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tealeg

@tealeg@mastodon.online

Geoffrey J. Teale. Head of Developer eXperience @ Upvest. Born in England, adopted by Germany. Humanist. Father. Everton fan. Not really a bot 🤖 Whilst I appreciate your intentions, please don't offer me Amazon Vouchers. I choose to use companies that pay their taxes and treat their workers with respect.

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flockofnazguls, to random
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    tealeg,
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    @flockofnazguls … and how much energy was used to generate that garbage… and his much greenhouse gas that pumped into our atmosphere. Then maybe the long term economic cost of that damage so we can bill idiots that hand out those tools like candy.

    tealeg, to random
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    We've achieved much in the last decades in terms of making consumer computing more ubiquitous (and profitable). In doing so we've also managed to regress from a position of utility and power in software. We force everyone to have packaged, pre-defined experiences instead of utilising their device to it fullest.

    @robpike is hitting that nail squarely on the head with this commentary: https://hachyderm.io/@robpike/110863371168631778

    J12t, to random
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    "What comes after FOSS?"

    Not a question you hear discussed very often.

    https://infrastructureinsights.fund/projects/what-comes-after-foss/

    tealeg,
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    @J12t would be really interested to track this research. The question is, how?

    hugoestr, to random
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    Imagine if all the money and effort going to train LLM was used for developing better solar technology and to create tools that were more energy efficient

    tealeg,
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    @echevarian @hugoestr again, that isn’t being done by ChatGPT or Gemini, but by specially trained deep learning models using far more precise data sets and far fewer resources.

    santiago, to random
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    It seems is also making good progress running on RISC-V boards including recently a USB fix which also affects positively x86 nightlies.

    tealeg,
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    @santiago oh... I have one of those (A VisionFive 2), sitting around doing nothing right now.

    tealeg,
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    @santiago I got mine in the original funding round, so I had it for a while. It's been deployed doing Linuxy things, but just recently it's been sitting doing nothing. Like you, time is the issue for all this extracurricular activity.

    tealeg,
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    @santiago I have an NVME SSD on mine which helps a bit. I wouldn't want to use it as a desktop, but I could. I think on Haiku it will depend a lot on the maturity of the drivers, and especially if graphics acceleration is ever available.

    daviwil, to random
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    Rust, Go, or Zig?

    If you have an opinion (or two, or three), I want to hear it.

    tealeg,
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    @daviwil @ramin_hal9001 it’s a correct impression. There’s a lot to think about in rust. It enforces a certain amount of correctness - it won’t let you assume that yours not going to do the wrong thing. People who use it full time seem to get used to that and just know the right way to do it, but it’s a journey.

    I’ve just started porting code from “The Little Learner” to rust (a way to check my understanding) the effort required for Rust compared to Racket is huge.

    ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs, (edited ) to random
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    tealeg,
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    @ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs thanks for the heads up, never heard that before, so I looked it up. Raisins and grapes are indeed highly toxic for dogs.

    Hope your dog will be ok!

    neilm, to books

    Does anyone know a good place to consistently buy foreign language books in the US? I’m willing to pay up to double sticker price.

    Specifically looking for children’s books in German and literature/contemporary novels and books in German, Russian, and French.

    Please don’t suggest Amazon, as it’s hardly a reliable source.

    @bookstodon

    tealeg,
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    @KShortill @neilm @bookstodon why not order directly from Germany rather than the UK? https://thalia.de or https://hugendubel.de would surely ship? Failing that, did you see this list of US handlers: https://www.thoughtco.com/german-bookstore-listing-1444293

    stavvers, to random
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    For real, just post hole occasionally on the tl and threads will defederate from you first

    tealeg,
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    @Farbs @unlofl @stavvers Drupal is a nasty side effect of getting high on PHP. Just say no, you hear me?

    parismarx, to ai
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    The threat we face from AI isn’t being turned into paperclips by intelligent machines. It’s tech companies using those fictional stories to justify remaking the world to power and cool massive data centers so they can try to fulfill their AI fantasies and keep investors happy.

    https://www.ft.com/content/f01529ad-88ca-456e-ad41-d6b7d449a409

    tealeg,
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    @parismarx yes, exactly. Amen to you.

    siblingpastry, to random
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    Just a random thought in the wind ...

    If I publish a book, you don't need my permission to read it, to learn from it and gain knowledge, and ultimately, to gain financial benefit from the professional application of that knowledge.

    So if AI uses my book for training data, is that really any different?

    tealeg,
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    @siblingpastry yes. If you write a book that is fundamentally similar in narrative content and style, and it can clearly be established that you did so having read my work, then you could genuinely be open to copyright claims. See how common this is in the works of music composition - there are a continuous stream of such claims. Likewise in the software world - the essence of SCOs claims about Linux containing its copyright hinges on exactly such a claim.

    tealeg,
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    @siblingpastry Copyright is a difficult concept, and it’s current structure has been developed to ensure the profitability of media companies rather than its original intent (to protect authors from publishers). AI presents complex questions, but allowing Silicon Valley to scrape up the creative output of the world and sell it back as simulacra, without compensation, is not a recipe for prosperity or peace.

    SwiftOnSecurity, to random

    I don’t understand how Sam is in jail right now I thought Bitcoin fixes governments having guns

    tealeg,
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    @jerry @SwiftOnSecurity it’s effective, but not efficient. A plain ol’ bank transfer use less compute , electricity and developer time. Criminals need to watch their CO2 footprints.

    tealeg,
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    @jerry @SwiftOnSecurity of course, by the time you get to the sort of people that invested in NFTs you probably don’t have to actually have any of the tech - you can just make wild claims like a science fiction writer. That’s pretty much how the AI sector is operating now :-)

    Chrishallbeck, to random
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    Old Looney Tunes cartoons really had me over prepare for the number of anvils I would have to deal with in my life.

    tealeg,
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    @Chrishallbeck to be fair, even if you only encounter a falling anvil once, you'll be glad of that education.

    tealeg,
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    @Chrishallbeck for your further enlightenment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK4Ixy2tjd8

    rml, to uk
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    The existence of a "git merge" conference in Chicago implies the existence of a "git innit" conference in Essex

    tealeg,
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    @rml It's git innit, we're going out on a git branch, looking for a git pull we can git merge with, give it the ol' git push. Not so much git rebase as git debase, you get me?

    rml, to random
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    People who worked in C++ their whole lives be like "I just love how simple and minimal Rust really is"

    tealeg,
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    @rml you know, these are exactly the things people used to say about Java in the 90s. ;-)

    tealeg, to llm
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    When I look at the reported costs of owning and operating an and then I see how aggressively it’s being integrated into and environments, I can only conclude that the idea is to make you all dependent on those tools and then (and only then) make you pay the real price required to make that business viable.

    MnemosyneSinger, to random

    Almost forgot

    tealeg,
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    @MnemosyneSinger Well, at least they've improved with regards to their reasoning about the nature and origin of the universe.

    beaveinflow, (edited ) to random

    Someone clearly failed the parking portion of flight school.

    tealeg,
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    @beaveinflow it’s the reverse parking that causes all the trouble

    Neverfadingwood, to random
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    TIL that there are a lot of English words that have been borrowed into German. Especially in advertising and product names, it seems. The transition is not always a smooth one, however.

    tealeg,
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    @Neverfadingwood another example. Spontex had (or has?) a line of gardening implements that they market for women in Germany (and other EU markets). That doesn't mean what they think it means... :

    rml, to random
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    A fediverse server full of bros, call it the fediwurst

    tealeg,
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    @rml Isn't that just Twitter?

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