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diazona

@diazona@techhub.social

Software engineer, former particle physicist, occasional blogger. I support the principle of cake.

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kenthompson, to books
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, anyone? Perfect example from publishing. A publisher is using AI to write crappy nonfiction, then assigning author names that almost match leading experts in that field (to trick search engines). No doubt other AIs will now search those texts as authoritative. This is done solely to make money and only makes the world a worse place.
@bookstodon @pluralistic

https://www.washingtonpost.com/newsletters/book-club/

diazona,
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@hexbatch @OhOkKay @kenthompson @bookstodon @pluralistic I definitely agree that that is a good practice, either that or some other way of preserving drafts, notes, or evidence of incremental progress. (There isn't really anything special about Git in that regard; a commit history can easily be faked.)

But I also think it's not reasonable to expect, in general, that writers must have done this. There are, and (probably) always will be, many cases where an author doesn't have records of their incremental progress, and that can't mean they have no defense against an accusation of AI-powered plagiarism.

diazona, to random
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@googlyeyesonmagiccards Did you ever do any of the Beholder cards from AFR? I thought you did but I can't seem to find them.

moira, to superbowl
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as seen from mastodon.murkworks.net:

Monsterdon: 1.3K posts, 104 participants 1.3K posts today

Superbowl: 375 posts, 226 participants, 198 posts today

diazona,
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@moira Oh cool, I was just wondering how activity on compares to .

Although I wonder about those numbers - I just looked at my Mastodon app and it said 1578 people had recently posted in the hashtag, while didn't even register, so I guess the reporting must be incomplete? 🤷

diazona,
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@moira Ahh gotcha, that makes sense

I was a little confused because I've definitely seen that 1.3k ish for before

moira, to random
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sooooo... ummm... well... that was an... ending I guess...

seriously what the hell i like tokyo what even is happening here

there must be so much context i'm missing here

diazona,
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@moira I wonder if it makes more sense after you eat the mushrooms

diazona, to random
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Wait this mushroom dude has pants on WTF

moira, to random
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I wonder if the sail titles were like that in Japanese release. It's nice but doesn't quite fit and I'm wondering if it was better with the kanji

diazona,
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@moira I'm watching the Japanese version, it was all kanji

ferngirl, to superbowl
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If the #SuperBowl ain't your jam, might I suggest a good book? Right now, I'm reading The Dictionary of Lost Words (by Pip Williams), and I'm really enjoying it.
@bookstodon what are you reading? Anything good?
#booklove #librophile

diazona,
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@ferngirl @bookstodon Currently finishing up "The King's Seal" (https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/1315c50a-e30d-4cb7-8b2d-86c309e1cb4a), which is the end of a series... which I actually don't think is all that great - it's fine, but not a standout - though I suppose the fact that I did stick with it through a 3-book series has to count for something 🤷

hynek, to random
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Shots fired by the flake8 maintainer.

We can have a nuanced discussion about the failures of flake8 etc, but you’ll still have to acknowledge that a VC-backed, non-Python project profited from decades of community work, & has sucked all air out of the space.

It’s not like I’m not using Ruff—but I do it begrudgingly & find the cheerleading around it baffling. It has practically destroyed a part of the ecosystem & it looks like nobody has seen the VC playbook play out.

https://youtu.be/XzW4-KEB664

diazona,
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@webology @carlton @hynek ooh interesting, you're the first person I've seen posting about bad experiences contributing to pre-commit. I mean, I've seen what you're talking about, and it's definitely enough to put me off wanting to contribute to that project, but it kind of seemed like everyone else in the community was okay with it.

Not that this phenomenon is unique to pre-commit, but that's the project you happened to mention.

adamchainz, to django
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✍️ New post on joining the community on

💁‍♂️ Share with your non-Fediversing friends!

https://adamj.eu/tech/2024/02/10/django-join-community-mastodon/

diazona,
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@adamchainz @paulox No Bookwyrm uses ActivityPub.

amyfou, to random
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    diazona,
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    @amyfou To be fair the pregnant giant crab is projecting a male voice

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    diazona,
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    @amyfou I thought land crabs were spiders

    Unixbigot, to random
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    I don’t know /why/ cleaning robots have microphones, but it can’t be good. What I /do/ know is that a microphone implies an input and an input implies a buffer. And buffers can be overflowed.

    As I dance through the streets playing my pipe, augmented with inaudible-to-humans harmonic overtones added by my homemade amplifier, the robots hear, listen, overflow, obey, follow. The trail of robots stretches out of sight, now.

    I don’t yet know for sure what I’m going to do with my army of two thousand score Roombas, but it can’t be good.

    diazona,
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    @shannonpersists @Unixbigot And on top of that, the wake word detection system doesn't know your specific voice (at least not until quite recently), so it has to listen for the wake word in many different accents, with or without background noise, whispered close up or shouted from across the room, and so on. People have managed to make these systems quite good, but they do need to cast a fairly broad net, so to speak. Which means there's always going to be some chance that they misinterpret other noises as the wake word.

    jake4480, to firefox
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    Is there any benefit to Vivaldi over Firefox? Pros/cons?

    diazona,
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    @jake4480 Vivaldi is one of the many derivatives of Chromium, so if you care at all about Google not having a monopoly over rendering engines, that's a big point in favor of Firefox. 🤷

    Other than that, I guess it comes down to personal preference? I mean, I prefer the UI and experience of Firefox, but you can really make your own decision based on that.

    skaeth, to books
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    What are your thoughts on DNF (Did Not Finish)-ing books? Do you feel guilty about it? Do you worry you missed out on something? Or are you confident in dropping a book and reaching for the next one?

    At what point are you most likely to DNF, if ever? What sorts of things cause you to DNF?

    My friend, book blogger Kriti, was musing on these questions a while back, and it sparked this new post: https://armedwithabook.com/dealing-with-dnf-the-practice-of-did-not-finish/

    @bookstodon

    diazona,
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    @skaeth @bluGill @bookstodon Ooh that's an interesting take. A bit surprising to me, actually. My understanding of DNF has always been to stop reading with no intention of ever coming back to it.

    There have been many times I stopped reading a book temporarily because it's not what I was in the mood for at that moment or because I got too busy with other things in my life or so on - sometimes even because the book is good enough that I want to save it for a time when I can properly appreciate it - but I planned to come back and finish (or reread it from the beginning) later. It just doesn't feel right to tag those books with the stigma of a DNF label.

    diazona,
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    @skaeth @bluGill @bookstodon Ah I see. I dunno, I just feel like there's a huge difference between DNF and DNF-for-now in terms of what it says about the book.

    FWIW I've never been one of those people who had any trouble setting aside a book temporarily. Reading a book cover-to-cover all in one sitting is just not done, in my world. (Unless it's a super-short book I guess.) At a minimum I have to stop at some point to, like, get food or something. And I can't bring myself to find much of a meaning in the distinction between taking a half-hour break to eat, or taking a 10-hour break to go to work, or taking a 3-week break because of various other things I have going on in my life, or so on.

    diazona,
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    @skaeth @simon @bookstodon Other people's opinions are extremely overrated 😛

    diazona,
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    @skaeth @bluGill @bookstodon Usually only one at a time for me, although sometimes I'll have two going at once if they're different genres. At least, only one (maybe two) at a time actively. It does happen that I'll put aside a book temporarily and read another book in the interim, especially if the one I put aside is one I expect to be really good and the other one I pick up is less good.

    BTW this is a very interesting discussion, thanks for starting it 🙂

    diazona,
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    @skaeth @bluGill @bookstodon Good question - yes, I usually do follow through with finishing books later. I'll typically get far enough into the book before putting it down that I'm invested in finding out how the story concludes. But I don't necessarily know, at the time of putting the book down, when I'm going to come back to it. (in rare cases it takes years)

    I'd say I use a mix of borrowing and buying to get my books, although a lot of them I actually get as free ebooks from promotions by Barnes and Noble, so I don't know if that really counts as either! What I can say is it's quite rare I'll spend money to buy a book unless I know I really like it, or I have a very strong expectation of liking it based on other work by the same author in the same genre.

    diazona,
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    @orbitz @m4 You don't need to be running the desktop environment to run the app, you only have to have it installed. Like, KDE apps require (some parts of) KDE to be installed, but typically work fine even if you're running Gnome instead of KDE, and vice-versa.

    Apps do tend to look and feel a little smoother if you use them in their "native" desktop environment though.

    StephanieMoore, to firefox
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    Ok, made the switch to and wondering what extensions people recommend. I’ve installed Badger, Facebook Container, Search By Image, and Dark Background and Light Text.

    PS - this was an EASY switch!

    diazona,
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    @StephanieMoore @alexanderhay Yes uBlock Origin is probably the #1 most-recommended extension that you absolutely should use. (Note that the developers of uBlock Origin recommend not using it along with other content blockers like Ghostery, and you may indeed find that Ghostery isn't doing much with uBlock Origin also running, but you can always experiment with different combinations.)

    Other than that, my favorite extensions would be Facebook Container and Multi-Account Containers, which segregate cookies and stored data from different websites into local containers to make it more difficult for them to track your browsing history, to allow you to use different accounts on one site without switching profiles, and so on.

    RhetTbull, to python
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    I'm an old hacker who found his way to . One perl feature I sometimes miss is the DATA file handle. Anything after DATA in your script is ignored by perl but can be read using a special file handle. Very useful for bundling data + script or test data. So I'm toying with this likely very bad python idea

    diazona,
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    @RhetTbull Why wouldn't the program just use DATA directly though?

    I mean, stuffing some arbitrary data into the script file as a string seems reasonable enough, I just don't see the point of forcing it to be read through a file handle.

    moira, to random
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    the last half of the movie kinda made me miss the sicilian kid

    i'm not even posing, he was relatively innocent and had clear motives that made sense

    diazona,
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    @moira We'd probably be better off if he had gotten to buy Texas too

    ramsey, to random
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    Is this what everyone is posting about? https://monsterdon.com

    diazona,
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    @ramsey wat that's actually a website? 😂

    jonny, to random
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    Dear instancemates it is almost time for - if u are new around here and can see this post, u are welcome to join, or else u may want to set a filter from having your TL totally submerged: https://wiki.neuromatch.social/Monsterdon

    diazona,
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    @jonny Oh I got a different one https://archive.org/details/20-million-miles-to-earth. I wonder what the difference is?

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