Jons Mostovojs @jonn@social.doma.dev

Bluesky as a supposed "safe haven" from X has to be the quintessential example of the old adage: "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." And a lot of people are being fooled twice.

This is an experiment. Please boost.

http://mastoddosnt.ddns.net/

Here's the idea: This post is going first to my followers, then, if they boost it, to other people. This domain has been registered for only this experiment. I should see in my web server's logs when mastodon instances start crawling the site for info. Then maybe also some curious humans.

I just want to play with my monitoring a bit :)

Wisdom of the Pentium-M Man

#unix_surrealism #comic #penguin #ai #technomage

OpenAI have acknowledged that their latest LLM, dubbed "Orion", is only a smal improvement on previous models, despite an order of magnitude more time, money and resources being used to train it.

I called it 18 months ago. This is about as good as LLMs are gonna get folks.

*Now* can we get back to solving real problems?

https://youtu.be/_nG6d6HSGB4?t=2586

In case you needed another reason to support @internetarchive .. consider their End of Term project, which attempts to archive a big chunk of the US Government's web presence before each new 4-year presidential term begins.

This is truly a race against time, to preserve information that may no longer be available on the live web for open access.

https://blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/end-of-term-web-archive/

https://archive.org/donate

@sjolsen i got it!

the last button is "big if true"

For the idiots who still don't get #Putin after 24 years in charge of an expansionist russian colonial empire (aka russian federation), if they start calling him now, without simultaneously INCREASING military supplies to #Ukraine as winter sets in, and doubling down on #sanctions as russia+DPRK #fascism is strengthened, Putin will interpret those calls as proof of a successful campaign of #terror, sabotage and subversion, and intensify his colonial imperialist #war

#NeverAgain #ArmUkraineToWIN

look nerds it’s the cover of your favorite book

So why are YOU?

"Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X"

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/nov/13/why-the-guardian-is-no-longer-posting-on-x

Our #Introduction: We are an international collaboration of scientists working to detect and study #GravitationalWaves

We made our first observation in 2015, and working with our colleagues in Virgo and KAGRA, have now produced a catalog of gravitational waves from the coalescence of black hole and neutron star binaries

We're currently undergoing commissioning ahead our fourth observing run, when we hope that detections will become an everyday occurrence

We're happy to join #Astrodon

Back in the 90s when I used AOL, Wired magazine had a forum. One day a new user arrived and said she was married to Elwood Edwards, who was the voice that said “You’ve Got Mail!”. So we suggested a bunch of other things he should record in that voice— “You want fries with that?”, “You’ve got credit card debt!”, etc. He recorded them! You can listen to them here: http://www.aolsucks.org/aolsound.htm

SO GOOD. European alternatives for nearly all Amazon, Google, Microsoft products along with alts to Github, Slack, etc. now we need to create a North American version of this. thank you, @vortex! https://european-alternatives.eu/alternatives-to

And finally, I have put my #Dungeon23 into a book!

This book contains all the rooms from the challenge last year, with added maps over all the regions and the cave, and data for the monsters and NPCs for the Dragonbane system. It is a heavy tome with 430 pages, and an equally heavy PDF, since everything is images, not text.

You can buy it at DriveThroughRPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/487869/The-Moon-Under-the-Mountain

Thanks to everyone here who said nice things during the process.