Rob Thomas [Admin m.au]New router is working well. This is a switchport in NextDC B2, connected into a #VyOS VM router running in #Proxmox.
This has been something I've been working on for quite a few months now! #MastodonAU #mastodonNZ #nerd #mikrotik
For those that were dreading the second-sunday-of-the-month-slowdown, it's not going to happen this month, as it's already happened and you didn't notice! #mastodonAU #mastodonNZ
There's always money in the banana stand for SSDs, right? Thanks for @colinburgess for the image! This has come about because I *really* need to upgrade the storage backends for #MastodonAU and #MastodonNZ which are still all stored on a bunch of spinning rust, so I need to figure out how to make donations worthwhile to the donators!
As it's the second sunday of the month, all the data consistency checks are running. This means things will be slow today.It's fine, it's expected, and they'll all be finished by tonight. #mastodonAU #mastodonNZ
Māmā takiwātanga#Petition to NZ government about AI safety:
https://c.org/2wwBKgB6hy
This sight unfortunately asks for donations before signatures can be counted and this petition is really struggling to gain traction. Should I make my own petition using Action Station?
The more I learn about the potential risks of AI, it’s easy to begin to feel like some of it is inevitable. I don’t know if a super intelligent AI will one day decide to eliminate humans, but I do know that humans will try to use AI to destroy one another. And what might be possible- bio weapons, autonomous killing machines, greater power to the rich at the expense of the poor, is quite terrifying. A big problem is - if one country decides to legally ban certain uses of AI, and others don’t, they’ve just shot themself in the foot.
And even if you don’t want to believe in that, you might look out your window and realise that you’re in the middle of the most volatile weather we’ve ever had which are only getting worse because of human activity and in fact, now largely driven by extremely power and resource hungry AI technology.
But the worst hasn’t happened yet, so it isn’t inevitable. I woke up this morning, I’m here now, so I have an opportunity and a responsibility to do something about it.
Heliograph@dansup hello Dan I know you're deep in loops land but please let us know how to get added to your FediDB server listing ☺️ #MastodonAU #MastodonNZ @xrobau
Sorry all #mastodonau and #mastodonnz people - as part of the upgrade, email sending stopped working. It's fixed now, and you will all be getting a flood of emails that were queued up.
GregMorning all. Is anybody else having problems with the #mastodonnz app? Mastodon not working on my phone, but OK on PC. Might be the right time to move to a French instance. #Mastodon