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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.

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Patricia, to random
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People who think I was hash against the book should read it. But then really, actually read all of the words, and not give up, skim and start just looking at pictures and headlines.

veronica,
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@Patricia After a few years in the "industry", I've come to the conclusion that a lot of the agile stuff is a whole lot of management dogmatism. There are bits that work and bits that don't. Last we had a coach at Day Job™, there was a lot of talk and buzzwords and little substance (read evidence).

In academia, I never came across this stuff. We were mostly just plodding along and teaming up on our code about as well as stray cats, which is very academic-y. Not exactly efficient either.

veronica,
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@Patricia Of course, as an academic, I'm very sceptical of any claim not supported by evidence. Management is, and always has been, mostly just that.

Myers-Briggs anyone?

veronica, to ai
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Slack is being passive aggressive about us requesting our data not be used for global "AI" training at work:

"You will still enjoy all of the benefits of our globally trained AI/ML models without contributing to the underlying models."

No idea what these supposed "benefits" are in the first place, but OK then!

hamatti, to random
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Good bye unemployment.

I just accepted a job offer and couldn't be happier right now.

veronica,
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@hamatti Congrats!

atlefren, to random Norwegian Bokmål
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Inntil det kommer en botaniker og forteller meg at "well, actually" så kommer jeg til å bli oppgitt hver gang dette grasset folk får av å plante upoppa popcorn kalles popcorngress. Mais. Maisplanten gir oss popcornet. Planter du frøa til maisplanten får du mais.

Du får ikke guacamole-gress ved å plante en avocadostein.

veronica,
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@atlefren Ja, jeg må si jeg skjønte ingenting av hva de snakket om i Nrk sin artikkel om "popcorngress". Hadde et eneste stort "hæh?"-øyeblikk. Ble litt klarere da det sto på slutten at de mente maisplante. Jeg tror definitivt ikke de gjorde artikkelen lettere å skjønne med det der ...

veronica,
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@atlefren Se også: sjokoladebusk og kokosmelktre.

blabberlicious, to ai
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“(Sam A) felt that by my voicing the system, I could bridge the gap between tech companies and creatives... He said he felt that my voice would be comforting to people”

  • Johansson

Translation:
Trojan Hoarse Voice, hired for main assault, flees the stable.





Still from film her. Actor in red shirt looking confused.

veronica,
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@blabberlicious It's always good to keep in mind that Altman is also the guy behind the Worldcoin crypto scam/grift. Everything he does is a money grab, and he doesn't seem to care about the consequences of his actions.

arstechnica, to random
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Microsoft’s new “Recall” feature will record everything you do on your PC

Recall uses Copilot+ PC features "to take images of your active screen every few seconds."

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/microsofts-new-recall-feature-will-record-everything-you-do-on-your-pc/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

veronica,
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@5ciFiGirl Enshittification as a service.

veronica, to opensource
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One benefit of a Monday being a holiday because someone did something 2000 years ago is that I can treat it as a work day where I work on my open source project instead of regular work code. 😁

#OpenSource #Code

veronica, to random
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Just got an email:

"I’ve now switched to your software and my stress levels have plummeted."

That is truly high praise!

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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Which best describes you?

("records" in this context are shellac, vinyl or resin etc. recorded sound discs played using needle)

If you have some records you can play and others you can't choose the third option.

If you have a player but it's broken choose the first option.

You "own" a player if one is in your home and you can use it when you want.

You "own" records if you are one of the people who must be asked if they were sold or thrown away.

veronica,
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@futurebird Close enough, but "I own records" plural is technically wrong, as I own exactly one 45 record. 😁

veronica,
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@futurebird I've have asked a few times if I can have the old player sitting in a storage room at my mom's house, but even though it hasn't been used in decades, I haven't been able to talk her into giving it to me yet. 😁

veronica,
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@futurebird I tried to search for images of the model, and I think this is the one. With green backlit touch buttons.

veronica,
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@Archnemysis @futurebird It's by an artist from my hometown. He released his seventh album also on vinyl as a special edition back in 2003.

MacNaBracha, to Gaeilge
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Never mind Siobhan, Merriam-Webster should mind its language and remember that English is not the only window on the world.

veronica,
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@MacNaBracha And on the flip side, replacing an unaccented Latin character with an accented one changes completely how it's pronounced.

I'm looking at you, English speaker, who think replacing "O" with "Ø" just makes it look cooler!

thomasfuchs, to random
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Defaced some of my Stack Overflow answers again because the people who own that site are triple-A fartwaffles who are fucking over the community.

P.S. They smell bad.

veronica,
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@PierreM @thomasfuchs They are. They undeleted mine too. Thankfully there weren't that many. I deleted my account.

veronica, (edited )
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@Natanox @PierreM @thomasfuchs They ignored my GDPR request, even though they stated in their reply that the posts were mine by license.

(GDPR applies to Norwegians too.)

Edit: The main issue here is that you can't actually delete an account, only delete profiles for the various sites. That's likely the main GDPR violation. In any case, they ignored it.

veronica,
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@DetersHenning @Natanox @PierreM @thomasfuchs Not deleting my posts, maybe not. Not being able to fully delete my account though ...

nileane, to random
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I feel the same way about AI that I did about crypto when it started becoming a thing:

• All of the moral practices that make it possible are fucked beyond repair.

• It’s spawning some of the worst companies, and enriching some of the worst billionaires in the world.

• While there are some genuinely useful, practical applications for it, there are so few of them, and they have had so little positive impact so far, that it doesn’t even seem like it’s going to be worth it anytime soon.

veronica,
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@skydog @oldguycrusty @nileane @sigmund Agreed. I've worked a bit with ML, and followed it for years. It's very useful tech, with a lot of known limitations and issues.

The current boom of generative "AI" (which isn't AI at all) is largely a money grab and stock bubble at the expense of privacy and energy, and a boom to fraud and misinformation at a time in our history where it can do a lot of social damage. As if the tech bros ever cared about the consequences.

stux, to random
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Ohh! Just 830 ‘partners’?

Nty! :nkoHammer:

veronica,
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@stux Where is the "With Shock and Horror, I Absolutely Reject" button?

ncopa, to random
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Our aarch64 build monster with 256G ram ran out of memory and OOM killed g++ while building clang18.

Don't underestimate the power of bloat

veronica,
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@rotopenguin @ncopa Came here to say that 😁

stux, to web
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Also tired of endless streaming subscriptions? Take back control and self-host!

Are you tired of shelling out money for multiple streaming subscriptions every month? It seems like every media company now has its own platform

https://stux.me/web/also-tired-of-endless-streaming-subscriptions-take-back-control-and-self-host/

veronica,
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@stux There's also Kodi.

veronica, to GraphicsProgramming
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Is there anyone on here that has a recommendation for NVIDIA graphics cards? I haven't used them for a very long time, only AMD, so not really up to date on them.

I need it to run fine on Linux, which I hope has improved now. I will use it for not very demanding games like WoW, and for Machine Learning. I currently have an AMD Radeon RX 5700 GPU.

I was considering a Dual GeForce RTX 4070 OC, since it would fit in my box. I can't have any of the super long ones.

#GPU #Nvidia #DesktopPC

veronica,
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Well, got the card today, and it seems to be working out of the box on Debian 12, and running WoW at maximum settings without breaking a sweat.

I'll call that a success! 😁

veronica, to stackoverflow
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Well, fuck you Stack Overflow. I deleted my answers and have now deleted all my accounts.

veronica,
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@risike It definitely is still there. They undeleted the content, which thankfully wasn't a lot because they've always been gatekeeping asshats over there. My account is still there too as they completely ignored my GDPR request.

The only 100% sure thing here is that I will never contribute an iota of content to that site ever again. Exploitation is definitely a deal breaker.

veronica, to InitialD
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I've written up my experiment with upscaling Star Trek Deep Space Nine from my DVDs to HD. It's a pretty long post, but I hope it is useful 😊

https://berglyd.net/blog/2023/08/upscaling-startrek-ds9/

veronica,
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@boazhsan Yeah, I bought myself the Babylon 5 Blurays for Christmas 😊

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