Sébastien Barbieri

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Dad & Dev, Run & PO, Sailor & UX, Dreamer & Innovation... Past Telecom, Media and now Health as Head of End Customer Channels @MLOZ
Bloghttps://blog.sbw.be

While we are "staring" at our screen, we are missing the most beautiful screen we have ever had... the sky.
And while our attention is glued to "our" screens... People are freely appropriating humanity's very sky and humanity's resources...

https://xkcd.com/3225/

But are they our screen? Or are we just watching someone else screen believing it's ours?

Satellite Pollution

xkcd
Quantization from the ground up https://ngrok.com/blog/quantization
Quantization from the ground up | ngrok blog

A complete guide to what quantization is, how it works, and how it's used to compress large language models

ngrok blog

🎉 The critical amendment 34 (rejecting automated assessment of unknown photos and texts) PASSED by ONE vote, paving the way for the extension of Chat Control 1.0 to be overwhelmingly REJECTED!

Initial analysis by @echo_pbreyer : https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/end-of-chat-control-eu-parliament-stops-mass-surveillance-in-voting-thriller-paving-the-way-for-genuine-child-protection/

GitHub says it will use Copilot interaction data, including inputs, outputs, and code snippets, to train its AI models starting April 24, unless users opt out (Corbin Davenport/How-To Geek)

https://www.howtogeek.com/githubs-copilot-will-use-you-as-ai-training-data-but-you-can-opt-out/
http://www.techmeme.com/260325/p43#a260325p43

GitHub’s Copilot will use you as AI training data, but you can opt out

That includes the Copilot features in Visual Studio Code.

How-To Geek

We weren’t able to find the right match in the previous round, so we’ve refined this role. We’re now looking for engineers with strong experience building JavaScript and Python libraries, and working in the open. Localization/i18n experience is a big plus.

Fully remote, ideally in Europe, but open to East Coast. Note that Mozilla can only hire in a few EU countries (NL, FI, SE, BE, UK, FR, DE, ES, PL).

More info here: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/careers/position/gh/7746474/

#hiring #localization

Mozilla Careers — Senior Software Engineer (Localization) — Open Positions

Mozilla is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Localization) in Remote Canada, Finance, Security, Strategy, Operations, Data & Ads, Strategy, Operations, Data & Ads,…

Mozilla

Researchers at the non-profit org called Pregnancy Justice report that in the last two years authorities have arrested at least 412 women for suffering miscarriages due to bans on abortion.

The same people championing abortion bans and prosecution of American women for miscarriages also claim bombing Iran liberates Iranian women.

Make no mistake: Whether in the USA or Iran, they were never about liberating women—but about controlling them with force and violence.

My #Wikipedia request for comment just closed, finally banning #AI content in articles! "The use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited"

Kudos to all who participated in writing the guideline (especially Kowal2701) and the whole WikiProject AI Cleanup team, this was very much a group effort!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_articles_with_large_language_models/RfC

Wikipedia:Writing articles with large language models/RfC - Wikipedia

La souveraineté numérique européenne n’est plus un slogan.
Elle devient un enjeu de puissance 👉 (en anglais) https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/chairman-jordan-probes-eu-bureaucrats-hiding-efforts-censor-american-speech
Chairman Jordan Probes EU Bureaucrats Hiding Efforts to Censor American Speech

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) sent letters to ten technology companies—including Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Reddit, Rumble, TikTok, and xAI—reiterating that the Committee's document subpoenas require the companies to produce communications with foreign censors, including the European Commission and European Union (

House Judiciary Committee Republicans

SpaceX's highly paid lawyers responded to the hundreds of comments and oppositions submitted to the FCC in one letter, that basically shows they didn't actually read our petitions to deny. And now we astronomers and dark sky advocates who are volunteering our time have to do a shitload more work to respond to their non-response. By Friday.

Fuck you, SpaceX.