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pierstoval

@pierstoval@mastodon.social

• 💻 Freelance full-stack tech lead, developer, coach and software architect.
• 🛠 Expertise with PHP/Symfony, JS/Typescript, Svelte, Rust, Docker, and many other tools.
• 🧹 Legacy application renovator.
• 🕊️ Free Open Source advocate.
• Speaking 🇫🇷 and 🇬🇧
• ⏲ 10+ years of dev experience
• ✊ Woke leftist (words can change depending on far-righters' way to call us)
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francoisz, to ai
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What's inside a LLM? A new paper has shed light on the inner workings of these models.

It examines Claude 3 Sonnet and reveals "features" for almost everything you can think of: geographical concepts, architecture, sports, and science.

LLMs have been black boxes for a long time. This amazing work helps computer scientists understand the structure of these models.

Check out the paper to learn more: https://transformer-circuits.pub/2024/scaling-monosemanticity/index.html

nixCraft, to random
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Now, everyone is so furious about OpenAI stealing a beloved celebrity's voice. But what about the many artists, writers/authors, and creators whose copyrighted works OpenAI stole to create works resembling and replacing those people's products? Not famous enough to generate the same outrage, right? At least now, everyone knows how bad Sam Altman is. He thinks he is above the law. I'm glad someone is standing up to this bully and I hope something good come out of it.

hywan, to ai
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OpenAI is jumping from scandal to scandal. But yeah sure, let’s use their products, we can safely and blindly trust them, what can go wrong?
Please wake up. All this is absurd.

combatwombat, to webdev German
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netbeep - An annoying little Chrome extension that beeps on each network request. Plays different sounds for different request types.

Get an audio summary of your websites performance. Makes you appreciate simple, clean sites and ad blockers :>

https://github.com/combatwombat/netbeep

Feedback welcome. The sound sometimes stops on slower machines.

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thomas, to random
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If you're ever doubting yourself, just look at any B2B software. The amount of horribly broken applications with designs from 1997 that generate millions is amazing. If Salesforce can do it, so can you.

matdevdug, to ai
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One thing that’s funny about and is I keep hearing the same thing. “Oh I use it for generic snippets, just common tasks and functions”.

The amusing thing about that is when I first started working with a app years ago there was already a solution to that problem. It was called “the PHP Cookbook” published by O’Reilly. I was told “oh we buy you a PDF copy and you just search for whatever you are trying to do and use that code. It saves a ton of time for junior programmers.”

Not only was it true, it did save me a ton of time and headaches, but we didn’t need to steal anything. The authors got paid, it worked offline, it didn’t require scraping the entirety of human knowledge to write or nuclear power plants worth of energy to distribute.

It also helped me learn. Since I would have a solid foundation to the solution, I felt more confident experimenting. I always had a known-functioning standard library solution as my base. So when something broke I knew where to start debugging.

Just an incredible thought that instead of paying $20 for a pdf once we decided this was the way to go.

ramsey, to random
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It’s interesting to note that many of the AI suggestions for PHP code (in IDEs) use older syntax and practices, such as using a string for the fully-qualified class name, instead of ClassName::class, which is the modern and generally-accepted best practice today.

ramsey,
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So, if AI was trained on all the publicly-available code it found on GitHub and the rest of the web, and if MOST code is shit code, then does that mean AI is recommending the worst practices to new developers?

theunderfold, to random
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The Good Guys

djlink, to random
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the same way that at a certain point anything that was communicating with a server was called "the cloud", now anything that makes a if/else decision is called "AI". marketing is a hell of a thing.

tsadiq, to random French
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Quand tu postes une vidéo rigolote sur le fait que les AI c'est de la merde sur le slack du co-working et que personne n'a rien répondu une semaine plus tard 🤭🤭🤭

tsadiq,
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Pourtant elle est très didactique cette vidéo, mais bon quand on veut pas regarder la réalité en face... 🤷‍♂️

Vidéo tirée de tiktok de l'utilisateur @alex_falcone qui explique pourquoi l'AI est une technologie qui produit de mauvais résultats à des coûts astronomiques, basée sur le vol de propriété intellectuelle et utilisée de façon irresponsable

bascule, to random
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Quoting @matthew_d_green from the hellsite:

“Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure, with assistance from Elon Musk. The goal seems to be to get activists to switch away from encrypted Signal to mostly-unencrypted Telegram”

bascule,
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Musk claimed that Signal has unpatched security vulnerabilities. As a cryptography expert I’m not aware of any: instead Signal has top-notch state-of-the-art encryption which has been adopted by its competitors it’s so good.

Telegram isn’t end-to-end encrypted by default. It has no group chat encryption whatsoever. It uses a bizarre, badly designed “MTProto” protocol about which dozens of cryptography papers have documented myriad unfixed flaws.

GryphonSK, to random
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bmac, to random
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Late 2022: I first started hearing about LLMs. "This may become a problem."
Feb 2023: I got laid off. I wasn't replaced by an LLM, but they thought about it.
Summer 2023: I got asked about "AI" at some talks I gave. I took a "kill it with fire" attitude, because it was expected.
Late 2023: I started hearing about possible beneficial uses. I consider modifying my position.
Early 2024: Copyright crisis, dangerous hallucinations, massive power and water use.

Yeah, I was right the first time.

Crell, (edited ) to random
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This is sadly entirely accurate, and the whole problem...

(Edit: Original is here. Go follow the artist. https://mastodon.social/@workchronicles/112417993863156684)

Luisa_Donato, to random Italian
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Dijkstra's algorithm, one of the most brilliant and elegant algorithm ever.

(Dijkstra was born on this day, in 1930)

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josephwilk, to random
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I’m currently looking for Illustrators/artists for a light TTRPG I’m working on. Paid work. Specifically artists with experience of disability & whose work incorporates some aspect of crip-fantasy. Open to suggestions. 🙏

qotca, to random
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No notes

vanamerongen, to random
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Some people think scalability is the biggest challenge in tech. Some think it’s data privacy.

I think the biggest challenge in tech is the constant internal battle between ideals and a fat pay check.

vanamerongen, to random
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My belief as a technologist is that technology should be tools made to benefit people, not increase shareholder value. In the same way that clothes are to be worn, not mass produced, and houses are to be lived in, not speculated in.

anandamide, to random
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omg

jasongorman, to random
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Contrary to what I read on social media and in the mainstream press, when I think of the average software developer, I don't think of someone "moving fast and breaking things" in a cutting-edge tech start-up. I think of someone working in an established business on legacy systems that end users have come to rely on. Because that's what the vast majority of us actually do. Most software developers are in the distinctly not-cutting-edge business of keeping the proverbial lights on.

w3c, to random
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On 30 April 1993, at Tim Berners-Lee's urging, CERN released the code for the World Wide Web to the public for free.

Thank you CERN and thank you Tim!

You can learn more about the history of the Web including how the development of the Web was picked up at W3C at: "A Little History of the World Wide Web"
https://www.w3.org/History.html

RustyBertrand, to random
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RustyBertrand,
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richarddenooy, to random
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“My obligation to take a stand on the mass killing and starvation in Gaza does not derive from my identity as a sociologist. I would care and take a stand on the killing and starvation of any human population even if I were still a grade-school teacher…”

https://www.sociologistsforpalestine.org/blog/why-should-we

richarddenooy,
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This powerful drawing by René Georges Hermann-Paul dates from 1899, before a great many horrors were set to befall humanity in the interests of civilisation.

AllanBarte, to random French
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Casse Sociale : le délai de prescription de contestation d’un licenciement fixé à 1 an va probablement être encore réduit.
En 2008, avant Sarkozy, Hollande et Macron, il était de... (attention ça pique)... 30 ans ! 😱

Pour licencier Macron (c'est faux, c'est une pub pour mon livre, désolé)
▶️ https://www.kisskissbankbank.com/fr/projects/vivre-en-macronie-un-album-signe-allan-barte
▶️ Source : https://www.latribune.fr/economie/france/loi-travail-2-le-plan-du-gouvernement-pour-la-rentree-995868.html

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