Posts by sqrtminusone@mastodon.bsd.cafe
(DIR) Post #AnfEMrffgqGWr0vMCe by sqrtminusone@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2024-11-03T09:37:01Z
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It has just occurred to me that #Microsoft #Recall isn't re-call. It's rec-all
(DIR) Post #AnroykiYJ73mvp5oS8 by sqrtminusone@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2024-11-08T20:04:39Z
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There aren't more than like 10 people on fedi. The rest is just bots. Watch me post this from my other accounts
(DIR) Post #Ao8MKTPLkbXEdMR11M by sqrtminusone@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2024-11-17T12:35:41Z
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@interfluidity I honestly say I do not follow laws that are made to be broken
(DIR) Post #AoWAzHFscObcxuUOEC by sqrtminusone@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2024-11-29T00:21:40Z
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@interfluidity I wonder if those fanatics, who think cursing God increases the probability of extreme weather, ever considered this
(DIR) Post #AoWsBrRiBR98iHGoF6 by sqrtminusone@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2024-11-28T19:21:12Z
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My work chats in a nutshell
(DIR) Post #AoXFXvizFofbIdqJl2 by sqrtminusone@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2024-11-29T10:38:26Z
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And this is why, kids, we should use decentralised social media which can't be coerced to comply with information controls.There just shouldn't be a central point of failure which can be blackmailed to do the government's bidding.With #Mastodon, even if Mastodon gGmbH is put in line, there's no way to enforce the ruling on thousands of private instances. So:- either the government quietly forgets this decision,- or they institute a full-blown internet censorship with Deep Packet Inspection and stuff.The former is more likely because Mastodon isn't that important, but I wish it were the dilemma any such lawmakers faced.And, anyway, Mastodon doesn't have many of the issues that made that bill even conceivable. #Bluesky will be more interesting to watch, because it's much more like the old #Twitter. So we'll see:- whether or not it complies;- how decentralised it actually is, i.e., whether the devs even have the power to comply (which they shouldn't have).Also, seriously, this story gives me Mother Russia vibes: ~one week to pass the bill, two readings in one day, maximally vague formulations that give power of interpretation to bureaucrats and law enforcement, and, of course, it introduces information controls to protect children.https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/Bills_Search_Results/Result?bId=r7284#privacy
(DIR) Post #AogMCjvoLzNWkDK73w by sqrtminusone@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2024-12-02T22:14:26Z
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@queenofhatred I would never have thought it was possible if it weren't for your posts :-)Are there any pros to running MacOS like that? Like, I used to just rice my Linux as MacOS at some point :D
(DIR) Post #AojSQ0gAa05LeNb8Bk by sqrtminusone@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2024-12-05T10:08:14Z
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@interfluidity "lox" as in the Russian word for dumbass?
(DIR) Post #ApJjER5LYfZC8eHQCu by sqrtminusone@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2024-12-22T22:06:11Z
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@interfluidity The US probably won't accept a second Georgia as a state though, but the EU might
(DIR) Post #ApLfFSgh4iNVtgu0Nk by sqrtminusone@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2024-12-23T20:30:59Z
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@interfluidity Metals under a kilometer of ice would be pretty cool to mine.
(DIR) Post #ApgRKMdkQL4YrpcErI by sqrtminusone@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2025-01-02T21:03:54Z
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@interfluidity Phlogiston of folk philosophy?
(DIR) Post #ApgzZDyoIlRGnEj1Cy by sqrtminusone@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2025-01-02T21:46:49Z
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#gnuplot is great. I've been feeding the results of #sqlite queries into it via org-babel, and it works almost perfectly; the only exception being that I can't use column names in the gnuplot dataset.Maybe I'll write a blog post about that... In some moderately distant future.It feels much less accessible compared to #matplotlib, but not more so than #emacs, I guess. And it's great not to carry any dependencies except the gnuplot binary, particularly for the Org Mode use case.The charts sometimes look like a hello from the 90s, but to me it's a plus that they don't give the "matplotlib on defaults" vibe which is omnipresent in modern science :D#orgmode
(DIR) Post #ApgzZMagHqU9V0VNLc by sqrtminusone@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2025-01-02T21:52:04Z
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Ah, also that chart is wrong because I've made a mistake in setting the "is_reply" field somewhere.
(DIR) Post #ApsQFs8s6X4x40zG5o by sqrtminusone@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2025-01-08T14:21:23Z
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Relying on robots.txt to scare away crawlers is like using a 'no trespassing' sign instead of a lock. No legislation will change that as long as there's competitive advantage in ignoring the file. If you're serious about preventing parsing, use CAPTCHAs.Or, if you're serious about your information being used (and about not annoying me when I try to contribute to #rssbridge), let it go.
(DIR) Post #AqGicMavXbj1dbqhuq by sqrtminusone@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2025-01-20T09:07:15Z
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@interfluidity That means genders do not have an intrinsic value-content and are treated however people collectively decide to treat them, right?
(DIR) Post #AqWJRmdyxegCuyUm5w by sqrtminusone@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2025-01-27T20:54:56Z
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Zvi nailed it, as always.> DeepSeek released v3. Market didn’t react.> DeepSeek released r1. Market didn’t react.> DeepSeek released a f***ing app of its website. Market said I have an idea, let’s panic.It's fascinating how long it takes for things to get to mainstream sometimes.https://thezvi.substack.com/p/deepseek-panic-at-the-app-store
(DIR) Post #AqhVPtD27xxVVwgzp2 by sqrtminusone@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2025-02-02T07:16:35Z
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@interfluidity So that's the American version of "Old Soviet trick to increase potency! Just use..." (the link follows to an ads website, of course)
(DIR) Post #Ar7VCesGvXa1AOhvCC by sqrtminusone@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2025-02-14T20:16:41Z
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@interfluidity (not sure if that's a serious question)If you've allowed Anthropic to train on your chats, they might do so (I think they've made it opt-in by default). But even in that case, the stars have to align very precisely for it to reproduce your answer from a single training document.Otherwise, the way is to add the required explanations to the context for future chats where it might be needed.
(DIR) Post #AsLJCnax2MSMUSfJtg by sqrtminusone@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2025-03-23T10:00:04Z
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@ika There's something about dictatorship that prevents people from connecting with their past selves and thinking about the future.
(DIR) Post #AtXwNVDEfOhisBtspM by sqrtminusone@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2025-04-28T09:06:20Z
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@mms Maybe they should've included "No Religion" to the set though