If you subscribe to my RSS feeds (neilzone or decoded.legal), you might get some duplicate entries today - apologies - as I have switched across to the BSSG-generated sites.

One of the changes I've made is to limit the RSS feed to the last 15 blogposts.

Still full-text, of course.

Today at the office...

Me: "No, I do not work with slop shops."

Them: "With what??"

Me: "Companies which are spreading generative models among the innocent."

Them: "Aha. Well. But why? You know, you could earn a lot if you did."

Me: "Because I refuse to have any part in the lobotomization of society."

Them: 😳😯

... and I still think that I was pretty diplomatic in my choice of words.

I'm not using any LLM or "AI" for anything that I write or draw. Never had, and never will.

I'm making this choice because:

• This technology was built by unethically stealing the hard work of millions without any consent or compensation.

• This technology has and is still constantly scraping data, including personal data, from people without their knowledge or consent, in complete disregard of the privacy laws we have to protect us.

• This technology unnecessarily uses vast amounts of energy in a world where using more energy sadly usually means more pollution.

• This technology is working on devaluating labor in order to enrich even more the already rich, aggravating poverty everywhere.

• This technology is misleadingly being sold as a solution to problems it cannot solve.

• This technology is supercharging disinformation and manipulation online, centralizing an incredible power of influence in the hands of a few controlling billionaires.

• This technology is increasingly being used by authoritarian governments in order to surveil and control the people.

• This technology atrophies our creativity and capability to think, as well as harming our social relationships.

• This technology makes my writing voice feel flat and boring. I'd rather learn to live with my human tipos.

• This technology...

#NoAI

RT @ghidraninja

Simple age check for Linux:

Just have the shell ask the user to check the host IP on first boot.

If they type ifconfig they are old enough, if they type ip addr they deserve to be restricted from their computer 😇

You know what WON’T get stuck in the Strait of Hormuz?

Solar and wind energy