jo

@jo@infosec.exchange
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infosec acolyte and unix enthusiast
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opinions are my own and are not written by "abominable intelligence", nor do they reflect the opinions of my employer.

My career so far:
🪟 Windows Developer (read: window factory worker)
 IT/sysadmin
📦 Containerization Expert
🏛️ .gov (thanks a lot, EO 14168)
🖤 The Darkness

I don't really like this instance but honestly I lack the energy to migrate.

JoinedNov 4, 2022
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Tom WarrenJun 17
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Another Angry WomanJun 11
ea nasir is back baby awooo
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David GerardJun 10
shel silverstein on the LLM, 1981
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gooseberry foolJun 11
my personal beliefs cannot influence whether they are giants or not
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Lou 🔪🌞Jun 11
it's nice to have USB-C yubikeys, now it's way easier for me to rotate my SSH keys (by 180°) whereas with the previous ones it was near impossible
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Nessa CarsonJun 9
Another day, another bunch of paternalistic cis men spouting off about how lesbians need to be protected from trans women Funny how you never hear lesbians asking men to provide that "protection"! Go and bore someone else please
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Emma (IPG)May 17
The Apple Lisa was released to compete with the Microsoft Bart in the homer computer market
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Natasha JayJun 8

This absolute icon at Canterbury Pride 🩷🤍🩵

#Pride ⚔️

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David GerardJun 10
shel silverstein on the LLM, 1981
Show threadOzzelot  Jun 10
@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.
Show threadalcinnzJun 10

@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...

Show thread#2RR - 2 Ruote di ResistenzaJun 18
@alcinnz @davidgerard worse! There's practically a toddler. #AI meaning "absent Indians", already.
Show threadJeremy KahnJun 10
@davidgerard I have this one in A3-ish poster size on the wall of my office
Show threadeanopolskyJun 11

@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.

Show thread[tj] - knows what your packets are thinkingJun 11
@davidgerard @thankfulmachine could you share what book this copy of the poem is in?
Show threadDavid GerardJun 11
@tj @thankfulmachine not sure, just saw the pic
Show thread[tj] - knows what your packets are thinkingJun 11
@davidgerard @thankfulmachine "A Light in the Attic" Page 56

https://archive.org/details/ALightInTheAtticByShelSilverstein/page/n27/mode/2up
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
Show threadAudrey WinterJun 11
@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.
Show threadJ Wolfgang GoerlichJun 11

@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.

Show threadKumar GhoshJun 11
@davidgerard I had a version of this in my gallery from WhatsApp messages circulated in 2023:
Show thread🟥 Eveline Sulman 🇳🇱🇪🇺🇺🇦Jun 11
@davidgerard great!!!
Show threadAda 🏳️‍⚧️Jun 11
@davidgerard I can't believe they predicted chat gpt
Show threadiNecasJun 11
@Axolotl1 @davidgerard Well, perhaps this is not the first AI hype the humanity goes through…
Show threadRobin AdamsJun 18

@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

Show threadJay StephensJun 18
@technihilism.bsky.social
Show threadWulfyJun 18

@robinadams @inecas @Axolotl1 @davidgerard

Countable infinity

Vs

Uncountable infinity

🤯

Show threadMendie ​  Jun 18

@davidgerard

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

The Library of Babel - Wikipedia

Show threadMendie ​  Jun 18

@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.