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Eugen Rochko

Is there an app that will route a walking path around your house by the amount of steps you want to make? 🤔

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xutz

@Gargron

@Eunomia

This approach sounds like only viable long term option to fight disinformation in human gossip protocols. Thank you for all your work Gargron

matthewkrauss

@gargron @Eunomia it's interesting, what would keep this from becoming another way for people to build information bubbles, where the criteria they have selected just serves to reinforce their preexisting beliefs?

Eugen Rochko

This is like the door from Howl's Moving Castle 😭 Such a nice idea!

WinterMute

@Gargron That's so ... fascinating and beautiful!
Thank you, that's the vacation I need right now.

Eugen Rochko

I was so happy it was cool and rainy today I sat on the balcony for a long time and now I'm feeling unwell

Eugen Rochko

"Egypt tells Elon Musk its pyramids were not built by aliens"

bbc.com/news/world-africa-5362

🤦‍♂️ 🤦‍♂️ 🤦‍♂️

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Normand C. :postmarketos:

@Gargron
But! ...But! That's where they unburried the Chappa'ai back in 1928? Didn't they?

😜

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@Gargron that's the problem when you're constantly trolling and meming, people start believing you're an idiot

Eugen Rochko

Putting ice cubes in your drink? Game changer

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3baid

@Gargron if you don't want to dilute your drink with ice, use something like reusable ice sticks. amazon.com/myColdCup-Reusable-

ElfLord

@Gargron Putting ice cubes in your milk? Fucked up.

flutergork

@Gargron Putting the ice cubes in the glass first is better. That way, you cool the drink while you pour it. 🥃

Eugen Rochko

Pain of Salvation - Restless Boy (Official Video)

youtube.com/watch?v=jkU564tyD5 #np

This dropped today. What the hell is going on there? Is it a sampled hard disk drive I hear? Furries?!

healyn

@Gargron Eugen, you know I love you, but we really do not share the same taste in music at all

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Григорий Клюшников

A good start, but I also wish web browsers would have 3rd party cookies disabled by default. There are some genuinely good use cases for them, but all the ways the modern web abuses them far outweighs those.

flutergork

@Gargron Now Mark knows what it's like to get Zucked.

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szemcsi

@Gargron Good morning Eugen, would you kindly tell me where am I? I was searching for Diaspora, it has a Facebook link

Eugen Rochko

What I don't really understand is who decided that kitchen appliances should be operated using touch interfaces. Yes, let me press my finger against hot glass to have my finger not recognized half the time

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Dawn Tåke 🏳️‍⚧️

@Gargron

I have little doubt that at least part of the reason is planned obsolescence. It's a lot easier to handwave a touch interface breaking than a knob stop working.

The other half is to get more shit into the Apple Minimalism Hellscape.
In ten years when that becomes tacky people will have to replace the ones still working.

Eugen Rochko

I bought a new, larger frying pan. Was looking at cast iron ones because they're held in such a high regard on Mastodon but they're really expensive and heavy and I probably don't cook well enough to really get the value out of them anyway.

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birdydon

@Gargron
A good frying pan does not have to be cast iron. But cheap pans are often thin gauge metal. After a few months of usage the bottom warps and food does not cook evenly. At least buy a good brand name.

Avatars

@Gargron I bought a 10'' iron skillet with iron lid off barebonesliving.com for pretty cheap. Looks like their prices went up a bit. I payed like 30 something for it.
Cool thing about cast iron is they're easy to clean and last forever. Not too mention they can go from stove to oven to open flame. Really good long lasting steel type skillets are expensive. Plus they would never look too good on a campfire.

Asimech

@Gargron For next one I'd recommend a carbon steel pan.
They're lighter and more often reasonably priced (likely because they get less attention so manufacturers don't inflate the price) but should also last a very long time.
Also like cast iron they need to be seasoned before use and you need to clean and hand dry them right after using. And while seasoning is a one time thing if you're the kind to forget food / dirt on the pan neither is a great option.

Eugen Rochko

Am I wrong to not be impressed by GPT-3?

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your purple friend

@gargron i mean.. it's just the latest shiny "AI" "machine learning" thing. people were equally 👀 about megahal or whatever.

🥝 rothair

@Gargron from a friend: lacker.io/ai/2020/07/06/giving
tl;dr no, you're probably not. It's a nice and expensive autocompletion algorithm, quite far away from AGI :p

Tanuki

@Gargron No. I think it’s rational not to be. But I guess people who are close to the subject matter tend to get their feelings hurt when we shrug at the advances in their field. It is impressive but only in the “dancing bear” sort of way. Yea they got a bear to dance...not well, and it doesn’t know what it’s doing but it’s an accomplishment

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