the whitehouse youtube account just posted this daddy’s home video

You better find a way to make it easy, soldier, or I’m gonna start pushing buttons!

in other news, the market price of hacked credentials for MAGA-friendly social media accounts:

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you can still use OpenRC instead if you want, and sxmo will continue to do so by default.

you can read here about why they added systemd.

The acquisition of wealth is no longer the driving force in our lives. We work to better ourselves and the rest of Humanity.

The w700ds/w701ds (“Dual Screen”)

… was not Lenovo’s last try at putting two screens on a laptop; see also the X1 Fold and Yoga 9i

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The rest of me is all, “It’s still 2025!! If we have the Bell Riots now we’re still on-pace for a Star Trek future!!”

The Bell Riots were in September 2024.

Our universe’s lack of Eugenics Wars in the 90s was already pretty strong evidence that we’re not living in the prime timeline.

They aren’t pro corpo Ai.

They’re very much against the mass scraping/ddos ai companies are doing.

All of the self-hostable LLMs and image generators (or at least, all of the ones capable of the quality people have come to expect for the last few years) people are using today are trained on massive scraped datasets far beyond the reach of hobbyists. There are many so-called “open source” models which are free to modify (eg, by fine-tuning) and to redistribute, but the data used for the initial training (which hobbyists are allowed to build upon) cannot be published because doing so would obviously be large-scale copyright infringement.

Also, even with the data (which in many cases also needs to be labeled/annotated using human labor), the cost of training such a model from scratch is astronomical.

As a pirate myself, I totally understand how, after reading that Meta’s training data included 82TB of pirated books they torrented, one’s first thought might be “🤤” … but to imagine that this makes Meta our ally in the fight against copyright is some temporarily-embarrassed-millionaire kind of thinking.

This article buries the lede so much that many readers probably miss it completely: the important takeaway here, which is clearer in The Register’s version of the story, is that ChatGPT cannot actually play chess:

“Despite being given a baseline board layout to identify pieces, ChatGPT confused rooks for bishops, missed pawn forks, and repeatedly lost track of where pieces were."

To actually use an LLM as a chess engine without the kind of manual intervention that this person did, you would need to combine it with some other software to automate continuing to ask it for a different next move every time it suggests an invalid one. And, if you did that, it would still mostly lose, even to much older chess engines than Atari’s Video Chess.

edit: i see now that numerous people have done this; you can find many websites where you can “play chess against chatgpt” (which actually means: with chatgpt and also some other mechanism to enforce the rules). and if you know how to play chess you should easily win :)

Chat, is this real?

yes.

and we’re seeing it now because two days ago he wrote a long tweet (something only people who pay for twitter can do) musing about why so many people have been failing to understand that he was joking for the last eight years.

because this is firmly in poe’s law territory, i searched for “pibmow” which returned a wikipedia article for something called “pribnow box” which i figured was a set top streaming appliance, from which (until clicking it) i briefly inferred that everything in this post was real.

Teknolust (2002)

CW: y2k aesthetic, Tilda Swinton in multiple roles.

Do not read wikipedia’s synopsis of it first unless you want to spoil it. you can find it here on archive.org.

The English translation of ‘stukkie wukkie’ would surely be the train is ‘stuck’?

Google translates “stukkie wukkie” as “piece of shit” or “wonky”, depending on other nearby words, and “stukkie” as “broken”. but neither of these words is in a dutch dictionary afaict. And google doesn’t translate anything i tried to those words.

I’m not a Dane though so could be wrong.

Dutch is the language (and demonym) of the Netherlands.

Dane is the demonym for people from Denmark, where they speak the Danish language.

this is obviously a joke but it contains more dutch than people unfamiliar with the language might guess.

here is google’s translation of a verbatim transcription of the image:

oopsie woopsie! the train is a piece of shit!

we are working really hard to make this maybe you can fwietsen better owo

Maybe a Dutch speaker will comment here and tell us how many of the words in the image are actual Dutch words? I suspect google is probably providing plausible translations for some that aren’t really.

yep https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Global_Village_Coffeehouse

see also https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Memphis_Lite