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It’s actually Glen Haven, a hamlet on Lake Michigan that got eaten by Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore and disincorporated. It was the base for dune buggy rides that tore up the dunes, which is part of why SBDNL was created. There used to be more buildings. And people. Not sure why they left that one… @livelakemichigan mastodon.social/@livelakemichi…

Lake Michigan! Live! (@livelakemichigan@mastodon.social)

Attached: 1 image Current* conditions near Glen Arbor, MI:
Lake Michigan! Live! (Mastodon)
@Lake Michigan! Live!

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Well done @MapComplete for resolving a bug in less than a day! ⚡ thanks from Italians 🍕

P.S. Forgejo is so nice! Lovely integration with OpenStreetMap OAuth. Really simpler than GitHub and GitLab! 👏

source.mapcomplete.org/MapComp…

#OpenStreetMap #MapComplete #Forgejo


Etymology prefixes: we should first replace *long* prefixes

I noticed that, when an Italian street is called "Viale XYZ" (example: "Viale Marebello"), then the prefix "**Viale**" is not omitted correctly. The "le" part remains by mistake.
Forgejo
#openstreetmap #MapComplete #forgejo @MapComplete
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oh no I broke my Cadence OS ha ha now I launch it and it brings up a blank window whoops what the heck could I have done not even an uninstall and reinstall is making it work oh no oh no time to panick.
(fixed! I had to remove AppData folders from both Local and Roaming and then it relaunched with a clean slate. Uninstalling it doesn't remove your settings folders.)
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Tamas G

@matt oh usually Joe himself works odd hours, I've gotten him to respond in evenings too which is nuts. For support Alex / others can be next day. The good news is once I deleted both from Roaming and localappdata at the same time it un-froze itself. Next time I'm saving a snapshot of the files in the app-datas because you had to remove them both simultaneously to get it unstuck which was interesting.
@Matt Campbell

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My 3yo demanded apples with ketchup this morning. Horrible but, fine, if that’s what you want, you got it. Then he asked if I wanted to taste it. I obviously did not. This mofo turned these tables on my so quick with a “you don’t have to eat the whole thing but at least try it”

Let me tell you. That combo is so much worse than I could have imagined. 🤢🤢🤢

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You know what I want? That stupid SpeechPlayer in Espeak thingy. I kinda miss it. No idea why that hit me today. It had so much potential, then various bugs in Espeak I think made them stop making it too. Sigh. How sad, you couldn't even compile the Speechplayer stuff into modern Espeak-NG, I bet. Sigh sigh. My soul hurts in sadness.

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Legault resigns to spend more time privately hounding minorities

thebeaverton.com/2026/01/legau…

Always on point

#qcpoli


Legault resigns to spend more time privately hounding minorities - The Beaverton

QUEBEC CITY - Quebec Premier François Legault announced his resignation today, explaining that he plans to bring his famed enthusiasm for attacking basic human rights to the private sector.
John Hansen (The Beaverton)
#qcpoli

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Yeah that's fair. I have just read it's a 1.2 trillion -parameter model, that's quite insane. I wonder though if Google will update that as often as their own models, it might be that they still release newer models for themselves but then strategically hold the Apple one back a little bit, on the basis of "letting that model mature first." This will be interesting to see play out for sure.

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miki

2026-01-14 21:29:43

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Nah. Giving LLMs their identity is done in post-training, and Google can just remove that data for their posttraining mix for Apple. They're definitely going to have one. Since pretraining = ~60-90% of compute, redoing that part won't be that expensive. There are rumors that Google will only ship the base models anyway, and that all the fine tuning will be done internally by Apple (perhaps on Google infrastructure). Those base models have no idea what they are yet.

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The most painful lesson I learned, and have yet to fully recover from, after losing the community I spent years cultivating when Twitter was sold, it’s this: the “revolution” and change so many of you say you want will never be built in public, on platforms owned by people who not only do not share your values but who see them as threats.

At any moment, the communities, businesses, networks, and even friendships you’ve built there can be taken from you because they were never truly yours.

Build Where Your Values Can’t Be Deplatformed

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I retrieved this from David Goldfield's Email list. This client shows an enormous amount of promise and I am already liking it after five minutes of use. Quoted text:
My new Mastodon/Bluesky client, FastSM, which is based off the old work from me and @TheQuinbox, is now available in really, really early alpha! You can
download the latest build, which gets updated with each new commit, at
github.com/masonasons/FastSM/r…
@Quin

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uspol, ai software dev

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miki

uspol, ai software dev

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Want odds on who/what blocks our driveway first?

A snowplow pushing the snow from the bus stop more than 1 block away, or a motorist who gives zero f*cks about blocking our driveway w/ their vehicle whilst they do whatever they need/want to do in our immediate 4-block radius?

Montréal braces for heavy snow as Environment Canada issues warning... montrealgazette.com/news/weath…

#winter #winterweather #CDNNDG #CDNNDGBS #polMTL #MTLpoli #meteoQC


Montreal braces for heavy snow as Environment Canada issues warning

Environment Canada has issued a warning for the area, saying rain is expected to turn to snow.
Montreal Gazette
#winter #polmtl #mtlpoli #winterweather #cdnndg #cdnndgbs #meteoqc

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#deltachat and #chatmail and #webxdc are in a unique "market" where few other cross-platform messengers can play. The unique and growing market is shaped by rising authoritarianism, internet shutdowns and restrictions.

We are building a "Minecraft world of messaging" where skilled people can rip apart, modify, replace, recombine and do modding, at every level. All #foss and featuring

Decent Usability and UI
Offline first
End-to-End encryption
Standards based
Resilient
Decentralized

#foss #deltachat #Webxdc #chatmail
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so this guy claims that he was was a sex slave for Epstein & co as a kid and Trump was one of his abusers (also Clarence Thomas and some others) and that at one point he jammed a tent stake up Trump's ass and got beat for it

he says Trump's medical records will corroborate this and this is also why Trump said he "felt raped" when his medical records were stolen a while back?

WILD SHIT MANNNNN :stonklol:

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Oi, back to Tweesecake / TWBlue for now. Gosh. Looks like FastSM doesn't use the straming API yet so my Mastodon server keeps e-mailing me that people have mentioned or boosted things. Oof my poor inbox. (as a side note it's not the biggest deal as these can be turned off in prefs, but still.)
Good news, it can! You just have to enable that in "advance" settings to be used for home and notifications timelines.
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Tech Singer

@Bri @jonathan859 It's great work as always. Three small things, if I may raise them. First, I can't seem to move through threads on bluesky. Is this expected? Secondly, is it possible to have it say how long ago a post was made, rather than state it's time? I removed that from the template as it stands, would it be possible to say "1 hour ago" or something like that? Finally, this is more stupid user than even just a feature, but is there a keystroke to move from account to account in the invisible interface?
@Jonathan @Bri🥰
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Tech Singer

@Bri @jonathan859 One more quick thing. Are you supposed to be able to select any of the users in a post? when I hit, for example, the "follow user" key, I get the first user, the one who posted, but not the second user who the first user was responding to or boosting. Up and down arrowing doesn't get me to that second user as in TC. BTW, may I congratulate you for using the TC command structure? It makes life so much simpler.
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Tech Singer

First, I really like the open URL bringing up a dialog with the thing already listed. This is seriously helpful for those of us using speech/braille, a benefit for security, and generally a major benefit. Thanks. I don't think it has anything to do with the issue I'm seeing, but I may well be wrong. Sometimes, the field is blank and there is no url. When it hit OK, nothing seems to happen. I'm not sure where the problem happens, but I think it has to do with the post and not the timeline because I've seen it in many timelines.
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Tech Singer

@Bri Sorry to disturb but I recently lost connection for a while and, rather than silently stopping, got the below. Nothing has changed with the BS account, but I'm getting these errors
Error in notifications: InvokeTimeoutError
Error in mentions: InvokeTimeoutError
Error in search: InvokeTimeoutError

I looked in the errors.log and just got this, which seems to have nothing to do with the above errors. Note that I don't see a time stamp on these at all, I've copied the whole file which is 734 characters. Also, I wasn't doing anything with the keyboard, it just started speaking the above errors, I was working on another machine at the time and hadn't touched the keyboard for at least an hour. Would it be possible for the thing to say "can't connect, will do so in five minutes", or just not to say anything and keep trying every little while?
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "keyboard_handler\wx_handler.py", line 75, in <lambda>
File "keyboard_handler\wx_handler.py", line 105, in process_key
File "keyboard_handler\main.py", line 57, in handle_key
File "GUI\invisible.py", line 102, in speak_item
IndexError: list index out of range
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "keyboard_handler\wx_handler.py", line 75, in <lambda>
File "keyboard_handler\wx_handler.py", line 105, in process_key
File "keyboard_handler\main.py", line 57, in handle_key
File "GUI\invisible.py", line 178, in next_from_user
File "GUI\main.py", line 514, in OnNextFromUser
File "GUI\misc.py", line 606, in next_from_user
IndexError: list index out of range

@Bri🥰

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ahahaha. Yes yes, I'm done making AI slop music. Now it's time for stage 2 of the experiment: We've clearly established Suno's own prompt generator is very much inferior to lyrics of music you yourself write with GPT and spend a bit of time skulpting, reshaping lines, or even prompting GPT a bit more to rewrite concepts and parts of it. That's stage 2 of my experiment: Make more AI music, but this time, spend at least 30-45 minutes building the prompts out for the lyrics and making the lyrics more meaningful through that.
Stage 3 of this will be, make AI music with fully custom-written lyrics, E. AI only used for rhythm and pace of lyrics minimally, not for the writing of the lyrics itself.
The question in all these experiments for me is, "when does AI music go from "slop" to "a useful tool that works to enhance talent?" And how much effort, skulpting is needed for that to happen, could someone pull that off? Suno lets you skulpt instrumentation a bit, but I suspect a key problem to overcome won't be on lyrics alone: The song itself needs to have instrumentation that doesn't make it sound like machines made it alone in composition, and for that I find that Suno doesn't give you many tools.
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SFFBookClub February Poll :boost_request:

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#sffbookclub

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What's nice about this social media platform is we're like "are you seeing this fucking shit?!" and get responses like "this is the fuckingest shit!" and then some folks go "okay, here are some alternatives to the shit/ways we can try to unfuck some of the shit/resources to slow the impact of the fucking shit" instead of "i don't see what's so bad about the shit" or "i dunno i kinda like the shit" or "woah your paying to much attention too the shit" that you get on the other platforms.
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miki

Nah. Giving LLMs their identity is done in post-training, and Google can just remove that data for their posttraining mix for Apple. They're definitely going to have one. Since pretraining = ~60-90% of compute, redoing that part won't be that expensive. There are rumors that Google will only ship the base models anyway, and that all the fine tuning will be done internally by Apple (perhaps on Google infrastructure). Those base models have no idea what they are yet.

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RE: mastodon.social/@Gargron/11573…

I have to admit, the performance of a Chromium-based browser compared to Firefox is abysmal. I don't have that many tabs but it lags a lot and the browser constantly puts tabs in hibernation to save memory--something I've never needed with Firefox. So all of you Chrome users live like this? No wonder RAM is in high demand.

Eugen Rochko

2025-12-17 23:24:01

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I've finally switched to the @Vivaldi browser. I've been using Firefox for as long as I've been on the internet, but the focus on AI means it's no longer the browser for me. Thankfully unlike Chrome, Vivaldi supports the uBlock Origin extension which is the most important extension for being able to browse the web nowadays.

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Dear fellow Healthcare workers in hospitals:

If you don’t know (*absolutely, clearly, KNOW*) what your hospital’s policy is with respect to ICE wandering the halls, ASK now. Find out.

My health system has us redirect ICE to non-patient waiting areas, call security and admin, and not disclose anything about patients.

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