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Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 1m
It doesn't matter if some country is collectively making a bad decision.
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Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 9h
Well the issue back then was that modems wouldn’t go anywhere near that fast anyway.

However reading/writing directly to the serial port hardware (without buffering) is really more dependent on proper timing (in an app like a terminal
emulator it’s fine to use CPU time for that).
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thomasfuchs.at
Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 9h
I also dimly remember reading the there might be earlier IIc board revisions that have issues at higher baud rates
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thomasfuchs.at
Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 9h
It’s entirely possible I misremember and that it topped out at 19,200
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thomasfuchs.at
Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 9h
Hmm MODEM.MGR works for me with that baud rate
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Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 9h
fully automated luxury pareidolia
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Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 10h
funny and accurate thread about trickery in dancing robot demos

it’s funny how it exploits our natural sense of empathy — “that thing that looks like me must also find the same things i do difficult”

and i do mean exploits

just like chatbots do

pareidolia
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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 20h
I'm laughing out loud because, *twenty years ago*, a friend in robotics told me that showing off a dancing robot is what you do when your robot sucks, and a *group* of them even more so.
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Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 10h
I love doing this with the Apple IIc. (It’s cute and supports 115,200 baud.)
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Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 11h
Just had to block people who were arguing that wearing helmet doesn’t add protection for you when you use a bicycle.
a bald man in a red and black uniform is covering his face with his hands
Alt: Picard facepalm
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thomasfuchs.at
Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 15h
Maybe I'll try it out, I'm on iTerm
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Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 15h
personally I'm more concerned about that they're trying to shoehorn "Liquid Glass" into the OS with some very questionable results
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Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 15h
fwiw you can turn that off if you want (although if do so completely some Apple stuff like Apple Pay won't work), but it's not really an issue for command line stuff and in practice it's not a big deal with modern GUI apps either (because they're all signed)
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Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 15h
The Terminator (1984) Kyle Reese meme: Listen. And understand. That LLM is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until they run out of money.
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Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 17h
it's definitely a net positive
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Noah Abrahams @nabrahams.bsky.social · 22h
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"Our new advisor, DHH"
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badly-drawn boo! 👻 @soapachu.bsky.social · 1d
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"I've added some notes"
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Squiddy (eldritch horror beyond comprehension) @dr-squiddy.bsky.social · 1d
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

Mini cheddars and yoghurt.
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Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 18h
I hope this comes with a side of $60
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Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 20h
did you know @thomasfuchs.at made a perpetual calendar with tons of themes?

perpetual.day?keeping-up
DOS-style calendar in shades of purple and teal, showing the date, month, and time
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Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 21h
“AGI by 1968! 1970 at the latest!!!!”
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 22h
bitch what
Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.
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Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 1d
It all started to go downhill when people began to purposefully make vertically video
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Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 1d
This is a skill that should be taught to everyone, I’m asking around if there’s anything helpful (like a website with a game) for this
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Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 1d
Is there a website that trains you to recognize gen AI images and video, perhaps in form of a game?
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Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 1d
Like when it’s a cartoon or TV show it’s very clear that stories are being told, a small child can understand that it’s not showing reality.

But AI stuff mixed in with real videos that are presented like candid camera stuff is different. It’s become good enough to often fool media literate adults.
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Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 1d
Sometimes when something makes you feel uncomfortable your feelings are right. :)
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Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 1d
There’s other stuff like potential cognitive problems as it trains perception to accept impossible things (e.g. items that appear and disappear), especially for children.

Like imagine growing up seeing this stuff for hours each day.
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