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maltimore

@maltimore@social.tchncs.de

free software / privacy / machine learning / Berlin F-Hain

"approachable without being whimsical" (Goldman Sachs about their new font, but applies to me as well)

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maltimore, to random
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Now that I occasionally hold lectures at university, I notice again how ridiculously long they are. No-one (students or lecturer) can keep concentration for 90 minutes.

wraptile, to KDE
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Really dig my current desktop environment:

Anyone runs something similar? Feels like I finally found a perfect sweet spot between productivity and freedom.

#linux #linuxDesktop

maltimore,
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@wraptile everyone says that but since years I haven't found a use-case 😅 can you share one or two things that you do with ?

kellogh, to random
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this has been bugging me a lot. like, yeah, there’s definitely AI scams out there. and yeah, a lot of people are using it from the wrong end, but it’s also clearly a substantial technology. time to realize that
https://mas.to/@carnage4life/112484753548884371

maltimore,
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@kellogh people love an oversimplified story. If you can't break a complex topic down into 30-second soundbites, no-one's going to listen.

szakib, to climate
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Perspective: the biggest carbon capture plant in the world sequesters 1 millionth of our annual emissions. We would have to build a million of these plants to not_increase the CO2 level. And we need to decrease the CO2 level.

Carbon capture is a scam.


https://www.fastcompany.com/91120071/climeworks-carbon-removal-factory-iceland

maltimore,
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@rysiek @szakib
AFAIK, Iceland is also selling its "green energy" certificates, which means that technically, the electricity that powers these plants is from fossil fuels. And therefore, at a systemic level, these plants are currently emitting much more CO2 than they capture.

annika, (edited ) to random
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My worksona is having a great time

maltimore,
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@annika you look very nice today!

maltimore, to random
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I'm sorry but I have to quickly let out some disappointment with . Why do the devs decide to implement huge new features like an entirely new Chat (Matrix), when the basic mail features don't even work? For instance, the search. Search something with the full search (Ctrl-K), 0 results. Search for the same thing with "quicksearch" (Ctrl-Shift-K)? Works.
The calendar? Processing event invites that are more complex than the absolute simplest? Fails more often than not.

isagalaev, to ubuntu
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I'm back! Borked my laptop by upgrading to the recent 24.04 beta. Looks like the upgrade process removed/disabled drivers, and for a while I was left with looking at a plain non-GUI shell, which required an actual real-life magnifying glass, because of my HiDPI display!

Now it's operational again with built-in drivers, but I still want to figure out how to bring the AMD 3-rd part drivers back and restore OpenCL support.

maltimore,
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@isagalaev my take-away from this is that 2024 won't be the year of Linux on the desktop either 😅

janneke, to vegan Dutch
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So, my favorite pub no longer serves any snacks that are without animal cruelty.

They used to have "olives & feta" that could be ordered without the feta; apparently they now buy the olives with the animal cruelty pre-mixed in.

maltimore,
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@janneke that really sucks. I thought there was a trend all over (western) Europe that more vegan things are on the menu instead of less. I guess either that's wrong or this is an unfortunate outlier.

mina, (edited ) to Switzerland
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20 years ago: First time on a Swiss mountain

(Mt. Titlis 3230m)

TBH: I was impressed!

There's also an ice cave inside the glacier.

maltimore,
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@mina
nice! When I climbed a high mountain for the first time, I was similarly impressed! I grew up in the far north of Germany where the highest mounts is like 5 meters. I had no idea that when you get really high, you're often above the clouds. What a nice surprise it was!

maltimore, to Sports
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I just did 30 push-ups for the first time in my life, so I've got that going for me, which is nice.

nyquildotorg, to random
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My collection of Predator action figures:

maltimore,
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@nyquildotorg holy shit that took me a second but then it was pure gold.

janeadams, to random
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Paper writing is going well

maltimore,
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@janeadams as far as I can tell, this is the prioritization that the journal expects, the reviewers demand, and the public requires.

albertcardona, to statistics
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Remember: don't use dynamite plots.

https://simplystatistics.org/posts/2019-02-21-dynamite-plots-must-die/

maltimore,
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@albertcardona

Louder for the people in the back!!

I've been preaching swarm plots for many years now. Just show the data! It's completely insane to put it all in one bar and maybe add a measly error bar.

kellogh, to random
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i think GPT-5 will be released soon, if OpenAI plans to maintain their dominance. We're starting to see open & proprietary models that rival or beat the performance of GPT-4. Thus far OpenAI has maintained their moat by simply having far superior models, so there's a ticking clock for releasing a big improvement. I worry that it'll be released too soon, before proper QA and safety have been done

maltimore,
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@kellogh
i haven't been following the developments in LLMs, could you give me the names of a few models that rival the performance of GPT-4? (I'm interested mostly in open but I guess the best ones will still be proprietary?)

gcompris, (edited ) to ukteachers
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KDE's educational software for kids, GCompris, releases version 4.0 with 8 new activities.

GCompris 4.0 contains 190 educational activities and games 🎲, adding 8 new ones: "Grammar classes", "Grammar analysis", "Calcudoku", "Guess 24", "Frieze", "Read a graduated line", "Use a graduated line", and "Adjacent numbers".

All activities are translated to over 40 languages.

@kde

#education #schools #children

https://gcompris.net/news/2024-02-21-en.html

maltimore,
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@gcompris @kde wow! Thanks for your hard work!
I think I'll start letting my daughter play educational games in around a year (if she wants), and GCompris will be the first!

mtigas, to apple
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I missed this from last week, but WOW: Onion Browser (https://onionbrowser.com/) is one of the browser choices in the new "choose your default browser" screen that will be shown to iOS users in the EU: https://www.macrumors.com/2024/01/26/apple-explains-ios-17-4-default-browsers-eu/ (It's popular enough in each country!)

Huge thanks and props to everyone who's collaborated on / supported the project over the years! @n8fr8 @tla @guardianproject @torproject

maltimore,
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@mtigas @n8fr8 @tla @guardianproject @torproject

I have been running a relay for around 10 years (now not anymore) and was following the project closely, yet I've somehow never heard about Onion browser?!

maltimore, to random
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What do y'all use if you quickly want to translate a word to another language?

I mostly use leo.org, translate.google.com, chatGPT or deepl.com, but what I would really like is (of course) an open source service without tracking. I don't want to install a separate app, I want a website.

I saw that there is an open source dataset of dictionaries (), but there's no webinterface for this?

maltimore, to random
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A mastodon feature I'd like to have is to add a private note (only visible to myself) about why I blocked/muted someone.
With some profiles it is obvious but sometimes you really only see someone's true assholery shining through in a specific toot.

maltimore, to python
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This morning, out of nowhere, I decided enough is enough. Python existed for over 30 years, so the following issue just shouldn't exist anymore:

>>> 0.1 + 0.2 == 0.3
False

So I after people tried to convince me of julia for many years because it supposedly handles numbers much better, I finally tried it.

julia> 0.1 + 0.2 == 0.3
false

Okay then.

milan, to random
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💉 💉 💉 💉 💉 ☑️

maltimore,
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@milan nice! Both the doctors I asked refused to give me the fifth shot on account of me not being 60+.

Minetest, to opensource
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We're now in feature freeze for 5.8! This is a period of time before a release where we only do bug fixes

Highlights:

  • Minetest no longer ships with a default game
  • A redesigned Settings GUI
  • Improved Android controls, can place nodes with single tap
  • Improved antialiasing filters

Help us by trying out the release candidate: https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?t=29937

maltimore,
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@Minetest wonderful news, this was long overdue!
When I started out with minetest, I thought it was rather boring compared to Minecraft. Little did I know that MineClone exists, installable via Minetest!

pipewire, to random
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PipeWire 0.3.84 (AKA 1.0 RC4) is out! We are getting close to 1.0 with this one. More info here:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/releases/0.3.84

maltimore,
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@pipewire wonderful news! I'm looking forward to 1.0!

davidho, to random
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Despite the headline, this is actually a good article about solar radiation modification.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-time-to-engineer-the-sky/

maltimore,
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@davidho
damn I'm so on the edge about this. Either choice is awful.

tonybaloney, to random
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Every time I put on a suit it’s a fine line between looking sharp and looking like it’s my first day of big school 👦

maltimore,
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@tonybaloney
every time I put on a suit I hate that I love seeing myself in it!

fribbledom, to random
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"We used to leak kilobytes, then megs, then even gigs. Now, we leak EC2 instances. Someday, we'll leak entire datacenters."

maltimore,
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@fribbledom honestly when you train really really big ML models you're always one typo away from leaking an entire datacenter 😅

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