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tilton, to random
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Well there it is, it’s official. This was proposed as an optional shutdown last week, now it’s mandatory. That means I have 8 fewer days of PTO every year than I was promised when I joined.

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“Everyone! You need to login to your Dropbox account, go into settings, go into this menu, and disable their new AI trai—“

Uh-huh. removes all files from Dropbox, deletes account

I am really done playing these bullshit games with corporations like this.

tilton,
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@tailsy @keirFox I've become maybe a little too obsessed with self-hosting absolutely everything.

tilton,
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@tailsy @keirFox Yeah, Email I no longer self host because Google essentially made it impossible to self host email. For that, I use Fastmail, and I love them, they've been great. No free tier, but that means you just pay for a service and you get a service, which is exactly what I want.

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when was the last time you opened a web browser to look for something specific, and what was it?

bonus round: and it wasn't for work or to buy a product

tilton,
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@patterfloof Like 75 times a day every day. The one I remember most recently was an eggnog recipe.

tilton, to random
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Never forget this: the tech worker making $250,000 a year has 99.999999% more in common with you than they do with Jeff Bezos. They get the privilege of being multiple paychecks away from homelessness, sure, but the threat of homelessness still looms large. Anything else is an illusion that keeps us at each others’ throats instead of at the billionaires’ throats. Everyone should be in a union, and we should all support each others’ unions.

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Thinking back to my CD buying days, I had absolutely no shame about buying "Greatest Hits" albums. Sometimes you're just not really big into a band, but you do like their most popular songs, right? There's nothing wrong with just getting their greatest hits in one compilation. Like, the only Eagles album I own is their greatest hits album. I do not need more Eagles.

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I've been ripping all of my CDs as 44.1kHz 16 bit FLACs, and I often see people online touting their 192kHz 24 bit FLACs. This is very silly to me. It's "Audiophile grade shielded Toslink" levels of silliness. You cannot perceive the difference, they are mathematically identical waves when run through a decent digital-to-analog converter. Claude Shannon is not amused.

tilton, to random
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OH MY GOD. I just found out my husband has never seen or even heard of "Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas" and my world is SHAKEN. You think you know a guy... 😭

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This is where I'd put my craft room

IF I HAD ONE

tilton, to random
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Misty Wednesday

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I hate it when they don't even try, it's so lazy

tilton, to random
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I use a typewriter to keep a personal journal. I don't journal every day, maybe a few times a week on average, but it's nice to go back and look at where my head was when I wrote down my thoughts, and it keeps my typewriter exercised. This is the one I use, a lovely blue Smith-Corona Silent-Super from about 1957. They were built to last, this thing is practically brand new 66 years later...

tilton, to random
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I had literally never heard of the guy in the hbomberguy video and I feel like I’m in a parallel timeline now.

tilton, to random
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I like hbomberguy a lot but I am absolutely not going to invest 4 hours of my time in watching one video, I’m sorry. I rarely have the patience even for 1 hour videos, it’s got to be a special occasion.

rysiek, (edited ) to hacking
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overheard from a group of young hackers excitedly exploring esoteric programming languages currently at a friendly hackerspace:

"What the hell is this 'LF' thing in Whitespace?"

oh dear. :blobcatgiggle:

it's so much fun to see people having genuine fun with technology, exploring things in earnest, randomly stumbling into a rabbit hole of tech history.

tilton,
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@rysiek Yeah, “there used to be clacky things with keyboards that printed ASCII and had to know both when to move the carriage back to the start of the line, and when to advance the paper” is pretty non-obvious in 2023 if you think about it!

tilton, to random
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I went to a bunch of furry conventions back at the dawn of time before I or any of my friends had cell phones. There used to be a cork bulletin board called "The Scratching Post" where you could post little hand-written notes for friends to let them know where to find you. It's so quaint to remember.

tilton, to random
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Watching the EU constantly pivot wildly between solid consumer rights protections (yay!) and extreme surveillance state measures (wtf!) gives me such whiplash.

tilton, to random
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I love the fact that there's basically no way to validate whether a string is an email address or not. The only way to know for sure is to try to send it email and see if the recipient gets it. All those millions of regular expressions written over the years to "validate" email addresses are such a waste.

tilton, to random
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If you’re going to MFF, have fun! Sadly, it’s wedged between Thanksgiving Shutdown and Christmas Shutdown, which means I’ll never be able to make it.

tilton, to random
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First day back at work in a full week and I'm just trying really hard not to quit on the spot 🙃

tilton, to random
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It is my opinion that LLMs are fundamentally a dead-end technology. They are a parlor trick that provide amusement, but cannot actually reliably accomplish what we ask of them, and are therefore even WORSE than useless; they're actively misleading, in a dangerous way. A gold rush for venture capital grifters, but not much else.

tilton,
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Last night I mentioned SHRDLU, the natural language processing program written between 1968 and 1970. Take a look at an example dialog between a human and SHRDLU. The fundamental difference between SHRDLU and an LLM is that SHRDLU was designed to reason about a small problem space and learn from experience, not just predict text. It's actually fascinating to look at the sample dialog and realize this was written over 50 years ago now. https://archives.loomcom.com/share/shrdlu.txt

tilton,
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Also please note that SHRDLU wasn't magic; Terry Winograd admits that he set up his demo VERY very carefully. This was a primitive technology, but a promising one. It, too, eventually reached a dead end, so I'm not saying SHRDLU is better than an LLM, just that that avenue of research was personally more interesting to me.

tilton,
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@keirFox And I literally just saw this... I weep for the future right now.

tilton, to random
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If I were to write an ActivityPub server, I would simply not use Rails.

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