Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org
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Joined Aug 2018
Shortly thereafter: "It's not just blood, it's frozen blood!"
Overheard: "Oh! There's a lot more blood than you think there is."
@kristinmbranson I don't have any data whatsoever, but my *sense* is that the vast majority of email is spam that is being filtered out.
Search results seem to have gotten noticeably worse in the last couple of years. Many of the hits are so obviously worthless that I can't imagine the link graph would rate them highly -- unless perhaps most pages are being built automatically, so there *are* tons of links to these paste-some-wikipedia-text-and-puts-ads-on-it pages.
To a first approximation, it seems that we've won the war on spam and lost the war on search engine optimization.
Most of what makes it to my inbox is at least somewhat relevant to me. In a lot of web searches, most of the first page is garbage, sites that are plagiarized from each other to trick people into watching ads.
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And I'm the one who wakes up sore in the morning?!
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I keep seeing articles, about people trying to violently overturn election results, that use phrases like “motivated by election lies”.
They aren’t motivated by lies, they are motivated by not liking the result. Repeating the lies just makes them feel powerful because it makes them part of the grift. They think they’re fooling people.
Blaming the lies lulls us into thinking that this is an education/disinformation problem which, if addressed, will eliminate the violence.
These folks aren’t deluded. They’ve learned from their leaders that violence and lying are the route to power.
For most of my life I thought these problems could be solved by education. I no longer do. As far as I can tell, about 30% of the population believes that getting away with grifts and bullying people is proof of power and leadership that should be respected, worshiped, and emulated.
We can’t educate these folks. We can only build a society that ensures that they cannot gain control. Unfortunately, the entire human race has largely failed to do so, and we’re suffering the consequences on a planetary scale.
Every day we act as though they don’t *know* that the elections were valid, is a day we risk losing the fight for democracy, equality, and a stable environment.
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I love moss and I love frogs and I just discovered the cutest thing in existence: the Vietnamese moss frog 🤗
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#Violet wonders what exactly we're getting up to.
@forteller @pluralistic ... or, in this case, the right to reaper.
@Lyonesseuk @scottjenson Interesting.
Is there a voice control system accurate and responsive enough to operate a vehicle? I'm used to voice systems that give you, like, 80% accuracy after a one-second delay, which wouldn't work.
I recognize that the rules are different for controlling the motion of the vehicle versus controlling the radio, map navigation, etc.
I'd be interested to hear about your experience!
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Been seeing a lot about #ChatGPT lately and got my first question at the library this week from someone who was looking for a book that the bot had recommended. They couldn't find it in our catalog. Turns out that ALL the books that ChatGPT had recommended for their topic were non-existent. Just real authors and fake titles cobbled together. And apparently this is known behavior. 😮
@scottjenson Every new input device seems worse than the last. Physical buttons (including keyboards) > mouse > gamepad > touchscreen > voice > gestures.
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So it's time to replace our kitchen cabinets. They're probably close to 50 years old and the particle board is simply falling apart. Our house is small (around 1000 square feet), so our kitchen is as well.
Suggestions or resources on where to get started? Web searching seems to find mainly:
* Ads
* Articles about *whether* to replace them
* Articles about how to do it yourself (we don't have the skills, tools, or inclination)
(Specific recommendations for Portland, OR would be particularly useful.)
Two other things I noticed in this web search:
* Many of the pages seem like they were written by either ChatGPT or a first-year college student trying to pad 2 pages of ideas into a 20-page paper.
* What's with all the open shelving? Who are these people who (a) are magically immune to dust and (b) have so much space they can spend four feet of shelving on one knickknack they got on their weekend trip to Provence?
@isoutar If you're coming from statistics, R will make more sense. If you're coming from computer science, Python will.
@ZenobiaVayne Because you haven't made any mistakes yet.
- Siva Afi
- https://tgc.link/siva-afi
- Cascadia 9.0
- https://www.cascadia9game.org/
CS professor, game designer, and fire dancer ordinaire.
Joined Aug 2018
