Johannes Baiter
@jbaiter.bsky.social
Software Developer @ Bavarian State Library, occasional open source developer (currently mostly on "raising two children" hiatus)
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Ich muss es so hart sagen: ich dachte, ich lese eine kleine Anfrage der AfD, aber sie stammt von der Union.
551 (!) Fragen zu Organisationen, Hintergrund seien „Proteste gegen die CDU“, darunter die „Omas gegen Rechts“ und andere.
Bin ehrlich entsetzt.
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551 (!) Fragen zu Organisationen, Hintergrund seien „Proteste gegen die CDU“, darunter die „Omas gegen Rechts“ und andere.
Bin ehrlich entsetzt.
dserver.bundestag.de/btd/20/150/2...
dserver.bundestag.de
February 25, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Ich muss es so hart sagen: ich dachte, ich lese eine kleine Anfrage der AfD, aber sie stammt von der Union.
551 (!) Fragen zu Organisationen, Hintergrund seien „Proteste gegen die CDU“, darunter die „Omas gegen Rechts“ und andere.
Bin ehrlich entsetzt.
dserver.bundestag.de/btd/20/150/2...
551 (!) Fragen zu Organisationen, Hintergrund seien „Proteste gegen die CDU“, darunter die „Omas gegen Rechts“ und andere.
Bin ehrlich entsetzt.
dserver.bundestag.de/btd/20/150/2...
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Gerhart Baums letzte Rede, (die er nicht mehr halten konnte):
„Angst ist der hinterhältige Dämon der freien Gesellschaft“
„Angst ist der hinterhältige Dämon der freien Gesellschaft“
February 17, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Gerhart Baums letzte Rede, (die er nicht mehr halten konnte):
„Angst ist der hinterhältige Dämon der freien Gesellschaft“
„Angst ist der hinterhältige Dämon der freien Gesellschaft“
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A lot of us are rolling our eyes at how fascists are misusing the term “doxxing.” Alas, joke’s on us, because what they’re really doing—as fascism always does—is redefining language. They’re using “doxxing” as a synonym for “journalism,” enabling the criminalization of the latter.
February 7, 2025 at 3:19 PM
A lot of us are rolling our eyes at how fascists are misusing the term “doxxing.” Alas, joke’s on us, because what they’re really doing—as fascism always does—is redefining language. They’re using “doxxing” as a synonym for “journalism,” enabling the criminalization of the latter.
And they're not pulling any punches, full names and bios for the boots performing the coup for Musk and Thiel.
How is wired the best media outlet for coup updates what the fuck is going on
February 2, 2025 at 7:40 PM
And they're not pulling any punches, full names and bios for the boots performing the coup for Musk and Thiel.
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Fascinating Hacker News comment from Tom Gally, a professional translator (Japanese to English) who uses LLMs as part of his workflow, which he describes in detail: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42897856
Wrote a bit more about this on my blog here […]
Wrote a bit more about this on my blog here […]
Original post on fedi.simonwillison.net
fedi.simonwillison.net
February 2, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Fascinating Hacker News comment from Tom Gally, a professional translator (Japanese to English) who uses LLMs as part of his workflow, which he describes in detail: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42897856
Wrote a bit more about this on my blog here […]
Wrote a bit more about this on my blog here […]
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Inspired by the AI hostility on this platform, I decided to share how I use AI.
“I treat AI as I would a collaborator or a pretty good intern but I remain responsible for the final outcome.”
lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/1/30/ho...
“I treat AI as I would a collaborator or a pretty good intern but I remain responsible for the final outcome.”
lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/1/30/ho...
lucumr.pocoo.org
January 30, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Inspired by the AI hostility on this platform, I decided to share how I use AI.
“I treat AI as I would a collaborator or a pretty good intern but I remain responsible for the final outcome.”
lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/1/30/ho...
“I treat AI as I would a collaborator or a pretty good intern but I remain responsible for the final outcome.”
lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/1/30/ho...
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was mostly keeping it together until I read Kyle MacLachlan's tribute to David Lynch
January 16, 2025 at 9:23 PM
was mostly keeping it together until I read Kyle MacLachlan's tribute to David Lynch
Undervolting the Steam Deck is really amazing if you won the silicon lottery... Managed to get a stable -20/-40/-40 CPU/GPU/SOC undervolt, and now I'm getting stable 40fps with very few frametime spikes in both RDR2 and Elden Ring ♥️ This is with the optimizations from medium.com/@a.b.t./here...
January 15, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Undervolting the Steam Deck is really amazing if you won the silicon lottery... Managed to get a stable -20/-40/-40 CPU/GPU/SOC undervolt, and now I'm getting stable 40fps with very few frametime spikes in both RDR2 and Elden Ring ♥️ This is with the optimizations from medium.com/@a.b.t./here...
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It’s great to see more websites use #IIIF & prominently display "Copy manifest URL" links. But while building liiive.now, I noticed something: many sites block outside use, despite showing the link (CORS...). Likely unintentional & suggests external re-use remains uncommon. There’s still work ahead!
Real-time Collaborative Annotation for IIIF Collections
Collaborate in real-time on IIIF image collections. Annotate, view, and explore high-resolution images with your team. Even without a login.
liiive.now
January 10, 2025 at 9:37 AM
It’s great to see more websites use #IIIF & prominently display "Copy manifest URL" links. But while building liiive.now, I noticed something: many sites block outside use, despite showing the link (CORS...). Likely unintentional & suggests external re-use remains uncommon. There’s still work ahead!
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I wrote a blog post about the serials crisis, by which I mean I wrote about Final Fantasy VIII
Final Fantasy VIII is the most accurate any video game has ever been about libraries
Serials Crisis Core.
ff8isthe.best
December 16, 2024 at 6:43 PM
I wrote a blog post about the serials crisis, by which I mean I wrote about Final Fantasy VIII
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Very happy to release the first official demo of the smallest language model that can talk properly in Latin! And other European languages
December 12, 2024 at 2:53 PM
Very happy to release the first official demo of the smallest language model that can talk properly in Latin! And other European languages
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Here is in exclusivity the first demo of Pleias knowledge retrieval model: SPQR·LLM. The first ever LLM stuck in the antiquity, using only Latin and Greek sources written from 450 bc to 400 ad.
December 11, 2024 at 11:43 AM
Here is in exclusivity the first demo of Pleias knowledge retrieval model: SPQR·LLM. The first ever LLM stuck in the antiquity, using only Latin and Greek sources written from 450 bc to 400 ad.
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Introducing 🧞Genie 2 🧞 - our most capable large-scale foundation world model, which can generate a diverse array of consistent worlds, playable for up to a minute. We believe Genie 2 could unlock the next wave of capabilities for embodied agents 🧠.
December 4, 2024 at 4:01 PM
Introducing 🧞Genie 2 🧞 - our most capable large-scale foundation world model, which can generate a diverse array of consistent worlds, playable for up to a minute. We believe Genie 2 could unlock the next wave of capabilities for embodied agents 🧠.
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This piece shook me.
My Life As a Homeless Man in America
An extraordinary firsthand account.
www.esquire.com
November 27, 2024 at 1:47 AM
This piece shook me.
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The full text of my #UKSGNov24 presentation on the failure of proprietary software and how we could build collective-owned open source library systems infrastructure is available in my newsletter here: opensauce.simonxix.com/uksgnov2024/
proprietary software has failed: a community-driven open source security proposal
This is the text of a paper I delivered at UKSG November Conference 2024 on 2024-11-20 on the theme of 'Cybersecurity and Censorship'. It has been edited from the original to incorporate the accompany...
opensauce.simonxix.com
November 20, 2024 at 11:57 AM
The full text of my #UKSGNov24 presentation on the failure of proprietary software and how we could build collective-owned open source library systems infrastructure is available in my newsletter here: opensauce.simonxix.com/uksgnov2024/
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“I'm now convinced that async/await is, in fact, a bad abstraction for most languages, and we should be aiming for something better instead and that I believe to be thread.”
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Playground Wisdom: Threads Beat Async/Await
Musings about async await again and why I think virtual threads are a better model.
lucumr.pocoo.org
November 18, 2024 at 12:04 PM
“I'm now convinced that async/await is, in fact, a bad abstraction for most languages, and we should be aiming for something better instead and that I believe to be thread.”
lucumr.pocoo.org/2024/11/18/t...
lucumr.pocoo.org/2024/11/18/t...
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The Mozilla foundation has an open survey about how they should approach the future, if you care feel free to fill it out. Especially so if you've been unhappy about the organization for years mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net/101
What Is Your Dream for Mozilla?
mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net
November 16, 2024 at 11:06 AM
The Mozilla foundation has an open survey about how they should approach the future, if you care feel free to fill it out. Especially so if you've been unhappy about the organization for years mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net/101
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I wrote about PSYOP and the present/future of media. A three-part series about AI, Magic, Magick, UFOs, Mind Control and much more www.e-flux.com/journal/147/...
Society of the Psyop, Part 1: UFOs and the Future of Media - Journal #147
Part 1 of Trevor Paglen’s series on the history of psyops.
www.e-flux.com
November 15, 2024 at 10:55 PM
I wrote about PSYOP and the present/future of media. A three-part series about AI, Magic, Magick, UFOs, Mind Control and much more www.e-flux.com/journal/147/...
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"the wild robot" is a fun movie. recommended. but i think we are now at a point in time in which "robot interacts with environment and starts to bypass its programming and 'act from its heart'" tropes are actively harmful to children (and adults, actually).
November 15, 2024 at 9:15 PM
"the wild robot" is a fun movie. recommended. but i think we are now at a point in time in which "robot interacts with environment and starts to bypass its programming and 'act from its heart'" tropes are actively harmful to children (and adults, actually).