user/bmallred/data/2023-05-08-05-42-10.fit: 5.70 miles, 00:06:01 average pace, 00:34:18 duration
@bmallred@nahongvita.run the run was fine and no issues from it. but taking note that after the run my son stepped on my right foot and it has been extremely painful since. even walking the kids back and forth has been a chore.
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I've seen BlueSky referred to as BS (as in Blue Sky, but you know...), which seems apt.
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@prologic@twtxt.net I know very little about it, but speaking secondhand, it looks like there’s a single centralized server now and they’re still building the ability to federate? Like, the current alpha they’re running is not field testing federation, which makes me think that’s not a top priority for them.
user/bmallred/data/2023-05-03-05-25-05.fit: 6.89 miles, 00:06:26 average pace, 00:44:22 duration
They haven’t written the federation code yet. Its literally run on the staging instance. People are paying to access the alpha. Though if you want a code to see what all the fuss is about there are a few with invites around here.
user/bmallred/data/2023-05-02-05-16-23.fit: 4.06 miles, 00:09:03 average pace, 00:36:46 duration
I mean I could run my own yarn.social pod and of course achieve that
user/bmallred/data/2023-04-30-06-18-37.fit: 6.05 miles, 00:08:54 average pace, 00:53:48 duration
BlueSky is cosplaying decentralization
I say “ostensibly decentralized”, because BlueSky’s (henceforth referred to as “BS” here) decentralization is a similar kind of decentralization as with cryptocurrencies: sure, you can run your own node (in BS case: “personal data servers”), but that does not give you basically any meaningful agency in the system.
I don’t know why anyone would want to use this crap. It’s the same old same old and it’ll end up the same old way.
I miss running
I’ve talked about this a few times and posted some of the pictures OneDrive shows me every day. Photos taken on the same day, week or month in previous years. It always gives me a “throwback” and I think about the situation at the time I took the photo. ⌘ Read more
user/bmallred/data/2023-04-27-06-05-04.fit: 3.14 miles, 00:08:12 average pace, 00:25:44 duration
user/bmallred/data/2023-04-26-06-36-29.fit: 2.18 miles, 00:08:33 average pace, 00:18:39 duration
user/bmallred/data/2023-04-26-06-10-38.fit: 3.01 miles, 00:06:45 average pace, 00:20:20 duration
user/bmallred/data/2023-04-25-05-42-48.fit: 3.13 miles, 00:08:17 average pace, 00:25:59 duration
user/bmallred/data/2023-04-25-05-23-56.fit: 3.02 miles, 00:05:39 average pace, 00:17:04 duration
@prologic@twtxt.net @carsten@yarn.zn80.net
There is (I assure you there will be, don’t know what it is yet…) a price to be paid for this convenience.
Exactly prologic, and that’s why I’m negative about these sorts of things. I’m almost 50, I’ve been around this tech hype cycle a bunch of times. Look at what happened with Facebook. When it first appeared, people loved it and signed up and shared incredibly detailed information about themselves on it. Facebook made it very easy and convenient for almost anyone, even people who had limited understanding of the internet or computers, to get connected with their friends and family. And now here we are today, where 80% of people in surveys say they don’t trust Facebook with their private data, where they think Facebook commits crimes and should be broken up or at least taken to task in a big way, etc etc etc. Facebook has been fined many billions of dollars and faces endless federal lawsuits in the US alone for its horrible practices. Yet Facebook is still exploitative. It’s a societal cancer.
All signs suggest this generative AI stuff is going to go exactly the same way. That is the inevitable course of these things in the present climate, because the tech sector is largely run by sociopathic billionaires, because the tech sector is not regulated in any meaningful way, and because the tech press / tech media has no scruples. Some new tech thing generates hype, people get excited and sign up to use it, then when the people who own the tech think they have a critical mass of users, they clamp everything down and start doing whatever it is they wanted to do from the start. They’ll break laws, steal your shit, cause mass suffering, who knows what. They won’t stop until they are stopped by mass protest from us, and the government action that follows.
That’s a huge price to pay for a little bit of convenience, a price we pay and continue to pay for decades. We all know better by now. Why do we keep doing this to ourselves? It doesn’t make sense. It’s insane.
I have to write so many emails to so many idiots who have no idea what they are doing
So it sounds to me like the pressure is to reduce how much time you waste on idiots, which to my mind is a very good reason to use a text generator! I guess in that case you don’t mind too much whether the company making the AI owns your prompt text?
I’d really like to see tools like this that you can run on your desktop or phone, so they don’t send your hard work off to someone else and give a company a chance to take it from you.
user/bmallred/data/2023-04-23-05-31-57.fit: 5.33 miles, 00:09:49 average pace, 00:52:18 duration
user/bmallred/data/2023-04-20-05-26-53.fit: 10.16 miles, 00:06:26 average pace, 01:05:25 duration
user/bmallred/data/2023-04-19-11-00-15.fit: 5.82 miles, 00:06:23 average pace, 00:37:08 duration
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On LinkedIn I see a lot of posts aimed at software developers along the lines of "If you're not using these AI tools (X,Y,Z) you're going to be left behind."
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@prologic@twtxt.net yeah. I’d add “Big Data” to that hype list, and I’m sure there are a bunch more that I’m forgetting.
On the topic of a GPU cluster, the optimal design is going to depend a lot on what workloads you intend to run on it. The weakest link in these things is the data transfer rate, but that won’t matter too much for compute-heavy workloads. If your workloads are going to involve a lot of data, though, you’d be better off with a smaller number of high-VRAM cards than with a larger number of interconnected cards. I guess that’s hardware engineering 101 stuff, but still…
user/bmallred/data/2023-04-17-05-34-27.fit: 5.32 miles, 00:08:03 average pace, 00:42:50 duration
Pinellas County - Long run: 13.56 miles, 00:11:09 average pace, 02:31:09 duration
Genetically Modifying Yeast Speed Run ⌘ Read more
user/bmallred/data/2023-04-12-05-21-18.fit: 6.39 miles, 00:06:56 average pace, 00:44:21 duration
“…and we can probably plan for middle of March thi…ah, hello! Mister Yudkowsky! I hope you found—” “Rename your company to ClosedAI.” “Uh…what?” “Rename your company to ClosedAI. Stop your biggest training runs. Pivot to mechanistic interpretability. Shut it all down.” “………Selfie?”
JMP: Verify Google Play App Purchase on Your Server
We are preparing for the first-ever Google Play Store launch of Cheogram Android as part of JMP coming out of beta later this year. One of the things we wanted to “just work” for Google Play users is to be able to pay for the app and get their first month of JMP “bundled” into that purchase price, to smooth the common onboarding experience. So how do the JMP servers know that the app communicating with them is running a version of the app bought from Google P … ⌘ Read more
user/bmallred/data/2023-04-11-05-24-51.fit: 10.22 miles, 00:06:40 average pace, 01:08:10 duration
Pinellas County - Long run: 12.41 miles, 00:09:56 average pace, 02:03:12 duration
user/bmallred/data/2023-04-07-13-19-28.fit: 1.52 miles, 00:08:59 average pace, 00:13:37 duration
user/bmallred/data/2023-04-07-12-40-02.fit: 3.29 miles, 00:10:13 average pace, 00:33:36 duration
user/bmallred/data/2023-04-06-05-28-56.fit: 5.91 miles, 00:07:08 average pace, 00:42:11 duration
user/bmallred/data/2023-04-05-06-24-03.fit: 1.55 miles, 00:07:43 average pace, 00:11:57 duration
user/bmallred/data/2023-04-05-05-34-47.fit: 4.48 miles, 00:10:16 average pace, 00:45:56 duration
user/bmallred/data/2023-04-04-05-23-06.fit: 5.88 miles, 00:06:43 average pace, 00:39:26 duration
Pinellas County - Long run: 12.03 miles, 00:10:38 average pace, 02:07:56 duration
well, sometimes humans provide the discontinuities (via large jumps in training run sizes)
user/bmallred/data/2023-03-31-05-29-32.fit: 3.65 miles, 00:08:21 average pace, 00:30:27 duration
user/bmallred/data/2023-03-30-05-24-26.fit: 4.04 miles, 00:09:21 average pace, 00:37:46 duration
Every Classic MacOS Release, Emulated in Your Browser. Seriously.
InfiniteMac.org provides ready-to-run versions of every MacOS, from 1.0 through 9.x. ⌘ Read more
user/bmallred/data/2023-03-29-05-18-51.fit: 7.32 miles, 00:10:18 average pace, 01:15:23 duration
Announcing the GitHub Actions extension for VS Code
Today, we’re excited to announce the release of the public beta of the official GitHub Actions VS Code extension, which provides support for authoring and editing workflows and helps you manage workflow runs without leaving your IDE. ⌘ Read more
**Now that @JoeSondow’s bot games like @EmojiSnakeGame are no longer going be free to play, I can only hope he will soon have mastodon versions of it running, and I will no longer have a reason to open twitter’s app often.
And no, paying for a verified account is not on the table.**
Now that @JoeSondow’s bot games like @EmojiSnakeGame are no longer going be free to play, I can only hope he will soon have mastod … ⌘ Read more
user/bmallred/data/2023-03-27-08-54-02.fit: 4.87 miles, 00:08:50 average pace, 00:42:57 duration
user/bmallred/data/2023-03-26-05-28-52.fit: 7.00 miles, 00:09:46 average pace, 01:08:22 duration
user/bmallred/data/2023-03-25-09-07-11.fit: 4.01 miles, 00:09:36 average pace, 00:38:29 duration
user/bmallred/data/2023-03-24-04-59-07.fit: 3.10 miles, 00:10:32 average pace, 00:32:41 duration
user/bmallred/data/2023-03-23-05-23-00.fit: 3.02 miles, 00:09:11 average pace, 00:27:46 duration
Announcing Docker+Wasm Technical Preview 2
Get the latest news on Docker+Wasm, including our work with partners to support more runtimes while making it easier to run Wasm workloads with Docker. ⌘ Read more
user/bmallred/data/2023-03-22-05-25-36.fit: 3.02 miles, 00:09:33 average pace, 00:28:50 duration