Yes we do. Lot of Canadians gave their lives for our liberation. (not just Canadians, which is why the Trump admin removing the sign about the Black Americans at the American WW2 burial ground here has not gone over well, but also the French gave a heroic defense of Zeeland at the start of the war, and the Brits, and the Polish (they got the blame for the failure of market garden for some stupid reasons, but they jumped late even when the operation wasn’t going well, after being stalled due to the weather)).

Geweldig!

Not a scream just a nice thing people might enjoy. Somebody made a funny comic about what we all are thinking about

Random screenshot which I found particularly funny (Zijn rant klopt):

Indeed, we also don’t have an attribute called friendship, nor does money have a value attribute or stuff like that. Doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. It shows a total lack of understanding of what people are talking and arguing about, just what looks like a very dumb attempt at a gotcha, while butting into a conversation that has been had for years now (which isn’t even about him).

Time to derail conversations about computers by saying you don’t believe in digital ones and zeros because of the volt values are not one or zero. I’m reminded of Dawkins book where he magics away altruism by redefining the word away.

Yeah, im saying that for laymen the term edge is vague, and that it is explained by the context of the piece. I’m complaining about the industries weird jargon, and how easily it slips into everyday usage.

And then you hear people say stuff like: “Just put your logs into splork so you can look at the seim (which people pronounce as seam)”.

Link back to last week: https://awful.systems/post/6153095

Via Emily M Bender, “AI’s capabilities may be exaggerated by flawed tests, according to new study”

Also where they keep the warp engine and the zero point energy generators. Wake up sheeple.

‘I don’t believe people have an attribute called gender’

That must be one of the more dumber things I have read in a while.

Think that is in part intentional so people don’t start squabbling over what does and doesn’t count as ‘the edge’ in edge cases, as it also quite depends on the setup of the organization/people you are talking about. But yeah it is badly defined, which is also why I noticed it.

Like how this is an explainer for laymen but still just casually drops an ‘on the edge’ reference. The meaning of which might not be clear to laymen (the context explains it however, so it isn’t bad, just talking about how much jargon we all use).

Being that and saying stuff like :

Computers today are designed around engagement and surveillance business models rather than user needs.

Is something. Esp as they say the biggest problem is advertising and surveillance online.

exuberance

Truly a rightwing tech, after getting all the attention, money and data they now are mad people dont love it enough.

If you had measured the speed at which the resulting gossip had propagated across Skewers, Washington – measured it very carefully, and with sufficiently fine instrumentation – it might have been found to travel faster than the speed of light in vacuum.

How do you write like this? How do you pick a normal joking observation and then add more words to make it worse?

Still think it is wild they used the libgen dataset(s) and basically gotten away with it apart from some minor damages only for US publishers (who actually registered their copyright). Even more so as my provider blocks libgen etc.

It is sunday, so time to make some posts almost nobody will see. I generated a thing:

Think some of the KDE people are old school punkers so might not be a big shock.