The Dog Also

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Dev bio PhD-haver.

https://nikoblankworks.com

Avatar by @Draekos

Common pronounsThey/them/their
Fancy pronounsXeh/xem/xyr
Age Approximate30s
Public NamesInumo, Niko _____, Navid Kolinoi
Crediting @BestGirlGrace for repeatedly complaining about other bad descriptions of federation so I would only ever use "it's like email."

It finally happened. I'm privy to a conversation where someone asked, "What does it mean for a service to be 'federated?'"

Of course I used the "it's like email" comparison, I'm not stupid.

Dang, why am I not tired?
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Oh right, I slept for a bonus 3 hours this afternoon.
Rest in pieces 2alky :(
100% wishful thinking that "show people how shitty LLM coders are" would result in any change, but still.
I wonder how viable it'd be to run a class specifically on code review – and secretly also have it be a "how good are human vs LLM coders" test.

Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

https://www.404media.co/ai-is-african-intelligence-the-workers-who-train-ai-are-fighting-back/

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back

Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

404 Media

Game lineage wiki, the wiki where every game has its apparent inspirations & novel innovations catalogued.

The Talk page discourse about "does X count as an apparent inspiration" would be horrendous to moderate.

Times like this I miss Philly. :T
Pittsburgh has neither available this late at night and that's how you know this city ain't shit.