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I am not a fan of Copilot (and the like) on principle but I am a fan of the idea of a responsibly trained locally run “AI” assistant. These don’t make us dumber any more than calculators, computers, and GPS do. We will get worse at doing things we offload to the computers like we always have. That’ll make room for other sorts of areas we will get mentally sharp at. Our generation was scolded by elders for not learning all the ways to do arithmetic in our head. It’s the same sort of thing. I know I am not learning the roads where I moved well because I rely on GPS too much. When we choose to want to gain proficiency in an area we can fall back away from the technology. That doesn’t mean we are in any way dumber or less intelligent by using these tools, just differently so. #ai #llm #GithubCopilot

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LM Studio runs a LOT of different AI models locally on your box and even has a ChatGPT compatible API server.
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I just heard about in a Coder Radio episode I was listening to this morning. I'm going to have to check it out.

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Profit shares are still rising, why is the Fed worried about wage growth being too fast? https://cepr.net/profits-are-still-rising-why-is-the-fed-worried-about-wage-growth/
in reply to DeanBaker13

"The upshot is that it really is time for the Fed to declare “Mission Accomplished” and take its foot off the brake. If profit shares are rising, there is no reason for it to be trying to slow wage growth."
~Baker



In the 1990s I used DJGPP to run a small C-based Unix tool I wrote on a DOS machine. Later years Cygwin was more the way I would do cross-platform GCC stuff. I now have even more appreciation for what they needed to do behind the scenes to get DJGPP working. #gcc #djgpp #history #ComputerHistory #RetroComputing

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wow. one of the new victim impact statements filed tonight is from someone who lost almost six figures to a hack in 2021, had assets stuck on voyager after its july 2022 collapse, and then lost assets to FTX

he went from working in the industry to vocally advocating against it

#FTX #SBF #SamBankmanFried #crypto

in reply to Molly White

He's obviously right, but I'm not sure it helps much at sentencing. It might even open a path of "we were just doing what is the norm in this industry" as a sort of defense argument.

in reply to Today in X

that or they make a quick follow for follow and nobody pays ever again for premium


My first apps pushing real memory requirements, "hundreds of KB to MB", were on Unix systems. The second was Windows 95. The peculiarities of PC memory issues were just running config tools to get Tie Fighter running. Seeing it spelled out so painfully makes me glad I missed all that. #history #ComputerHistory #programming #RetroComputing
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@Hank G ☑️

Ah, when reading EMS, XMS, HMA, and UMB and Memmaker I feel the pain again. This was such an enormous bullshit compared to 68K systems or the first RISC machines.

Nevertheless, when I started with automotive software in 2004 there was it again: the Motorola Star256 and S12x MCUs (late descendants of the 68HC11/12 architecture which are based on the 6800 design (as the 6502)) and a world of wonderful bank switching.

Forget to restore the PPAGE register and your software runs havoc .

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QEMM and Intel AboveBoards, AST SixPacks trying to get 'moar' out of your pc for games and grabby programs.

in reply to Ars Technica

on one hand, that's cool

On the other hand hydrogen peroxide monopropellant 😳

in reply to Ars Technica

They cut off the video. Am I right in assuming that it eventually just crashed?


I enjoy writing a lot. Mostly that is non-fiction blog post style stuff but I also dabble with fiction. Once I even finished NaNoWriMo with a novel I will humbly describe as a steaming pile of shit. But I did write it! After finishing Asimov's "I Robot" I have decided to try to get into shorter fiction writing. As luck would have it the Novlr platform has a sale on their lifetime Pro membership and becoming a coop owner-member for a one time fee of $399. Even if I end up never doing more than dabbling I love the idea of helping fund a cooperatively owned enterprise that can help create a solid product for fiction writers. #writing #novlr #Cooperatives #WritersOfMastodon #art

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Two (female) co-workers call me their 'office husband'. Which is weird because I'm pretty thoroughly gay... guess I'm putting the 'gay' in biGAmY?

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if you clicked on a "Facebook uses a VPN to collect your app usage data" story, might I suggest "normal companies dump your interactions with them to Facebook"

#CAPI is hard to see with client-side tools, so a bigger deal than the #privacy media usually covers. But lots of legit and other companies doing it no matter what software you have

https://themarkup.org/privacy/2024/01/17/each-facebook-user-is-monitored-by-thousands-of-companies-study-indicates

(that headline is probably an understatement -- companies send your info to $FB whether or not you have an account there)

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Karel Sabbe had a multi-year multi-attempt obsession with completing the Barkley Marathon. In 2023 he finally succeeded. This documents that successful attempt, finishing just minutes before the cut-off #running #BarkleyMarathon #UltraMarathon #inspiration

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Second book in the Asimov recommend sequence reading through to the Foundation series begins...

(comment on The Caves of Steel)

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in reply to Hank G (BookWyrm)

Recommended by whom? The reading order of the various parts really isn’t all that important.

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Review of "I, Robot" (4 stars): Dry but solid exploration of of "the three laws" and its ramifications


Isaac Asimov: I, Robot (Paperback, 1984, Del Rey) 4 stars

I read it in dribs and drabs over the past few months. Although obviously anachronistic about robotic hardware, computer technology, and gender relations since it was written so long ago it was still a great exploration of how "the three laws" of robotics plays out in life scenarios. I loved the vignette style format and its attempt to deep dive into the technical problems being explored. I can see why all that is way too dry for others though.

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2nd episode of Ctrl-Alt-Speech! We talk about the potential impact of the Murthy case, whether or not Reddit is truly a "content moderation success story," the ways that various governments around the world are seeking to regulate the internet (and the risks associated with that), and how Elon has discovered the value of content moderation... except that he only wants to use it to *protect* neonazis.

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2315966/14747842-murthy-reddit-and-the-speech-deciders

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Infinite Mac adds NeXT emulation: making an important part of computer history easily accessible, go try out Tim Berners-Lee's original WorldWideWeb browser https://blog.persistent.info/2024/03/infinite-mac-nextstep.html

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Quacks are crowing that the FDA has "lost its war" on ivermectin. Ivermectin still doesn't work against COVID-19. but by settling a lawsuit the way it did, the FDA did unfortunately hand quacks and antivaxxers a massive propaganda victory.

https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2024/03/26/no-ivermectin-has-not-been-vindicated/

in reply to David Gorski, MD, PhD

So what's next? The bleach manufacturers sue; FDA stops warning people to not drink bleach.

in reply to Jeff Jarvis

Without a doubt this was electrical failure (Francis Scott Key Bridge 3/26/2024). Making it impossible to steer. So the question becomes is it an accident with massively bad timing or was there sabotage at a point someone knew there was no return from and the bridge would be hit. Which also brings up the possibility of remote hacking type interference at that point, maybe even from port controls, and no one on the ship had anything to do with it.
in reply to Jeff Jarvis

I remember that one well, living a few miles from it at the time. Anyone who fell from that Sunshine Skyway would not make it.

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New, from me:
Biden has forgiven $144 billion in student loan debt, and his SAVE IDR can reduce student loan debt in the long run.
Will Biden get credit for this? It matters, because if Trump returns, he will roll back or undermine these debt reduction programs.
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/biden-deserves-more-credit-on-student
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Shadow Heart is blocked


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YouTube Livestream Captures Moment Key Bridge Collapses in Baltimore https://gizmodo.com/key-bridge-collapse-youtube-video-baltimore-maryland-1851365421

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"The YouTube livestream, maintained by StreamTime Live, is one of at least nine currently broadcasting, with others showing places like New York Harbor, Port Huron in Michigan, and Chicago’s Midway Airport."

Good to know the source of the video.

https://www.youtube.com/live/83a7h3kkgPg?si=TjJ9U0UY4vhArAiv



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For most of the past 20 yrs there were bipartisan efforts to pass a package of reforms from both left and right and fix our broken system and they were consistently torpedoed by bigoted rightwing jackasses like #ElonMusk. Now the Dems are the only party that wants to get #immigration under control.

The GOP has no incentive for dealing with the issue. Their donors get exploitable labor and they get to demagogue the issue to capitalize on white racial anxiety. Win-win.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/25/24111405/elon-musk-great-replacement-conspiracy-immigration-don-lemon

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I don't get why Dems and liberal pundits aren't shouting this from the rooftops. They just cede the issue to the right. And the really maddening thing is that polling consistently finds that most people don't favor the right's purely punitive approach. Public opinion should be in Dems' favor but voters tend to trust the GOP more because they squawk about it.
in reply to Joshua Holland

I think it's partly because there's a big chunk of the Dem coalition that considers any compromise on immigration to be a betrayal and "proof" that Biden's too conservative. He risks losing both sides.
in reply to M.S. Bellows, Jr.

@msbellows But this goes beyond Biden or the politics of the moment. It started under GWB.
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@msbellows

I thought GWB might actually get immigration reform done (I wasn't a fan of his but this seemed to be an issue that he had a unique role to solve). When he failed, I pretty much lost all hope.


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Big achievement to have the first female finisher of the Barkley Marathon since it started decades ago. #running #BarkleyMarathon

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I'm choosing to rationalize that Wheat Thins are healthy because they are made of 100% whole wheat flour. The ingredient list isn't actually pretty good for a snack food. #nutrition #food #fitness

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I had to stop buying them because my kid would inhale a box in one sitting. He loved them. Now I buy Triscuits which he can survive off one handful. Lol. (No idea if one is healthier than the other.)
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Same on either of those two :). They are both 100% whole grain crackers so probably comparable.

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As thousands of runners neared the finish line on Sunday's Around the Bay Road Race, they were greeted with cheers, music, noisemakers and dancing — and at least one cheeky sign.

"Don't trust a fart after this point," warned Maya George's hand-drawn block letters.

She was among hundreds or more packing the sides of east-end streets in Hamilton, close to where the annual race had its new finish line location at Tim Hortons Field.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/around-the-bay-2024-1.7154396 #HamOnt #AroundTheBay #Running #News

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arranging for “terrorists” to kill them en masse at concerts and stuff isn’t working out either?

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I went to look for @pluralistic 's "Little Brother" on audiobook this weekend on Audible. The only thing there was an audio blurb about why none of his works were there. I bought it.

I totally agree with him. I checked the local library for the audiobook and was able to check it out immediately.

I need to double-check that it's a good book to suggest to my old fart friends who think that we shouldn't be concerned with privacy if we have nothing to hide.

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A common question is: How far away is Epic Universe?

The answer depends on how your measure.

Today I walked from Stella Nova to CityWalk in 1 hour 12 minutes. About 3.8 miles.

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Really, I've run and sometimes walked this route too many times to count over the years. Today I timed a walk.

1 h 12 m includes waiting for traffic crosswalks.

I did pause the timer when taking photos. Wall clock time was 1 h 36 m, including the photo stops.


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It's hard to believe that in the 21st century there are still those who are "not convinced that viruses exist." Virus denial and antivax go together and always have. Denis Rancourt, while far from the first or more vociferous virus denier, is an excellent

https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2024/03/25/denis-rancourt-on-covid-19-no-virus-just-psychological-stress/

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It's not like we've got evidence on camera, via chemistry and via DNA analysis, right?

Or do these morons also reject RNA & DNA exist?

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Also I'd like to punch someone's nose if they claim my frequent colds are just psychological.

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A comet might be visible if you're in the path of totality of the April 8 eclipse. Also a good line up of the planets.
This Astronomy article has details: https://www.astronomy.com/observing/a-comet-will-be-visible-during-the-2024-total-solar-eclipse/

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The worst dads are the right-wing dads.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/25/bad-dads/

in reply to pzmyers 🦑

My parents got into the sovcit/militia thing in the early '80s. Pulled me out of "government school" halfway through 7th grade and instead had me doing Christian homeschool workbooks (the content of which I was already beyond.)

When I started working at 14, they insisted that I not pay taxes, which resulted in tens of thousands in back taxes and interest I ultimately had to pay on my own a decade later.

My dad died in 2021 of a COVID-induced heart attack. He was unvaxed.


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I'm not totally in touch with Truth Social, but I'm of the opinion that, even given its estimated valuation, it is operating in the market as a micro-cap. I'd look at the bid-ask projected volumes. If it's like I suspect, its assessed valuation is balanced on the highest bid prices (heaven forbid they should value it as 'ask'), and the depth of the market at that price is paper thin. If one integrates the demand according to the depth of demand at various prices, you may find there aren't enough buyers to float the price near what Trump needs.

On the other hand, this is all 'found money' for him. But if anybody thinks Trump will lend his presence to anything Truth Social once he sells it, then DREAM ON. He'll be on to 'greener' pastures.

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"Get out of the way old dude" - "The Revolution Will Be Monetized" to "The Revolution Will Be Televised" as they pass on the street

in reply to Hank G ☑️

Isn't he the second Boeing ceo to step down. Seems like this happened not too many years ago.
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If they do have golden parachutes, let's hope they weren't made by Boeing.

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Maybe the problem isn't that papers are dying but that too many suffer under hedge funds that vacuum up cash & cut costs, even the AP. They no longer represent "journalism."
‘The final act’: fears US journalism crisis could destabilize 2024 election
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/mar/24/us-election-journalism-crisis

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Could also be that both are true, no? Private Equity is a cancer.
in reply to Jeff Jarvis

America’s epitaph will read “there are two sides to every story.”

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Jesus the number of new @osnews Patreons is kind of crazy. Thanks all of you who are also on Fedi! :blob_cat_heart:

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most of the Sam Bankman-Fried/FTX victim impact statements are really heartbreaking. some of them are... not so much

"your honor, i got wrecked by buying a shitcoin"

#FTX #SBF #crypto

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"This money was to be used for my further education"

well it was a valuable lesson on shitcoins wasn't it


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Remember that people like DHH mean the n-word when they write about DEI

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Also remember that Rails Core doesn’t think that that’s a problem
in reply to Thomas 🔭✨

100% behind tech folk learning that plausible deniability is something other than a cool tool to fuck with fellow employees
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So much academic software and digital infrastructure in a nutshell. This is all too often what happens when you hire agencies and contractors instead of finding experienced technical co-founders.

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