Legault resigns to spend more time privately hounding minorities
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QUEBEC CITY - Quebec Premier François Legault announced his resignation today, explaining that he plans to bring his famed enthusiasm for attacking basic human rights to the private sector.John Hansen (The Beaverton)
Yeah that's fair. I have just read it's a 1.2 trillion -parameter model, that's quite insane. I wonder though if Google will update that as often as their own models, it might be that they still release newer models for themselves but then strategically hold the Apple one back a little bit, on the basis of "letting that model mature first." This will be interesting to see play out for sure.
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Nah. Giving LLMs their identity is done in post-training, and Google can just remove that data for their posttraining mix for Apple. They're definitely going to have one. Since pretraining = ~60-90% of compute, redoing that part won't be that expensive. There are rumors that Google will only ship the base models anyway, and that all the fine tuning will be done internally by Apple (perhaps on Google infrastructure). Those base models have no idea what they are yet.
The most painful lesson I learned, and have yet to fully recover from, after losing the community I spent years cultivating when Twitter was sold, it’s this: the “revolution” and change so many of you say you want will never be built in public, on platforms owned by people who not only do not share your values but who see them as threats.
At any moment, the communities, businesses, networks, and even friendships you’ve built there can be taken from you because they were never truly yours.
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Want odds on who/what blocks our driveway first?
A snowplow pushing the snow from the bus stop more than 1 block away, or a motorist who gives zero f*cks about blocking our driveway w/ their vehicle whilst they do whatever they need/want to do in our immediate 4-block radius?
Montréal braces for heavy snow as Environment Canada issues warning... montrealgazette.com/news/weath…
#winter #winterweather #CDNNDG #CDNNDGBS #polMTL #MTLpoli #meteoQC
Environment Canada has issued a warning for the area, saying rain is expected to turn to snow.Montreal Gazette
![remindd(8) System Manager's Manual remindd(8)
NAME
remindd, Other_name_for_same_program(), Yet another name for the same program. – This line parsed for whatis database.
SYNOPSIS
remindd, [-abcd] [-a path] [file] [file ...] arg0 arg2 ...
DESCRIPTION
Use the .Nm macro to refer to your program throughout the man page like such: remindd, Underlining is accomplished with
the .Ar macro like this: underlined text.
A list of items with descriptions:
item a Description of item a
item b Description of item b
A list of flags and their descriptions:
-a Description of -a flag
-b Description of -b flag
FILES
/usr/share/file_name FILE_1 description
/Users/joeuser/Library/really_long_file_name FILE_2 description
SEE ALSO
a(1), b(1), c(1), a(2), b(2), a(3), b(3)
Darwin 3/29/18 Darwin](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/748325 "remindd(8) System Manager's Manual remindd(8)
NAME
remindd, Other_name_for_same_program(), Yet another name for the same program. – This line parsed for whatis database.
SYNOPSIS
remindd, [-abcd] [-a path] [file] [file ...] arg0 arg2 ...
DESCRIPTION
Use the .Nm macro to refer to your program throughout the man page like such: remindd, Underlining is accomplished with
the .Ar macro like this: underlined text.
A list of items with descriptions:
item a Description of item a
item b Description of item b
A list of flags and their descriptions:
-a Description of -a flag
-b Description of -b flag
FILES
/usr/share/file_name FILE_1 description
/Users/joeuser/Library/really_long_file_name FILE_2 description
SEE ALSO
a(1), b(1), c(1), a(2), b(2), a(3), b(3)
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my favorite are the Linux man pages that have no information but say you have to use the GNU info page, but there also isn't a GNU info page
I used to have a list of these whenever I wanted to make fun of Linux
#deltachat and #chatmail and #webxdc are in a unique "market" where few other cross-platform messengers can play. The unique and growing market is shaped by rising authoritarianism, internet shutdowns and restrictions.
We are building a "Minecraft world of messaging" where skilled people can rip apart, modify, replace, recombine and do modding, at every level. All #foss and featuring
Decent Usability and UI
Offline first
End-to-End encryption
Standards based
Resilient
Decentralized
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Hope #DeltaChat can upgrade to @Luanti world of messaging later : )
#Luanti #FOSSgames #FOSSgaming #OpenSourceGames #OpenSourceGaming #FreeSoftware #Minetest
>eat
>get depressed
That's it I'm kicking the habit, from now no more eating
so this guy claims that he was was a sex slave for Epstein & co as a kid and Trump was one of his abusers (also Clarence Thomas and some others) and that at one point he jammed a tent stake up Trump's ass and got beat for it
he says Trump's medical records will corroborate this and this is also why Trump said he "felt raped" when his medical records were stolen a while back?
WILD SHIT MANNNNN 
obviously is a joke u know me.. u know me right
i feel like boomer isn't derogatory enough, we should call boomers and genx the lead-exposed generations
"well no wonder you're tanking the economy, you're in the lead exposed generation"
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Might be able to set up a FLINTA-only dorm for €70-100 total per guest from Jan 30 to Feb 2. Price range depending on final amount of guests ^^
Would anyone going to FOSDEM be interested?
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Me: Waiter, this soup is cold.
Waiter: It’s gazpacho sir.
Me: Gazpacho, this soup is cold.
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I have to admit, the performance of a Chromium-based browser compared to Firefox is abysmal. I don't have that many tabs but it lags a lot and the browser constantly puts tabs in hibernation to save memory--something I've never needed with Firefox. So all of you Chrome users live like this? No wonder RAM is in high demand.
I've finally switched to the @Vivaldi browser. I've been using Firefox for as long as I've been on the internet, but the focus on AI means it's no longer the browser for me. Thankfully unlike Chrome, Vivaldi supports the uBlock Origin extension which is the most important extension for being able to browse the web nowadays.
Dear fellow Healthcare workers in hospitals:
If you don’t know (*absolutely, clearly, KNOW*) what your hospital’s policy is with respect to ICE wandering the halls, ASK now. Find out.
My health system has us redirect ICE to non-patient waiting areas, call security and admin, and not disclose anything about patients.
The PAM Duress is a module designed to allow users to generate 'duress' passwords that when used in place of their normal password will execute arbitrary scripts.
This functionality could be used to allow someone pressed to give a password under coercion to provide a password that grants access but in the background runs scripts to clean up sensitive data, close connections to other networks to limit lateral movement, and/or to send off a notification or alert (potentially one with detailed information like location, visible wifi hot-spots, a picture from the camera, a link to a stream from the microphone, etc). You could even spawn a process to remove the pam_duress module so the threat actor won't be able to see if the duress module was available.
#security #Linux #Arch #Debian
A Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) which allows the establishment of alternate passwords that can be used to perform actions to clear sensitive data, notify IT/Security staff, close off sensit...GitHub
One useful addition to this would be a password that does an immediate wipe.
There are situations where that is indeed what you want, while that is extremely conspicuous, if the wipe is irreversible, there isn't much that your captors can do about it afterwards, and it's an option that should be available to users.
For systems that store their disk encryption key in a TPM, you could do this by just destroying the key (though I'm not sure whether PAM would even run in an encrypted disk scenario, I know far too little about how this works on Linux specifically).
I think AI music usage falls into a few different camps.
1. The people that give a random prompt, hit generate and say 'I wrote a thing.' No. No you did not.
2. The people that spend time crafting lyrics and sculpting the AI the way they want, and get amazing results just the way they imagined.
3. The other group of people (me included) who feed it my own music and get it to remix/reboot/reimagine whatever you want to call it, my music in entirely different ways.
Sometimes I'll then take that back to Logic and replay the bits I like and change the bits I don't.
AI in the case of numbers 2 and 3 is a tool then, not a 'be all and end all' bandaid. It should not be that.
The people that hate AI hate it because all the number oners break it for the rest of us, those who care about what we're doing, our craft, our joy, and our care and attention to detail.
That, at least, is my take on it.
Happy to be told otherwise.
"Furious AI Users Say Their Prompts Are Being Plagiarized."
Even if we set aside that this is a complaint about plagiarizing the use of a technology that is LITERALLY MADE OF PLAGIARISM, consider:
Say I write up how I made a cool piece of art in some app; if you follow the same steps, do I somehow own your output? And hell, that's not even what this is—it's more like someone posted their Google search terms or sandwich order, and are now mad others are using them.
futurism.com/artificial-intell…
A self-described AI ambassador is in shambles after she says other AI prompters have been plagiarizing her instructions.Joe Wilkins (Futurism)
People complaining about AI prompt plagiarism:
"I enjoy ordering a Jimmy John's BLT with no mayo."
[someone else orders a BLT with no mayo]
"How dare you! THIEF!"
"Max, that's not fair. Writing a good AI prompt takes real work."
Yes, I agree. When you use AI you are taking real work.
Sexual deepfakes on X show need for Canadian online regulator, advocates say
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Our Minister of Slop is an incompetent twat. And up the food chain the one that keep him in that unneeded position.
Evan Solomon says NO to sexual deepfakes, UNLESS they're on X... then, it's A-OK?!?!?
WHO DOES EVAN SOLOMON WORK FOR?!?!?
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