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acdha

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Software developer at a big library

(Note: if you followed @acdha this account is more related to my work interests and https://thepit.social/@acdha is more personal)

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acdha, to random
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“If you are about to recommend a tool that you have never used, I implore you to refrain.”
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/06/bulk-song-id-2/

acdha, to random
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“Phase of the moon” jokes but real:
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/06/what-kind-of-bug-would-make-machine-learning-suddenly-40-worse-at-nethack/

mekkaokereke, to random
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Some of y'all are still confused as to why it seems that Silicon Valley billionaires are "turning to Trump." That's because you don't listen to Black people, you disrespect poor white people, and you ignore obvious statistics that have been staring you in the face for decades.

Silicon. Valley. Billionaires. Have. Always. Supported. Trump.

Not because they like the tax breaks. Because they are more likely to be racist, and racism is the greatest predictor of Trump support.

1/N

acdha,
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@mekkaokereke there's an interesting contrast with the “AI will destroy jobs” debate where suddenly a bunch of mostly white dudes who thought they were too smart to need unions are realizing that the solidarity they felt with their CEOs was not reciprocal.

acdha, to random
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People willingly do this to themselves!
https://www.businessinsider.com/cybertruck-owner-says-tesla-refused-return-resell-request-2024-5

acdha,
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@nikkid definitely not the only one! I’m curious whether some reporter will get her to comment.

I was also wondering whether the trip was going so poorly that he bought the Cybertruck thinking that it’d impress new dates, which is apparently a thing these guys believe happens.

acdha,
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@misty exactly - I’m curious whether it’d hold up in court but literally the entire rest of the market won’t try to do that to you.

acdha, to random
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Imagine being a CEO, recognizing that your company’s meeting culture is dysfunctional, and thinking that it’s easier to invent AGI than trying to do anything to fix that culture. https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/3/24168733/zoom-ceo-ai-clones-digital-twins-videoconferencing-decoder-interview

acdha, to ai
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“Before phoning the number, Gaudreau did a search in Facebook Messenger to find out whether it was legitimate.

The answer he got in Messenger from the ‘Meta AI’ artificial intelligence search tool was that the phone number he found, 1-844-457-0520, was ‘indeed a legitimate Facebook support number.’”

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/facebook-customer-support-scam-1.7219581

acdha, to random
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Guess we're seeing a general stress test on Mastodon…

acdha, to random
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I'm glad someone collected all of the problems with in one convenient location:

https://bessey.dev/blog/2024/05/24/why-im-over-graphql/

joni, to random
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I have this older guy following me around at the park. Completely uninvited, he changes his walking direction to follow me around and slows me down and keeps me from my pace and podcasts. I have no interest to talking to him about himself for an hour.

Due to the layout of the park I cannot always avoid him. Today I told him directly I was late for work and couldn't talk. I picked up my pace and he CHASED ME. I'm so tired of this and would like to avoid changing my walking time. What the hell?

acdha,
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@joni I’m sorry. You shouldn’t have to deal with his poor decisions.

acdha, to random
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It’s really telling what these enormously profitable companies consider unnecessary expenses:
https://www.404media.co/google-legal-investigations-team-layoffs/

petrillic, to random
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Upside? We might find out who they’ve been laundering billions for in the fine art market. https://infosec.exchange/@patrickcmiller/112521007680683305

acdha,
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@petrillic see who preemptively says hackers are trying to frame them?

peter, to random
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pretty funny watching it dawn on the software community that they are, in fact, labor.
https://mastodon.social/@mhoye/112519917905563262

acdha,
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@hakamadare @peter @adriano A ton of people did get better jobs because their open source projects got them past first round screening or developed a social network they didn’t have because they weren’t part of the Berkeley/MIT/Stanford community. Better than the unpaid exposure exploitation but feels a lot like a postdoc doing useful work for industry where most of the money isn’t made by the author.

pnh, to random
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Well. Over the last week and a half, what started as mysterious unprecedented lower back pain accelerated into complete immobility and more pain than I’ve ever experienced in my life. Now being admitted to hospital overnight. New experiences woo yay.

acdha,
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@pnh oh, that’s terrible. I hope you have a speedy recovery!

acdha, to random
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“A lot of the work to stem misinformation within non-English speaking communities falls on the shoulders of the very same community members who are most impacted by the misinformation, said Nguyễn. ‘That shouldn’t be the case.’”
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/the-inside-story-of-the-youtube-influencer-who-peddles-misinformation-to-vietnamese-communities

foo, to random
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Today me: "Web browsers are modern marvels. They can do almost literally anything you could do with an OS 'native' application."

90s me: "Awesome, so all apps have shifted to web sites now?"

"Uh, so, most apps are a transparent embedded web browser displaying a web site which you can't get to through a normal web browser, and the concept of complex 'web sites' are shunned in favor of these apps."

"What, why?"

"Still not sure why."

"Is there any benefit to this madness?"

"No."

acdha,
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@foo the huge financial inertia of the ad-tech industry factors in, too. Companies pushed apps hard because they could get so much more data than a browser-based app would let them, which also meant that the platform vendors had a competing incentives since they get a cut of app sales. I increasingly view the last couple of decades as the industry selling out users.

acdha, to climate
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“The model estimates that, without interventions, 24%–75% of California's beaches may be completely eroded by 2100 due to future sea-level rise”


https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022JF006936

acdha, to random
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I wonder how often someone being turned down as a poor “culture fit” meant that the recruiter remembered to remove that part of the instructions
https://wtop.com/loudoun-county/2024/05/after-whites-only-job-posting-va-tech-company-hit-with-fine-from-the-justice-department/

kjhealy, to random
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The horror twist of course is that it turns out the skeleton is also me

acdha,
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@jessamyn @kjhealy there are least 4 other people with my name who work in overlapping areas. I have multiple times found a post answering a question I had where I had to pause and check that I hadn’t somehow figured out something deeply obscure and forgotten about it entirely.

acdha,
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@becomingwisest I don't think people appreciate just how hard it is to maintain an alternate career as a weather-forecasting WWF star.

acdha, to random
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“When an AI system starts giving itself theoretical kids, you begin to see the problems that can happen when you start summarizing web content en masse”
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/05/googles-ai-overview-can-give-false-misleading-and-dangerous-answers/

acdha, to random
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This machine kills hornets:
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/electric-harps-protect-honey-bees-from-asian-hornets/

paulmcaleer, to random
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Kia is killing it with EVs. This feels like a successor to the Niro, unless that little guy lives on as a cheaper model, but: 372-mile range, chunky good looks, seats 5. Honestly, I may wait to see this one. Coming to the US in 2025 or 2026.

In contrast, US manufacturers are sticking with overpriced EV SUVs with features like Has No CarPlay and Does Crab Walk You'll Never Actually Use.

https://www.motor1.com/news/720615/kia-ev3-coming-to-us/

acdha,
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@paulmcaleer what about “costs more than the U.S. household median income”? Everyone seems to be competing on that feature.

acdha, to random
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"Five years on, the Sprint / T-Mobile 4-to-3 mobile merger made the US one of the most expensive mobile markets in the world. While monthly prices were falling and continue to fall across mobile markets and while the same was true in the US mobile market prior to the merger, after the merger prices in the US either stopped falling altogether or fell at a much slower rate. The 4-to-3 mobile merger in the US led to higher prices and consumer harm."
https://www.lightreading.com/operations/us-mobile-prices-sky-high-after-t-mobile-s-sprint-buy-report

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