Doug Barry 

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British SysAdmin, electronics amateur (despite a degree in it), tea and bacon addict, skeptic and gamer. ZX Speccy and Amiga owner, general retro computer stuff too. If I like a post, it might just be a bookmark for me. Professionally I do endpoint management with cyber sec hat on top for a HE in the UK. No I’m not interested in your AI snake-oil (generative mostly). Privacy matters. Treat others as you would wish to be treated. Don’t be an arsehole.

https://justsayno.ai/

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Doug Barry 4h ago
Show threadKevin Beaumont5h ago
How it started vs how it’s going.
Doug Barry 15h ago
Chip Butty16h ago
If you had help from a LLM, just let me know up front. It feels like a bait and switch otherwise and makes me not trust you.
Doug Barry 15h ago

RE: https://mastodon.cloud/@slashdot/116711161728008581

This requires international legislation that puts the indicator light in series with the camera power, for all devices, just everything. The camera has power, the light goes on. You wanna save power? Use a MOSFET to switch the entire camera (CCD, whatever). Make it hard ffs. If the hacking scene has taught us anything, it’s that people WILL find a way to hack your software. I’m not saying it would stop everyone, but if you’ve got to physically butcher the item to disable an LED, it’s orders of magnitude less likely to be used by gargoyle cnuts. I know they’ll just stick some tape over it blah blah. You know what. Ban the whole lot and put Meta out of business. That’s better actually.

Doug Barry 1d ago
John Scalzi1d ago
Saw someone describe my writing as "Millennial cringe." Motherfucker, I'm Gen-X. The Millennials learned that cringe from me.
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Jeffrey Bouter1d ago
We used to have filesystem devs who murder their wives, now we have filesystem devs who can bring their AI girlfriends to orgasm. I suppose being able to understand how disks work on such a low level takes a very special kind of person.
Doug Barry 1d ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@campuscodi/116709027616189672

No sh*t

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dreid1d ago

RE: https://social.bau-ha.us/@raganwald/116705256401454865

If not scam. Why scam shaped?

Doug Barry 1d ago
Em 1d ago

Please stop with the floating elements on websites. They're hiding your content, and make me want to leave!

No, I don't want to "swipe to the next article" if there's also gonna be a giant floating arrow hiding the text and make me want to stop reading the one I'm painfully trying to read right now.

No, I don't want to "donate" if I can't even fully read what your organization is about because of all those buttons floating over your content.

The goal is to show your content! Why hiding it with a bajillion arrows, buttons, and popups? And please test your website for small mobile display. Your floating elements are ENORMOUS there 😭

#WebDesign

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Sheril Kirshenbaum1d ago
Support independent bookshops 📚
Doug Barry 5d ago
Harold JarcheJun 1

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@teledyn/116652708401285794

"every single warning that paper made about large language models has now happened at scale"

1. The hallucination problem before anyone had a word for it.
2. Bias amplification
3. Environmental cost
4. Documentation — the training datasets being assembled were too large for anyone to actually audit

#AI #GenAI