Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

Mozilla’s now director of public policy once asked me, with a straight face, why I was giving them a hard time and holding Mozilla to a higher standard: “we’re just another Silicon Valley tech company.”

But that’s not what you tell people publicly, is it, Mozilla?

Still, it’s time y’all got this.

Mozilla is a half-billion-dollar for-profit corporation – whose CEO makes >$3M/yr – that has a foundation do its PR.

https://www.howtogeek.com/760425/firefox-now-sends-your-address-bar-keystrokes-to-mozilla/

#mozilla #SiliconValley #BigTech #SurveillanceCapitalism

After years of living on the bleeding edge of free code OS and apps, I'm really feeling the need for a stable, reliable #UX for day-to-day communications etc. But I honestly don't know how to achieve that right now without compromising my software freedom.

#SoftwareFreedom.

This is the only one who gets it

In my effort to figure out how to connect my mastodon and bookwyrm accounts, I made a matrix account. Now I have three things that seem unrelated, despite "federated"

@mur2501

Story of my life!

@tetrislife @QOTO

@freemo @tetrislife @QOTO
And here we stumble upon the question of revolutionary change and legacy compatibility again

small brain: programming is communicating to the computer what you want it to do

normal brain: programming is communicating to other people what you want the computer to do

galaxy brain: programming is communicating to yourself what the fuck you want to do

What bothers you more -- the suggestion that programming=#javascript or the mis-alignment of the answers?
QT: https://social.cybre.town/@DeveloperMemes/107066034073133267

Getting Started on Nyxt Hacking https://nyxt.atlas.engineer/article/getting-started-on-nyxt-hacking-1-bookmarklet.org | https://lobste.rs/s/dlpe2s #browsers #emacs #lisp

Couldn't sleep last night, tormented by an idea to desalinate water using capillary action from a sort of wick. 🤔

To prepare for the inevitable drone future I'm going to spend more time trap shooting.

Why do so many people seem to disbelieve that the world could be radically different in under 10 years?

Good Question.
One worth screaming.

Especially since The CDC whoremaster Walensky just told us that The vaccinated CAN catch and spread Covid 19.

>the unvaccinated are causing the healthcare system to collapse!
Yeah, because you fired them all from the healthcare system.

Talk about #gender imbalance in #tech! 😆

Facebook, Instagram, etc. are down right now due to massive DNS failures.

And nothing of value was lost.

This paper is great. It is like a good slice of what is going on in formal methods and machine learning right now.

- Methods of space convergence from AI, can, and do, outperform the brightest algorithm writers, especialy when the time complexity is high. And innacuracy is easy to control for.

- It is all just programming. It is research level, but still. ML algs can be used easily in code logic, if there is a layer to handle uncertainty.

- Many of the referenced papers are about software that generates code without programmers. Obviously computer vision is going to beat any human, but the best tech for other domains are referenced here. Much of it is about indirect code reasoning.

- Real data is not needed for ML (supervised) research to progress. This data, CLEVR, is synthetic. Sometimes richer synthetic datasets make a better playground.

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~aws/papers/icml20b.pdf