Amikke @Amikke@social.cleverlibre.org

@moffintosh so apparently the default `.sort()` compares UTF-16 code units. It will not only sort -2 before -7, it will also sort 10 before 9. Truly cursed stuff.

Once again forced to witness the deepest horrors of our reality

@andersgo don't get me started on how "colonel" is pronounced "kernel"

I'd like to see someone suss out the data on the number of pedestrian collisions that are occurring over time, but I can't find it easily.

Deaths are obviously going up, and I'm not arguing that a larger car isn't more dangerous to pedestrians and other road users (they most certainly are).

But... I'm almost certain pedestrian impacts have gone up, making you more likely to be hit in the first place. That's important and that matters to the discussion.

*Feeling the pressure of a big task*

*Dividing it into smaller tasks*

*Feeling the pressure of so many tasks*

debunking the myth of light bulbs as the origin of planned obsolescence:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb7Bs98KmnY

I am once again asking that documentation is published in not just video form.

Every instance should rename TWKN to something like this. ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE

Spam sucks.

We built the best spam detection system in the fediverse, using a combination of machine learning and behavioural analysis!

Best part is that this doesn't depend on any 3rd party service or API, and you can share/import training data.

Sometimes the most magical features are those we don't see 😎

I mean…

it's fun when you look up software in github and it's like "latest commit: yesterday" and then you scroll down and some of the files have like, "last modified: 20 years ago"

THAT'S OLDER THAN GITHUB. THAT'S OLDER THAN GIT

AI
http://smbc-comics.com/comic/copyright

Literally just asking ChatGPT to classify a text document gets 58.7% accuracy (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/370594216_ChatGraph_Interpretable_Text_Classification_by_Converting_ChatGPT_Knowledge_to_Graphs)

Gzip gets 68.5% (https://mastodon.social/@mhoye/110707564773784439)

On one hand, that's definitely misusing ChatGPT.
On the other hand, that's also definitely misusing Gzip.

If "Artificial General Intelligence" means "able to do tasks it was never designed for", then I, for one, welcome our Gzip overlords

Holy _shit_ this paper, and the insight behind it.

You know how every receiver is also a transmitter, _well_: every text predictor is also text compressor, and vice-versa.

You can outperform massive neural networks running millions of parameters, with a novel applications of _gzip_.

https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.426/

misconceptions programmers have about names:

1. everyone has a name
2. names are only in the ASCII character set
3. all names are pronounceable
4. evoking the true name of your enemy does not give you power over them
5. no one would ever name their child after a star wars character

Have you ever wanted to make a "you wouldn't steal a car" meme, but been disappointed with how lame the existing meme editors are?

I made a better one: https://youwouldntsteala.website/editor.html

Several years ago everyone agreed that unencrypted data flow is dangerous and #internet as a whole should avoid it. #TLS spreaded everywhere. Now it is default and unencrypted traffic is marked as not secure.
(Sometimes I have to agree to 3-4 warning popups to log into some development service in internal network via http )

I wonder when we finally agree the same about #MessagingApps and when we would understand #e2ee should be a standard. And messaging apps without #encryption should also have big red scary warnings to discourage people from using these. People should know before they send something what would be used against them in the future.

#security #privacy

look, all I am saying is I had no idea that toot meant fart in english, i am not a native speaker and i never questioned why everyone was all joking about it for weeks and nobody told me repeatedly because it;s not an extremely common usage of the word. I don't know anything. I don't even know where I am right now. the world is a mystery to me.

how it feels to talk about #activitypub and how #fedi implements it