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Dug out an old laptop I want to try to mod the screen on last night and started it up, and kicked off a freebsd-upgrade to 14 (last update was 2019, probably before the kids were born)
I stayed up til 1 am waiting for the upgrade to finish, but then crashed, I am now yawning through the Easter Eggs hunt and the laptop is still updating
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Imagine being a Linux devops with everything hosted at Vultr. That'd be one nightmare week. First the Vultr ToS clusterfuck (reminder: abort them ASAP) and then the xz backdoor.
Good luck to those having to deal with these issues.
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This is literally the only coherent article I've ever read on selecting a tool as a business.
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I'm gonna level with you guys.
This weekend, cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs supportively posted a quote on his Mastodon account, by a politician who suggested LGBTQ people commit false-flag bomb threats against themselves and their own drag story hours.
A few trans people including myself called him out on it. He didn't address any of our concerns. Instead, he tone-shamed and muted us.
I got pissed and wrote several toots, tagging him in some and not others. Thank you, anyone who read and boosted them.
Where was everyone else?
I can't help but feel if Krebs had quoted a politician suggesting Jews threatened their own synagogues for attention, or POC swatted themselves to "raise awareness" of racism, the response against him would be MUCH louder and carried by more than just a few trans people's voices.
99.9% of the time, attacks and threats against LGBTQ+ people -- particularly trans people -- are not "disinformation ops".
Is it because he's a tech bro, and one of the infosec field's designated mascots or what? Where are you at, cisgender mufos? Some words of support or acknowledgment of this hurt would go a long way.
Where are the reports against his instance, all the outcry I've seen on here for five years when someone egregiously fucks up and doubles down? I thought this place was trans-supportive.
I'm not hurt that he shamed and muted me, that part is just how it goes.
What hurts is the silence and inaction of mutuals on here. Disinformation, prejudice, and abuse of a journalistic platform just slid on by, already mostly buried in the timeline.
Trans people remember shit like that. We know what it means. My question is, do you know?
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@Mystery Babylon @Jerry Bell :verified_paw: :donor: :verified_dragon: :rebelverified: @BrianKrebs WHAT THE FUUUUUUCK
The. Fuck.
What The Fuck.
I wasn't around very much this weekend (at least on the timeline), but, what even the fuck. I am livid
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See, I use the ASFO (Wordpress) Web site to create pages for each of my episodes, with a little synopsis and a link to the recording. Like so :
@publius
Yeah, I should actually use that. But I like the tootversations that happen pro/retro spectively as well as the damgud cyberchatting.
I guess I'll use shinmera's tooter to textify the show plans. I was planning to start talking about the topics at the beginning of the week, rather than just a few hours before the show as well.
@iacore
Punk rocker Kropotkin:
My Wife: "I forgot you were drunk"
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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
https://wedistribute.org/2024/03/is-threads-hiding-pixelfed/ )
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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
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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.
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STOP DOING ELECTRON
- WEB PAGES WERE NEVER MEANT TO BE SEPERATE BROWSERS THAT TAKE UP 1GB OF RAM
- MILLIONS OF YEARS OF CHROME EMBEDDED FRAMEWORK AND YET NO REAL WORLD USE FOUND FOR MAKING YOUR MUSIC PLAYER A WEB APP
- "hello yes please take away 1gb of my ram for Discord" statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged
- WANTED TO PUT YOUR WEB APP AS A SHORTCUT ON YOUR DESKTOP? WE HAD A TOOL FOR THAT - WE PUT THE LINK INTO A SHORTCUT FILE
THEY HAVE PLAYED US FOR ABSOLUTE FOOLS
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@txt.file Unhinged Time Cube style ranting is the idiomatic format for this particular meme template.
"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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I'm about to make #Canadian #history. Help make it a positive precedence. The #media NEEDS to run my #story!
#canada #maternityleave #wageslavery #slavery #law #morals #ethics #classwar #oppression #repression #fascism #capitalism #news #media #ausgov #politas
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Wow, this is some MAJOR gaslighting:
“We've made the company decision to terminate your employment. We feel you are not a good fit. I think you'll agree with how things were when you left that it wasn't going well. I don't think you were happy here.” – HR Director Termination phone call
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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I'm mostly thinking of the "making the compiler do something to the source" aspect.
I'm not sure if it is self-perpetuating, but I would be surprised if that was not the goal.
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