Vincent Cloutier @vincent@librem.one

"We offer no explanation as to why these architectures seem to work; we attribute their success, as all else, to divine benevolence" - Noam Shazeer (second author of the transformer paper, now CEO of Character AI)

from the SwiGLU paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.05202v1

Thanks to @foreverandaday for making it known the existence of https://bird.makeup, a fork of BirdsiteLIVE that uses the same back-end as Nitter(https://github.com/zedeus/nitter), which uses the hidden Twitter API. We do not wish to bypass the Twitter-allowed usage guidelines and have no guarantee Twitter will not axe hidden API access with tooling in the future, so if you would like to migrate to https://bird.makeup, which may last past the Feb 9 cut.

Fellowship for the climate 🌍

#mememonday

You know, bird.makeup is INCREDIBLE. Not only does it get past the Birdsite's API limits, it correctly mirrors threads, replies, retweets and quote tweets. I understand some large instances block it, and I feel doing so is as stupid as Birdsite's API blocks are. It's an amazing tool for bridging the gap for some of the people who haven't found their way here yet, but should. #birdmakeup

New patreon post about all the improvements that I made to bird.makeup in the last few weeks:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/79915224

"Psychologists use "IQ" to politely put people & entire races in boxes with the label "idiots", and stick them there for a lifetime. They ruin people's careers and potentials. Politely. I call psychologists (& IQ mountebanks) idiots to their face. Not politely." - @nntaleb

@mekkaokereke It is important to understand that gender equality does not mean that men are giving up nice things. Patriarchy hurts majority of men as well, just in different ways. Many "male privileges" are upon closer examination no privileges at all.
Patriarhcal roles reserved for men are quite narrow and make their lives less safe and more lonely.

So because USDC = $1 is hardcoded inside Maker, the price gap of DAI<>USD will be the same as USD<>USDC even though only 30% of the collateral is USDC because it’s free to arb the difference by putting USDC inside it and printing DAI as if USDC = $1.

"TikTok is, at the moment, the most monkeys at the most typewriters you’re going to find on one platform. And it’s scaring everyone. But it shouldn’t! And if Spotify can’t just be Spotify, a stable, growing, incredibly profitable hub for a very specific kind of user interaction with music, with audio, then, truly, what is the point? Put another way: Why even try and build different platforms at all if they’re all just going to become video apps?" https://open.substack.com/pub/garbageday/p/an-infinite-amount-of-monkeys-at?r=22hu3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

So, Meta joining fedi…

We’d all better pull a Gab on that one.

The timeless struggle between the people building new things and the people trying to stop them…

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In Node.js v18 we removed an old-time fix that reordered the DNS results to put IPv4 addresses before IPv6. As IPv6 gets widespread usage, this is the right call to do.

This has exposed so many broken IPv6 networks. What can you do if you on one?

$ node --dns-result-order=ipv4first

happy gender pay gap bot day to all who celebrate

#internationalwomensday #IWD2023

This is the guy Elon decided to lambast last night.