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Envoy, arbiter, sysadmin, messenger. Ludonarrative dissident, liminal space mercenary, lapsed pragmatist.

Hobbies include weaponized semiotics, operational hauntology, ambient symmetrism.

He, him. Co-chair, department of last resort.

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Any idea what this is about, plant fans?

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@grimalkina that’s it! Thank you.

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Look, just free up half an hour for this. I promise it will be worth it.

https://youtu.be/2RIEPKEhE2s

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Just thinking about this again.

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I think @gvwilson has a good idea and we should reimplement Oberon in Lua. I feel like I don't really understand computers and maybe this would help me do that. Does anyone want to help?

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@gvwilson You could have picked Titania. It would have been easy. But no.

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Once again: these machines aren’t hallucinating and your using 'Hallucinate' is a tell, that you don't understand how the machine works. Generating statistically plausible text is what these tools do. That's all that's ever happening. Theres no connection to truth or veracity in this mechanism beyond quantities of aggregated text in a dataset reconnected in ways that that, statistically, might be. If you see meaning in the output it is you, the uncritical audience, who is hallucinating.

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Absolutely incredible to me how much faster and more effective it is for me to rip an entire site down with wget --mirror and search it with grep to find anything than it is for me to use Google for any goddamn thing now. Datacenters full of hardware running thousands of PhD-theses worth of high performing hardware versus me sitting here banging rocks together and my way works.

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Indignant birb.

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@futurebird I'm very sorry I didn't meant impose.

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My son just said “it seems like John Wick is overreacting.”

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Random linux question: Is there way to tie a keystroke directly to an action in a console? Not in a terminal emulator, mind you. I mean, I'm not running X or Wayland anything, the console.

I'm thinking of volume keys, etc.

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Me, whispering: the real reason Americans don't have small electric vehicles is because Michigan is a swing state.

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I'm idly waiting for the iPad Mini refresh that's probably not coming, the same way I was waiting for the iPod Touch refresh that never came and the iPod refresh that never came, as is my habit.

The iPad Mini, neglected black sheep of the lineup, is the purest and most honest expression of what an iPad is and what it's for: a small, incredibly portable computer for doing one thing at a time, where rough edges of computation are polished smooth and the interface falls away and disappears.

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I've got one of those oddball 5th-gen iPods without the rear cameras, and even today it is the most incredible thing. A hair over 6mm thick, it's the thinnest thing Apple's ever made and the most ridiculous tiny/usable computer I've ever seen. I can still use it for video callss, and even (thank you, LetsEncrypt!) for the reasonably-safe Web, though iOS 9.x is long abandoned.

Even now, 12 years after it was released, it still feels like I'm holding a postcard from a better possible future.

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Bret Victor used these diagrams to describe the "tools of the future".

https://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesign/

Victor's disdain for the iPad is crystalline; Apple's recent ad is a distillate. I can't say how much Victor has shaped what I want from computing, but I'm certain he sees a human using an iPad the same way he sees a lizard in a pet store, a creature of untold potential pawing at a sheet of glass, baffled by arbitrary and cruel restrictions that it - that you - can see past, but can't reach past.

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Myself, I don't think there's one model of computational interaction that's right, or not, but I definitely believe that championing any one model of computational interaction is no different than championing any one paradigm of computational modelling. It's a toolbox, and different tools offer different affordances and opportunities. But computing being what it is, these choices aren't in any way abstract, or disjoint from reality. All our choices are about power, policy, and possible futures.

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If you're of an aspirational computing bent, here are two papers that are each a difficult read on their own, and together are enough to reduce you to tears.

The first is Doug Engelbart laying out his vision for augmented cognition:

https://dougengelbart.org/pubs/augment-3906.html

And the second is Niklaus Wirth's elaboration of Project Oberon:

https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/ProjectOberon/PO.System.pdf

There's a better future out there. It's somewhere behind the noise, greed and trash of this field but it's there, hidden and still possible.

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I don't know why you'd need to sign some strange petition about recognizing animal sentience when women recognize bears as friends and orcas recognize the rich as enemies.

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It's a bit like smoke machines. Anything can be a nosql DB if you use it wrong enough.

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Ed Zitron learns more about the Rabbit.AI - that orange gadget - founder, and it's grim reading. https://www.wheresyoured.at/rabbit-holed/

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Reviews are coming in: https://third-bit.com/2024/05/12/sdxpy-reviews/

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@gvwilson Lot of powerhouse names on that list, gotta admit.

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Cars don’t mind cutting you off at all, but you give a car in the bike lane a little love tap as you bike by and drivers lose their damn minds.

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"When people are treated unfairly, for example, when they are not allowed to have input into decisions that will affect them, or when they are not given good explanations of why certain decisions were made, the symbolic message may be that the organization does not think highly enough of them (to provide input or to be given good explanations)."

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@grimalkina not gonna lie, it hurts to talk about this stuff. Software has been so totally committed to its own exceptionality for so long that the whole notion of psychological self-awareness and its systemic impacts is an identity threat to the field, even though the inside of our heads is where the raw material of our work comes from. It’s so terrible and we’re so far behind as a field.

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Whenever Americans talk about "fighting for freedoms" I remember that one time some dude who got thwarted by his own flopsweat tried to blow up his shoes and twenty years later anyone who goes through an American airport has to shuffle around in their socks hoping their pants don't fall down while they get millimeter-radared for a security pageant and the whole country just rolled over and decided that's totally reasonable.

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