Tony Yarusso

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Linux SysAdmin; parks & trails policy & planning guy; poster of Malamute puppy pics; open source, politics, outdoors
LocationMahtomedi, MN
If you mash the audio example buttons on the wikipedia page for the IPA vowel sounds you can create a choir of mildly disgusted men

Prager U accused the United States of being inherently racist.

That was woke of them.

The more and more old servers I see close, the more intolerable it is that Mastodon still doesn't offer a way to migrate data like posts to new accounts. A user's post history is valuable, and it's more valuable the older the account is. Users *should* have the option to migrate those to a new server!

LOL:

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Apparently, it's bad luck to mention a "MacBook" in a software company. You have to call it "the Scottish laptop".
One of the ways that LLM-authored code improves productivity is by merely SAYING it does things. It's way faster than the whole time-consuming process of actually doing things. This is real code someone sent to me for review.
@inthehands https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/148571 this might also be a worthwhile discussion
Co-Pilot seems to openly admit itself that open-source code is repurposed (or stolen?) without adhering to attribution. This seems concerning. · community · Discussion #148571

Select Topic Area Product Feedback Body Co-Pilot seems to openly admit itself that open-source code is repurposed without adhering to attribution requirements: It seems to me like training such an ...

GitHub

Going all-in on AI is going just great over at GitHub / Microsoft.

Top three community discussions for the year:
https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions?discussions_q=is%3Aopen+sort%3Atop+created%3A%3E%3D2024-09-04

Interesting effort to train camp operators on use of NOAA Weather Radios (this is the kind of thing which theoretically could have helped prevent loss of life in the Texas flash flood disaster this year).

https://psema.org/foundation/signal/

#NOAA #WX #Alerts

GitHub straight up blocked a woman from the community org for writing this in the discussion about Grok in Copilot. The entire situation is growing exponentially more distasteful the longer they choose to censor rather than respond. This is just so, so shameful.