Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

Of all the questionable things about AI, I'm starting to think its biggest crime is simply the staggering amount of resources it has pointlessly drawn away from other, more important work and the way it has corrupted even organisations that were previously doing great work in some misguided, race-to-the-bottom belief that this is actually the most important thing for humankind.

can't wait to hear who won the FIFA prize for literature

Spotify wrapped? My self-hosted Maloja Instance (or last .fm) gives me the data anytime I want already :D

https://music.arda.pw/

#SpotifyWrapped #maloja #tool #opeth #selfhosted

@xgranade @whitequark

Go is what happens when you use C for decades and come up with a load of great ideas to improve it, and then implement them. Along the way, taking great care to never look at any ways other people have improved on C.

It is a language that containers every good idea Rob Pike ever had, and none of the good ideas people who are not Rob Pike ever had. Which would be more excusable if it weren’t the second language to merit that description.

It turns out that there are a lot more smart people in the world who are not Rob Pike than who are.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@anon_opin/115655265870143520

The older I get the less impressed I am about ideas and the more I realize it's about the ability to actually deliver and turn those thoughts into something real.

@RadioAzureus@mastodon.social

#LLM do not hallucinate.
They just output a partial (tiny) lossy decompression of their source data statistically related to the prompt.
In the best hypothesis, when we ignore the interests embedded in the models by those who selected the source data, what billionaries call "hallucinations" are just plain simple decompression artifacts the kind you see when you zoom in a detail in a low resolution jpeg.

Also "just use the good parts" also serves the normalization playbook of the same billionaries.

If you want to use one of the technologies that goes under the #AI umbrella, say #LISP or #Prolog or fuzzy-pattern detection (aka "computer vision") or statistically programmable vector-mapping machines (aka "artificial neural network"), the first thing to do is to stop calling it #ArtificialInteligence, clean it up of any antropomorphization and find effective ways to address its shortcomings (energy consumption, black boxes-ness and so on) without pushing them on the users.

The problem with direct democracy is that you discover that it’s not the high and mighty that are wrong. No, they are not misleading the people. Indeed, everything is just how the people want it. We truly have the government that we deserve. 😵‍💫

Migrating #Dillo from GitHub to our self-hosted server.

I wrote a post about the current situation with #GitHub and how we ended up self-hosting our own infrastructure to be robust against data loss. We now store all important data (including issues) in git repositories which are replicated accross #Codeberg and #Sourcehut.

https://dillo-browser.org/news/migration-from-github/

I am really looking forward to a time when scientific data analysis is less of a constant fuckaround and fight with technical bullshit. I'd *really* like

- #netCDF natively supporting complex numbers
- #Python #xarray and #pandas to natively support physical units (#pint is great on its own but the integrations leave a LOT to be desired)
- #Jupyter notebooks to suck less (crashes, glitches, widget plots not saved statically, an effing BUILTIN formatter, etc.)
- proper data pipeline systems
...

@metagrrrl Look, I know what it's like to be strapped for cash, believe you me - but just make sure you realize you're taking a pittance of a bribe so that businesses just like this one can keep stealing people's shit & then set their own price for a "get out of jail" card when & particularly IF someone successfully sues them.

And, lest we forget, use what they stole to put you out of a job.

Just make sure you're OK with that.