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Josh Berkus: Kubernetes & database geek, wizard of clay and glaze, and cook. Black lives matter. Get vaccinated & wear a mask. Slava Ukraini. He/Him. Co-moderator of m6n.io.

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fuzzychef, to random
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@b0rk I have the opposite perspective, having no CS degree and learning everything on the job. There's a bunch of algorithms I had to learn from the interwebs and the Knuth book because I needed them for a project, like the assorted variations on a tape sort.

18+ skinnylatte, (edited ) to food
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I watch a lot of Japanese Italian chefs on YouTube. I’m a fan of yōshoku (Japanese western food) and wafu pasta (Japanese pasta). If there’s a Japanese Italian restaurant (like there are many in Singapore / Bangkok / all of Japan / Vegas / Paris), they are always my favorite restaurants. Garlic butter shoyu shrimp and homemade cured salmon pasta is one of my faves. In SF, I have to make this stuff myself.

#Food

fuzzychef,
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@skinnylatte So ... seaweed & clam pizza (one of my favorite combos from Tokyo)?

kitoconnell, (edited ) to random

I've been laid off at the @TexasObserver today. The publication no longer has a digital editor or social media manager (I was both), and has also fired its editor-in-chief and laid off another member of the editor team.

If you have leads please send them my way. And please consider joining my Patreon to support my continued writing. https://patreon.com/kitoconnell

fuzzychef,
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@kitoconnell @TexasObserver Oh, no. TO isn't making its fundraising targets?

fuzzychef, to random
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I'll be visiting Europe soon. I'm thinking of opening a bank account at a European bank which doesn't have close ties to any American bank, just as a hedge against really bad politics in the US. Is this even a feasible thing to do?

fuzzychef,
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@stark The reporting isn't the problem. I just like the idea of having a checking account that can't be frozen just because I belong to the wrong party.

fuzzychef,
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@ascherbaum @stark right, but I'll need money to do so.

tzimmer_history, to random
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“Project 2025” Promises Revenge, Oppression, and Autocratic Rule

The Right’s plans for a return to power are driven by a radicalizing siege mentality and a desperate desire to restore dominance.

A thread, based on my new piece:

🧵1/

https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/project-2025-promises-revenge-oppression

fuzzychef,
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@tzimmer_history Hey, have you given any consideration to leaving substack for another platform? Given substack's own politics?

TechJournalist, to random
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New updates rolling out today will let you use Otter AI chat to query and summarize multiple meetings at the same time which is kinda useful. And the summation capability is better too.

https://venturebeat.com/ai/looking-for-more-intelligence-from-meetings-otter-ai-is-taking-a-shot-with-meeting-genai/

fuzzychef,
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@sjvn @TechJournalist Speaking as someone who runs multiple community Zoom meetings, OtterAI -- and its competitors -- is a menace.

fuzzychef, to random
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The decline of #Slack continues.

Today I received an email notification of 67 slack messages waiting for me. Guess how many I had?

Hint: it's the only number not divisible by itself.

gwynnion, to random
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On the question of "why don't Americans protest more," one reason is there is no "acceptable" vehicle for collective action in this country outside the two major parties, neither of which tolerate disruptive protests by the kinds of people who most need to do so, who are met with militarized force.

fuzzychef,
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@gwynnion Yeah, one of the effects of media monopolization has been to ruin the effectiveness of protests because you can't get any coverage.

fuzzychef, to animals
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For this #Caturday, Wayne wonders when I'm going to make the ice go away.

(it went a way a week later)

#CatsOfMastodon

fuzzychef,
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@aetataureate It's a goofy name. He was abandoned, but already had the name and we kept it because he recognizes it.

We've decided that it's "Wayne & Garth" rather than "Bruce Wayne".

fuzzychef, to portland
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#Portland folks: the remade Sandy Jug is now open! Replacing the trashy strip joint is a classier, but still affordable, pub and cocktail bar from the owners of the Sandy Hut.

#pdx #pubs #RestaurantOpenings

skinnylatte, to magASEAN
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sometimes i shit on australia because in my entire time living in southeast asia, i've been exposed to unsolicited opinions about southeast asia 90% of the time by aussies who tell us why they hate one country or other, BUT they absolutely flip out when someone says they hate australia. so i don't even think i hate australia, but it's fun to make fun of them

https://www.asiaone.com/singapore/my-actual-hell-australian-tourist-finds-singaporeans-rude-declares-he-will-never-visit

#TootSea

fuzzychef,
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@skinnylatte @samhkennedy German/Skandanavian food can be good. Just most of the time it's not.

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Could our Universe be a simulation? How would we even tell?

Simulations all the way down—the philosophical debate on the nature of our Universe.

— My shorter answer: nope.

— My longer answer: I can't disprove the simulation hypothesis, BUT if we're living in a sim it's almost certainly not simulating US:

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2016/06/cytological-utopia-and-the-rap.html

fuzzychef,
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@cstross I'm pretty sure that the simulation is being run to evolve the ants. We're just set dressing.

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jorge, to random
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People who think #flatpak should do CLI apps, why do you believe this?

Curious in actual use cases, I already have "I don't like it that way" on the list.

fuzzychef,
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@jorge Mostly because Silverblue/ublue/etc. don't currently have any other uncomplicated way to install CLI apps.

fuzzychef,
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@jorge But here's the thing: I can't "just install" CLI utils, the way I can with Flatpak. I need to set up a bunch of infra first. We should work towards that infra being already set up, at OS install time.

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Yeah, i asked my comic artist friend to draw the joker for my private amusement and he did the same thing. Now what? #AI

fuzzychef,
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@ed Should someone be able to use a photocopier to make unlimited photocopies of a copyrighted image?

fuzzychef,
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@ed Sure. But if you criticize an NYT article by using false argument that are just as bad as the ones they are presenting, you're just adding to the disinformation.

fuzzychef,
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@ed Because you're comparing the AI tool to a live human artist, and not to a photocopier. That's one of the disingenous arguments that OpenAI makes all the time, that the AI tool is somehow "creative". It's not, it's a machine.

The question of transformative work is pivotal to this discussion about AI. You can make your own paintings of anything in the house, and under copyright distribute them, sell them even ...

fuzzychef,
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@ed ... because you're turning a photograph or a print into a painting through the application of significant human effort. That's transformative.

Whereas writing a 2-line prompt for a cloud-based photocopier is not transformative.

fuzzychef,
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@jasonbrooks @ed In your hypothetical example, the drawing by the intern would not be a violation of copyright. So yeah, it does matter that it's a human holding the pen.

fuzzychef,
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@jasonbrooks @ed Only if the intern is really good at drawing -- enough to make the drawing look substantially like a copy of the photograph. Or if the elements of the photograph are so iconic that a loose sketch of those elements is still identifiably a copy.

Like fair use, transformative works is a value judgement by the court. The problem we're having with AI is that AI tool owners are claiming that, because of how AI works, it is automatically transformative ...

fuzzychef,
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@jasonbrooks @ed ... which the test by the NYT shows clearly isn't true. It is clearly possible to produce works using an AI that are copies and not transformative at all.

That's why I said AIs should be operating under the same framework of precedent as photocopiers. With a copier, you can produce either an infringing straight-up copy, or a transformative work (e.g. a collage). But the use of a copier doesn't help your case.

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