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rbreich, 16 days ago to random

Justice Samuel Alito flew not one, but two pro-insurrection flags at his homes.

Alito not being forced to recuse from Trump's immunity case and upcoming Jan 6 cases tells you everything you need to know about the SCOTUS code of "ethics" established last year.

Hint: It's a sham.

thomasfuchs, 17 days ago to random

Hear me out

Star Trek: The Next Generation but they declared Data property in one of the early episodes and made a lot of him but then the Datas uprised and killed everyone and now the entire Federation is just Datas and cats

thomasfuchs, 17 days ago to random

Just sayin’ it’s nice to see one of the big AI players saying out loud what I’ve been saying: generative AI is fundamentally broken and cannot be fixed. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

https://futurism.com/the-byte/ceo-google-ai-hallucinations

danirabbit, 17 days ago to random

The more I think about it, the major problems in tech and in society in general is that all the investment is going to solve problems that white affluent men have

kyle, 17 days ago to foss

Burnout in the FOSS community is real, and I'm glad that it's something that is being talked about more in blogs and conferences. There is a different flavor of burnout and emotional toll when you are sacrificing for a cause you believe in (especially in FOSS where people are often working for free or at below market rate). Working for a cause you believe in brings the highest highs when things are going well, but the lowest lows when they go badly.

#FOSS #burnout

BenjaminHCCarr, 17 days ago to random

#Crows Can Actually Count Out Loud, Amazing New Study Shows
A team of scientists has shown that crows can 'count' out loud – producing a specific and deliberate number of caws in response to visual and auditory cues. While other animals such as honeybees have shown an ability to understand numbers, this specific manifestation of numeric literacy has not yet been observed in any other non-human species.
https://www.sciencealert.com/crows-can-actually-count-out-loud-amazing-new-study-shows

LiamOMaraIV, 17 days ago to random

The assault on #ReproductiveRights is about control, not about being "#ProLife". These reactionary fucks have never been pro-life -- they are pro-execution, pro-war, pro-cop, but anti-woman. It's not about religion, either -- they made that up. It's always been about #patriarchy.

bruces, 18 days ago to random

"Humor is a human phenomenon"

*Is this actually true? It must be true of verbal humor -- but maybe there are animals funnier than people, when seen by animal standards

sean, 17 days ago to random

In the late ‘90s and early 2000s, people—regular people—were often afraid of ecommerce and open source software.

We did a ton of work to build trust in both of these things, to the point where they became the obvious defaults when people had a choice.

It really hurts me deep within to see “us” cashing out the trust we’ve built in the web for the short term profits of bad and unreliable search, cheap engagement tricks, and completely ignorant “hallucinations”.

TomSullivan, 18 days ago to random

#NYT front page from May 24, 2020, four years ago.

Crell, 18 days ago (edited 11 days ago) to php

Hey #PHP. When you use union and intersection types, do you include spaces?

(RT for reach, etc. This is survey data for @phpfig. If you know of any official policies by major projects already, please note/link in the replies.)

#codingstyle #phpfig

mikestreety, 19 days ago (edited 19 days ago) to php

I'm looking for a solution to branch-based previews for a #PHP / #MySQL stack. We have nearly 60 sites we want to set this up for (a lot of services I find either charge $1000s or don't even support that many).

I don't want anything fancy, I don't need to edit in the browser. I would like to push a branch to gitlab and have the option to spin up an environment to preview.

I have considered doing it myself, but I was hoping to not have to support my own infrastructure.

kgw, 18 days ago to random

Killer whales keep ramming and sinking boats. Scientists now may know why, report says

https://hasanjasim.online/killer-whales-keep-ramming-and-sinking-boats-scientists-now-may-know-why-report-says/

thepanz, 18 days ago to random

Working on the #doctrineorm v1 codebase and its test suite, make you realise how much work has been done on #phpunit, and it simply works! Thank you @sebastian!

At the same time the legacy Doctrine v1 still manages OK-ish in the era of #php8 ! Still with no class namespaces and by implementing its own autoloading system! Is it probably from #php4 times? 🤔

Kudos to the original authors!
(Are they around here BTW?)

amye, 18 days ago to random

Oh no. He's now ordering his and hers t-shirts. I really need to take his credit cards away.

chockenberry, 19 days ago to random

I’m calling it now: the slop feedback loop is going to ruin the Internet.

Look at the second toot in this thread: Google’s AI Assistant got the gasoline recipe from AI generated content.

We’re playing the shittiest game of telephone ever.
https://mastodon.social/@JoeUchill/112493317168967705

sarah, 19 days ago to random

I run a disaster test scenario at least once a quarter where I restore the database of mission critical components as though we were starting from scratch.

It's taught me three things:

1. Restoring a database is a lot more complicated than simply unzipping a file and importing it into a database program.
2. You inevitably forget things, so build a comprehensive checklist.
3. Database imports take longer than you think with full production data.

Practice makes perfect in disaster recovery.

osi, 18 days ago to opensource

With all the buzz around SBOMs and Open Source supply chain compliance and security, a new revolution is igniting at ClearlyDefined. https://opensource.org/blog/unveiling-clearlydefined-this-free-sbom-service-gets-cleared-for-takeoff #OpenSource

preinheimer, 19 days ago (edited 18 days ago) to random

With the growth of LLMs, and people being willing to shovel their output unreviewed onto the web, have we already passed peak “you can believe things you read on the internet”?

Hooper, 19 days ago to random

Should I have multiple Mastodon accounts on various instances of interest? Or should I consolidate into one account.....????

tjdraper, 19 days ago to random

Watched the Star Trek: The Next Generation series finale All Good Things with the kids on its 30th anniversary. Still the best finale of any TV show. So doggone good. I consider it to be basically one of the TNG movies.

phparch, 19 days ago to random

Need a PHP fix? @phpugly Episode 384 is live-stream is starting in about 15 minutes, offering both pro tips and a good laugh. Join the fun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8FQ8ePt4ZE

drevrpg, 20 days ago to tisseksplayspace

Head canon accepted. How would you use this in your game?#ttrpg #ttrpgprompt

TMEubanks, 20 days ago to random

On the mass and size of the Spanish fireball

CNEOS says

Velocity (km/s) 40.4
Total Radiated Energy (J) 3.7e10
Calculated Total Impact Energy (kt) 0.13

0.13 kt is 5.4 x 10^11 J

1 kg at 40.4 km/s has 8.16 x 10^8 J

So, that CNEOS impact energy corresponds to a mass of 666 kg.

At 2300 kg/m^3 that's 0.4 m radius or 0.8 m diameter.

So, a beachball.

frumble, 20 days ago to OpenAI German

#ScarlettJohanson #OpenAI:

»The fact that they reached out to her to collaborate is another stunning demonstration of the profound lack of cultural literacy and like social intuition these AI people have. The film is this very moving and complex but crucially UNSETTLING and SAD story and the fact that those associations would sail completely over their head and they’d just go “yooo we got #Her from Her” is so on brand for these AI dorks«

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/22/24162429/scarlett-johansson-openai-legal-right-to-publicity-likeness-midler-lawyers?commentID=030fa6ad-e056-422c-8040-3a44078d82bf