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loleg

@loleg@fosstodon.org

Openness advocate, dutiful maintainer, caring parent. Swiss adoptee, Canadian expat & Muscovy exile (in reverse order). Hans dampf in allen daten. Left/skeptical brain of https://graphics.social/@seism

🕊️ NO WAR ䷊
🌍 Born @ 342 ppm CO₂ tfr 🔥
🥢 #opendatach #opensource #hackathons

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mpg, to bookstodon
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While I was working on compiling a PDF proof of some writing drafts this morning, I realized MS had "enhanced" office with AI. Without asking, without consent.

I was able to do the registry edit solution and now the AI.exe task does not appear to be loading when I go in to work on a draft.

https://thegeekpage.com/how-to-disable-the-artificial-intelligence-ai-host-feature/

I want to again remind people that AI is an equal opportunity robber. Your rough drafts? Private journals? AI don't care and will gobble that up.

#writingcommunity @bookstodon

loleg,
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@wendyg @mpg @bookstodon let's hear a commitment from @libreoffice NOT to do this, please. It's not hard, and now is a good time.

loleg, to microsoft
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"employee pressure has had an enormous impact on sustainability at ... But convincing the world’s most valuable company to forgo lucrative oil industry contracts proved far more difficult."
https://grist.org/accountability/microsoft-employees-spent-years-fighting-the-tech-giants-oil-ties-now-theyre-speaking-out/

amoroso, to VintageOSes
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It's been 50 years since Gary Kildall demonstrated the first working prototype of CP/M.

https://computerhistory.org/blog/fifty-years-of-the-personal-computer-operating-system

loleg,
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@amoroso Great article! I find the definition of O/S mechanics a little narrow, but a fitting tribute to the life and times of Gary Kindall. There's also a 28 minute documentary to watch here: https://youtu.be/Tdj8gh9GPc4?si=jqIAktGyLyGVpeV5

loleg, to random
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@amunizp thanks for the ⭐ are you interested to contribute or know more about the idea?

loleg,
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@amunizp we are all struggling with linguistic barriers in the team so no problem 😅 we were heads down trying to get somewhere in the code, and are just starting to get the pitch down, if you want and have a few minutes I can invite you to a call

loleg,
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@amunizp Click the following link to join the meeting:
https://meet.hostpoint.ch/ArtificialNestsDisagreeNervously

loleg,
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@amunizp https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1bs0h3s7xOAIv35yYJb28V74sDKPtEUao-7TMGoGLnSM/edit?usp=sharing

loleg,
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@amunizp yes! Aware of Limesurvey and you're right, we want to make it seamless for the researcher. And reduce costs so the project actually has a chance of getting support.

loleg,
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@amunizp we are also keen to practice our Python, and learning a new framework is fun at a Hackathon :) but we will put that into the document and encourage the project owner to "shop around" before committing.

loleg,
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@amunizp it was great to have you, and I'd love to give you credit, just mention your name in the slides if thats okay?

loleg,
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@amunizp Tip top. I have added you to the last slide 💜

loleg, to random
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Did you know? 🎙️🦤 The second web browser in history, and apparently the first one designed to be multiplatform, was coded by Nicola Pellow – a crucial step in making the web accessible to a wider audience at the time, and having a lasting impact on the development of the https://nowebwithoutwomen.com/tory https://nowebwithoutwomen.com/

loleg,
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@peter ..chock full of very cool stories! :blobcatwavereverse:

loleg,
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@urlyman @peter it's not great for Accessibility or SEO, on top of what you said - and I would like to see an downloadable version for mashups and more! With all the boosts my post has gotten, I wonder if anyone here is connected to the site owners or know something about the project?

loleg, to random
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Same HTML. 200+ (very!) different ways to look at it in the CSS Zen Garden https://csszengarden.com/pages/alldesigns/

loleg, to linux
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How do you explain the to a kid? I found this graphic by Shmuel Csaba Otto Traian (CC BY-SA 3.0) on the Wikipedia page for Virtual Reality helpful https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_reality#/media/File:Linux_kernel_and_gaming_input-output_latency.svg

sarahjelm, to news Swedish
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https://www.reuters.com/business/davos-crowd-gathers-governments-urged-rein-billionaire-class-2024-01-15/

@economics

loleg,
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@sarahjelm @economics 📈💰 direct link: https://www.oxfam.org/en/research/inequality-inc

loleg, to random
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Interested in how data becomes data art? Check out the Making of the latest Aare Guru poster https://kaspar-allenbach.ch/blog/making-of-aare-guru-saison-plakat-2023 (in German) - or just buy something from the shop at @aareguru and look forward to beauy splashing onto your walls next year 🎨

AkaSci, (edited ) to voyager
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NASA is sending a software update to the Voyager 2 spacecraft today!

The patch contains logic to auto-recover from glitches similar to one in May 2022, when the AACS system on Voyager 1 started sending garbled data. The root cause was not fully diagnosed. The patch will be activated/tested on Oct 28. Voyager 1 will be next.

Data will be sent at 16 bps with a 19 kW transmitter using the 70-m dish at @canberradsn.
Distance: 20 billion km; 18:40 light hours

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-voyager-team-focuses-on-software-patch-thrusters

1/n

loleg,
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@AkaSci most epic repair ever

evan, (edited ) to random
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Which of these items belonging to a romantic partner is it OK to borrow and use? Choose all that apply.

loleg,
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@evan I don't mind sharing phones - you know me, I'm all in for open data! As for lip balm, I dunno.. 😖 ..you gotta draw the line somewhere.

fj, to random
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Intriguing partnership (joined by Arm, Fujitsu, Google Cloud, Imagination Technologies, Intel, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and Samsung ) unveiled by the Linux Foundation to provide an alternative to NVIDIA's CUDA for providing a software interface to accelerated compute (GPU, TPUs ...)
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/announcing-unified-acceleration-foundation-uxl?ref=runtime.news

loleg,
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@fj Good stuff. I hope it results in funding for things like MLC-LLM

loleg, to python
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Swiss Summit 2023 is next week!
🐍 September 21 @
Get your ticket at https://python-summit.ch

fj, to random
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Many companies thought about it, Shopify actually did it.

> The Canadian e-commerce company has rolled out a calculator embedded in employees’ calendar app that estimates the cost of any meeting with three or more people. The tool uses average compensation data across roles and disciplines, along with meeting length and attendee count, to put a price tag on the event.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-12/shopify-shames-workers-with-a-1-600-price-tag-for-pointless-meetings?srnd=premium-europe

loleg,
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@fj another great idea coming out of a hackday 😆 there's a screenshot and some more details at https://fortune.com/2023/07/14/shopify-cfo-meeting-cost-calculator/

loleg,
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@fj I found a couple of open source projects if you want to try it with your team: https://github.com/tobytripp/meeting-ticker (witty!) and https://github.com/syncfast/clockwise (needs maintenance)

aral, to random
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So let me get this straight, Tabnine (https://www.tabnine.com/) already has a commercial service, offers a private local model, was trained only on permissively-licensed code, and doesn’t reek of Musk. I might just have to give it a try on principle alone.

loleg,
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@aral how did it go? Plus, it is of Canadian university origin, and just got a big boost from Atlassian.

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