Gemini is useless, and why that's a good thing:
https://alex.flounder.online/gemlog/2021-01-08-useless.gmi
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mastodon 4.7.2Retro computer nerd, concerned with the world and the human condition. Into science, dystopian fiction, gamedev and high tech stuff, which is well… now mostly considered vintage. he/him
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An A1200 in an original box, unopened with every accessory? Trying to stay strong. Really strong.
Connected my Technics deck to the ZX Spectrum and it works! The only thing it needed is a stereo to mono jack plug.
Horizons loading. And I love that the 1084 is so versatile, has a perfect screen with the speccy too. #zxspectrum #retrocomputing
Some more #physicalmedia, I got yesterday after the concert, directly from the musicians. Carbon Based Lifeforms. One of my long time favorite downtempo psybient artists.
A Swedish duo, who started making music in the 90s, with ProTracker on Amiga.
If you check out only one track, let it be Supersede from Interloper.
Offpunk is a command-line web, gemini, gopher browser, that can sync your content for offline browsing. Started using it for gemini and it's surprisingly comfortable navigating with command shortcuts and making "tours" of links to visit.
https://sr.ht/~lioploum/offpunk/
#geminiprotocol #gopher
Caveman-speak to cut LLM output tokens by 75%. Brilliant.
”We don’t own Your Content, but we may use Your Content to operate Copilot and improve it. By using Copilot, you grant us permission to use Your Content, which means we can copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, edit, translate, and reformat it, and we can give those same rights to others who work on our behalf.
We get to decide whether to use Your Content, and we don’t have to pay you, ask your permission, or tell you when we do.”
What if they’d own it?
The fact that they chose the name Humanly for their AI hiring company is both brilliant and shameful
So, if you haven’t read Rusty Foster’s article, here is a fully functional LLM called MicroGPT, made by Andrej Karpathy, that’s just 200 lines in Python:
https://karpathy.github.io/2026/02/12/microgpt/
It basically does the same thing as the larger ones, the difference is in scale and efficiency. Would anyone claim that those 200 lines of code are somehow ”alive”?
Today I found Invidious.
"A free and open source frontend for Youtube that that respects your privacy! Now you can watch videos (ad-free), subscribe to channels, create playlist and much more all without the prying eyes of Google!"
Today is a good day.
You can't read user reviews on IMDb without logging in anymore. If you don't have an account, you can't open one without making an Amazon account.
#enshittification
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@timnitGebru@dair-community.social Interesting read. But I always wonder how people manage to talk that long. Isn't running out of context window and having to start from scratch in a new chat break the continuity for them?