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I sometimes think about trying Rust since they've fixed some of the major language design issues I like and the community evangelism and extreme hype is starting to die down. But I just can't help but think of the last time I tried it, the getting started guide βhello, world!β equivalent added one dependency that then pulled in 25 separate transitive dependencies totaling 97 megabytes of source code (as in, it would likely take actual years to read through it all to see what it all does). Left a very bad taste in my mouth that that's the very first thing you do in the official guide for a hello world program, and that the guide does it without even a word spared to βoh wow look at all this shit that's downloading!β
I think when I posted about it originally someone actually went in and made a PR to remove a number of the dependencies because it was a bad look, but the fact they had to go in afterwards because of bad optics rather than just not pulling the dependencies in in the first place still says volumes to me
Marching along on the fursuit walk at Sotonfurs Summer Party last weekend! It was a fantastic time!
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I have never seen a more stark indication that the internet as we know it is about to die.
I can think of nothing worse that google could do than what this describes.
Contributing to open source is a privilege. It doesn't mean you have cheated to do it or that you don't deserve praise for doing it!
It only means that not everyone can do it. You need the skills, time and will to do it in addition to doing whatever you need to have a good life.
Not everyone has that time. Not everyone works in the field.
We must acknowledge it to meaningfully convey the value of open source in society.
Fun fact: the code which took Apollo 11 to the moon is available on github https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/blob/master/Luminary099/LUNAR_LANDING_GUIDANCE_EQUATIONS.agc#L179
And if you look through it you'll see that - joyfully - it also includes original comments.
My absolute favourite thing about the Moon Code is that it includes comments like this: "TEMPORARY - I HOPE HOPE HOPE"
Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer (AGC) source code for the command and lunar modules. - chrislgarry/Apollo-11GitHub
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Character: Shangfudog
Suit: Clockwork Creatures
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Letβs enjoy the official unofficial last weekend of summer :3
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Remember when you could just buy a newspaper for like $1 at a shop?
Imagine if you went to the newsagent and they were like β$25 pleaseβ
βHuh? Thatβs steepβ
βOh that gives you a month of accessβ
βI donβt want a month of access, i want a newspaperβ
βWeβll also flyer your house every dayβ
βI donβt care, I just want a newspaper. Todayβs newspaperβ
βYou also get access to our other newspapers in other townsβ
βI donβt care, I want a newspaper for here, todayβ
βOh itβs not just for today. Itβs for a month. And three months afterβ
βWait, what happens after that, is that it over?β
βLOL of course not. Itβs $35 a month after thatβ
βWhat? Why?β
βIntroductory offer. Also weβll tell a bunch of other companies where you live and THEYβLL flyer you tooβ
βKnow what, itβs fine, I donβt need a paperβ
βIβll send you a reminder in a weekβ
βSTOP. FFSβ
And they wonder why online news makes no money.
Kendra Allenby is a New Yorker Cartoonist and graphic facilitator based in NYC. She teaches travel drawing and generally uses cartoons to make sense of the world.Kendra Allenby - New Yorker Cartoonist
QR code for #EICAR (antivirus test file)
ROT13 decode command to make EICAR test file on demand... Enjoy πΊ
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I finally set up AI error detection for my 3D printer recently and it just detected its first print failure and like...if THIS is all the modern AI trend was, I would be extremely enthusiastic about it.
It's extremely low stakes stuff, if it gets it wrong with a false positive (because AI gets shit wrong all the time) then the worst thing that happens is I get a notification I can ignore. If it gets it wrong with a false negative then...it's not any different than how things were before setting it up where I might notice a bit late that it came detatched when I check in on it.
This is really the problem with modern AI tools, I would be on board with a lot of these systems if they followed one principle: "is this a use case where it's perfectly fine for a computer to guess wrong". A whole lot of modern AI tools cause a LOT of problems when the computer guesses wrong. But there are absolutely use cases where a computer guessing something wrong is not really harmful in any way and in those cases AI tools can be really useful.
I've had this conversation here before but machine translation is really the one that gets me the most.
Because machine translation is extremely, extremely useful for low stakes stuff like this. I use it all the time for like...just quickly translating a document to skim for a piece of information, and knowing that it may be slightly off, but probably in a way where I can tell, and if I'm wrong then it's not a huge deal anyway.
A video game walkthrough is a great example. Or like...I once bought an RPG supplement book that was in Spanish because it was for a game that had almost no supplemental material (fan or otherwise). I dumped the PDF's text into a doc and machine translated it to English. It didn't matter that it got some things wrong here and there, or had a really hard time translating one particular word that came up a lot, because...it's an RPG supplement. I really just needed the broad story beats and some monster data and whatever. I'm ad libbing it all. I'm sure it's more beautifully written in Spanish, but since I can't read it, that was my option. And if the translation was wrong...it didn't really matter since in the end I successfully ran these scenarios and we had a good time.
The problem is, as always, the use cases. People don't want to just use machine translation for personal information gathering. I'm sure there's people who would think it's acceptable to have dumped that same PDF into Google Translate and tried to sell it, even though it was a mess not fit for commercial use. That's very different than me choosing to do that on my own, knowing the pitfalls. And god forbid you use machine translation to do something like moderate non English posts on your fedi instances or try to guess if some Japanese celebrity is being transphobic or not based on machine translated tweets.
Especially given the way gendered terms work--or don't work and don't exist in some cases--in Japanese, Google Translate will make up pronouns on its own all day long, I've seen people accuse Japanese people of transphobia based on using the wrong pronouns when the Japanese post didn't USE pronouns, Google just invented some.
I'm not someone who thinks that AI and LLMs and whatever have no functional use at all. There's a lot of times they can be useful tools. The problem is that in our current landscape they almost never ARE, and even when the tools are useful people keep using them in ways that are super not suitable.
In a way, LLMs are the lawn darts of technology. In theory lawn darts could be played with totally safely. Everyone follows safety precautions, everyone makes sure nobody can enter the play area, only adults ever play with them. In reality, what happens is that kids play with them and get hit with them and go to the hospital.
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Ivo Totev and Spencer Davis Β Creating a typeface is a delicate process. Each character (or glyph) embeds new attributes into the whole...Ivo Totev (SUSE)
#Linux is magic. Here are some tools I recently encountered that work only on Linux due to the aforementioned magic -
Inspect a command's effect before committing it to the filesystem - https://github.com/binpash/try
Box up misbehaving applications, forcing them to put files into the right place - https://github.com/queer/boxxy
Inspect a command's effects before modifying your live system - binpash/tryGitHub
I've learned over time that neurotypicals generally don't understand the impact of executive dysfunction from #ADHD. I've found that being a little more blunt can help. I tell them that having ADHD is like having inconsistent and unreliable free will.
Because that is literally what it is like for me.
Though neurotypicals are sometimes hesitant to believe that anyone can truly live like this, because it tends to interfere with core beliefs about free will and "everyone can pull themselves up by their bootstraps"
Getting non-disabled people to understand that some people literally cannot do a thing sometimes no matter how hard they try is a key challenge of disability activism. Because if they accept that, they'd have to challenge core beliefs about society and capitalism working
This is pretty amazing, actually. Now that I've caught up, that's gone straight into my RSS aggregator, that has. And an update every day? Wow.
Okay, putting it out for all who want to read:I'm writing a fantasy novel. It's very isekai, inspired by countless anime I love to watch.
Currently at 36 chapters and will continue with a new chapter EVERY SINGLE DAY forever, or until I stop.
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/90726/last-infinity
Thanks! Yep, EVERY DAY, minimum 500 words, often far more.
At least, that's the goal. Glad you're enjoying, have a blast. :)
