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#SoftwareDeveloper in 🇩🇪 #Bremen

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I also develop a fork of #Mastonaut, a macOS native Mastodon client: https://github.com/chucker/Mastonaut

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2025-09-21 20:07:25 UTC

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there is no likely long-term scenario where late-night TV suddenly becomes a big thing again

2025-07-21 18:55:43 UTC

No!
An LLM is not an intelligent being. It cannot self-reflect. Stop anthropomorphizing it.
https://media.norden.social/media_attachments/files/114/892/738/058/302/792/original/ab2f99f504bc9a7e.png

2025-01-05 13:32:11 UTC

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(the other problem is that even for moderate amounts of RAM, the RAM is very pricey and has to be chosen upfront)

2025-01-05 13:31:34 UTC

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yep, I get that, and they indeed do not (other than trying to divide the workload across multiple computers)

2025-01-05 13:02:41 UTC

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Apple’s SoC approach is mostly great (high-bandwidth RAM, etc.) but when it comes to the high end, it has its limits. No additional GPU support, no way to handle large amounts of RAM.
Unclear if they’ll ever bother with an M variant specifically for the Mac Pro. I wouldn’t count on it; the market segment is shrinking rapidly.

2024-12-29 23:52:43 UTC

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Of course I’m being slightly facetious. Don’t be annoying. But your silly joke to a complete stranger can be taken the entirely wrong way, leading to a block, or it can intrigue.

2024-12-29 23:52:43 UTC

I’ve witnessed both of these paths, and… human interaction has quite the butterfly effect, I guess
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2024-12-08 18:44:40 UTC

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I’m not sure that’s true. If Facebook, Twitter, TikTok et al didn’t exist, and the Fediverse were massive, I see no reason to believe a state- or oligarch-funded disinfo op wouldn’t be hugely popular right here.
Would some instances block it? Sure. But would a lot of people actively seek it? Yes.

2024-12-08 14:06:22 UTC

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it’s decentralization in the sense that Facebook and Twitter aren’t the classic mass media, which they’ve lost trust in.
We’ve moved from people mostly getting their information from the newspaper or the evening TV news, then discussing them at the pub to them increasingly using smaller information sources (some random with a blog, or on Facebook, or elsewhere) that blur the line of information and opinion.

2024-12-08 10:58:57 UTC

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optimistically, yes. Cynically, well, look at COVID. Decentralization has made people trust the local town crier over medical professionals.
That phenomenon has always existed to some extent, but its influence has grown in recent decades.

2024-12-08 10:46:48 UTC

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but while changing tax policy is relatively easy, putting the media genie back in its bottle is hard. How do you make people trust journalists again? How do you explain that “social media” has its virtues, but often amplifies lies and sometimes even propaganda?

2024-12-08 10:43:15 UTC

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agreed. Thatcherism et al were the seeds towards a rise of cynicism, belief that the state can do no good, that things are getting worse, that what we used to have is going away.
But tax policy isn’t enough; the changed media landscape is also a huge problem.

2024-12-06 12:16:22 UTC

macOS 15.2’s new mirroring stuff is nice. In Control Center, click on Screen Mirroring. For the display you want to mirror something to, click Choose Content. Double-click Window or App. Then pick a window, and click Mirror This Window. Boom.

2024-12-02 22:50:36 UTC

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please don’t have Qualcomm buy Intel