Brooke Vibber
@bvibber.bsky.social
Nerd / cat lady / MediaWiki dev / Flight Simulator and Flight Simulator accessories
I'm not here much; more active on fedi/mastodon via https://bikeshed.vibber.net/@brooke
I'm not here much; more active on fedi/mastodon via https://bikeshed.vibber.net/@brooke
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most of being an adult is just finding new recipes for baked chicken thighs
August 11, 2025 at 11:21 PM
most of being an adult is just finding new recipes for baked chicken thighs
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Wikibooks turns 22 today! Launched in 2003, this Wikimedia project set out to create a free, open-content collection of textbooks and manuals. Learn more about Wikibooks ➡️ w.wiki/3b
July 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Wikibooks turns 22 today! Launched in 2003, this Wikimedia project set out to create a free, open-content collection of textbooks and manuals. Learn more about Wikibooks ➡️ w.wiki/3b
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doing things because we can, not should www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRfb...
160 Core RISC-V supercluster on a single M.2
YouTube video by bitluni
www.youtube.com
July 6, 2025 at 2:11 PM
doing things because we can, not should www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRfb...
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Sam Altman cries eight deliciously bitter tears for every dollar donated to Pivot to AI. Now, that’s *effective* altruism.
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/29/y...
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You fund our work here. Send $5 to Pivot to AI!
It’s the end of the month, and that’s when I ask you to donate to Pivot to AI! At present, Pivot is my income. (Got sysadmin/devops work? Call me!) So your $5 a month — or any other amo…
pivot-to-ai.com
June 29, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Sam Altman cries eight deliciously bitter tears for every dollar donated to Pivot to AI. Now, that’s *effective* altruism.
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/29/y...
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/29/y...
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It's hot girl summer!!!!
So do your girl a favor and bring her a nice cup of iced water and make sure she's not overheating and dehydrated
So do your girl a favor and bring her a nice cup of iced water and make sure she's not overheating and dehydrated
June 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
It's hot girl summer!!!!
So do your girl a favor and bring her a nice cup of iced water and make sure she's not overheating and dehydrated
So do your girl a favor and bring her a nice cup of iced water and make sure she's not overheating and dehydrated
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The needle has been moving away from purely hand-authored code for many decades now. That includes code generation, code verification, etc etc.
We've just been using and developing tools that are actually good at this, and that's still a more worthwhile direction than LLMs, which will NEVER be good
We've just been using and developing tools that are actually good at this, and that's still a more worthwhile direction than LLMs, which will NEVER be good
In 20 years it will be considered unsafe to write code by hand just like we've learned humans shouldn't drive cars
But we still have a long way to go—and a lot of things to learn—before unsupervised software should take the wheel
But we still have a long way to go—and a lot of things to learn—before unsupervised software should take the wheel
June 26, 2025 at 11:02 PM
The needle has been moving away from purely hand-authored code for many decades now. That includes code generation, code verification, etc etc.
We've just been using and developing tools that are actually good at this, and that's still a more worthwhile direction than LLMs, which will NEVER be good
We've just been using and developing tools that are actually good at this, and that's still a more worthwhile direction than LLMs, which will NEVER be good
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Gods I wish Democrats were 1% as cool as Republicans make them out to be.
I'm not sure this nickname will have the impact they think it will
June 27, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Gods I wish Democrats were 1% as cool as Republicans make them out to be.
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AAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHHAA
so this comes ONE DAY after the Anthropic decision that pirating the books you train on is not fair use
and guess what, *all* the LLMs trained on pirated books
so this comes ONE DAY after the Anthropic decision that pirating the books you train on is not fair use
and guess what, *all* the LLMs trained on pirated books
Microsoft sued by authors over use of books in AI training reut.rs/3HW5bQh
Microsoft sued by authors over use of books in AI training
Microsoft has been hit with a lawsuit by a group of authors who claim the company used their books without permission to train its Megatron artificial intelligence model.
reut.rs
June 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
AAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHHAA
so this comes ONE DAY after the Anthropic decision that pirating the books you train on is not fair use
and guess what, *all* the LLMs trained on pirated books
so this comes ONE DAY after the Anthropic decision that pirating the books you train on is not fair use
and guess what, *all* the LLMs trained on pirated books
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1. Alert, and please share widely. A lawyer at the ACLU has asked me to inform my transgender readers that they should NOT be applying for passports right now - the state department has not issued guidance to comply with the court order and they are urgently trying to get them to do so.
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I am getting multiple reports that the Trump admin is NOT complying with the court order requiring passport updates for transgender people.
Some passport agencies are being told not to give trans people passports with their correct gender marker, for now.
Some passport agencies are being told not to give trans people passports with their correct gender marker, for now.
June 20, 2025 at 9:59 PM
1. Alert, and please share widely. A lawyer at the ACLU has asked me to inform my transgender readers that they should NOT be applying for passports right now - the state department has not issued guidance to comply with the court order and they are urgently trying to get them to do so.
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We failed to learn our lesson from the trolls online and they took over the fucking government.
I think about this a lot.
I think about this a lot.
June 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
We failed to learn our lesson from the trolls online and they took over the fucking government.
I think about this a lot.
I think about this a lot.
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BEEP BOOP THIS IS NORA'S AUTOMATED STRETCH CHECK. today is Thursday. everyone do your stretchies. 💪🤖
June 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM
BEEP BOOP THIS IS NORA'S AUTOMATED STRETCH CHECK. today is Thursday. everyone do your stretchies. 💪🤖
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"The problem, in the worst cases, can make valuable, public resources unavailable to humans because the servers they’re hosted on are being swamped by bots scraping the internet for AI training data."
June 17, 2025 at 11:13 PM
"The problem, in the worst cases, can make valuable, public resources unavailable to humans because the servers they’re hosted on are being swamped by bots scraping the internet for AI training data."
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MASSIVE good news for trans people in the United States.
A federal judge has just granted class action status to transgender people looking to update their passports.
This means that very shorty, the window will open to update your passports with the correct gender marker.
A federal judge has just granted class action status to transgender people looking to update their passports.
This means that very shorty, the window will open to update your passports with the correct gender marker.
June 17, 2025 at 9:34 PM
MASSIVE good news for trans people in the United States.
A federal judge has just granted class action status to transgender people looking to update their passports.
This means that very shorty, the window will open to update your passports with the correct gender marker.
A federal judge has just granted class action status to transgender people looking to update their passports.
This means that very shorty, the window will open to update your passports with the correct gender marker.
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"They didn't realize they were tackling a Senator for asking questions, they thought they were tackling a journalist for asking questions"
oh, ok then
oh, ok then
An MSNBC anchor just definitively claimed Padilla didn't identify himself when video clearly shows he did. So fucking irresponsible. This is how lies spread.
June 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
"They didn't realize they were tackling a Senator for asking questions, they thought they were tackling a journalist for asking questions"
oh, ok then
oh, ok then
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We are in the middle of a cold war between people who want to engage, want to think, want to solve problems and comprehend the solutions on one side, and those who resent having to learn or think or understand on the other.
AI, politics, business, education -- all fronts in the same war.
AI, politics, business, education -- all fronts in the same war.
June 5, 2025 at 3:09 PM
We are in the middle of a cold war between people who want to engage, want to think, want to solve problems and comprehend the solutions on one side, and those who resent having to learn or think or understand on the other.
AI, politics, business, education -- all fronts in the same war.
AI, politics, business, education -- all fronts in the same war.
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This Pride month, don’t forget about the trans and gnc activists who made this happen. People like Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P Johnson, whose leadership at Stonewall has now been stricken from all government websites by a Trump administration that wants us erased from history.
June 1, 2025 at 7:56 PM
This Pride month, don’t forget about the trans and gnc activists who made this happen. People like Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P Johnson, whose leadership at Stonewall has now been stricken from all government websites by a Trump administration that wants us erased from history.
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Prime time for a "Bureaucracy keeps your ass alive, actually" platform
Huge opportunity for a political party that believes government can do good things. Public opinion is finally shifting after 50 years of right wing anti-government propaganda. This isn't the time for cowering and throat clearing www.cnn.com/2025/06/01/p...
June 1, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Prime time for a "Bureaucracy keeps your ass alive, actually" platform