the cast of Star Trek Voyager in street clothes awkwardly posing with late-90s computer hardware and consumer electronics

this is what it feels like to post on bluesky

there's a type of argument like "our world, or at least some big actors in it, make the worst of new tools." yeah! also true of OSS, the internet, computers. we try to use those for good stuff, even though many predicted risks were real and they get used for bad stuff too

oh, is this like: wasn't public, but as a government work it's public domain, so you could just yeet it out there, and there's a limited amount they can do, but that does include not letting you back in their library?

that's really fun

it is so...something that the process stall meant AMD would be the first to put avx-512 with a full-width datapath in regular-joe cpus

(i'm worried there was some niche release that makes that technically untrue, but i think you get what i mean)

an advantage of forgejo/gitea/gitlab ce is...uptime?? unreal that we've gotten here

uld you support or oppose abolishing ICE? (%) Somewhat or strongly supportNot sureSomewhat or strongly oppose U.S. adult citizens 39 Party ID Democrats 14 Independents 35 Republicans 68

Per The Economist/YouGov, half of Americans support ABOLISHING ICE.

Literally, "abolishing."

yougov.com/en-us/articl...

i've hit my limit but tbh i'm surprised it resets at 4a Madrid time on the 6th

a funny thing is now if there's a typo or something informal/random in some doc at work part of me just thinks, "cool, now they know i wrote it"

What does encoding time for AVIF look like these days?

third way really has its finger on the pulse with its opposition to a billionaire tax. really smart election-maximizing moderation here folks

yeah a masterful entry in the "sorry we got caught" genre cannot change the timeline of events that brought us here

ok having written hopeful things, i should link this -- it and the surrounding thread which make me worry a bit more this might not turn out real bsky.app/profile/mrag...

ok, sadly, the llm-written bit does make it seem more possible the evals will just turn out to be nonsense

seems cool for setups that sample multiple outputs (voting, gen multiple answers and score them/see if code runs).

(his use of 'truthfulness' made me think it was about separating unlikely-because-false outputs from inessential stuff like odd word choice, but think it's not that at all?)

so i can kind of see how it could work to try to keep it in a 'carefully answering factual questions' state as opposed to 'i've had two espressos' -- avoid falling apart even if the less-likely choices made it say something weird or incorrect

i'd seen running models at t=2 etc. that sometimes the model tries to 'explain' its weird output and adopt a persona that fits it -- outputs "yes i've had two espressos wb you" in a coding rant, or deciding output is impromptu spoken comments from someone sharing songs they wrote

LOL--I'd see early DeepSeek versions surprise-translate words in my code (I kind of get it, Chinese language output was uhh a priority for them), something to see it from Google's models

TODO--did they ever...do that?

the choice of domain is *chef's kiss*

sand ghost @moutheaters Me: Is the natural state of the soul quiet or chaos? Taco Bell cashier: Look buddy, it's transient, shifting like water 4:36 AM • 2017-11-09

oh maybe for one-liner s/foo/bar/ type stuff! still good for that so i get it

Perl 6/Raku (the new wild/wooly one) or 5.x (the old one, still chugging along)?

it seems like "human responsibility for use of force" does not obviously rule out fully autonomous weapons as long as some unlucky human gets held responsible for their actions

think they kind of get it and it's part of why they fussed at all. and they know no tactics but attack (or rarely 'announce a thing and don't do it'), or they'd've shrugged and told the killbot/panopticon teams to use codex. it feels sort of unpredictable

home projects with the kid are awesome. "the user [singular!!] would like..."

"I’m encouraged that they even have a hill [to die on]." i reluctantly have to hand it to him

States/local jurisdictions should pass laws against LEOs deceiving people about who they are. There'd be a legal fight when it was time to enforce, but it beats just laying down

This is a type of ICE "ruse," and is a tactic the agency has deployed for decades.

In 2015, ICE went to my former client's house posing as cops and convinced his 16-year-old US citizen niece to call him home from work with a fake story (the "identity theft ruse" explained below), then arrested him.

[Normal Rockwell painting with Lenin substituted in] they're right