Punica granatum @PunaisetPimpulat@qoto.org
I’m interested in science and technology. Free and open source software are important to me.
Joined Sep 2018
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Sopuli is up again, and I mean it.
Sopuli on taas ylhäällä, ja todella tarkoitan sitä.
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Seems #Reddit had decided to kill off its user base by pulling a Twitter with its API.
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For those who are unaware, lemmy and kbin to a lesser extent are in the early stages of a rapid growth in users, similar to the one Mastodon experienced in November last year.
In a move similar to Twitter, Reddit has all but confirmed that 3rd party apps will be locked out with their new API pricing, effectively forcing people to use the official app or nothing.
That has driven a lot of people to look for alternatives. I expect the wave in new users will ebb, but it will surge back again even larger once the 3rd party reddit apps are officially unusable.
We live in interesting times on the fediverse
#lemmy #kbin #reddit #fediverse #EternalNovember
@lupyuen Apparently the AI should know a bit more about the world around it. Just completing the mission, no matter the cost, isn’t really the kind of philosophy you would want your soldiers to have.
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Reddit doin the good ol corporate greed money grab with their new API
Yeah, no thanks. Time to switch platform
@UrsaAshBear Seems like Reddit is trying to speedrun this game of kicking out half of your users.
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🌶️ take: ChatGPT is Natural Language Processing's Netscape moment.
The Internet had existed for a while in 1995. However, Netscape's GUI-based browsing made the technology *usable* by the masses, creating an internet revolution.
LLMs have long existed. It was the GUI-based chat interaction of ChatGPT that made them usable by the masses.
At the heart, technology, especially usable ones, has always been about it.
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@mzedp I work as a machine learning engineer and agree that certain AI technologies are useful: they can serve purposes that relieve suffering and undermine entrenched pools of power to make a better world. But the #LLM models that are getting all the hype are doing the opposite. They further centralize power and render people helpless by the fact that their decisions are deliberately obscure. The fact that we can use them to perform certain tasks does them good Trojan horses.
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@Alexandergrate He’s also interested in all sorts of fun little projects like the hyperloop. As long as he can afford hobbies like that, we’ll continue to hear from him.
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Something big is happening in Mastodon over the weekend. Here is my graph, updated. Right now Mastodon is growing ~3 times faster than Twitter.
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The real story is about who, not how many, were laid off by Twitter (my latest on Substack)
@mimmymum I’ve been reading some of the #twitter related news lately, but I still haven’t figured out why people feel the need to migrate now. I must have missed something big. Is the usability expected to degrade even further, or what’s behind this #TwitterMigration ?
@codeHaiku Reminds me of HateBook. That site is gone now, but you can still find the news articles about a revolutionary new social site centered around making enemies and hating everyone.
@freemo Those things have been designed for mineral exploration. BTW you’ll also need a stationary base station which will provide a reference measurement. The difference of the two will be your final magnetic anomaly map, which will be able to display certain ferromagnetic minerals such as pyrrhotite and magnetite. If you’re looking for gold necklaces in the beach, this method might not be what you’re looking for.
@SciencePhysicist I’ve managed to make it work for me by following all the tech channels I like and ignoring everything in the drama lama section.
@lupyuen This is what happens when the user can’t even opt out of trading performance for battery life. Apple has never been a big fan of adding settings or even allowing the user to choose what’s best for them.
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Managed to install #Arch 
on my laptop, with the help of a little tutorial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xynotc9BKe8
I guess I'm now entitled to use the phrase/meme "BTW I use arch" ? 😂
I'll play with #i3 later
@fribbledom But is it still “technically correct”?
I’ve also noticed that the VBA generated by excel doesn’t look like a smart way to write something, but it works, so I guess that’s still technically correct.
I’m interested in science and technology. Free and open source software are important to me.
Joined Sep 2018
