Amanda Unvarnished

“We never saw any of this ADHD or autism stuff when I was young!”

You never saw any photos of the surface of Mars back then either, but I’m pretty sure it was still there the whole time

—@Garwboy

Some of you didn’t have to build networks for LAN parties and then spend 2 hours troubleshooting your NIC and it shows.

—@riskymanag3ment

The S in LTS stands for suffering

—@karolherbst

If you’re as confused as I am about the new deprecation alerts in Sonoma, read this (it’s a lot worse than you think).

And make sure to dupe the FB (see NOTE at the bottom of the blog post). We have to let Apple know they’re screwing up in a big way.

https://furbo.org/2023/07/09/an-alerting-vista-of-sonoma/

—@chockenberry

@StillIRise1963 I’m 65. Domestic violence was considered a family matter. No one was prosecuted for it, women were told by their various churches to do better and endure.
Rape was impossible to prosecute. There was no Miranda Law. No fault divorce did not exist. My mother had to get written permission from her father to go to college.
Abortion was illegal at every stage. Segregation was the norm. Civil rights did not exist.
They want us to go back to that time.

—@CatDragon

Holy fuck, the GPT2 tokenizer, which is used by nearly all AI models which have anything to do with text or prompting, is really, really bad with non-english languages. In English, even uncommon words like “amplification” or infographic take up one token while words like “socialization” and “enterprising” take two, but in Polish, one token is usually two or three letters, there are common 6-letter words that take 4 tokens. This matters because more tokens means slower text generation, higher pricing and smaller supported prompt lengths.

—@miki