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@stux@mstdn.social I don't have a job. I'm attending a prestigious university, with room and board, and my parents are paying every penny out of pocket.
I am more profitable than OpenAI.
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Vincent Sparks
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mastodon 4.6.8+glitchhe/him // early 20s // card-carrying Rustacean // audhd // combine every gay furry stereotype you can think of into a single person and you pretty much have me
i use NixOS btw. i am also NixOS's number 1 hater. ask me about why
world's only rustacean who admits rust has flaws and there are things it should not be used for. i could talk for half an hour about reasons i dislike the language (proc macros, consteval, compilation times, and the rust foundation going all in on LLMs to name just a few) and am an enough of an adult to acknowledge these flaws and still like it, and i don't get why more rustaceans can't be adults when talking to users of other languages. if you see a rustacean being a dick, point me at them
i try not to bite without a good reason, but i sometimes bite for very bad ones. please call me on it. i'm trying to be better about that.
I'm a simple man, I see furry art, I smash the boost button. i do occasionally (rarely) boost nsfw furry art (always cw'd as such). don't wanna see that? follow someone else
DMs open if you wanna chat, or if you'd like to commission custom software like a Discord/Signal/Matrix/etc bot or a small desktop app
I don't have a pfp because I'm waiting to commission one of my sona and I can't do that until I have a ref sheet (speaking of which, if you know anyone who does commissions of those, please point me their way)
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I'm locked out of it and I haven't created a new one yet
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@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange
"no, but OUR LLM self improves!"
"actual self improvement or memories.md?"
"memories.md"
fedi meta, anarchists
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr I have to say I disagree with you already. Perhaps this is my bias speaking, but it is hard for me not to classify a technology that relies on scraping the works of thousands of creative workers, many of whom are my colleagues, destroying websites and (as of recently) physical paper books in the process without a single care, as exceptionally wicked.
Perhaps it is not exceptionally wicked solely because it makes living conditions (cost per kWh, noise, heat...) measurably worse near its factories, whether the residents of those places use the factory's products or not. Plenty of prior technologies have done that -- it's how "smog" became a word. But no prior technology has relied on destructively consuming human culture in order to sustain itself.
https://www.404media.co/ai-companies-are-buying-tons-of-old-books-because-theyre-free-of-ai-slop/
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@nixCraft@mastodon.social Well, obviously. Alibaba is trying to kidnap what Anthropic has rightfully stolen!
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@Bwee@meow.social they can join up on mastodon.social and if they like it there they can migrate their account to a real instance
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@acarsdrama@live.acarsdrama.com this is why you still fly an RJ (affectionate)
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@tofu@is-a.cat @voltrina@voidposter.club recaptcha collects personal information and, if it can't, gives the user an mturk task, so that google can make money.
i really don't think that's comparable to a proof of work challenge.
also, what would you rather sysadmins do? do you have another, more ethical piece of software in mind that they could defend their sites with? or should they simply let the continuous DDoS from LLM scrapers send their hosting bills into the stratosphere and/or knock them offline?
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@anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz I don't give a DIMMadamn if you can afford to build a computer
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@youcinez@mastodon.social you know, if you hadn't tried to plug your product at the end of your toot, I might almost have believed you were a real person.
we've got adbots on fedi now. how fucking sad is that.
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I did it again, completely accidentally, and I didn't get to write down the vote totals first! Here's my best approximation from what I remember:
54 votes
51% Reply in your native language
10% Machine translate from your native language to the language of the post
20% Don't respond at all
8% Other
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@Oggie@woof.group @ricmac@mastodon.social i still maintain that all concepts in computer science (FP, OOP, metaclasses, neural networks, JIT compilation, the whole shebang) were invented at MIT in the 60s and the entire field of computer science in the years since has been the process of fumblingly rediscovering what the lisp programmers already knew
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@dbattistella@mstdn.ca some cursory research indicates DCH1 closed in 2021, and sites both with and without robots have air conditioning; however, a lot of sites have "AC issues" and/or save energy by not cooling the building much, and working temperatures of 78-80F are not uncommon.
Still completely unacceptable.
https://old.reddit.com/r/AmazonFC/comments/1f926t8/any_thoughts_on_this_ill_just_leave_this_here_i/
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Whoops, editing the post cleared the poll! Before I cleared it, there were:
5 votes for "Reply in your native language"
3 votes for "Machine translate from your native language to the language of the post"
1 vote for "Not respond at all"
1 vote for "Other (please specify)"
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@drahardja@sfba.social ah yes, because it is famously impossible to power an air conditioner with anything other than fossil fuels
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@veronica@explains.social louder for the people in the back!
those who do not know why they should want privacy deserve privacy!!!!!!!!!
people who say "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear" deserve privacy! i dream of a world where they do not get a chance to find out the hard way why they are wrong!
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@anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz oh how fossbros love to point and laugh at microsoft submitting a "a bug in ffmpeg is breaking teams, you guys need to fix this NOW" bug report to ffmpeg when they don't have any sort of contract with ffmpeg and don't contribute to it monetarily, and the developers they submitted that bug report to are volunteers
and then when the (also volunteer) developers of their favorite project accept money from a company they don't like, or accept LLM contributions, or license their code too restrictively, or too permissively, or refuse to remove a dependency that is maintained by a person who once said something bad, they flip out in exactly the same way
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@foone@digipres.club Here's an answer you might get, in the form of a 74-minute video essay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4mdMMu-3fc
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@majorlinux@toot.majorshouse.com When Aperture Science ran out of astronauts, war heroes, and Olympians to test their stuff on, they turned started testing it on homeless people.
When they ran out of those they used their own employees.
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@anolandria@mastodon.social @VANTABlack2000@mastodon.gamedev.place this but unironically
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@djsundog@fedi.reclaim.technology @jonuriarte@tldr.nettime.org No, but you see, these computers are far more advanced than the ones we had in the 70s, and can "understand" natural language, so they're capable of making management decisions.
What? No, they're worse at logic than their older counterparts, actually.
No, they've never been held accountable. What does that have to do with anything?
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@maxleibman@beige.party you forgot "cloud"
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@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt Thank you Xfinity for warning me about this "risky site" now could you kindly fix your "visit anyway" button to not redirect me to the same page.
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@evur@mastodon.social @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place well you do get notified when someone quotes you
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@SteffoSpieler@fellies.social this goes double for @Bwee@meow.social
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@hci@micro.blogs.princeton.edu @YuhanLiu@hci.social @varunrao@hci.social @sohw@hci.social @cyberlyra@hachyderm.io @andresmh@micro.blogs.princeton.edu @platformcoop@social.coop
okay i will admit that this is much better than monopolist controlled gig work but at the end of the day it is still gig work. it is still completely 100% devoid of labor protections and certainty of pay. i love the effort that's gone into this but i cannot shake the feeling that you are on some level building a new, worker-owned torment nexus
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@ricmac@mastodon.social oh dear god they are aren't they
they're gonna discover static templating and push 100% of the code to the client
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@Bwee@meow.social *gives the dragon every possible type of kiss, each in excessive quantity*
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@helio@bolha.linux-br.org @moira@mastodon.murkworks.net please, let's not be elitist about this, and especially let's not victim blame. yes, eliminating windows (or at least running a script to remove the spyware) is important for not being spied on, but even if your end of the wire is completely secure, your ISP can spy on you (and if you use a VPN, your VPN provider can spy on you). you can never completely escape surveillance, and not everyone has the same threat model you do.
more importantly, not using a monitor that has adware installed on it is also an important step, *and using Windows with a non-spyware monitor is measurably less bad than using Windows with a spyware monitor*
even if you were right, this holier-than-thou bullshit would push away more people than it wakes up. this exact attitude is why people, complete non-techies and people who have full-fledged homelabs alike, hate the fediverse.
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@veronica@explains.social what part of "inalienable" do people not get?
reddit
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@eri@mk.moth.zone they should add sex to a lot of games tbh
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@eri@mk.moth.zone entire game where the exact sequence from the youtube video "rhythm hell" is used in the tutorial
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@doskel@masto.doskel.net pro tip: if you carry a USB cable with you, USB tethering uses a lot less battery than a hotspot
your phone will charge off your laptop and it will shave like 5 minutes off the battery life of your laptop
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@Bwee@meow.social how many times do i have to tell you to stop talking to mirrors?
💙💙💙💙💙
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@besties@social.besties.house my country (US) and profession (software developer) are in fierce competition for which can make me more ashamed to be a part of it but i think the US is winning
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@cendyne@furry.engineer what on Earth--
Furlingame had their inaugural con this year and it was managed better than this!
(in fairness to Furlingame, they're less than a tenth the size of FWA -- my badge number was three digits -- but still)
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@ainmosni@social.ainmosni.eu
small request, could you either add a CW or enable quote posts?
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@tomas@mastodon.gamedev.place look at them galloping so serenely
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@Bic@piaille.fr i happen to like programming if it's all the same to you
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@ExpiredPopsicle@vt.social what molecule is that she's got a tattoo of?
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