Lady of the Land @Lady@cat.family
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- Delinquent (BREAKpoint 98a) by Megumi Mizutani
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- Pokémon 4Koma Plaza: 2017.04.24 “Mudbray’s Morning” by Takahiro Yamashita
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Administrator / Public Relations for GlitchCat. Not actually glitchy, nor a cat. I wrote the rules for this instance.
“Constitutionally incapable of not going hard” — @aescling
“Fedi Cassandra” – @Satsuma
I HAVE EXPERIENCE IN THINGS. YOU CAN JUST @ ME.
I work for a library but I post about Zelda fanfiction.
Joined Sep 2021
Lady of the Land
boosted
They should address the
behaviour of the students
on the computer
pokémon
remember when ash was like… dragonite evolved arms… to hug
“A·I”
maybe indexing every website on the internet is the actual problem and we should only be indexing the good ones
“A·I”
it probably is easier to train an A·I system to recognize and elevate high-quality sources than it is to fix whatever Google’s current algorithm is
until that A·I system becomes popular and S·E·O starts targeting it instead, at which point you have a black box you can’t do anything with
“A·I”
“A·I powered search does better than Google!” well yeah that is because Google is trash
prrgrrmmng
od -t u4 -N 4 /dev/random | sed 's/^[0-9]* *//' | tr -d ' \n' | awk 'BEGIN{chars="0123456789ABCDEFGHJKMNPQRSTVWXYZ&~@=U"}{d=32^5;r=$0%32^6;printf "%s",substr(chars,r%37,1);while(d>0){printf "%s",substr(chars,int(r/d),1);if(d==32^4)printf "%s","-";r%=d;d=int(d/32)}}'
@james@strangeobject.space @noracodes “With a deadline and thus no real time to properly skill up like I want to.” this is the thing tho yeah, no company wants to pay (in time or $$) for actually training people (or hiring people who are trained)
not to say any particular person or company should act differently in any particular instance, but it’s cultural, we don’t have the systems in place (they’re being dismantled)
re: prrgrrmmng
for some reason gawk thinks that printf should not interpret its arguments the same as printf on the command line so instead you have to pipe to it if you need that bit
prrgrrmmng
what she had:
› awk '$0!~/%/{printf("%s",$0)}/%/{sub("%","0x");printf("\\%04o",$0)}'
the portable awk script:
› awk '$0!~/%/{printf "%s",$0}/%/{sub("%","0x");cmd="xargs printf \"%04o\"";printf "%s","\\";printf "%s",$0|cmd;close(cmd)}'
@james@strangeobject.space @noracodes (we're at a point where many people are more comfortable asking chatgpt to do something in vscode every time than they are writing a script to automate it. and this isn't slighting those people; i think Microsoft/GitHub has been deliberately pushing people into a position of dependence on their technologies)
@james@strangeobject.space @noracodes i'm also seeing people who do know how to code using it to generate boilerplate or perform other time-consuming tasks
the thing is, this is just refusing to learn a different skill: how to build your own tools to make your workflow more effective
@noracodes (personally, in most cases, i think if it's not worth waiting five days for it's probably not worth knowing, but)
@noracodes i think immediacy is also part of the problem here; people want a tentative answer in five seconds not a well-researched answer in five days
@noracodes there are two related things here:
(1) is that on-call librarians are generally overkill for this sort of job. LLMs are, by design, only effective at broadly-scoped inquiries into generally-available information. librarians can make reference materials for these sorts of queries which patrons can self-service with; you don't actually need an on-call human being to produce the same exact libguide ad-hoc every time. the problem is that, in the current state of the internet, these reference materials are not discoverable.
(2) is that many people do not want to use LLMs to learn, they want to use LLMs to avoid learning (e·g bash script generation so they don’t have to learn bash). librarians would not help in this case since being an expert at finding information doesn’t mean you can or should be doing other people’s homework for them.
i think (1) is solveable and (2) should not be solved. however, capitalism currently finds profit in (2) and not (1).
prrgrrmmng
…do i now hav basically ȣl ðe tools i need to build ðat codex software i wuz thinkiŋ about like five years ago
keyboard
oh no i’m considering changing my layout radically again
Lady of the Land
boosted
However, the two
were captured again while trying
to escape the fray
what do you think? that someone writing critical, compassionate fanfic can thrive here? that they will be taken seriously and able to make a difference? this system cares nothing for them and everything for the fanworks they hate
this is not hyperbole; if you care more about the preservation of a mythical fan identity, always figured as constantly under threat, than you do about actual human beings or, dare i say, the interrogation and advancement of the artform—into something more compassionate, more responsible, and more capable of enacting good in the world—then you have lost sight of your own humanity and certainly that of the people around you, and this ⁜is⁜ the founding and driving mythos of the organization of which i speak
it is mildly distressing however that fans see people approaching their art with a mentality that all criticism and interrogation is suspect, that analysing the human costs and effects of a work is misguided and wrong, and that every form of speech, no matter how vile, is equally valuable and worthy of preservation—that fans see these takes brought out again and again and yet expect something other than the same old fascism from the people who make them
- Header
- Delinquent (BREAKpoint 98a) by Megumi Mizutani
- Avatar
- Pokémon 4Koma Plaza: 2017.04.24 “Mudbray’s Morning” by Takahiro Yamashita
Owner
Administrator / Public Relations for GlitchCat. Not actually glitchy, nor a cat. I wrote the rules for this instance.
“Constitutionally incapable of not going hard” — @aescling
“Fedi Cassandra” – @Satsuma
I HAVE EXPERIENCE IN THINGS. YOU CAN JUST @ ME.
I work for a library but I post about Zelda fanfiction.
Joined Sep 2021
