Nyancient CthUwU

weeb / functional programmer / computer science phd / leftist sjw / magical non-binary girl(?)

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Leibniz-Institut DSMZdsmz@wisskomm.social
2025-01-07

Antje Boetius is a German marine biologist, professor and director of Germany's polar research hub. She and her team discovered methane-eating bacteria that are allies in the fight against greenhouse gases. Boetius has led several international research expeditions and has participated in about 40 marine biology expeditions. To honour her outstanding contributions to marine microbiology, DSMZ researchers named the strain Streptomyces boetiae (DSM 44917) after her.

#herstory #WomenInScience

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2025-01-07

It's a beautiful day when a fascist dies.
ard.social/@tagesschau/1137871

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⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯cryptadamist@universeodon.com
2025-01-07

The only major media publication that has been unapologetically correct about crypto from the jump continues absolutely nailing it.

ft.com/content/8533f856-57f1-4

#FT #FinancialTimes #Alphaville #crypto #cryptocurrency #bitcoin #BTC #FTAV

FInancial Times Alphaville article about apoligizing to HODLers:

"FTAV posts between June 2011 and today may have communicated the idea that bitcoin is a negative-sum game being played on a protocol that's very clever and hypothetically useful as a unit of account, but is chronically inefficient as a conventional means of exchange and is compromised as a store of value. Our posts may also have promoted the idea that the price of a bitcoin is an arbitrary hype gauge that's disconnected from any utility the token may have, because it's trivial to duplicate the utility provided by said token, so any intrinsic worth comes from the sunk costs of infrastructure alongside intangibles like regulatory acquiescence, interconnectedness with mainstream financial systems it was once sold as being the antidote to, and the souvenir attraction of "being the first"
We stand by every single one of those posts.
Nevertheless, with bitcoin's price recently crossing $100,000, a significant number of commenters seem to feel they deserve an apology in light of our longstanding cynicism, so here it is:
We're sorry if at any moment in the past 14 years you chose based on our coverage not to buy a thing whose number has gone up. It's nice when your number goes up. And we're sorry if you misunderstood our crypto cynicism to be a declaration of support for tradfi, because we hate that too.
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VissViss
2024-09-22
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2024-09-20

Italian incense doesn't smell very good. Do not recommend.

dry spaghetti noodles sticking out of pot on fire on a gas stove
2024-09-20

@marcan AI, as a term, is dead by this point. It's been (and is currently being) way too misused to refer to anything a marketer wants to present as advanced and mysterious. It doesn't mean anything anymore. I'd rather use ML, since the marketers and plagiarism machine vendors haven't gotten hold of it yet.

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blaineblaine
2024-09-20

We need a word like "arson" but for acts that have egregious climate impacts. Private jets (for example) aren't just tools of arson, they also cause floods and other extreme weather.

The word should be cognate with arson, because at this point, with vanishingly few exceptions, e.g. flying in a private jet is a willful act of terrorism. Despite other options, some people choose violence.

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2024-09-18

Maybe Google shouldn't strip non-ascii characters when training AI

a google search for 'atoms in the universe' returns an AI  'answer' of "There are an estimated 1078 to 1082 atoms in the observable universe."
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2024-09-18

#Mozilla has announced that they are closing their Mastodon instance.

But at least, they are hiring a lot, which is nice.

Like:
- Machine Learning Engineer, Gen AI
- Principal Product Manager, Generative AI
- Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Gen AI
- …

Wait, are they hiring for something else than AI ?

Glad you asked:

- Senior Staff Software Engineer, Ads
- Client Analytics Manager
- Product Policy Manager, Ads
- …

mozilla.org/en-US/careers/list

2024-09-18

Interestingly, the people who think razing Gaza to the ground over Hamas' attack on civilians last year, seem to have no opinion at all on Mossad setting off thousands of explosive devices in the middle of civilian population centers.

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2024-09-18

Kanagawa Prefecture is prosecuting a teenager for hurling online epithets at a third-gen Zainichi Korean resident who runs the Kawasaki International Association, telling him to "die" and "get out of Japan." Prosecutors are treating the case as a hate crime.

asahi.com/articles/ASS6W46K1S6

#japan #unseenjapan #law #crime #discrimination

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CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:catsalad@infosec.exchange
2024-09-18

We've update our privacy policy, pray we do not update it any further.

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JA WestenbergDaojoan
2024-09-07

If anyone’s wondering what the dude who sang “chocolate rain” is up to these days, he’s dropping absolute bangers about housing and he’s fucking right

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🌈 A. Wilcox delicatelyawilfox@mst3k.interlinked.me
2024-09-07

I have done The Thing.

catfox.life/2024/09/05/porting

I have ported #systemd to #musl. Properly. Passing all tests, properly. Booting my 2012 Ivy Bridge in 3.2 seconds, properly.

I'm aware of how unpopular this will be in some circles. But change does not happen without competition, and musl environments deserve more than what they have right now. systemd isn't a panacea, it isn't even that great, but it's here, it solves real issues people have, and it's now an option. Not a requirement, but an option.

2024-08-21

@fasterthanlime regardless of anything else, as long as the copyright question is "unsolved" (it isn't though, an LLM is obviously a derived work of its training data), LLMs are useless for programming (unless your employer has a fuckton of money to burn on lawyers) because any code it produces is potentially illegal to distribute.

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2024-08-18

Did you know?
Most economists agree that by the time you're 40, you should:
- own at least one magic sword
- get advice from an enchanted bear skull
- know the ancient language of the trees
- wander the earth as a creature of folklore and legend

2024-08-17

@marcan well well well, if it isn't the consequences of my own actions...

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aki-nyan //nullptr::livelethalbit@vt.social
2024-08-16

We're not doing enough shaming of people who use Discord as a wiki/bug tracker/release distribution/etc. ***especially*** if it's for a FOSS/OSHW project.

LIke common people, please,

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2024-08-16

Violence is never ok, even against fascists. That's why WWII took so long, cause the Allies had to politely debate them all

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2024-08-16

「『 ᕵᘿᗩᖽᐸ ᗩᘿSᖶᕼᘿᖶᓰᑢS 』」
> git --in-the fukken/robot shinji

#custom #evangelion #keyboard #geekhack #mechanicalkeyboards #neongenesis #mechkeebz #keycaps #neongenesisevangelion #artisankeycaps

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