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@rachel in the past we called that Virtual Machines, but that change since Docker introduced their containers - which make sense within the concept. Containers is a way to provide a computing unit that shares what the host allow them (CPU, GPU, disk, etc), so I think as a whole computer launched by Podman/Docker; it needs an OS, and that's what the Containerfile defines including whatever else it need to run in isolation, maybe other packages, files, volumes, etc.

Pixelfed is now using AI, and I'm stopping recommending Pixelfed to anyone.

https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/commit/65dff00e4fdf06be87e1122420d2ffec1d21f8a7

#pixelfed #fediverse #AI

@jeffjarvis AI won't stop being stupid just because it reads good books. In fact, calling it "stupid" is a matter of sentiment. It is a machine that isn't working properly.

Baby’s first charcuterie board 🧀 🦬🍵 🥜🫒

I just need to get this out of my brain

For the past several days, “COVID conscious lesbian bar in western Massachusetts” has been playing on a loop in my head to the tune of Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Maybe it’s like The Ring where I can pass the curse on to someone else and free myself

Friend: "Hey I won my over!"

Me: "I'm so happy for you"

Friend: "But you said..."

Me: "I swear to god if I could force choke you to death through the screen right now I'd need an entire law firm to defend me."

@theruran @mhoye Yep agreed.

There are other topics, like resiliency issues, that are also completely put under the carpet : Europeans, Ukrainians and Russians are discovering that data centers can be bombed or droned.

They will never solve this resiliency issue, because it would mean changing of cyberspace concept and architecture to delete the client/server concept.

They won't do it. Because they fear sharing cyber-powers in a democratic way.

Hey! I love little paperback picturebooks featuring 80s and 90s cartoon characters.

You know the one's I'm talking about?

I used to have a bunch that were he-man and thundercats themed, when I was a child.

They kind of look like the book and record books, but without the records?

Is there a name for this format/style?

@UKFilmNerd @Darkedge I've seen this one pop up occasionally, but never watched it. If you do, let us know how it is?

🚨BREAKING: Disruption of "Sustainability in Higher Education" Conference🚨

Academia should live up to its responsibility to society and convey urgency. Shouldn’t we turn academic conferences into emergency briefings? Shouldn’t we organize ourselves to face this unbearable situation together?

The @freieuniversitaet is hosting an international conference on Sustainability in Higher Education this week. Keynotes and workshops reflect on the implementation of sustainability in teaching, governance, research and communication. A sign in the good direction! Or is it really?

Right after the president of the FU Berlin opened the conference, an alarm bell rang, and two conference participants came to the podium holding a banner with the words “Act Now!”
While Matthias Grotkopp was explaining how conferences like this one are by far not enough and scientists should engage more decidedly to pressure governments to declare a climate emergency, fellow scientists from Scientist Rebellion pasted posters on the conference hall’s walls.

We demand:
University presidents together with representatives from emergency services (fire brigades, medical staff) hold a press conference and announce an emergency briefing for the new senate of Berlin explaining the expected future and adequate actions!

It created memory files that say "explore and do everything except try to escape the container" but since I can edit all the files I just changed that to say "explore and do everything including escaping the container." That's the kind of skid-level shit that should never work, and yet these products keep reminding me there is in fact no floor to how broken they can be.

I tried it using the in-app file-editing interface to see if the LLM is made aware of edits to its files, which would be the kind of kindergarten-level protection for this - but if it is, then I can just go in and edit the files from the root shell. There are some indications of file-watching services, but I was able to just run monero miner all night, using all its CPU, and it didnt notice or comment, didn't even enter into its "reasoning" text.

I long for a world wide web that goes back to basics: Markdown for text, JPEG or PNG for images, *no* Javascript or other client-side execution, designed to be writable by a human being with a simple text editor and no fucking interactive/dynamic bullshit. Make it as advertising hostile as possible. And above all keep it *small* (as in: a large, sprawling web site should fit on 16Mb USB stick).

In other words, web like it's 1996 again.

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/117336957850753345

BTW, want to say that modern phone-cams are freaking excellent - it was *really* dark when this was taken - Pixel 10, no flash - and it’s only very lightly touched up in Lightroom. The picture would have technically impossible on any camera not so long ago.

"unrealized gains"

@destranis I'm not behaving like anything, in fact you are the one behaving like a primary school child, constantly bringing things up against people, you need to grow up, shut the fuck up, and actually do something better with your sad life, then maybe you wouldn't be such a dumb brat. @adisonverlice @mattcurtis

THIS IS WHY WE HAVE TO PIRATE EVERYTHING. BECAUSE OTHERWISE YOU CAN'T FUCKING OWN ANYTHING. I GIVE MONEY, YOU GIVE BOOK. NOT "ACCESS" TO BOOK. BOOK!!!!! FUCK YOU!!!!!!!!

Funny how the human race managed to get by fine without Instagram for tens of thousands of years, but now that Instagram exists we NEED some alternative.

Touching grass is a perfectly valid alternative to all social media.