Posts by vrandecic@mas.to
(DIR) Post #AW11iBVkhwwF1diVBg by vrandecic@mas.to
2023-05-25T14:03:52Z
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@FroehlichMarcel I link the paper "Augmented Language Models: A Survey" on the YouTube page
(DIR) Post #AX2EShTwISvARi9OEa by vrandecic@mas.to
2023-06-24T22:36:07Z
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Ciao Bella#Caturday #cat #cats #CatsOfMastodon
(DIR) Post #AXUPJ1S1p87al5jhia by vrandecic@mas.to
2023-07-08T15:53:12Z
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Peek-a-boo#cat #cats #caturday #CatsOfMastodon
(DIR) Post #AXhFGy73qFTze4X4jI by vrandecic@mas.to
2023-07-14T16:56:38Z
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Great progress on deciphering the so far undecipherable central Asian Kushan scripthttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-968X.12269
(DIR) Post #AXj7piRjfeF9sIBFzs by vrandecic@mas.to
2023-07-15T18:27:36Z
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It's Saturday. I wanna stay in bed!#cat #cats #caturday #CatsOfMastodon
(DIR) Post #AXzHqSKU7RwwLelzPM by vrandecic@mas.to
2023-07-23T05:04:00Z
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Sir Timothy enjoying the sunshine#cat #cats #CatsOfMastodon #caturday
(DIR) Post #AYUroHKE04Ql5zuaDQ by vrandecic@mas.to
2023-08-07T09:09:36Z
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Hey @simon - I just stumbled upon https://til.simonwillison.net/webassembly/python-in-a-wasm-sandbox but then a few months later in https://til.simonwillison.net/deno/pyodide-sandbox you say you still are looking for a solution for the problem of sandboxing Python. I am super curious, why did you discard the first approach? It seemed promising, and you seemed to have gotten it to work. I would be thankful for an answer.
(DIR) Post #AYUvbCpLoOb3CJUbMO by vrandecic@mas.to
2023-08-07T19:58:44Z
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@simon ah, yes. Every python library with C code needs to be compiled to Wasm first.
(DIR) Post #AZUiGbP2T5q4T68dn6 by vrandecic@mas.to
2023-09-06T14:52:59Z
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Rest in peace, Molly Holzschlag.She thaught the Web to many, and she fought for the Web of many.https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/090523_molly_holzschlag/tucsons-molly-holzschlag-known-as-the-fairy-godmother-web-dead-60/
(DIR) Post #AZwXJkne1H3JUbHQx6 by vrandecic@mas.to
2023-09-20T01:31:43Z
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What is this red line around some channels in Belgium on Google Maps? It appears when I search Google for Belgium and then click through to Maps.
(DIR) Post #AcfOVHE6K4CUgHQeae by vrandecic@mas.to
2023-12-09T16:35:37Z
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[long, incoherent rant]Today's reading: the Web is dead, or at least dying.This statement means different things to different people, and thus they blame very different people for it. But also, as with any nostalgia, most people yearn for a Web that never was.For me, the meme is now almost as old as the Web when it's death was declared: Wired wrote this story based on observations by Jonathan Zittrain and others: https://www.wired.com/2010/08/ff-webrip/1/8
(DIR) Post #AcfOVJS03MVTZxwmX2 by vrandecic@mas.to
2023-12-09T16:37:06Z
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Back then it was about apps creating walled gardens that remove more and more content from the Web where it could be found and read through the browser. Today, Blue Sky, Facebook, Discord, Telegram are all further pushing that trend. Less and less of text out there is becoming available.People are still trying to safe that Web, entirely missing that their solution is fighting yesterday's battles: https://berjon.com/fixing-search/2/8
(DIR) Post #AcfOVLNStC4FYTqBk0 by vrandecic@mas.to
2023-12-09T16:37:49Z
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For others, it is the demise of the social Web, and the feeds on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, which are changing in a way that makes it feel like ghost towns. See, for me these social Web sites are already part of the problem, as they are often intentionally undiscoverable, unindexable, not part of the open Web, but for others, this is their main experience they are losing: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/why-the-internet-isnt-fun-anymore?sponsored=0&position=3&category=what_else_were_reading&scheduled_corpus_item_id=4a9577fa-2f78-48b8-938f-873106966233&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newyorker.com%2Fculture%2Finfinite-scroll%2Fwhy-the-internet-isnt-fun-anymore3/8
(DIR) Post #AcfOVNF1xWVdKtuTs8 by vrandecic@mas.to
2023-12-09T16:38:39Z
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Others know where to place the blame, but I fail to see how the solutions they favor would help, or how they address the core challenges the Web is facing today: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/10/14/google-internet-spiral-of-decline-deepmind-mustafa-suleyman/4/8
(DIR) Post #AcfOVPGWQwtHc6chTU by vrandecic@mas.to
2023-12-09T16:39:47Z
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Then there is @pluralistic Cory Doctorow who offered the theory of enshittification, which I think is a surprisingly valuable concept to think about these. https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/5/8
(DIR) Post #AcfOVTEtevy1wDtSUq by vrandecic@mas.to
2023-12-09T16:40:09Z
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I don't see solutions today. I was just reading a bit on the different views on the problem. The Web that I knew is certainly dead. The Web many others knew is dying. The other way to see this is that the Web is constantly evolving. Some parts and aspects are getting better and interesting. Some parts we cherished and loved are fading and even disappearing, and that makes us sad and grumpy. Some parts are innovating and creative.6/8
(DIR) Post #AcfOVVDYIu524dHPg8 by vrandecic@mas.to
2023-12-09T16:40:46Z
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There are parts I wish that could be preserved, and short of ending capitalism I don't know how. I want it to be a space where everyone can publish. Where everyone can offer their voice. A true peer to peer information space. And it is very close to that.7/8
(DIR) Post #AcfOVX8JBN4e0wqFma by vrandecic@mas.to
2023-12-09T16:40:55Z
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But heck, even Facebook is very close to that, and yet it doesn't feel like the right solution. Wikipedia is very close to that, but it doesn't feel complete. The Web is very close to that, but it doesn't feel sufficient. I think my wish itself is underdeveloped, underspecified, and thus it is already impossible to know how to make substantial moves forward.8/8
(DIR) Post #AdUqCckcAzliJ3wcC0 by vrandecic@mas.to
2024-01-04T02:03:12Z
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RIP Niklaus Wirth;BEGINI don't think there's a person who created more programming languages that I used than Wirth: Pascal, Modula, and Oberon; maybe Guy Steele, depending on what you count;Wirth is also famous for Wirth's law: software becomes slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster;He received the 1984 Turing Award, and had an asteroid named after him in 1999; Wirth died at the age of 89;END.
(DIR) Post #Az9sMiT6TLyu2TKyCu by vrandecic@mas.to
2025-10-12T20:34:28Z
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Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year By Diego Delso, CC-BY-SAhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2024/Results/All