Posts by pointlessone@status.pointless.one
(DIR) Post #Akl21StaOAHqznq2ds by pointlessone@status.pointless.one
2024-08-08T12:53:29Z
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@m0xee One idea floated on the internet was that the whole thing is just to catch Putin with his pants down and show the allies, USA specifically, that for all the talk Russia can't do anything. There's no reason to fear it. Basically, there's not much space left for further escalation so USA can finally let Ukraine use long-range munition to destroy Russian aviation and ammo depots.
(DIR) Post #Aklohd5NggiUYwWicy by pointlessone@status.pointless.one
2024-08-08T21:54:15Z
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There used to be a whole subgenre of sci-fi I call “look at this cool place we found”. Rungworld, the Mote in God’s Eye, Rendezvous with Rama. Are there any modern books like that?Banks’ Matter and Look to Windward have a bit of that in the background. Are there any new cool places?#recommendations@scifi
(DIR) Post #Alms5ybLsud13zG1Ls by pointlessone@status.pointless.one
2024-09-08T07:59:02Z
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#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #Catstodon #cat #cats #abyssinian
(DIR) Post #AmxORzNTorJW8rgxVI by pointlessone@status.pointless.one
2024-10-13T07:45:20Z
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@futurebird Robotaxi in a Hyperloop, you say? This is revolutionary!
(DIR) Post #AnBtHGxFwfXgGMEcd6 by pointlessone@status.pointless.one
2024-10-20T07:34:48Z
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@nikitonsky This page clearly needs an I Agree button.
(DIR) Post #AnfXw5zgKQgCXWnSXw by pointlessone@status.pointless.one
2024-11-03T14:59:02Z
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@stux Oh yes, they do. Mahreedom is at least half a (true merican) football field across. And even if you roll it up it still needs a decent pickup to haul.
(DIR) Post #Aod58r8jKVtZFP350K by pointlessone@status.pointless.one
2024-12-02T08:15:33Z
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@fasterthanlime the biggest issue for me with LLMs is the rate of bullshit. Yes, there are a lot of books that are incorrect, misrepresent their subject or just outright misinformation/propaganda but an average book generally reflects the level of understanding at the time it was written. Average well-meaning author doesn’t want to be wrong in record.Same goes for Wikipedia. There’s a general agreement that it should be truthful and aside from bad actors and occasional trolls it stays mostly that way.This is not the case with LLMs. Despite developers’ effort even the best models we have right now very often produce incorrect results. Granted, they still might be useful in some contexts but I doubt they are for learning.The main issue I have when using LLMs in unfamiliar domains is that I can’t tell which bits are factually true and which are not and I can’t stir the conversation in the right direction. Most LLMs are also very agreeable and provide no pushback when conversation goes into the wrong direction. You can—by accident—convince them to accept incorrect propositions. This might completely screw up the learning part of the whole experience.
(DIR) Post #AogHneGbsTJk7UpdjM by pointlessone@status.pointless.one
2024-12-03T14:19:40Z
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The fact that #AdventOfCode after 10 years still uses global time of submission as the metric is utter bullshit. To qualify you have only ~3 minutes after midnight UTC-5 to submit your solutions. If you're in a wrong timezone or have something else to do at that exact time your only chance to be on the leaderboard is to hope that people would drop out after a week.These's a simple solution: measure time since a participant gets the puzzle until they submit a correct answer. It's not perfect, sure, but at least it gives a chance to more people around the world. The way it is right now is extremely biased.
(DIR) Post #Apjj3Zs2MScDcwKB1M by pointlessone@status.pointless.one
2025-01-04T09:01:53Z
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@mjdxp @denis
(DIR) Post #AqWQbdvsu5JATXW95s by pointlessone@status.pointless.one
2025-01-27T23:00:46Z
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@futurebird microverts (symbol: mEIv) as in exposure to extra/intro- verts.
(DIR) Post #Ar5VR7qFdRI6kHjzdo by pointlessone@status.pointless.one
2025-02-13T20:37:25Z
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@catsalad OMG! I urgently need a clear png of this.@raine @JessTheUnstill
(DIR) Post #AvO3HsWXkbZFYzdSb2 by pointlessone@status.pointless.one
2025-06-22T09:24:49Z
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There are so many snapshots of parked domains on @internetarchive. What is their policy about that? I wonder if how much space does it take to keep these useless pages?
(DIR) Post #AvO4fXl2i5rw3wGX32 by pointlessone@status.pointless.one
2025-06-22T11:37:25Z
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@monarchist I'm sure users would gladly report such snapshots if given tools. It's probably possible to detect these type of pages as they tend to be the same on many different domains/urls.In any case, than you for your valuable insight.@internetarchive
(DIR) Post #Aw1gnK7Coc8qd2NtVQ by pointlessone@status.pointless.one
2025-07-11T10:30:12Z
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@wingo One needs to know two consecutive elements of the list to traverse it which makes it even more annoying than a regular linked list.Head and tail are probably have to be kept somewhere as they have one of the pointers null. So a special case.I guess you’ve never seen it because it externalises a lot of state and it was discovered pretty fast that saved memory is not worth the trouble.
(DIR) Post #Aw1kr7Q6ME2WEKHuoC by pointlessone@status.pointless.one
2025-07-11T15:04:19Z
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@wolf480pl It depends on what you’re doing with the list. Sometimes (I’d even say more often than not) you want a sequence and for that you need a start. And if you have a start you probably want an end as well.@wingo
(DIR) Post #Ay3nsriGyV6ZoPBg2a by pointlessone@status.pointless.one
2025-09-10T10:11:15Z
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Last night russia attacked #Poland with #drones.Prime Minister of Poland #Tusk says that it was not an attack but a massive provocation, there’s no need for panic and life should continue as normal. My Polish friends, he’s not wrong on the count of panic but otherwise he’s a little off base. Though, you should give him no crap as it’s literally his job to keep you all calm.Let me expand a bit on his statement.It was not an #attack. Technically, he’s right. There was no specific targets on Polish soil russia intended to hit. It was not an invasion like it was in #Ukraine.It was a #provocation. It certainly was a premeditated act, it wasn’t a mistake. Polish SIM cards were found in dawned drones in Ukraine since at least July. So russians planned this for some time and implemented it in hardware a while ago.It was a massive provocation. Drones and missiles went into Polish airspace on multiple occasions before but they were singular and could easily be dismissed as mistakes or quirks of decision making algorithms in a jammed drone. This time it was at least 19 drones (according to the Prime Minster of Poland, some Polish sources claim as many as 23). They were on a rather straight course and went as far as 70 km deep into Poland.This provocation is meant to test #NATO's resolve. Specifically Article 5. And we have an answer already. This was not an attack. There's nothing to worry about.Unfortunately, this means the next even bigger provocation is definitely coming. Putin was allowed to get away with this so he'll escalate further. Maybe he'll try hitting something in Poland. Say, a military base or a transportation hub involved in military aid to Ukraine. Maybe it'll be in Baltics. Finland got some unpleasant remarks from russian officials recently. Whatever it is, it's coming and probably sooner than later. Unfortunately, russia's about to run out of money so it can't really afford to wait long. It'll probably be on the order of weeks rather than months.There's no need for panic. Now, this is very true. Panic doesn't help at all. What you should do is prepare. It is very unlikely you'll get invaded so I wouldn't plan to leave your home. But it's likely you'll get more drones or even missiles.Learn where bomb shelters are around you. There are probably dedicated ones but they might've been mothballed and are not publicly accessible. Maybe contact your local authorities to fix that. Meanwhile see if there are any accessible basements nearby. Maybe even in your building. Find underground parkings, they work as shelters fine.Remember the 2 Walls Rule: there must be at least 2 walls between you and the explosion. Why: explosion will shatter the first wall and things around it and all that sharp debris will fly your way. The first wall will absorb most of the explosion shock though. The second wall will protect you from the debris.Learn the structure of your building. Find out where the load bearing structures are. Those are more structurally solid and will provide more protection.Old brick building usually have outer walls for their load bearing structure. In those any second wall should be fine.New monolith apartment blocks have the load bearing structure on the inside and outside walls are only barriers from the elements. In these building its better to go as deep as possible into the building: internal hallways are usually a safe bet.Concrete panel apartment blocks (the soviet type, wielka płyta, you probably still have a few of them around) are the worst. They tend to fold like a house of cards. Try avoiding basements in such a buildings too. You probably will survive in the basement but will be blocked for a while by all the rubble on top. Go somewhere else.Small houses. All above applies but also you should take into account that things might fall from the above. Most houses don't have much of load bearing structure in the ceiling and roof.Find out how to stay informed about threats. In government sounds air strike alarms in regions where there's a threat. There's also an official app that give air strike alerts in the form of push notifications to your phone. It also provide more specific information on the kind of a threat. Fid out of Poland has anything like that.Despite all the issues with Telegram, it's a vital source of information. There's a number of channels that provide near real-time information about whereabouts of drones and missiles. Including an official channel of Air Forces of Ukraine. Admins of some of the channels have direct access to realtime radar data and are accurate, others repost information from credible sources. Find out which are which. A number of channels posted updates in Polish last night when it was relevant. Other messengers probably have similar channels. I know for certain that Viber has.Moderate your fear. For a while this might be new to you. While it is you will be frightened of it as of anything dangerous and unknown. This is normal. But do not panic. A direct hit might be lethal but also there's only a very small chance of that. Ukraine regularly gets attacked by hundreds of drones directly targeting civilians and even then casualties are few. You'll have to learn to distinguish a really dangerous situation from a merely uncomfortable. Most of the time you're not in actual danger. This doesn't mean you should neglect your safety. Be proactive in sheltering when needed. Know when it is. When you don't know err on the side of caution.
(DIR) Post #Ay3nt0nZCBgfzQjX2e by pointlessone@status.pointless.one
2025-09-10T10:17:58Z
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I want to separately address a sentiment relatively common on social media: #Ukraine wants to drag #Poland into the #war.No, we don't. We'd like Poland, the rest of Europe, USA, and the rest of the world, uh… to take more active stance in defeating #russia. We'd love you all stopped buying anything from russia. We'd love you spent more of your political capital convincing others to do the same. We'd love more sanctions. We'd love you gave us more weapon and air defence. We'd love you let us strike deep into russia with your weapons, sooner.We'd also love you never knew what it's like to hear a #drone overhead. But we also see that 4 years into the war you still don't really understand that putin will keep pushing and breaking stuff until he gets a proper pushback. You still seem to believe that him leaving Kyiv alone was an act of good will on his part and not a defeat. You seem to still keep buying his propaganda that his victory in Ukraine is inevitable despite him not moving the frontline in any meaningful way for the last three years.Today's response from Poland and #NATO is turning the another cheek for putin, while he can only understand the Old Testament ways.So yeah, we don't want to drag anyone into the war. We just hope that maybe, just maybe, this would tip the scale and get you all doing more to defeat russia sooner.
(DIR) Post #AypJrvb8KBIEBB2fdg by pointlessone@status.pointless.one
2025-10-03T08:30:07Z
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@GroupNebula563 @gemini0 except Mastodon is very shit at actually retaining content when switching servers.
(DIR) Post #B0NVpA4uUfQhy1HIGG by pointlessone@status.pointless.one
2025-11-18T08:56:51Z
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@TrevorBramble You write your own engine/static site generator, of course. But if you lose your mind only a little then probably Ghost, or WordPress if you’re OK ignoring the drama.
(DIR) Post #B0VIVkXPkg0PmmsvhY by pointlessone@status.pointless.one
2025-11-21T08:21:13Z
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@Edent take a look at other software. #GoToSocial, #Ktistec, #Snac. There are options that are much easier to deploy and much less resource intensive.