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Osmose

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About Osmose

I am a computer programmer!

Twitter: @Osmose

Recent public activity

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    You're right, pg should have spoken out against Palantir when Biden was in charge too. Just because he's right about them now doesn't mean he was always right about them and we sho…

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    Comment #43650067

    Some fun historical context behind the outline algorithm and why it didn't catch on: https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=25003 In short, the W3C adopted it because they …

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    Comment #42568318

    The APA even removed sex addiction from the DSM-V, which isn't the end-all-be-all of what is or isn't a mental disorder, but is indicative of how science has broadly rejected the i…

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    Comment #40918809

    I wrote a post about the UITour parts a long time ago: https://www.mkelly.me/blog/content-uitourjs/ It's pretty standard among browsers. The risk should be about equal to someone s…

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    Comment #40900960

    https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/donate/ ???

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    Comment #40862303

    LLMs are not a general public benefit. Artists whose work is trained upon by text-to-image models aren't made any more whole just because Meta has to share its weights—it just mean…

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    Comment #40394454

    Maybe it's just me but if I felt like my application's error messages weren't easy enough to understand I'd try to improve the messages instead of throwing all the context at an AI…

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    Comment #40165015

    Sega has long had an intentionally loose policy with regards to fanart and fan games and rarely issues takedowns for projects that don't generate profit. It doesn't seem to have hu…

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    Comment #39901551

    The speed increases are nothing to sneeze at; I've moved a few Vite projects over to Bun and even without specific optimizations it's still noticeably faster. A specific use case w…

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    Comment #39866245

    You have a narrow view of what a beautiful experience is. It does not require professional-level voice acting. It is not unfair that, in order to have voice acting, you must have s…

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    Comment #39866036

    The lightness with which you treat forcing tens of thousands of people to change their career is absurd. Indie games are hardly suffering for a lack of voice acting, even if you on…

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    Comment #39843560

    I've refused to work on AI-related initiatives at previous jobs, and will again if they ever come up. I have deep ethical objections about LLMs in terms of power use, consent for p…

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    Comment #39759916

    He has generally great insights about principles to aim for, which is part of the answer, but no, he does not have the entire answer. His insights are inspiration for others who co…

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    Comment #39596515

    "Someone posted a screenshot of a separate torrent's contents in their server 5+ years ago", with no context into why someone posted it or what moderation actions were taken in res…

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    Comment #39596411

    > Kids playing Zelda for free might be spending their opportunity cost Money on Xbox instead. ...I don't follow? You're suggesting businesses have a right to attention? > But Yuzu …

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    Comment #39596074

    I believe that Yuzu includes a standalone implementation of the Switch firmware but can run user-provided firmware because a few games have compatibility issues, and it doesn't run…