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 Schädel rein. Wieso gehört das #Christfluencer sein und das #Rechts sein irgendwie zusammen? Wo sind die reichweitenstarken christlichen Accounts, die mit Gedanken zu #Nächstenliebe, #Empathie und mit der Liebe zur #Bibel und zum Leben junge Menschen prägen?
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 könnte ja auch sinnvolle bauen und die Arbeitsweise transparent machen. 🙂
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.

It‘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…

"You will marry whoever you pick at the Royal Ball," the king told the princess.

"We'll hold another Ball," the king said. "Pick anyone of noble birth."

"We'll hold a third Ball," the king said. "Pick a man of noble birth."

"Wait," the queen said. "Maybe she doesn't even want to marry."

"What?"

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

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 sábado 27 a las 14h (pero se podría 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 compañía de otros "fediverseros". Recordad que podéis venir acompañados de gente de fuera del fediverso, solo me tenéis que decir cuántos os apuntáis y yo os sumo a todos.

Tiny Mastodon Tip About Globalisation 🌍 :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! 🌏🌍🌎✨

#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?🤔 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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hm-m, that sounds familiar… ah. Yeah. I've heard of this trick before.

Russia's Central Election Commission (ЦИК) pulled the same stunt with its website during the election, when that website published intermediate results, under the pretense of "preventing the system from crashing from unprecedented attacks"; I had to look up the date when exactly, seems to be 2021, which feels about right:
forbes.ru/tekhnologii/440479-p…

How was this supposed prevent any attacks and what *kinds* of attacks even is beyond me to this day. LLMs did not exist back then. Or in the very least weren't anywhere near as capable.

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In #Safari on an #iPhone going to the link I see... something that resembles a blog, but tapping the "reader view" I get the following, proving the point of the headline. If we can't read it, an #AI #Bot can't scrape it.

<begin text>
# /// script # requires-python = ">=3.12" # dependencies = [ # "bs4", # "fonttools", # ] # /// import random import string from typing import Dict from bs4 import BeautifulSoup from fontTools.ttLib import TTFont def scramble_font(seed: int = 1234) -> Dict[str, str]: random.seed(seed) font = TTFont("src/fonts/Mulish-Regular.ttf") # Pick a Unicode cmap (Windows BMP preferred) cmap_table = None for table in font["cmap"].tables: if table.isUnicode() and table.platformID == 3: break cmap_table = table cmap = cmap_table.cmap # Filter codepoints for a-z and A-Z codepoints = [cp for cp in cmap.keys() if chr(cp) in string.ascii_letters] glyphs = [cmap[cp] for cp in codepoints] shuffled_glyphs = glyphs[:] random.shuffle(shuffled_glyphs) # Create new mapping scrambled_cmap = dict(zip(codepoints, shuffled_glyphs, strict=True)) cmap_table.cmap = scrambled_cmap translation_mapping = {} for original_cp, original_glyph in zip(codepoints, glyphs, strict=True): for new_cp, new_glyph in scrambled_cmap.items(): if new_glyph == original_glyph: translation_mapping[chr(original_cp)] = chr(new_cp) break font.save("src/fonts/Mulish-Regular-scrambled.ttf") return translation_mapping def scramble_html( input: str, translation_mapping: Dict[str, str], ) -> str: def apply_cipher(text): repl = "".join(translation_mapping.get(c, c) for c in text) return repl # Read HTML file soup = BeautifulSoup(input, "html.parser") # Find all main elements main_elements = soup.find_all("main") skip_tags = {"code", "h1", "h2"} # Apply cipher only to text within main for main in main_elements: for elem in main.find_all(string=True): if elem.parent.name not in skip_tags: elem.replace_with(apply_cipher(elem)) return str(soup)
<end text>

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.

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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Nosotros también vivimos un incendio, iniciado en el piso de abajo, en una madrugada de enero. Y lo solucionó todo el seguro. Pero fue por una subida de tensión que nos estropeó la TV (mis padres escucharon como una miniexplosión proveniente de esta que fue lo que los despertó y a partir de ahí los gritos de los vecinos), el microondas y el router. Y esas subidas de tensión venían repitiéndose desde Noche Vieja, porque ya en la cena las luces iban raras. @oriol @terecodina
in reply to Lara Rico

A mí en una subida de tensión me explotó un monitor de ordenador, no pasó nada más, susto y olor a cable quemado, pero desde entonces y viendo lo que a mí me sirve los monitores siempre lo tengo desenchufado. Otro día el informático me contó que le habían traído 5 ordenadores con la fuente de corriente quemada en un solo día, entre ellos el mío. @lararm @lararm @oriol

RE: mastodon.social/@AwetTesfaiesu…

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.

For Pluribus fans, the song from the most recent episode is "Esperanza" by "Hermanos Gutiérrez."

m.youtube.com/watch?v=DrIQLiB3…

You're welcome.

This show is so well written and made. Levels.👍🏿

A US character upgrades from a cop car to a Rolls, while a South American one downgrades from a convertible to walking the Darién gap?

in reply to mekka okereke

(Rare work post, you know what I do)

Yes I'm a fan of the creative team that produces Pluribus. Yes, it's an Apple TV show. Because yes, Android users can get the Apple TV App on Google Play, subscribe to it, and watch the show.

Yes I still ask the interview question "Do you like creative people?"

The X-Files producers had a problem: Season 1 was a big hit, but where would they get ideas for another 24 episodes for season 2?

A sci-fi nerd / Twilight zone fan from Virginia went to film school, saw season 1 of the X-Files, and thought it was the coolest show ever. He wrote a fan script for it.

The X-Files producers saw his fan script, and said "This is really good!" So they hired him to be a writer for X-Files season two.

He worked on the X-Files for 7 years.

Then he had a weird idea for a disturbed show about a high school chemistry teacher that becomes a meth dealing drug kingpin.

Great Movies and TV, are made by great Movie and TV makers. Creative people, working together, to produce something new.

Human beings love stories. Some of us go so far as to say that human beings need stories.

Sometimes I think that people forget that our role is to support creative people.

I've never met Vince Gilligan. I don't know him personally. I don't know if he's a nice person.

I only know his work.

Or more accurately, the output of his work. The tiny bit that makes it through all the rough drafts and bad takes, and didn't get cut in editing, and that studios released.

And I know that he didn't produce his shows by himself. He was part of a team, that is in turn part of an entire ecosystem of people and companies and organizations that support the production of creative work that we all enjoy.

I like creative people, and the ecosystem that supports them.

No Twilight Zone? No X-Files.

No X-Files? No Breaking Bad.

No Breaking Bad? No Pluribus.

It's easy to see how the world would be missing something if those never happened.

What's harder to see, is that there are other stories that didn't happen because we didn't support Black producers in 1959.

Visited Winchester Christmas Market this afternoon. It was very busy and crowded but mostly nice to just see the pretty lights and have a massively overpriced but very tasty sausage roll.
However, it was pretty disappointing to see that I couldn’t get to 90% of the stalls.

I get that it’s on historic ground and there are limits to what they can do but I feel like they could’ve done a bit more to make it accessible.

Most of the stalls were up a large step. I could see what they had from a distance but I couldn’t get to most of them to view things up close.

#Accessibility