Some(oz)

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Computer person, sometimes a photographer, sometimes an inline skater. Mostly harmless, hopefully.
Weaknesses: coffee, mezcal

#nobots #noindex #iykyk 

Dialects: 🇫🇷🇬🇧🇪🇸

Shitposting: yes

🕸 httphttps://cyprio.net
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pronounshe/him

Je trouve que gris sur blanc c’est BEAUCOUP mieux que “tout blanc” pour mon petit Voyager, et c’est moins salissant. ✨

Peut-être que j’achèterai les 2 touches 1.5U pour le cluster des pouces mais j’aime bien ce côté uniforme aussi !

« For security and document encryption compatibility, these files must be opened using a Windows Desktop environment. Mobile and macOS viewing are currently unsupported. »

Ha ha ha 😂

#phishing #scam

RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116331940556649057

this whole thread is incredible but I am absolutely screaming at \u2014

Unfortunately, I fear that it's easy to see why LLMs became popular: getting anywhere in our currently arranged society requires us all to generate unreasonably large quantities of what is, frankly, total crap.

GitHub could place an ad anywhere on the page -- this seems unnecessarily intrusive and user-hostile. Not to mention gross. #OpenSource #GitHub

https://notes.zachmanson.com/copilot-edited-an-ad-into-my-pr/

notes: copilot edited an ad into my pr

More and more devs are *forced* to use LLMs for work, because it's more productive, and lots of other reasons. Where I currently work, they measure "adoption" and other metrics, which reminded me of Steve Yegge in a recent Pragmatic Engineer podcast: he was saying that now, burning tokens proves that you're working.

On the other hand, I know quite a few devs who still enjoy programming, but no longer at work.

There is no such thing as an " alpha " in a wolf pack. An early study that coined the term "alpha wolf" had only observed unrelated adult wolves living in captivity. In the wild, wolf packs operate like families: parents are in charge until the young grow up and start their own families, and younger wolves do not overthrow an "alpha" to become the new leader. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions_about_science,_technology,_and_mathematics#Mammals
List of common misconceptions about science, technology, and mathematics - Wikipedia

If you feed somebody's posts into your shitty LLM without an explicit and reversible opt-in, you are violating the consent of fedi users.

This "Zeitgeist" app not only violates consent, but it also doesn't have a centralized ActivityPub identity that can be blocked or defederated.

#FediAdmin #Fediblock

https://alpaca.gold/@seldo/116229243453108157

With a crucial parliamentary vote weeks away, a new report alleges that state security forces attempted to cripple the IT infrastructure of Viktor Orbán’s most formidable political rival.

https://www.occrp.org/en/news/orban-gate-hungarian-opposition-accuses-government-of-spy-plot-ahead-of-election?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=automated

#crime #corruption #news

‘Orbán-Gate’: Hungarian Opposition Accuses Government of Spy Plot Ahead of Election

With a crucial parliamentary vote weeks away, a new report alleges that state security forces attempted to cripple the IT infrastructure of Viktor Orbán’s most formidable political rival.

OCCRP
Just updated my iPad. It wanted me to take a photo of a credit card. I did not let it. It then told me I might not be able to access certain things. The future is fucking shit.