We are more prone to anthromorphizing LLMs than to humanizing suffering humans
![A meerkat stands up to check for rude people taking its picture. [Fuji X-T5 / Tamron 18-300]](/proxy/post_attachment/1134427/3f78ca1536.jpg "A meerkat stands up to check for rude people taking its picture. [Fuji X-T5 / Tamron 18-300]")
Column: Wonder where generic drug names come from? Two women in Chicago, that's where
"Rivaroxaban, adalimumab, empagliflozin: Someone actually has to come up with generic drug names like these."
(2019 story)
Source of the famous “Now you have two problems” quote
Jamie Zawinski in 1997, paraphrasing David Tillbrook around 1985, whose quote about AWK was used as a signature by John Myers as early as 1988.
#quotes #regex #programming #humor #InternetCulture #InternetHistory
What do GNOME Online Accounts Do?
hyperborea.org/tech-tips/gnome-online-accounts
It's not obvious which services GNOME will use from each provider. Here's where to find it.
If you're a #Mastodon admin, you're going to want to apply the latest security patch as soon as possible.
The best photo of a #takahē I've ever seen.
(The big blue ball. That one.)
(seen on Bluesky but I couldn't find the post linking to it when I scrolled back looking for it.)
Astronomers have observed the exoplanet Beta Pictoris b almost long enough to catch a full orbit!
In this new video, the planet (the blue dot) orbits around its host star. The bright star is blocked by a coronagraph (the black disk) so we can see the faint light from the planet.
It was made by interpolating between 30 frames of data taken over 17 years from the Gemini Planet Imager, VLT/NACO, and VLT/SPHERE.
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2023/08/watch-an-exoplanets-17-year-journey-around-its-star/
Credit: Jason Wang & Malachi Noel https://jasonwang.space/orbits.html
#florespondence #nature #plants #flowers
Trapped!
I love the expression on this warning sign on a laundromat washing machine.
LLM hallucination is currently seen as a problem for developers
But the products that succeed in this era won't be the ones that somehow suppress all hallucination.
They will be the ones that successfully pass on the cost of hallucination to users
I don't know who needs to hear this, but never give your Social Security number to an anime waifu. https://kotaku.com/tax-season-deadline-dating-sim-video-game-1850253777
thinking about how "well, the wayback machine has it archived" shouldn't have to be the best possible end result for websites that are a vast trove of collective knowledge when corporate interests take them under
#Macstodon 1.0 RELEASED! 🎉
(happy #MARCHintosh !)
Macstodon is a Mastodon client for vintage (pre-OSX) #Macintosh computers.
New in 1.0 (there's so much stuff that it's finally time to bump the major version):
- Profiles!
- User interactions! (follow/mute/block and notes)
- Preferences - customize the number of toots to load at launch and on refresh!
- Junk characters removed!
- Open links in browser, download attached media!
- Icons for interactions!
- Many, many bug fixes!
System Requirements:
- A 68020+ or PPC Mac
- System 7.1 through 9.2.2
- At least 4 MB of free memory (8-16 MB recommended)
- 32-bit addressing enabled
- Internet Config installed
- an SSL-stripping proxy such as WebOne running on another machine
You can download it from GitHub: https://github.com/smallsco/macstodon (don't forget to read the Read Me file, it contains important setup instructions!)
#RetroComputing #RetroProgramming #VintageMac #68K #PowerPC #Apple #Mac #MacOS #ClassicMac
Still Dangerous
I’m not sure this fence is entirely stable.
Update: Here’s another section of the fence that I don’t think I’d want to lean on!
Photo album on Flickr: Del Cerro Views
Originally posted on Instagram
If you're sad about Lance Reddick, his widow asked for people to donate to MOMcares, a Baltimore-based charity that provides prenatal and postpartum care to under-supported Black women who've been through the NICU wringer. It helps unborn babies, it helps Black maternal mortality rates, it should appeal to pretty much everyone. Go! www.momcares.org
Are you a #Fediverse developer?
There's a new initiative by @gabek (the lead developer of the Fediverse livestreaming platform @owncast) called FediDocs. It aims to provide an easy-to-find set of documentation for how to federate with a Fedi platform, in order to promote better federation between platforms.
The FediDocs website is still very new and empty (https://fedidocs.org/about/) but if you are a Fedi developer please contact @gabek about contributing info on federating with your project.
What?
LEFT-PAD PROBLEM is evolving!
LEFT-PAD PROBLEM evolved into DOCKERHUB PROBLEM!
https://mastodon.social/@bagder/110029589346386740
EDIT: Of note: https://www.docker.com/blog/we-apologize-we-did-a-terrible-job-announcing-the-end-of-docker-free-teams/
How many symbols do you need to type on a keyboard to make a heart?
Less than three.
i think people conclude mastodon will never catch on because it is more difficult to post so bad it makes the news
