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Employer has decided they need to "Build an LLM" in order to be "a leader in AI"

I feel like a baby playacting business.

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Hypolite Petovan
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@silverwizard I feel like this idea has already been explored in the cinematic franchise "The Boss Baby", no need to go for it again.
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@Rivetgeek I have never usEd an LLM without my prompts giving me garbage inside 2 prompts
@Rivetgeek (He/Him)

Youtube trying to block ad blockers is weird. Nothing is really hard in software, but Google's employees are kinda a mess and don't really understand technical problems anymore, so it feels like a mug's game to make them fight the internet

Is only being able to buy music on iTunes just normal these days?
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@Jay Hannah @Shannon Curtis Oh, yeah, I get that conceptually (and yeah, I'm not a giant music lover, I have one large binder of CDs that's all the CDs from my childhood into my 30s)2m Bandcamp in theory gives me that "Own it forever", but I don't know how that's gonna work in the future.
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I find the idea of playing fair in a single player video game insipid

People love to talk about "fun trumps rules" or "rule 0" in TTRPGs and the same applies to videogames.

I actually think it applies less in TTRPGs because of the multiplayer aspect, rules are expectations, and changing them matters more and should be thought out

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Alex P. šŸ‘¹
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oh i mean in video games

sometimes you can totally ruin a single-player game by giving people a choice to do something un-fun rather than something really fun, even though it's just a *choice* the player is making

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silverwizard
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@Alex P. šŸ‘¹ Oh! that! Yes! I am definitely the worst about that.

But I am the kind of person who will be like "Oh, Morrowind wants me to be useless for the first four hours of gameplay, this is dumb, I'm going to edit my save file", which is what I'm talking about.

If you give me a bad option I could spend 20 hours grinding on, I'll just skip that 20 hours in the game of "How did you encrypt your savefile" instead of "Develop an RSI"

@Alex P. šŸ‘¹
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Baby, I'm an Anarchist! vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=dm_q9dtā€¦

Baby, I'm an Anarchist!

Provided to YouTube by The Orchard Enterprises Baby, I'm an Anarchist! Ā· Against Me! Reinventing Axl Rose ā„— 2018 Fat Wreck Chords Released on: 2018-09-10 Auto-generated by YouTube.
Against Me! - Topic | Invidious

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xkcd.com/1494/

This is a shockingly clear explaination of the asymmertry of power

Those Clever Hacks are *innovation*


Insurance

xkcd
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Hypolite Petovan
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@silverwizard And VC are happily funding those ā€œcool hacksā€, right?

And thatā€™s how we get Uber, Theranos and FTX.

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A senior colleague told me recently that French was the most Germanic of the Romance languages, and English the most Romance of the Germanic languages, and it all made sense.

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"What if the movie Hackers was an anime about Aliens"
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I had an issue where there was a repo that made no sense

And then I looked closer and saw that I had committed documentation with all the reasoning behind the weird decisions, and made it make sense. Committed it right after I started at this job (probably when I asked all the same questions)

Document people!

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Whoever needs to hear it: it's OK to not write up your detailed critical analysis of the latest VC bro's bad take to show everyone why he's wrong. In fact, it's extremely OK to not even bother to read his bullshit.

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Dial Tone, Busy Signal *biiip*
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while it's good to "keep an eye on" stuff like this, it's definitely better to NOT boost it.
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"We believe any deceleration of AI will cost lives. Deaths that were preventable by the AI that was prevented from existing is a form of murder."

No. It is not. This is motivated reasoning, and more than that it is either unhinged, bullshit, or both. There is no evidence, theory, or hypothesis driving this vision of the future. It is entirely the fantasy of someone who has invested unthinkable amounts of money into the technology at issue.

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So my 4yo son said to me "I want a computer, inside a pumpkin, with a microphone on tap, and a speaker on top, and a cable out of it, and we can talk through the pumpkin."

So I grabbed a few things
-a Libre.Computer LePotato I was gonna try to build a tablet with
-a speaker/mic I use for testing
-a battery pack

And so current status

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TIaL about the Potato computer. Almost, the libre.computer/ is #Javascrippled to the point of not showing anything.
#javascrippled
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silverwizard
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@Bob Jonkman Yeah - I tried to download the image with lynx, and uh.... useless

But it's a fairly reasonable RasPi competitor

And look at the timeline on getting one:
convenient.email/display/2c704ā€¦

@Bob Jonkman

Got linkedin spam from a slaesperson at DuploCloud and their last job was at KinderMorgan, so I assume they have a playpen full of Duplo they pretend is a bank

My general policy of only buying technical castoffs makes me worried there's more compute in my monitors than some of my computers
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I wish more people could get it right.

The ultra rich are not wealth creators, they are wealth extractors & wealth hoarders. Everytime the cost of several new schools and hospitals gets spaffed away on lux mansions, private jets, Mediterranean super yachts etc it is a disinvestment in society, a misallocation of increasingly finite resources.

Each new billionaire is evidence of society failing. #NoBillionaires

#NoBillionaires
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Watching all of the kids walk and bike to school in Centretown on my way to work this morning really highlighted how little space we give to the people who live downtown in our cities. Sidewalks are too narrow for families to walk side by side.

#Ottawa #OttWalk

#Ottawa #ottwalk

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Siobhan Kirkland
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We give so much space to cars and the people driving through our city but so little space to all of the people who actually live here. Families should be able to walk to school together.

Our downtown should be designed for people not cars.

#Ottawa #OttWalk

#Ottawa #ottwalk

Parenting today has required me to tell half a story about pokemon, and use the phrase "my second best spellbook"
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This corresponds to my experiences with Eben: fsfe.org/news/2023/news-202310ā€¦

Joint Statement by Free Software Foundation Europe and Software Freedom Conservancy Regarding Eben Moglen and Software Freedom Law Center - FSFE

Both Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) and Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) are committed to defending and expanding software freedom and the rights...
FSFE - Free Software Foundation Europe

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I know it doesn't actually matter, but: whoever wrote that statement absolutely does not understand how ampersands work in English :blobcatfacepalm:.

My friend just made a typo and I now think we should replaced LLM and AI with "ChatBoy"
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Most tech companies are very committed to the user's right to despair.

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Prefacing that I know this is a longshot

My brother in law is using #TrueNAS with #ZFS, he didn't backup.

He imported his disks by different names (ada4p2 and Long-GUID-Goes-Here for the other)

He had an issue and his disks got relabelled. Now only one of his four disks in his pool is available. I can see the correct gpt ids when I run GEOM, but on the wrong device names.

Any way of forcing ZFS to rescan names or relabel my device nodes? (my mknod searching is failing me)
#ZFSHelp

#ZFS #truenas #zfshelp
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HankB
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(NB: No experience with TrueNAS.) "sudo zpool import" should scan all drives and report any pools that can be imported (and likely any that cannot.)

@PracticalZFS (and the related forum) for more help (from people who know more than me.)

@Practical ZFS - Discussions
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silverwizard
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@HankB @Practical ZFS - Discussions yeah - I dug through imports and it's showing me that the disk is gone (but I see it!), I am trying on a new live image to see if that improves it
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I type cut -d '"' -f4 far too often in a given day
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s-expressions of symbols my friend
: THESE NOT USING CUT
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One of the weirdest things I've ever felt is when my monitoring work gets hooked up to a pager.

It feels very visceral in how much I need to make a bunch of guesses and then those guesses make guesses, and any bad guess is someone's bad day

@Becky said that she didn't want to put gravy on my champed potatoes because she was worried any change would make them less perfect, so that's the ideal cooking outcome
@Becky
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As far as I can tell, Wayland's security model seems to be "users doing stuff means they could do bad stuff!"

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silverwizard
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@argv minus one The issue is that Wayland just bans them outrightly

But if you need permissions for them, fine, but if they are able to self-declare then you can use that to bootstrap a perm bypass.

This system you envision is just a tool to annoy people with *no value*

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š’€­š’‚—š’†  ENKI ][e
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this is an excellent description of my least favorite kind of security thinking, thank you
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#columbus #columbusday #indigenouspeoplesday #columbo
#Columbus #IndigenousPeoplesDay #Columbo #ColumbusDay

"Can I borrow the cord of the bouncy castle for the hot glue gun?"

#parenting

#parenting

1.8GB of JSON is the worst kind of day

Why do so many security vendors (thinking of DLP) act like HTTPS is the only protocol for sending messages.
"Oh, we inspect all HTTPS traffic, we block HTTP and block USB mass storage"
"What if I open a VPN?"
"Oh, then this wont work"
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old malware was so much more Fun. nowadays all is does is like, steal your personal info and ask you to give them bitcoin and shit, but for example ive just discovered happy99, which apparently doesn't even Do anything it's just a fun little fireworks display that just so happens to be self replicating. bring that shit back

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i would love being a mobile developer under communism we could make mobile devices so much more useful than they are. itā€™s a computer in your pocket! and theyā€™re hamstrung by profit

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There are a few, but they are increasingly hard to come by because, yea, profits
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Alternate way to tax bug tech:
Levy fines of a few million a month to enough places for crimes inherent in their business model

Made cinnamon nutmeg pancakes (called pumpkin spice), kids are excited
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Iā€™m always baffled by the suggestion that an #LLM could write my articles for me. That only works if plenty of people have written a very similar article already, which begs the question why I should write it in the first place.
#llm

I just actually screamed at Google Calendar

Holy shit - how can a calendar be this bad?!

Did you know you can only put Events on secondary calendars?! Team communication?! Fuck it!

Writing a web browser in Electron

My 4yo dropped a thing and said "I can't find it! It disappeared! I must be learning magic!"

When I recently replaced my server I went from 64 GB of RAM to 128GB, and now I'm seeing that i'm using 54% of that at steady state, so apparently I needed the upgrade

also - damn

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From comments I've seen here and there, I get the feeling that there is a bit of a bottleneck when it comes to finding people that can convert material to Roll20, and I was wondering if anyone has any more insight into this. Am I just hearing random weirdness, or is this an area of growth that's outstripping capacity in RPGs?

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