I decided to read "Anarchism and Other Essays" by Emma Goldman, but I have to finish it within 21 days, because the government made a contract with a private company that says the government has to make my phone delete the file after that amount of time
Labor Day sales include 25 percent off one year of 1Password -- It's discount on the Families plan for new subscribers. groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/77…
@bjemming If memory serves, the 1Password family discount offer ends on September 15. I'm 99% certain I'm right. That also means there's a 1% chance that I don't know what I'm talking about. 😊
A look at the growing use of tablets in US prisons, letting inmates make calls, send messages, and more, as the FCC imposes price caps on voice and video calls (Nicholas G. Miller/Wall Street Journal)
Oh boi, do I have thoughts about #nanowrimo. Disclosure; I have written millions of words (most of them technical), I have done #NaNoWriMo a few times, and I have been writing about #AI since the early 90s.
#LLMs are NOT AI. LLMs are vacuums which sort existing data into sets. They do not create anything. Everything they output depends on stolen data. There is no honest LLM.
This year, Nano is sponsored by an LLM company, and after pushback, they said anyone suggesting AI shouldn't be used was "ableist and "classist"....which....whooweee , that's a mighty bold stance.
LLMs are being sued to hell by authors for slurping up all their content. The reason you can "engineer a prompt" by including "in the style of RR Martin" is because the LLM has digested ALL of RRMartin.
Re: "ableism", I'm going to direct you to Lina² neuromatch.social/@lina/113069…, who writes about the issue better than I could. And I want to thank @LinuxAndYarn for coming up with my fave new Nano tag: #NahNoHellNo.
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I work in recycling. No one wants plastic. This greenwashing has been known for years among insiders and people who dug into it but I'm glad to see it getting wider reporting!
I figured it might be good to have a centralized topic on it. Of course the best usage advice is to avoid it if at all possible, but unfortunately it's the only platform that offers some games.
Dnes jsem dostal zprávu, že byl můj podcast zařazen na web České podcasty. Tři roky od jeho vzniku :) No jo, popularizace vědy, záznamy předášek či četby z populárně-vědecké literatury nikdy nemohou překonat bulvár jako jsou Opravdové zločiny :))))) Pokud by se vám chtělo a pokud jste si opravdu něco již naposlouchali z mého podcastu Dobrodružství poznávání, můžete zde ceskepodcasty.cz/podcast/dobro… přidat své hodnocení. A nemusíte mne šetřit, už něco unesu :) Předem moc děkuji. Ale klidně se věnujte jiným věcem, není to zas tak důležité pro to, co dělám. Mne potěší, když nějaké zajímavé četby dorazí k vašim uším. To úplně stačí :)
- Joplin was removed as updates became unavailable. The FOSS variant without any non-free dependencies is still available at F-Droid. + Showly returned with a FOSS build today, to let you track shows & movies
"We ask children to do for most of a day what few adults could do for even an hour. How many of us, attending, say, a lecture that doesn't interest us, can keep our mind from wandering? Hardly any."
Totally Tasteless - the biography of JNT that I used for my Black Archive on Greatest Show in the Galaxy, is having a reprint: tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com/pro… Highly recommended for a balanced take on JNT, his life and career. #DoctorWho
I just heard from them and they confirmed that this book isn't available in an electronic format. If it's the case that the publisher doesn't believe in eBooks then they're not only behind the times but they're locking out an entire community of readers. A paper version of a book would take hours for me to scan. If their titles were available as eBooks, I'd be willing to purchase them as would,, I'm sure, other visually impaired readers. As it stands now, they've lost several sales from me.
OVH is a French company and I believe there is a requirement to declare website. *Maybe* it's overzealous if it's hosted this side of the Atlantic. But that's the simple explanation.
@hub Sketch is just sketch. Now currently looking for an alternative hosting company if you have any recommendations. Physical/dedicated self-managed servers. Any recommendations?
There's a new bout of "Facebook are listening to you through your microphone to serve targeted ads, no really we have proof now!" discourse, and I'm revisiting my long-term hobby of trying (and failing) to convince people that this isn't happening
It's fascinating to me how hard it is to talk people out of believing this one - there was a podcast episode about exactly this challenge back in 2017 and it's still true today gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-al…
@hobs I think this mostly happens due to people seeing ads for what they're talking about, without realizing the power of coincidences on one hand and the power of search tracking on the other.
The best way I've found to convince nonn-technical people that this isn't true is to make them notice when the same phenomenon happens on linear TV.
You can only do this in-person though, and only when the people in question actually do watch TV and/or listen to the radio.
@miki Very cool approach. Your coincidence demonstration might also work with billboards, magazine ads, and movie product placements. I'm tired of seeing branded whiskey and cigarettes in Netflix/Amazon hero hands. @simon
The main way podcasts grow their audience is through word of mouth so if you like what we do, it would be great if you spread the word to people who might also like our shows.
Anyone who's into Linux, open source, systems administration, cloud, or development should find something they like.
We should see a saturation arround 3 trillion trees. (1)
You can easily help achivieving this goal by reworking natural=tree_row and adding single natural=tree into natural=wood areas :) I know, some say this is discouraged, but we really need to map EVERY TREE!
Frieren is one of these shows where everything is soo good, animation, story, visual style, directing, that you too easily miss that the music is great too. I feel like I have to do a rewatch, to focus more on these little details I missed before. Its definitly not a waste of time xD
I do pity the general population who has to be subjected to that sort of built-in data collection, and all the security and privacy problems it entails. Too bad #Linux is not even a blip on the public consciousness & cultural upbringing.
Jsou produkty a taky software, u kterých si myslím, že se velmi přiblížili k dokonalosti, resp. to co slibují dělají dobře. Za mě to jsou:
* Framework notebook s AMD procesorem - lepší notebook jsem nikdy neměl * Kindle Paperwhite 5 - za mě překonal papír a pokud vám nevadí knihy v angličtině, je to jak Netflix pro knížky * Miniflux - self-hosted RSS čtečka, co se ovládá klávesovými zkratkami a umí stáhnout obsah stránky, takže skoro všechno čtete v jednom rozhraní. * Gitea - vlastní Github
@stepan Já mám 13. I když ho mám téměř pořád v dockině, tak s ním cestuju mezi kanclem a domovem. Případně ho tahám na chalupu a podobně. 16 by byl moc velký. Taky 13 je tak o 10-15k levnější.
Jinak to jsou ty dva na fotce. Ten tmavší je AMD, ten používám. Ten světlejší jsem dal tchýni. To je první generace, co jsem si nechal poslat z USA. Ten nebyl tak dobrej. To AMD je úplně bezproblémové.
If the solution doesn't including building and funding passenger rail infrastructure, then you are just incompetent. And we are not talking about a glossy report.
I have an idea. You know all the billions the Governement give away to the oil indsutry? Allocate them to build rail for passenger. ELECTRIFIED. You can start easy with the Windsor-Quebec corridor. Make flying into Toronto from YUL, YOW or YQB more awful than a train to Union station (the bar is low)
Montreal - Toronto could be 2.5 hours platform to platform, it would beat landing in YYZ and be a toss up with YTZ except that airport are always a shit show.
this is a dumb idea because the issue is the tracks would still be too busy with freight for passenger and then you'd have to electrify all the rails in Canada for those trains to move on. It's not cost effective.
Canada's transport minister said he is determined to get to the bottom of a recent train delay that left Via Rail passengers stranded for about 10 hours in Quebec over the long weekend.
You haven't funded it properly for decades you dumb fucking bastard.
they can't fund what they don't own. Which is the gist of the problem. They privatized railroad after bailing them out through a crown corp, and when railroad didn't want to do passenger service anymore, they decide to provide a publicly funded service as a second rate on top of for profit "not-giving-a-fuck" private railroads.
Privacy isn't just a feature, it's a right. The Librem 5: A secure smartphone that puts you in control. No tracking, no data mining, just pure freedom. #Librem5 #PrivacyFirst puri.sm/products/librem-5/
Considering the wave of “China's economy will collapse!” videos & articles occurring again at the minute, I am once again showing off my video compiling the last decades of people predicting China's collapse:
The source for this apparent and always occurring collapse is usually one guy who has been claiming this collapse will happen “this decade” for the past 30 years.
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