Today's random open directory find: a drum and bass influenced track accompanied by a flute. Macintalk Fred and Zarvox are used for speaking the lyrics. Original file: ftp6o.icm.edu.pl/pub/beos/cont…
With a current temperature of -13°C (9°F), and a low of -16°C (3°F), I think I've picked a good time to start rocking three GPUs. With the two air conditioners that share the circuit with the data center unplugged and removed from their windows, the current going through the craptastic electrical system here is not causing enough resistance to heat things hot enough to cause melting events. However, I will certainly not be leaving the area for longer than a bathroom break, or a meal, with check trips back and forth. If I should need to leave the premisus, I shut these things down, without question. So while it is -13 outside, it is a balmy 26.3°C (79.3°F) in here.
I’ve never thought about it this way, but it’s almost certain that my nonchalant default position about “does LLM training violate a social contract about credit in open source” is related to the baseline fact that I’ve devoted my entire life to open source and appear in (to a rounding error) zero CREDITS or AUTHORS files. My contributions have been stripped, but it wasn’t by AI.
@yoasif@mastodon.social @mcepl@en.osm.town both Matej and I have spent the overwhelming majority of our adult lives supporting open source in non-credited non-coding roles.
I joked about it the other day on here, but I am kind of frustrated that a lot of the music I make gives off a retro vibe. I don't want to be That Kind of GenX Musician, forever locked into the styles I listened to in my formative years. I really want to be carving out a unique space free from nostalgia. I’m wondering if there would be value in a collaboration that could break me out of this cycle?
The ozone layer is a layer of the atmosphere that protects us from UV light. Years ago, it was noticed that chlorofluorocarbons in aerosol sprays were aiding in the depletion of the ozone layer, and a hole was detected in this protective layer. After years of regulation and work, the hole is closed.
The ozone hole closed on December 1, and although experts warn it will reopen soon, emerging data offers real hope for long-term healing of Earth’s atmosphere.
Happy Sunday. I'm going out with my friend Ellen, my old boss Joe and his wife, Vicky. It'll be nice. I miss my old boss. I was respected more, not micromanaged and just enjoyed working with him. Now with the new situation, I like my job but I'm not sure how long I can deal with the supervisor I have now. The stress and overbearing nature of things is next level. We shall see. for now I'll enjoy what I can.
I feel like that makes a big difference, whether your supervisor is good to work with. I feel fortunate to have a manager who mostly leaves me alone to figure out what I need to do, rather than micro-managing me and hassling me, but that could change.
@MikeGorse I worked almost 22 years with someone who waskind and really didn't bother me and expected that I'd do my job well. Sometimes he was too lenient with people who needed more direction but all in all he was a great boss. My current one is a total control freak and often condescending. It's not pleasant.
Very excited that I might soon be getting back on HF ham radio. Got my old radio back that I used to have in Denver and just ordered and antenna. Now just need to figure out where I’m going to put the radio in this small apartment and get the antenna mounted on the house.
I wanna get on HF again... It's been I think 27 years or something like that. I potentially can get access to a couple of remotes soon, so there's that, but not quite the same. I'm thinking about buying a Xiegu G90 or something stupid like that to play with while I'm in NC, assuming I can convince the people there to let me rig up some sort of antenna.
Gerade eine Doku zum Thema Rechte Hetze von #Christen gesehen. (Kreuzzug von Rechts - ARD Mediathek). Alles nicht unbekannt, aber es geht einfach nicht in meinen Schädel rein. Wieso gehört das #Christfluencer sein und das #Rechts sein irgendwie zusammen? Wo sind die reichweitenstarken christlichen Accounts, die mit Gedanken zu #Nächstenliebe, #Empathie und mit der Liebe zur #Bibel und zum Leben junge Menschen prägen?
Die Algos der üblichen Plattformen pushen ja die genannten Dinge nicht, soweit man herausbekommen hat. Insofern scheint es sinnlos, dort gegen problematische Strömungen mit Gutem ankämpfen zu wollen. Ein strukturelles Problem, welches auch auf dieser Ebene gelöst werden müsste. Leider habe ich im vergangenen Jahrzehnt nicht den Eindruck bekommen, dass der größere Teil der #digitaleKirche entsprechend damit umgehen möchte.
Kirche will genau so wenig wie alle anderen öffentlichen Organisationen eine Verantwortung für die gesellschaftlichen Folgen ihres digitalen Handelns erkennen.
Auch die Kirchen haben ihren Auftrag in Reichweite auf kommerziellen Plattformen umgedeutet.
Wer auf die Verantwortung des Einzelnen gegenüber Gott abstellt, müsste m.E. ein erklärter Gegner algorithmisch kuratierter Medien sein.
Allerdings lehne ich Algorithmen nicht generell ab.
Man könnte ja auch sinnvolle bauen und die Arbeitsweise transparent machen. 🙂 Und das ist für mich der Punkt. Ich kann mich nicht erinnern, dass sich Kirchen, angesichts der nachgewiesenen problematischen Wirkung der jetzigen gängigen Systeme auf die Gesellschaft, entsprechend eingebracht hätten. Es sind meistens nur wenige kirchliche Einzelinitativen, die praktisch zeigen, dass es auch anders geht.
Wäre eine der Möglichkeiten der #digitaleKirche nicht, sich z.B. der Initiative #SaveSocial anzuschließen und dies auch in den Gemeinden zu thematisieren?
📦 Rust Coreutils 0.5.0 Release:
We are excited to announce the release of Rust Coreutils 0.5.0 — a significant milestone featuring comprehensive platform improvements, and robust testing infrastruc...
Falls noch jemand ein nettes Geschenk braucht, kann ich sehr die Chocolaterie & Patisserie Grand Cru in Franken empfehlen. Wenn man in der Nähe wohnt, kann man dort Pralinen- und Dessert-Kurse belegen, wenn nicht, mit Pralinenabos übers Jahr immer wieder nett was verschenken. Ich hab vor 20 Jahren mit der Inhaberin in einer WG gewohnt, als sie die Meisterprüfung machte. Hab nette Erinnerungen an das Verkosten der Übungsprodukte. chocolateriegrandcru.de/
Chocolaterie & Patisserie Grand Cru, Hochbach, 91593, Anna Kaerlein-Seip, Gewinner der Goldmedaille in der Patisserie bei der Olympiade in Erfurt 2008, Feinste Pralinen, Hochzeitstorten, Macarons uvm.
On today's edition of songs that would absolutely not fly today, we have one of the strangest novelty songs I've ever heard in my life. Sorry to be cryptic but this has to be heard to be believed. youtube.com/watch?v=j9fUcR6KhG…
Provided to YouTube by The Orchard EnterprisesC.B. Savage · Rod HartTruck Stop Sweethearts & C.B. Savages (The Plantation Records Story 1968-1981)℗ 1976 Plan...
Gentes del fediverso, vengo con una nueva convocatoria de #FediComida edición #Navidad en #Vigo.
La idea es juntarnos el sábado 27 a las 14h (pero se podría adelantar o retrasar un poco) en el restaurante chino Manzana Roja (maps.app.goo.gl/T9NpTyyQFvYjiE…).
Apuntaros todos los que os guste la comida china y/o la compañía de otros "fediverseros". Recordad que podéis venir acompañados de gente de fuera del fediverso, solo me tenéis que decir cuántos os apuntáis y yo os sumo a todos.
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I've just seen an absolutely disgusting article. I said "seen", not "read", because I'm blind and I could not read it. for your reference, here's the first beautiful sentence of this article: "ffGE ARrj XRejm XAj bZgui cB R EXZgl, Rmi mjji jrjg-DmygjREDmI XgRDmDmI iRXR XZ DlkgZrj." I don't know the technology behind this BS, but screen readers see it as scrambled text, kind of encrypted or something like this. I guess it's some font juggling (ChatGPT supposed it's gliph scrambling, where random Unicode values are mapped to random letters — I'll trust her in this because I really don't care about the tech behind it), but if you have a tiny little grain of empathy, never ever ever do this, for goodness sake. tilschuenemann.de/projects/sac… #Accessibility #Blindness #Empathy #BadPractices #Web #Text
Ни хрена себе. Так могут звучать шифровки вояк например, что они по эфиру передают. Сам слышал. Непонятно что это вообще было, а главное зачем. Вряд ли SEO-шные приколы.
Заголовок-то я и не глянул. Вообще сеошникам бил бы по рукам хотя бы за то что они в кириллицу впихивают визуально-идентичные буквы на латинице. Борцы за уникальность текста, ёбаный насос.
@Yinshi Sorry to add a comment, but if you select the language of your message when typing it, the mastodon app will provide an automatic translation if requested. Here, the app believes that your message is in English. (You can change that on new messages by clicking on the language box, and you can also modify the message afterwards if needed.)
this is an encryption algorithm that replaces characters by others, using a dedicated font. The article explains that the idea is to prevent LLM to scrape the content.
Apparently, the person behind this website is an ableist person because they know they're sacrifying accessibility and that it doesn't work with screen readers.
@juliemoynat aha, that's what I thought, thanks! I once saw one Ukrainian Internet store inadvertently using a font that mangled only numbers like that. so for example, you could see a smartphone costing fVjZ hryvnias. but that was not mean, just overdoing fanciness, they fixed it afterwards.
I'm viewing the article in Firefox as a sighted person and it's displaying as gibberish to me.
Even if it did work, if it's doing what I'm guessing it's trying to do it would be thoroughly unpleasant to read and I would leave the site immediately.
But agreed, it is not okay to intentionally sacrifice accessibility.
yes, it's an article about scrambling text using fonts in order to prevent LLM scraping.
It's a cute idea. I'd be more at ease if the author had described it as a neat toy that shouldn't be seriously used for anything, but they don't seem to be thinking that way, only describing the accessibility problems as a "drawback".
hm-m, that sounds familiar… ah. Yeah. I've heard of this trick before.
Russia's Central Election Commission (ЦИК) pulled the same stunt with its website during the election, when that website published intermediate results, under the pretense of "preventing the system from crashing from unprecedented attacks"; I had to look up the date when exactly, seems to be 2021, which feels about right: forbes.ru/tekhnologii/440479-p…
How was this supposed prevent any attacks and what *kinds* of attacks even is beyond me to this day. LLMs did not exist back then. Or in the very least weren't anywhere near as capable.
Центризбирком закодировал результаты выборов на своем сайте, чтобы «система не вылетела» из-за обрушившихся на нее «беспрецедентных атак», заявила Элла Памфилова. Ранее эксперты обратили внимание, что копировать данные с сайта ЦИК стало невозможно, п
In #Safari on an #iPhone going to the link I see... something that resembles a blog, but tapping the "reader view" I get the following, proving the point of the headline. If we can't read it, an #AI #Bot can't scrape it.
<begin text> # /// script # requires-python = ">=3.12" # dependencies = [ # "bs4", # "fonttools", # ] # /// import random import string from typing import Dict from bs4 import BeautifulSoup from fontTools.ttLib import TTFont def scramble_font(seed: int = 1234) -> Dict[str, str]: random.seed(seed) font = TTFont("src/fonts/Mulish-Regular.ttf") # Pick a Unicode cmap (Windows BMP preferred) cmap_table = None for table in font["cmap"].tables: if table.isUnicode() and table.platformID == 3: break cmap_table = table cmap = cmap_table.cmap # Filter codepoints for a-z and A-Z codepoints = [cp for cp in cmap.keys() if chr(cp) in string.ascii_letters] glyphs = [cmap[cp] for cp in codepoints] shuffled_glyphs = glyphs[:] random.shuffle(shuffled_glyphs) # Create new mapping scrambled_cmap = dict(zip(codepoints, shuffled_glyphs, strict=True)) cmap_table.cmap = scrambled_cmap translation_mapping = {} for original_cp, original_glyph in zip(codepoints, glyphs, strict=True): for new_cp, new_glyph in scrambled_cmap.items(): if new_glyph == original_glyph: translation_mapping[chr(original_cp)] = chr(new_cp) break font.save("src/fonts/Mulish-Regular-scrambled.ttf") return translation_mapping def scramble_html( input: str, translation_mapping: Dict[str, str], ) -> str: def apply_cipher(text): repl = "".join(translation_mapping.get(c, c) for c in text) return repl # Read HTML file soup = BeautifulSoup(input, "html.parser") # Find all main elements main_elements = soup.find_all("main") skip_tags = {"code", "h1", "h2"} # Apply cipher only to text within main for main in main_elements: for elem in main.find_all(string=True): if elem.parent.name not in skip_tags: elem.replace_with(apply_cipher(elem)) return str(soup) <end text>
@christianrickert where could the industry be moving towards, sorry? Assistive technologies like screen readers take information straight from the DOM, so anything like this breaks accessibility completely. Also, I received replies from people using specific fonts (dyslexic-friendly and specific for some low vision needs) for whom it also reads gibberish. No, this is absolutely bad practice.
is this supposed to be readable by so-called humans? the text is scrambled for me in firefox. i can't even tell what the intended effect is supposed to be -- are readers supposed to run some kind of script to undo the caesar cipher? is there a key somewhere? i don't get it.
@trwnh Yes, under some conditions it's readable by humans with working eyeballs, but you are not the first to report that it is not readable in Firefox. I spread it wide for everyone not to even think about doing such nonsense.
perhaps a better title would be, "sacrificing your audience and still getting scraped anyway". as far as i can tell, this doesn't stop scrapers from continuing to scrape the useless information.
If you use AI chat bots to help you compose documents, presentations or be creative in a subject you know about, you may get benefits. You may be fine solving problems you have at least a clue about the solution. Everything else do it for fun f you really need to but don’t post on the internet, don’t tell your mom and don’t show your boss / teacher/ smart significant other. Just don’t do it seriously.
@luis Algumas pessoas andam a fazer depender a sua vida, trabalho de Llms. Isto é muito grave. Eu já nem vou para etica e modelos de negócio e tal.. É malta confiar para coisas criticas sem validar sem nada.
pode ser que a bolha rebente em breve. O Cory Doctorow diz que sim. Aquilo é engraçado, faz truques giros, mas acho curioso a facilidade com que as pessoas seguem conselhos do LLM em vez de colegas experientes por exemplo. Da última vez que sugeri uma biblioteca para resolver uma coisa no trabalho, tive de analisar 3 alternativas, documentá-las e reunir com pessoas. Já o LLM só precisa de dizer "usa X" e as pessoas seguem. 😅 Enfim, há de facto aqui um potencial ganho de produtividade.
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