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This content type is full of IndieWeb post types, which are all content types which allow me to take greater ownership of my own data. These are likely unrelated to my blog posts. You can find a better breakdown by actual post kind below:
Attached: 1 image Sad really, but better than being on my computer.
IN OTHER NEWS... came out of surgery a few hours ago. had a moment in the surgery room when i looked around and all the doctors and nurses were women. am 57 years old and it was the first time in my life i looked around and it was all women, of all ethnicities and races, attending to my health. #RepresentationMatters and, more than ever, we need to uplift #WomenInMedicine, especially #Surgeons #Radiologists #Anesthesiologists and yes, #Oncologists #GetChecked #Mammograms
Sorry? am I supposed to care about a new iPhone lol? It’s 2023 and the oceans are burning. A megapixel bump ain’t hitting like it used to Tim, we need harder shit
people say companies don’t innovate but here we are and GitHub is doing terrible things sourceforge could only dream of
Apple peeps: can you please convince your company to not spend any more money on marketing on Twitter? It’s dead, barely works and crawling with bots and Nazis.
It is weird to me just how smooth the transition to pipewire was. Like that thing looks like a miracle with how it came, I tried it, and it *worked* better than what I had before. Especially when you consider how long it took for pulseaudio to be usable
You can now deploy Sqlite Rails apps to production with just a few commands on Fly.io! This changes the game for smaller Rails apps because you don't need the complexity and expense of Redis and MySQL or Postgres to run the full stack for a small-to-medium size app. More at https://fly.io/ruby-dispatch/sqlite-and-rails-in-production/
Author, journalist, travel writer & software engineer Jon Evans joins us to weigh in on the cultural history (and present-day sentiment) of AI doom. Along the way, we talk plausible Sci-Fi, ultrasound drug delivery, the maybe-evolving laws of physics & even weirder stuff.
I'm having trouble finding out which tag is currently checked out. When I do: git checkout tag1 git branch I can't seem to find out which tag I'm on. It only logs: * (no branch) master Is it
Periodic reminder that the only planet where 100% of Linux systems have working audio is Mars.
The Bad Space exists because its creator, https://ubiqueros.com/@Are0h / Ro, once set up an instance by and for Black folk after seeing t...
Between and I took 6686 steps.
Attached: 1 image This level of fake sincerity is usually reserved for letting employees know that due to macroeconomic challenges you are really sad to say goodbye to them and wish them good luck in finding new jobs.
Sufficiently burned by bad interview experiences this year that my brain refuses to get excited about a potential interview. "Let's wait to see if they want a code test, or maybe never call back, or whatever." But still. Getting a call is better than not getting a call.
Getting daily notifications my parent is okay
headline: Has Betteridge's Law Gone Too Far?
The power of seeing just one or two other people wearing a mask while I am wearing a mask in a big public space is something I think we don't talk about enough. Maybe we can't fix each other's risk overall but you decrease my isolation and the potential negative attention of other people on me and as a covid disabled person in this terrible world, that really matters
Content warning: 9/11 curmudgeonry
The reason we're still talking about 9/11 and ignoring COVID is because 9/11 served as a pretext and COVID was seen as an inconvenience by the ruling elite. And even they seem bored with it, to be honest.
What the hell are Slack playing at? Do they not use their own product?
@fluffy@plush.city Confidence interval: the amount of time between absolute certainty in your assertions and the first niggling doubt
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Content warning: Clinical/non-gory description of successful tooth extraction
Oh no I documented how to restart the service on the service that is down and needs restarting
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I've been asked to comment on what I think the biggest tech trend in 2024 will be? Short answer: Slavery and let me tell you why. Data is the lifeblood that allows any machine learning model to perform its task. It’s not magic. It’s not the so-called “AI” being intelligent or intuitive. It’s statistics. And as the tech sector delves into rapid developments of specialised LLMs that they can further commoditise, they will require vast amounts of diverse data to train—leading to what some have called as data hunting. And unfortunately, all of us who have posted even a single piece of content online are all part of this—whether we like it or not. We are now part of a universal digital sweatshop that transcends international borders. Our labour is ignored and uncompensated based on the capitalist belief that since we shared content freely, companies have the right to monetise it whenever they want. Time and time again, as we have seen in recent news, companies have collected our data without explicit consent. And when they do ask for ‘consent’, they give us word salad in the user agreements or just ask us to opt our way out of the inferno that they manufactured. The aggressive collection of data paves the way for a future where a few corporations will have disproportionate control over vast datasets, which they can exploit for unwarranted targeted advertising, surveillance and practices that would reinforce biases or unfairly influence individual choices and behaviours. And let’s not forget the second step in the process where people (they call as taskers), mostly from the Global South, are hired for 2 USD a day to classify images, videos and texts so that your LLMs will not spew out gibberish. This is the reality behind your glamorous “AI” models. While “AI” companies in the developed world reap huge profits, the groundwork is outsourced to workers in Bangladesh, Kenya, the Philippines and India. But it is fine, isn’t it? As long as we don’t see them. Out of sight, out of mind.
I partially updated mine recently but there's still a large swathe of blogs I need to add back into it 😅
I really do need to update my blogroll. Yeah maybe only 3 people will be on it, but I need to start there, sigh.
Between and I took 6320 steps.
Thank you to this week's sponsor, Koyeb!🆕 Go 1.21.1 & 1.20.8 released⚒️ Related: Tool dependencies proposal has been accepted, and here's the design document link. We got you covered ;)🎫 Conference updates🇮🇳 GopherCon India TOMORROW - shoutout Rishi Chandwani for bringing it to our attention🇬🇧...