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rlcw

@rlcw@ecoevo.social

Product Manager and Entrepreneur by day,
Permaculture Gardener, Beekeeper & PnP/LARP by night.

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rlcw, to random German
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Ich habe eine / Studistelle für mein neues Projekt cultivation.coach anzubieten.
Hilf mir eine smarte Pflanzendatenbank zu erstellen!
Interessant für diejenigen, die sich gerne auch im im Job im Bereich , und engagieren wollen.

https://cultivation.coach/jobs.html

Teilen erwünscht! Fragen gerne direkt an mich.

CliftonR, to random
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I had thought for decades that it was just not going to be worth switching from Windows to Linux for daily use.

Windows was just too ingrained in my habits and too easy for me to stick with.

This year, I've been introduced to a new product that's completely changed my mind about that:

Microsoft Windows 11

Microsoft, you've disregarded 10,000 rules of user interface design, and broken every trained movement of my fingers on keyboard or mouse. Windows is easy no more. Fuck you.

rlcw,
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@Urban_Hermit @CliftonR Most Windows apps are on the cloud now. I've been using Linux as a freelancer in forever and the cloud products are good enough to just access them via the browser, if clients use office 365.

Also, just a sidenote: that Windows is not free. Laptops with pre installed Windows are more expensive, because they include a license fee for that 'free' Windows.
I've bought some laptops with no operating system installed, which is niche, so most people never realize.

cstross, to random
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My current nightmare is that the Tories will be hammered so hard this Thursday that the back benches will run a leadership challenger against Sunak ...

… And the party rank and file will then vote Liz Truss in again as party leader.

She's had a year to lick her wounds and work out what she did wrong, and in her tiny mind it can only be that she didn't do everything fast enough and hard enough.

So we'll get a Liz Truss equivalent of the US Republicans' Project 2025.

rlcw,
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@cstross She already hired you as a political advisor? 😱
That was fast! Is that what the New Management really is? A thinly veiled front, telling war stories from the political think tank you run on the side?

jonny, to random
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all jonny knows is charge they phone, mythic humanoids wiki category, eat hot chip & lie

rlcw,
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@jonny And we made a lot of megafauna go extinct, so who knows how big an eagle our ancestors saw.

dlr_next, to random German
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Guten Morgen zusammen - wie immer mit einem aktuellen Bild der Sonne via Satellit SDO, heute mal in mehreren kombinierten Wellenlängen und dabei größtenteils in mastodonischem Lila eingefärbt. 😉

rlcw,
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@dlr_next Wofür wird diese Art der Aufnahme genutzt?

mekkaokereke, to random
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Honest question for white people that don't consider themselves racist:

White nationalists have been vocal about their attacks on DEI. These are literally the same people that talk about Charlottesville, Jan 6th, and ethnic cleansing.

They've laid out exactly how they plan to destroy DEI.

  1. Make false claims that DEI is about giving unqualified Black people an unfair advantage

  2. Work with racist politicians to use this as a pretext to make all DEI programs illegal.

1/n

rlcw,
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@mekkaokereke

  1. Yes, it is a topic that naturally comes up during hiring, and I don't only mention it to the PoC in the room. It's a topic for the whole team.
  2. As said in hiring/people development it is logical to come up. Outside of that I don't mention it much, if it's not brought up. We usually have other things to talk about and I don't want to make highly talented people feel like they are only in the room because of DEI - because they are not.
  3. Honestly, no clue. I hope not worse.
jon, to random
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The central problem on a bunch of international routes is not the cost of tickets - the demand is there. Trains are full

The problem is an absence of capacity - both track, and a lack of trains. Explained here https://jonworth.eu/make-international-rail-cheaper-capacity-on-a-route-is-the-crucial-issue/

Generally if you make taking the train cheaper currently you will transport different passengers, rather than more passengers

rlcw,
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@jon I love taking the train - it's my default mode of travel. Currently yes, capacity is a real problem - both in daytime and especially night trains.
The cost is mainly an issue due to it's difference to flying, also on business trips - because how do you explain e.g. 60€ VS 300€ cost on transportation - my last London trip was in that zone... But I do think there making flying more expensive would be wiser, since we also want less flights anyhow.

rlcw,
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@jon Yes, we have neglected rail infrastructure and capacity. In Germany it is especially bad. There are plenty of countries actually waiting and very annoyed that Germany still hasn't expanded their connecting routes with other countries as agreed decades ago. It's one of the reasons why we only have so little train traffic - barely any high speed to Austria & Switzerland and Italy. But currently our politicians are busy worshipping cars and flying cabs...

rlcw,
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@jon I'm referring to this issue: https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/swr/bahn-infrastruktur-105.html

And yeay, fellow Berliner! 💚

futurebird, to random
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Last night our cable internet box randomly died. It’s totally fried and must be replaced. This happened just as my husband got home from work, waking me up to tell me the governor of NY had issued a warning about power outages during the Coronal Mass Ejection (there was a big solar storm last night) — basically I thought the world was ending and put my laptop in the oven. (it’s a faraday cage)

I may have overreacted.

rlcw,
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@futurebird @Crispius Is the front of the oven a gap in the cage? Would a Microwave offer full protection?

futurebird, to random
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Dorymyrmex bureni keep their eggs in balls that are the ideal size for the worker ants to carry when they decide to panic and run to a different part of the nest. (something they will do in response to vibrations from below, eg if I bump the bookcase where their nest sits. )

Also here is a photo of the ants trying to pull the wings off of one of the queens. Why have they singled her out? I don't know.

Three ants pull on the wings of one of the young queens they raised.

rlcw,
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@futurebird They rip out the wings of the queen(s) they like the most?

rlcw,
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@futurebird Do the wings usually fall off naturally after a queen has mated?
Also, do ants kick out their queens if they don't like them? Asking cause that is what bees do.

jimray, to random
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Me, an idiot: “So, kids, by setting the thermostat a little lower and eating less meat, we’re doing our part to make the world more sustainable”

VCs, very smart: “We just raised $100 billion dollars from the sovereign wealth funds of three petrostates to build the world’s largest AI supercomputer. It uses as much power and water as Guatemala and the primary use case is for management consultants to autogenerate powerpoints for justifying mass layoffs.”

rlcw,
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@yogthos @graywolf @jimray Which communists do you mean by "The Communists"? What are the things you like about them and what they did? Maybe being more precise here could lead to a constructive exchange, rather than ideological head bashing.

KissAnne, to animals
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I think the same goes with a as well.

rlcw,
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@KissAnne Grateful for my Italian Greyhounds lack of fur, even if that means dressing them in warm coats in winter. But even I have found hair in... interesting places.

rlcw, to berlin German
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In sollen wir demnächst ~615€ pro Jahr pro Nase bezahlen, damit Asylbewerberinnen ein Taschengeld von maximal 2448€ im Jahr erhalten können. Bisher kosten uns diese Zahlungen ~23€ pro Jahr pro Asylbewerberin.
Das ist das Modell und Ergebnis rechter Politik.
Geschätzte +9,6 Millionen€ jährlich, die nichts bewirken und nicht in , Wohnungen oder fließen werden, und die prekäre Lage von weiter verschärfen.

https://taz.de/Verschaerfte-Fluechtlingspolitik/!5994678/

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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"antcolonylive dot com" is a terrible content farm of a website. It has the vague shape of an ant blog, but with tons of "articles" that mention US states and particular ant species names. The descriptions are either AI generated or written by someone with no direct knowledge of the ants. Many of the images are incorrectly identified. It's garbage.

So I have to ask: why does it exist? I can only think of one reason.

1/

rlcw,
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@futurebird I do think they have motivation to fix this. Because Google having dethroned the giants of its age, Google should be very aware of the opportunities an unusable search engine offers.
That was how they got started.

rlcw,
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@mensrea @futurebird
a) why will people continue using Google, if it only delivers garbage results? Especially once alternatives start springing up more publicly.
b) Ads need to generate value to be booked, meaning paying customers at the merchants buying these ads. If Google Ads deliver only garbage traffic, why will merchants continue to book them? Good search results drive conversion strong customer cohorts.

rlcw,
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@nowan @mensrea @futurebird It depends on the type of business model you have, and competence of marketing teams. One company I worked with stopped Ads for a month and the number of conversions did not change. I've known other companies with more data savvy marketing teams who are very diligent about constantly optimising their spend and ad channels. A big differentiator was if the marketing teams success measure was tied to conversion or clicks on page. So its not only Google being evil...

ErickaSimone, to random
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YES. LITERALLY YES.

This is also why artists have been begging you to engage with them via Bandcamp, especially on #BandcampFriday, where they can make the most profit they will directly make with their own music.

It’s also why we are all holding our breath as Bandcamp changes owners… one of the last, real, viable ways of making money might disappear at any time.

GET OVER TO BANDCAMP AND SUPPORT YOUR FAVORITE MUSICIAN NOW. PLEASE.

From: @Hapbt
https://mastodon.social/@Hapbt/112022985431212515

rlcw,
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell @ErickaSimone @Hapbt so 'Bandcamp' software, but maintained by one or more cooperatives? Might be worthwhile for musicians to come together that way. Decentral but on a shared standard would be nice so that people have different choices and the option to switch to other 'instances' without loosing their fanbase.

emilymbender, to random
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It seems like there are just endless bad ideas about how to use "AI". Here are some new ones courtesy of the UK government.

... and a short thread because there is so much awfulness in this one article.
/1

https://www.ft.com/content/f2ae55bf-b9fa-49b5-ac0e-8b7411729539

rlcw,
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@emilymbender I am regularly appalled by government officials - especially the most vocal ones - lack of understanding of technology they are touting for. In Germany (and elsewhere) they are blabbering about " infrastructure" they need to build, without any idea of what that is supposed to be in practice. Some grifter is rubbing their hands... 💸💸💸
We need more competent politicians with more long-term visions for sustainable in the lead, not the pump and dump crowd.

rlcw,
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell @emilymbender The way to mess it up properly, is to keep the professionals fully responsible while at the same time increasing their workload to the point where they can't review the systems output properly. The never formally decides, it just 'helps'. That way it will take a long time for the blame to land with the 🤖, and claim 'great savings' & 'success' while bleeding the system dry.

rlcw, to random
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@emilymbender Question, to which I am hoping you may have an insightful answer: Can an LLM like ChatGPT comprehend when it does not have enough information to give a factually correct answer or is it technologically unable to distinguish between hallucination and fact?

Daojoan, to random
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To combat chatGPT generated books on the kindle store, Amazon only allows users to publish 3 books ~ per day.

What the fuck kind of human author is publishing 3 BOOKS A DAY.

rlcw,
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@Daojoan @cstross You could probably bring it down to 1 book/week and handle more than that with a human review, if you where interested in quality. But I doubt Amazon cares. Many bad books might make for more sales short-term.

rlcw,
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@cstross @Daojoan Yes, that is what I am also saying. As long as selling AI books doesn't hurt their bottom line, they won't care. Which is also why these 3 books a day process doesn't make sense to ensure quality, it just ebbs the tide a bit. I'm assuming they will just build a solution that automatically delists books with too few sales or sth. :-\

rlcw,
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@cstross @Daojoan As I have said twice now, I do not think Amazon has an interest in stopping the AI book flow, as long as it helps their bottom line. Their bottom line is also impacted by operational costs, hence the curbing but not stopping, and as I said probably auto-delisting based on sales. Not in the interest of supporting human authors, but in helping their own bottom line.

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