Award-winning science fiction author Ted Chiang (who has a CS degree, btw) has a new article in the New Yorker on ChatGPT. He makes an interesting analogy for what it does to lossy compression of the text from which its LLM was created. #AI #LLM #ChatGPT newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-t…
The noted speculative-fiction writer Ted Chiang on OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT, which, he says, does little more than paraphrase what’s already on the Internet.
This seems to work reasonably well with screen readers but would need some improvements in a couple of aspects. Still, seems like a decent intro into package managers like Winget or Chocolatey under Windows for less technical users. GitHub - marticliment/WingetUI: WingetUI: a graphical user interface for Winget and Scoop github.com/marticliment/Winget…
Ciekawe czy wygląda to tak jak synaptic z debiana? Bo synaptic jak dla mnie jest mało intuicyjny. 14000 pakietów, jak dla mnie, to troche za mało, ale jak będzie więcej, to nawet sklep microsoftu mógłby pójść w odstawkę.
@grzegorz Podobno Winget i Microsoft Store są jakoś ze sobą wzajemnie kompatybilne, ale ja nie znalazłem np. Netflixa w Winget. Inne rzeczy bez problemu: Whatsapp, Messenger, Unigram, Tunein...
@grzegorz Ja używam chocolate, to też takie repozytorium z apkami, ciekawe, czy winget jest lepszy, z tego co słyszałem dwa lata temu, to w porównaniu z chocolate było to mocno wybrakowane, ale chętnie to potestuję.
@jcsteh Yeah, it was from ceiling fans and probably traffic. That was done about ten years ago so I don't quite remember. I had an Olympus DS50 I was using.
Greetings, #sewing and #tailoring friends! When last we left this waistcoat I was stitching the darts. I'm finally back at it and just completed the scariest step of welt pocket construction: slashing open the pocket.
Slashing the pocket is the scariest step, but attaching the welt is far and away the most annoying. It took - let's just call it several tries to get the first one right. The second one was easier, because (you guessed it) I ironed it again to get the seam aligned right.
The inside edges of the welts are hand-stitched to keep the stitches from showing on the outside. And I try to be mindful that no one will see them anyway because they'll be inside my pockets.
That's it for today. Next time I'll have a couple of techniques to demonstrate: lining the buttonholes, and converting the exterior shoulder dart to ease.
After all that work on the pockets yesterday, I looked at them again today and decided I want them to be a little wider. So I'll have to rip a bunch of stitches.
But the good news is it's always possible to make s *bigger* hole.
Well it's been a minute, but I'm back at the sewing table. Tacking the buttonhole lining in place makes it easy to machine-stitch the buttonhole box without anything shifting around.
And rather than redo the pockets, I opened up the pocket bag on the left side and added a half sized patch pocket inside. This will hold my keys without them falling down to the bottom of the larger pocket, where they'll be hard to fish out.
"Aren't inner fob pockets usually on the right?"
Yes, but people's dominant hands are usually on the right, too. This one's being made by and for a southpaw, and I know where I put my keys.
Buttonholes realigned. And that's where I've gotta call it for now cause I have to get ready to go to a party (at which I assume there will be no bowls of cigarettes).
The holes for buttons, stitched. It doesn't look like much with this dark fabric, but each has a rectangle stitched around the cut lines, to form the edge of the opening.
Then, with the aid of a hole punch, each hole is carefully clipped open along the line, and up to each corner of the stitching.
1. Pushed the rectangular linings through to the back, 2. Pressed, with lots of steam. 3. Turned the piece right side up and pressed again. 4. A detail shot of some of the pressed button holes.
And that's it for tonight. Next time, I'll fold the linings back over the button holes to create welts and tack them in place.
Then I'll attach the fronts to the back (I'll try to document converting the shoulder darts to ease) and attach the exterior to the lining around all the edges before I stitch the lining to the exterior at each button hole, securing the welts.
Had a few extra minutes this morning to fire up the iron. Here's what I mean by folding the button hole linings to create welts: I press each side completely over the button hole opening, then fold it back and press again.
From the front, you can see how this creates welts, closing the rectangular opening and providing a back stop for buttons.
Right now they still look a little sloppy because they're just pressed in place. I will tack each one closed with a few hand stitches, and then press it again to neaten them up.
But not right now because I gotta get ready for work.
(the next time I make this waistcoat I will cut the button hole linings about half an inch wider to make welting a little easier, along with starting with wider pockets. I'm keeping a running list of adjustments).
The buttonholes have been tacked, and are approaching their final form. I added an interfacing panel that's currently just tucked behind the button hole linings, to give the center front a little extra stability.
The promised converting darts to ease is still to come, but according to my handy list of steps, it's finally up next.
This thing is still in pieces, but believe it or not it's getting close to done. Most of the work here was "prep," as in, prepping pieces to be joined (darts, pockets, button holes). What remains is actually sewing pieces together.
I'm going to nerd out about this. Welcome to my TED talk.
Ease is the term for the difference between the dimensions of a garment and the body dimensions of the person the garment is meant to fit. Ease is different from size: consider a pair of skinny jeans vs a pair of straight-cut slacks. The same person could own both garments in the same size and both would fit them, but the skinny jeans have a lot less ease, because they're more form-fitting.
Ease serves multiple purposes in a garment. To start with, unless a garment is stretchy, you need a bit of ease in order to move in it. This minimal amount of necessary ease is called "wearing ease" or "fit ease."
Ease is also a design component--consider the skinny jeans vs slacks again. The tightness of the skinny jeans and the straight vertical lines of the slacks are part of their design. Ease included for design purposes is called "fashion" or "style" ease.
The different types of ease don't actually matter here but now you know some garment construction trivia.
Darts are stitched tucks of fabric that shape a garment. When a tailor converts a dart to ease, they're creating a little extra space in the garment by not stitching down that tuck.
When we do this, we have to get rid of the extra fullness at the seam line where the dart would have been, or the garment won't line up right.
This is the lining of the waistcoat (it is self-lined, meaning the lining and fashion fabric are cut from the same cloth).
See that little dart at the shoulder? Shoulders are generally more rounded in the back than the front. Darts help shape the shoulder of a garment around that curve.
But in tailored suits, shoulder darts are typically converted to ease to avoid breaking up the smooth line of the shoulder.
Here's the inside of the same dart. You can see that it's pretty small--about 3/4" wide. So we don't have a whole lot of fullness to manage, which is good.
Larger darts, such as bust darts, are not typically converted in this way because there's too much extra fullness to manage.
For the lining, I just stitched the dart, cause it's not going to show anyway. But for the outside I'm being posh and converting to ease.
This process involves a bunch of steam and ironing, so I thread-traced the dart lines so I wouldn't lose the markings halfway through. Technically I didn't need to trace the whole line; since we're not stitching the dart we don't care where the tip is. But I wanted to keep it visible for illustration of this process (or: the tea hadn't kicked in yet).
Conversion time. First, I pin the back shoulder to the front shoulder, right sides together. I leave the area around the dart (about 3x as wide as the dart) open.
You can see how the extra fullness creates a gap. If I just ran it through the sewing machine like this I'd end up with tucks in the seam (and I'd break a needle. Don't put pins through your machine).
I'm trying to get rid of that gap to create a smooth shoulder seam. I have a few things going for me here:
1. The dart is small, so there's not much fullness to manage.
2. We don't actually care whether the *edges* of the pieces line up. We care whether they line up at the seam line, which is 5/8" from the edge, where the dart is even smaller.
3. Shoulders are sloped, so the shoulder lines are cut diagonally to the weave of the fabric, giving them a little stretch.
Lastly, while it's still warm from the iron, I drape the piece on the dress form so it cools in its final shape. This is not strictly necessary but I did it anyway.
And that's the dart converted to ease 🙂. Claire Shaeffer's books on couture sewing techniques have a great explanation of this process, with accompanying video.
Happy to answer questions, but I'm about to hop on a call so it might be a bit.
And that's probably it for sewing today, but I am SO CLOSE to done with this waistcoat. All that's left is stitching the lining to the fashion (outer fabric), then turning the whole thing right-side-out, stitching the sides together, and adding the buttons.
I'm very excited to be about ready to stitch this whole mess together. But first, I have a whole lot more basting to do: the lapels, neck, and armholes, and the front seam along the button holes to make sure they stay aligned.
Many commercial patterns will tell folks to baste certain seams, but they rarely explain WHY, so a lot of folks skip this step and go right to stitching the final seam lines.
Basting provides stability to diagonal and curved seams.
Woven fabrics are stable alone the grain lines- parallel and perpendicular to the edge. On the diagonal, they tend to have some stretch (how much will depend on the weave).
Yesterday, I used the stretch to convert a dart, easing 3/4" of fabric into a smooth seam.
When I stitch the lapels and armholes, however, the pieces are the same length, and I want them to stay the same length. I do not want the layers moving around because one side is stretching more than the other (and the way machine stitching works, one side is very likely to stretch more than the other).
So I baste to keep everything stable and aligned. #Sewing #Tailoring
So I had to step away to run some errands (there were girl scout cookies at the farmer's market, which I'm sure you all understand was a situation requiring my prompt attention). Back at the table now. Here's the waistcoat, basted and ironed.
I tacked the button holes to their counterparts with the button hole linings folded out of the way, so they won't get caught in the stitching.
Turning it is hard to photograph, but basically I stuck my arm through the open side seam and up through the shoulder, grabbed the front, and pulled it back through. Repeat for the other side, then pull both fronts through an open side to get the whole thing right side out.
Two side seams, stitched and pressed. These couldn't be finished until the piece had been turned, so I have to close them by hand (the gaps are on the lining side). But I at least got the outside seams through the machine.
The angle of the lighting is making a bunch of seams look puckered but in reality they're all fine :).
(I just want you all to know that autocorrect tried to turn that into "the power of meth." And yes, this expert fit was indeed brought to you in part by the makers of Adderall, but Adderall didn't make me good at this; my mamma did. Adderall just made it easier to be good at it in the correct order).
When I'm stressed, or wishing the code I write was more useful ...
I watch this, proceed to laugh myself into a circulatory disorder (free internet points to anyone who knows what that references) at Microsoft's expense, and everything is better. youtu.be/dlpAXDuLPek
Everybody knows that Windows Vista Speech Recognition was terrible, but just how much of a train wreck was it? Well, lets put it to the test! Can Ben write a...
When I'm stressed, or wishing the code I write was more useful ...
@chucker At least it managed to produce the craziest story I think the world has ever seen though. 🤣 I think part of the problem is the quality of the microphone, but when you consider the type of gear the average consumer would have connected to their PC, especially at the time, I would have expected them to design the system around that.
When I'm stressed, or wishing the code I write was more useful ...
yeah, one of Vista’s themes is that they massively overestimated how much average PC specs would improve between XP and Vista, despite Vista being years late.
Anyway, I guess I would’ve reacted to that demo differently. “Well, that didn’t go over well. Let’s punt on the feature, give it three more years to cook, and ship it in Windows 7.”
* Engine: Mapping your phone as a virtual joystick * Unistroke Keyboard: Unistroke Handwriting Input Method (like Palm's Grafitty) * Jerboa for Lemmy: Back on request of the dev (updates currently stalled at F-Droid) * W Launcher: a launcher based on webOS
This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github).
“Large-language models such as ChatGPT and Google’s LaMDA are trained on, among other things, the web, which is to say society’s sooty exhaust, carrying all the errors, mistakes, conspiracies, biases, bigotries, presumptions, and stupidities — as well as genius — of humanity online. When we blame an algorithm for exhibiting bias we should start with the realization that it is reflecting our own biases.“ [@jeffjarvis] medium.com/whither-news/journa…
There has been much praise in human chat — Twitter — about Ted Chiang’s New Yorker piece on machine chat — ChatGPT. Because New Yorker; because Ted Chiang. He makes a clever comparison between lossy…
This week (Feb 10–17), I’ll be in Australia, touring my book Chokepoint Capitalism with my co-author, Rebecca Giblin. We’re doing a remote event for NZ on Feb 13. Next are Melbourne (Feb 14), Sydney…
Feb 10 5pm US Eastern: Thanks for the lively discussion everyone. It has given me plenty to think about. We are starting to go in circles, and actually new comments are increasingly rare, so I'...
The Wallace-Bolyai-Gerwein theorem says that for any 2-dimensional polygon, you can make a finite number of cuts to turn it into any other polygon that you like (of the same area). Here's a visual demonstration:
Hogwarts Legacy: So You Want to Separate the Art From the Artist
So you placed your order for Hogwarts Legacy or are considering it. You know J.K. Rowling is a horrible person, or so you've heard, but you really want to enjoy your favourite books' latest game. Sure, she's a little odd when it comes to those trans people, but other than that, she's not all bad, right? Let me enjoy the game, you say, that doesn't mean I support her (the obvious falsity of that aside), and really: what's wrong with it in the first place, huh?
Well, hypothetical stranger I just made up, today is your lucky day! Since you asked…
If you are unwilling to hear any arguments, this text is not for you, but if you ask 'what's the big deal anyway', you've come to the right place.
So far, so awful. But since you're reading this, that is obviously not enough to convince you, so allow me to present further arguments. Let's talk about Hogwarts Legacy.
Then there is the fact that the singular trans character in the game, a trans woman, is not only sympathetic to the bad guys, but also has a name crammed with as many masculine implications as possible, including “sir” in the first name, a boys name as a last name, and one that means “little king” to boot.
Yep.
Which, by the way, is not the first time Rowling and her franchise have fucked up with names, naming a black man “Shacklebolt”, giving a Chinese character two Korean names and in general giving every non-British character the most stereotypical name you could think of.
Then there is the fact that the singular trans character in the game, a trans woman, is not only sympathetic to the bad guys, but also has a name crammed with as many masculine implications as possible, including “sir” in the first name, a boys name as a last name, and one that means “little king” to boot.
Yep.
Which, by the way, is not the first time Rowling and her franchise have fucked up with names, naming a black man “Shacklebolt”, giving a Chinese character two Korean names and in general giving every non-British character the most stereotypical name you could think of.
Some last minute changes in GNOME Weather landed from Cleo Menezes Jr. and Oscar Pritchard, giving the header a flat look and making the temperature graph a smooth curve.
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Téměř jistě zítra definitivně skončí naše instance nástroje Moa (bridge.nolog.cz). Podle posledních informací bude poplatek za využívání API Twitteru začínat na 100$ měsíčně.
To je částka za kterou bychom mohli měsíčně zaplatit housing nového serveru se spoustou služeb.
Na bridge.nolog.cz jsme odbavili desítky tisíc tweetů a tootů, mrzí nás že to musí skončit, ale bohužel to tak dopadá když se k moci dostanou egomaniaci.
O to radši jsme ale za Mastodon a další open-source nástroje!
Editor's Note: The first full week in February is White Cane Week in Canada, a time to bring awareness to topics about blindness and vision loss. This is the first in a 2-part series contrasting the pros of white canes and guide dogs.
A man named Bruno Schröder was a mining engineer for most of his life. When passed away in his 80s in June 2022, he had around 60,000 or so books spread out on the 4 floors of his house in Mettingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The books likely weigh about the same as 15 modern cars. 📚 #books #library #BookCollection #collection #Germany
@kevinriggle: Oh my lord I feel like I’m listening to an argument between Markov chainers “If views were in the same database as likes it would be easy” …wow, Twitter uses three whole datacenters. This makes...…
lol we've been trying to tell people this is how the internet works for a decade while the social media companies did everything in their power to hide it
There’s a reason Twitter finally stopped burning money when they let Trump take off and let his shadow spawn an ecosystem of Nazi fungus in its shade.
See also: The History Channel and Ancient Aliens / Nazi Super Weapons. The conspiracy loving fash seem to be the most reliable audience to cater for if you want to make money.
It’s the same old same old because every social media company finds out the same thing: the most profits they can get involved breaking peoples brains and the right wing are the easiest to break the brains of... Since then every social media space becomes a warehouse of drooling idiots clapping as their feed fills up with the secrets they don’t want you to know about vaccines or which Jew families have secret ties to ancient aliens who want to enslave the earth or whatever.
the worlds greatest source of truth is tiny wikipedia articles created by reddit upvotes, taped to the bottom of 240 character posts that no one will ever look at only a day later
Elon trying to save face unbanning another antisemite to have them immediately be antisemitic because this is now a pattern and he's in trouble with his trial and his boards
He's not even going to pretend to do anything about the Modi censorship because Modi ~asked~ him personally and he approved it himself, so instead he has to play "poor little me I'm so busy with all these companies I'm CEO of"
Interesting thread speculating what is going on with twitter falling apart, basically a lot of interactions especially with high follower accounts are just being dumped because elon is cutting back on resources so much lol
@rahaeli: The Twitter mentions tab has never been truly reliable, but like the embedded tweet Archane is quoting says, it's gotten much worse lately. From checking my tweets directly I'd estimate I'm seeing less than...…
#Greeny sounds off on changes to his Twitter 😂On #Greeny, Mike Greenberg expresses his frustrations with Twitter.#ESPN✔️Subscribe to ESPN+ http://espnplus.c...
Their disinfo is that since the Hamilton dashboard was set up to track the flow of disinformation from Russian bots, and since it accuses people of being bots spreading this information who were not bots... Therefore the whole Russian disinformation campaign/election interference is a fraud.
In reality Russia (and others) did spread misinformation through social media and continue to do so and the right wingers spreading it were what they call useful idiots.
the reason there was a 2-3 week window was because elon demanded they clear out all the "please show me less of this person's tweets" and people angrily had to readd them over the next 2-3 weeks. then elon forgot he ever made that demand because his attention span is shit. so he's still trying to figure out what caused it all.
the fact that a large amount of their followers/views dropped right after a wave of bots were removed is probably just coincidental too
i think before elon acquired twitter they had released a new api and were going to try to do creative new things to attract all the developers that got sick and tired of twitter fucking over developers.
this is the death knell for it (developer wise). imagine making developers pay for an api that is shite after they previously got screwed over by the company. no one is going to build anything useful especially now that the population is slowly creeping over to terminally online chuds.
people were developing "businesses" on top of twitter which was dumb but people did it anyways and got angry and left twitter when this happen. it got to the point where after jack came back to be ceo around 2015, he "apologized" for the way they handled it.. and then proceeded to kinda fuck developers again over that time.
he gave a week for people to figure out if they really want to pay money for.. a thing that helps twitter generate content.
btw if you're not aware of twitter developer.. lore... twitter use to have an extremely open API until about 2012 when they slowly started removing features (including third party apps having limited tokens to use for their apps) and developers basically left the platform in droves.
well there goes the one remaining use case i had for twitter, which was offloading screenshots and videos from my switch
even more hilarious, i'm pretty sure if they shut off the api, it's gonna break any website that has the "sign in with twitter" option. not sure how many people actually use that, but if you did you're probably out of luck.
And then your amazing plan to sell checkmarks also fell flat on its ass because only around 200,000 people (on a platform of 450 million monthly active users) decided they wanted to stick the "bully me" hat on. Again, nobody knows how that failed....
Remember how desperate for cash Elon got dragged to the world cup final by the saudis in nothing but his t-shirt and pants? People were joking about the lowtax% speedrun but everyone's sleeping on the very real possibility of a khashoggi%
This move to paid api is kind of expected. Over the course of the last decade a lot of things have been gating off their api because of how much bandwidth they soak up...
Typically you'd just rate limit free accounts... the only reason you'd paywall if bots using APIs were a huge problem and you wanted to take a nuclear approach, right?
Well, that, and for some reason your primary revenue source died up because like two thirds of your advertisers decided to fuck off. Nobody knows why.
lol at elon and the right wing grift circus in the span of one day mass hallucinating an issue where private accounts boost exposure, and all of them performatively going private for a few hours, insisting it helped, but then going public again because ???
Twitter Blue people still don't have most of the promised features they're paying monthly for yet but instead how about an entirely new feature, out of the blue, that nobody cares about!
I mean co-tweets were absolutely pointless and dumb but this might be dumber. I wonder if this is going to be on top of the suggested 4000 character thing or if this is what the character thing has become. But lol at anyone going to twitter to read essays
Elno has to kill the random Virginia Wolfe quotes account and the remind-me bots and all the puppy/kitten rater bots because a bunch of people voted him off the island and that can't be a real thing, he's Elno Msuk the genius special boy who's gonna save the world! It must be those Evil Librul Bots who made him feel sad!
There are like 25 twitter files about how Russian troll bots weren't a real thing but also we have to limit API usage because "opinion manipulators" aka libruls...
And just lmao that they announced this change to come in a week with no details and if someone, like a business, wanted to make any sort of planning, the only idea of the pricing they would deal with is from Elon responding to some random tweet.
reminder that in 2018 musk was having a big public meltdown and decided that anything "nano" was bullshit nonsense and tried attacking a cancer researcher working on nanoparticle treatments who happened to criticize him
ok sure "hey who's the current least successful person in the social media space, famously fucking up their unprofitable website? musk, right? let's do what he's doing"
Lmao I wonder what the 3 remaining advertisers think about their advert spend being shared with literal nazis because it's in a highly engaged tweet about pro nazi hate speech
Extremely excited for tweetfarming to become a thing, this sort of activity has never caused the death of a platform before!
Twitter is likely to charge brands $1000 a month to keep their gold verification badge, plus $50 a month for each affiliated account, according to internal messages viewed by The Information.
actually, come to think of it, i have a lot of respect for the jurors
they looked at the case that took weeks to present, the stakes, the plaintiffs, and the amount of work they were being asked to do to hand a bunch of rich investors even more money, and they said "fuck it, let's go bowling"
it's a civil case, it's not about justice, and spending your weekend arguing over how much money to take from a billionaire to hand to millionaires isn't really redistribution
It's great that nothing he does works, and his veneer of sci-fi nerd messiah is flaking apart so obviously, and all this, but when things go so far as being taken to court for finance manipulation reasons and then they find that he's not trying to defraud or manipulate but is actually just an utter moron, that feels like we missed out on what should have been an easy win.
We do live in a supremely stupid world so we shouldn't be that surprised.
Of course people want Musk to eat at least some amount of shit, so it's disappointing when he repeatedly manages to not deal with any repercussions from any of the idiotic scam-and-scam-adjacent services and promises he's come up with, regardless of how transparent they otherwise seem.
It's the primal need for something, anything to matter to this clown as an actual consequence, instead of what seems to keep happening
People keep claiming that Mastodon isn’t scaring Elon Musk, but it’s pretty clear that he’s worried about the exodus of people from Twitter. With his bizarrely short-sighted decis…
So you may have noticed that the Twitter login of movetodon.org/ is not working at the moment.
According to twitter, the app “has violated Twitter Rules and policies”. I can’t tell much more at the moment since the email they mention never arrived in my inbox.
Lol "Trending to breakeven" aka "even if i cherrypick a bunch of extremely favourable data points and ignore all surrounding data, the best picture I can fabricate is we'll stop losing money at some undefined point in the future, maybe"
Then again he probably didn't actually bother to do even that and is just lying so that he keeps his story straight to anyone still funneling money to him
losing my ass at the blackjack tables and sputteringly explaining to my MEAN spouse that if they'll just LISTEN, I'm actually trending to breakeven. I've got a system!
had to save twitter from bankruptcy (that I put it on the path to)
would not wish the pain of running multiple companies on anyone (no I will not step down and let anyone else run a single one of these companies)
"Elon, I showed my bad posts to everyone and barely anyone liked them!"
"For some unknown reason nobody likes any of the weird freaks I keep shoving into everyone's timeline!"
I do have to give elon credit, making the tweet view metrics public is starting to cause a lot of petty people who are addicted to validation either feeling bad about it or pointing fingers at elon because these numbers can't possibly be right everyone loves my posts
Child sexual abuse imagery spreads on Twitter even after the company is notified: One video drew 120,000 views. “Sewer rats,” as one regulator described bad actors, remain.
Trump has probably a dozen excuses like Musk just being a loser or Musk not fully committed to proving the 2020 election was fake so he is just going to stay on Truth
Is Musk actually doing this because he started ripping out servers and is trying to get people to stop tweeting as much by limiting overall numbers? What a genius!!
I really wanna know the turnaround time from Elon dictating the terms and the code being deployed.
Also isn't that really going to fuck over companies that offer user support via Twitter? Of course they'll soon offer an option to bypass those limits for $11 a day or something. hollywoodreporter.com/business…
An example of how stupid this is. To DM Xfinity Support, you need to follow each other since so many accounts have closed DMs. But Xfinity Support can't follow any new accounts until they unfollow 133,000 accounts. So they won't be able to interact with customers.
he vastly, vastly overestimates the amount of blood he can squeeze from the stone that is twitter and he'll end up killing it trying to get the last drop, like lmao why the HELL would you fuck with the ability to SOCIALIZE on a SOCIAL NETWORK, then have the audacity to charge for it???
they're gonna do all this bullshit tweaking and pissing off everyone by limiting follows or whatever then check the balance sheet at the end of the month and see only 0.01% of users forked over cash
Since he overpaid so much he needs to pay off the loans he took out for his purchase but twitter is not profitable as a company so the only thing he knows to do is to monetize every possible aspect. The result is that the platform is a goner and it is going to ruin a lot of people's livelihoods
This is a combination of sad and hilarious, because:
1) Those estimates are annualized figures based on the advertisers Twitter had at the beginning of the year and tons of major ad supporters bailed on Twitter in the first few months. So, even that figure of $19 million is likely way lower.
2) That the Twitter algorithm really did massively push anti-vax and nazi accounts that made them the most profitable accounts for Musk on Twitter and he likely unbanned them right away in a desperate move to max out potential revenue.
"Just yesterday, Twitter experienced a mass outage...
Apparently, an employee unintentionally deleted data for the “internal service that sets rate limits for using Twitter,” the outlet wrote. The team of people that used to manage the rate limit service haven’t been employed at Twitter since November.
“As the adage goes, ‘you ship your org chart,’” one current employee told Platformer. “It’s chaos here right now, so we’re shipping chaos.”"
Musk reportedly sacked one of Twitter's engineers after they suggested his lower-than-normal engagement might be because people aren't interested in him.
I'm gonna guess that the view counter is broken in that it counts of a bunch of backend processes that are scanning content for various reasons as "views"
if she was sane she'd have enough of a Simp Surplus to get people to defend her music video days.
She made the mistake of CANCELING right wingers, by reporting them on YouTube for posting the video. They got banned or suspended or something which made them lose their shit and that's when things started crashing down on her.
it usually doesn’t not go well when a female assault victim changes their story. juries get very skeptical, and a lot of assholes become extremely hostile against the victim.
perhaps she should have taken advice from a victim’s advocate before deciding to do this, or just watched an episode of law & order: svu
Messenger for Mac does that a lot, it spams you with the “alert” sound. No idea why this happens, but it started after an update, so it’s definitely their fault,
A fantastic, non-ranty post by @matuzo about the shortcomings of SPAs. This 100 % matches my experience with e.g. Next.js. SPAs are only good for some things and we need to be transparent about what they are *not* good at so that people stop building inaccessible, over-engineered, and slow projects that should have been static sites instead.
Sometimes it seems like accessibility experts and other web professionals hate JavaScript. This might be true for some, but most understand that JavaScript can be useful for improving UX and even accessibility.
Google nabídne alternativu k externím úložištím pro hesla • Nově je uloží přímo v rámci systému pod váš Gmail • Výhledově by mělo nové API podporovat i aplikace třetích stran
Uložte hesla přímo do mobilu... Jako expert na bezpečnost musím upozornit, že rozbitý/ztracený mobil je problém. Ale ztráta přístupu k bankovnímu účtu a mailu je průser jako hovado.
Takže centralizované úložiště hesel v mobilu je špatný nápad.
Taky by to nebylo nutné, kdyby každé hentai forum nechtělo samostatný účet.
Nebo, kdyby lidé rozuměli úrovním hesel. Mail a banka hesla na účet. Na online obchody stačí hesla odvozená, a věci nespojené s tvou identitou mohou mít všechny heslo stejné, protože hackerovy může být tvůj war thunder účet ukradený.
@honzaporadjede Přesně, člověk něco začal používat a rup Google to ruší, no a hlavně nevím jestli by chtěl mít zrovna hesla spravována u Google. Já jsem rád, že u něj, už nemám nic 😃 @smoon
Ruší všichni, nejen Google. Když Bitwarden zruší vývoj, taky budeš přecházet jinam, ač to máš na vlastní instanci. Já ale od Google mám už jen email...a i ten mám jen de facto na druhé koleji...
Na druhou stranu, Google je největším hráčem na Internetu, nikdy jsem neslyšel, že by mu někdo něco hacknul (nebo jsem to zapomněl), hesla jsou snad v bezpečí.
I am so glad patents were a later invention of Humanity.
Had the person who 'invented' fire patented it with our current intellectual property laws and convoluted ways of preserving the rights forever, we would have never left the stone age.
#OpenSource has always been the way of advancing our quality of life.
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"Running Erlang and Elixir on microcontrollers with AtomVM"
How to run BEAM code on a 3 $ microcontroller by Davide Bettio @bettio [BEAM is Erlang bytecode]
AtomVM allows you to run ordinary/unmodified(but "don't do anything weird") Elixir/Erlang code on microcontrollers (not all of them! it works on ESP32, STM2, Raspberry Pi 2040, etc)
The #matrix 2.0 #fosdem talk was 🔥. Besides the new ElementX client being both slick 💅 and fast 🏎️, I was impressed by the seamless p2p messaging without internet. I like to see cool tech combined with slick UX.
For those of you wondering what I’m talking about, matrix is a federated messaging platform with end to end encryption and all the stuff you’d want from an open messaging platform.
Work on #Conversations_im 3.0 has officially begun. 🥳 Funding got cleared in November 2022 but I had customer projects that I couldn’t just stop working on from one day to another.
C3 is a complete architecture overhaul. New database; new UI toolkit; improved XML (de)serialization.
Among other things this means we can have proper Unit Tests now. 😍
Those familiar with how Conversations used to construct stanzas will make the new API (as shown in this test) very happy: codeberg.org/iNPUTmice/Convers…
Budapest public transport has a tram with see-through panels so people can peek into the mechanics of how the tram works. They even have signs explaining parts.
It's pretty fun. Every time I catch it I love to watch people marveling at it, kids and adults alike. 😄 #Budapest #PublicTransport #Hungary #trams
Ukrajina: Světová banka v září odhadovala, že náklady na obnovu země/ekonomiky/infrastruktury dosáhnou 350 mld. USD. To bylo před vlnou útoků na kritickou ukrajinskou infrastrukturu. Pro představu, předválečný HDP Ukrajiny byl cca 200 miliard dolarů. worldbank.org/en/news/press-re…
A joint assessment by the Government of Ukraine, the European Commission, and the World Bank, in cooperation with partners, estimates that the current cost of reconstruction and recovery in Ukraine amounts to $349 billion.
Listen to a customizable list of radio stations. This came about because some of my friends wanted an easy way to stream internet radio stations without opening a browser.
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Enabled by default means you believe that what I do on my computer is your business unless I choose otherwise. This should be self-evidently "wrong", because what I do on my computer is absolutely not the Go team's business unless and until I choose to make it your business.
It does not matter whether knowing “what I do” makes your job easier, or is somehow "useful" to you. It does not matter if you find an implementation that is somehow technically "legal". It does not matter if the proposed implementation of telemetry itself is sound and reasonable. None of that changes the simple fact that what I do on my computer is not, by default, ever any of your business.
[That this is even under consideration raises a number of questions regarding Go's leadership and future direction.]](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/408607 "deanellis:
Enabled by default means you believe that what I do on my computer is your business unless I choose otherwise. This should be self-evidently \"wrong\", because what I do on my computer is absolutely not the Go team's business unless and until I choose to make it your business.
It does not matter whether knowing “what I do” makes your job easier, or is somehow \"useful\" to you. It does not matter if you find an implementation that is somehow technically \"legal\". It does not matter if the proposed implementation of telemetry itself is sound and reasonable. None of that changes the simple fact that what I do on my computer is not, by default, ever any of your business.
[That this is even under consideration raises a number of questions regarding Go's leadership and future direction.]")
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