Posts by KevinMarks@xoxo.zone
(DIR) Post #AcuUlkQq8HokTjL9mq by KevinMarks@xoxo.zone
2023-12-17T19:29:25Z
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@simon @evan @luis_in_brief the other part of it is that a 301 redirect model doesn't fit with the half-assed signing model for posts. We have a way to redirect sites and archives, and followings, with a modest amount of overlap of both sites being up, and it was baked into feeds and WebSub at the http layer, but the "spray the new, ignore the old" model didn't map as well.
(DIR) Post #AdIuNmRo05s1Lvy0Rc by KevinMarks@xoxo.zone
2023-12-29T10:38:45Z
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“The broader trends amongst students, teachers, and even policy makers, is that every group is willingly adopting a tool that supplants the broad scope of human learning and ability with a narrow tool that generates a pastiche of whatever was posted online.” https://medium.com/bits-and-behavior/more-than-calculators-why-large-language-models-threaten-public-education-480dd5300939
(DIR) Post #AdQHaibhmRjEOKgu0m by KevinMarks@xoxo.zone
2023-12-21T18:19:35Z
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This is a good point - I had COVID-19 for the second time, testing positive on Sunday 10th December and negative on Saturday 16th December. I spent the week in bed, reading Persuasion and half-watching anodyne TV. https://mastodon.social/@augieray/111619581517706894
(DIR) Post #AhOSUkgd0NO4w2J4Ay by KevinMarks@xoxo.zone
2024-04-26T19:54:52Z
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https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-millennial-captcha
(DIR) Post #Ahq7SNMpEBkocKJivQ by KevinMarks@xoxo.zone
2024-05-06T10:51:22Z
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This is brilliant in its own right, and also works as meta-commentary, as no LLM could get the scansion that tight and the rhymes that enjoyable: "well, actually"/polydactyly and plagiarise/Hbomberguys are markers of humanity https://mathstodon.xyz/@andrewt/112380073199982452
(DIR) Post #AiseRpyAN9j2pXyfdQ by KevinMarks@xoxo.zone
2024-06-13T09:22:42Z
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@futurebird this parallels us coming up with "indieweb" a while back
(DIR) Post #Aiuwl6Yb6xePGkH6sy by KevinMarks@xoxo.zone
2024-06-14T11:55:42Z
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@futurebird it was certainly true at Apple when I was there 25 years ago that we had hacks in the OS to keep old versions of apps working that had been passing bad parameters to system functions that had been previously ignored. One I remember was variable rate playback in QuickTime. You were supposed to pass a fixed point speed, but in early versions it only played at 1x speed for any +ve number.There was a hack put in for specific apps that passed in 1 rather than 0x00010000 (1<<16)
(DIR) Post #AjeSY4tEr07sN7PC08 by KevinMarks@xoxo.zone
2024-07-06T08:29:56Z
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This Zadie Smith essay sums up my gen X feelings of daring to hope that government could uplift rather than immiserate people https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jul/03/zadie-smith-on-hope-trepidation-and-rebirth-after-14-years-of-the-tories
(DIR) Post #AjvgpJMS0LtXqpkMRU by KevinMarks@xoxo.zone
2024-07-14T16:37:40Z
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https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2024/07/the-coming-storm-part-2.html
(DIR) Post #AkFaDGrQ8iJ6WouQ0u by KevinMarks@xoxo.zone
2024-07-24T08:33:34Z
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Reporting of the latest UBI test programme is ignoring the key finding, obvious to anyone who knows low income people, that their first impulse was to spread the wealth to others.This thinking is so alien to economists and financial types that they barely discuss it. https://www.openresearchlab.org/findings/key-findings-spending
(DIR) Post #Am4pzhsKSNsoO5MLtw by KevinMarks@xoxo.zone
2024-09-16T22:33:02Z
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Maybe Google shouldn't strip non-ascii characters when training AI
(DIR) Post #AmnkBi5GW9dt9OKuo4 by KevinMarks@xoxo.zone
2024-10-08T15:08:10Z
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@mmasnick @quinn @riana @danmcd @alecm @normative I read this as "nerd herder" in the first post and thought it was a very different concept, and it also made me think of Carrie Fisher
(DIR) Post #AtRuRQ5vZa4KxTuI08 by KevinMarks@xoxo.zone
2023-11-06T18:27:41Z
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@halfempty @Nickiquote exactly. If you were doing a Heinlein reference you'd call it Mycroft (from Moon is a Harsh Mistress) or Minerva (from Time Enough For Love). But Musk is basically Vroomfondel, making money on the chatshow circuit predicting what AI will do.
(DIR) Post #AtRuRUKFqFuE54dmt6 by KevinMarks@xoxo.zone
2023-11-06T20:36:23Z
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@Nickiquote @halfempty You know, I think what he is really building is the copy of the Total Perspective Vortex in Zarniwoop's pocket universe that is only there to serve his ego.
(DIR) Post #Av7GldIutirWlSSf7g by KevinMarks@xoxo.zone
2024-02-04T00:04:53Z
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@Kensan @shortridge this reminds me of the "python only parses dates correctly after the 12th of the month" problem I had. (The dates in the files I was being sent had been changed to UK dd/mm/YYYY format. Python assumes mm/dd/YYYY unless the mm>12)
(DIR) Post #Av7GliKsBsOkMyPnMm by KevinMarks@xoxo.zone
2024-02-04T17:48:03Z
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@ariaflame @Kensan @shortridge the other challenge with being back in the UK is that half the year UTC and local time are the same.Oh, and being near 0 longitude..
(DIR) Post #Av7Glj4xQXGGftybCK by KevinMarks@xoxo.zone
2024-02-04T11:34:47Z
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@hugovk @Kensan @shortridge https://dateutil.readthedocs.io/en/stable/parser.html see the dayfirst and yearfirst settings docs
(DIR) Post #AxlfRYaPgPgEC5hRq4 by KevinMarks@xoxo.zone
2025-09-01T16:32:26Z
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@futurebird @spaf @farah The UK Right Wing have proposed exactly this https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/aug/26/nigel-farage-plan-deport-asylum-seekers-scorn-from-legal-experts
(DIR) Post #AzPFsIRrxgAkvIBd56 by KevinMarks@xoxo.zone
2025-10-20T16:43:07Z
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“We've normalized software catastrophes to the point where a Calculator leaking 32GB of RAM barely makes the news. This isn't about AI. The quality crisis started years before ChatGPT existed. AI just weaponized existing incompetence.[…]We've created a perfect storm: tools that amplify incompetence, used by developers who can't evaluate the output, reviewed by managers who trust the machine more than their people.”https://techtrenches.substack.com/p/the-great-software-quality-collapse
(DIR) Post #B2WdbsOVnRUV2CyQ52 by KevinMarks@xoxo.zone
2023-01-14T20:38:10Z
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@clickhere @ColinTheMathmo @copiesofcopies @robinhouston Hiberno-English vs Cockney is always fun.After in Cockney is prospective, in Hiberno-English its retrospective. I've witnessed this incomprehension.Cockney Barman asking for an order: What are you after?Irish customer: I'm after riding the bus, thank you, but could I get a beer?