Dennis Wurster
@wildeep.bsky.social
I've learned to do a *lot* of things, but whatever I'm doing I'd probably rather be riding my bike.
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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If you load this page it contacts 82 IP addresses executing 256 separate HTTP transactions to download 18MB of data writing 64 cookies to your device to tell you “no”
May 24, 2025 at 10:37 AM
If you load this page it contacts 82 IP addresses executing 256 separate HTTP transactions to download 18MB of data writing 64 cookies to your device to tell you “no”
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I can’t tell you the amount of contempt real coders have for Musk’s stolen valor at pretending to be technical. His years (decades?) of pseudo-code revealing that he doesn’t actually know how software works are so offensive to genuinely talented developers that they’ve always hated him.
elon could fake being a business and technology genius forever and everyone would have thrown cash at him endlessly, but no, he had to pretend to be a poster and gamer tok and America was like hold up
Has to be rough for Elon to know that his popularity is inversely correlated with his public exposure. People thought this guy was a genius before he started posting in earnest
March 22, 2025 at 4:34 AM
I can’t tell you the amount of contempt real coders have for Musk’s stolen valor at pretending to be technical. His years (decades?) of pseudo-code revealing that he doesn’t actually know how software works are so offensive to genuinely talented developers that they’ve always hated him.
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March 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
🔗 Websites vanish. Links break. But knowledge can live on with your help. Use the Wayback Machine’s Save Page Now tool to archive webpages that are important to you. 🕰️ 💾
📌 Try it now: web.archive.org/save
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Everything got so stupid so quickly.
March 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Everything got so stupid so quickly.
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Listen to your children read. Read to your children. Read alongside your children. Take them to libraries. Talk about what reading means to you & what it can unlock.
Tell them it doesn’t matter if it’s comics, magazines or books as long as they’re engaged with the written word. #WorldBookDay
Tell them it doesn’t matter if it’s comics, magazines or books as long as they’re engaged with the written word. #WorldBookDay
March 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Listen to your children read. Read to your children. Read alongside your children. Take them to libraries. Talk about what reading means to you & what it can unlock.
Tell them it doesn’t matter if it’s comics, magazines or books as long as they’re engaged with the written word. #WorldBookDay
Tell them it doesn’t matter if it’s comics, magazines or books as long as they’re engaged with the written word. #WorldBookDay
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I want to remind everyone that your local library is both physical AND digital.
You hate streaming everything because the price is ridiculous? Library.
You hate ads because they're every 3 mins or less? Library.
You want to reduce your digital footprint? Library.
You want sourced info? Library.
You hate streaming everything because the price is ridiculous? Library.
You hate ads because they're every 3 mins or less? Library.
You want to reduce your digital footprint? Library.
You want sourced info? Library.
January 11, 2025 at 2:05 AM
I want to remind everyone that your local library is both physical AND digital.
You hate streaming everything because the price is ridiculous? Library.
You hate ads because they're every 3 mins or less? Library.
You want to reduce your digital footprint? Library.
You want sourced info? Library.
You hate streaming everything because the price is ridiculous? Library.
You hate ads because they're every 3 mins or less? Library.
You want to reduce your digital footprint? Library.
You want sourced info? Library.
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here come old laptop
he come
bootin up slowly
he got
broken touchpad
he need
one more update
he got
no space
on this pc
one thing i can tell you
its got no warranty
he come
bootin up slowly
he got
broken touchpad
he need
one more update
he got
no space
on this pc
one thing i can tell you
its got no warranty
December 28, 2024 at 2:24 AM
here come old laptop
he come
bootin up slowly
he got
broken touchpad
he need
one more update
he got
no space
on this pc
one thing i can tell you
its got no warranty
he come
bootin up slowly
he got
broken touchpad
he need
one more update
he got
no space
on this pc
one thing i can tell you
its got no warranty
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"Inaccessible products are broken products. The first step to fix them is to give a damn."
uxdesign.cc/giving-a-dam...
#a11y
Giving a damn about accessibility
A candid and practical handbook for designers.
uxdesign.cc
December 26, 2024 at 3:28 PM
"Inaccessible products are broken products. The first step to fix them is to give a damn."
uxdesign.cc/giving-a-dam...
#a11y
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“You’ll be visited by three spirits.”
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
December 24, 2024 at 10:06 PM
“You’ll be visited by three spirits.”
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
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“Fuck around and find out” is now becoming “please feel free to test that assumption at your earliest convenience. Per my recommendation, take note of said result”
December 18, 2024 at 8:32 PM
“Fuck around and find out” is now becoming “please feel free to test that assumption at your earliest convenience. Per my recommendation, take note of said result”
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God this is depressing
College freshman today were 6 years old in the 2012 election.
A student of mine (age 20) told me after class that he appreciates when I explain how US politics and media were different before, because the Trump era is all he’s seen.
This is what young Americans think politics is. It’s normal now.
A student of mine (age 20) told me after class that he appreciates when I explain how US politics and media were different before, because the Trump era is all he’s seen.
This is what young Americans think politics is. It’s normal now.
I think that folks aren't seriously thinking about the implications of young adults who know nothing other than a country which has normalized MAGA politics, God help us all.
December 14, 2024 at 1:59 PM
God this is depressing
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If the government ain’t worried about it… it’s probably the governments doing 🤷🏻♀️
December 14, 2024 at 12:38 AM
If the government ain’t worried about it… it’s probably the governments doing 🤷🏻♀️
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Wild to me that there are legit unidentified drones all over the northeast and the best the government and its multi trillion dollar military budget has for us is "it's fine probably"
December 13, 2024 at 11:58 PM
Wild to me that there are legit unidentified drones all over the northeast and the best the government and its multi trillion dollar military budget has for us is "it's fine probably"
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How AI is reshaping the data-intensive field of Grand Prix racing, including helping design cars, setting F1's technical regulations, and shaping race strategy (James Allen/Financial Times)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
November 24, 2024 at 4:06 AM
How AI is reshaping the data-intensive field of Grand Prix racing, including helping design cars, setting F1's technical regulations, and shaping race strategy (James Allen/Financial Times)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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PSA: M4 Macs can’t run virtual machines with older versions of macOS
PSA: M4 Macs can’t run virtual machines with older versions of macOS
iMac and , which brings a lot of performance improvements – especially when it comes to AI tasks. However, users are facing issues when trying to run virtual machines with some older versions of macOS on the new machines.
more…
9to5mac.com
November 19, 2024 at 12:07 AM
PSA: M4 Macs can’t run virtual machines with older versions of macOS
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Researcher reverse engineers new iPhone security feature ‘Inactivity Reboot’
Researcher reverse engineers new iPhone security feature ‘Inactivity Reboot’
A recent report by 404 Media revealed that law enforcement agents have been concerned about automatically rebooting themselves, which makes it very difficult to hack these devices. Security researcher Jiska Classen later discovered that this behavior is…
9to5mac.com
November 18, 2024 at 11:04 PM
Researcher reverse engineers new iPhone security feature ‘Inactivity Reboot’
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the computer / the separate part of the computer who knows how to do math (they are girlfriends)
November 18, 2024 at 11:45 PM
the computer / the separate part of the computer who knows how to do math (they are girlfriends)
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If you're seeing encouragement/demands to do alt text and you're overwhelmed or confused about how to do it and you're worried you're going to do it wrong...
this thread is for you.
First: prompt questions to get you started.
this thread is for you.
First: prompt questions to get you started.
Alt text prompt Qs:
What would someone who can't see the image need to know about it in order to take part in the conversation? What is it about this image that made you choose it? What are the important details someone who could see the image would take away from it?
(Not for images of text.)
What would someone who can't see the image need to know about it in order to take part in the conversation? What is it about this image that made you choose it? What are the important details someone who could see the image would take away from it?
(Not for images of text.)
November 14, 2024 at 11:43 PM
If you're seeing encouragement/demands to do alt text and you're overwhelmed or confused about how to do it and you're worried you're going to do it wrong...
this thread is for you.
First: prompt questions to get you started.
this thread is for you.
First: prompt questions to get you started.
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USPS has free covid tests by mail again! Get yours while the getting's good! special.usps.com/testkits
COVID Home Tests | USPS
COVID Home Tests | USPS
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November 15, 2024 at 3:42 PM
USPS has free covid tests by mail again! Get yours while the getting's good! special.usps.com/testkits
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