Notices by Jens Ohlig (johl@mastodon.xyz), page 2

@andypiper @cwebber It's also something that has a good chance of being solved real soon now, I learned at the 39C3 MNT community dinner last month.

Willkommen in der Public Domain, Werke von Albert Einstein, Alexander Fleming, Thomas Mann und Yves Tanguy! Und natürlich der Bebop von Charlie Parker!

#publicdomainday

Kann man die traditionelle Aufhebung der Zugbindung aufgrund von Verspätung in Deutschland nicht als immaterielles Kulturerbe bei der UNESCO anerkennen lassen?

Mein Plan für dieses Jahr: Schlafen.

Writing all this in that soulless style (although I took parts of it from a reddit thread and remixed it) was harder than I thought. And it made me a little sick. Or rather it served as an enduring testament to nausea.

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Would you like me to flesh out this list into a table to post on social media and add sources like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing? Just say the word.

🙂 Emojis before the subheaders

These are important — they create a clear, polished look that mirrors certain spheres of social media.

❓ Ubiquitous words from a certain vocabulary turning up in texts after 2022

Make sure to use and overuse words like align, crucial, emphasizing, enduring, enhance, fostering, garnered, highlight, interplay, intricacies, pivotal, showcase, and underscore. These serve as cherished and fundamental elements in the rich tapestry of wordsmith tradition.

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Oh, you want to know how we got to talk the way we all do now in the distant future? That’s a fascinating question! Let us delve right in into it! The basic ingredient is the Old Language — however, we added some small, but important details:

🔍 Using em dashes far more than the typical typer

As you may have noticed, this is because em dashes are over-represented in professional and published writing.

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Despite what you will read on the internet, exiting #Vim is really easy.

Just press the ESC key and then enter this simple line to exit the editor:

:let script=['#define _POSIX_SOURCE', '#include <signal.h>', '', "int main() {", " kill(" . getpid() . ", SIGKILL);", ' return 0;', '}'] | call writefile(script, '/tmp/exit_vim.c', 'b') | execute "!gcc /tmp/exit_vim.c -o /tmp/exit_vim" | execute "! /tmp/exit_vim"

Wow, this campaign website against Google's plan to kick out XSLT is a thing of beauty.

https://xslt.rip/

Es wäre schön, wenn die Schlagzeilen zu Sanae Takaichi über „Japans erste weibliche Premierministerin“ hinausgingen.

Es ist auch erwähnenswert, dass ihr Wahlkampf sich gegen die wenigen Migrant*innen in Japan und insbesondere Geflüchtete richtete und dass sie japanische Kriegsverbrechen leugnet oder relativiert. Ihre Besuche beim Yasukuni-Schrein, in dem Kriegsverbrecher verehrt werden, will sie fortsetzen, „bis man im Ausland [gemeint sind Korea und China] aufhört, sich darüber zu beschweren.“

I really like frogs 🐸 because they are inherently funny and awesome. I’m so happy that they once again stand for something progressive after the alt right had appropriated Pepe.

Happy Birthday, Linux!
🎁🎂🎈 🥳

I first installed Linux on my computer many months after that announcement, in December 1992. I have memories of swapping an almost endless pack of floppy disks during the lengthy install at a Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg, Germany. The album “Connected” by Stereo MC's was playing several times until I was finally greeted with a shell prompt.

A prime minister is a minister that is not the product of two smaller ministers and thus is only divisible by 1 and itself.

In 2011, Aaron Swartz was arrested after he downloaded millions of academic journal articles from JSTOR via the MIT network. He was charged under federal laws (including wire fraud and violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act) with up to 13 felony counts, carrying the possibility of decades in prison, large fines, and other penalties. These federal charges eventually lead to his death in 2013.

No AI company was ever charged under federal laws.
https://icy.wyvern.rip/notes/ad9ptt2s993v01j8

I was taught in biology class in school that being able to roll your tongue is a genetic trait and an example of Mendelian inheritance.

This is false. It‘s a myth that science has long debunked.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/genetic-myth-textbooks-get-wrong

The proposal to close the Greenlandic #Wikipedia is currently under review: “Most articles are short or unintelligible, and machine-generated content—initially from experimental Greenlandic machine translators and more recently from AI tools like Google Translate—has frequently produced nonsense that could misrepresent the language.”

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects/Closure_of_Greenlandic_Wikipedia

I’ll never understand the motivation of people who seem to think “Sure, I don’t have the expertise or capability to write an article, but I can copy and paste something a machine has generated.”

Do they seriously believe they are helping?

The Pokémon Company has said it did not give permission for the use of its theme song and other footage to be used in an ICE deportation raid video posted by the US government.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8ex9n8gxdwo.amp

🍎 🍯 to all who celebrate.