Also: When a 3-word-response is enough, leave it at 3 words. Peoples time is sometimes precious and a "Sure thing, Boss!" or a "You're welcome!" transports your intention just fine.
AI has its poisonous tendrils everywhere now. Unless power and water costs become a problem, grip seems irreversible. It is not a good path thrust upon us.
My wife recently discovered her corporate LLM service and is in love with how she can use it to improve her outgoing mail.
I can understand to an extent since she always wants me to correct her grammar and spelling, but it was hard for me to look anything besides uninterested/disappointed recently when she spent an hour proudly demonstrating all the prompts and responses to get to a final version.
iRobot apparently just declared bankruptcy, so if you have an internet connected one and want to retain control if the cloud platform vanishes, take a look at github.com/koalazak/dorita980#… and stash that information somewhere safe (and note that it changes if you ever factory reset the device, so try not to do that)
Today's #FreeSoftwareAdvent is LibreOffice, the amazing free office suit (document editor, spreadsheet, presentation tool, etc).
I know that I've included this in previous #FreeSoftwareAdvent toots, but I use LibreOffice, particularly Writer, every day.
Better still, this one isn't just for Linux users, so if you are thinking about moving away from your Microsoft or Apple office suite, you can give LibreOffice a try, for free, alongside whatever you use currently, and give it a good go before you made a decision.
(Clearly a much better word than simplification.) I believe we generally accept the truth that we should write simple and easy to read code in order to make it harder to create bugs and cause security problems.
#ArcaneChat doesn't have delivery receipts, only read receipts, the only automatic responses the app does in your behalf is to handle invite links, for that to be abused you first have to share your invite link with a malicious contact, you can get in contact with random/public entity via their invite link and be safe, as long as it is not you the one sharing your invite link!
In #Signal / #WhatsApp as soon as you contact someone or they guess your number you are vulnerable
Another privacy vulnerability caused by the dependency on phone numbers.
In #ArcaneChat (and other #chatmail clients like #DeltaChat) you don't need a phone number (or any private data at all!) to register, so such attacks are simply impossible, keep your family safe, join arcanechat.me
even then most people will not do it, and as said in the previous post, even without phone number discovery, once you get in contact with someone then they can track you in Signal/WhatsApp, imagine you used the app to contact or give feedback to some goverment institution, from that point on they can use this exploit on you, that is not the case with ArcaneChat
Fwiw, sending out the emails is a separate action from setting the status as accepted/rejected. Some devrooms probably do not send the emails yet as they want backups in case some speakers don't answer the acceptance email.
There are some confusing bits in the interface if all devrooms start sending mails at the same time (which is happening now). I can see the mail in the outbox, someone might have missed pressing send. I'll poke them.
In general, some devrooms edit rejection mails (which is a good thing), which may also cause them to be sent a bit later than in the interface shows.
@johanvdw I also see the accepted e-mails not coming to my inbox. Sorry to be pain in the a**. This might be a reason someone not to accept their confirmed talk.
Boy Tailscale is just fire for a little network/homelab newbie like me. Being able to connect to my routers interface or any other device in the network at home through a raspberry pi acting as subnetrouter, being able to send wake on lan packets from anywhere through a little docker container that's just sitting there that I can access from anywhere. Being able to use it as reverse proxy to let a vps securely connect to these services and even expose them to the outside, or just routing all the traffic through an exit node somewhere. Love it. It makes life so much more easy.
Hoy acabo de hacer una cosa que odio, y que siempre me pone nervioso, pero ha salido bien y ya tengo respuesta; así que el problema está solucionado. A veces estas cosas son como echarse al agua fría, hay que tirarse de golpe.
We are going backwards due to increased RAM prices: 4 GB RAM default in mobile phones and 8 GB default in laptops. SSD prices are likely to go out of control as Samsung halts production. Don’t even ask about gaming console. Thank you sam altman and tech bros for ruining everything that is fun 😏
I am in disbelief that the only argument I'm seeing mobilized against age verification laws (and their accompanying social media bans) is “It sucks for privacy!”, and not “why the fuck are we okay imposing a digital jail on every single child?”
Digital privacy matters and it's an important reason why these laws must be repealed at all costs, but let's also please humanize the issue here: social media bans for minors are just another massive chapter in the conservative's playbook to deprive any social class that's not ‘adult white males’ of their bodily and existential autonomy.
That same playbook has chapters we're already familiar with, including staples such as “let's force gay kids back into the closet”, “trans kids shouldn’t be able to decide anything for themselves”, “women shouldn't have a bank account”, and “abortion should be illegal”.
I feel conflicted about it because I do see how much harm social media can do and how its design definitely amplifies abusive behaviour by creating a system which rewards bullying with the serotonin of likes and boosts.
But the fact they're choosing to age limit it instead of force redesigns as if bullying is something only kids experience (it isn't, we just call it harassment instead when it happens to adults) and ignore how this will kill support networks for queer kids is telling...
The answer to "bullying is happening on the playground" is "we should see how we can deal with bullying" not "we should protect kids by no longer allowing them to go out and play" :/
@SylvieLorxu social media is slightly different, social media is the bullies hurting millions of people at the same time with the full support of the teachers, staff & the owners of the school & anybody fighting back is either attacked by everyone or immediately expelled from the school...
@Vonskinnback Yes, but it is also support networks for a lot of people.
I definitely think we need to change a lot with social media, especially the mainstream ones (but Mastodon is not free of flaws either). And companies definitely won't make those changes themselves, because the abuse gives extra income as upset people disengage less quickly.
I'm not saying I know the answer to fixing it all, but age verification seems like a sledgehammer approach that will do more harm than good.
@SylvieLorxu you are absolutely right, but I am very much in the camp that social media is the root of all evil & the reason everything is awful right now. But the real underlying reality is unchecked power & wealth, I can't see that getting resolved by anything, so age verification very much just feels like paying lip service to an issue so complicated nobody even knows where to start. Mastodon at least feels like a decent starting point...
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.
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