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Cryptographer/mathematician at U of ASc. at Hagenberg, Dept. of Secure Information Systems; still learning to play 🎸, 🎷& 🎹. Header is www.ShowYourStripes.info

So, the #Austrian Parliament ignores all expert opinion and ratifies a law to allow #statetrojan #spyware to be bought and used, making the whole population less safe while spending tax money on (non-EU) malware instead of more actual police forces. #Karner has won - at least until #VfGh nullifies it (again) - in getting his legal illusion past the Parliament, even though it can't be technically implemented as written in the law.

https://orf.at/stories/3399187/

> Nach jahrelanger Diskussion ist die Messengerüberwachung am Mittwoch vom Nationalrat ermöglicht worden. Widerstand gab es nicht nur von FPÖ und Grünen, sondern auch innerhalb der Koalition von NEOS-Abgeordneten. Mit der Vorlage wird es dem Staatsschutz künftig möglich sein, unverschlüsselte und verschlüsselte Nachrichten bei Diensten wie WhatsApp und Signal auszulesen.

More good news! Another government is freeing itself from tech giants and vendor lock-in. The Danish Ministry of Digitalisation is dropping Microsoft Office/365 and moving to #LibreOffice, to get back control: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/07/08/danish-ministry-switching-from-microsoft-office-365-to-libreoffice/ #foss #OpenSource #freesoftware
Tennis racket theorem - Wikipedia

Manchmal liebe ich es, Bachelorarbeiten zu lesen. Es kann einfach inspirierend sein.

Adobe is now processing all your PDFs in the cloud, by default. The setting to “Enable generative AI features in Acrobat” was on, and I didn’t know it until I opened a document and Adobe asked me if I wanted a document summary. It’s annoying to have to click “No,” so I opened settings to disable the prompt.

THE PROBLEM
I sign Non-Disclosure Agreements for many of my clients. Adobe is a potential leak of protected information. I don’t know what Adobe does with this information. I don’t know what they store, or for how long. I don’t know what country (or countries) the data is stored in. I don’t know what LLMs are trained with this data. And I don’t need to know. What I need to know is that they won’t use default opt-in as a legal excuse to wiretap my information.

I recommend that you check your Adobe settings on all devices, for all Adobe accounts.

#CallMeIfYouNeedMe #FIFONetworks

#cybersecurity

"The planet's on fucking fire.

There are a lot of things we could do to put it out.

Are any of them free? No, of course not. Nothing's free, you idiots!

Grow the fuck up! You're not children anymore. I didn't mind explaining photosynthesis to you when you were 12.

But you're adults now." - Bill Nye

Source: "Green New Deal" Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) at 18m15s, 2019-05-13 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDcro7dPqpA&t=1095s

I‘ve been using quantum.ibm.com for some time for doing first quantum computing steps with school children. It was easy to do: simply create a free account. Now, in order to create an account you have to have a credit card. So IBM is no longer in the game. Any suggestion what a good alternative could be? Demands: free, no installs, drag and drop.

https://bsky.app/profile/iceblock.app/post/3lmzykc7rb42d

Apple stores which devices/users install which apps. They have the device IDs. US government could obtain a list of people who installed the app if a court authorized it. Not clear what they mean by having to store device IDs. Those IDs aren't accessible to Android apps.

ICEBlock Official (@iceblock.app)

Sorry, there will not be an Android version because there is no way to provide 100% anonymity. Each person's device ID would have to be stored and that information becomes discoverable should the government issue a subpoena. Only iOS made this possible and completely protects the users.

Bluesky Social
Trump administration shuts down #US #website on #climatechange
The U.S. Global Change Research Program’s website, https://globalchange.gov, was taken down along with all five versions of the #NationalClimateAssessment report and extensive information on how #globalwarming is affecting the country.
Peter Gleick, #climate #scientist who was one of the authors of first National Climate Assessment in 2000. “This is the modern version of book burning.”
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-07-01/trump-us-climate-website
https://archive.ph/mgV7L
Unsere Forderung:
🛑 Keine staatlich geförderte IT-Unsicherheit
🛑 Keine politischen Hintertüren durch den #Bundestrojaner
✅ Konsequente, unabhängige Aufsicht
✅ Schutz jener, die Demokratie tagtäglich verteidigen 12/
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shel silverstein on the LLM, 1981
@davidgerard I started analyzing it and got to a point of "well, that just looks like overflow", when I realized that if this were an LLM, I'd be attributing things to it that it is fundamentally not built to do, like sensible mathematics.

@davidgerard I believe the illustration is a bit cut-off: There's a boy inside all that machinery!

That detail seems very appropriate to me...

@alcinnz @davidgerard worse! There's practically a toddler. #AI meaning "absent Indians", already.

@abesibe @alcinnz @davidgerard 🤣😂🤣😱🙈

And it even translate itnto german 😂🤣🎉

KI... Keine Inder.... 😂🙈😱🤣😇

@davidgerard I have this one in A3-ish poster size on the wall of my office

@davidgerard interesting, but based on what I'm hearing from a friend's teenage kids, the difference between the Homework Machine and an LLM is that the LLM produces output that earns them full credit.

That's not to say that it produces _correct_ output, just output that teachers can't tell is incorrect given the amount of time they spend grading it.

@davidgerard @thankfulmachine could you share what book this copy of the poem is in?
@tj @thankfulmachine not sure, just saw the pic
A Light In The Attic By Shel Silverstein : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

A Light In The Attic by Shel SilversteinChildren's Book

Internet Archive
@tj @davidgerard @thankfulmachine I want to say it's either "A Light in the Attic" or "Where the Sidewalk Ends". I had those two as a kid and I seem to recall this poem being in one of them.

@davidgerard on tbe other side of the page, there sits a boy inside the machinery. Appropriate given:

https://80.lv/articles/builder-ai-s-ai-companion-natasha-was-actually-indian-workers-now-bankrupt

Builder.ai's AI Was Actually Indian Workers, Now Bankrupt

Asian Intelligence in action.

@davidgerard I had a version of this in my gallery from WhatsApp messages circulated in 2023:
@davidgerard I can't believe they predicted chat gpt
@Axolotl1 @davidgerard Well, perhaps this is not the first AI hype the humanity goes through…

@inecas @Axolotl1 @davidgerard In Gulliver's Travels, the Laputans had a machine called The Engine that put words together randomly, with scribes writing down any meaningful phrases that happened to be formed.

"Every one knew how laborious the usual method is of attaining to arts and sciences; whereas, by his contrivance, the most ignorant person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labour, might write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, laws, mathematics, and theology, without the least assistance from genius or study.”

The Wikipedia page for The Engine currently says "See also Large Language Model".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Engine

The Engine - Wikipedia

@davidgerard

The Library of Babel" (Spanish: La biblioteca de Babel) is a short story by Argentine author and librarian Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986), conceiving of a universe in the form of a vast library containing all possible 410-page books of a certain format and character set.