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well, no, aesgcm urls still don’t work #profanity

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Je me demandais pourquoi /url open ne fonctionnait plus dans #profanity. Il s’avère que la commande /executable urlopen m’a donné la solution

@Rob@jsreed5.org Hmm Coal -> Heat -> Stream -> Generator -> Electricity -> Resistance -> Heat

You do have an interesting point there 🤔 Seems rather wasteful just to produce some heat 🔥

j’aurais dû apprendre à utiliser les styles de #libreoffice beaucoup plus tôt, je gagne un temps fou!

Bad surprise at wake up this morning, my server was down. The dmesg show a lot of ‘scsi_xfer pool exhausted!’. I don’t known what that mean or even what happened #openbsd

It seems silly to me that we humans create thermal energy with coal, convert the thermal energy to mechanical energy with steam turbines, convert the mechanical energy to electrical energy with generators, and convert the electrical energy back into thermal energy with glass-top stoves and electric heaters.

@golang_news@feeds.twtxt.net Cool! 🥳

Go 1.23 is Released
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yeah this is why I haven’t done it yet because I don’t know how to build it 🤣

@bender@twtxt.net Shellcheck is great but I hope you don’t care about a low package count for screenshots like some people.

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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org tracking read/unread is something that Yarn could benefit from. It has been thought before, just never gotten anywhere. Yarn just don’t keep track of those, it will be something that @prologic@twtxt.net will need to implement. Maybe if I keep poking him he will! 😂

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org we had a huge thunder/lighning storm last night here too. Kids got really scared (it struck something very close here), and the dog panicked (he opened all doors and would only sleep in kitchen). We woke up around 2 at night from it. But kids luckily fell a sleep again.

@prologic@twtxt.net The headline is interesting and sent me down a rabbit hole understanding what the paper (https://aclanthology.org/2024.acl-long.279/) actually says.

The result is interesting, but the Neuroscience News headline greatly overstates it. If I’ve understood right, they are arguing (with strong evidence) that the simple technique of making neural nets bigger and bigger isn’t quite as magically effective as people say — if you use it on its own. In particular, they evaluate LLMs without two common enhancements, in-context learning and instruction tuning. Both of those involve using a small number of examples of the particular task to improve the model’s performance, and they turn them off because they are not part of what is called “emergence”: “an ability to solve a task which is absent in smaller models, but present in LLMs”.

They show that these restricted LLMs only outperform smaller models (i.e demonstrate emergence) on certain tasks, and then (end of Section 4.1) discuss the nature of those few tasks that showed emergence.

I’d love to hear more from someone more familiar with this stuff. (I’ve done research that touches on ML, but neural nets and especially LLMs aren’t my area at all.) In particular, how compelling is this finding that zero-shot learning (i.e. without in-context learning or instruction tuning) remains hard as model size grows.

I witnessed absolutely crazy summer lightning before I went to bed. The sky flashed constantly, about every three seconds and then several times a second. It was a really nice natural spectacle to watch. :-) Very rare to exerience such a heavy one. My cam was too shitty, though. All photos and videos turned out just totally black.

When I woke up at 5am, I had a quick look in the Northern sky and saw a tiny shooting star. I then happily went back to bed. :-)

@prologic@twtxt.net In tt, I have to press r to toggle the read status for each and every message. The disadvantage is that I have to mark all messages read explicitly, the advantage is that I have to mark all read explicitly, and hence no silly automation messes with me and causes wild surprises. But in theory it would be possible to automatically mark a message read when it is selected for three seconds or something like that. Not sure, though, how well any of that would work with a web UI.

@bender@twtxt.net Ah, I see, the mentions. :-)

@off_grid_living@twtxt.net Despite I don’t really understand why you want the web server and website contents on a USB stick that travels around with you, do you even need a web server at all? I might be totally wrong, but I get the impression that it’s only you who uses the “website” on whatever machine the USB drive is plugged in. It’s not served over the internet, is it? It’s just for yourself, so that you can look up stuff on the “website” or something like that. But you don’t actually serve the website to the entire world?

Again, I could completely misunderstand the use case here. But assuming it’s not connected to the internet, since you just have HTML and plain text files on the USB stick, no PHP or other stuff that needs to be interpreted first, you could just view these files locally in any browser (via local file:// protocol) without the web server (via http(s)://) in between. Much simpler.

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net See I told y’all 🤣 AI is “artificial incompetence” 🤣

@bender@twtxt.net Yup!

@bender@twtxt.net Ahh gotcha! That could be simple enough to work or maybe a different background for the card? 🤔

@bender@twtxt.net This is basically the problem. Even if you wanted to there generally isn’t any state for feeds stored on behalf of the user, in other words, a read status.

I don’t know how we will handle the resetting of it, after reading…

I thought about it a few times, but I’ve never really been able to figure out a way of coming up with a viable solution to that.

@prologic@twtxt.net yeah, this is how Phanpy does it:

Phanpy, Fediverse client, showing the little bell on top right corner with a dimmed dot, indicating activity

On the “Mentions” topic, maybe @prologic@twtxt.net can do something about it? What exactly is up to him, and the capabilities present. Perhaps simply bolding Mentions if there if are unread ones? I don’t know how we will handle the resetting of it, after reading…

@bender@twtxt.net A tiny dot you say eh? 🤣

@bender@twtxt.net It’s looks like it’s basically all-in-one so yeah but simpler to use 👌

Oh, I just saw they have an installable package! Pretty cool! Thanks for the pointer, @prologic@twtxt.net.

@bender@twtxt.net Both. I use it locally. Its basically a linter.

@prologic@twtxt.net what is shellcheck? The website, or a local tool one can run?

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org when I come around, I normally check, and get busy just reading, under “Discover”, and often forget to even check mentions. Since there is nothing on “Mentions” telling me there are some pending to be read (at the very least, a tiny dot, or something), if often gets ignored. 😅

@prologic@twtxt.net for those ancient, dreaded times, on which I needed to use PHP (shivers), I simply used php-fpm with Caddy. Unless I am missing something, FrankenPHP is a modified Caddy. If I already run Caddy, why would I need another one?

Of course, FrankenPHP might fit @off_grid_living@twtxt.net needs, if he is to switch from Apache to FrankensteinPHP.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yes I feel your pain 🙄

@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, that is part of the problem. Bash is so dominant on Linux, it’s hard to avoid. When I use #!/bin/sh, it still gets me a Bash that does NOT enter strict POSIX mode. 🫤 The script below uses Bashisms and requests #!/bin/sh but still runs happily …

#!/bin/sh

foo=1

if

New Research Reveals AI Lacks Independent Learning, Poses No Existential Threat
ZipNada writes: New research reveals that large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT cannot learn independently or acquire new skills without explicit instructions, making them predictable and controllable. The study dispels fears of these models developing complex reasoning abilities, emphasizing that while LLMs can genera … ⌘ Read more

@xuu Yeah it seems to be quite easy to operate actually 👌 Love the zero configuration!

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Welcome back! Didn’t notice 🤣

@xuu I don’t get it? 🤔

@prologic@twtxt.net +1 for FrankenPHP. And built into caddy is also swell.

Wut?

Just in case Clownflare throws a couple of 5xx errors at your requests, I’m rebooting. See ya in a couple of seconds!

In fact I recommend this really, it’s just less “mucking around” and what we call “zero configuration”.

@off_grid_living@twtxt.net If you’d like to try something new (I know I know!); I just modified your site’s file a teeny weeny bit and got it working with FrankenPHP a nice little portable web server written in Go that “just works”™ that is able to handle and execute PHP for you and your site basically “just works”™ out of the box locally, run from any directory.

I mean if you didn’t really need PHP (I suspect you do?) you could run any ‘ol web server in the current directory where you have your site and just serve that straight up locally.

@off_grid_living@twtxt.net Normally, in the days when I used to run Linux on the Desktop and used Apache once upon a time, the default configuration would mean files served out of your public_html directory in your home directory was the place where the web server looked for to serve files from. This would make something like http://localhost/~your_username work. But it’s been a while since I’ve done any of this myself…”

Dear OnlyDomains, part of Team Internet. Do you think you could stop being so incompetent when it comes to Domains, DNS and basic HTTP? I reported this to you on Friday, and you are still arguing with me over Support the legitimatecy of the claims? Seriously?! 😧

$ dig @1.1.1.1 +short onlydomains.com.au a
198.50.252.65

$ nc -vvv 198.50.252.65 443
nc: connectx to 198.50.252.65 port 443 (tcp) failed: Connection refused

#OnlyDomains