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Ed Summers

fuuuuuck

> OpenAI said its new technology could also help physicists generate complicated mathematical formulas and assist health care researchers in their experiments.

nytimes.com/2024/09/12/technol

I am Jack's Lost 404

@edsu

OpenAI says a lot of things... Would be nice to see normie journalists actually call out their bullshit once and for all

dust

@edsu these fools are granting us a future full of shit

Ed Summers

TIL that there is a URI scheme for dictionaries, and curl supports it:

curl dict://dict.org/define:mastodon

$ curl dict://dict.org/define:mastodon 

220 dict.dict.org dictd 1.12.1/rf on Linux 4.19.0-10-amd64 <auth.mime> <22450105 4,3688.1698945888@dict.dict.org> 250 ok 150 1 definitions retrieved 151 "Mastodon" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0. L Mastodon \Mas"to*don\, n. [Gr. masto’ s the breast + 'odoy's, 'odo ntos, a tooth. So called from the conical projections upon its molar teeth.] (Paleon.) An extinct genus of mammals closely allied to the elephant, but having less complex molar teeth, and often a pair of lower, as well as upper, tusks, which are incisor teeth. The species were mostly larger than elephants, and their remains occur in nearly all parts of the world in deposits ranging from Miocene to late Quaternary time. [1913 Webster] 250 ok [d/m/c = 1/0/17; 0.000r 0.000u 0.000s] 221 bfie [d/m/c = 8/0/0; 0.000r 0.000u 0.000s]
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Stewart Russell

@edsu we used to use that at the dictionary publisher I worked for. We had to be terribly careful not to let our internal databases out into the wild

zl2tod

@edsu
Second go delivers a screed from the CIA World Factbook 2002.

Ed Summers

I imagine you've already seen @darius's totally rad Twitter Archive Zip -> Static Site tool:

tinysubversions.com/twitter-ar

Three things I really love about Darius' work on this:

1. It uses your browser, you don't have to install anything.

2. It runs *locally* in your browser. No data actually leaves your control, which is important because your DMs and other things are in the ZIP file.

3. It's also a fun project for CSS heads to experiment with new designs. Kind of like a CSS zen garden of yore.

I imagine you've already seen @darius's totally rad Twitter Archive Zip -> Static Site tool:

tinysubversions.com/twitter-ar

Three things I really love about Darius' work on this:

1. It uses your browser, you don't have to install anything.

2. It runs *locally* in your browser. No data actually leaves your control, which is important because your DMs and other things are in the ZIP file.

Ed Summers

Amy Ruskin on why it was useful for the Boston Research Center to use their own Wikibase rather than Wikidata proper:

- Notability concerns
- Privacy controls
- Control of data model (no property proposal process)
- Edit access (mitigate vandalism, unwanted edits)

2022.code4lib.org/talks/Wikida

#code4lib

Amy Ruskin on why it was useful for the Boston Research Center to use their own Wikibase rather than Wikidata proper:

- Notability concerns
- Privacy controls
- Control of data model (no property proposal process)
- Edit access (mitigate vandalism, unwanted edits)

2022.code4lib.org/talks/Wikida

Ed Summers

It's very exciting to see digital repositories starting to pick up on the fact that they can create a web archive and embed it with the <replay-web-page> JavaScript component in their repository pointed at the WACZ file, and they have a fully functional web archive player for their web archive:

For example this from the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive:

cinefiles.bampfa.berkeley.edu/

Ed Summers

I found myself wandering about in #scuttlebutt again. It's such a wild experiment that just keeps going. I really like how time flows on there. 🦀

Ed Summers

Awesome to see @despens present about the Wikibase Stakeholder Group at #wikidatacon, which is a cooperative for using, building and maintaining extensions to the Wikibase software that is behind Wikidata.

wbstakeholder.group/about

It would be super to see more involvement from the creators of Wikibase core though, or maybe that's happening already?

Ed Summers

Some thoughts about *that* talk _Why "Web Archiving" is No Longer a Useful Concept or Phrase_

inkdroid.org/2021/08/30/why/

Ed Summers

I caught someone using a pull request against one of my GitHub repositories to trigger crypto-currency mining via a GitHub action. I took a snapshot of it with archive-web-page here after reporting it to GitHub:

inkdroid.org/web-archives/gith

It seems like this is a thing now: bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu The only way to turn it off is to only run actions that are defined by the repository?

Ed Summers

FWIW I'm glad I took a snapshot of the pull request pages with archiveweb.page because GitHub have deleted the PR, so it's like it never existed.

Ed Summers

What's the best way to integrate email with your opensource application stack? If you have an opinion I'd love to hear it.

Ed Summers

I got totally hooked on this series Un Village Français at the beginning of the Corona, and watched all 7 seasons (72 episodes) over the past few months. It tells the story of a small French village during (and after) the German occupation of France. It's hard to summarize other than by saying "it's complicated". Now I feel utterly lost. I don't know what to watch on TV anymore.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Un_villa

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