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I don’t know why Meta haven’t been public about this, but you can now hide any of your posts from Threads users by just adding the word ”pixelfed” anywhere in it. Nice to give the option to opt out so easily, but a somewhat strange way to do it and a very random choice of keyword imho.
EDIT: Jeebus Crabst, everyone. This blew up again, and the context might be forgotten by now.
There was a misconception that Threads blocked posts about pixelfed, and this was a joke about that.
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(Explaining the joke to peeps who’re out of the loop:
Meta is censoring their competition, Pixelfed, an instagram-like fediverse site.
Not sure if it’s really happening:
Various people have tried to recreate the same situation with their Threads accounts, and their comments are still publicly available
Call out to any and all email protocol specialists and adjacent areas. I’d like to announce a new instance in the fediverse for the exim project.
We have an announcements bot at @announce mirroring the announce email list.
And as the initial human contingent
Lead Developer - @jgh Jeremy Harris
Social Antagonist - @bernardq - my email head.
Other members of the project may eventually turn up.
We’re still trying to work out how the project interacts with the fediverse so any other projects out there that give some suggestions please chime in.
ehlo.exim.org
This server is run by the exim project https://exim.org/ as a channel for announcements and other notifications.Mastodon hosted on ehlo.exim.org
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I’ll let you in on a secret: I love sporadically updated weblogs. I subscribe to over 1200 feeds and most of them are sporadic or even technically “inactive”. Months often pass between updates
It means that every post published was important to the writer
Back in the days of snail mail, letters that began with “It’s been a while since I last wrote to you” were the ones people cherished the most
You don’t need to post every day or even every week to have a blog that matters
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LLM generated text is fascinatingc because there's two groups managing it.
1) I am going to call the SpamAssassin side, now I know that you've likely not has email that wasn't Office365 or Gmail for a decade or more, and those are Category Two email services, but we scrappy underdogs filtering email with SpamAssassin have an effect where LLM generated text looks like garbage, and so if you generate your words or images with a GPT engine, it's gotta be scored as garbage
2) the Google/Facebook/Microsoft stance that you should allow all LLM text and diffusion images! They're great! It's the AI revolution!
The problem with Category 2 is that it rapidly makes all your stuff garbage (people only see spam), because if people can generate stuff no one wants to see, but gets past the filter, they will. Google will literally pay them to do that.
If you block that stuff, people who claim there are ethical uses for LLMs (a lie) will be caught, and those generating human supervised text carefully will be blocked.
The goals of people-who-make-money-on-clicks (read: everyone) are only served if:
We only use category 1 filters
The people making money on clicks create things that pass category 1 filters
And the whole "what is happening to facebook" is just the culmination of this obvious point
@Hypolite Petovan The problem is the phantom concept of AI polluting the decisions.
If you could say:
If a platform allows AI then it will become nothing but spam
If a platform blocks AI then it will block people using Ethical AI
But, part of it is that Ethical AI isn't real, and AI is a problematic branding term.
But part of it is that Google/Microsoft/Facebook are allowing AI posts because that way their AI marketing is easier, but it's ruining platforms.
It's really obvious but it's so hard to put into words.
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Yeah! Exactly! This!
Facebook is boosting fake content and now is a mess of spam, and that's it. Filter it like bot content, or ruin your site.
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Not a fan, at all, of tech talks making generalizations about teachers being "unprepared" instead of amplifying the real experiences of teachers and the real work they're doing in this moment, which is tremendous.
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Here are things my teacher friends have done to take genAI seriously and more importantly take its impact on students seriously:
- developed an entire course project for students to collaboratively "test" and experiment with genAI tools and also see where they replicate misconceptions about scientific knowledge
- spent hours helping students who were on a group project being sabotaged by other students who were insisting on the wrong answers because of relying on genAI
- developed new collaborative classroom exercises helping students learn how to read and triage code that was generated so that they'll be prepared as they encounter it
- held early course ethics and justice discussions where the students were able to surface their concerns and collaboratively think about their values wrt how people's data are used, how artists are treated, how we might think about data surveillance and privacy
I am so glad to hear that students are learning to think critically about AI in particular and more generally about ethical application development.
I think we have had enough of EdTech telling us that learners will be left behind if educators don't use what they are selling right now.
Our brains got us where we are, let's learn how to use them more effectively 
One Ring to Process Isolate Them
One Ring to Allocate Resources
And In The Process Stack Bind Them?
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I need to invent JaaS, pronounced Jazz, which is secretly just Jenkins as a Service, but is the CI everyone is hoping and wishing for.
Everyone out here with their cobbled together hell of YAML and docker containers trying to build the perfect CI system, and Groovy is just sitting there being simple.
"where's your tablet? why is it not playing?"
he smiles, I look under his pillow, he's cracked the password and is watching the 1999 Pikachu Shorts
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The confidence that tech trainers seem to have that all messaging over Port 80 is unencrypted baffles me
It's just so outside my experience
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CISSP Exam next week
Cat apparently suddenly is quadriplegic or something
Major DB upgrade at work
how this did this fall apart so fast
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The Doctor: The assembled hordes of Genghis Khan couldn't get through that door, and believe me, they've tried.
Voice from outside: This is the Lock Picking Lawyer, and what I have for you today is a Type 40 TARDIS....
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That's a shitty situation!
Maybe you can find some other BT dongle that has an external antenna?
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- indeed it was a mistake
- it is still a mistake as we are keeping it around
- having it reference external resources is the most mistaken part of that mistake
- Markdown would have been so much better, given the conventions in use on Usenet and other plain-text communications at the time
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Markdown may have been named and a little bit formalized in 2004, but it was in use at least since the mid 1990s, and some parts since the mid 1980s.
CISSP exam in two weeks, and I've no iudea how the exam compares to the practices
I feel like I know all the stuff, but feel like a 4 hour multiple choice exam I have to wake up at 6:30 am for is the least ideal way to test that
Any advice/assurances for someone who really just needs letters that tell well-meaning HR people that I am hirable?
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@silverwizard: if I can pass it, just about anybody can. There is certainly a lot of stuff to take in, but it is learnable.
I should admit that it took me two tries, but i got there 🙃
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ME: Stop, this is a nightmare, it's like THE GIVING TREE but with classism.
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The Writer Will Do Something by Matthew S Burns
You are the head writer for the third game in the wildly popular ShatterGate™ franchise.itch.io
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Eve, Heading back to Vulcan for Vulcan Life Day
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