My Fediverse Digest for January 2024
A monthly digest of my thoughts, links, and updates from the Fediverse for January 2024.
Dec 31
09:49 PM
What’s the German word for reaching the age where you want to set a cronjob to post happy new year at midnight?
Jan 01
02:24 PM
Worth noting — the title says “Fully Replicate” but the actual article seems to replay the same findings from ELIZA but with the added benefit from personalized RAG/LLM ingestion of a lifelong literary corpus of one to become “eerily accurate” in the perception of a long personal partnership (a married couple). 🧐
So, how many years until “The Newlywed Game” style interrogation results in an A.I. being able to best a human partner by simply recalling more accurately? 🤔
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/12/30/ai-psychologist-chatbot-00132682
03:05 PM
Well, that’s not good. https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/
04:34 PM
Check out my walk on Strava.
https://strava.app.link/hjRV8p9Y0Fb
Jan 02
08:37 AM
2024 https://youtu.be/bm51ihfi1p4
Jan 03
03:52 PM
#goodread https://qz.com/emails/quartz-obsession/1851134835/pro-tools-making-music-pop
Jan 04
09:30 PM
In which another plot device of ‘Blade Runner 2049’ is set in motion https://vimeo.com/896547869
Jan 05
09:15 PM
So good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUlzYiUU9BY
Jan 06
09:54 AM
#dream vignette
- TV format, campy, saturated colors, based on 1960s Batman meets roller derby musical
- Batman is played by Adam West in a ruby sparkle motif leisure suit, stands on tops of cars before speaking, uses dance move fired gadgets
- Robin is played by Bruno Mars
- Alfred is played by Bootsy Collins dressed in gold lamé and his bass can shoot energy rays
- A band of Droogs style criminals called the Ziggys (Stardust riff outfits) with aliases for names based on Bowie songs
06:23 PM
And now on #soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/jaycuthrell/ru-do-ru
Jan 07
07:34 PM
🔥⏲️ Fudge Sunday #newsletter “Tip of the Apache Iceberg” A look at #iceberg and projects like #hudi, #presto, #spark, #superset, #trino, etc.
https://fudge.org/archive/tip-of-the-apache-iceberg/
Jan 08
10:06 PM
That thing where you imagine the future and learn it is the past https://nextshark.com/krispy-kreme-japan-wasabi-doughnut
Jan 09
10:12 PM
Just one of the many reasons to donate to #wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=D._John_Sauer&action=history
Jan 13
10:56 PM
Deleted my bluesky account.
Fun little experiment.
AT Protocol is cool.
11:13 PM
Jan 14
12:01 PM
And so floods in my fond memories of the subsidized ISDN connection I had when I worked at Nortel back in the late 1990s where I could nail up both B channels bonded for near theoretical 128kbps performance. https://tedium.co/2024/01/12/isdn-history-retrospective/
05:21 PM
🔥⏲️ Fudge Sunday #newsletter “Interoperability and Convergence Ahead” A look at analysts predictions and companies making it real.
https://fudge.org/archive/interoperability-and-convergence-ahead/
Jan 15
03:51 PM
#dream vignette
- organic self-repairing machines
- dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) powered
- energy use shifts to industrial processes
- transport becomes lower and lower cost
- nuclear batteries offset volcanic ash threats
- ELINT/SIGINT machines that never sleeps
- moon and mars becomes offsite backups
- off world data analytics laws are nascent
Jan 16
08:04 AM
#dream vignette
- API for streams processing
- C++ examples
- instructor wearing jumpsuit
- argument over managed vs. diy polling
- wearing business suit
- maglev train bus between campus
- underground tunnels
- subterranean mall food court
- dormitory hotel rooms
Jan 17
07:46 PM
#sxsw2024 schedule picks so far… https://schedule.sxsw.com/favorite/user/985f8ae425a0ca54469639ae92234564491ace14
Jan 21
07:36 PM
🔥⏲️ Fudge Sunday #newsletter “How To #buttondown with #11ty on #netlify with #github” a look at how Fudge Sunday 🤔💡🤯🤓 newsletter gets made each week.
https://fudge.org/archive/how-to-buttondown-with-11ty-on-netlify-with-github/
09:42 PM
30 years later… give or take… Delerium’s “Flowers Become Screens (Frequency Modulation Mix)” first 82 seconds still hits me right in the feels https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1rQShH91Ug
Jan 22
08:26 PM
🎶 We sail tonight for Singapore… 🎶 #tomwaits https://youtu.be/T1yQ1J7NpyM?feature=shared&t=2794
Jan 23
10:05 PM
Filed under proof of reasons I am bad at picking stonks
Jan 24
10:46 AM
#mastodonadmin note on v4.2.4
1. git fetch && git checkout v4.2.4
2. RUBY_CONFIGURE_OPTS=–with-jemalloc rbenv install
3. rbenv install --list
4. git -C /home/mastodon/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build pull
5. rbenv install --list
6. rbenv install 3.2.3
7. bundle install
8. yarn install --frozen-lockfile
9. RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rails assets:precompile
10. (as root) systemctl restart mastodon-sidekiq && systemctl restart mastodon-streaming && systemctl reload mastodon-web
YMMV
Jan 26
02:18 AM
Right. In. The. Feels. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G23iLGhh9lo
Jan 28
11:35 AM
Google News has few features that seem to exist as a whack-a-mole for topics and sources you simply cannot avoid.
Anecdotally, this week, it seems impossible to avoid “WWE” and “Taylor Swift” topics and various clickbaity sources for very different reasons.
02:52 PM
🔥⏲️ Fudge Sunday #newsletter for “Security on the Agenda” a look at security topics on conference agendas such as #sxsw2024
https://fudge.org/archive/security-on-the-agenda/
