@blabaere

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I'm wrong on the internet, mostly about wrestling with computers in general but especially about programming.

l boost almost all book recommandations and a lot of nice pictures.

My name is Benny, for we are lesions.

PronounDonkey
Rich Hickey talks about the topic of having uninterrupted time to just think deeply about a thing in his talk 'Hammock driven development' https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc
This is where Clojure and Datomic came from.
The book Slow Productivity by Cal Newport has plenty of other examples of great things being done by people who could just spend time thinking about and working on stuff uninterrupted by managers https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/197773418-slow-productivity
From Charlotte Brontë to Leonardo Da Vinci.
Hammock Driven Development - Rich Hickey

YouTube

"AI companies claim their tools couldn't exist without training on copyrighted material. It turns out, they could — it's just really hard. To prove it, AI researchers trained a new model that's less powerful but much more ethical. That's because the LLM's dataset uses only public domain and openly licensed material."

tl;dr: If you use public domain data (i.e. you don't steal from authors and creators) you can train a LLM just as good as what was cutting edge a couple of years ago. What makes it difficult is curating the data, but once the data has been curated once, in principle everyone can use it without having to go through the painful part.
So the whole "we have to violate copyright and steal intellectual property" is (as everybody already knew) total BS.

https://www.engadget.com/ai/it-turns-out-you-can-train-ai-models-without-copyrighted-material-174016619.html?src=rss

It turns out you can train AI models without copyrighted material

It's just a pain in the ass.

Engadget

"Interdire la publicité est aujourd’hui la meilleure chose à faire pour notre monde. Plus que de légiférer sur les armes à feu. Plus que de s’attaquer au changement climatique. Plus que de baisser le prix des œufs."

"Se débarrasser de ces outils de manipulation avancés forcerait tout le monde — y compris les politicien·nes — à redescendre sur terre. En interdisant la publicité, la machine à illusion de masse perdrait son carburant le plus toxique et addictif."

https://antipub.org/et-si-on-interdisait-toute-forme-de-publicite/

Et si on interdisait toute forme de publicité ?

Traduction du texte de l’écrivain, photographe et professionnel du marketing Kōdō Simone, publiée avec son aimable autorisation.

Résistance à l'Agression Publicitaire

Someone at the asian supermarket in my city called the fire department, reporting a gas leak. Three big trucks came. Men in proper gear deployed. The found ... durian. 🤣🤦🏻‍♀️

#durian #saarbrucken #goasia

@blabaere "has skull"
Due Process in short: it's not optional, it must apply to everyone - whoever they are - to ensure freedom for all.
(excerpted and remixed from my comic on due process - with alt-text, notes, process here https://spinweaveandcut.com/due-process/)

@janethemotherfucker Jane also made this version for herself: https://codeberg.org/FailsafeDX/librewolf-hellfire

This is LibreWolf but with the HellFire setup baked in by default. HellFire is another firefox-derivative that enables a bunch more performance optimisations by default.

I'm currently just running bog standard LibreWolf, but I might give her version a go.

librewolf-hellfire

LibreWolf - with HellFire!

Codeberg.org