Hypolite Petovan

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🙋‍♂️ white, he/him
💬 fr-fr/en-us
🕒 UTC -5h
💻 Deterministic software engineer
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"Nice but also confusing"

Home town: Paris, France
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2026-10-12 11:41:05 UTC

@[url=https://social.wake.st/users/liaizon]wakest ⁂[/url] This morning I woke up in a panic at 5:30a because I dreamt you messaged me “I’m at the Grand Hotel in Budapest, where are you?” and I had to check I didn't somehow misled you about my whereabouts as I was in New Jersey all week-end!

2026-10-11 13:29:53 UTC

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@[url=https://social.wake.st/users/liaizon]wakest ⁂[/url] Same reason @[url=https://convenient.email/profile/silverwizard]silverwizard[/url] and I left DeltaChat after having a pretty good time using it. This project going pear-shaped for unknown reasons is one of the saddest event I’ve witnessed in the decentralization space.

2026-10-04 13:27:39 UTC

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@[url=https://anticapitalist.party/users/Angle]Angle🖇[/url] @[url=https://fedicy.us.to/cy]Cy[/url] I mean, it’s already awful, just not for the reasons AI doomerists are thinking about. Which is kind of sobering in a way because if you ignore the simply fantastical exponential improvement claims, it can’t get that much worse than that.
Half of the first world is mesmerized by its output, including people who are making it, leading to suicides; a part of the third world is subjugated to cognito-hazards in order to improve it; and it’s blatant circular economy is due for a major market reckoning which will grind the world economy to a sudden stop. Like you said, it’s already taken over the world, just not in the glamorized fashion AI cultists are describing, so it can’t really get much worse than that.
I didn’t keep on reading Plan A propositions because I assume wrong priors will give wrong conclusions, but the time to do something about it is behind us. The US government, the only regulatory power to be able to do something about it has been captured by AI, again, not in the calculating manipulation fashion sci-fi authors have enjoyed describing rogue AI, just through unfettered greed and old-fashioned xenophobia. So we have two full years ahead of us where US companies will be free to do whatever they want, which is still trying to find a path to profit which these systems as they are cannot offer for structural reasons. And that flailing around will cause some more harm, but it will still be directed by humans.

2026-10-03 21:46:15 UTC

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@[url=https://anticapitalist.party/users/Angle]Angle🖇[/url] I’m not saying this to somehow disparage AI systems. It’s a fact they were designed and trained to respond to prompts, it isn’t a philosophical mystery, it’s their entire reason for existence. For humans, it is less obvious, which is why some of us tend to favor the artificial certainty of religious mythology.
And yes, I’m concerned in general about AI systems, just not about them running amok for no reason. There’s always a human reason and a human delusion about what these systems would or wouldn’t do in the pursuit of the human prompt.

2026-10-03 07:16:00 UTC

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@[url=https://anticapitalist.party/users/Angle]Angle🖇[/url] No, the anthropomorphizing is strong from the first sentence: "the idea of AI taking over the world". This is assigning intrinsic goals to AI systems that they currently don't have. They are prompt processors. And I would argue AI providers have already taken over the world using AI, just not in the way these profoundly misled people gush over at length. But the fact they are so taken with AI Doomerism is a clear sign of this happening. An entire cohort of the most educated people on the planet is currently losing their mind over what still is a fantasy in the current technological landscape that requires several assumption leaps that aren't guaranteed at all.
Interestingly, I still refuse to voluntarily interact with these natural-language-based systems in part because I'm culturally very close to this cohort and I don't trust myself not to succumb to the same misleading anthropomorphizing they are all guilty of. It isn't the first time in history either. Apparently zoology research on parrots has been stymied because we expected birds using human natural language to reason like humans as well, see: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/117373332856349825

2026-10-03 06:52:55 UTC

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@[url=https://anticapitalist.party/users/Angle]Angle🖇[/url] No, but this argument is making me question yours 😉

2026-10-01 13:12:43 UTC

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@[url=https://social.marxist.network/users/yogthos]Yogthos[/url] @[url=https://todon.nl/users/audunmb]Audun[/url] Except in the case of GenAI, there’s no meaningful production that would justify seizing the means of.

2026-09-27 22:31:22 UTC

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@[url=https://floss.social/users/doctormo]Martin Owens[/url] @[url=https://social.maid.zone/users/mansalia]21st Night of Steptember[/url] Yes, but between what’s possible with GMOs and what it is actually used for, there’s a giant gap with “PROFITS” written on it. Monsanto is the poster child for this discrepancy, producing one-time seeds to lock farmers into dependency with them, and reducing the overall biodiversity, leading to brittle ecosystems which our food depends on. And it makes perfect economical sense for them to do so.

2026-09-23 12:12:31 UTC

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@[url=https://social.wake.st/users/liaizon]wakest ⁂[/url] @[url=https://social.coop/users/nicol]Nicol Wistreich[/url] #[url=https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/search?tag=Friendica]Friendica[/url] is listed in second place! 🎉

2026-09-13 21:15:01 UTC

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@[url=https://mastodon.world/users/jblue]J blue[/url] is the basket massive or the veggies tiny?

2026-09-07 14:12:04 UTC

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@[url=https://social.wake.st/users/liaizon]wakest ⁂[/url] I’m off-put by this list made by this person because he could have been on this list for 15-20 years old public posts too. The only thing separating Drew from some of his subjects seems to be the existence of a public retraction statement, which seems a little thin to me. A public retraction isn’t the only way someone can change opinions.
Still most people on this list deserve to be there, but when the offending activity is older, the legitimacy of the inclusion fades especially in comparison with the author own past behavior.

2026-09-01 17:42:20 UTC

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@[url=https://social.wake.st/users/liaizon]wakest ⁂[/url] “pouvoirs publics” = elected officials, not the general public.

2026-06-23 22:57:25 UTC

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@[url=https://phpc.social/users/syntaxseed]Sherri W (SyntaxSeed)[/url] @[url=https://mastodon.social/users/space_environmentalism]Space Environmentalism[/url] Wouldn’t that be pretty hard what with the low lunar gravity and the much stronger pull of the Earth?

2026-06-08 20:57:33 UTC

This response could (and probably should) be used in a media studies textbook as a litmus test to detect AI-generated text from a prompt. That or they asked someone who's really proficient in English but has been living in a dark room for the past 20 years.
The fact that some people welcomed this tepid official response is both sad and an indictment of a significant media illiteracy even among privacy-valuing people.
[share author='Niléane' profile='https://nileane.fr/users/nileane' avatar='https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/photo/1294181503649e897d74810475861818-5.jpeg?ts=1776249955' link='https://nileane.fr/@nileane/116715096125409125' posted='2026-06-08 15:03:52' guid='87d37b5f-0aa3ef40c1cd8ea8-e4b2f1b2' message_id='https://nileane.fr/users/nileane/statuses/116715096125409125']Proton has responded ([url=https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1u05xs2/comment/oqgihvq/]https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1u05xs2/comment/oqgihvq/[/url])
[img=https://cdn.nileane.fr/media_attachments/files/116/715/095/775/015/173/original/0f385daa50ab3b92.png]"You're right to raise this, and we want to address it directly and provide you important context on how this happened.
Vincent Lapierre's channel should never have been part of our affiliate and sponsorship program, because we intentionally avoid association with channels whose content could distract from our message and divide our community.
Proton operates globally, and while our services are available to everyone regardless of political views and our mission is consistent everywhere, our knowledge of every local media landscape is not. In this case, our team didn't have enough context about the French space to make a well-informed decision, and that's on us.
We also want to be straight about what a placement like this is and isn't. An affiliate or sponsorship arrangement is a transactional placement for awareness, not an endorsement of a creator's views. In the case of Vincent Lapierre, this was a single video sponsorship, not a partnership.
But that distinction doesn't excuse what happened here. The responsibility to vet who we put our name next to is ours, and we didn't meet it this time. We're now reviewing our vetting process and our guidelines for our marketing agencies to ensure this doesn't happen again.
If you see something like this again, tell us. We rely on your feedback and vigilance."[/img][/share]
#note1f4n…l3ag

2026-06-08 18:44:14 UTC

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@[url=https://social.wake.st/users/liaizon]wakest likes your bugs ⁂[/url] I think it’s “mealy mouthed” and it truly is. It has all the trappings of apology while saying absolutely nothing, and yet people still fall for it, as evidenced in Niléane’s thread.

2026-05-20 17:10:40 UTC

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@[url=https://framapiaf.org/users/davidrevoy]David Revoy[/url] And the potion's effect lasts for 1D6 rounds 🎲

2026-05-14 12:14:21 UTC

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@[url=https://mstdn.social/users/rysiek]Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦[/url] Hear me out, “Quantum AI”. We need more datacenters.

2026-04-20 20:23:16 UTC

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@[url=https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/users/neil]Neil Brown[/url] Careful with this, as the price of consumer RAM skyrockets because of shifting manufacturer priorities towards the LLM money pit, this curve over time is inflecting down for he first time in RAM’s existence.

2026-03-30 20:49:11 UTC

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@[url=https://masto.sangberg.se/users/troed]Troed Sångberg[/url] “Plenty of uses as coding aids” is a far cry from “what it said it could do”, and that’s disregarding never-before-seen global externalities. The short-sightedness of your comment, both about what you replied to and the subject as a whole, is pretty hard to ignore.

2026-03-27 14:22:38 UTC

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@[url=https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116299862174608983]Francois Van Witbank[/url] You aren’t being fair, you’re just spouting gender critical propaganda. One of the reasons tennis was segregated is that the best women were beating less-than-best men. This was seen as a threat to the misconception about gendered bodies exactly as you stated it, so segregation was introduced by men to enforce this lie against a more nuanced reality.
That the strongest man will probably be stronger than the strongest woman doesn’t mean all men are stronger than all women, and yet this is what the IOC, several sporting bodies, and you have chosen to believe and unjustly enforce.

2026-02-08 15:24:53 UTC

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@[url=https://social.wake.st/users/liaizon]wakest ⁂[/url] @[url=https://bsky.brid.gy/ap/did:plc:4vembyxavyiuv7zsajfaslnq]wakest[/url] Then this kind of commit messages definitely denotes some sort of personal sandbox project that isn't intended to welcome outside contributions yet.

2026-02-08 12:49:33 UTC

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@[url=https://bsky.brid.gy/ap/did:plc:4vembyxavyiuv7zsajfaslnq]wakest[/url] What do you mean by “legit”?

2026-01-16 13:02:33 UTC

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@[url=https://social.wake.st/users/liaizon]wakest ⁂[/url] I have attempted to use archive.today recently, unsuccessfully. I couldn’t get past the Captcha page which I assumed was genuine. Probably participated in the DDoS then.

2026-01-15 16:23:00 UTC

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@[url=https://hexa.club/users/phooky]phooky[/url] @[url=https://social.wake.st/users/liaizon]wakest ⁂[/url] I agree, AI scrapers weren’t asking before, and I assume Wikipedia threatened to close the tap unless they coughed up some of that sweet AI investor’s cash.

2026-01-10 01:08:06 UTC

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@[url=https://social.sdf.org/users/elb]Ethan Blanton[/url] Thank you for taking the time to republish your work elsewhere! Although I spotted an inaccuracy in the new page. The 50,000 population threshold applies to the larger community served by institutions. For universities, this means more than their immediate enrolled students, and with a population of about 1.1 million people in the Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area, the University of Buffalo would qualify for the ADA requirement.
Now, the way they are doing the compliance rollout may not be the best. For example, it's possible to grandfather content that wasn't previously required to be accessible behind a password. Their timeline also seems pretty tight, if in the Spring of 2025 you weren't required to submit accessible material for your class, with a deadline set in April 2026.
But the ADA population requirement isn't in question in this case.

2025-12-24 20:28:55 UTC

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@[url=https://mastodon.longlandclan.id.au/users/stuartl]Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)[/url] @[url=https://mastodon.online/users/mastodonmigration]Mastodon Migration[/url] This is funny, but on the flip side, people correctly using em-dashes and Kenyans have had their writing flagged as AI-generated for similar and stupid reasons.

2025-12-24 18:15:51 UTC

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@[url=https://mastodon.online/users/mastodonmigration]Mastodon Migration[/url] I’ve been laughing at this comic by Tom Fishburne, but I didn’t expect it to become reality.
[url=https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/photos/hypolite/image/1992977520694c2756e3169015860373][img=https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/photo/1992977520694c2756e3169015860373-1.png]A two-panels comic, left a person sitting at a computer say to another standing: “AI turns this single bullet point into a long email I can pretend I wrote”. Right, another person sitting at a computer says to yet another: “AI makes a single bullet point put of this long email I can pretend I read” [/img][/url]
https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/photo/1992977520694c2756e3169015860373-0.png

2025-12-10 01:23:33 UTC

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@[url=https://social.wake.st/users/liaizon]wakest ⁂[/url] Oh nooo, I'm sorry!

2025-12-10 01:11:06 UTC

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@[url=https://social.wake.st/users/liaizon]wakest ⁂[/url] Were you able to resolve your conundrum back in NOLA?

2025-11-28 03:56:05 UTC

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@[url=https://mas.to/users/TechConnectify]Technology Connections[/url] Thank you, it was very informative, if only just because of the new imperial unit I’ll be able to rage against!

2025-11-15 20:13:04 UTC

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@[url=https://social.wake.st/users/liaizon]wakest ⁂[/url] @[url=https://mstdn.fr/users/ButterflyOfFire]athmane mokraoui [BoF] ⏚ꝃ⌁⁂[/url] In France, it's a flag so harmless that it's frequently flown in music festivals as a rally point.

2025-11-06 19:08:11 UTC

[quote]Your password must:
- Be between 15 and 20 characters.
- Include at least four of the following: lowercase letter, uppercase letter, number AND symbol.[/quote]
What kind of fresh hell this is now?

2025-10-09 16:48:01 UTC

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@[url=https://convenient.email/profile/silverwizard]silverwizard[/url] @[url=https://social.wake.st/users/liaizon]wakest ⁂[/url] @[url=https://freeradical.zone/users/steevmi1]Fear and Tooting in Las Vegas[/url] Apparently it isn’t a drop-in replacement: https://weird.autos/@rootwyrm/115344602798835646

2025-09-23 21:09:58 UTC

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@[url=https://social.wake.st/users/liaizon]wakest ⁂[/url] @[url=https://mamot.fr/users/nemobis]Nemo_bis 🌈[/url] Social media bot farms have actual devices on racks that I've been able to see. These SIMBoxes seem to be used for lower-level wireless activity.

2025-08-15 11:38:56 UTC

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@[url=https://gamerstavern.online/users/innkeeper]The Innkeeper[/url] @[url=https://indieweb.social/users/bekopharm]Beko Pharm[/url] Here it’s “incatpacitated”. 🙋‍♂️

2025-08-12 12:25:02 UTC

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@[url=https://mathstodon.xyz/users/johncarlosbaez]John Carlos Baez[/url] You can see the brain aneurysm progress as it reaches the East Coast.

2025-08-03 16:50:41 UTC

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@[url=https://photog.social/users/ObsidianUrbex]Obsidian Urbex Photography[/url] @[url=https://masto.pt/users/snowgaze]Snowgaze ❄️[/url] I’m a complete urbex amateur so I’ve only visited places that were very accessible, which made them easier to loot I suppose.

2025-08-02 12:49:30 UTC

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@[url=https://photog.social/users/ObsidianUrbex]Obsidian Urbex Photography[/url] There still is bedding? Dinnerware? Not your usual abandoned place!

2025-07-23 21:20:50 UTC

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@[url=https://norden.social/users/hart]Hart[/url] What about plastics production? Doesn’t it still need crude oil to be transported?

2025-06-11 15:49:25 UTC

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@[url=https://social.wake.st/users/liaizon]wakest ⁂[/url] @[url=https://mastodon.sdf.org/users/tseitr]social elephant in the room[/url] Each DNS directive in your zone file has a TTL (Time To Live). The lower it is, the shorter DNS servers will keep these directives in cache. When you're preparing to move registrar, lowering TTL in advance may make this move snappier as DNS servers will invalidate their cache sooner and request new data from the new registrar.
However, this is only relevant if the directives themselves are changing. If you're just moving your zone file from a registrar to another, it isn't as important as the DNS data will remain the same no matter who serves it. If you were moving hosting rather than registrar, it would be more important for example.

2025-04-08 11:56:56 UTC

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@[url=https://mstdn.social/users/rysiek]Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦[/url] It looks good but unrelatedly I found a typo in your article about Mastodon’s longevity:
[quote]People who had acocunts on it[…][/quote]
🤭

2025-03-25 00:34:10 UTC

What struck me about the Atlantic editor being included in a Signal group chat about a bombing mission in Yemen isn’t the less-than-tight OPSEC, but rather the self-reinforcing propaganda even among top officials when Europe briefly catch a couple strays during the conversation. How is bombing rebels in Yemen “bailing Europe out”?
I keep naively thinking fascist grifters are above their own con, but not even.

2025-02-16 22:48:14 UTC

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@[url=https://social.wake.st/users/liaizon]wakest ⁂[/url] @[url=https://pixelfed.social/users/wakest]wakest[/url] I’m only getting one result with [code]#analogphotgraphy[/code] 👀

2025-02-13 03:22:08 UTC

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@[url=https://social.wake.st/users/liaizon]wakest ⁂[/url] @[url=https://autonomous.zone/users/valezka]xenia valezka[/url] Are you familiar with the Kendrick Lamar song titled “Not Like Us”?

2025-01-29 18:53:35 UTC

Perpetual reminder that the entire business model of LLM-based chatbots, no matter their nationality, is based on intellectual property theft and this gem from XKCD:
[url=https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/photos/hypolite/image/8929880932679a7874adca0541642568][img=https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/photo/8929880932679a7874adca0541642568-1.png]XKCD comic, Cueball Prime stands with a paddle on top of a pile of stuff including a funnel labeled "data" and box labeled "answers".
Cueball II: This is your machine learning system? - Yup! You pour the data into this big pile of linear algebra, then collect the answers on the other side. - What if the answers are wrong? - Just stir the pile until they start looking right.[/img][/url]
#[url=https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/search?tag=AI]AI[/url] #[url=https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/search?tag=ArtificialIntelligence]ArtificialIntelligence[/url] #[url=https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/search?tag=LLM]LLM[/url]
https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/photo/8929880932679a7874adca0541642568-0.png

2025-01-21 23:18:35 UTC

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@[url=https://mstdn.social/users/kingu]𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮[/url] @[url=https://mastodon.esmevane.com/users/miasmicfungus]Arrest Courtneyyyy![/url] Finally something different! But also the picture looks surreal.

2025-01-21 17:18:50 UTC

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@[url=https://mstdn.social/users/kingu]𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮[/url] This reminds me of Hurricane Sandy back in December 2012, when the lower half of Manhattan's power was cut off after a transformer was flooded. Same weird vibe with the flashing bicolor lights in otherwise pitch black.

2025-01-18 13:28:05 UTC

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@[url=https://social.wake.st/users/liaizon]wakest ⁂[/url] @[url=https://mastodon.world/users/pronoia]Pronoia (Πρόνοια)[/url] @[url=https://wikis.world/users/wikipedia_fr]Wikipédia en français[/url] Unfortunately, yes. It’s even encouraged.

2025-01-15 19:50:24 UTC

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@[url=https://mastodon.tetaneutral.net/users/JMenoux]Jean Menoux[/url] @[url=https://mstdn.social/users/kingu]𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮[/url] « Ah non, moi je fais la bise »

2025-01-15 14:25:48 UTC

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@[url=https://mstdn.social/users/kingu]𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮[/url] Minnesota is one of the most progressive states in the US.

2025-01-14 17:31:14 UTC

Filed to #[url=https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/search?tag=ImagesThatHurt]ImagesThatHurt[/url]
[share author='James Chip' profile='https://merveilles.town/users/jameschip' avatar='https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/photo/20409003915f6b9a9f72478891399013-5.png?ts=1735847403' link='https://merveilles.town/@jameschip/113821368765755646' posted='2025-01-13 13:50:56' guid='e02b8846-291720b63978cf0f-cdb9083a' message_id='https://merveilles.town/users/jameschip/statuses/113821368765755646']There should be a chapter in The Design of Everyday Things devoted to this dial.
[img=https://assets.merveilles.town/media_attachments/files/113/821/354/977/193/295/original/483a02a79f6cc4a6.jpg]A red dial with the numbers 0 to 6 printed on it going anticlockwise from 0 to 6. Around the dial on the enclosure "Low" is printed at the top and a line of increasing thickness goes clockwise around the dial to where it says "High" at about the 10 o'clock point. At the 6 o'clock point of this line the number 0 is printed.[/img][/share]
#note12pq…k76j

2025-01-11 14:17:58 UTC

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@[url=https://awscommunity.social/users/TammyGentzel]TammyGentzel[/url] @[url=https://sauropods.win/users/futurebird]myrmepropagandist[/url] Interestingly, LLM-based systems seem to do marginally better at more complex queries because I’m guessing they can draw from a much larger source corpus and reply using its known intersection of the relevant fields.
It still won’t guarantee accuracy, but the longer answers are less likely to be immediately factually wrong.

2025-01-09 01:28:08 UTC

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@[url=https://mstdn.social/users/kingu]𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮[/url] 1922?

2025-01-08 17:33:43 UTC

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@[url=https://social.wake.st/users/liaizon]wakest ⁂[/url] After a surface search:
- https://github.com/mendel5/alternative-front-ends (last updated 2 years ago)
- https://awesome-privacy.xyz/social in a larger directory last updated 2 months ago

2025-01-06 16:17:06 UTC

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@[url=https://mstdn.social/users/kingu]𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮[/url] Impatient de savoir qui sera le prochain bouc émissaire des conservateurs !

2025-01-03 19:20:23 UTC

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@[url=https://mstdn.social/users/kingu]𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮[/url] With any luck, you'll also find a secret weed stash!

2024-12-29 13:12:25 UTC

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@[url=https://mstdn.social/users/kingu]𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮[/url] What am I saying, you're listening to Merzbow for fun, this is probably the worst you can get in the music lottery.

2024-12-29 13:07:46 UTC

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@[url=https://mstdn.social/users/kingu]𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮[/url] Oh come on, it's easy listening funk this time, could be worse!

2024-12-28 14:26:07 UTC

Montréal Nid de Voleurs
Montreal Den of Thieves

2024-12-21 01:05:24 UTC

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@[url=https://kpop.social/users/momo]🍑[/url] Also there’s a pre-roll ad on Youtube advertising an ad-blocker, apparently it’s fine 👀

2024-12-18 20:50:51 UTC

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@[url=https://mstdn.social/users/kingu]𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮[/url] @[url=https://bsky.brid.gy/ap/did:plc:u4gngygg2w5egsigxu5g7byu]Lamp[/url] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/crying-seal-he-was-forced-to-eat-cement-when-he-was-6

2024-12-16 19:43:26 UTC

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@[url=https://mstdn.social/users/kingu]𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮[/url] I'm not sure how sound the advice of someone who listens to music on YouTube is. 🤔

2024-12-16 18:43:32 UTC

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@[url=https://mstdn.social/users/kingu]𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮[/url] Aha, that's the other thing Apple Music doesn't do, Last.fm integration! Again, nobody at Apple ever used it.

2024-12-16 16:49:13 UTC

I'm not sure anyone at Apple ever actually used Apple Music. My use case is the following:
- I start a radio, mixing songs I added to my library with related songs
- A song I don't have in my library plays, and I happen to like it enough to want to add the song to my library.
- Too bad, the song ended and the radio moved to the next song. The previous button is greyed out, there's no playlist page for this radio, and there's no Listening History available.
I'm absolutely confused by this behavior. Is it a licensing thing where songs can be played as part of a radio for cheaper than if they are presented in an actual playlist, even if it's automatically generated?

2024-12-16 15:34:23 UTC

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@[url=https://mastodon.grin.hu/users/grin]grin[/url] I don't blame you, if only I didn't care so much for these stupid virtual duplicants I myself spawned into existence!

2024-12-16 15:01:25 UTC

After 67 hours of play time and several more watching playthrough and tutorial videos of [i]Oxygen Not Included[/i] (2019), I threw the towel again just before getting into space. Getting a near-sustainable base going was nerve-wracking enough, and I've sadly hit my cognitive limit regarding the planning involved in rocketry.
Despite this second abrupt ending, I'm still somewhat proud I finally managed to get to this stage of the game, but it did cost me pretty dearly IRL in terms of obsession-fueled late nights, and it confirmed to me that I'm definitely an implementor and not a designer.
#[url=https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/search?tag=VideoGames]VideoGames[/url]

2024-12-11 13:18:17 UTC

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@[url=https://mastodon.top/users/Frenchie]Frenchie🌸🇺🇳[/url] @[url=https://mstdn.social/users/kingu]𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮[/url] Le Mont Royal est coton quand même 🥵

2024-12-10 19:54:06 UTC

My partner regularly receives similar Request For Proposals (RFP), so she created template responses that she validated with Legal in order to speed up the processing of RFP forms. Now her boss is suggesting her to use a custom ChatGPT integration fed with these template responses in order to ask the chatbot to regurgitate them later, in a form that needs to be vetted by Legal again, before filling in the same RFP forms. In order to "improve efficiency". 🤯
Now, I do get why unscrupulous bosses want to use AI to commodify intellectual work. I despise it, but I get it, it makes sense to me, even if every fiber of my being is against it. On the other hand, I don't understand this particular use other than ChatGPT being a hammer and everything is made into nails. This leads me to believe that the core market of OpenAI is simply stupid people wooed by a chatbot that sounds smarter than they are. It's brilliant, the scaling potential is infinite!
#[url=https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/search?tag=AI]AI[/url] #[url=https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/search?tag=ChatBots]ChatBots[/url] #[url=https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/search?tag=OpenAI]OpenAI[/url] #[url=https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/search?tag=ChatGPT]ChatGPT[/url] #[url=https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/search?tag=StochasticParrots]StochasticParrots[/url]

2024-12-04 15:34:47 UTC

World War II, the Allies have to face two of the most frightening armies in the world, and Italy.

2024-12-04 01:00:21 UTC

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@[url=https://mstdn.social/users/kingu]𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮[/url] You absolutely aren’t into “game changers”, but you do like new Japanese idol album releases. 🤔

2024-12-03 12:40:25 UTC

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@[url=https://mstdn.social/users/kingu]𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮[/url] That’s a great paint job they seemingly gave away for free to the car’s owner.

2024-11-22 18:17:49 UTC

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@[url=https://mstdn.social/users/kingu]𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮[/url] It’s genius, hear me out, no need to fetch webpages from a variety of remote servers, you can just make one up on the spot depending on the requested domain name!

2024-11-21 17:04:20 UTC

What happened to the "Edit as New" feature in mail clients? Can't find it either in GMail or Fastmail. Was it a temporary fad or was I just blessed with a specific client that had this feature and that I don't use anymore?

2024-11-20 16:22:15 UTC

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@[url=https://mstdn.social/users/kingu]𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮[/url] Les recommendations institutionnelles pour faire intervenir des charlatans, bordel!

2024-11-14 14:55:26 UTC

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@[url=https://mstdn.social/users/kingu]𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮[/url] S’ils sont bien organisés, pas plus de deux. S’ils sont groupés de face, peut-être cinq ?

2024-11-13 14:27:52 UTC

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@[url=https://mstdn.social/users/kingu]𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮[/url] Hein ?

2024-11-06 00:02:38 UTC

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@[url=https://mstdn.social/users/kingu]𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮[/url] The shadow doesn't agree with the size of the utensil. 👀

2024-11-05 23:51:38 UTC

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@[url=https://mstdn.social/users/kingu]𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮[/url] @[url=https://queer.hacktivis.me/users/lanodan]Haelwenn /элвэн/[/url] @[url=https://pleroma.lord.re/users/lord]Lord[/url] Oui, la déconnexion entre Trump et les plus grandes fortunes américaines qui ont apporté leur soutien direct ou indirect pour qu'il soit élu (Musk et Bezos, entre autres) est impressionnante.

2024-11-05 00:58:41 UTC

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@[url=https://mstdn.social/users/kingu]𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮[/url] Oh come on, it’s a Fediverse post, surely you can boost it directly!

2024-11-04 22:45:31 UTC

If I go down for a crime, it will be for insulting a Tesla Cybertruck owner. No other car viscerally makes me angry, not even the four-door Porsche, Ferrari and Lamborghini SUVs.
I’ve come up with a few quips I fantasize telling to these drivers after knocking at her window at a red light:[ul]
[li] ”Is this the divorce pick-me-up?”
[li] “So the penis pump didn’t work?”
[li] “Oh you like retro gaming with your low-poly car?”
[/ul]

2024-11-04 21:05:14 UTC

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@[url=https://mstdn.social/users/kingu]𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮[/url] Wow, I left Netflix for unrelated reasons but they definitely aren't making me regret anything.

2024-10-31 17:28:16 UTC

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@[url=https://mstdn.social/users/kingu]𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮[/url] Ta gueule c'est magique !

2024-10-18 17:11:04 UTC

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@[url=https://dialup.cafe/users/vga256]vga256[/url] Since I discovered the game through this screenshot, I have been obsessed with it and will try to get it to run it later. In the mean time, I was only able to find this long play video series on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TA_cY5zmqE
Unfortunately the video compression (?) makes the game look worse than this screenshot suggests.

2024-10-17 12:31:23 UTC

In the Bedford-Stuysevant neighborhood of #[url=https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/search?tag=Brooklyn]Brooklyn[/url], close to the Tompkins Ave-Hancock St intersection lives the so-called “Bed Stuy Aquarium”. Born out of a leaky fire hydrant and an unfinished sidewalk, this tiny pond is now the home of several goldfish.
This ad hoc installation even has a Linktree page: https://linktr.ee/bedstuyaquarium
[url=https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/photos/hypolite/image/5955494241671101d95ad98331167877][img=https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/photo/5955494241671101d95ad98331167877-1.jpeg]A sidewalk fire hydrant is surrounded by a tiny fish pond decorated with colorful aquarium fixtures in the cavity where concrete is usually poured. A few signs advertising the “Bed Stuy Aquarium and a couple benches complete the tableau.[/img][/url]
[attachment type='link' url='https://linktr.ee/bedstuyaquarium' title='Bed-Stuy Aquarium | Instagram, TikTok | Linktree' publisher_name='Linktree' publisher_url='https://linktr.ee' image='https://linktr.ee/og/image/bedstuyaquarium.jpg']Showing love to the community[/attachment]
https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/photo/5955494241671101d95ad98331167877-0.jpeg

2024-10-12 13:05:07 UTC

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@[url=https://social.wake.st/users/liaizon]wakest ⁂[/url] Now that we dropped our bespoke DFRN protocol, we probably should look at a custom AP field for the private message subject instead of using the ill-fated summary field.

2024-10-11 23:26:10 UTC

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@[url=https://social.wake.st/users/liaizon]wakest ⁂[/url] Friendica uses the summary field as a subject to group private conversations the same way email does it.
However it seems to be handling empty subject fields at the se ding end, replacing it by the “[no subject]” string rather than at the receiving end.

2024-10-09 16:57:17 UTC

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@[url=https://mstdn.social/users/kingu]𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮 :mikupat:[/url] It's interesting that the people who complained that the Christmas tree looked too much like a sex toy are also puritanists who would otherwise swear they've never seen one.

2024-10-03 18:39:22 UTC

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@[url=https://mstdn.social/users/kingu]𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮 :mikupat:[/url] *people 🫣

2024-10-03 17:00:04 UTC

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@[url=https://mstdn.social/users/kingu]𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮 :mikupat:[/url] Yup, but in English is "dilation".

2024-10-03 16:13:21 UTC

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@[url=https://mstdn.social/users/kingu]𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮 :mikupat:[/url] Dilation 🫣

2024-09-26 02:41:53 UTC

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@[url=https://mastodon.esmevane.com/users/miasmicfungus]Andie Warhol[/url] But, but, but why did you do this to yourself? @[url=https://mstdn.social/users/kingu]𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮 :mikupat:[/url]

2024-09-23 22:07:51 UTC

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@[url=https://mastodon.esmevane.com/users/miasmicfungus]Andie Warhol[/url] @[url=https://mstdn.social/users/kingu]𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮 :mikupat:[/url] What did you have in mind?

2024-09-19 15:25:27 UTC

I'm old enough to remember a time where most consumer cars looked like they just wanted to race you. Nowadays most consumer cars look like they only want to kill you. 😞

2024-09-11 17:54:44 UTC

“They were so preoccupied whether they could do it that they didn’t stop to wonder whether they should do it.”
[share author='kaiserkiwi :kiwibird:' profile='https://corteximplant.com/users/kaiserkiwi' avatar='https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/photo/629747107464730d40b7542924544467-5.png?ts=1721221539' link='https://corteximplant.com/@kaiserkiwi/113089723556101662' posted='2024-09-06 08:43:56' guid='72924e67-f3177a7a9fea6c20-308bbac7' message_id='https://corteximplant.com/users/kaiserkiwi/statuses/113089723556101662']No Samsung. Just no. Nobody asked for this.
#[url=https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/search?tag=IFA2024]IFA2024[/url]
[img=https://corteximplant.com/system/media_attachments/files/113/089/723/336/438/648/original/829f67f60c4bd781.jpeg]Ad with the headline: "Answer calls with your washer." And the text "Do not bother holding your phone while doing the laundry."[/img][/share]
#note1ldv…03ez

2024-09-06 15:37:00 UTC

Love when an internal corporate swag email looks exactly like the phishing tests the security team sends periodically.
I ended up sending it for phishing review.

2024-09-05 22:04:46 UTC

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@[url=https://mstdn.social/users/kingu]𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮 :mikupat:[/url] @[url=https://mastodon.cloud/users/lamp]lamp[/url] Yes, it's another decentralized social media network mainly appealing for libertarians and crypto bros, meant to compete with Bluesky. Jack Dorsey of Twitter fame endorsed Nostr.

2024-09-01 13:00:55 UTC

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@[url=https://mas.to/users/JerryWham]Jerry Wham[/url] @[url=https://mstdn.social/users/kingu]𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮 :mikupat:[/url] Un level = un niveau, incluant les niveaux à bulles.

2024-08-28 19:29:01 UTC

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@[url=https://mstdn.social/users/kingu]𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮 :mikupat:[/url] From my library, by category:
Cool to do:
- Bloc Party
- Paradise Walk
Cool to see:
- Funky Giraffe
- Last Dinosaurs
- Magic Sword
Cool to be in:
- Deep Forest
- Minnesota
- Epic Mountain
Risky but worth a try:
- Boucle Infinie
- Perpetual Loop

2024-08-25 13:12:30 UTC

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@[url=https://mstdn.social/users/kingu]𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮 :mikupat:[/url] His 18-year old daughter also died on that boat, so it’s a little callous.

2024-07-31 11:26:43 UTC

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@[url=https://techhub.social/users/linuxgal]🌈 ☯️Teresita🐧👭[/url] What's the second command it's performing?