@bender@twtxt.net No bubbles burst 💥 hehe 😝 All good! 👍 I think I was aware of the search results and the lack of interactivity there, artifact of borrowed template code from the search engine 😢 Just need to refactor it to use the same template as the normal timeline, but also support highlights, something it doesn’t do now either.

@prologic@twtxt.net I didn’t mean to burst bubbles, by the way 😅. It is a baby step; we just need to refine it.

@bender@twtxt.net You are right. I’ll have to fix the later for sure, the finding “reading” in “foo-reading” is probably a behavior of the indexing and search library being used. It probably behaves that way.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I envy you. Our always cloudy sky during summer has allowed me to see the grand total of zero. 😩

@prologic@twtxt.net couple of issues. That #reading tag also pulls #now-reading. It shouldn’t. Second, I can’t reply from the search results. If you click/tap on the tag, and get the list containing it, clicking/tapping reply on one of the results do nothing.

I like how tags like #reading now actually work correctly on Yarn pods 👌

Morphotrophic by Greg Egan is built around an idea for how life on Earth could have worked out differently. It gets increasingly strange and interesting as the story progresses. My partner and I finished it last night and thoroughly enjoyed it. The beginning is free online: https://gregegan.net/MORPHOTROPHIC/00/MorphotrophicExcerpt.html #scifi #reading

Heck yeah, I already saw three shooting stars in 10 minutes. Perseids are awesome! :-)

@johanbove@johanbove.info Allegedly it’s supposed to cool down mid-week, yeah. If we consider ~28°C “cool”, that is. 😅

Fan = Miefquirl. 😏

Kinda cool tool for bringing together all your timeline based data across socials.

https://github.com/timelinize/timelinize

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Ooof that’s a bit warm 🥵

@prologic@twtxt.net 35°C outside. 🫤 I’m just gonna sit here and wait for November. 😂

@off_grid_living@twtxt.net There are probably many extensions for Apache2. Nearly all of which you don’t need. Maybe libapache2-mod-php* if you want to make use of PHP.

Typically, systemd will automatically start your webserver during system startup. Your package manager (apt) does not prompt you, because the package maintainer has chosen some defaults for you which works with the rest of the system. So there is simply no need. Why would you want to change the installation directory anyways?

Also, right after installation, I’d assume that Apache2 is automatically started. If you want to start Apache2 by hand, you can sudo systemctl start apache2, there are also the stop and restart verbs.

The tutorial linked by @prologic@twtxt.net seems a bit outdated to me (old Ubuntu version and SysVInit), you might be better off with: https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/how-to-install-apache2 Even though, that’s probably also not so beginner-friendly.

@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, paid. If not even big IT companies offer more, I will not emmigrate to Down Under. ;-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de What’s the temp? 🤔

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I agree!

It is too hot to think. 🥵

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@off_grid_living@twtxt.net Normally you would so something like this on Ubuntu:

sudo apt install apache2

In fact I highly recommend you follow this guide:

Install and Configure Apache

@falsifian@www.falsifian.org Can’t argue with the some of the feats we’ve achieved for sure 😅 I think some of the good stuff is in smarter auto completion: summarization and pattern reproduction.

But “intelligent” it ain’t 🤣

@eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club Bahahaha 🤣 I doubt I could write a chess engine now 😅

@movq@www.uninformativ.de If it still existed I bet the first thing he’d do is convert it to Golang 👌🤣

@prologic@twtxt.net I don’t know what you mean when you call them stochastic parrots, or how you define understanding. It’s certainly true that current language models show an obvious lack of understanding in many situations, but I find the trend impressive. I would love to see someone achieve similar results with much less power or training data.

@falsifian@www.falsifian.org I don’t believe so. But then again we’d have to define what cognitive understanding really is 😅 LLM(s) have none.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yeah in Australia it’s only 20 paid days of annual leave (paid)

OK I found this one, small enough, but where does it install to? can’t find the app, of any files of anything.
Being a total novice to Linux stuff….where is this file located and why don’t they prompt you for a folder location of the program? And why such a stupid name? Dozens to choose from and most over 300MB, not what I want - I just want Apache to run the index.html webpage or the index.php webpage. I do not need Javascript or Java programming editors….

@off_grid_living@twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net Ahh, too bad that program is gone. I would have loved to see that. 🤯

@stigatle@yarn.stigatle.no @prologic@twtxt.net Wow, that’s surprising. Assuming a full time job, you are legally entitled to at least 20 days annual leave in Germany. Some companies even offer 30, esp. when in a union. I don’t know how many companies actually do, but in my circle of friends and acquaintances, nearly everyone has 30 days paid vacation. I somehow thought it’s very similar in Scandinavia and Australia.

Oh boy, the week is already over and I haven’t accomplished much useful stuff when I look back on it. Gotta check the vacation calendars of my workmates tomorrow and take one or the other week off soon.

@prologic@twtxt.net I thought “stochastic parrot” meant a complete lack of understanding.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de That’s a tough one. Maybe drones and cameras. They make for greater videos to watch online (no, I don’t have any of that). Not to forget high-speed internet, that’s sloooowly getting rolled out.

@off_grid_living@twtxt.net A gamer will not necessarily become a programmer. Especially these days I’d say.

@off_grid_living@twtxt.net @stigatle@yarn.stigatle.no It’s been a few years that I used Apache, but I also strongly recommend to run the Linux version. As root: apt-get install apache2 Its configuration file is probably /etc/apache2/apache2.conf_ these days. https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/how-to-install-apache2

@off_grid_living@twtxt.net Hmm, but why is regular dirt not good enough for the hens outside?

Yeah, like with everything, quality has its price.

@stigatle@yarn.stigatle.no Ahh nice! i only get 4 weeks off a year 🙄

@off_grid_living@twtxt.net Is there a particular reason why you run it through wine? And not the ‘standard’ ubuntu way of doing it? It’ll make it much easier to make sure things are working the way it should.. :)

@prologic@twtxt.net During summer - yes, since our kids have 2 months. First month of their vacation I still work, then I join them on their last month. We do have 5 weeks, so I save the last week for around Christmas. :)

@off_grid_living@twtxt.net So tou mean wine? The windows emulator?

You don’t need to use wine to run Apache.

It should be installable from the package manager (software center) or whatever it’s called.

@off_grid_living@twtxt.net cc @mckinley@twtxt.net can you help here? 🙏

If some of you budding fathers want to know how I created a computer nerd to one day work for Facebook in the big USA, well you purchase a $1000 Xmas present, an enormous thick book with C++ programming, and say, you can play as many games as you like kids, but James has to create them using computer software.

SO James created once a 3D chess program with sound, took 6 months or so, really hard to beat, not based on logic moves point by point like other chess programs, this one was based on the depth of looking for patterns, set it to 5 moves ahead and you were toast every time. Nice program too, sadly gone over the years, computers suffer from bit rot. We used to try and mark rotten hard drive discs once as bad sectors, not sure how UBuntu does this these days, I see a dozen errors on the screen every time I load.

Today I would purchase for my kids AI CAD simulation software with metal 3D printer and get your child to build fancy 3D models and engines from scratch. This will make them an expert in the CAD AI industry by the time they are 14 years old. Sadly AI is here to stay and will spoil the Internet.

I suspect Vine may not be able to run the file via conf file, or I have the path configure wrong?

Hey all your computer experts, I am having trouble with running Apache on my Ubuntu machine using Vine, the problem I think is configuring the /apache/conf/httpd.conf file, I usually NotePad2.exe edit it and change the path to the appropriate files

For example see the next post

LLMs though, whilst good at understating the “model” (or shape) of things (not just natural language), are generally still stochastic parrots.

@falsifian@www.falsifian.org It’s also astonishing how much power these things use and how incredibly inefficient they are 🤣

But seriously though we have come a long way in some machine learning sxiwnde and twxh and we’ve managed to build ever more powerful and power hungry massively parallel matrix computational hardware 😅

@movq@www.uninformativ.de The success of large neural nets. People love to criticize today’s LLMs and image models, but if you compare them to what we had before, the progress is astonishing.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I don’t have a VR headset yet, but I still view it as one of the most improved pieces of tech.

@stigatle@yarn.stigatle.no Very nice! 👌 I’ve enjoyed your photos and stories of your trips!

Do you normally take 4-week long vacations all in one go?

@off_grid_living@twtxt.net Setting up a local Apache + PHP server on your Ubuntu laptop is easy as pie 🤣

What do you think the world runs on 😅 Hint: Not Windows 🤣

@movq@www.uninformativ.de There are drivers and such for linux as well. I also think it works fine with steamVR on linux (But currently my main computer for gaming is running windows) so I have not tested VR on linux yet. I am planning on installing linux on that machine when I get a extra disk for it soon. (I run linux on all other laptops I have, but those are not good enough for VR stuff).

@stigatle@yarn.stigatle.no That’s all on Windows, I guess? It does sound really interesting/tempting, though. 😲 I’ve only briefly toyed with a coworkers VR thingy ~10 years ago and it was rather clunky back then. That probably has improved a lot.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @prologic@twtxt.net @aelaraji@aelaraji.com , yeah, I have one. First one I bought was the first oculus on kickstarter. Then facebook delivered their first (after they bought oculus) on my doorstep for free (since I backed the first oculus on kickstarter). I use it a lot, especially for Xplane (flight sim) and Elite: Dangerous etc. It’s not one of those quest standalone VR headsets I have, it’s the one you hook up to a computer.