bitofhope

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[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 3 points 1 week ago

And as the same channel demonstrates, there are ways to fly without any wings at all

spoiler…as well as with them!

Man, it's really true what they say: the West can't meme.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

baking a Hear Me Out Cake for Reachy 2

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You ever see a random shitpost video, like the backgroud music, look it up and realize you already have the vinyl record? That just happened to me.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

To be fair, the typesetting of the papers is quite pleasant and the pictures are nice.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 2 points 1 week ago

Wow, these Japanese jet coasters are getting crazier day by day!

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) 37,108.54 -1,206.32 (-3.15%) As of 9:30:56 AM EDT. Market Open.

lol, lmao, happy Monday everyone

Critical support to comrade Trump in his struggle against AmeriKKKan imp€riali$m. Death to the great SSatan United $naKKKeSS.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 18 points 1 week ago

Oh, sorry, I got so absorbed into reading the riveting material about features predicting state name tokens to predict state capital tokens I missed that we were quibbling over the word "next". Alright they can predict tokens out of order, too. Very impressive I guess.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 22 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Essentially they do not simply predict the next token

looks inside

it's predicting the next token

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Alright fair enough. It's an iPhone. All the browsers on this thing are just Safari reskins (i.e. Chromium reskins). No browser add-ons allowed due to Apple's policy. I don't like it and I don't expect my next phone to be an Apple product. DNS based ad blocking helps a little bit.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 15 points 1 week ago

"Trivially" fits nicely in a margin, too. Suck on that, Andrew and Pierre!

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

You know what, yeah. It's a Blackberry Mobira Cityman Western Electric Model 500 Nokia 3310 Apple Banana Samsung Galaxy Supernova Explosion iNote Xperia Sidekick N-Gage 3G 4G 5G Pro Max. It's running whatever happens to be the hippest new privacy focused ROM that you haven't used. I need this particular model for my work and to access my bank and if I buy a second phone my dog will die.

If I personally justify to you that I've jumped through as many hoops on my end as possible, will you stop missing the point and realize the onus should not be on each individual end user to partially deshittify the web back into barely usable state?

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

I didn't ask for advice, but the painkillers are kicking in so I forgive you. I was browsing the intertubes from my bed on my smart telephone. Marvelous, handy little devices these things. The only problem is they don't have a proper fucking version of Firefox available on them, only poor imitations that lack such necessities as ublock origin and whatnot.

This rant is about the way search engines have been kneecapped and searching for simple information on the web is now a massive hassle because some suit wearing bottom feeders with the moral backbone of crustacean thought they could squeeze a few more drops of our collective lifeblood on the unholy altar of mammon by poisoning the well and not even having the common decency to peddle a better cure than fucking markov chains. I don't have anything against content blockers, some of my worst enemies are javascripts, but a client side patch does not solve the problem of every major website (aside from maybe Wikipedia) relying on spyware as a business model, gaming the system to make search engines ignore better sites if there are any, giving a middle finger to regional regulations telling you not to rely on spyware as a business model, and burying whatever useful and relevant information may still be left in droning filler that reads like a middle schooler padding out their essay word count.

As tragically true as it is that intentionally maiming my web browser by disabling web features it's supposed to support in order to browse the actual website I'm browsing on the web with my web browser whose purpose is browsing websites enables it to browse the websites, that's only another item on a long list of reasons why and how the web has been ruthlessly defiled into the grotesque monstrosity it is now. Blessed be ad blocker developers, I hope their next move is inventing a time machine and preventing Google from purchasing DoubleClick in 2008. Preferably using violence.

 

I don’t feel like shitting on this one too hard since I guess it’s a mildly interesting variation on a ~~Markov chain~~ LLM, but the title felt extremely sneerworthy.

I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt because their README is too tiring to read for me to figure out what this might be used for. That’s coming from someone who spent most of today reading SPARC assembly for fun.

Embarrassed myself by accidentally posting this to some other instance somehow. Stupid janky Lemmy offering communities I've never even looked at right in the posting interface.

 

I don't feel like shitting on this one too hard since I guess it's a mildly interesting variation on a ~~Markov chain~~ LLM, but the title felt extremely sneerworthy.

I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt because their README is too tiring to read for me to figure out what this might be used for. That's coming from someone who spent most of today reading SPARC assembly for fun.

 

Today marks five years since the death of TempleOS developer Terry A. Davis. Rest in peace.

Despite some impractical quirks and limitations, this strange machine, something of a cross between DOS and Oberon, remains in our hearts and computers. Who am I to criticize God for his OS design?

Let's pay our respects to a man who achieved inspiring things despite his severe illness and remember how his life was cut short in no small part by internet bullies and a capitalist system that failed him.

I hope this doesn't need to be said but I don't want to see anyone emulating Terry's bigotry and slur usage nor making fun of his schizophrenia in these comments. Thanks in advance.

 

Someone probably named this before me but not my problem.

  • 4 cℓ gin (or to taste)
  • Top up with Club-Mate
  • Garnish with juniper berries (optional)

Recommended for taking the edge off of the usual subjects of sneer —whether Orange or LessSo— inclusive-or you like a gin and tonic with a caffeinated German hacker twist. I came up with the name after a workday of removing rules for decommissioned servers from SRX boxen.

I wanted to share what I'm having for tonight's catharsis session. I think it's NotAwful; please share your findings if you like ethanol. It's not karma farming if the site doesn't record your total internet points.

 

Since there seem to be some fellow^1^ Lisp weirdoes around here, thought I might take the chance to submit the inaugural post of NotAwfulTech. Also I figured this is cute. Hope it's not offtopic.

^1^ I'm just a noob though, barely managed to implement my first Lisp today.

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