happy Caturday!

Volksverpetzer, to random German
@Volksverpetzer@digitalcourage.social avatar

Auf eine Anfrage wollte Cicero uns nicht verraten, wo angeblich die "Täuschung" im Pseudo-Skandal zu finden sei. Jeder Leser könne "sich selbst ein Urteil bilden". Das taten wir. Und bekamen prompt Post von ihrem Anwalt. Mit entlarvendem Inhalt. https://www.volksverpetzer.de/aktuelles/habeck-pseudo-skandal-cicero-volksverpetzer/?utm_source=mstdn

ChariteBerlin, to ChatGPT German
@ChariteBerlin@wisskomm.social avatar

Zu medizinischen Bildern einfach mal #ChatGPT befragen? Bei Bildern aus der #Nuklearmedizin ist das keine gute Idee, so eine Studie von #CharitéBerlin. Die KI liefert widersprüchliche Antworten und markiert krankhafte Veränderungen, wo gar keine sind.

👉 https://www.charite.de/forschung/paper_spotlight/2024/erkenntnisse_zur_medizinischen_bildanalyse_mit_chatgpt/

#Medizin #MedMastodon #Forschung #Wissenschaft #CharitéPaper

ChariteBerlin,
@ChariteBerlin@wisskomm.social avatar

Just ask ChatGPT about medical images? According to a study by , this is not a good idea for images from nuclear medicine. The AI provides contradictory answers and highlights pathological spots where there are none.

👉 https://www.charite.de/en/research/paper_spotlight/2024/new_insights_into_medical_image_analysis_with_chatgpt/

NataliaArmyOf1, to random Portuguese
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The way they'll just pretend to be doing something different 🤣🤣😈

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kazaii, to beer
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@akrennmair

So I had it. Good beer - very much unlike the standard "Vienna Malt".
It was rather bitter, slight lemon/pithy edge to the bitterness, not overly lingering malt flavour, but it had the usual slightly medicinal element that Czech Lagers have, likely because they didn't change from their house Yeast / brewing/lager process.

I was really surprised by the colour profile, when I read your book in ~2019. So it was great to finally see it and try it in person.

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wannabemystiker, to homebrewing
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In the cauldron today, another German-style Altbier with some minor tweaks and an attempt at open fermentation.

Ingredient list for an 11.5 liter batch:
1.8 kg Amber liquid malt extract
220 g Crystal medium malt
100 g De-bittered black malt
50 g Crystal hops (pellets)
Half a 11.5 g packet SafAle K-97 Yeast
12.5 liters water

I'm using 5 liters of the water to boil the malt and hops in. The remaining 6.5 liters will be cold tap water waiting in the brew bucket.


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wannabemystiker,
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It has been a day and a half since I pitched the yeast and I have skimmed the krøjsen (kräusen) three times. Up to today, there has been bready and hoppy aromas, not unusual but stronger than I have smelled when primary fermenting in a glass carboy with a blow-off tube.

This morning, I noticed a new, subtle odor --not offensive but just different. Hopefully, it has been present in the past but undetectable with the glass carboy/blow-off tube setup.

I have to admit, I am getting just a little nervous.


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javi, (edited ) to random

offf, this story about how Google made google search into a pile of seagull shit hits me hard:

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

Around the time of this story, I was living through a similar situation in my work life (on a much smaller scope, of course, WordPress.com first, Tumblr later).

Back in 2019, working on WordPress, I started finding myself, almost weekly, arguing against people who wanted to take the product we were working at and made it worse if that mean they could squeeze 0.1% more revenue from it

The 0.1% figure is not even a random number: I remember this speciffic A/B test on WordPress.com that was declared a success and shipped to 100% of the users because it increased the free-to-paid conversion by 0.1%. Soon after it was released, I found out that as a side effect, it increased the churn of free users by 20 something %,so I called for an urgent rollback and removal of the change. So I was promptly explained that we didn't care about free-users churn, because finance had calculated the average long-term value of the free users to be something like $2 per year, and the increase in conversion was bigger than what we could get from them.

Everything became about growth hacking. Everything became thinly-veiled dark patterns. In our private dev slack channels, we joked that since it was impossible to make it smaller or less conspicuous, the next thing the growth team was going to ask us to do was to make the 'free plan' button flee away from the mouse pointer when the user tried to click it. We kept making our product worse, we kept consciously crippling the cheaper versions so we could force people to move to the more expensive options.

Back then I was the lead of one of the two dev divisions working on WordPress.com, so my job was mainly to discuss what we were going to be doing, when and how. And I was getting drained by a constant state of fight against a constant wave of shit they wanted us to build. So much than by the end of 2020, the CEO quietly told me to follow the growth team plans and shut up or step down.

So I requested to move to tumblr, because I thought the pastures were greener over there. But it was all the same: Adding login walls to what we were pretending to be "the last bastion of the free internet", cramping in embarrasingly obvious money-making schemes disguised as features, and making them silently opt-out instead of opt-in so the less people the possible would deactivate them, having to fend off the pressure from the CEO to make everything algorithmic timelines because, you know, tiktok makes a lot of money and why aren't we, etc etc.

I found myself in a place where building something good that people enjoy using was no longer a priority, but tricking people into generating more money for the company was. And when I looked around me, I could see that happening everywhere else, not only in my company. Experiencing the start of the enshittification years from inside wasn't easy.

And, as in the article, the people who decided to turn the shit-metter up to 200%, have a name, in every case. And these people, no matter if they are called Sundar and Prabhakar or Matt and Mark, are destroying the internet. These people are milllionaires, or billionaries, and are destroying our shared, common spaces to squeeze some extra cash from us.

That's why the fediverse and its principles are important. Because that's how we take back internet from their dirty hands. That's how we make internet resilient against them. That's how we build the commons.

trochee, to random
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May I never ever ever be the kind of guy who Ed Zitron gets a hate on for

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

Just a devastating career-long rundown of the dude who drove Google search into the ground, and some of the people on whose necks he stepped along the way

Via @mhoye

FabianLaasch, to random German
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Hubert fährt ja bekanntlich ein . Irgendjemand hat nachfragt wie hoch die Tankkosten sind für seinen Dienstwagen.

1,67kg Wasserstoff 100km.

23,11€ auf 100km.

wow.

Quelle: Jörg Freisler / Internet

dunkelstern, to random
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So the company I am working for currently went bust.

Does someone need a backend developer (Rust, Python, Ruby or PHP), embedded firmware developer (ESP32, Atmel architecture, some STM32, fluent in C, C++ and beginner on Rust) or cloud ops (Experience with AWS and Telekom Cloud, K8s clusters, containerization, etc.)

Needs to be 100% remote, my timezone is CET but I like to work late, so US timezones are not out of the question either.

Find my CV here: https://dunkelstern.de/cv/

nobs, to random German
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Das ist so eine Nachricht, die mich begreifen lässt WIE gut die Natur einfach ist.

https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/baden-wuerttemberg/ulm/getreide-weizen-fund-mittelalter-ulm-100.html

gabrielberlin, to random German
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Jetzt ohne Paywall:

Ich wollte doch nur einen Duschschlauch – und bekam Krempel. Dabei lernte ich eine merkwürdige Lektion: Wer normale Qualität will, muss jetzt Premium kaufen.

https://krautreporter.de/sinn-und-konsum/5234-das-hat-doch-alles-schon-mal-funktioniert?shared=b26f6e79-ccd7-4ee0-9784-1d12ba59d6a2&utm_campaign=share-url-494-article-5234&utm_source=mastodon.social

darkrat, to Rats
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OPs dad built small cars for pet rats. They quickly learn to drive around in them

sumisu3, to beer
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The more I brew and drink Czech pale lager the more it is pretty much the only thing I want to drink.

OK, the German lagers I’ve been brewing are also damn good. But there is something really different with a double or triple decoction and Saaz hops.

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