George Mari @GeorgeMari@social.cleverlibre.org

no one has ever surpassed the animated netscape logo's ability to make the internet feel majestic and awe inspiring

it was absolutely useless. Thanks

One of the decisive moments in my understanding of #LLMs and their limitations was when, last autumn, @emilymbender walked me through her Thai Library thought experiment.

She's now written it up as a Medium post, and you can read it here. The value comes from really pondering the question she poses, so take the time to think about it. What would YOU do in the situation she outlines?

https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/thought-experiment-in-the-national-library-of-thailand-f2bf761a8a83

happy 5.25" floppy day!

PSA: take some time in 2023 to back up your/your family's CD-Rs (and other recordable media) full of memories you threw into storage 10+ years ago; there's a decent chance they've started to rot!

the tenuously thin layer of dyes/adhesives holding the data *will* break down over time, rapidly so if their environment is uncontrolled, the surface was previously nicked/contaminated, or they were cheap ones to begin with

This is a really, really, really big deal! #electricvehicles https://insideevs.com/news/669212/ford-switch-tesla-ncas-chargign-connector/

Want a strong understanding of electric vehicle technology?
The Tech Talk series by Lucid Motors is a great place to start, so we're collecting them in a single thread to make them easy to find and discuss. Enjoy!
https://www.insideevsforum.com/community/index.php?threads/lucid-motors-tech-talk-videos.18304/

🤔What if manufacturers were assessed a disposal tax every time something they produced ended up in a waste management facility?

Ultimate Life Hack

We've migrated everyone following the @arstechnica@geeknews.chat mirror to the official Ars account, welcome if you were following that

A big thank you to @jeroen for running that mirror all this time

This guy knows.
#HDMI

Elon Musk changed Twitter's algorithm to feature his own tweets and now he's using that power to promote his preferred presidential candidate.

I have a lead on Senior Software Engineer role working primarily in #rustlang.

The candidate must be in North American timezones unfortunately.

Plz email me: rtyler [at] brokenco.de if you're interested in building data processing tools with Ferris! 🦀

It’s like this: my sib Tidy just called and told me that a significant portion of the population of Austin is up in arms because Dell Children’s Hospital just shut down its entire adolescent medicine dept over fallout from this anti-gender-affirming care crap.

The only MD in the city doing trans youth medicine also happens to be, by all accounts, the best MD in the city for cis girls with other complex stuff. Both of my cis nieces with weird issues are among her patients. This poor doc just said “fuck it” and quit, she couldn’t take the relentless bashing. My nieces and countless other Austin girls are now without the medical care they need and deserve. And for what? The governor’s MAGA street cred?

My point is this: even if your kids aren’t trans, this anti-trans bullshit can and will still fuck them up.

Protecting trans kids protects ALL kids.

#ProtectTransKids

Not electric, but I really enjoyed this calming look at this 1926 Model T. Those ecngine coils! 😍https://mstdn.ca/@flivverchannel/110408686975597694

If Facebook and Instagram were to join the Fediverse and you could follow users from that world from your instance, would you do it?

Boosts appreciated. I'd like to know the current consensus of the Fediverse.

#Meta #Facebook #Instagram #SocialMedia

Can China's Stand-Up Comedy Scene Survive Joke About Two Dogs? https://www.voanews.com/a/can-china-s-stand-up-comedy-scene-survive-joke-about-two-dogs-/7101956.html #voanews #voiceofamerica

France is fighting to save your iPhone from an early death

French prosecutors have launched an investigation into the scourge of planned obsolescence.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/05/france-is-fighting-to-save-your-iphone-from-an-early-death/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

I've helped so many people in my career to find work. Now it is me. I've been looking for a job for a long time. As a a person who calls on #tech and #ai to be accountable (and offers to help do that) you'd think they'd want me. But nope. Is *anyone* in my network hiring? Please.