Mike Bennett

Caffeine-fueled software developer working in Digital Humanities/Libraries/Research/Academia spaces.

Co-chair of IIIF Content Search Technical Specification Group.

Semi-professional string instrument botherer in my spare time.

2023-06-10

@dysfun This is why GitHub has a "report abuse" button šŸ˜›

2023-06-08

@julsraemy @workergnome

This was a very fun presentation, thanks David!

2023-06-08

Dogfooding the `iiif-prezi3` library by using it to present the slides for the "Introduction to iiif-prezi3" lightning talk as a IIIF Presentation v3 manifest šŸ˜…

@IIIF@glammr.us @iiif@a.gup.pe #IIIF

2023-03-30

@raffaele

Along with a few others from the IIIF community, I am involved in an effort to help IA update their existing IIIF provision. If you're ok with it, I might tap you up for a chat in a while about use cases and what can be added to make things more useful.

A little bit underway here: github.com/ArchiveLabs/iiif.ar

2023-03-07

Now that Gandi has been bought out by Total Webhosting Solutions and immediately announced they are putting up all their prices and starting to charge for services that have been free for the decade+ I have been using them, I am looking for a new domain registrar.

All recommendations welcome, especially for those providers who also have a solid email service (as I just don't have the time/patience to run my own any more).

Thanks in advance :)

Mike Bennett boosted:
psychopomp disasterieatkillerbees@lucha.nyc
2023-03-04

These machines can do neither. They produce strings of tokens that statistically appear like they were produced by a human.

To an LLM the statements ā€œNeil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moonā€ and ā€œNeil Armstrong was the first man to walk on Marsā€ are differentiated only in that more people have written the former than the latter.

That’s it.

AI doesn’t exist and companies letting what we DO have make decisions is just a way to avoid culpability for the results.

3/3

Mike Bennett boosted:
2023-02-26
2023-02-26

@moh_kohn Not the desired result but what a game that was!

2023-02-25

Forza Azzurri! Fantastic try - well deserved that they came out of that with 7 points.

#ITAvIRE #SixNations #Rugby #RugbyUnion

2023-02-24

@bagder A fine choice! I don't have a bottle of it (too pricey 😬) but one of my local bars has the Benriach 25, so I have that lined up, although I may have to have it a couple of days early or late, as I'll be traveling to Gothenburg on the 19th!

2023-02-24

I think Conway got done there. Looked like a clear gap between bat and ball. I have always distrusted snicko by itself, whatever happened to HotSpot?
#ENGvNZ #Cricket

2023-02-23

@_hypocaust Possibly extra furious because if she'd left it, it would surely have been a wide

2023-02-22

@dysfun lol. lmao even.

Mike Bennett boosted:
2023-02-22

And on the pedestal, these words appear:
"Wayback Machine has not archived that URL."
Nothing beside remains.

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This is how they arrive on Earth.

Orange cat laying inside a hole in a tree stump, there’s a black cat behind itBlack cat sleeping on the hood of a mostly shattered car windshield
2023-02-13

@moh_kohn Love a good helpful error message!

Mike Bennett boosted:
2023-02-11

"QUICK. WHAT ARE THE 128 MOST IMPORTANT INSTRUMENTS? WE NEED TO HAVE THE GENERAL MIDI SPEC IN TOMORROW!"

"UH FUCK, PIANO 1 PIANO 2 PIANO 3 FLUTE OBOE GUN"

"GUN???"

"HELICOPTER"

Mike Bennett boosted:
2023-02-10

HR says I’m no longer allowed to answer the phone with ā€œfor fuck sake, what nowā€

2023-02-08

@dysfun @clover

The first time I heard someone call it "engine x" was a real "ohhhhhhhhhhhhh, that makes a lot of sense" moment.

Didn't change _my_ pronunciation of it though!

2023-02-08

@dysfun I have never pronounced it any other way 😁

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