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Can I haz a ATEM 4 M/E Constellation 4K as a treat? 👉 👈
Reminder that EVERYTHING Anthropic or OpenAI announce in public is propaganda designed to boost their market cap when they hit the IPO they're aiming for.
It's marketing, folks. There is no intelligence behind the artifice, it's just spicy autocomplete and hucksters in $5000 suits trying to pick your boss's pocket.
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/115548040527129225
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New release of my llm-anthropic plugin adding support for structured outputs (via the new official API - previously I faked it with tool calls) and Anthropic's web search feature https://github.com/simonw/llm-anthropic/releases/tag/0.22
they’re characterizing your ass under load on solidworks tiktok
Wie viele ITler braucht man, um einen Matrix-Raum upzugraden?
Happy 55th Oregon Blew Up A Whale Day for those who celebrate!
Also: if you're afraid of doing something because you're worried you'll look like a jackass if you mess up, PLEASE know that you will never look like as much of a jackass as the State of Oregon did as chunks of rotting whale blubber pelted onlookers.
They caught the whole debacle on the evening news.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a34658153/exploding-whale-dynamite-video/
Seriously, for God's sake: they used HALF A TON OF TNT.
1,000 pounds.
453 kilograms.
THEY FLATTENED A CAR
WITH FALLING BLUBBER
No matter how badly you fuck up, you will never, ever fuck up this badly. I promise. Do The Thing.
USA gives South Korea green light to build nuclear submarines
Link: https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2025/10/usa-gives-south-korea-green-light-to-build-nuclear-submarines/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45939459
SLUGGO’S SATURDAY MOOD
Hey rubyists and #ruby_friends, what's the current best option for mutating or replacing nodes (and sometimes their children) when using ruby's Prism instead of whitequark's Parser?
#ruby #programming #testing #tdd #mutation_testing #stryker #port
Björnana
#makevember 15: I can't claim that this is an original design idea, but I must've seen it on Mastodon maybe a year ago. Combine two inexpensive drawing compasses into a pair of multimeter probes that can be used one-handed while holding something else in the other hand
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad/115552203855337370
Fennec Fop do be funny
reblogging posts on the fedi is like trying to keep a balloon from touching the ground with some friends
Gave my aging #MechanicalKeyboard a makeover by changing the keycaps. The mix of colors looks pretty cool.
FBI Director Waived Polygraph Security Screening for Three Senior Staff
Link: https://www.propublica.org/article/fbi-kash-patel-dan-bongino-waived-polygraph
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45939266
회사 중국분들하고 이야기해보면 나이든 세대 (중국 개방초기때 나온분들)는 중국이 미국과 이렇게 힘겨루기하는거 보면 부질없다고 느끼는것 같은데 (괜히 다들 말도 안되는 고생만 하고 있다) 20-30대 분들은 우린 이길거다 이렇게 보는것 같아서 뭐랄까... 시간이 지나면 일은 벌어지겠구나 싶긴함 근데 특히 중국 인플루언서들? 이 양반들이 엄청 바람 넣는것 같긴하던데 (듣다보면 그건 니 생각이 아니고 들은 이야기 같은데.. 하는 경우가 많음) 중뽕에 가득차있으면서도 중국의 어두운면에 대해서는 여전히 부정하는 느낌이 강하게 듬
おはむぎちゃん！！
ucs-detect: automatically test the Unicode version and support level of a terminal emulator via 
@fanfTony Finch https://lobste.rs/s/uz6i2y #python #testing
https://ucs-detect.readthedocs.io/
Iceberg, The Right Idea - The Wrong Spec - Part 2 of 2: The Spec https://lobste.rs/s/ygmqnn #databases
https://www.database-doctor.com/posts/iceberg-is-wrong-2.html
i was wondering why people keep migrating from netlify to grebedoc and then i looked at netlify's fee structure
what the actual fuck are they doing??
(the paid tier, for $9/month, only gives you ~3x as many credits, escalating the wtf level tenfold)
> Technisch untersucht habe seine Behörde die einzelnen Dienste von #Microsoft nicht, ergänzte Roßnagel. "Dazu sind wir personell überhaupt nicht in der Lage, aber wir haben die Grundsatzfragen des #Datenschutz.es zufriedenstellend gelöst."
Liest sich sehr überzeugend. Schlage ich beim #TÜV demnächst auch vor: "Wir unterhalten uns kurz, aber sie prüfen technisch nicht. Okay?"
Das ist einfach nur blanker Unsinn, der da verzapft wird. V.a. im Hinblick auf:
> In einer Anhörung musste der Chefjustiziar von Microsoft France zugeben: Es gibt keine Garantie, dass #EU-Daten vor einer Übermittlung in die #USA sicher sind.
Quelle:
1 https://www.heise.de/news/Gruenes-Licht-fuer-Microsoft-365-in-Hessens-Verwaltung-11079834.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.rdf.beitrag.beitrag
2 https://www.heise.de/news/Nicht-souveraen-Microsoft-kann-Sicherheit-von-EU-Daten-nicht-garantieren-10494684.html
Saw that my css joy webring neighbor has a guest book. Pretty cool! :) now I want to say hi to other neighbors…
I'm out of #TomatoChilliChutney . Shambles! Luckily, it's super easy to make more and, because it's cold outside, I added an additional chilli. Now, it just needs to simmer for about 2 hours.
Recipe: https://pin.it/5AY5XCnFY
#WorldWideVeganNomz #WhatVegansEat #GoVegan #VeganFood #VeganCooking #OhneMampfKeinKampf
Die 6 Jährige zeigt mir gerade Stolz das sie mich dabei beobachtet hat wie ich das Tablet entsperre und hat sich die Pin aufgeschrieben. K1 ist ein böser kleiner #Hacker und meine #OpSec ist ziemlich Scheiße. #kinder #fediparents
Accurate.
잔다 자고일어나서 진짜마감해야됨
계피곤해
The path to holographic greatest, then the gradual decline into grey bleakness.......
ヽ( ・∀・)ﾉ ｳﾝｺｰ
朝ごはんを片付けながら昼ごはんをどうしようか悩んでいます←
The erosion of privacy rights we are seeing worldwide is directly linked to the rise of authoritarianism we are seeing worldwide.
#Privacy #Democracy #HumanRights #ChatControl #AgeVerification
did you know that you can find free Cortex M0 development boards at the side of the road? folks call them disposable vapes but they're hackable, and i've reverse engineered a bunch of them! see https://github.com/schlae/VapeRE/
It's a huge shame that I haven't seen a single headline with a penny pun about the end of pennies, but that's just my two cents.
Saw that my css joy webring neighbor has a guest book. Pretty cool! :) now I want to say hi to other neighbors…
One of the best pieces I've read in awhile. Emily Bressler in @mcsweeneys.net writes "I Work for an Evil Company, but Outside Work, I’m Actually a Really Good Person":
Walmart now uses AI-based surveillance cameras in all its stores and is rolling out body cameras to associates to collect even more video of customers that are fed into its storage. Kroger, Fred Meyer, and QFC are also now using AI-based video surveillance and also store facial data of every customer that enters their stores. Going grocery shopping in America is becoming a privacy nightmare that will only get worse. #ai #privacy
a pb&j but with an extra bread in the middle like a big mac
Anyway. The long and short of this thread is that, with a sufficient understanding of how the llm mechanism works under the hood, the whole "guardrail" thing becomes obviously impossible to achieve, and that if you want a machine that isn't going to randomly output shit from alt.sex.stories.llama.farmers into your CI infrastructure, you're gonna need a different system.
[ As a postscript,
y'know the thing that really works great as a trigger for 'superintelligent' cooperation between people of diverse viewpoints?
Friendship.
As the cartoon horses stated, it really is magic. ]
Thinking is not language-based.
Language is an API by which people approximate the concepts in their heads to each other.
The semantic connections between words and concepts are not fixed; they're fairly sloppy, with a high degree of tolerance in how they fit together.
This is a feature; this is how poetry works, for instance.
This is also why, in areas such as law and medicine, the practitioners have fossilized specific semantic connotations and relationships using extremely specific jargon that you don't find outside of those fields, and frequently use Latin - a language not subject to the same forces of semantic drift as English, due to the paucity of normal speakers of it - to ossify those concepts and keep them consistent.
Starting -from- language and working backwards to the underlying conceptual framework is the opposite of how humans learn in the first place; infants learn basic facts about the world during their early life, and then they are taught the external cues that allow for communicating facts about the world with their caretakers through consistent conditioning - same way you teach a dog to sit; you associate the condition with the word 'sit' and thus achieve instruction.
While llms are certainly a clever way to create the impression of "understanding" it is, ultimately, a trick - the only 'understanding' comes from the human side; Clever Hans is not doing math at all, but engaging in a fuzzing of human responses to get the sugarcube.
And likewise, these "ai scientists" are genuinely incredibly blinkered in how they pursue "new advancements" in "machine cognition" - not a single one of them, as far as I can tell, has considered that we as humans -already have- examples of "superintelligence" in the real world.
You know how you get 'superintelligence'?
You collect a group of people with diverse viewpoints and experiences in the same room, give them a reason to want to work together, and remove obstacles to communication.
It's called fucking -teamwork- and it's been a thing for roughly all of human history.
"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts" y'know? That aphorism exists for a reason! Emergent effects from teams working together is a phenomenon that's kinda been around forfuckingever!
In #Oldenburg ist was los 🫶 Einen lieben Gruß von der 17. Geburtstagsfeier des Oldenburger Computer Museums 🥰 
@ocmOldenburger Computer-Museum
In #Oldenburg ist was los 🫶 Einen lieben Gruß von der 17. Geburtstagsfeier des Oldenburger Computer Museums 🥰 @ocmOldenburger Computer-Museum
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