Simon @spoltier@qoto.org
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code / data wrangler in Switzerland.
Recovering reply guy. Posts random photos once in a while.
Joined Jul 2023
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For Xennials like me that witnessed the boundless optimism of the 1990's, and watched the disaster of the Chicago Boys "helping Russia reform", this is excellent reading:
@republik_magazin bin ohne Fernseher aufgewachsen, und ohne Weihnachtsmusik. Höchstens ein paar Male halbherzig gesungen, meistens haben wir (Kinder) uns erfolgreich geweigert. Trotzdem habe ich sehr gute Erinnerungen!
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Süsser die Boxen nie klingen: Nun tönen sie wieder laut von fern und nah – Weihnachtslieder. Aber bevor Sie einfach irgendeine Playlist laufen lassen, lesen Sie vorher, wie die Wahl der Musik Ihre Festtage prägt.
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Kim Kyung-Hoon took this photo of a press conference by the CEOs of Nissan, Honda and Mitsubishi, and accidentally created the perfect album cover.
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Dîtes, l’autre jour je bossais sur le scénario d’une suite au film « Présidents » de Anne Fontaine et j’avais rédigé une liste de 35 anciens politiciens français complètement has been et bien réacs, parfaits pour une caricature.
J’ai paumé cette liste l’autre jour dans la rue de Varenne à Paris alors que je croisais un type appelé François.
Si vous avez trouvé la liste ou si vous connaissez ce François (qui l’a peut-être ramassée), vous pouvez lui demander de me la rendre ?
Merci !
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In der Zwischenzeit stößt Al-Abdulmohsen vor mittlerweile 40.000 Followern öffentlich und unter seinem Klarnamen auf X (Coverbild: Sturmgewehr) rechtsextreme Parolen raus, wirft mit Drohungen und Hetze um sich. Mehrere X-Nutzer berichten heute, dass sie sich aus Angst vor Selbstjustiz an die Polizei gewandt haben, wo nichts unternommen wurde. Im Februar 2024 ruft er in einem Dienstgebäude der Berliner Polizei den Notruf der Feuerwehr.
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if you got arrested after a nationwide manhunt, what would the media pull from your internet activity to make into ominous headlines?
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Someday: “The suspect's social media footprint shows an interest in a game called “Chess" where the player tries to abduct a queen.”
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just making sure everyone knows that Michael Whelan -- whose art is on the cover of a huge number of sf/fantasy novels from the 80s through present -- is on this site
https://mastodon.social/@MichaelWhelan@mastodon.art/113538825602686293
@j2bryson @Google @simon @1br0wn @woody now I wonder if this is a LinkedIn bug, as I tried the same search without quotes and got a link to a different LinkedIn post by a different person, which does seem to contain the quote https://www.linkedin.com/posts/veroniquebarrot_time-is-the-canvas-on-which-we-paint-our-activity-7178737525203570688-n7VJ?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android
(LinkedIn often pretends people I know work at a company I'm looking at, but then I click through and it turns out not to be the case).
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@spoltier @Google @simon @1br0wn @woody I disagree (and I do have some expertise in this area.)
1) of course, I did start with double quotes [edit: whoops, no I didn't! But 2 & 3 still hold]
2) look at the sentences it claims to have found in the "snippet"
3) look at the actual text.
The preview text on the page of the google search is a full-on hallucination – a reconstruction of the source material along the lines of the prompt.
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Would you upload your biometric data to a central database to save border agents time during travel security checks?
The European Commission is asking for feedback on a proposal to digitalise passports - but we raise several big concerns.
https://edri.org/our-work/pre-travel-controls-digitalising-travel-documents/
@PonderStibbons that book (the middle one) looks interesting, can you recommend it?
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A copy of "Surrounded by Idiots" by Thomas Erikson on bookshelf facing front. On each side is a copy of "Elon Musk" by Walter Isaacson.
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@lynnesbian Oh hey! I'm the person who originally submitted this to reddit.
As far as I know, this rule is no longer in place. It still shows up in some recent-ish documents (like [1]), but a train driver I know showed me a screenshot of a document explicitly stating that this paragraph was made obsolete.
It also doesn't show up in the current R 300.5 anymore. [2]
[1]: https://www.bav.admin.ch/bav/de/home/rechtliches/rechtsgrundlagen-vorschriften/fdv.html
[2]: https://www.bav.admin.ch/bav/de/home/rechtliches/rechtsgrundlagen-vorschriften/fdv.html
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in switzerland you aren't allowed to have a train with exactly 256 axles because of an integer overflow in the axle counting machine
i wish i could fix my software bugs by making it illegal to cause them
@j2bryson @Google @simon @1br0wn @woody This isn't like GenAi where content is generated. Google hasn't been exactly matching by default for a long time now. Including quotes around a sentence usually helps, for me this basically just finds the original video on YT and Instagram: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Time%20isn%27t%20just%20the%20measure%20of%20moments%20passing%20by%20%2D%20it%27s%20the%20canvas%20where%20we%20paint%20our%20identity%22&sei=d2RpZ7r7B_i0i-gP6L2QoAM
A general purpose search engine is not trying to "attribute" things, in most cases it is helpful for it to return e.g. paraphrases or answers to questions etc.
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you: taking the specialization "guy who posts about oxford commas"
me: calmly asserting that of course she can knit guns
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code / data wrangler in Switzerland.
Recovering reply guy. Posts random photos once in a while.
Joined Jul 2023
