🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

happy to report that since qoto.org's big instance software updates, elk.zone finally works! finally back using my favourite mastodon web client. still as nice as i remember from back when i was still on ye olde .social

thanks again for your work getting those updates done, @freemo! had a feeling it was some deprecation issue

@freemo My cat did that to strangers but not to me. Ungrateful, she was.

@freemo yeah the black Soi cats are cute. We adopted one and make sure she regularly visits the vets for her vaccinations - whatever she needs. She has a lovely temperament.

@freemo you often seem to befriend cats :)

@freemo@qoto.org That begs the question: Has she one or three nipples? (or more?!)

@freemo@qoto.org I'm going to assume that her odd number of nipples and her becoming your ex are a cause and effect situation

@tyil, I'll like to think the other way around, i.e. @freemo's ex used to have an even number of nipples.

Mistral AI really shines a light on OpenAI.

As a cyber collector, I have LLaMa1, LLaMa2, Mistral8x7B laying in my nas. Although I don't have powerful enough hardware to run them, but it's a good thing to have. And I'm looking forward to the dolphin variant.

* Dolphin is a decensored model based on those open source models.

@freemo I can’t speak to AU/NZ usage, but the UK definitely defaults to plural in most cases. Note you’re citing a particular place’s style guide, not a description of what is spoken. You can find lots of descriptions of the actual spoken differences if you look. Here’s the first few hits for me:

https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2018/01/it-or-they.html

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskUK/comments/op4g7v/why_does_british_english_use_the_plural_when/?rdt=63601

https://www.blenheimeditorial.co.uk/post/company-singular-or-plural

@mapto

Bow ya figure that makes no sense. Accumulating resources in a vault untouched is the least effecient form, you literally have negative effiency as inflation devalues assets. A person would achieve effiency by investing thrir mo ey wisely and ensuring other people are using those resources to effectively increase the total resources in the market.

You are getting stuck in the fallacy that someone havibg authority (ownership) over those resources means that other people cant use it for their own gains as well which is entierly contrary to the reality. Those resources will be in others hands and used by them in some agreement to use them for mutual gain (investment in others).

@avlcharlie