pleroma.debian.social

pleroma.debian.social

Jonathan Dowland | @jmtd@pleroma.debian.social

Principal Software Engineer on #OpenJDK #RedHat. #Debian developer (dormant). Computer Science PhD student. Amateur Computing historian (Computer Science and H/W, esp. Commodore Amiga). Guerilla archivist.

@jwz not on your list, but “allow signal to [insert thing here]” -> No -> “we’ll ask you again later” is still a thing.

@stilgherrian web forms not accepting ‘+’ is still a problem even today. Worse, companies whose sites accept it one day and reject it later on (after you’ve signed up)

Laptop sticker installed.

A laptop palm rest area showing keys above. There is a sticker on the palm rest showing a cute cartoon duck holding a knife, with the caption, “This meeting could have been a knife fight.”

Is it time to buy the dip yet?

@algernon there is such a list, apparently. John Gruber blogged recently whinging about being on it

I continue to believe that Bitwarden's recent UI changes are objectively worse and I'm still grumpy about it.

@metacosm I should add that I was off sick for a long time last year, and my team-mates clubbed together and got me a voucher which paid for the Korg Minilogue XD. My team is awesome. IBM are lucky to be getting us.

@metacosm oh that's cool. The smaller one, the microfreak, was on my shortlist (https://jmtd.net/log/synths/microfreak/) — I might still pick it up one day, as it can be used portably with a powerbank

@revk Oh! I didn't notice (and I can't see the tag right now, in my client) — tagging is, I think, sufficient, so thank you.

@dneary @evan FWIW I don't personally believe WW2 started with Pearl Harbor, but I believe that many do.

@bencc @beasts that’s a good innings. I think mine is at about 12 years old. Still older than my flesh children!

@evan no option for Pearl Harbor?

@0xabad1dea @vaurora be it bias in a training dataset or a quirk of the implementation, it also affects other aspects of GenAI, which is pretty good because it helps to spot the slop.

Do LLMs have the same colour preference as humans?

A massive chart showing that humans have diverse preferences, somewhat favouring blue, but OpenAI's GPT exclusively or almost exclusively report their preference for blue.

Label: created by Peter Gostev, data from YouGov 2015

@revk its convention to spoiler-tag toots like this “uspol”. Would you consider that in future please?

@metacosm Korg minilogue XD. Gathering dust atm :(

@zhenech @stdevel I've always wanted to explore that stuff. I have a ThinkPad Yoga 260 which I might play with once I submit

@zhenech @stdevel Go on, tell me more about the X61t. Does it have the 1024x768TN display or the better ones? Have you modernized it at all?

@gregoa_ tbh I'm still keen. Just not sure what my niche should be. I want to avoid doing something too package-centric. DPL time always depresses me, as most platforms (not picking on anyone in particular) are still very package-centric. IMHO our biggest problems are much more structural, social, high level…

Writing this toot purely so I can click on the result and follow

@nybooks

@pndc I’ve been considering polite requests to use content filters but anticipate unpleasant consequences

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