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akosma

@akosma@mastodon.online

Computer historian • Author of https://mas.to/@deprogrammaticaipsum • Fedora & FreeBSD user • Searchable profile at https://tootfinder.ch

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internetarchive, to random
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Sorry to say, archive.org is under a ddos attack. The data is not affected, but most services are unavailable.

We are working on it & will post updates in comments.

deprogrammaticaipsum, to random
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"Retrocomputing is good for our geek mind, exposed as it is to a plethora of unused and unusable functionality spread across gigabytes of disk space, and requiring permanent network connections for seemingly no reason at all (well, mostly corporate surveillance.) It is an escape mechanism from a world that has grown increasingly complex, even for computer geeks."

https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/return-to-innocence/

GossiTheDog, to random
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the LockBit song

GossiTheDog,
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I asked AI to write a song about trying to quit Vim

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

anderseknert, to random
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Open source project written in rust without saying “written in rust” in the description challenge (impossible)

baldur, to random
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“AI engineers face burnout in 'rat race' to stay competitive hits tech”

https://www-cnbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/05/03/ai-engineers-face-burnout-as-rat-race-to-stay-competitive-hits-tech.html

> He said he often has to put together demos of AI products for the company's board of directors on three-week timelines, even though the products are "a big pile of nonsense."

jackdaw_ruiz, to random
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the mad max movies tell the story of a beautiful future where you can actually repair the technology you rely on.

fj, (edited ) to bookclub
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I still read a lot of "paper" books and take A LOT of notes which often slows me down. My process is to transcribe from the book, there has to be a better way.

Does anyone have any apps that are very streamlined for taking notes while reading on paper & automatic appending to a note?

Update: Actually, Highlighted is exactly that. Capture OCR highlights from books, export a TXT/Markdown/CSV…

Thank you @damirstuhec so much for building Highlighted 🙌🙏
#Bookclub #Reading
https://highlighted.app

wxcafe, to random
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lmao this makes me want to die

MostlyHarmless, to random
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All you seniors posting about how you survived lead paint, no seatbelts, no helmets etc… I’m very happy for you. Would love to hear sometime from those who didn’t, but for some reason their posts don’t show up on my feed.

Lana, to random
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1990 Internet: You gotta be a hacker to find anything on the web

2000 Internet: Literally all the information in the world accessible to everyone so easy a toddler could do it

2020 Internet: You gotta be a hacker to find anything on the web

robert, to martialartsmemes
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One I read elsewhere…

English weather is wet
German weather is Wetter

English kids are kind
German kids are Kinder

English mothers mumble
German mothers Mutter

The English shout the word people
But Germans just quietly Menschen it

And English sausages can be bad
But a German sausage is the Wurst

RickiTarr, to random
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When the Soviet Union was falling apart Gorbachev had one thing on his mind, Who killed Laura Palmer?!

jplebreton, to random
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There's a real Rube Goldberg quality to many of the attempts to find real use cases for LLMs: take regular desktop screenshots, OCR them, "find meaningful patterns" 🤔 so the system can answer queries... the amount of compute being chucked on a fire speculatively is absurd - so much of it already rolled out to users! The carbon cost of that is immediately alarming but there's also just something repellent about it from a systems design perspective. The desperation of these companies is palpable.

Patricia, to random
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Ok, I’m sorry, I’m going to ruffle feathers here but… I’m trying to read some newer development process books and… oh my… even super popular ones are so immensely long winded and unconvincing in their dogmatic argumentation: this is bad, this is good, because I said so that’s why.

Recent examples that I’m struggling to finish: “Team Topologies” and “Data Mesh” - I mean they might be great but I’m getting strong “this should’ve been a blogpost” feels.

Patricia,
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The worst part of Agile and Lean etc has been the wave of folks earning their living telling you confidently how to build while they themselves have barely ever shipped anything.

pulkomandy, to random French
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All these posts about AI giving apparently wrong answers are actually people under-specifying their questions:

  • you can glue cheese to a pizza if you want (you didn't specify that the pizza should still be safe to eat)
  • you can eat any type of mushrooms (for some of them, you may die, but that's after eating them)
  • you can safely jump off a plane without a parachute (if the plane is not flying)

finding and fixing that kind of ambiguity is exactly what software engineers do!

akosma, to random
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Some ideas https://akos.ma/blog/running-programming-workshops/

sdarlington,
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@akosma The two biggest challenges I've had running workshops are people turning up unprepared (laptop not setup or capable of tasks) and a lack of engagement (their manager told them to go?).

janl, (edited ) to random
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“The xz-utils incident was not a wake-up call, if anything it was hitting snooze on your alarm for the 100th time.” — by @tarakiyee 👆
https://mastodon.online/@tarakiyee/112491229545458451

GossiTheDog, to random
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Google search thinks you should use glue to stick together a pizza as its AI is trained on Reddit, where 11 years ago a user called “fucksmith” posted suggesting it was a good idea.

carnage4life, to random
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I sometimes wonder if LLMs are this generation’s self driving cars? A decade ago self driving cars were so promising it was assumed they were 90% of the way to being ubiquitous. But now it looks like the last 10% of the work is taking 90% of the time.

LLMs work well 90% of the time. The question is how hard will it be to address that last 10%?

ojala, to random
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Listening: "Cuando ya me empiece a quedar solo" version by Mercedes Sosa and Charly García (composer). Mercedes' voice is magnificent in this concert.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJk2pusxbt0

ojala,
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Followed by "Barro tal vez" version by Mercedes Sosa and Luis Alberto Spinetta (composer). Great collaboration.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPw7g2ZkpZw

jackyan, to DuckDuckGo
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Bingo! Or -go! , , , and down? I hope a ton of people are switching to @Mojeek today. https://mojeek.com

carnage4life, to random
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The huge potential of AI is being able to feed it all the documents about your business and ask it questions. It is truly a game changer to be able to ask questions about prior decisions or product specs as trivially as if it were a SQL query.

The problem is hallucinations.

Without addressing hallucinations, generative AI can help where accuracy is not a requirement like content generation from art to entertainment but it will fail to meet expectations of businesses spending billions on it.

ifixcoinops, to random
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Ooooh should Pinball Dad stick his toe in the Linux Discourse

I've been on it since 2010, I guess I should maybe?

How about I stick my whole entire foot in, maybe if I poison it with my footstink then it'll die down a bit

ifixcoinops,
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One more post about Linux and then I'll shut up about it.

(I can do that, because I outgrew the evangelical "Oh my god you have to try this it's so much easier" stage like ten years ago, it's possible for me to shut up about Linux now, which is nicer for everyone involved)

If you have to choose between something that used to be crap but is slowly getting better, and something that used to be alright but is getting inexorably worse, the best time to jump is gonna be when you get to see and take joy in the getting-better bit.

If you leave it too long and the thing you're jumping from has gotten intolerably, unusably bad, you'll be in a hell of a panic and it'll probably be at a super-inconvenient time. Give the New Thing a good sniff ahead of time and play around with it a bit in a non-vital setting, so that you're not moving in a horrible panicked rush.

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