So we are seeing the slow painful birth of the environmentalist movement of our technical information ecosystem.
It was always there to some extent. But now more people who aren't oddball activist techies are beginning to see the negative effects of monoculture, an erosion of the commons, exploitative use, information pollution and so on.
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I think I shall continue preparing space for seedlings.
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I wrote a comment about decentralized software
I'm hoping the long term trend is going to swing back towards decentralized social software on the internet, but I have no expectation that is inevitable. If we want that to be the future, we will have to work at it.
https://lobste.rs/s/5dfvja/is_there_evidence_marked_shift_away_from#c_hoynty
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It struck me today that Jordan Peterson is the "western tradition" version of Deepak Chopra: he gets by on pseudo-profound bullshit.
I find the phenomenon of secular guru types fascinating. The "Decoding the Gurus" podcast does well going into what makes them tick.
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It strikes me that Richard Stallman and Eric Raymond were that kind of guru in the limited space of software, for some. For me, the more I learned about them the less they were - and they never went beyond influencer to me. You have to be rather full of yourself more than normal people already are to be this type of guru.
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I see a lot of people talk about the horrific environmental impact of AI. This article puts it in perspective:
https://andymasley.substack.com/p/individual-ai-use-is-not-bad-for
I haven't reviewed the numbers so it's possible the whole article is wrong, but it does strike me that the central point that energy usage needs to be evaluated in context is important.
I see a meme about how generating a tiny picture needs a whole city to be shut down (an absurd exaggeration), and I wonder how this compares to the energy cost of PC gaming.
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Thanks to the paper, I have learned about multiple areas of computer science I didn't know before too. Various useful things in my mental pocket.
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I have been reading this one computer science paper for over a month now and a lot of papers to try to understand it and there are still sections I don't fully understand. But I do have code now for the sections I do.
The funny thing is that the authors wrote code along with the paper and I am trying to reconstruct parts of it. Papers are more portable than code but much more difficult to implement.
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She likes this box that contained St Nicholas gifts.
[#]Caturday #CatsOfMastodon
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Open source collaboration can have this interesting exchange mechanism:
and hopefully we keep going in such a cycle for a while.
Anarchistic forms of collaboration, very cool.
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Things I do regularly online without ads, without a need to block them:
I read my mastodon feed
I read Wikipedia
I access various tech aggregators
I use my RSS / atom feed reader and read blogs
I go to archive.org
I read the new website of the dutch public broadcaster NOS
I use a few web applications
That's quite a lot of things without anyone serving me ads. This internet still exists.
Of course I don't know exactly who tries to serve me ads as I block those.
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@kagesenshi welcome here!
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The Jung-Koch-Quentell wall charts Wikipedia page is still a draft. But Koch has his own Wikipedia page now:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlieb_von_Koch
Lots of work by @bewo001 went into it.
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I discovered that the whole field of succinct data structures existed about a month ago. Those are data structures that take minimal space yet still allow fast operations.
I've seen been contributing a little to two separate Rust crates in the space - vers-vecs and fm-index, and it helped me really feel the joy of open source collaboration again. I couldn't have written either crate but I can do minor things to make them better.
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In the beginning it wasn't possible to see each other online. Even digital photographs were rare and involved scanning an actual picture. Voice chat was aso uncommon.
Then real time voice chat became a thing in the early 2000s. Eventually video chat emerged.
Romance scamming emerged even in this brief golden era of verification by video chat. They hurt so many.
We are now leaving this era; face swap and voice swap are becoming available to many. Romance scams are going to get even worse.
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I still think this is the most irony filled marketing. An AI chatbot to automate away flirty interactions on OnlyFans described as:
Our AI chatbot doesn't just send messages; it creates authentic connections. It captures the essence of years of relationship-building expertise, ensuring every interaction is genuine and meaningful.
Authentic. Genuine. Meaningful. Catfishing AI.
Just wow. Even the human catfish this replaces are endlessly more authentic
https://www.flirtflow.ai/
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An AI was trained on a lot of common knowledge and plausible text and it can regurgitate this very well. But as soon as you ask the hard questions it suddenly fails, and worse, this failure is obfuscated.
Such machines can still be useful. I myself am even inclined to attribute a form of intelligence to it. But it's not the same as human intelligence.
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When you're a non expert and you talk to someone who gives a lot of answers to questions on a topic, and it seems plausible and coherent, you assume they are an expert.
That heuristic is decent. You may be talking to a bullshitter, scammer or crackpot the chances, but you can often filter those out using common knowledge.
But this heuristic falls flat on its face for AI. An AI can give a lot of decent, plausible answers on a topic. It fits with what you know. Yet it's very far from an expert.
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look here i am posting on mastodon that mastodon is too difficult. so difficult, how to type in a box, i keep THINKING ABOUT INStANcEs while i type so i cannot type anymore help
who can figure out websites and stuff, why learn anything about the thing you use every day, just give up and use the easy thing, like MMORPGs, telephone numbers, boarding passes
mastodon is now in the past, it's a past tense thing i keep reading it is in the newspaper, the mastodon corporation didn't make it, so sad
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'Very unlikely' foreign actor linked to Havana Syndrome, US intelligence says
A very unlikely foreign actor, huh? Luxemburg! Tuvalu!
Oh wait, an actor: Michelle Yeoh, what a dastardly thing to do!
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