Oh. so i can see it now that i trust your pod.

@bender@twtxt.net Yep. 😅

I thought the same thing as this person in the comments:

Whenever a band looks like this I always like to imagine a conversation where at least one member was like “I ain’t wearing that, man”

🥴

@movq@www.uninformativ.de that’s pretty weird, but easily covered under a performer’s “job description”. :-D

Since we’re liking masked musicians here on twtxt, let me share this gem with you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4X56wIOZns

Glass Beams - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

@xuu@txt.sour.is I think he is on vacations (I sure hope he is, having fun and all!), or something. I haven’t seeing anything from him for over a day now. Very unusual.

@bender@twtxt.net Because the cities are too optimized for cars? 🫤 Yeah, I live in a somehwat rural area and you can use the bike for a lot of things. There aren’t many “big” cities here anyway, that’s true.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I envy you! In Europe, using an e-bike is completely doable. In the States, in many cities, not a chance. :-(

Had a test drive on a foldable e-bike today and now I’m extremely tempted to get one of those things. 😅

@prologic@twtxt.net just rebuild my image.. though git says i am already at latest

Ouiii, j’ai de nouveau internet! En fait, #sfr a changé l’armoire, a débranché tout le monde sans prévenir personne, et maintenant les autres fournisseurs doivent venir rebrancher leurs clients. C’est malhonnête… Bref, si3t.ch et puffy.cafe sont de retour

@prologic@twtxt.net, are you running Ollama on your Mac Studio? How much RAM does it have? How does it performs with 7b, and 13b models?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, the Swiss and C++ programmers use apostrophes. :-) My grandpa had an electronic desk calculator that also used some kind of apostrophes as the thousands separator on its cool display. Maybe it consisted of Nixie tubes, can’t remember anymore.

I think non-breaking spaces are preferred nowadays to avoid the confusion.

This is a good reminder to support the work of the FSFE:

• https://fsfe.org/news/2023/news-20230323-01.en.html
  
• https://fsfe.org/news/2024/news-20240312-01.html

@bender@twtxt.net I noticed that I can’t type a . directly. Yesterday, I pasted the number from an email (because why would I type it and probably make a mistake in the process?), so it looks like it simply stripped the dot entirely …

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Dots as thousands separators are the most confusing thing to me. 🥴 I like '. Basically, anything at the bottom should be a decimal point and anything at the top a thousands separator.

Maybe it’s time to think about taking the website and all software offline.

• https://www.heise.de/en/background/Software-providers-beware-They-are-now-liable-for-defective-products-10028867.html
  
• https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/documents-publications/public-register/document-details/?ImmcIdentifier=ST-5553-2024-INIT&DocumentLanguage=EN
  

This will open the gates of hell, allowing lawyers to harass free software developers. Not because of the actual content of those proposed laws, because there is supposed to be an exemption for free software – but because there is a great tradition here in germany, where lawyers just make false claims and try to extort money from you. Can you safely ignore them? Should you seek legal council immediately? You never know. It’s best to avoid becoming a target in the first place.

Besides, the current wording is just an EU thing. It will have to be transformed into german law (and french law and spanish law …), which means our legislative bodies can screw up things big time. It’s quite possible that they won’t include that exemption or include it in a very vague and ambiguous way.

I’m really angry right now and hopefully I’ll think differently tomorrow.

@prologic@twtxt.net All good mate.

@eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club sorry I meant to get to this today, please remind me to elaborate on this position a bit more later but I think it’s otherwise pretty rubbish

LOL what does “lightly encrypted” mean?! 🤣

@movq@www.uninformativ.de that would have never worked for me. I don’t have that kind of money in a bank account. 😂

We should standardise numerical notations, at least the nations using the Arabic numerals. Spain also uses the period as the thousands separator. For legibility sake, commas and periods make sense, like €3,500.25, for example. That’s three thousand five hundred Euros, and 25 Euro cents. But this should also work: €3500.25.

It makes little sense that €334.90 gets interpreted as €33490 (or €33,490). 🤯

Oof, is it any wonder some of us don’t want to just give out our info online willy-nilly.

Also that credit card ‘encryption’ will likely land that company in very hot water, no doubt far away from PCI DSS requirements.

@prologic@twtxt.net what do we make of Labor’s proposed social media minimum age ban, I.e ID verification, and the likes of Yarn? I haven’t been able to find out exactly how far the legislation goes, but some have said it’s broad enough to include any site that even has a comment section 🤔 but that could be FUD.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de The dot is the thousands separator, so I’m surprised that it did not interpret it as €334,900.00. Luckily, you caught it in time! :-)

@xuu@txt.sour.is Hahaha, nice expression. :-D

Lol. “Lighty Encrypted” https://www.pcmag.com/news/hot-topic-breach-confirmed-millions-of-credit-cards-email-addresses-exposed

Numbers are hard. I just almost accidentally sent 33k€ to someone via bank transfer, because the banking website interpreted 334.90 as 33490,00. 😬 This is germany, so it wants a comma, not a dot …

I love Al and his bass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwnDKcoVHmY

@wbknl@twtxt.net Tell us more! Who is Thomas Feiner? 🤔

Thinking about how underrated is Thomas Feiner!

You need to figure out what it means to have “free thought”, “to reason”, “have deep understanding” and be able to apply knowledge in unfamiliar environments or scenarios. You have to figure out what it means to “dream”. You have to figure out what it means to hold “ethics”, “morals” and even “beleifs”.

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net When are we going to resign ourselves to a position of not achieving AGI and so-called AI in the first place? Hmmm 🧐 Fundamentally I don’t think we understand how the human brain works or what it means to be a “conscious free thinking being” – I’m not convinced we’ll figure this out to be honest.

OpenAI and Others Seek New Path To Smarter AI as Current Methods Hit Limitations
AI companies like OpenAI are seeking to overcome unexpected delays and challenges in the pursuit of ever-large language models by developing training techniques that use more human-like ways for algorithms to “think.” From a report: A dozenAI scientists, researchers and investors told Reuters they believe that these … ⌘ Read more

@xuu@txt.sour.is must be extremely unlucky, as it picks a random pod in the peering list 🤣 – Oh but wait… @xuu@txt.sour.is have you updated recently? @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org did add some new feature that means you have to go to Settings -> Poderator settings and trust the peers you have there, including my pod 😅

@bender@twtxt.net True I just wanted to make sure 👍

@prologic@twtxt.net using Yarn he isn’t supposed to follow it, it should show as context, no?

They are however pretty good at auto-complete though. If you wire up Continue.dev with VSCode and a local Ollama powered codeastral model, it’s pretty decent. Or if you use the open source friendly Codeium.

@eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club With enough data and enough computing power you can simulate anything right or create grand illusions that appear to real they’re hard to tell 😅 – But yes, at the end of the day LLM(s) today are just large probabilistic models, stochastic parrots.

@xuu@txt.sour.is You don’t follow the Slashdot feed? 🤔

@prologic@twtxt.net I never got the root for this

@wbknl@twtxt.net I have thought of getting one. I wish there were easier tools for it than direwolf

🤑😜

@bender@twtxt.net Linux and Android. I would never iOS my friend.

I like this comment on Slashdot in the above link:

LLMs don’t have an understanding of anything. They can only regurgitate derivations of what they’ve been trained on and can’t apply that to something new in the same ways that humans or even other animals can. The models are just so large that the illusion is impressive.

So true.

Generative AI Doesn’t Have a Coherent Understanding of the World, MIT Researchers Find
Long-time Slashdot reader Geoffrey.landis writes: Despite its impressive output, a recent study from MIT suggests generative AI doesn’t have a coherent understanding of the world. While the best-performing large language models have surprising capabilities that make it seem like the models are implicitly learn … ⌘ Read more

@bender@twtxt.net Ull Twt to find the references later. But my memory is quite good 🤣

I’ve been testing our new APRS digipeater, that allows us to report our geographic position via radio.

@prologic@twtxt.net sorry, tried looking for the points you mentioned, but couldn’t find them. Got a link?

@bender@twtxt.net Fair point, could be. I probably have to implement it first or create some kind of a mockup to spare me the effort of some feature that I rip out again. :-)

@xuu@txt.sour.is Yep!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Riiiight, I now remember reading that a long time ago. :-)

@bender@twtxt.net I now read the German Wikipedia article on fog. These are some really beautiful pictures:

• https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Nebelbank_in_der_W%C3%BCste_Namib_bei_Aus_%282018%29.jpg
  
• https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_moving_through_fog.jpg
  
• https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/Fog_Bow_%2819440790708%29.jpg
  
• https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/360_degrees_fogbow.jpg