@tinker I'm hoping you are using roasted peanuts that have been heated up enough to kill #aflatoxin. Also, make sure you clean your grinder on a regular basis. (I was just reminded of aflatoxin a few months ago, since I'm attempting to grow my own peanuts again).

"Making peanut butter at home can mitigate the mold by soaking, sprouting, de-hulling, and roasting your peanuts before using them."

https://cellhealthnews.com/diet/aflatoxins-what-they-are-and-how-to-avoid-them/

@tinker @ColesStreetPothole Enjoying this thread! Try cooking the chickpeas with a little baking soda for the smoothest hummus. Better than any store bought hummus. Example here: https://cookieandkate.com/best-hummus-recipe/

The Brotherhood Protocol from Eagle Tactical, a new training camp for Alpha males of manly manliness to train, hone manhood skills, and bond in all ways possible.

#EagleTactical

This my Grandfather “Chico” and his brother Fernando. They were brought up by their father after their mum died suddenly. Penniless, they waited on taxis on the streets of Buenos Aires.
Eventually, their father sent them down south to Patagonia to a friend, with a note they weren’t to open till they met.

The note said he was dying, and asked for his sons to be looked after.

They never saw him again.

well somebody needed to say it

I didn't believe my wife when she told me Micky Dolenz from The Monkees had taught her a magic spell that turns people into dogs with a single stare. Then I saw her face, now I'm a retriever.

There's been some alt-right noise about #BSDCan having a mask policy this year.

I have an unofficial statement on my blog.

https://mwl.io/archives/23929

Elon Musk claimed the art this man painstakingly created was generated by Grok. We spoke to Charles Brooks, who takes photographs inside musical instruments. Someone took those, added people with Grok, and Musk blasted it to his followers without credit.

https://www.404media.co/elon-musk-claimed-the-art-this-man-painstakingly-created-was-generated-by-grok/

For years me & my Mrs have played a game where if one of us points at a sign & shouts "wead it" you have to read it out really loud pronouncing all the Rs and Ls as Ws. We had to leave a chemist for laughing when she had to read out "Erection problems? You're in the right place"

In a terrible world filled with sadness and tears, there is still a magazine about Linux which ships with a DVD optical disc.

Bravo. 👏🏽 https://fosstodon.org/@linuxmagazine/114637027018768503

It becomes even more tempting to dismiss the story out of hand when you look at other things which turned up in the same book, which included things such as jaunty baby with abdominal heart, concerned torso dude, Chicken Legs McLionman, and whatever the fuck is happening here.

"AI companies claim their tools couldn't exist without training on copyrighted material. It turns out, they could — it's just really hard. To prove it, AI researchers trained a new model that's less powerful but much more ethical. That's because the LLM's dataset uses only public domain and openly licensed material."

tl;dr: If you use public domain data (i.e. you don't steal from authors and creators) you can train a LLM just as good as what was cutting edge a couple of years ago. What makes it difficult is curating the data, but once the data has been curated once, in principle everyone can use it without having to go through the painful part.
So the whole "we have to violate copyright and steal intellectual property" is (as everybody already knew) total BS.

https://www.engadget.com/ai/it-turns-out-you-can-train-ai-models-without-copyrighted-material-174016619.html?src=rss

Ooh, got a potential juicy contract coming up for several months. Sounds like it'll be an absolute blast too. Woo and indeed hoo!

I love this tree because it’s a reminder that you can still live a full life after a disaster:

Besides watermelon, there should be windmelon, firemelon and earthmelon - the four elemelons.

Sending out gentle supportive vibes to everyone who has now, or has had, a complicated relationship with their father, on this Father's Day weekend.

It makes me wince when ads and greeting cards talk about dads who teach you stuff, give good advice, or fix things around the house. I never experienced that, though I'm glad others did. My dad wasn't abusive, he just had no interest in being a father. He improved a great deal as a human being at around age 60, for which I am very grateful, but you can't get those formative years back.

I’m thinking about going back to school for a computer science degree so I can understand what the hell people are talking about around here.

I'm not advocating making everything from scratch. No one has time for that.

But my staples, I'm finding I can make those from scratch, in bulk, and really cheap, and actually fairly quickly. And it absolutely makes a difference.

In quality and price.

@amiserabilist

what the hell did I do last night