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veronica

@veronica@mastodon.online

Senior Developer at https://mastodon.social/@turtlesec ★ High Energy Physics PhD from Uni Oslo and CERN ★ Linux ★ Python ★ Open Source ★ Unicode Unicorn ★ ISO 8601 Enthusiast ★ Consumer of Sci-Fi ★ Hobby Writer ★ Born at 336 ppm CO₂ ★ she/they, Dr.

Open Source: https://novelwriter.io, https://fosstodon.org/@novelwriter

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cstross, to random
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My thought on Neuralink implanting tech in human heads for the first time:

Brain implants are one of those technologies where the MTBF for the implant MUST exceed the MTBF of the implantee. And there must be lifetime after-sales support, Or else the execs who made the decision to pull support should go to prison for the rest of their lives.

foxxtrot,
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@cstross And we already, unsurprisingly, have demonstrable cases of this failing users: https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete

novelwriter, to random
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I'm working on an implementation to allow Point of View character to be automatically added to for instance Chapter titles.

Since a character tag does not necessarily have a title-friendly name or format, I need to add a way to define a "Display name" for a tag.

I would like some feedback on how to best implement it, either here or in the feature thread on GitHub (which has a lot more information).

-Veronica

https://github.com/vkbo/novelWriter/issues/1468#issuecomment-1916374164

novelwriter, to random
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novelWriter 2.2.1 has been released. It fixes two minor bugs with the user interface, and includes an updated German and Chinese translation.

https://novelwriter.io/

thatprivacyguy, to privacy
@thatprivacyguy@eupolicy.social avatar

@theregister have published an article on my complaint to the Irish DPC in relation to Meta opting people in to their "Free with Ads" tier for Facebook and Instagram:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/23/meta_eu_advertising/

#privacy #ethics #gdpr #eprivacy #compliance #law #cookies #advertising #surveillance #surveillancecapitalism #legal #eulaw

jantzen, to Facebook Norwegian
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"Using a panel of 709 volunteers who shared archives of their Facebook data, Consumer Reports found that a total of 186,892 companies sent data about them to the social network. On average, each participant in the study had their data sent to Facebook by 2,230 companies."
https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics/privacy/each-facebook-user-is-monitored-by-thousands-of-companies-a5824207467/

writeblankspace, (edited ) to random
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Hypothesis: queers make up roughly or more than 50% of the active people on Fedi.

Boost for science!

You are:

mattjord, to random

Huh. Turns out when the vertically integrated media/tech oligopoly enshittifies their streaming services, people who don't like getting squeezed will start pirating content.
Who could have guessed? @KarlBode @pluralistic

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/01/10/piracy-is-surging-again-because-streaming-execs-ignored-the-lessons-of-the-past/

cafuego, to random
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@ionica This story has a rather excellent graph, which should get some sort of graph award 🙂

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-09/magpies-swoop-bald-more-often-survey-finds/103297520

Heliograph, to random
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novelwriter, to random
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novelWriter 2.2 has just been released. This is the third release of the 2.x revamp. This time the focus has been on text editing, with several improvements to the tags and references system, more options for text formatting like sub- and superscript. For the first time, multi-select in the project tree is also possible for certain tasks.

Please see the release notes for more details.

https://novelwriter.io

olafurw, to random
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Return Oriented Programming, an introduction - @Patricia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMmB1LCTXds

paulisci, to random
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Please, no joking about the billionaires.

novelwriter, to random
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The release candidate for novelWriter 2.2 is out for those who want to test the upcoming features.

Even more has been added since the Beta release 2 weeks ago, including a new References panel below the document viewer, and multi-select drag and drop and actions in the project tree.

https://novelwriter.io/download/index.html#latest-pre-release

VeryBadLlama, to random
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I’m just an executive, standing in front of some small thing that brings you joy in this life, asking how I can completely ruin it for money

redshiftdrift, to random
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"FIRST discovery of dozens of new giant radio galaxies"

🔗https://phys.org/news/2023-11-discovery-dozens-giant-radio-galaxies.html

loadingartist, to random
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happy black friday

ghalfacree, to random
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Dear Microsoft. Here is a list of things I want the Start Menu to do:

  • Show my installed programs
  • Search my local files
  • Provide access to system settings

Here is a list of things I do not want the Start Menu to do:

  • Show the weather for a randomly-selected town near my network's public IP infrastructure
  • Show tabloid headlines
  • Show programs I don't have installed
  • Search the web via Bing
  • Show adverts(!)
  • Attempt to engage me in conversation with a hallucinating LLM

Thanks.

emilymbender, to random
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With the OpenAI clownshow, there's been renewed media attention on the xrisk/"AI safety"/doomer nonsense. Personally, I've had a fresh wave of reporters asking me naive questions (as well as some contacts from old hands who are on top of how to handle ultra-rich man-children with god complexes). 🧵1/

emilymbender,
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"AI" is not "good at writing"—it's designed to produce plausible sounding synthetic text. Writing is an activity that people to do as we work to refine our ideas and share them with others. LLMs don't have ideas. 14/

(And it bears repeating: If their output seems to make sense, it's because we make sense of it.) 15/

emilymbender,
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Also, it's kind of hilarious (lolsob) that OpenAI is burning enormous amounts of energy to take machines designed to perform calculations precisely to make them output text that mimics imprecisely the performance of calculations ... and then deciding that that is intelligent. 16/

But here is where the reporting really goes off the rails. AGI is not a thing. It doesn't exist. Therefore, it can't do anything, no matter what the AI cultists say. 17/

sundogplanets, to random
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COOL! The spicy article I wrote about satellite pollution is FINALLY published! "Bright satellites are disrupting astronomy research worldwide" in Nature News & Views.

This article required weeks of back-and-forth with the editor, the editor-in-chief, and Nature's lawyers, so I hope that means it's a good one.

During this process, I learned that satellite companies are so powerful and litigious that even giant publishers like Nature are terrified of getting sued. Which is...rather worrying.

sundogplanets,
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Paywalled article here, I'll share once I have a non-paywalled link (hopefully soon): https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03610-5

The summary: astronomers spent a lot of time asking SpaceX and other large satellite operators to pretty please make their satellites fainter and/or use fewer satellites. And then BlueWalker 3 was launched by some tiny company and is one of the brightest things in the sky. Asking nicely isn't working: international regulation and pollution penalties are needed.

cstross, to random
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Google snippets falsely claimed eating glass has health benefits (because it sourced material from a website about AI called Emergent Mind which in turn got it from ChatGPT):

https://fullfact.org/health/google-snippet-eating-glass/

aral, to twitter
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Just saw Twitter/X called birdchan.

chef’s kiss

#x

novelwriter, to random
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A beta release of novelWriter 2.2 is out for those who want to test the upcoming features.

Among the changes in 2.2 are case insensitive tags and references, an auto-complete feature for references, and new formatting codes for subscript, superscript and underline.

https://novelwriter.io/download/index.html#latest-pre-release

Em0nM4stodon, to python

A rare photo of me coding in :python:​

mekkaokereke, to random
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So, Mr Beast made a YouTube video where he dug 100 wells in impoverished areas of Kenya and other African countries. CNN did a story on how he was being criticized for his good deeds. They quoted Saran Kaba Jones, a Black woman who has been building wells in Africa for 15 years, and a single Twitter commenter.

But... The Black woman praised Mr. Beast? She only asked that we consider maintenance, because many of the wells she digs are because existing wells weren't maintained.

mcmullin,
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@mekkaokereke
I work in the non-profit world, and the prevalent idea that “overhead” is necessarily equivalent to waste is something we constantly have to fight against. An organization with no expenses and no staff is not likely to be more effective than one professionally run by competent people who are paid fairly. And what counts as overhead depends a lot on what type of work you’re doing.

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