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petersanchez honked back 18 Jun 2026 22:48 +0000
in reply to: https://social.tchncs.de/users/teleclimber/statuses/116772944019353555

@teleclimber I lived in Cerritos (near the college) for years. I loved it there and so many good spots tucked away. Amazing tofu houses! And of course Little India in Artesia was just a mile or so away so I stuffed myself there quite often too. Tacos in Hawaiian Gardens, Burgers in Long Beach, Tortas in Downey or Paramount, etc. etc. etc.

I don't hate on OC though. I mean it's not for me (to live) but plenty to love there too. Especially Little Saigon in Garden Grove. Though I think Pho Tasty in Cerritos is still my all time favorite (pho anyways). If you haven't been, it's a must.

petersanchez bonked 06 Jun 2026 17:12 +0000
original: mjd@mathstodon.xyz

The Metafilter folks are very quick to condemn AI training for its mass violations of intellectual property rights, and they are also very quick to share archive.is links to paywalled articles that they don't care to pay for, which is all of them.

petersanchez bonked 29 May 2026 14:31 +0000
original: libreleah@mas.to

i know of previous large scale distributed computing projects from years and years ago. e.g. see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SETI@home

is there existing research for something like this but with LLM tech? not just using pre-trained models, but actual training. actually crawling the internet. participants can volunteer some of their computing capacity to run the network.

that's how i think LLM-based tech should be implemented. don't have llots of big datacentres. do it open source, and run everything p2p.

petersanchez bonked 07 May 2026 19:37 +0000
original: ana@starlite.rodeo

increasingly clear that when tech nerds refer to "AGI" they just mean trying to invent a type of girl who will like them

petersanchez honked 06 May 2026 19:55 +0000

I'm sort of a notebook guy/geek and I love my travelers notebook. So when I saw the 20th anniversary card size edition I had to get it. Of course it was sold out, so I waited until the given date (4/29, 12pm PST), refreshing and refreshing until I could finally add it to my cart.

I went to checkout, was in queue, by the time I was able to pay I was told they were out of stock :(

Went to eBay and bought it from a reseller for nearly double the price. This little fucker better be worth it (but I think it probably will be)

petersanchez honked 25 Apr 2026 00:38 +0000

The rainy season has officially begun here in #Nicaragua. Rain overflowed my pool last night, pool guy came in and drained all the excess. Today it rained enough to overflow it again. Fun times in the tropics.

petersanchez bonked 16 Apr 2026 20:23 +0000
original: WilliamNB@social.vivaldi.net

Do you own/run a café or a bike shop?
Did you know that 1000s of people rely on the Open Street Map to find facilities like yours?
If YOUR shop isn't on www.openstreetmap.org then I GUARANTEE you're losing out on potential customers!
Go add your business now!
And please boost this?

petersanchez honked 11 Apr 2026 00:05 +0000

@pronto #unixgods unite! Dude for some reason my instance hasn't received an update from you since 2024. I thought you just stopped the Fedi but checked on the chaos.social site and there you are, tooting away.

Hope all is well man! Something happened with Efnet and I could never connect again so I've been out of #unixgods for I don't even know how long now

petersanchez bonked 26 Mar 2026 13:49 +0000
original: javi@goblin.band

I didn't realize the facebook execs Mozilla acqui-hired last year have been promoted! I was assuming they were still just heading the ads division of Mozilla, but oh boy, I fucking wish.

Now the former Senior VP of Marketing of facebook (2008-2022, the finest years of facebook) is the CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER of the entire Mozilla.

And the former VP of Ads in Facebook (2012-2022), is now the Senior VP of Product of Mozilla.

Let me repeat this:

The guy who used to lead the facebook team that was literally "advertising to teenagers based on their emotional state" is now the guy who decides the direction of Firefox as a product. But hey, let's keep giving Mozilla the benefit of the doubt uh? I'm sure these people-who-should-be-on-trial-in-the-hague are going to do great things for the community!