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@bender LOL looks bloody centered to me 🤣 How many pixels off are we talking? 😅
@off_grid_living Those look like encoding errors. You've likely used characters not supported by the encoding of the document. Easily fixed!
@off_grid_living Those look like encoding errors. You've likely used characters not supported by the encoding of the document. Easily fixed!
@off_grid_living Personally I use this thing I built called zs 🤣
@off_grid_living Personally I use this thing I built called zs 🤣
https://galusik.fr/fridayrockmetal/2024-08-16-frm.m3u Tonight #fridayrockmetal playlist
On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 08/12 to 08/16 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/08/16/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week
@stigatle Oh, I know that feeling all too well. Go for it! ✌️

Also:

https://movq.de/v/8cdad1ae3a/s.png

😅
@stigatle Oh, I know that feeling all too well. Go for it! ✌️

Also:

https://movq.de/v/8cdad1ae3a/s.png

😅
@stigatle Oh, I know that feeling all too well. Go for it! ✌️

Also:

https://movq.de/v/8cdad1ae3a/s.png

😅
@stigatle Oh, I know that feeling all too well. Go for it! ✌️

Also:

https://movq.de/v/8cdad1ae3a/s.png

😅
@bender Sigh. 🫤 Elon Musk should buy Meta. Problem solved. 🤣
@bender Sigh. 🫤 Elon Musk should buy Meta. Problem solved. 🤣
@bender Sigh. 🫤 Elon Musk should buy Meta. Problem solved. 🤣
@bender Sigh. 🫤 Elon Musk should buy Meta. Problem solved. 🤣
I've decided to try and get rid of as much stress as possible. Stupid things stress me out, some things are more important to fix then others. But today I got started, by fixing the xeon bulb on our car, been ignoring it for a year, because the car garage said it'll cost me 350$ so get it changed (Because they had to remove the whole front).. So because of that I did not prioritize it. But today I went and bought a bulb for 50$ and I openened the hood of the car and saw I could just replace it my self by simply removing a cover to get access to the bulb. So I've been stressing over nothing for a year simply because I did not check and took their word for it. next thing to get fixed is a rotten board under a window outside, been bugging me for a long time, now I want to get that sorted next. All these small things adds up, and I want peace of mind.
[47°09′20″S, 126°43′47″W] Dosimeter overflow
@movq the algorithms are nuts everywhere. I was cancelled from Instagram and TikTok a while back for the same reason, yet, at the time I got the email telling me about it I hadn't used them both for over a year. 🤷🏻
@prologic text/label on the buttons isn't centred:

BeerCSS showing a button with text not centred
WhatsApp locked me out of my test account for violating their TOS. Huh? I hardly even used it? Or is that the violation – not immediately feeding them with all available data about my private life? 🤣
WhatsApp locked me out of my test account for violating their TOS. Huh? I hardly even used it? Or is that the violation – not immediately feeding them with all available data about my private life? 🤣
WhatsApp locked me out of my test account for violating their TOS. Huh? I hardly even used it? Or is that the violation – not immediately feeding them with all available data about my private life? 🤣
WhatsApp locked me out of my test account for violating their TOS. Huh? I hardly even used it? Or is that the violation – not immediately feeding them with all available data about my private life? 🤣
[47°09′27″S, 126°43′51″W] Transfer aborted
Its like old school TV but with youtube videos. Each channel has a subject and the channels play in a sort of realtime. so no going forward or back. Perfect for channel surfing.
Its like old school TV but with youtube videos. Each channel has a subject and the channels play in a sort of realtime. so no going forward or back. Perfect for channel surfing.
@bender wtf?! What is this? 🤔
@bender wtf?! What is this? 🤔
@bender I'm not really sure what you mean tbh? 🤔 How are buttons misaligned exactly?
@bender I'm not really sure what you mean tbh? 🤔 How are buttons misaligned exactly?
Base: 9.33 miles, 00:09:45 average pace, 01:31:02 duration
legs were stiff again for the first four miles, but everything felt relatively easy.
#running #treadmill
Base: 9.33 miles, 00:09:45 average pace, 01:31:02 duration
legs were stiff again for the first four miles, but everything felt relatively easy.
#running #treadmill
Base: 9.33 miles, 00:09:45 average pace, 01:31:02 duration
legs were stiff again for the first four miles, but everything felt relatively easy.
#running #treadmill
@prologic not sure what you find on BeerCSS. I have never found that style (following "Material Design" aesthetics) attractive at all. Many of its components are misaligned (at least they are under Gnome's Chrome). Look that the buttons, and you will see and example of what I am talking about.
Came across YTCH yesterday, and it is very addictive. Simple, and well done. You can host it yourself if you want. The trick I haven't figure out yet is how to create the list.json that drives it.
@prologic Hahaha! :-D Yep, focus on your real business. :-)
[47°09′50″S, 126°43′14″W] Transfer 25% complete...
Book of Shadows - Sacred-Texts | https://sacred-texts.com/bos/index.htm
Book of Shadows - Sacred-Texts | https://sacred-texts.com/bos/index.htm
[47°09′46″S, 126°43′37″W] Transponder still failing -- switching to analog communication
@mckinley That is pretty cool! 😎 Reminds me of something I also want to either find or build; a FUSE filesystem or a Go library that acts as a limited cache with maximum time-to-live on files written. Think, caching Youtube videos for tubeproxy but where storage is always capped at an upper bound. Older items get constantly deleted.
@mckinley That is pretty cool! 😎 Reminds me of something I also want to either find or build; a FUSE filesystem or a Go library that acts as a limited cache with maximum time-to-live on files written. Think, caching Youtube videos for tubeproxy but where storage is always capped at an upper bound. Older items get constantly deleted.
[47°09′34″S, 126°43′44″W] Transponder malfunction
mp3fs: https://khenriks.github.io/mp3fs/
~2 years later...



Yeah I'm kind of glad they're better at Hardware too and not this (questionable) "social media" thing 🤣 #Mitre10 #Hardware #Social~
~2 years later...



Yeah I'm kind of glad they're better at Hardware too and not this (questionable) "social media" thing 🤣 #Mitre10 #Hardware #Social~
🧮 USERS:1 FEEDS:2 TWTS:1063 ARCHIVED:77441 CACHE:2363 FOLLOWERS:17 FOLLOWING:14
@stigatle Very cool! 👌 Makes me want to redo the yarnd UI using BeerCSS from scratch, but it's an awful lot of work 🙄
@stigatle Very cool! 👌 Makes me want to redo the yarnd UI using BeerCSS from scratch, but it's an awful lot of work 🙄
@xuu Haha 🤣
@xuu Haha 🤣
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Conundrum https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/08/15/conundrum.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
With that Heat and more energy to create preasure you can create Coal! The circle is now complete.
With that Heat and more energy to create preasure you can create Coal! The circle is now complete.
Cool, looking good! Ought to work on showing the Emoji too, I noticed that's missing. Next, to render correct markdown. :-)
[47°09′03″S, 126°43′22″W] --no signal--
Finally fixed so that usernames mentioned in a post shows up as @user , and not with brackets and twtxt file url, looks so much better now! One thing I want to focus on next - is handling replies to a status, that will make it much easier to follow a conversation.
Finally fixed so that usernames mentioned in a post shows up as @user , and not @, looks so much better now! One thing I want to focus on next - is handling replies to a status, that will make it much easier to follow a conversation.
Finally fixed so that usernames mentioned in a post shows up as @user , and not "@", looks so much better now! One thing I want to focus on next - is handling replies to a status, that will make it much easier to follow a conversation.
@stigatle The sky lighted up, but the thunderstorm was far away. Even though it was dead silent in the neighborhood, I could hardly make out the super quiet thunder roaring in the distance.

Oh I bet, nearly getting hit by lightning is very frightening.
I saw a kestrel on a power pole the other day. It then flew off and attacked another one sitting in a tree:

Fighting kestrels

More peaceful before that: https://lyse.isobeef.org/turmfalke-2024-08-07/
[47°09′21″S, 126°43′07″W] --interrupted--
A little bit more verbose:


david@dreadnought:~/$ apt-cache depends -i --recurse shellcheck
shellcheck
  Depends: libc6
  Depends: libffi8
  Depends: libgmp10
libc6
  Depends: libgcc-s1
libffi8
  Depends: libc6
libgmp10
  Depends: libc6
libgcc-s1
  Depends: gcc-14-base
  Depends: libc6
gcc-14-base
@mckinley interesting. In Ubuntu the list is rather short:


david@dreadnought:~/$ sudo apt depends shellcheck
shellcheck
  Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34)
  Depends: libffi8 (>= 3.4)
  Depends: libgmp10 (>= 2:6.2.1+dfsg1)
[47°09′42″S, 126°43′09″W] Storm recedes -- back to normal work
@Rob Hmm Coal -> Heat -> Stream -> Generator -> Electricity -> Resistance -> Heat

You do have an interesting point there 🤔 Seems rather wasteful just to produce some heat 🔥
@Rob Hmm Coal -> Heat -> Stream -> Generator -> Electricity -> Resistance -> Heat

You do have an interesting point there 🤔 Seems rather wasteful just to produce some heat 🔥
[47°09′25″S, 126°43′45″W] Automatic systems disengaged due to heavy rain
[47°09′25″S, 126°43′42″W] Weather forecast alert -- storm from NW
@golang_news Cool! 🥳
@golang_news Cool! 🥳
I'm bringing back the tilde system again pretty soon, I just have to do one more full rebuild of the service infra to make sure its reproducible and we'll be back in biz
🧮 USERS:1 FEEDS:2 TWTS:1062 ARCHIVED:77432 CACHE:2367 FOLLOWERS:17 FOLLOWING:14
@lyse Yeah this is why I haven't done it yet because I don't know how to build it 🤣
@lyse Yeah this is why I haven't done it yet because I don't know how to build it 🤣
My FairPhone has arrived and it looks great!
My FairPhone has arrived and it looks great!
@lyse tracking read/unread is something that Yarn could benefit from. It has been thought before, just never gotten anywhere. Yarn just don't keep track of those, it will be something that @prologic will need to implement. Maybe if I keep poking him he will! 😂
[47°09′32″S, 126°43′19″W] Raw reading: 0x66BCFEB1, offset +/-2
@lyse we had a huge thunder/lighning storm last night here too. Kids got really scared (it struck something very close here), and the dog panicked (he opened all doors and would only sleep in kitchen). We woke up around 2 at night from it. But kids luckily fell a sleep again.
@prologic the whole thing took less than 2 min 🤣
@prologic the whole thing took less than 2 min 🤣
@prologic The headline is interesting and sent me down a rabbit hole understanding what the paper (https://aclanthology.org/2024.acl-long.279/) actually says.

The result is interesting, but the Neuroscience News headline greatly overstates it. If I've understood right, they are arguing (with strong evidence) that the simple technique of making neural nets bigger and bigger isn't quite as magically effective as people say --- if you use it on its own. In particular, they evaluate LLMs without two common enhancements, in-context learning and instruction tuning. Both of those involve using a small number of examples of the particular task to improve the model's performance, and they turn them off because they are not part of what is called "emergence": "an ability to solve a task which is absent in smaller models, but present in LLMs".

They show that these restricted LLMs only outperform smaller models (i.e demonstrate emergence) on certain tasks, and then (end of Section 4.1) discuss the nature of those few tasks that showed emergence.

I'd love to hear more from someone more familiar with this stuff. (I've done research that touches on ML, but neural nets and especially LLMs aren't my area at all.) In particular, how compelling is this finding that zero-shot learning (i.e. without in-context learning or instruction tuning) remains hard as model size grows.
I witnessed absolutely crazy summer lightning before I went to bed. The sky flashed constantly, about every three seconds and then several times a second. It was a really nice natural spectacle to watch. :-) Very rare to exerience such a heavy one. My cam was too shitty, though. All photos and videos turned out just totally black.

When I woke up at 5am, I had a quick look in the Northern sky and saw a tiny shooting star. I then happily went back to bed. :-)
@prologic In tt, I have to press r to toggle the read status for each and every message. The disadvantage is that I have to mark all messages read explicitly, the advantage is that I have to mark all read explicitly, and hence no silly automation messes with me and causes wild surprises. But in theory it would be possible to automatically mark a message read when it is selected for three seconds or something like that. Not sure, though, how well any of that would work with a web UI.
[47°09′29″S, 126°43′02″W] Raw reading: 0x66BCD481, offset +/-1
@bender Ah, I see, the mentions. :-)
@off_grid_living Despite I don't really understand why you want the web server and website contents on a USB stick that travels around with you, do you even need a web server at all? I might be totally wrong, but I get the impression that it's only you who uses the "website" on whatever machine the USB drive is plugged in. It's not served over the internet, is it? It's just for yourself, so that you can look up stuff on the "website" or something like that. But you don't actually serve the website to the entire world?

Again, I could completely misunderstand the use case here. But assuming it's not connected to the internet, since you just have HTML and plain text files on the USB stick, no PHP or other stuff that needs to be interpreted first, you could just view these files locally in any browser (via local file:// protocol) without the web server (via http(s)://) in between. Much simpler.
Base: 9.15 miles, 00:09:51 average pace, 01:30:05 duration
tired legs. felt overall a bit easy but still feel like i am getting over something.
#running #treadmill
Base: 9.15 miles, 00:09:51 average pace, 01:30:05 duration
tired legs. felt overall a bit easy but still feel like i am getting over something.
#running #treadmill
Base: 9.15 miles, 00:09:51 average pace, 01:30:05 duration
tired legs. felt overall a bit easy but still feel like i am getting over something.
#running #treadmill
@slashdot See I told y'all 🤣 AI is "artificial incompetence" 🤣
@slashdot See I told y'all 🤣 AI is "artificial incompetence" 🤣
@bender Yup!
@bender Yup!
@bender Ahh gotcha! That could be simple enough to work or maybe a different background for the card? 🤔
@bender Ahh gotcha! That could be simple enough to work or maybe a different background for the card? 🤔
@bender This is basically the problem. Even if you wanted to there generally isn't any state for feeds stored on behalf of the user, in other words, a read status.


> I don’t know how we will handle the resetting of it, after reading…

I thought about it a few times, but I've never really been able to figure out a way of coming up with a viable solution to that.
@bender This is basically the problem. Even if you wanted to there generally isn't any state for feeds stored on behalf of the user, in other words, a read status.


> I don’t know how we will handle the resetting of it, after reading…

I thought about it a few times, but I've never really been able to figure out a way of coming up with a viable solution to that.
@prologic yeah, this is how Phanpy does it:

Phanpy, Fediverse client, showing the little bell on top right corner with a dimmed dot, indicating activity