Amikke @Amikke@qoto.org

it's fun when you look up software in github and it's like "latest commit: yesterday" and then you scroll down and some of the files have like, "last modified: 20 years ago"

THAT'S OLDER THAN GITHUB. THAT'S OLDER THAN GIT

AI
http://smbc-comics.com/comic/copyright

Literally just asking ChatGPT to classify a text document gets 58.7% accuracy (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/370594216_ChatGraph_Interpretable_Text_Classification_by_Converting_ChatGPT_Knowledge_to_Graphs)

Gzip gets 68.5% (https://mastodon.social/@mhoye/110707564773784439)

On one hand, that's definitely misusing ChatGPT.
On the other hand, that's also definitely misusing Gzip.

If "Artificial General Intelligence" means "able to do tasks it was never designed for", then I, for one, welcome our Gzip overlords

Holy _shit_ this paper, and the insight behind it.

You know how every receiver is also a transmitter, _well_: every text predictor is also text compressor, and vice-versa.

You can outperform massive neural networks running millions of parameters, with a novel applications of _gzip_.

https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.426/

misconceptions programmers have about names:

1. everyone has a name
2. names are only in the ASCII character set
3. all names are pronounceable
4. evoking the true name of your enemy does not give you power over them
5. no one would ever name their child after a star wars character

Have you ever wanted to make a "you wouldn't steal a car" meme, but been disappointed with how lame the existing meme editors are?

I made a better one: https://youwouldntsteala.website/editor.html

Several years ago everyone agreed that unencrypted data flow is dangerous and #internet as a whole should avoid it. #TLS spreaded everywhere. Now it is default and unencrypted traffic is marked as not secure.
(Sometimes I have to agree to 3-4 warning popups to log into some development service in internal network via http )

I wonder when we finally agree the same about #MessagingApps and when we would understand #e2ee should be a standard. And messaging apps without #encryption should also have big red scary warnings to discourage people from using these. People should know before they send something what would be used against them in the future.

#security #privacy

look, all I am saying is I had no idea that toot meant fart in english, i am not a native speaker and i never questioned why everyone was all joking about it for weeks and nobody told me repeatedly because it;s not an extremely common usage of the word. I don't know anything. I don't even know where I am right now. the world is a mystery to me.

how it feels to talk about #activitypub and how #fedi implements it

http://smbc-comics.com/comic/purity-3

this has to be the most hilarious popup i've had ever #Obsidian

it's inconvenient that the people who are the most qualified to answer questions such as "should i move to city X?" are the people who did it.

the ones who liked it are always going to tell you to do it. you'll typically meet these people in the city in question.

the ones who didn't like it are always going to tell you to not do it. you'll typically never meet these people, because you don't know where they went instead.

it applies to all kinds of long term commitment, such as which brand of phone you have chosen. getting unbiased answers to questions about people's commitments is difficult.

Fediverse description of article:

BigCompany just announced they are going to actively start aiding the government in mass murdering the SmallGroup.

Actual story:

BigCompany just announced they refuse to take a stance on gun laws in the wake of the recent mass murder

How did I not know about this app? #Paperwork is a revolution in keeping track of life admin, available at #Flathub and syncs lovely with @nextcloud
https://flathub.org/apps/work.openpaper.Paperwork

#Nextcloud

curious about demographics

extremely ironic to see this shared by people against civilian gun ownership

@LaoBan also, this idea that you can't attach anything else if there is a GIF or video. that's ALSO not a part of the standard.

also, you're not allowed to have a poll with pictures attached.

thing is, if you make such a post from Pleroma, with GIFs and pictures together, and a poll, Mastodon will display it correctly.

it just doesn't let you create such a post. which is stupid if you ask me.