If you’re frustrated about what the online world has become, and you remember “the good old days” with nostalgia (rightly or wrongly), and you despair about our collective ability to find a way forward, this by @molly0xfff offers an important perspective. With reason for hope. She has become an essential voice, along with @pluralistic and Jaron Lanier.
Spectacular timelapse capturing an entire night from sunset to sunrise over the ALMA Observatory on the Chajnantor Plateau in the Chilean Atacama Desert.
Los #LLM actuales necesitan ingentes cantidades de datos para aprender: «Los investigadores estiman que podrían agotarse las reservas de datos lingüísticos de alta calidad en 2024, acabar con los datos lingüísticos de baja calidad en dos décadas, y consumir todos los datos de imágenes desde finales de los años 2030 hasta mediados de 2040».
«They’re useful, there’s no question about that. But on the path towards human-level intelligence, an LLM is basically an off-ramp, a distraction, a dead end».
🤕 Someday we will reach the achievement of not forcing people to be tracked via QR codes to link shorteners in order to read references in presentations.
Show a library worker some love. If you're a New Yorker, you can use this website to leave a note of appreciation for your librarian. https://notes.investinlibraries.org/
Happy #NationalLibraryWeek to those who celebrate. I love my smol library/archive Mastodon instance. I love my local library (where I check out books and also sometimes work) and I love the distributed mutual aid system that is public libraries in the United States.
There are some real problems, ones that need attention and caring (both internal and external) but I'm happy I chose libraries and am happier they chose me.
(photo is old novelty headshot but it always makes me smile)
Fairphone’s repairable wireless earbuds put the industry on notice
Fairphone’s impact here should be to lay down a challenge to its bigger rivals to use their vast resources to build an earbud that isn’t condemned to live in the trash from the moment it was born.
:fdroid: Happy #FDroidFriday! What apps have you found useful this week?
📸 A lot of people like to take #photos and share them with specific family or friends over time. If you want to do this without Big Tech in the way, check out #Circles.
It's still technically in Beta, but works great. It runs entirely over the #Matrix protocol and uses encrypted rooms to manage your sharing and commenting. You can use their homeserver, or your own existing one.
