Gemini Links 06/04/2024: Matchbox Cars and Mozilla Deteriorates Further
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GNU/Linux
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Gemini* and Gopher
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Personal/Opinions
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🔤SpellBinding: AELSUVY Wordo: CHIVE
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the april queens
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Matchbox cars seem to have gotten bigger in recent years
Turns out, this is not a large Matchbox car, but a small electric car straight from a factory in Japan (the informational flying under the windsheid is all in Japanese). A five year old would barely fit in this thing, much less an adult. There doesn't appear to be any storage space of any significant size, and sans doors, I'm not sure this is even road legal. And the the staff there don't even know if it's for sale. Weird.
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Motivation 3/...
It's not even hard, I did the exact same thing in an evening when I started the project.
I did nothing today. Added 10 lines in 4 hours. I know exactly what to do, just didn't press the keys.
And I'm not happy about these 10 lines. They're poorly patched in, should delete them and remake.
One thing that I do differently now is that I don't work at night. Maybe that's an error, and I should work at night despite everyone pushing me not to.
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tenth
i lost a friend today. we had an extensive conversation and decided it would be for the best to split apart. we were close... but they are not doing okay right now. i cannot help them. we need space from each other... i cried about it. i rarely cry. it just... really hurt. they said a lot of worrisome things to me... i am scared for the worst. i know i did my best, whatever happens will not be my doing... but it hurts when i think about their future too hard. i hope they will be okay. that is all i can say anymore. and that is all this entry is about.
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17 ink questions
I bought Diamine Evergreen with my first fountain pen purchase, a limited edition Platinum Preppy. I wanted a nice green ink, and Evergreen exceeded my expectations because I wasn't expecting sheen. (I didn't even know inks could do that, really!)
2. What is your favorite ink bottle design, and which bottle (or cartridge) is your favorite to use?
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Technology and Free Software
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Knobs, buttons, dials & FreeBSD
I like physical buttons, knobs, dials. As an extension of that, I quite enjoy messing with input devices. of course, that includes keyboards.
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MDN’s AI Help and lucid lies
Most concerns revolved around the chatbot spouting misinformation on a technical reference expected to contain accurate information, and ethical concerns related to OpenAI and the use of a large language model (LLM).
I don't find the mere existence of LLM dishonesty to be worth blogging about; it's already well-established. Let's instead explore one of the inescapable roots of this dishonesty: LLMs exacerbate biases already present in their training data and fail to distinguish between unrelated concepts, creating lucid lies.[note 1]
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