Michael Piotrowski @true_mxp@qoto.org
Associate professor of digital humanities, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Professeur associé en humanités numériques, Université de Lausanne, Suisse
Joined Nov 2022
Right, so this explains why I couldn’t access various #emacslisp projects all day… Funny, they don’t seem to block microsoft‧com despite being known to distribute malware.
Also in #French: Word’s grammar checker for French is pretty useless. (Not my text, I don’t use Word.)
Cherry profile #keycaps seem to work better with the Bling Yellow #switches. #mechanicalkeyboard
As if software weren't bloated enough already, every tool now insists on installing its own browser!?
I guess a VPN client only requires a browser to display the login form…
Before and after ;-)
Of course you can’t see that I replaced the switches, but I also used the opportunity to change the layout—the <> key on the right side was more irritating than expected…
Keycaps are DSS Late Harvest.
Guess who arrived early? The Bling Yellow switches! #MechanicalKeyboard
From the introduction of the paper “Here Come the ‘Computer People’: Anthropomorphosis, Command, and Control in Early Personal Computing” by @starkcontrast.
Considering ”tech” execs today, I can’t help but think ”plus ça change…”
https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MAHC.2020.3022964
From what I have seen, the texts produced by galactica.org tend to start off strong, but then quickly become repetitive. Of course, circular definitions are great for internal coherence…
And as it says in the fine print: “Language Models are prone to hallucinate text.”
https://galactica.org/?prompt=Piotrowski%27s+double+definition+of+digital+humanities
How do you spell “trustworthy”? By mixing Latin and Cyrillic characters.
Associate professor of digital humanities, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Professeur associé en humanités numériques, Université de Lausanne, Suisse
Joined Nov 2022
