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djfiander

@djfiander@code4lib.social

UX Web Services Librarian at a large Canadian university. Reader, cyclist, text-based lifeform.

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davew, to random
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This would make a fine campaign ad.

mathowie, (edited ) to random
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Checked out the scotusblog livestream of Supreme Court opinions where lawyers explain decisions as they come out in realtime and it reminded me of 20 years ago, loading up MacRumors every January to read what was being said in untelevised apple keynotes, but instead of a new PowerBook or iMac, the stream is about which of our fundamental rights just got curtailed.

simon, to random
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I wrote about a delightful example of accidental prompt injection against RAG applications, where a RAG application against my LLM project's documentation suddenly decided that it was a gerbil
https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jun/6/accidental-prompt-injection/

brainwane, to random
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If anyone here has a tip for an easy workflow to export a LibreOffice Impress slides + speaker notes file into a single HTML page that's organized something like https://www.changeset.nyc/resources/quick-intro-to-grants.html (slides side-by-side with speaker notes), I'd love to know it. The default HTML exports, at least in LibreOffice 7.0.4.2, don't do what I want.

metin, to Quotes
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tek, to random
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A friend just pointed out:

"ADHD creates impulse control issues and, consequently, advertising takes advantage of a disability. Ergo, ad blockers are assistive devices and interfering with their operation for commercial gain constitutes a willful violation of the ADA."

Let’s do this.

timbray, to random
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Wow, there’s a rare burst of good news: Modi's ethnofascist election campaign fails to secure a majority government in India: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/4/modis-bjp-loses-majority-in-india-election-shock-needs-allies-for

dannotdaniel, to random
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England has a new Queen and her name is Victoria 🤩

andymoose, to random
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"Thank you for your message. Because you may be using a Microsoft Recall enabled PC, I am unable to respond to you with any sensitive or confidential information. I apologize for the inconvenience."

And he was left alone, living happily, until the end of his days.

cstross, (edited ) to random
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Business meetings exist to share information and coordinate activity: this shit enables you to be apparently present in all but actually not engaged with any. If your calendar is triple-booked then your organization is under-resourced and needs more people, not more AI. Or it's holding unnecessary meetings to make management feel better about being surrounded by minions, in which case it needs to fire the executives responsible.
https://mastodon.social/@kjhealy/112553850995965423

jwz,
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@cstross Back in 1993, I talked to a team at SGI who were building one of the first multi-person video chat apps. Since they were building it, they used it constantly. And the FIRST TWO THINGS THEY DID were: 1) a plugin that played a 5 second loop of you looking like you were still there; and 2) a plugin that would detect lulls in conversation and say "Mmm hmmm" in your voice.

18+ mwl, to FreeBSD
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Mike Karels died on the way home from , at the age of 67.

https://www.gearty-delmore.com/obituaries/michael-mike-karels

This man spent 40 years working on BSD. His code appears in , , , and everywhere.

If you have used the Internet, you have used code he wrote.

RIP, sir. You changed the world for the better.

What's probably his last talk: "I don't have much to say," followed by a spellbinding eighty minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSziyKlG1ws

[edited to remove echovita obit; apparently that's an AI scam site :flan_molotov: :flan_rage: :flan_hulk: ]

moshboy, to random
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eliza, trs-80 (1978) https://www.mobygames.com/game/23505/eliza/covers/

text: hours of stimulating "conversation" at your fingertips! eliza was "born" in 1966 when dr. joseph weizenbaum created an algorithm that enables a computer to analyze and respond to conversational english. converse with eliza just as you do with an old friend. it's almost easy to forget that it's a com- puter you're talking to. have a long chat with eliza-you may be surprised at the number of interests the two of you have in common. * eliza wants to be your friend-she's a very receptive confidante and an eager counselor * eliza is curious. sometimes, she will continually question you to find out everything she possibly can * eliza responds differently to each person she meets, so she's always fresh and fascinating * eliza loves to talk about almost anything, but her favorite topics include friends, dreams and family * eliza, like everyone else, is likely to get bored with a conversation once in awhile * eliza can recognize several foreign languages, though she speaks only english

annika, to random
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mastodon servers have pretty good uptime considering the lack of cis admin

JMarkOckerbloom, to random
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The website for the Columbia Law Review, which last I checked hosted freely readable copies of all articles from 2008 onward, is now offline, displaying a "Website is under maintenance" message. Editors say it's because the review's board of directors took the site down after the editors refused to remove an article by a Palestinian legal scholar: https://theintercept.com/2024/06/03/columbia-law-review-palestine-board-website/

adapalmer, to random
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A new piloting approach has huge potential to cut cargo ship emissions. https://newatlas.com/marine/blue-visby-cargo-emissions/

nikitonsky, to random
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This should exist

MidniteLibrary, to random
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Just got over $1700 as backpay for a job I left over a year ago because the union signed a new retroactive collective agreement after I left.

uint8_t, to random
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Any app that interrupts my workflow to ask for a review, with “maybe later” being the only alternative, gets a review! ⭐️

kfogel, to random

So, is there a patterned fabric you can use to make a shirt that is anti-optimized for modern video stream compression, such that your meetings totally bog down for all participants because everyone’s client-side code is working so hard to encode/decode the wildly demanding images of your shirt every time you shift slightly in your seat?

Asking for a friend.

Also adding tags at the request of @femme_mal : #FabricArts #Fabric #SecurityByObfuscation #Obfuscation_Techniques #CodeObfuscation #Nulling #NullingVideo

GottaLaff, to tesla
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#Tesla to #recall 125,227 vehicles over faulty seat belt warning system

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said the vehicles failed to comply with the federal safety requirements as their seat belt warning light and audible chime may not get activated when the driver is unbelted
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/autos/tesla-recall-125227-vehicles-faulty-seat-belt-warning-system-rcna154850

WeightlessBooks, to random
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Today we're adding Australian own-voices focused indie horror press Slashic Horror! Including titles by Mark Allan Gunnells, @fletcherhorror, Chloe Spencer, Stephanie Sander-Jacob and more: https://weightlessbooks.com/category/publisher/slashic-horror-press/?orderby=date&order=DESC&submit=Submit

Cover art for Vicarious by Chloe Spencer, featuring some teenagers in front of a school with their faces blotted out in red ink
Cover art for Pyramidia by Stephanie Sanders-Jacob, featuring a fancy teacup with blood in the saucer against a hot pink background
Cover art for Raven's Creek by David-Jack Fletcher, featuring a run-down neon hotel sign

kbeninato, to random
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"Convicted felons don't get classified briefings." - Jen Psaki on convicted felon Donald Trump

nocontextb5, to Babylon5
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nocontexttrek, to StarTrek
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josephscrimshaw, to random
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The audio of news reporters saying the word “GUILTY” 34 times in a row should be added to the calm app

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