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johnefrancis

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Independent mercenary #Java #developer #architect since 1997 #Bitcoin. He/Him/His. Married to a lovely lady. #fedi23 #ottawa #cats #dogs #fishing #hunting #onpoli #ottpoli #ottawa #barrhaven #aquarium #geology #agile #onstorm #antifascist #antihate #gardening #MMT #canada
Boneitis sufferer.

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SmudgeTheInsultCat, to random
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johnefrancis,
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@SmudgeTheInsultCat nothing under a thousand years? Does the last millennium have nothing to show in terms of crackpot jibberings?

Physics has been waiting for quantum gravity for, oh 90 ish years?

jerry, to random
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I should clearly not be left alone with just my thoughts.

johnefrancis,
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@jerry I thought you were to remain at least 200m from your thoughts, by court order.

johnefrancis,
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@jerry the Pint Officer is going to send you back to the bar until your thoughts are safely far far away.

johnefrancis, to random
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Interesting, a high-interaction post I made yesterday has been already indexed by Google and produced a Google Alert notification within 6 hours.

johnefrancis,
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Google has long been present on some instances with it's usual web crawling. I'm uncertain of the latest developments, but I think that mastodon.social both allows the crawlers, and might be selling a privileged view of instance data to Google or data brokers.

I'm fine with crawling and indexing, but the sale of privileged data that helps the ad-hawkers will cause me to leave this instance eventually.

johnefrancis,
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@YurkshireLad @Gargron there was some grumbling months ago.

Still, people's labour costs money, I'm happy to be listed as a sponsor, for now.

But I don't want data to be sold into the advertising and marketing industry, even if it manages to be anonymized and GDPR-legal.

johnefrancis,
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@Gargron @YurkshireLad thanks for clarifying.

Are there separate settings to opt out of commercial search engine indexing via web crawling, but opt-in to Mastodon's search indexing? I want the good people of Mastodon/Fediverse to find my content, but would rather not give it to Google etc.

arstechnica, to random
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Telling AI model to “take a deep breath” causes math scores to soar in study

DeepMind used AI models to optimize their own prompts, with surprising results.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/09/telling-ai-model-to-take-a-deep-breath-causes-math-scores-to-soar-in-study/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

johnefrancis,
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@arstechnica "you think that's air you're breathing?" 🤨

johnefrancis, to random
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Deets are slim but so far it sounds like the hate protest is a flop and the demonstration is eclipsing it.

Good.

This won't be decisive. As long as the govt allows money to flow to hate groups from foreign groups, and from tax-exempt religious organizations, then we'll continue to see elevated levels of hate activity.

jerry, to random
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The amount of time I spend laying on a heating pad seems directly proportional to my age. Will need a full body heating pad soon.

johnefrancis,
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@jerry are both the size and time proportional? You could end up needing to lie on a black hole.

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