black_puppydog

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by black_puppydog 7mo ago
People keep saying Hidalgo's policies made people angry, but then voter turnout when she actually asks for confirmation of her policies is low. For example, 2024's vote on whether to triple the parking fees for big SUVs. [1] Tur
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by black_puppydog 7mo ago
The whole of France is eating quite a lot of unpasteurized cheese. If done correctly, it can be quite safe. Although of course contamination does happen if a significant proportion of your cheese production nationwide is unpasteurized, that
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by black_puppydog 7mo ago
+1 on Boskoop. But also Cox Orange and James Grief
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by black_puppydog 8mo ago
If you're being called incredibly dense by Elon these days, you must be doing something right. :D
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by black_puppydog 8mo ago
That's exactly why text written before the first LLMs has a premium on it these days. So no, all major models suffer from slop in their training data.
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by black_puppydog 8mo ago
Bonus for the use of the word "hyperstition". :)
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by black_puppydog 8mo ago
It's also worth pointing out that the front lines in WWI didn't come anywhere close to Toulouse. XD
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by black_puppydog 8mo ago
Personally I'm not even a contributor, so I certainly don't get to decide that. Martin, who actually did get a vote through that the project wants to hire contractors for certain specified bugs, says that any one individual from
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Inkscape project struggling with lack of (active) contributors [video](friprogramvarusyndikatet.tv)
4 points by black_puppydog 8mo ago|3 comments
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by black_puppydog 8mo ago
I know that many folks on here are fans of inkscape, I certainly am. So I thought y'all should know that Martin (crowd-funded dev) is struggling to even get available project funds spent, simply because there's nobody to do basi
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by black_puppydog 8mo ago
I still think it's worth reflecting which of the toxic patterns we want to, or don't want to reproduce on non-commercial networks like mastodon. Infinite scroll, quote reply, the like button... all these aren't neutral, and d
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by black_puppydog 8mo ago
Just FYI, starter packs were implemented on Mastodon, or rather, around Mastodon quite a while ago, so maybe give it another shot. That being said, the nature of Mastodon does still make it more difficult to find interesting accounts.
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by black_puppydog 8mo ago
I think the author was talking about their own professional network being based in Europe, as opposed by LinkedIn, the platform that they're using to contact said network.
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by black_puppydog 8mo ago
rofl, go ahead try spreading lies about someone in the US. IIUC, the slander laws are just as draconian over there. the difference is in whether you can spread the same lies about someone with or without deep pockets without retribution.
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by black_puppydog 8mo ago
Sorry, but whatever you think about the laws that lead to these blockages, how else are european governments supposed to take that than a direct attack on their executive powers by a foreign government? This being besides the fact that the
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by black_puppydog 8mo ago
wow that last bit with the broken rope was insane. like that scene from Garden State, but in grown-up. :D edit: that scene: https://youtu.be/XotiySdBICU?t=107
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by black_puppydog 8mo ago
jup. once this is built, if adoption is lacking, it's not hard to imagine how the EU could make it the standard payment option.
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by black_puppydog 9mo ago
it may not be. but it's common to fight a legal battle against one perpetrator first, then see for the rest. gotta start somewhere, why not start at what's arguably the most toxic and obvious case, even if (or exactly because) i
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by black_puppydog 9mo ago
my goodness we lived with plastic thinkpads for decades and many of us still happily do. this fetish for "premium" hardware to be replaced every two years by the newest hottest thing (if that's not you: great, the planet than
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by black_puppydog 9mo ago
honestly the inability to correctly transcribe the 4 language mix i use in my everyday life is one of the major blockers for adopting ASR tech in my own tooling. this coming from someone who literally works in that field. turns out, outside
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by black_puppydog 9mo ago
I'm surprised this would be even legal in most European countries... Then again, MS might not care any more. Companies who are not looking for alternatives today won't ever be looking.
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by black_puppydog 9mo ago
and the 30% they take from the things you sell via apple devices, once your work is done.
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by black_puppydog 9mo ago
I have to say I had the same reaction. Sure, "prism" shows up in many contexts. But here it shows up in the context of a company and product that is already constantly in the news for its lackluster regard for other people'
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by black_puppydog 9mo ago
"Everything worth doing is worth doing badly." Got me through many a rough spot.
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by black_puppydog 9mo ago
Plus, this practice (just inserting AI-proposed citations/sources) is what has recently been the front-runner of some very embarrassing "editing" mistakes, notably in reports from public institutions. Now OpenAI lets us do pa
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by black_puppydog 9mo ago
of course, that's only relevant if you do intend to run models locally. which, up to very recently, would have been roughly 0% of mac users.
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by black_puppydog 9mo ago
I disabled google's spam filter years ago for this sort of issue. The final straw was that it flagged a response from my boss, to an email I had sent earlier that day, resulting in a missed meeting. Installed thunderbird to access the
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by black_puppydog 9mo ago
Nice link, thanks! Still, the renewables (I'm not counting nuclear and biofuels, but counting hydro and "other renewables") make up 21.1% of the total energy consumption as well, up from 13.3% in 2015. That's still qui
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by black_puppydog 9mo ago
I'd want to watch a simulated table with AI-voiced dialogue, internal monologues, and move visualizations. Seems like a fun thing to watch others play. Wouldn't want to play that particular game with friends I intend to keep. :D
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by black_puppydog 9mo ago
The premise of this article resonates so much with me! I didn't see the angle on ATproto coming, and frankly this description of it is the first that makes me want to dig into it a bit. The issue of "file-less" computing has

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