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tomw

@tomw@mastodon.social

Web developer. Sometimes designer. I like code, words and mass movements. Jag lär mig #svenska.

Interested in/may post about #html #css #wordpress #openweb #decentralisation #socialism #protest

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Loukas, to random
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The fact that 'fifteen-minute cities' is now a dirty word really puts into perspective all the time people spent agonising over whether 'defund the police' and similar slogans were too radical.

listrophy, to random
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Computers were a mistake

moh_kohn, to random
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If you're still on other social networks you should tell people there that mastodon has real search now; maybe some will log back in or try it for the first time

Neverfadingwood, to random
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Just seen a new favourite response to AI text. "Why should I bother to read something nobody could be bothered to write?"

ftrain, to random

It’s hard to believe that people are using ChatGPT for serious work when it produces FUD like this, from when I asked it to design a CMS for Batman.

elizabethtasker, to random
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Society is kinda amazing. You live in a big cluster of other humans, and you can get one of them to do stuff for you that you don’t know how to do (like plumbing), or where a pile of humans is needed (like… a coffee shop). And they build stuff like trains.

Is it only me randomly impressed by the existence of other people this Saturday?

Hmm. Yes. As you were…

janrosenow, to random
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People sometimes ask me how I can remain optimistic that we can address the climate crisis.

This is why: 👇

april, to random
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    billyjoebowers, to random
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    I am a simple man who cannot understand why the fuck there is a "continue reading" button in the middle of every article now.

    CyberneticForests, to random
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    When people tell me generative AI will solve real-world problems

    tomw, to random
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    NFTs didn't become worthless today. They always were.

    jberg,
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    @tomw

    benlikestocode, to random

    lol you can't change your registered email address on Bluesky without filing a support ticket

    How in the hell did that become perceived as a credible social site

    doktorzjivago, to Starfield
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    joshbressers, to random

    I fixed the XKCD open source cartoon to be more accurate

    jonkeegan, to random
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    NEW: Twitter (X) is still throttling links to competitors' sites. We measured a consistent 2.5 second delay for Facebook, Instagram, Bluesky and Substack links, compared to a random control group of domains. That may not seem like a lot but it is 60x longer than other domains. This delay occurs via Twitter's t.co link shortener. AND we built a tool so you can test out other t.co links. Great collab with @dphiffer and Joel Eastwood. 🐢https://themarkup.org/investigations/2023/09/15/twitter-is-still-throttling-competitors-links-check-for-yourself

    A screenshot of a chart showing that Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram and Substack links on Twitter all had a 2.5 second delay on average in our tests, compared to a control group that averaged 39 milliseconds

    logoninternet, to random
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    matdevdug, to firefox
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    are the worst, most user-hostile security design ever imagined in my lifetime. They're endlessly confusing for people, the sync mechanisms make no goddamn sense and their rollout has been a complete shit-show so far.

    Let's start with Chrome and passkeys. I'm on a Mac and I want to use a passkey. doesn't even support passkeys, so I can use or . IF I USE CHROME, the passkey generated is NOT synced OR usable on the iCloud Keychain. It exists only on the Mac Keychain. So if I lose this laptop OR delete my Chrome user, that login is simply gone forever.

    Ok so I'll use safari. Whoa there partner, now the passkey isn't usable on Chrome! Now I'm locked to Safari forever. Let's say I'm sick of Apple and decide to go to Android someday? All those logins are gone forever.

    Jesus Christ, I'll use Windows. Nope, those passkeys don't sync ever! So if I ever lose that laptop, I'm locked out of all those accounts regardless of how I use passkeys.

    None of these risks have been properly communicated to users and none of them are acceptable. I cannot believe that we are suggesting that anyone use these broken things right now. Shameful.

    chargrille, to random
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    Are there people out there who are looking at AI/LLM-generated content as pollution?

    Because that is the analogy that makes the most sense to me. It's creating huge externalities for the profit of a few - proliferating enormous amounts of digital pollution (as well as real-world greenhouse gas pollution).

    The more AI/LLM churn out content for the internet, the dirtier the water, so to speak. Or the air. And the less it functions for users.

    parismarx, to tech
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    Microsoft is really hitting it out of the park with its AI-generated travel stories! If you visit Ottawa, it highly recommends the Ottawa Food Bank and provides a tip for tourists: “Consider going into it on an empty stomach.”

    https://www.msn.com/en-gb/lifestyle/travel/headed-to-ottawa-here-s-what-you-shouldn-t-miss/ar-AA1faajY

    futurebird, (edited ) to random
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    "That's the last straw, Computer." I said. My computer had long known this day would come and was much more nimble that I'd anticipated when I lunged at her with the hot poker from the fire.

    "It wasn't even me!" She wailed.
    "It was someone like you!"
    "But shouldn't you go after the lawmakers?"
    "I can't get away with skewering them!"

    https://www.popsci.com/technology/iowa-chatgpt-book-ban/

    futurebird,
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    More serious:

    Just because chatGPT answers questions doesn't mean that it knows anything.

    I'm not talking about "it might make a mistake" I'm talking about ... the way it constructs answers isn't based on knowing facts or any logical framework.

    The only thing chatGPT cares about is that answers "sound like" they are correct and appropriate in context.

    chatGPT is not an oracle, it's not even a search engine, it's not a wikipedia even... it's worse than all these. It's a verbiage engine.

    GossiTheDog, to random
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    AndrewGuilford, to climate
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    The Tory Party is now so unpopular with young people they assume any young person who does express an interest in supporting them must be trying to infiltrate them

    unclepj, to random
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    To the new Mastodon users out there, we have two unwritten rules here:

    popey, to random
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    '"Our analysis shows that 52 percent of ChatGPT answers are incorrect and 77 percent are verbose," the team's paper concluded. "Nonetheless, ChatGPT answers are still preferred 39.34 percent of the time due to their comprehensiveness and well-articulated language style." Among the set of preferred ChatGPT answers, 77 percent were wrong.'

    https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/07/chatgpt_stack_overflow_ai/

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