Notices by Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io), page 6

Btw so no one can claim I don't know what the fuck I'm talking about—I've been using last weekend to run a bunch of the latest local LLMs, even doing a cluster to see what they can and can't do. (Biggest model I've tested so far is Qwen 3.5 27B.)

It told me that the original Macintosh shipped with Apple II compatibility (it didn't).

Also that tomatoes are condiments.

And eggs are dairy.

Also tried it to convert some older single file open source JavaScript libraries I wrote to modern syntax, with mixed success (like it did 80% a good job but messed up a lot of it, too). With Ruby is was kind of a disaster.

Now—I get that these models are much smaller than the commercial ones that run in data centers and have much more training data; on the other hand at no point did the at-home models warn me that they can't do something or can't do it well.

@blakespot That looks supremely cozy

@johnzajac I will, thank you!

@estherschindler the story is literally about the biggest political project ever attempted ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@gsuberland background: https://bsky.app/profile/nogoodwyfe.bsky.social/post/3mi4tlawtdc2p

@gsuberland ikr

So the Palm Zire 71 is my number one recommendation for a low-fi early 2000s digital camera.

It takes SD cards which makes transfer to modern computer super easy, it is very compact and often sellers don’t know it has a camera (it’s sort of a hidden feature!) so it’s cheap. You can find replacement batteries for it too for cheap.

The photos have an amazing aesthetic.

@jonn_blanchard A rare M1 Spectrum. How many teraflops?

@sstephenson wtf

@nonblobdev I play bejeweled on it occasionally! The camera is fun.

Happy Palm Monday, everyone!

Wonder what it will do to gas prices when they’re invading Iran with ground troops

Maybe should buy an electric car next week real quick

@Sdevore a little maybe, air quality was so awful the last couple days

@Sdevore we got like a few drops here in picture rocks area

Looked into VCFEast.

I cannot find any sort of policies on code of conduct, COVID, etc. Like none at all, not even "we don't have that". ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Mammatus Mia!

@dosnostalgic what in the

RE: https://mastodon.online/@TheScienceFictionGuy/116309792272966392

Imagine that happening on e.g. Mars

@blakespot @gloriouscow lolol

I wonder how many of these records are still around

@tankgrrl