@opalfroot

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@uwe very atmospheric!
working theory: we get fewer vulnerability reports late in the weeks as the researchers have all run out of tokens by now...
To management, I say "I use AI techniques to ___". It's just my shell scripts from 2001 that still run perfectly everyday. I don't tell them that AI in that sentence actually stands for already implemented.

@samvarma @stalman I owned the S1Rii for a while and it’s a wonderful camera.

One thing I’d say though is that it’s quite heavy and on the bigger side for a mirrorless camera.

I bought it thinking realtime LUTs would be fire but ended up really enjoying the colours straight out of camera. I think the colour science on this thing is massively underrated.

All that said I would the camera and went back to Sony. I just found the camera to inconsistent.

@patigallardo.bsky.social interestingly in recent court filings it appears Grok is a distillation of OpenAI models. What this means is that Groks estimated value is inherently connected to GPTs estimated value.

It’s all very circular and incestuous.

@Colman true. Though I honestly believe most folks believe buying a new lens or camera will respark their creative flame.

I’m not sure who needs to hear this but …

Buying a new lens or camera won’t change the weather. It won’t change your surroundings. It won’t suddenly make you a better photographer.

It will however motivate you to experiment and justify the purchase through use.

To grow, think deeply about the top set of concerns while avoiding the purchase experimentation cycle.

#photography

@yaelwrites who knew?

I see this play out in real time within the tech industry.

Once a place of strong academic problem solvers and deep thinkers rapidly declining into a haven for mindless prompt monkeys and slop wranglers.

The obvious subtlety being that when people stop thinking it becomes a chore. Over time I see people losing the ability to reason and think deeply. Worryingly this extends beyond hard technical problems and is creeping into everyday decision making.

The UK has announced plans to fast-track legislation requiring “age verification for VPN use”. The correct term, however, is not age verification but identity verification.

A law like this would require everyone to identify themselves in order to use a VPN. This would pose a risk to whistleblowers, violate human rights, and represent yet another step toward an authoritarian society.