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elilla, 9 days ago to random

Eliza used to be this neat little toy, I liked to play with her in my Eeepc, it was like a demonstration of how easy it is to project a mind on smoke and shadows, like finding faces on random wall stains...... to think we'd live in a world where grown adults fully believe elizas are sentient, with agency, can be programmed in natural language...

elilla, 9 days ago to random Portuguese

de cara que tem dialeto alemão que também chama isso de "penal" #curitiba

elilla, 9 days ago to random

Late Night Show remains raw as fuck and drowning in realness and tragically underexposed for what it is, so I'm still sharing it
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Be7j-jbqb14

elilla, 9 days ago to random

whaat :o

(from: dialekt test https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/dialekt-test-wir-wissen-woher-sie-stammen-jetzt-noch-genauer-205060715129 )

elilla, 10 days ago to random

my Krankenkasse app (SBK) suddenly started refusing to work on my LineageOS. now I have to register a new device, and to do so I need to travel to another city during work hours.

not only it's getting more and more impossible to have access to basic services without a smartphone, it's also getting harder and harder to use a de-googled phone, too. I don't even have Magisk or root in it, just the custom ROM is already rejected.

edit: managed to install magisk and a version of the modules to successfully bypass SafetyNet (basic), but the app still doesn't work.

elilla, 11 days ago to random

> Google lays off hundreds of ‘Core’ employees, moves some positions to India and Mexico

capitalists are like "sorry, home office isn't compatible with our company culture, you have to be at the office for productivity reasons. whoops your job is now done via Zoom by someone with a 12h-difference timezone and a tenth of your salary"

elilla, 13 days ago to random

anyone recommends doctors to get an autism diagnosis as an adult (in Germany)? my friend has a very terrible relationship with their abusive parents and they're terrified that the therapists will insist on parent involvement

elilla, 14 days ago to random

apparently Youtube barred a whole lot of people now for using adblockers.

I just want to point out that I continue to use Firefox with plain old uBlock and it works perfectly, no ads and no blocks on my side.

elilla, 14 days ago to random

"we describe countries as 'poor', even though they're incredibly rich in valuable resources, and a better word would be 'pillaged'" (Lily Alexandre)

elilla, 14 days ago to random

noooo :( :((

elilla, 16 days ago to random

até hoje não canso de me embasbacar com essa playlist "brazilian & japanese citypop" que tem Marina Lima, Djavan e Sandra de Sá com Matsubara Miki, Okada Yukiko etc. é pra isso que pirateio spotify

elilla, 17 days ago to random

> I’d say the LLM spit absolute bullshit in about 60% of cases. I’d say my students—graduate students in computer science, intelligent adults with some knowledge of code—accurately assessed that the LLM was spitting absolute bullshit in about 70% of cases (with 30% slipping through). Multiply .60 and .30 together, and you get about a 1 in 5 chance of drek from a semi-knowledgable human augmented approach to AI-assisted code understanding.

https://chelseatroy.com/2024/05/26/how-does-ai-impact-my-job-as-a-programmer/

elilla, 19 days ago to random

elilla, 19 days ago to random

masks and respirators are the most punk of all punkwear in this decade, in the most raw & real sense of punk

elilla, 21 days ago to random

just spend some time with a couple of Polish people trying to remember what was the "vegan dumplings" or "spinach rectangles" that I got from Rewe and they enjoyed. the answer wasn't what I expected xD

Germans: which packaged vegan product do you think the spinach rectangles turned out to be?

elilla, 22 days ago to random

everybody's hyped for the new 1FAE9 FACE WITH BAGS UNDER EYES, which I mean, :big_mood:, but for you appreciators of text-presentation glyphs, might I draw your attention to the new range "Symbols for Legacy Computing Supplement" (1CC00–1CEBF) that includes several gaming sprites from retrocomputer codesets including Pac-Man, a full set of Space Invaders, 1CC96 FLAPPING BIRD and so on—as well as a full set of box characters for #teletext emulators?

#unicode

https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-16.0/U160-1CC00.pdf

Another section showing some old terminal drawing elements ("white lower left pointer", "two rings aligned horizontally", "inverse black diamond" etc.) and more game sprites (such as tanks and racing cars and fish in various positions).

elilla, 23 days ago to random

if you're prone to infodumping, that just means you're the exposition characters. the writers rely on you a lot

elilla, 24 days ago to random

still thinking of how all normal proprietary software of today would have been flagged spyware ten years ago

elilla, 25 days ago to random

for me, story written by a woman > female protagonist

elilla, 25 days ago to random Portuguese

não sabia que El Chavo del 8 não está passando mais não só no Brasil mas na América inteira. de fato o apocalipse chega mais cedo em alguns lugares do que outros

elilla, 27 days ago to random

Linux has top(1), bottom(1), and powertop(1). we're missing one

elilla, 27 days ago to random

young people laughing and talking loudly and blasting music in the train, such a rare sight in this country

elilla, 30 days ago to random

do you think somewhere there's a guy who works in literary publishing and his name is Ed, and his business card reads, "Ed is the standard text editor"

elilla, 1 month ago to random

surely one of the German words

elilla, 1 month ago to random

back when I was doing my masters' I found it very hard to begin or to put anything on the page. but it's also very easy for me to infodump on my topics, for hours if allowed.

so a girlfriend from college helped me in this way: she offered herself as an attentive listener, and I recorded myself explaining the whole concept, proposal, literature I had read etc. to her. Then the contract was, I would transcribe the entire audio as-is onto the text, no editing. only then I was allowed to format, reorganise, add references etc.

less than a hour of talking gave me the whole skeleton for my thesis, breaking the blank page paralysis and letting me concentrate on the experiment itself.