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What if courts decided that AI models trained on public data should be publicly owned resources?
What if everyone received a dividend from the use of AI models for commercial activities e.g. through a state-run fund?
(sorry, rare AI post, writing an article about the weird economics of software development)
Just wanted to flag that small Hetzner VPSs cost the same as an AWS EC2 t4g.nano and have 2gb of RAM instead of the hilariously low 500mb on EC2.
They also adhere to German data protection standards (stricter than GDPR alone).
Likely a VERY good choice if you don't want to use your own hardware but want to publicly expose services to the internet.
Yesterday I learned that #Vim and #neovim have workspaces, but most people don't use them because they're called "tabpages"...
Only one neovim extension supports native tabpage use (tabby); most replace the tabline with a buffer overview, which imho just clutters the screen.
This probably says something profound about familiarity vs innovation in what people find "intuitive".
Replaced a broken mixer tap in my shower this morning.
I guess this technically counts as maintaining and improving production pipelines?
"how many years of experience do you have in software development?"
junior: 2 years
mid-level: 4 years
senior: 12 years... been a while
alan kay: IN 1963 I WAS RECRUITED AS A CODER FOR THE US AIR FORCE
I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are good people and bad people. You're wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.
- Lord Vetinari, Guards! Guards!
"How hard can writing a library to parse dates in natural language be?"
*sweating nervously as I read my notes on RD parsers, date localization, and the C time stdlib*
Have been investigating library and information science resources out of a long term personal interest.
Disturbingly, many online resources shut down in the 2010s and the only ones which remain seem to be niche academic journals.
Any librarians know what's up with the discipline seemingly dying right as it should be thriving? Quality information is harder to find than ever and we are swamped with garbage.
Rearranging my chaotically organized notes and may look into using Johnny Decimal. I like zettelkasten in principle but I suck at maintaining indexes and JD seems more compatible with how I use neovim.
my tui looked bad in tmux so like a sane person I compiled tmux from source to get a december 17 update
Feel vaguely threatened by trains saying they will take me to my FINAL DESTINATION
🙅♂️ pseudo-intellectuals
🤙 sudo intellectuals
#Linux
YouTube blocked me for using the Distraction Free YouTube plugin. (I was fine with the ads, but not the dark patterns).
So I installed LeechBlock NG instead.
Have fun getting zero revenue. 👍
When I was younger courses on basic computer skills (mostly for older people) seemed like a big deal.
Do people still teach this? Or do we just assume everyone is computer literate to some degree?
I wonder if there's room for a Linux version. Most 'beginner' Linux resources seem to target people who already have substantial technical skills.
TIL that lofi and most ambient genres sound fine even if you have earplugs in, which is gonna be a big help for my upcoming flights
Added isso comments to my blog at last! Took about half a day of work to get everything sorted, so not so bad.
Happy because I can avoid paying Disqus, ads, third party tracking, etc.
(moderation queue is enabled to deal with spam; article on the whole slightly messy process coming soon)
I might just be paranoid but based on a toot I just read and a few profiles I have seen, I feel like some not-insignificant proportion of users are unannounced AI bots cosplaying as average fediverse people. Has anyone done research on this?
Just wanted to shout out isso for being lightning fast in responding to my small PR here.
Also, good example PR to show contributing to FOSS doesn't have to be big or dramatic to be useful and get merged 🙂
https://github.com/isso-comments/isso/pull/1092#event-23316842789
A while ago I mentioned the Johnny Decimal system for organizing notes / files / etc. Took a couple weeks to organize but finally figured out a decent indexing scheme for my notes and wrote it up 🙂
@evacide@hachyderm.io if this applies to ALL operating systems then it will make operating systems classes and embedded systems programming a bit challenging...