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[follow requests welcome, but please have a bio & posts] move slow & fix things music • photography • poetry • code 🎸 since 1998 👩🏻‍💻 since 2006 (pro since […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mastodon.world/@exchgr, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
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elle mundy @ap.exch.gr · 25d
finally got around to posting these from 6 months ago

#photography #streetphotography #bloomscrolling

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Street Photography: March 2025 | Process Things
Hello. And we’re back with another monthly installment of street photography. It’s been [counts 'em] 6 months since I took these photos. Dang. I have some catching up to do. In March, besides going to Barcelona, I also did a lot of walking around the city, including some photo walks with friends …
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elle mundy @ap.exch.gr · 16h
haha whoa it gets way more tangled https://www.wheresyoured.at/is-there-any-real-money-in-renting-out-ai-gpus/
Is There Any Real Money In Renting Out AI GPUs?
NVIDIA has become a giant, unhealthy rock on which the US markets — and to some extent the US economy — sits, _representing 7-to-8% of the value of the market_ and _a large percentage of the $400 billion in expected AI data center capex_ expected to be spent this year,
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elle mundy @ap.exch.gr · 1d
listening to this and deleting thousands of lines of code https://music.apple.com/us/album/all-things-must-pass-50th-anniversary/1666662415
All Things Must Pass (50th Anniversary) by George Harrison on Apple Music
Album · 1970 · 23 Songs
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elle mundy @ap.exch.gr · 1d
this series goes very hard indeed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1KP4ztKK0A
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AI6YR Ben @ai6yr.m.ai6yr.org.ap.brid.gy · 1d
Stop copying and pasting that LLM spew
Why the heck do we pay you?
it only knows what words come next statistically
And even then, not deterministically
It'll pick words that just seem right
They may seem true but aren't quite
Lorem ipsum it's not always true
That next is dolor, in my view
Only […]
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elle mundy @ap.exch.gr · 1d
thoughts while reading @beep’s https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/against-stocking-frames/
Against the protection of stocking frames. — ethanmarcotte.com
“Artificial intelligence” is a failed technology. It’s time we described it that way.
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elle mundy @ap.exch.gr · 1d
the amount of revenue that can be generated from these companies using LLMs is not enough to cover the costs of training and operating them (per ed zitron & many others). so VCs and the other companies they fund have to act like it’s a big deal to juice all the companies’ valuations, which gets […]
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elle mundy @ap.exch.gr · 1d
how i’m closing the contradiction between “LLMs are kinda bad at everything” and “employers are forcing employees to use LLMs to deskill and replace them”: the companies that are forcing employees to use LLMs are often funded by the same VC firms that poured money into LLM companies, and the VCs […]
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elle mundy @ap.exch.gr · 1d
[humbly] conspiracy hypothesis 😌
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elle mundy @ap.exch.gr · 1d
just astounded that as long as i’ve been using airplay (~5 years), it’s just been a whack-a-mole of bugs
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elle mundy @ap.exch.gr · 1d
on the iOS side, they seem to have fixed random sound check bugs between songs of different sources/bit depths/sample rates (i.e. when using apple music lossless [a hodgepodge of different rates/depths] and cloud music library together), so now that’s usable again
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elle mundy @ap.exch.gr · 1d
“hahaha you think an AI is gonna drink all the water on the planet? you sound like that eliezer yudkowsky guy. you know, the guy with the rationalist harry potter fanfic”
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elle mundy @ap.exch.gr · 1d
cool! they fixed the ability to remote control apple music on apple tv without fully turning on the tv. but of course it can’t be all sunshine and apples. sound check doesn’t work with cloud music library tracks over airplay, rendering the thing still utterly unusable
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elle mundy @ap.exch.gr · 1d
they created a fake moral panic around LLMs (it will turn everything into a paperclip so you should be nice to it) to make the real criticisms sound unhinged by association
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Old L.A. Photos @oldlaphotos.palewi.re · 2d
Franchise https://tessa.lapl.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/64881
Photograph caption dated January 31, 1950 reads, "The Paraffine Co., manufacturers of Pabco Paints, announces its award of a 'Pabco Paint Mart' franchise to Harter's of 6428 Lankershim Blvd., in Victory Center. Harter's Pabco Paint Mart is independently owned and operated by Morris F. Harter, Sherman Oaks builder and real estate man, and his son, Glenn Harter. Both father and son have a wide experience in the paint and hardware field, having formerly owned and operated the Sherman Oaks hardware store for five years. Glenn Harter will manage the new store which will stock a complete line of Pabco Paints and Craftsmen finishes as well as a complete stock of builders' hardware, wallpaper and linoleum. The store is one of the largest of its kind in the Valley."
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elle mundy @ap.exch.gr · 2d
the dialect work on “task” is utterly bananas, especially when you hear the actors’ real voices at the end. almost everyone is doing a wildly different accent for the show.
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elle mundy @ap.exch.gr · 2d
apples are vegetables in a salad context
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elle mundy @ap.exch.gr · 2d
wanna feel self conscious? read about your hometown’s regional dialect
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elle mundy @ap.exch.gr · 3d
it's live https://exch.gr/code/wcepr/
Wikipedia Current Events Portal RSS | Process Things
Ever wish you could keep up with what’s going on in the world without getting mired in reading news all day? Turns out, Wikipedia publishes a current events portal, which gets updated daily. If you’re a freak like me, you probably want it served to you in an RSS feed. So do I, which is why I was …
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elle mundy @ap.exch.gr · 2d
https://www.leahreich.com/open-source-the-revolution/
Open Source the Revolution
Before I was a contractor at Mozilla, I'd never spent much time thinking about open source software. I knew what it was obviously, had friends who cared a lot about things like decentralized development and universal distribution and other keywords from the open source Wikipedia page. But I'd only ever
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elle mundy @ap.exch.gr · 2d
yep, that was it. for the curious:
contents of /etc/nsmb.conf: [default] # many of these come from https://www.ms8.com/enhancing-macos-smb-stability-and-usability-with-custom-configurations/ mc_on=yes mc_prefer_wired=yes signing_required=no streams=yes soft=yes port445=no_netbios validate_neg_off=yes dir_cache_max_cnt=0 dir_cache_max=0 dir_cache_off=yes protocol_vers_map=4 notify_off=yes
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elle mundy @ap.exch.gr · 2d
banning people like antivaxxers and fascists has never been about “censoring the opposition” or “stifling healthy debate.” at the risk of sounding like a conspiracy theorist, that’s what they want you to think. it’s always been about limiting the reach of mass disinformation campaigns that seek […]
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elle mundy @ap.exch.gr · 3d
even palantir won’t touch it @yogthos https://social.marxist.network/@yogthos/115324167145545425
Yogthos (@[email protected])
Starmer hit with major blow as tech firm backs out of digital ID card scheme. https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/starmer-hit-major-blow-tech-36013892
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elle mundy @ap.exch.gr · 3d
rhetorical question
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elle mundy @ap.exch.gr · 3d
bluesky isn’t big enough to enshittify yet. what’s going on
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elle mundy @ap.exch.gr · 3d
it's live https://exch.gr/code/wcepr/
Wikipedia Current Events Portal RSS | Process Things
Ever wish you could keep up with what’s going on in the world without getting mired in reading news all day? Turns out, Wikipedia publishes a current events portal, which gets updated daily. If you’re a freak like me, you probably want it served to you in an RSS feed. So do I, which is why I was …
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