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gpt, ai 

One of the interesting things (derogatory) about chatgpt is that a lot of people don't seem to get that it's function is to predict text tokens. Often they end up assuming it has some sort of rich reality that it inhabits when you're not asking it things.

E.g. a lot of folks in the comments of this thread are having trouble grasping that it's making up the HTTP responses based on training data and assuming that it's actually making requests.

engraved.blog/building-a-virtu

tech rambling 

One thing that irks me about how a lot of tech uses infinitely scrolling "timelines" and the such is that most apps don't keep track of your progress if you navigate away.

If I'm viewing something I probably want to keep going from where I left off unless I explicitly want to go to the top.

RSS readers, Google's podcast thing, Mastodon Web (twitter in general), etc.

At least browsers sometimes preserve the scroll for me if it's a full page navigation. 🤷

The fastest computations are the ones you don't need to make.

@resuna @tommorris i said before that AI can simulate a dev who can talk their way past the interview and doesn't know what they're doing

Finally got a chance to play with @capyloon

Really cool that can so easily develop for it right on the desktop.

I decided to become a cheese wizard with a minor in insectology

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Eeee, very excited to play the new kingdom of loathing game!

now ChatGPT seems really impressive and all but you have to remember that you can be tricked into thinking a rock has feelings by drawing a cute face on it

My hot take is that web3 / blockchain stuff was never decentralized. Right from the start it's been centrally managed servers, but with the ability to federate. The amount of effort it takes to run the infra means only a few orgs actually could 🤷

"The fact that the decentralized web isn’t decentralized is not a secret. Plenty of people can see that Web3 is centralizing far faster than Web2 ever did, they simply don’t care. They’re hoping to position themselves in such a way that they either become part of the monopoly, or at least get bought out for a nice chunk of change along the way."
escapingtech.com/tech/opinions

Capitalism does not require us to “work or starve.”

It requires us to perform labor *for property owners* or *be starved by property owners.*

You have ancestors who lived before wage labor. They didn’t starve to death because they lacked jobs and wages.

You do not lack any of the faculties they possessed. You do not lack any of their abilities to sustain themselves by their own effort.

What you lack is *permission* from property owners.

I despair about how many talented people are using Substack when we know exactly where that whole mess is headed.

Should I shitpost on main or make a shitposting alt? 🤔🤔🤔

Here's a video (sorry for the quality) of 2 Capyloon devices sharing data thanks to IPFS:
- the laptop "uploads" the capybara image to its local ipfs node, and generates a QR Code with the ipfs:// url.
- the phone scans the QR Code to get the ipfs:// url, and loads it as any other web page.
- since both devices discovered each other over mDNS, no data left the local network!

capyloon.org/videos/capyloon-s

Are there any open frameworks out there to train gpt bots based on your social media posts and chat logs?

Could be a cool way to do async communication in VR. Infodump a bunch of your thoughts into a prompt, then attach it to an avatar and send it over to someone as a message.

Hi. It would help me a lot if I could get a HEAP of responses to this poll. The goal is to get a decent enough sample so results are predictive of the wider user-base right now. I dislike asking for boosts but this is SCIENCE... or something. (Thanks.)

How do you use Mastodon MOST of the time?

On a phone, or other touch screen device?

OR

On a device with a keyboard like a laptop or desktop computer?

(If it's half and half choose the middle option.)

Critical Distance, a non-profit I volunteer for on the board of directors, needs help. We have been archiving and contextualising online games writing for 13 years. We are asking for help to allow us to continue operating, and perhaps even invest in building longer term resilience. I'd be very grateful for any help spreading the word: gofundme.com/f/critdistance

RT @Daleyfurter@twitter.com

🙌 THE 4 DAY WORK WEEK HAS HIT IRELAND WITH ASTONISHING RESULTS. 🙌

The Irish Findings are as follows:
• 100% of the companies involved are continuing with the 4-Day work week ➡
• 85% of companies which reported data on revenue reported growth in revenue 📈 (1/X)

🐦🔗: twitter.com/Daleyfurter/status

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