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… @livelakemichiganmastodon.social/@livelakemichi…
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.
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.)
@matt so weird because it has a menu bar ("Application menu bar Contains commands to manipulate the current view or document Alt") but then, the web view is just blank? They use an Edge WebView under the hood for it, but removing \local(appdata)\com.tactile-engineering.CadenceOS folder isn't restoring it, which is also odd. I definitely know re-imaging the machine back from my backup I made a month ago and reinstalling it would fix, but now I'm curious where or how it even broke in the first place xD
@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.
Jensen Huang, the CEO of NVIDIA, is hurt by our hate of AI.
You can't make this shit up.
https://gizmodo.com/jensen-huang-is-begging-you-to-stop-being-so-negative-about-ai-2000709335
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. 🤢🤢🤢
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.
@Bri oh yeah? I read somewhere that the "edward" voice is ultimately what became of it, but to me it still sounds a bit different from the speechplayer days. Now I'm definitely curious to test / see but it's like, more grainy to me
@Bri haha now I'm tempted to get that older build / driver working with modern NVDA. Why the why heck not. Probably just needs a few changes to the Python driver part of it and it would work with minimal effort, just to compare the two versions against each other.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
i think another (maybe the primary?) factor driving the use of "ai" tools in software dev right now is that it simply doesn't make market sense right now for a business to care whether or not their software works. so what if it's broken? end users will stop using the software but they'll forget to cancel their subscription, or they'll grit their teeth and deal with the jankiness bc the business in question has a monopoly and there are no good alternatives
Or, more likely, because the end user isn't the customer, or they care about something else than the software.
The former case is e.g. HR portals (used by employees, bought by the company), the latter is bill payment websites (customers typically choose their internet provider based on speed and price, not on how easy it is to pay their internet bill).
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?
#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
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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?
I hate to break it to you, but young millennials, zoomers, and gen alpha are also now in the lead-exposed generations as they're being exposed by vaping
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.
@alexchapman oh yeah I suspect that should remove the lag after sending a post in timelines updating, thanks, didn't realize this was hidden in advanced :D
@jonathan859 If I may ask, what's the best way to let @Bri know about stuff? That, of course, is assuming you're thinking reports are welcome, I know the flood was undesirable and I get that given the stage of the product though honestly, it's already getting towards excellence.
@techsinger @Bri Oh, I guess just mentioning or GH issue. Yeah I don't wanna pressure or just throw a bunch of bug reports either, if GitHub issues owuld be better please lmk.
@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?
@techsinger @jonathan859 Will check on the threads thing. I seem to remember being able to do that, but maybe not. Also, relative times is possible, but won't work properly in the UI currently, so haven't added it. Also no, use control win A to bring up the accounts manager.
@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.
@Bri @jonathan859 Do you have to load the conversation before you use that keystroke? I can now manage it, but only if I load conversation from one of the posts in the thread.
@Bri @jonathan859 Ok, this is beginning to click. Just to be clear, if a person I'm following is having a conversation with a person I'm not following, and I have the person I'm following in my home timeline, I can't see the person I'm not following's posts through the thread command?
@techsinger @Bri @jonathan859 I must say I really like this client. But for some reason ccontrol +windows+w doesn't hide the window for me. I'm using the default keymap.
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.
@techsinger @Bri I guess it just doesn't detect an URL. For example I could just press CTRL+O right here on your post and the dialog would be blank. But not sure ofc.
@jonathan859 @Bri That's weird. I thought if it didn't detect an url, it was supposed to say so? Also, many of these posts do have URLs, indeed, I don't think I ever hit open URL on one which didn't have one.
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.
The #SFFBookClub is our informal fediverse science fiction and fantasy book club. Everyone reading this is welcome to join in if any of these books look interesting, even if you've never participated before. See: sffbookclub.eatgod.org/
As a reminder, our January book is Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison.
Please reply with any suggestions or ideas for future months. Please argue for your favorite book in the comments.
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.
I predict, Gemini Siri is going to tell everyone it's not Siri but Gemini, Apple will get really mad the AI can't stop calling itself Gemini even though its Siri, people will start switching to Google, Gemini on Android will get more perks Siri's version doesn't have, Apple will sue Google, huge battle erupts.
@Tamasg As y said in musical terms... What a syncopated prediction! Good God this couldn't happen and Google be the winner and big brother and future megalovania of AI
Well, it talked to me in Russian today, so there is some breakage there. I kept telling it I don't know Russian, I don't want to hear it, ever, like, ever. It kept doing it. So we had that battle of don't speak that language to me you silly AI on Gemini live.
I also don't use it with gpt, because gpt can suck balls. But it started not opening apps, so, I spell to it like I would spell to a child. IT works. At least it still calls people when I ask it, or sets alarms, despite me using 24hour format, I keep telling it to set alarms for 7AM, and it actually does it...
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.
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.
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.
![remindd(8) System Manager's Manual remindd(8)
NAME
remindd, Other_name_for_same_program(), Yet another name for the same program. – This line parsed for whatis database.
SYNOPSIS
remindd, [-abcd] [-a path] [file] [file ...] arg0 arg2 ...
DESCRIPTION
Use the .Nm macro to refer to your program throughout the man page like such: remindd, Underlining is accomplished with
the .Ar macro like this: underlined text.
A list of items with descriptions:
item a Description of item a
item b Description of item b
A list of flags and their descriptions:
-a Description of -a flag
-b Description of -b flag
FILES
/usr/share/file_name FILE_1 description
/Users/joeuser/Library/really_long_file_name FILE_2 description
SEE ALSO
a(1), b(1), c(1), a(2), b(2), a(3), b(3)
Darwin 3/29/18 Darwin](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/748325 "remindd(8) System Manager's Manual remindd(8)
NAME
remindd, Other_name_for_same_program(), Yet another name for the same program. – This line parsed for whatis database.
SYNOPSIS
remindd, [-abcd] [-a path] [file] [file ...] arg0 arg2 ...
DESCRIPTION
Use the .Nm macro to refer to your program throughout the man page like such: remindd, Underlining is accomplished with
the .Ar macro like this: underlined text.
A list of items with descriptions:
item a Description of item a
item b Description of item b
A list of flags and their descriptions:
-a Description of -a flag
-b Description of -b flag
FILES
/usr/share/file_name FILE_1 description
/Users/joeuser/Library/really_long_file_name FILE_2 description
SEE ALSO
a(1), b(1), c(1), a(2), b(2), a(3), b(3)
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