Nico Orrù

@Nigu
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Amateur wordsmith, softcore art lover, outspoken, professional game developer and enthusiastic about pretty much everything.
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#LLMs are a fucking scourge. Perceiving their training infrastructure as anything but a horrific all-consuming parasite destroying the internet (and wasting real-life resources at a grand scale) is delusional.

#ChatGPT isn't a fun toy or a useful tool, it's a _someone else's_ utility built with complete disregard for human creativity and craft, mixed with malicious intent masquerading as "progress", and should be treated as such.

https://pod.geraspora.de/posts/17342163

Excerpt from a message I just posted in a #diaspora team internal f...

Excerpt from a message I just posted in a #diaspora team internal forum category. The context here is that I recently get pinged by slowness/load spikes on the diaspora* project web infrastructure (Discourse, Wiki, the project website, ...), and looking at the traffic logs makes me impressively angry. In the last 60 days, the diaspora* web assets received 11.3 million requests. That equals to 2.19 req/s - which honestly isn't that much. I mean, it's more than your average personal blog, but nothing that my infrastructure shouldn't be able to handle. However, here's what's grinding my fucking gears. Looking at the top user agent statistics, there are the leaders: 2.78 million requests - or 24.6% of all traffic - is coming from Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.2; +https://openai.com/gptbot). 1.69 million reuqests - 14.9% - Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_1) AppleWebKit/600.2.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/8.0.2 Safari/600.2.5 (Amazonb...

Geraspora*

@kityates
Like asking a fish to notice the water it swims in.

Johnson thrives on toxicity and would suffocate without it surrounding him constantly, so much so he instinctively generates his own toxic atmosphere wherever he goes.

Could Johnson "Follow the Science"?
"It’s unfortunate that, at a time when we most needed a leader who would make the effort to understand the scientific evidence in this overwhelmingly science-dominated crisis, we were lumbered with Johnson."
My substack:
https://open.substack.com/pub/kityates/p/could-johnson-follow-the-science?r=1cw8pl&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Could Johnson "Follow the Science"?

What Boris Johnson’s testimony at the covid inquiry reveals about his ability to engage with scientific evidence

Kit Yates - Math(s) and the real world

f(x,y) = ((((x % x) ^ (x - y)) - ((y ^ 4) + (y * 11))) / (((~x) - (-y)) ^ ((x - 21) + (y + y)))) % 7

Extent: 256x256 (scaled x2)

"Onebit" colouring scheme.

Headline in the #Guardian - plan to brand anyone ‘undermining’ UK as extremist

They're really peaking on the divisive populism earlier than I expected. If this and the Braverman bullshit earlier today isn't the opening salvo in yet another Tory leadership contest, I'm terrified of what the next year will bring for the UK #ukPolitics #ukPol #Democracy

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/04/plans-to-redefine-extremism-would-include-undermining-uk-values?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Revealed: plan to brand anyone ‘undermining’ UK as extremist

Leaked documents spark furious backlash from groups who fear freedom of expression could be suppressed

The Guardian
why do they always do this
Tired: Turing Complete Machine (can do everything another Turing Complete machine does)
Wired: Foone Turing Complete Machine (can run doom)
@Adam_Cadmon1
Will never not take an opportunity to share this:
Kuleba says that European Commission is impressed by Ukraine’s changes for EU membership: https://benborges.xyz/2023/11/08/kuleba-says-that.html
Kuleba says that European Commission is impressed by Ukraine’s changes for EU membership

The European Commission is impressed with the results of reforms that Ukraine has shown against the backdrop of a full-scale war. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba told journalists following ta Source : www.weareukraine.info/kuleba-sa…