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thomasfuchs

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

Maker of nokotime.com • I killed Flash (with scriptaculous) • #astrophotography, #retrocomputing, #cats •
BLM. Ally. He/Him.

I've been on Mastodon since 2017, but recently migrated here.

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arnfinnp, to random
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Adobe introduces the One Click Stalin tool.

andybaio, to random
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I don’t know how else to describe this, but parts of downtown St. Louis smell distinctly like a used bookstore. Like a room stuffed full of musty aging books and yellowing magazines.

andybaio,
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Libraries and bookstores should vent that smell into the street to attract book nerds

thomasfuchs, to random
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What a photo

Deep Impact

chris,
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@thomasfuchs Ahem... https://honours.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/how-to-nominate/gallantry/

radicalrobit, to random
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honestly feel like I'm losing my fucking mind reading this shit. how does this make any fucking sense? you send an AI bot to a video meeting you're not attending where presumably other coworkers will also send their bots?????? to what fucking end? what is the point of this? why are we having NPCs video chat with eachother? what gets done with this? what is the purpose? how is this not just a fucking email? is this what jokerfication is? this doesn't make any fucking sense!

thomasfuchs, to random
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They should repeat this experiment often, can learn much about the fluid dynamics of supernova remnants

The Cygnus Loop, a giant supernova remnants which looks surprisingly similar

philpem, to random
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Browsing ebay for text terminals (I'm looking for something recent and ideally built into an LCD) and I read: "Keyboard sold separately for keyboard enthusiasts"

Please excuse me, I just need to go sharpen my kitchen knives...no reason...

sundogplanets, to random
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I had to edit a MS word thing through my new university microsoft account, and holy cow, all the mansplainy suggestions microsoft thrusts in there are like Clippy went and got an MBA and needs to make sure that you know the $60k he paid for it was absolutely definitely worth it.

malcircuit, to random
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I resent the term "prompt engineering" because it implies that there is a sophisticated theoretical basis to writing LLM prompts and not simply "fuck around with the wording until the dumb computer makes me happy"

thomasfuchs, to random
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They are hoping that the flaws of LLMs will negate the flaws of their pagerank algorithm https://vmst.io/@jalefkowit/112537940416316139

HunterZ,
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@thomasfuchs "In other words - and this is the rock-solid principle on which the whole of the Corporation's Galaxywide success is founded - their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws." - Douglas Adams

clive, to random
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Whoa

gwynnion, to random
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"US state department falsified report absolving Israel on Gaza aid – ex-official"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/30/stacy-gilbert-us-state-department-israel-gaza-aid

Quinnypig, to random
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Getting pretty tired of this being almost my entire tech news feed these days.

glennf, to random
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Imagine if Twitter still existed right now

realGulDukat, to random
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THIS WAS A DISGRACE—A RIGGED TRIAL BY A CONFLICTED JUDGE WHO IS CORRUPT, IN BED WITH CROOKED PICARD, SECTION 34 AND DEEP STATE 9. WE WILL FIGHT FOR OUR CHARTER—THIS IS LONG FROM OVER!

hbuchel, to random
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People that disable right click on their websites as "preventative" measures, what do you think you're actually preventing with this?

thomasfuchs, to random
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Saying adding more content to an autocomplete algorithm brings it closer to being sentient or even to being intelligent is like saying adding more steering wheels to a car suddenly will make it self-driving

guncelawits,
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@thomasfuchs

Magician: “Look! There’s a quarter behind your ear!”

CEO: “Let’s do this at scale!”

mhoye, to random
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This is a remarkable graph.

You might have heard that "EV sales are slumping", "people are starting to avoid EVs", etc.

That's not what's happening.

What's happening is "Tesla is cratering so hard that it's skewing the aggregate market data."

mathowie, to random
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The 2nd place GOP candidate for president out there celebrating the genocide of civilians.

She was always as bad as Trump.

denis, to generativeAI
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Literally every single thing ChatGPT tells me is provably wrong.

Generative AI is a fucking train wreck.

#generativeAI #GenAI #ChatGPT

ErikUden, to random
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like all people

thomasfuchs, to random
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Americans, happy first 🍔 Summer Bookend Day!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4EFkspO5p4

splorp, to apple
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Hey, Mastodon … I’m trying to track down an developer named Stephen A. Cronin.

He worked at and operated a software company called TapTech based out of Austin, Texas in the late 90s. I’ve managed to contact his former software partner, Francis Preve … but Francis lost touch with Stephen years ago.

Together they released a sequencer program for called NR404 and I’m hoping the source code still exists somewhere.

Boosts appreciated.

Migueldeicaza, to random
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Fresh massacre in Palestine, in the place the ICJ explicitly said to stop.

When you paid off every politician in the US, they just let you do it. You can do anything.

https://x.com/timesofgaza/status/1794819866186371567?s=46

siracusa, to random
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I’m still seeing this pop-up on my iPhone a few times every week. It feels like it’s been over a year now…

sundogplanets, to random
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Here comes a thread on light pollution from satellites, with a concrete action that you all can take to help push for regulation of satellites in orbit!

Astronomers have been worried about light pollution from satellites (if you've been following me for more than 24 hours, you've perhaps heard a bit about this). Astronomers spent SO much time and effort begging and pleading with Starlink to make their satellites fainter, with mixed results.

sundogplanets,
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Last reminder from me: the FCC is taking comments on their new rule allowing freaking huge direct-to-cell satellites until tomorrow. Instructions to submit your own comment are posted here: https://www.kesslerrebellion.com/take-action

Again, I have no idea if this will help. But I do know that the people who pay attention to FCC filings and write about them have noticed! There are now almost 200 submitted comments!! (The last comment period for Starlink had like 25). This is awesome, thank you all so much!

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