Simon @spoltier@qoto.org
code / data wrangler in Switzerland.
Compulsive reply guy. Posts random photos once in a while.
Joined Jul 2023
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"Hey, lady ... did you know the bird feeder is empty? Yeah, somebody climbed the sumac and spilled all the seeds on the ground. Got any more in there? The BIRDS are gonna go hungry."
@mate a lot of people who fit that description would likely work in crypto, is that part of the profile you're looking for?
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I am looking for a guy who is a Haskell developper living in Switzerland with an impresing CV working in tech sartups.
#Fedivers help me !
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@spoltier @emilymbender Bing Chat lists 'sources', but they may not actually be sources.
For example, when I first tried it, I asked it what the difference was between CHERIoT (the project I run) and a PMP (what RISC-V calls an MPU). It gave a result that was a very light paraphrasing of something I'd written. Rather than citing this, it linked to Forbes and a few other places as citations. Every single one of the 'citations' was an article about Project Management Professionals.
@emilymbender It is interesting to compare the various web-enabled chatbots' UIs in that regard. Perplexity highlights the underlying search results most prominently, though gemini also does a pretty good job. Chatgpt doesn't show any sources.
Of course with all of them you will find that they sometimes say things that aren't in the sources or even contradict them...
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Finally, the chatbots-as-search paradigm encourages us to just accept answers as given, especially when they are stated in terms that are both friendly and authoritative.
But now more than ever we all need to level-up our information access practices and hold high expectations regarding provenance --- i.e. citing of sources.
The chatbot interface invites you to just sit back and take the appealing-looking AI slop as if it were "information". Don't be that guy.
/fin
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Here's an idea for a talk by me at #fosdem Interesting?
Title
"Tightening every bolt"
Abstract
Things to do in order to sleep well while having your C code in twenty billion installations. A talk about what the curl project does to minimize security risks: Security, Safety, Reproducibility, vulnerability handling and the processes and tooling around it.
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This November, Elecia( @logicalelegance ) is mounting an origami art show: Origami Octopus Garden in the Library at the Aptos Public Library(near Santa Cruz, California).
Whether you're an origami enthusiast or just curious, come and explore Elecia's stunning paper creations.
Don't miss the chance to see papers fold and unfold in locked step with creativity.
#origami #arts #paper #california #library #engineering #math #aptos
@ploum @pvheditions @ludomire sounds like something @jonny would love
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Hey #FediBookFair ,
I’m a SF writer writing in French published by @pvheditions . My books are under a CC By-SA license and available in every bookshop in France, Switzerland, Belgium.
My new novel, "Bikepunk" was released a few days ago (think Mad Max with bikes, written on an old typewriter).
See the #bikepunk hashtags and https://bikepunk.fr/
We are looking for partnership with #publishers in other countries to spread translations of the books.
Contact me or @ludomire
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Great piece on BlueSky and enshittification by @pluralistic. “I will never again devote my energies to building up an audience on a platform whose management can sever my relationship to that audience at will.”
Read more: https://www.mollywhite.net/micro/entry/bluesky-enshittification
Cory’s piece: https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/
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ok straw poll time
@whitequark (ri) dicule
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Hear me out: A whole tv series about medieval toffs dealing with the rise of republics and the lowborn plebs (including bouzhe artisans and merchants) who presume to supplant their authority with popular consensus and one thing they bitch about is the threat of this phenomenon to relieve them of capricious power to enact the king's will sans any skill or talent and simply because they were born into the right house, and all this is so we can do a running joke about "Chancel Culture."
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How bout I chancel YOUR exchequer.
@solar_chase @dcporter I'm swiss (i.e. non-eu) and when traveling in the EU I always only take my national ID card, which I have to carry anyway (or a driver's license if I had one). That's always been the case as far as I remember, also traveling to France as a kid with my family. I only got a passport as an adult, the first time I traveled overseas.
Switzerland is now part of the Schengen area, but only since 2008, so not sure how it worked back then.
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🇺🇸🛫🇲🇽 On my way to Guadalajara to speak at JS Conf Mexico! 🎉😃
code / data wrangler in Switzerland.
Compulsive reply guy. Posts random photos once in a while.
Joined Jul 2023
