Tinkerer, Curious.Thoughts ∈ {Web, Design, Physics, Quantified self, Human condition, Mech sympathy, Privacy & Public transportation}
If I hear one more person talk about “putting our brightest people toward solving climate change”, I will scream.
Climate change is not some deep mystery waiting for a scientific breakthrough: we know exactly what causes it and how we address that. We have SOLVED climate change.
The problem is not “finding the solution”, the problem is convincing literally anyone in power that the solution is better than building billionaire bunkers in new zealand.
Is there a self-hostable music library that I can also put a client for on my phone and it will do downloading stuff to my device and all that? And then I can listen to the music on my phone too? Like, without having to manually copy all the files and then the copying never works correctly and everything is always broken, I am so fed up with this
OMFG.
I JUST REALISED A FOOD TRUCK IS REVERSE DRIVE THRU.
The future sucks. No flying cars, no self drying clothes and no hoverboards. Instead we’re debating pasteurizing milk, polio vaccines and innocent until proven guilty.
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things i did not expect to learn through a mini-documentary about #Nebula's font design:
the person who added the gender modifier to emoji found out they're nonbinary through the process of making the proposal.
https://nebula.tv/videos/nebula-sans/
Students disappearing off the streets into unmarked vans isn’t a “scandal," it’s straight up terrorism and the media is too chicken-shit to say that.
Justice is definitely blind to those with a shit-ton of money, that’s for damn sure.
Thinking to own my own map server! The resource requirements seem to be pretty high. I hope this doesn't motivate me to spin up, yet one more server 😅
Today #NASA is closing their Office of the Chief Scientist and Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy.
And of course, their Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility branch.
These layoffs are under the Executive Order for DOGE's Workforce Optimization Initiative. All associated staff are laid off under a phased Reduction in Force.
If you are a US citizen and you have ever once oohed and aahed at the beautiful images from James Webb or the Mars Rovers or Pluto's heart, or appreciated the work NASA does to track and understand climate, or even just dressed your kid in an astronaut costume, CALL your congressional representatives and demand an end to these shortsighted cuts.
Not sure I've ever seen a more obvious picture to remind us that police exist to protect the property of the ruling class, not the rights of the people.
As always, @TechConnectify kicks one more out of the park.
My 2 cents, on this topic, is surrendering control of your feed to a corporation whose sole purpose is to maximize their value to their shareholders is not tenable and is ripe for abuse.
That's the most brilliant alert I've ever come across:
"Your 'Status' page is receiving way more page views than usual"
Even if your other monitoring didn't catch it, the fact that a whole bunch of users are checking to see if the system is down is a pretty darn good canary.
#NoBillionaires #TaxTheRich #EatTheRich #GuillotinesWork #LaborMakesEverything #workersrights #livingwage #slavelabor #wageslave
https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/22/link-blog/ looks like a cool idea, I want to incorporate something like this on my weblog too.
A "review," if you can say that, feels similar to providing another perspective on a topic(Book/Movie/YouTube video).
Friends, for something to be open source, we need to see
1. The data it was trained and evaluated on
2. The code
3. The model architecture
4. The model weights.
DeepSeek only gives 3, 4. And I'll see the day that anyone gives us #1 without being forced to do so, because all of them are stealing data.
With apologies for the late notice, the conversation that @ahl and I were scheduled to have with @orhun has been delayed two weeks. Join us on Monday February 10th at the European-friendly time of 9a Pacific to talk textual UIs! https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1328452701985575074
Always good to be humbled by the capabilities of an individual less than half your age... mad respect for this completely custom-built arm laptop by Byran Huang: https://www.byran.ee/posts/creation/
