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joe Mar 16, 2024

David Belson Mar 14, 2024

My latest post for the Cloudflare Blog:
Undersea cable failures cause Internet disruptions for multiple African countries

https://blog.cloudflare.com/undersea-cable-failures-cause-internet-disruptions-across-africa-march-14-2024

(via https://mastofeed.org)

Undersea cable failures cause Internet disruptions for multiple African countries

Internet connectivity in several African countries was disrupted on March 14, 2024, beginning at approximately 05:00 UTC. Based on published reports and social media posts from impacted network providers, the disruption is believed to be due to multiple undersea cable failures in the region.

The Cloudflare Blog

joe May 24, 2023

Mr Whiskers May 24, 2023

Meta laid off another 10000 people today. That’s 21000 people total that Meta have let go due to an egregious spell of over hiring. 21000 lives thrown into chaos and no one will be held responsible.

Take big tech to congress and make them pay

joe Mar 27, 2023

isaacs Mar 7, 2023

It's amusing to me that star trek imagined a world where an AI faces social rejection because he's rational, fact based, literal, fiercely/dogmatically moral, and struggles with social nuance. But here in reality we invented AIs that have no concept of truth, give zero fucks about accuracy, have no rationality, and can't do math, but match vibes and tone nearly perfectly.

The first artificial person will not be an autistic science officer. It'll be an extremely allistic salesbro or politician.

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joe Mar 25, 2023

@gsuberland @tef

https://github.com/cdanis/sandia-public-license

GitHub - cdanis/sandia-public-license: This is not a license of honor. No highly esteemed copyright statement is written here.

This is not a license of honor. No highly esteemed copyright statement is written here. - cdanis/sandia-public-license

GitHub

joe Mar 25, 2023

Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦Mar 25, 2023

So @internetarchive scanning books for their digital library is copyright infringement:
http://blog.archive.org/2023/03/25/the-fight-continues/

But OpenAI slurping all of that to train a model that then can generate text and put actual authors out of business (already happening with copywriters), is not.

Figures, there are no $billions of VC / corporate money behind Internet Archive, why would anyone want to support a public service, right? 🤦‍♀️

IA ≠ AI, know the difference!

#InternetArchive

The Fight Continues - Internet Archive Blogs

Today’s lower court decision in Hachette v. Internet Archive is a blow to all libraries and the communities we serve. This decision impacts libraries across the US who rely on controlled digital lending to connect their patrons with books online. It hurts authors by saying that unfair licensing models are the only way their books […]

Internet Archive Blogs

joe Mar 23, 2023

chris Mar 23, 2023

Slides are posted for my #SREcon talk and video should follow in a few weeks! https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon23americas/presentation/danis #NEL

Seeing the Invisible: Two Years at Wikipedia with W3C's Network Error Logging | USENIX

joe Mar 23, 2023

Lorin Hochstein

Mar 23, 2023

Courtney Nash of https://www.thevoid.community speaking now at #srecon

The VOID

The VOID is a community-contributed collection of software-related incident reports.

VOID

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joe Mar 9, 2023

I want a t-shirt saying "Given the amorality, faux science and linguistic incompetence of ML systems, we can only laugh or cry at their popularity."

joe Mar 9, 2023

Noam Chomsky understands AI better than most AI "experts". We're not ready for a world without chomsky https://web.archive.org/web/20230309052428/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/opinion/noam-chomsky-chatgpt-ai.html

joe Jan 16, 2023

CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Jan 16, 2023

By now, many of you have seen the footage of the monk (or mud wizard) facing off with hapless riot police during the defense of #Lutzerath this past weekend.

If you have not seen it, treat yourself to it now:

https://twitter.com/HerrHoert/status/1614386528934846470

In fact, this mysterious figure already appeared in 2018, during the defense of the ZAD (the "Zone to Defend," a longtime squatted area where the residents blocked the construction of an airport) at Notre-Dame-des-Landes.

According to le Monde, the police ambushed the monk among a group of other defenders. The monk threw three buckets of water at the police, proclaiming "I baptize you in the name of the ZAD!" In the ensuing chaos, he made off with one of their batons.

To learn more about the #ZAD:

https://crimethinc.com/ZAD

Victory to the mud wizards! Defend the earth!