clacke

@clacke@libranet.de

Flawesome. GNU/Linux is my daily driver OS since 1995. On Fedi since 2008. Working in Racket, Tcl, Python, whatever gets the page up. Solving yesterday's problems tomorrow. A dad. Freddie Mercury is my spiritual advisor.

web.archive.org/web/1/pronoun.…

Every post of mine is an open invitation to advice or information or critique or disagreement unless I say otherwise. Fire away. If I don't appreciate your contribution, I'll let you know.

My soundcloud is hackerpublicradio.org/correspo… and my patreon is sfconservancy.org/donate/ .

I don't represent Software Freedom Conservancy in any way, I just like what they do with the money I give them.

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clacke, to random en-us

why am I seeimg so much spam suddenly

ah, I'm reading a peertube thread

clacke, to random en-us

I have reduced how much beer I drink and how much potato chips I eat, but ... I have not yet adjusted how much of these things I buy.

I am very well stocked.

hfaust, to random

Let's have a quick look of Mozilla Social

clacke,

@animeirl @hfaust Why would any software project run a forum? It's different, but the drivers are similar.

They could have put up a server only for official Mozilla accounts, but I guess the above means they decided to invite the public and then they took the steps necessary to not get any embarrassing headlines about who they're hosting.

Or maybe they're adding Fedi to Thunderbird or something and want a default server they don't mind being associated with.

clacke, to random en-us

farside.link/teddit/r/beatles/…

davew, to random
@davew@mastodon.social avatar

I’ll make a prediction. With all the protocols floating around SocialMediaLand, and more sure to come, ultimately they’ll all be tied together by RSS.

clacke,

@danlyke @davew OStatus = ActivityStreams + Atom + PuSH/WebSub, it's what Fedi ran on before 2019.

Mastodon switched to ActivityPub mainly because of a simpler protocol stack and explicit support for scoped addressing, which enables DMs. This caused other Fedi applications to move as well, as well as leading to a cambrian explosion of entirely new applications.

So while using the equivalent of RSS for all this is clearly possible, it was leaving that behind that created the network we see today.

Still, Mastodon does offer RSS feeds for all users: mastodon.social/@clacke.rss

clacke,

@blabberlicious @danlyke @pdcawley @davew The way is add that functionality to Mastodon.

If Gargron won't accept it, maybe glitch-soc or one of the other forks could add it.

jerry, to random

How I imagine the discussion goes:

Bank IT person: we are thinking about letting customers pick a password of any length over 10 characters. Is that ok?

Bank regulator: hah! I saw a movie once where someone uploaded and played doom in a password field. Make it no more than 15 characters

IT: oh oh ok.

Regulator: and for heaven’s sake, don’t let them paste a password into the form. I heard that is also very insecure

clacke,

@jerry LinkedIn: "Limit the password to 16 characters. Don't tell anyone, just truncate their input when they register the password.

Also don't truncate their password input when they try to log in, so it fails if they enter the same password as when they registered."

bobjmsn, to random
@bobjmsn@mastodon.scot avatar

This is the email address to complain about ID being introduced . Be awful if everybody used it.

#ComplainAboutVoterID #elections #VoterID #VoteRigging #fascism

clacke,

@kravietz While this is all true, when you have a country where lots of people don't have a valid photo ID for their day-to-day life, requiring one for voting is voter suppression, plain and simple.

Even in Sweden, where you need a photo ID to pick up a parcel at the post office, you don't need a photo ID if you show up on election day at your home election station with your voter card.

@bobjmsn @harriettmb @enkiusz

cstross, to random
@cstross@wandering.shop avatar

Thought for the day:

Teen superhero teams are morally equivalent to child soldiers.

Organizations who recruit and train child soldiers frequently do so because they're easier to control (and to induce to commit atrocities) than adult recruits …

(A VERY grimdark story lurks behind this idea.)

clacke,

@grrrr_shark @cstross Kids wielding weapons of mass destruction unsupervised? That's Pokemon.

clacke, to random en-us

Person joined Fedi only a few months ago.

Scroll down their timeline to see their first posts.

Get rate-limited.

That is a formidable output, fellow Fedi. I applaud you and I am in awe.

clacke,

@swansinflight As an anonymous visitor to Mastodon you only get so many requests. Scroll scroll scroll for a few minutes and it says hey, cool it, come back at 18:30.

clacke,

@swansinflight This person posts dozens of their own original posts per day and even more reposts than that, so after endless-scrolling for minutes I still haven't even reached March.

mansr, to random
@mansr@society.oftrolls.com avatar

Yesterday, a post in Swedish appeared in my timeline. That's very unusual despite the fact that I follow several Swedish people. I guess they, like me, don't see much point in posting in a language hardly anyone understands.

clacke,

@mansr Med fler och fler svenskar, norrmän och danskar i flödet har jag börjat se mer av alla tre språken, och skriva mer på svenska.

clacke, to random en-us

"The Assembly adopted by a recorded vote “L.65” as a whole with 122 votes in favour to 5 against (Belarus, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Nicaragua, Russian Federation and Syria), with 18 abstentions."

press.un.org/en/2023/ga12500.d…

In digitallibrary.un.org/record/4… we can see that China, India and Brazil voted in favor, which is huge news.

Paragraph 9 in the preamble, not in the resolution proper, reads:

"Recognizing also that the unprecedented challenges now facing Europe following the aggression by the Russian Federation against Ukraine, and against Georgia prior to that, and the cessation of the membership of the Russian Federation in the Council of Europe, call for strengthened cooperation between the United Nations and the Council of Europe, notably in order to promptly restore and maintain peace and security based on respect of the sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence of any State, ensure the observance of human rights and international humanitarian law during the hostilities, provide redress to victims and bring to justice all those responsible for the violations of international law,"

(PDF) digitallibrary.un.org/record/4…

clacke, to random en-us

2000s: "looks shopped"
2020s: "looks generated"

clacke, to random en-us

On 2023-10-14 I'll be celebrating 15 years on Fedi!

Added calendar reminders so I don't forget it.

clacke,

2023-05-18 is Fedi 15 years: web.archive.org/web/2010052318…

clacke, to random en-us

> If I'd be building software to use for the next 100 years I'd be using something like CL or SML that has "failed" to change this side of the century.

Re: libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-3… (by myself)

Someone wrote a blog post on this, the heirloom program or the 100-year program or something and drew the SML conclusion, but I can't find it now.

It was written over a year ago. It wasn't the CollapseOS guy, nor was it anyone at Merveilles Town.

#PostCollapseComputing #HeirloomComputing #SmallComputing #PermaComputing

clacke,

Some insights about what makes a 100-year language and what it even means for a language to be "dead" or "alive":

codefol.io/posts/the-hundred-y…

clacke,

@lanodan I can't say there's anything not-general-purpose about Java, it's just that JS is a better UI special-purpose language and possibly, controversially, a better general-purpose language? (as part of an ecosystem)

clacke, to random en-us

Ugh, that was long and mumbly, but this one was fun:

> ”Apples to oranges”
[ . . . ] that phrase don't make no sense
Why can't fruit be compared?

Minor pet peeve of mine too. 😃

farside.link/dumb/Lil-dicky-pi…

clacke, to random en-us

People overestimate what "AI" of today is and what it can actually do, because memes are spreading that describe any machine-assisted process in a highly glossed-over form, ignoring the required human effort to make it work.

The naive impression is that you just gave some generative engine a prompt and the result came out fully formed, when the actual process is that the people behind the project used multiple purpose-built engines, for each of the engines they iterated on prompts that would output something semi-coherent, and then they used human efforts to tie the result together.

This is currently spreading as "this AI-generated pizza commercial" with no further explanation, but Tom's Hardware interviewed the actual people who made it work:

www.tomshardware.com/news/ai-p…

clacke,

We are not in a century that has thinking, dreaming machines. We have statistical models with massive amounts of human-generated input doing statistical correlation on the forms of text and the forms of images. That's why you get funny numbers of fingers and a cook pouring ingredients into his arm.

There are no cognitive objects here, no model of a "hand", "person" or "pizza".

clacke,

I've always been a fan of anthropomorphizing computers and programs, because first of all, they hate it when you do that. Second, it's funny and cute, and third it's convenient shorthand when you talk to people who are in on the joke.

I've been thinking that people have a stick up their ass when they complain it's imprecise, misleading, etc. Relax, it's just a sleight of hand, a figure of speech.

But now I see the harm. People who are not in on the joke, and it's becoming clear that that's most of the 99% who are not programmers – and even some of the programmers – take it at face value and then we throw billions of dollars into "A(G)I safety" that could have been spent on automation ("AI") ethics or things that aren't hyped as AI at all.

kazarnowicz, to random
@kazarnowicz@unstraight.club avatar

I'm so excited for Johan Svenson, one of my friends, who's a host in Peacock's upcoming "The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning", produced by Amy Poehler:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97sG2vKgmb0

I think this has potential to be a mega-hit, considering how much Americans tend to hoard …

#SwedishDeathCleaning #realityTV

clacke,

@kazarnowicz Their Swedish accents are noticeable enough that I feel at home but not strong enough that I cringe. =)

evan, to random
@evan@cosocial.ca avatar

A major difference between LLMs and cryptocurrencies is this:

For cryptocurrencies to be valuable to me, I need them to be valuable to you, too.

If you don't believe in crypto, the value of my crypto goes down.

This isn't the case for LLMs. I need enough people to be interested in LLMs that ChatGPT stays available, but other than that, your disinterest in it is only a minor nuisance.

In a market, I benefit from your refusal to use it. AI-enhanced me is competing with plain ol' you.

clacke,

@evan The dangers of "AI", really the dangers of accelerated automation of capitalism with increasing complexity and diminishing human control and oversight, are neither theoretical nor future tense.

They are not reflected in the majority's daily usage, but they've been here for decades and are growing exponentially.

It's not about sentient machine overlords, it's about concentrated power to human overlords abstracted away from the harm they're causing.

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