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brecht

@brecht@social.coop

High-functioning technophobe. Private intellectual.

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brecht, to chinese
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Reminded of fedi every time this particular flashcard comes up. #Chinese

lowqualityfacts, to random
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That's rough.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

brecht,
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@lowqualityfacts There's this little known loophole though, that if you turn 65 before becoming a great-grandmother you can still retire.

interfluidity, to random
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in stevelang blank files will be legal and defined to compile to a program that emits “Hello, world!” to the console.

the stevelang specification is this toot long, and already it has the shortest hello world.

brecht,
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@interfluidity Here's a POC implementation in bash:

#!/bin/sh

[ -z $(cat "$1") ] && echo "Hello, world!"

jonny, to random
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let fedi posts embed css you cowards

brecht,
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@jonny transform: rotate(3deg) !important;

interfluidity, to random
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is mid cringe or basic? (surely it's not based.)

brecht,
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@interfluidity Not an expert, but I reckon that mid is a basic trying to be based, making it cringe.

RickiTarr, to random
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    brecht,
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    @RickiTarr The average is heavily weighted by child mortality though. So the majority of women who made to adulthood probably lived long enough to experience menopause.

    There's actually some interesting theories about post-menopausal women being particular targets of witch hunts, because they didn't fit into the neat gender roles any more.

    jiewawa, to random
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    There were a few Twitter accounts I used to follow via Nitter, and when that stopped working I just found sources of the same information elsewhere. The same is happening now that YouTube is cracking down on Invidious. It’s not pushing me to YouTube, it’s pushing me to related podcasts, blogs and other written media.

    brecht,
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    @jiewawa I still manage to just about follow a few accounts using https://nitter.privacydev.net. That instance seems to have added its own rate limiting system preventing it from getting banned, but that also means it only works about 50% of the time. But once it stops working completely, I'm completely done following any Twitter accounts just like you.

    drewdevault, to random
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    Why are there no good domain registrars

    brecht,
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    @pojntfx @drewdevault They were decent enough, until they got acquired and started doubling prices. (As far as I can see, they're doing it slowly, one TLD at a time, so you might not have been affected. Yet.)

    brecht,
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    @ulexus @drewdevault I suspect you'll start becoming aware of some problems sooner rather than later, see: https://social.coop/@brecht/112336318500835790

    LukaszOlejnik, to random
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    U.S. crackdown on developers of spyware systems. "impose visa restrictions on 13 individuals who have been involved in the development and sale of commercial spyware or who are immediate family members of those involved" https://www.state.gov/promoting-accountability-for-the-misuse-of-commercial-spyware/

    brecht,
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    @LukaszOlejnik Looking forward to Zuckerberg being denied re-entry next time he travels abroad.

    mhoye, to random
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    I get excitable on the internet sometimes.

    brecht,
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    @mhoye If for a change you ever want the internet to get excitable on you, there's a guy who can fix you some Neuralink for that.

    juergen_hubert, to threads
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    Out of morbid curiosity, can users actually follow and interact with accounts?

    Or is all the interaction one way only?

    brecht,
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    @juergen_hubert Only one way, and only for Threads users who opt-in to being followed by people on other servers.

    matias, to languagelearning

    I haven't really found great use cases for ChatGPT for myself until now, but I did some experimenting with (specifically ), and it's actually quite helpful!
    I'll share some examples in this thread!

    brecht,
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    @matias I'd say that Large Language Model struggling to play language games is a pretty good case of "you had one job..."

    tuxdevices, to random
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    Serious question: Which do you consider to be the least unethical among very-big-tech companies (let's say top 10 only), and why?

    No judgement, just for statistical purposes! :ablobcatattention:

    brecht,
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    @tuxdevices Tough one. IBM maybe?

    brecht,
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    @QuadRadical @tuxdevices That's a very precise statement there, you found the official Very-Big-Tech Companies Ranking? I mean, OP was clearly talking about an order of magnitude there, because if he was thinking about an exact top 10, he could have just listed them in a poll...

    AnnaAnthro, to random
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    ‘Psychopathic’ AI Easter Bunny ‘maybe just dealing with a lot,’ says creator -

    https://globalnews.ca/news/10384568/manitoba-ai-easter-bunny/

    brecht,
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    @AnnaAnthro Given that it was generated using AI, calling him the "creator" might be giving a bit too much credit to the guy.

    garbados, to random
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    english is an amazing language and i wish we were speaking a better one

    brecht,
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    @garbados I'm not a native speaker myself, but I do like English a lot. Not because it's "reasonable" or "efficient", but because it's a total and irredeemable mess of a language. No matter how hard the purists and grammar nazis try, there's no way to they're ever going to rein it in. Now watch me end this post with a preposition just because I want to

    dajb, to random
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    Er, so, any Threads accounts worth following?

    brecht,
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    @dajb They still have to opt-in manually, so not that many yet I suspect

    jon, to random
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    Jakop Dalunde commissioned it. I wrote it. And it came out this evening - what needs fixing has why with public transport ticketing, cross border, in the EU https://jakopdalunde.se/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/MDMS-Report-FINAL-WEB-reducedsize.pdf

    brecht,
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    @jon Excellent choice of venue too

    garbados, to random
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    fearing a dictatorship of the proletariat while living under a dictatorship of capital :think_thonk:

    brecht,
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    @dalias @garbados The word dictator only acquired this pejorative meaning in the twentieth century. Wouldn't surprise me if that happened exactly in response to its usage in Marxist theory.

    aral, to javascript
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    Hey folks, I just released Auto Encrypt Localhost* v8.4.0 with better async support and updated dependencies.

    https://www.npmjs.com/package/@small-tech/auto-encrypt-localhost

    • My pure JavaScript module (no mkcert, certutil, etc., required) that automatically provisions and installs locally-trusted TLS certificates for Node.js https servers.

    (There seems to be an issue with tests failing on macOS, will debug that tomorrow and likely post a patch release.)

    brecht,
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    @serapath @aral There are a couple of newer browser APIs that require HTTPS to work, even on localhost. Not 100% which exactly, but I think service workers might be one?

    brecht,
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    @serapath @aral Hm I did run into an edge case a while ago that needed HTTPS on localhost, but struggling to remember what exactly. Some weirdness with iframes maybe?

    girlonthenet, to random
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    This is subscriber-only and I might subscribe to see Papi’s answer because I think it is screamingly obvious. Points if you can guess exactly what I’d tell this dude. They will be dispensed when I return from the shops.

    brecht,
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    @girlonthenet it's "ask questions" isn't it?

    kev, to random
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    Is the @inkscape website down for anyone else?

    https://inkscape.org/download/

    Trying to reinstall it after an update on my Mac seems to have broken it…

    brecht,
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    @kev @inkscape Can confirm it's not responding for me either.

    liztai, (edited ) to random
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    明天我不要去办公室 可以吗？

    You don’t have to understand this sentence. Just say yes. 😄

    brecht,
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    @liztai 可以

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