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Physicist who came into contact with the chaos community via NoName e.V.
Tooting in English & German.
Reading David Hogg on LLMs in astrophysics should be mandatory. https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.10181 (edited with link)
Why do we do astrophysics?

At time of writing, large language models (LLMs) are beginning to obtain the ability to design, execute, write up, and referee scientific projects on the data-science side of astrophysics. What implications does this have for our profession? In this white paper, I list - and argue for - a set of facts or "points of agreement" about what astrophysics is, or should be; these include considerations of novelty, people-centrism, trust, and (the lack of) clinical value. I then list and discuss every possible benefit that astrophysics can be seen as bringing to us, and to science, and to universities, and to the world; these include considerations of love, weaponry, and personal (and personnel) development. I conclude with a discussion of two possible (extreme and bad) policy recommendations related to the use of LLMs in astrophysics, dubbed "let-them-cook" and "ban-and-punish." I argue strongly against both of these; it is not going to be easy to develop or adopt good moderate policies.

arXiv.org

Hier erklärt das Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy kindgerecht, warum #Chatkontrolle eine sehr sehr schlechte Idee ist.

Das ist wichtige Arbeit, weil es auch nach drei Jahren „Diskussion“ immer noch Politikerinnen gibt, die es nicht verstanden haben.

EU muss endlich die #ChatkontrolleStoppen!

https://fair.tube/w/w98MJRXxdtYedDzAkDVw5R

I was taught in biology class in school that being able to roll your tongue is a genetic trait and an example of Mendelian inheritance.

This is false. It‘s a myth that science has long debunked.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/genetic-myth-textbooks-get-wrong

Debunking the biggest genetic myth of the human tongue

You didn’t inherit your tongue rolling ability from your parents.

PBS News

»Plattformen wie @Mastodon, die brauchen noch gezielter Industrieförderung, Innovationsförderung damit wir morgen die Wahlfreiheiten haben, entscheiden zu können auf welchen demokratischen Infrastrukturen wir kommunizieren wollen«

Markus Beckedahl auf phoenix im Interview.

#BigTech #Opensource #TikTok #Mastodon
@markus_netzpolitik

Yesterday, 10 years ago, Let's Encrypt issued their first #TLS #certificate to the domain name helloworld.letsencrypt.org. Since then, they issued 7 billion certificates.

To quote Borat: "Great success!"

Congrats!

#letsencrypt #tls #ssl #https

Springer now demand that your pre-acceptance version of a paper on the arXiv comes with a disclaimer:

“This preprint has not undergone peer review (when applicable) or any post-submission improvements or corrections. The Version of Record of this article is published in [insert journal title], and is available online at https://doi.org/[insert DOI]”."

and forbids you from putting the version accepted on the arXiv under an OA license:

"The rights granted to the Author with respect to the Accepted Manuscript are subject to the conditions that (i) the Accepted Manuscript is not enhanced or substantially reformatted by the Author or any third party, and (ii) the Author includes on the Accepted Manuscript an acknowledgement in the following form, together with a link to the published version on the publisher’s website: “This version of the article has been accepted for publication, after peer review (when applicable) but is not the Version of Record and does not reflect post-acceptance improvements, or any corrections. The Version of Record is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/[insert DOI]. Use of this Accepted Version is subject to the publisher’s Accepted Manuscript terms of use https://www.springernature.com/gp/open-research/policies/accepted-manuscript-terms”. Under no circumstances may an Accepted Manuscript be shared or distributed under a Creative Commons or other form of open access licence."

So Springer is saying it has control over how people use papers on the arXiv: "Use of this Accepted Version is subject to the publisher’s Accepted Manuscript terms of use."

I knew none of this when I submitted my paper, nor when I uploaded my updated paper to the arXiv.

I feel like the latter would be worse, because in that case both Google _and_ the manufacturer would have access to my data. Is that reasoning correct?

2. Would Google spy on me on the hardware level, regardless of which ROM I install? I am not sure how plauisible that is, but would I bet on it?

Apple is no option for me, because their ecosystem is too closed.

Does anybody have any relevant insights?

2/2

I am thinking about getting a Google Pixel and installing @GrapheneOS on it. However, with #Google being one of the most powerful and intrusive data collectors, it feels weird to buy their hardware. There are a few points I worry about:

1. If for some reason I would have to switch back to the stock Android the Pixels are shipped with, would my privacy be compromised more severely than with an Android phone of a different manufacturer?

1/2

#googlepixel #privacy #android #grapheneos

"sideloading" is a stupid made up term invented to delegitimize installing software.
Heres a bunch of other things I'm doing while "sidestepping" some supposed central authority:
- sideshopping (buying stuff from a store that isn't amazon)
- sidedining (eating or making food that isn't from mcdonalds)
- sidethinking (using my own brain instead of asking chatgpt)
- sidelistening (to my own music instead of on spotify)
- sidechatting (irl instead of online)

#android #sideloading #google #bullshit

Ich verstehe den Begriff der Freiheit von CDU und CSU nicht.

Dobrindt-Gesetzentwurf: #Bundespolizei soll Handys und Rechner hacken dürfen

" #Bundesinnenminister Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) macht einen neuen Anlauf, um der #Bundespolizei den Einsatz von #Staatstrojaner'n zu erlauben und damit auch #Unverdächtige präventiv #überwachen zu können..."
https://www.heise.de/news/Dobrindt-Gesetzentwurf-Bundespolizei-soll-Handys-und-Rechner-hacken-duerfen-10507629.html

Dobrindt-Gesetzentwurf: Bundespolizei soll Handys und Rechner hacken dürfen

Die Bundespolizei könnte bald Staatstrojaner einsetzen, um Personen auch ohne Verdacht präventiv zu überwachen. Das will zumindest Bundesinnenminister Dobrindt.

heise online