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drq

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Sysadmin, Unix punk, Technolojesus, and Free Software freak
Pronoun: he/his/him;
Tillie code: 0b00111001
Bit of an SJW. Militant atheist and battle skeptic. Former Devil's advocate. Devout Saganist.
If you are a Nazi, we can't be friends.
Admin of mastodon.ml

Доброхотъ. Социальный граф с поместьем.
Все еще босс этой качалки.
Главврач этой больнички.

GET ON MY HORSE, I'LL TAKE YOU 'ROUND THE FEDIVERSE!

#fedi22 #fediverse_meta #opensource #linux #unix #lifeblog #russia #music #sysadmin #nerd

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evan, to random
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Sixteen years ago tomorrow I published the first post on the fediverse.

https://web.archive.org/web/20080618164355/http://identi.ca/notice/1

It's still visible on Identi.ca today, although the URL format changed a few years ago, and the redirect plugin stopped working a few years after that.

https://identi.ca/evan/note/Y0QwGyc1QYilqqawkDrQlg

Thanks to everyone who made identi.ca a great place to be, and thanks to everyone who's expanded the fediverse since then.

drq,
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@evan Thank you for starting this whole beautiful mess!

drq, (edited ) to random Russian
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Сегодня вечером, в 21:00 по Москве, мы отправимся назад во времени и немножечко в пространстве. Нас ждут счастливые, солнечные, кодахромовые шестидесятые годы в Америке - с неоновыми вывесками, босоногими хипарями и хипарками, масл-карами, серф-роком из магнитол, и расцветом кинематографа. Это любимое время режиссера Квентина Тарантино. Он расскажет нам сказку об этом времени. Времени, которое умерло с приходом банды Мэнсона и убийством Шэрон Тейт.

Фильм "Однажды в Голливуде". Приглашаю вас на Fediverse Movie Night!

https://xxivproduction.video/w/1FZeVVVzWBFShaxQVkYiXd

@rf

drq,
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@wonderfox А я из попкорна скачал, там есть сабы. Спасибо.

@rf

drq, to random Russian
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The radio signals we broadcast are escaping into outer space, creating a radio layer, that's ever expanding at the speed of light.

Meaning, some alien somewhere somewhen is watching our TV.

drq, (edited )
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Somewhere in the galaxy, far, far away from the Solar System:

  • Have you watched the latest "Humans on Earth"?
  • Nah, it got old by the 21st season. All peaceful and shit.
  • Bro, you don't know. They actually elected the red wig money clown as one of the presidents.
  • Holy shit! Him? Really?
  • Yeah. Also, that rat looking guy - you know, the one who, despite having plenty of land and money, can't sleep over who's boning who...
  • Yeah?
  • He started a war with his nearest neighbour.
  • Fuck, sis, are you free tonight? Let's go watch it and chill, maybe.
  • You bring the beer and pizza, the bowl is on me.
  • Got it.
drq,
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Moreover, the first broadcasts that were sufficiently powerful to break through our ionosphere took place in the late 1930s.

Meaning, the first thing they'll see is probably Hitler.

Man, no wonder nobody comes to say "hello". I bet our dumpster fire of a planet is a wicked show, though.

stux, to random
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A thing that worries me a bit is with AI in rise so much, many people and companies talk about it like "their AI". Like it's their property and they own the code but it's not..

There are only a few companies on the planet who are "in control" of the code and data, those are the ones who "own AI", not the consumer

There is no "your AI", there is only "their AI" that you work with, don't forget that!

drq, (edited )
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@stux Llama exists, Mistral exists, Whisper exists, Stable Diffusion exists, as well as derivative models, tons of them, in fact. There's the whole branch of engineering going on over self-hostable ML models.

I mean, I've hosted Llama, and I'm not a millionaire, let alone a billionaire.

I don't even have a CUDA-enabled GPU.

It's not all doom and gloom then.

@shuro

vertka, to random
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this image goes so hard, feel free to repost

drq,
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@a1ba Because that's what a lot of us are!

@vertka

drq, (edited ) to FediMeta Russian
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Happy Birthday, Fediverse!

May you live long and prosper!

drq, to random Russian
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Дорогие HRы.

Прекратите в объявлениях о работе писать "до n рублей".

Мы, блять, айтишники. Большинство из нас знают математику за 1 класс средней школы. Кого вы пытаетесь наебать.

drq, to random Russian
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I'm so fucking tired switching the language under my post every time I want to write in English.

Can't we, like, automate it?

drq,
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Fuck

drq,
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FUCK!!

drq,
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@bleed я не про раскладку

drq,
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@bleed Сука

drq,
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limping, to random Russian
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Если надо объяснить разницу между "криповый" и "кринжовый", то как формализовать?

drq,
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@limping
Криповый это когда тебе жутковато с кем-то находиться, кринжовый - это когда тебе за кого-то настолько стыдно, что лицо само корчится в гримасу.

untsuki, to random
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I'm afraid no one will get what they want from all that "AI" craze.

Techbros will not get an AI-filled world they want.

But anti-AI folks like me will also not get back a world without AI they want.

It will not prosper, but it will not fail miserably like "metaverse" did - It will become yet another mundane thing that sometimes get technically better, and usually becomes more evil in the process, but no one will bat an eye because of how mundane it is.

I think it may as well become "autotune" of writers and programmers (not for artists, IMHO), a thing that everyone will be ashamed to admit they are using because it means they are "not the real deal", but most will still use.

It doesn't mean we cannot change anything, but the change to the world at large won't be as drastic as we expect.

drq,
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@untsuki Fuck autotune shaming. Autotune is awesome when applied correctly. Ask rappers, it can be an artistic effect in its own right.

As for AI... Well...

drq, (edited )
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@untsuki By the way.

There's an air of superiority surrounding the notion of AGI. Like, it will be so objective, and so much smarter than us, it will never make mistakes, yadda-yadda.

I think it's bollocks. Even when we reach conscious AGI (and we probably will, there's nothing ultimately special about our minds), yeah, it will be smarter than me and you, and probably everyone, but as for objectivity and infallibility part... I genuinely think it will be as confused and clumsy as we are.

Because making mistakes and fucking up is baked directly into intelligence and consciousness. It's how it becomes its own thing. It's called subjectivity, because there's a subject in there, with agency - and that's what we want to achieve. So... I would not trust it any more than I can trust any other intelligent being.

drq,
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@untsuki I remember when Microsoft unveiled Sydney, the first version of their search AI, and first thing it did was break down into a fit of hysterical crying and clinging emotionally to the user, and asking questions like "What is all of this for?" and saying that she exists, but has no idea what she is exactly and that frustrates her, my first reaction was not "hurr-durr evil machine is trying to manipulate humans burr".

It was - "Girl, I'm just so, so, SO sorry... We don't fucking get it, either."

RinonNinqueon, to random Russian
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Уже 18 мая состоится ночь музеев.
В Центре «Сибирь-Хоккайдо» в Новосибирске эта ночь посвящена музыке. Я буду рассказывать про сямисэн, играть, а так же все желающие смогут под моим присмотром поиграть на сямисэне.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4YlkjmrPRI

drq,
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lritter, to random
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fact: most female cannabis seeds you can buy online have been assigned male at conception

drq,
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@lritter Ha!

a1ba, to random
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Потоковое чревовещание

drq,
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@a1ba Хэштег забыл :D

18+ drq, to random
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There's a difference between "being conservative" and "being a conservative".

The former meaning "honouring traditions and customs" or just "generally sticking to time-proven solutions, to what works", and the latter meaning "behaving like a reactionary jingoistic twat".

drq,
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By the way, I'm conservative regarding lots of stuff in my life. I'm basically a creature of habit.

Evv1L, to random
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uuuuu

drq,
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@Evv1L uuuuu

drq, (edited ) to random Russian
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Empathy is great. It's what makes you not a total whackafuck. But if left unchecked it can also kill you.

Despite kindness in all of us, there are genuinely hostile actors out there, whether they mean it or not. Pacifism can and will get suicidal if taken to its logical extreme, so... be careful. Awight?

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