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Mike Tougeron
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Christine Lemmer-Webber

Study after study also shows that AI assistants erode the development of critical thinking skills and knowledge *retention*. People, finding information isn't the biggest missing skillset in our population, it's CRITICAL THINKING, so this is fucked up

AI assistants also introduce more errors at a high volume, and harder to spot too

microsoft.com/en-us/research/u
slejournal.springeropen.com/ar
resources.uplevelteam.com/gen-
techrepublic.com/article/ai-ge
arxiv.org/abs/2211.03622
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/

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Volker Weber

zezvaz.com/cartoons/

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Micr0byte

Recently, Altbot has been targeted by DDoS attacks. While the motive is unclear, it seems tied to a misguided belief that the bot’s alt-text generation is harmful to the environment. Let me set the record straight.

Altbot uses Gemini-1.5-flash, a specifically low-power AI model. Processing a single alt-text request consumes around 0.0005 kWh, meaning that in the 4 months since I created Altbot—and tens of thousands of alt-text entries generated—it has consumed roughly 10 kWh in total. That’s about the same energy as running a single LED light bulb nonstop for 41 days or driving an electric car just 40 miles.

These DDoS attacks, however, have already consumed more electricity and computing power than Altbot has across its entire existence... in a matter of hours. This means the attacks have caused more environmental harm than the very thing they seem to be protesting.

Altbot exists to improve accessibility on Mastodon, not to harm the environment. Accessibility and sustainability can coexist, and I’m committed to keeping Altbot energy-efficient and purposeful.

If there are concerns, I encourage constructive dialogue—not destructive actions that undermine both inclusivity and sustainability.

Thank you to everyone supporting Altbot’s mission of making the Fediverse more accessible for all.

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barefootstache

@hax the current state is that Ubuntu has supposedly been successfully installed, though it won't boot into it

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Kevin Karhan :verified:

I wounder when #ALDI stops branding their #Toast as "#AMERICAN" because it's definitely not #USian / #USA - Style, as it's way too healthy and doesn't have #HighFructoseCornSyrup or #YellowNumber5 in it!

Seriously, that branding needs to bet wiped off before consumers start boycotting it Canadian Style...

Mind you #Germany has actual #bread #culture and that #AldiToast is considered "bare minimum slop" and not even proper bread by anyone with taste.

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@kkarhan yes and had to deactivate secure boot to progress further to get YUMI to even show up

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Information Is Beautiful

This feels true...

by Instagram user @beckybarnicomics
instagram.com/p/DFXYUJatjBV

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barefootstache

Spent the last 10 hours trying to get any operating system to work on a with .

First tried to get to boot via , but it black screened.

Next tried to use the same USB stick with only to realize that it was too small.

Got myself a second stick, but Windows wasn't reading it via "This PC", thus had to format it via Disk Management before using YUMI to install Ubuntu onto it.

And it didn't help that Windows was very sluggish with the existing hardware. Making the whole experience a mental challenge onto one's patience!

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barefootstache

@davidbisset "sharing is caring", I have shared many writings on the fediverse and have gotten all kinds of responses and the best one's are those who question the message while pointing out an alternate approach on how to interpret it.

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David Bisset

Nice post on:

"Why Blog If Nobody Reads It?" 🤔

andysblog.uk/why-blog-if-nobod

Short answer (IMO): Writing helps the thought process and helps future you.

Same reason why I post links on social. In the end I don't care if they get traction - they get sucked into davidbisset.social for future me.

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barefootstache

@the_etrain *potential mental health

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evacide

I'm just going to leave Freedom of the Press Foundation's excellent guide to leaking to the press right here in case anyone happens to need it: freedom.press/digisec/blog/sha

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Frankie ✅

If you are in the U.S., you can buy produce directly from black farmers and they will ship it to you. It can cost less than your supermarket and will piss off people in power.

blackfarmersindex.com/

#interesting #youshouldknow #food #economy #business #smallbusiness

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barefootstache

The most fun I had was dealing with a a pre-existing reference as in

```
const page = { foo: 0, bar: 0};
const pageList = [];
if (someNumber > 4) {
for (let ii = 0; ii < someNumber; ii++ ) {
page.foo = ii * ii;
page.bar = ii + ii;
pageList.push(page);
}
return;
}
pageList.push(page);
```

When console logging within the for-loop everything worked as expected, but if one saved the `JSON.stringify(pageList)` then each item that was created in the for-loop equated to the last item created.

The solution is to create a `structureClone(page)` within the for-loop and reference it over `page`.

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barefootstache

As neat as or is, I miss the abilities of in the browser.

I don't remember how many times I tried to grab certain properties, which would have been available in the browser, but don't exist in cheerio.

And it is a bit annoying to constantly put various html elements into the cheerio wrapper class to get access to the various functionalities it offers. Thus instead grabbed the minimal viable data and just worked further with arrays.

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barefootstache

After spending 7 hours to publish the code while going through a 71 page PDF.

The 71 pages were reduced to 43 pages in the `clean-html.js` step. And in the next step of `create-question.js` it was expanded to 63 pages.

Most of the time I was in the cleaning phase, since this is where one can remove pages and add questions quickly without the need of either copy-pasting the wording directly to or manually typing it out.

One thing that has been holding me back is not having a in to generate snippets quickly.

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barefootstache

Just published the preliminary tool on

codeberg.org/barefootstache/pd

It mainly describes how to do it and is a semi-automation tool to get PDFs into .

In the current version one will still need to modify the pattern constant in the clean-html.js file to align with the PDF in use.

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Webdev Weekly

JavaScript Temporal is coming

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/bl

Discussions: discu.eu/q/https://developer.m

#javascript #programming #webdev

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@CodeFreezR Obwohl ich teilweise zugeschaut habe, war teilweise die Verbindung schlecht und mehrere talks gleichzeitig anschauen ist schwierig. Daher warte ich auf die Aufzeichnungen.

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