I joked about it the other day on here, but I am kind of frustrated that a lot of the music I make gives off a retro vibe. I don't want to be That Kind of GenX Musician, forever locked into the styles I listened to in my formative years. I really want to be carving out a unique space free from nostalgia. I’m wondering if there would be value in a collaboration that could break me out of this cycle?

Today's environmental GOOD NEWS!

The hole in the ozone layer closed on December 1

The ozone layer is a layer of the atmosphere that protects us from UV light. Years ago, it was noticed that chlorofluorocarbons in aerosol sprays were aiding in the depletion of the ozone layer, and a hole was detected in this protective layer. After years of regulation and work, the hole is closed.

eldiario24.com/en/ozone-hole-c…

ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Happy Sunday. I'm going out with my friend Ellen, my old boss Joe and his wife, Vicky. It'll be nice. I miss my old boss. I was respected more, not micromanaged and just enjoyed working with him. Now with the new situation, I like my job but I'm not sure how long I can deal with the supervisor I have now. The stress and overbearing nature of things is next level. We shall see. for now I'll enjoy what I can.

Gerade eine Doku zum Thema Rechte Hetze von #Christen gesehen. (Kreuzzug von Rechts - ARD Mediathek). Alles nicht unbekannt, aber es geht einfach nicht in meinen SchƤdel rein. Wieso gehƶrt das #Christfluencer sein und das #Rechts sein irgendwie zusammen? Wo sind die reichweitenstarken christlichen Accounts, die mit Gedanken zu #NƤchstenliebe, #Empathie und mit der Liebe zur #Bibel und zum Leben junge Menschen prƤgen?
in reply to FediVerseExplorer

@fexplorer

Kirche will genau so wenig wie alle anderen öffentlichen Organisationen eine Verantwortung für die gesellschaftlichen Folgen ihres digitalen Handelns erkennen.

Auch die Kirchen haben ihren Auftrag in Reichweite auf kommerziellen Plattformen umgedeutet.

Wer auf die Verantwortung des Einzelnen gegenüber Gott abstellt, müsste m.E. ein erklärter Gegner algorithmisch kuratierter Medien sein.

@GRN

in reply to Erwin Lottermann

Bezügl der Verantwortung sehe ich das auch so.

Allerdings lehne ich Algorithmen nicht generell ab.

Man kƶnnte ja auch sinnvolle bauen und die Arbeitsweise transparent machen. šŸ™‚
Und das ist für mich der Punkt. Ich kann mich nicht erinnern, dass sich Kirchen, angesichts der nachgewiesenen problematischen Wirkung der jetzigen gängigen Systeme auf die Gesellschaft, entsprechend eingebracht hätten. Es sind meistens nur wenige kirchliche Einzelinitativen, die praktisch zeigen, dass es auch anders geht.

Wäre eine der Möglichkeiten der #digitaleKirche nicht, sich z.B. der Initiative #SaveSocial anzuschließen und dies auch in den Gemeinden zu thematisieren?

#FediKirche

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Rust coreutils v0.5.0, passes 87% of the gnu coreutils test.

Itā€˜s an achievement for the project. Congrats. It does pose questions why Ubuntu thinks it good enough for everyone, though.

*reading on*: 566 tests are passing…

What? The complete gnu coreutils has only 650 tests? For 79 commands?🤪

github.com/uutils/coreutils/re…

Falls noch jemand ein nettes Geschenk braucht, kann ich sehr die Chocolaterie & Patisserie Grand Cru in Franken empfehlen. Wenn man in der Nähe wohnt, kann man dort Pralinen- und Dessert-Kurse belegen, wenn nicht, mit Pralinenabos übers Jahr immer wieder nett was verschenken. Ich hab vor 20 Jahren mit der Inhaberin in einer WG gewohnt, als sie die Meisterprüfung machte. Hab nette Erinnerungen an das Verkosten der Übungsprodukte. chocolateriegrandcru.de/

On today's edition of songs that would absolutely not fly today, we have one of the strangest novelty songs I've ever heard in my life. Sorry to be cryptic but this has to be heard to be believed. youtube.com/watch?v=j9fUcR6KhG…

Gentes del fediverso, vengo con una nueva convocatoria de #FediComida edición #Navidad en #Vigo.

La idea es juntarnos el sĆ”bado 27 a las 14h (pero se podrĆ­a adelantar o retrasar un poco) en el restaurante chino Manzana Roja (maps.app.goo.gl/T9NpTyyQFvYjiE…).

Apuntaros todos los que os guste la comida china y/o la compaƱƭa de otros "fediverseros". Recordad que podƩis venir acompaƱados de gente de fuera del fediverso, solo me tenƩis que decir cuƔntos os apuntƔis y yo os sumo a todos.

Tiny Mastodon Tip About Globalisation šŸŒ :mastodon:

On Mastodon, there isn't an algorithm to restrict your reach to your own country or region when you post.

Additionally, many people post in English, even when it's not their native language.

If you post a comment or question
that is related to a specific region of the world, please specify which one, and don't assume people worldwide will know this acronym or reference.

You will have a better chance to
get the answers you seek, and more boosts from people living in different regions of the world.

Also consider adding a hashtag relevant to the country or region you are posting about.

Keep in mind the Fediverse is global! šŸŒšŸŒšŸŒŽāœØ

#TinyMastodonTip #Mastodon #Fediverse #Global

Still exploring OpenStreetMap data with this map of sundials in Europe.
#openstreetmap

There are in fact many more sundials. If you know one around you, please mark it on on openstreetmap.org/

Well... is it a map of sundials or a map of OSM contributors?šŸ¤” Anyway, congratulations to northern Italy!

#astronomy #maps
#Python script available on my blog.

I've just seen an absolutely disgusting article. I said "seen", not "read", because I'm blind and I could not read it.
for your reference, here's the first beautiful sentence of this article:
"ffGE ARrj XRejm XAj bZgui cB R EXZgl, Rmi mjji jrjg-DmygjREDmI XgRDmDmI iRXR XZ DlkgZrj."
I don't know the technology behind this BS, but screen readers see it as scrambled text, kind of encrypted or something like this. I guess it's some font juggling (ChatGPT supposed it's gliph scrambling, where random Unicode values are mapped to random letters — I'll trust her in this because I really don't care about the tech behind it), but if you have a tiny little grain of empathy, never ever ever do this, for goodness sake.
tilschuenemann.de/projects/sac…
#Accessibility #Blindness #Empathy #BadPractices #Web #Text

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AndrƩ Polykanine

@christianrickert where could the industry be moving towards, sorry? Assistive technologies like screen readers take information straight from the DOM, so anything like this breaks accessibility completely. Also, I received replies from people using specific fonts (dyslexic-friendly and specific for some low vision needs) for whom it also reads gibberish. No, this is absolutely bad practice.

If you use AI chat bots to help you compose documents, presentations or be creative in a subject you know about, you may get benefits. You may be fine solving problems you have at least a clue about the solution. Everything else do it for fun f you really need to but don’t post on the internet, don’t tell your mom and don’t show your boss / teacher/ smart significant other. Just don’t do it seriously.
in reply to Rui Batista

pode ser que a bolha rebente em breve. O Cory Doctorow diz que sim. Aquilo Ć© engraƧado, faz truques giros, mas acho curioso a facilidade com que as pessoas seguem conselhos do LLM em vez de colegas experientes por exemplo. Da Ćŗltima vez que sugeri uma biblioteca para resolver uma coisa no trabalho, tive de analisar 3 alternativas, documentĆ”-las e reunir com pessoas. JĆ” o LLM só precisa de dizer "usa X" e as pessoas seguem. šŸ˜… Enfim, hĆ” de facto aqui um potencial ganho de produtividade.
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George Clooney is an actor.

Put him in the role of a surgeon in front of a camera, and he will do and say things the average non-surgeon viewer will agree are surgeonish. After an hour of that, we are, as average non-surgeon viewers, satisfied and entertained.

Put him in an operating theatre, and the patient will fucking die because he's not a surgeon and knows nothing about really doing surgery.

This is a post about LLMs.

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Habe eine tolle DM bekommen, die ich natürlich nicht teilen werde. Aber ich möchte dazu noch etwas sagen. Als Anwältin, die in ihrem Berufsleben reichlich (!) #Sozialrecht gemacht hat, halte ich mich für qualifiziert, zu sagen: Die Diskussion um #Sanktionen und Sozialleistungen wäre eine andere, wenn mehr Menschen eine Ahnung hätten, wie sich #Hartz4 ganz konkret anfühlt; zuhause in den Familien, an prekären Arbeitsplätzen, in den Schulen, in der Psyche der Betroffenen und deren Familien

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I clicked on a link and started reading. It read like a thoughtful interview from years passed...

And then I read this question: "You passed away on your eighty-eighth birthday – 4th August 2020. Do you reflect on mortality?"

What the fuck?

At the end of the article:
"Editorial note: This interview transcript is a work of dramatised historical reconstruction. Frances Allen died on 4th August 2020, and cannot speak. The words, reflections, and responses attributed to her in this document are constructed from historical records, published interviews, biographical materials, technical papers, and documented accounts of her life and work – but they are not her actual words, spoken in real time."

Tell me you used AI without telling me you used AI.

ALSO, this was "written" by a MAN dramatizing the perspective of a woman pioneer in computer science. He's got a whole series on dead woman.

FUCK RIGHT THE FUCK OFF.

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