mastodon 4.7.3Software developer determined to stay human in an age of machines. Former musician. Small business owner.
Lifelong learner of many things, usually the hard way.
Into #foss, #privacy, #selfhosting, #infosec, #music, #art, #japanese
Codeberg e.V. asking members to vote on various topics is such a breath of fresh air.
At a time when commercial services seem to a) only make their services worse and b) put their own interests above those of their customers, Codeberg a) takes a stand on important topics such as vibe-coding and discrimination and b) asks members if they agree with the proposed changes before they are implemented.
Feels almost too good to be true.
Thank you @Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de for continuing to be a force for good. Much appreciated.
A #Japanese word that makes me smile each time I come across it, is 蛍光灯 (keikoutou). It means fluorescent lamp or light.
Let's break this down into the individual characters:
* 蛍: lightning bug, firefly
* 光: ray, light
* 灯: lamp, a light
So, a fluorescent light is really a "lamp made of light by fireflies". So nice!
But it gets even better. The word also has a humorous (albeit dated) meaning:
When you use it to refer to a person, you indicate that they are a bit slow on the uptake and may take a while to understand things. That's because fluorescent lamps indeed take a while until "the light comes on". 💡
RE: @brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net
There is one area of human endeavour which I am confident will never be subjugated by the tech bros: playing an instrument.
Not *trying* to play one or *dabbling* in playing, but actually mastering an instrument.
Because the hard truth of is that it takes years to get there. And the path is painful in so many ways: Learning scales is incredibly boring, learning to play fast is mind-numbingly tedious.
And then there are things like reading sheet music, ear training, keeping time, transcription and a million of other small things that good musicians need to master. Master as in "I can confidently apply these things even though I am stressed out on stage or in a recording session".
And yet, all the dullness and pain is offset by the sheer joy of performing for other people and with other people. This is where the magic happens and where memories of a lifetime are made.
And this is also something all the "prompting" in the world will never achieve. Good thing, too.
This is an excellent stance:
"[Security] Reports we believe are LLM generated will either be rejected outright or if thought to be plausible will be credited to the unnamed and uncredited authors whose works were ingested as the training corpus."
Yes, credit the people who did the actual work. I like this very much.
After learning about Count Binface vs. Nigel Farage today, I find myself imaging a world where a satire candidate like Binface ends up accidentally triggering the downfall of the far right across the world.
Impossible? Not at all.
There is precedence for the UK. Meet H'Angus the Monkey who ran for mayor in the town of Hartlepool, England -- and ended up being re-elected not only once, but twice:
... ist bereits mit über 100.000 aktiven Lizenzen täglich in deutschen Behörden im Einsatz.
Klasse. Ich denke, diese Zahl darf gerne breiter beworben werden.
Natürlich gibt es im Hinblick auf das Gesamtbild noch viel zu tun, aber mir war nicht klar, dass es bereits "so viele" Benutzer sind.
Und im nächsten Schritt dann die Hochschulen:
