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one of my regrets is when i wrote that article on stylometric fingerprinting. i should have waited to get better at stylometric mimicry and focused on how i did that to improve anonymity and make it harder to connect alts (a bunch of custom vale.sh rules to remove style and conform to a boring technical style, then reintroducing a target’s style). instead i kind of spawned this community of people interested in using it for forensics.

i know they’ll see this post but idc at this point lmao

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Seirdy

on the other hand, LLM slop awareness has created more bad stylometric analysts than any blog post of mine ever could.

“this was clearly written by an LLM because it uses [very common vocabulary preferences]!”

There are clear tells, and LLMs like ChatGPT do have a set of (cringeworthy) emergent loose style guides, but I usually don’t rely on this sort of thing. I don’t have a linguistics background. I can claim to be good at fingerprinting avoidance but actual fingerprinting is too error prone.

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My BT Speak Pro (blazietech.com/bt-speak-pro), a pocket computer designed for blind people using the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4, consistently has an internal CPU temperature of around 50 degrees Celsius (as reported by "vcgencmd measure_temp") when mostly idle (that is, all that's happening is the SSH connection from my PC where I'm running that command). I wonder if that's normal for the Pi 4, and if it can be lowered, or if that's just a limitation of that SoC.
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Matt Campbell

@scruss I don't actually depend on this device for anything important; I bought it specifically to experiment with it. So as long as I don't brick it and can undo my changes, I'm happy to try things that might degrade performance, especially if they can reduce power consumption (which I assume is correlated with heat) and prolong battery life.
@Stewart Russell

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“You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We're all part of the same compost heap. We're all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”

When people call you a “snowflake” just remember they're quoting Fight Club.

Fight Club.

A satire written by a gay man about how male fragility causes men to destroy themselves, resent society, and become radicalized. And that Tyler Durden isn't the hero but a personification of the main character's mental illness.

His “snowflake” speech is a dig at how fascists use dehumanizing language to breed loyalty from insecure people.

#FightClub #MentalHealth #ToxicMasculinity #Psychology #MentalIllness #Snowflake

Tyler Durden in Fight Club
#MentalHealth #psychology #snowflake #toxicmasculinity #fightclub #mentalillness

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Google have really stolen an accessibility march on Apple with image descriptions with rich detail, built right into Talkback.
No more sharing to other apps, just focus on an image, single tap with three fingers and select Describe Image.
Browsing images on social media has never been so interesting or easy.
Here is an example, taken at Bewdly safari park:

A rhinoceros is standing in a grassy field in front of a wooden fence. The rhinoceros is facing the left of the image, its head is down and its long horn is visible. The rhinoceros is gray in color with a large, bulbous body and short, thick legs. The grass in the field is a vibrant green. The fence is made of brown wood and has a wire mesh on top. Beyond the fence, there are trees with green foliage. The image is taken from a slightly elevated angle. The time is 11:29.
Thank you Google. As a totally blind person from birth, I never thought I would be interested in pictures, I love them now.

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This thread highlights one of the things I don’t like the most about people on the fedi: the insufferable arrogance of people (usually tech folks) who think this place should stick to their narrow vision and openly disparage anything that deviates from from that.

The beauty of the fedi is we can literally do anything we want here. It doesn’t have to be one way or the other. There is enough space on the internet for us to have our own special little places.

The dogma I see from people complaining about not wanting ads, when you are literally promoting stuff in your bio or not wanting influencers when we boost the sentiments we agree with and saying everything should be free when being on the fedi costs money is so ridiculous it’s beginning to border on straight up bigotry. It’s ok if one doesn’t like these things, but fighting to keep them out of the fedi because of that is replicating the centralized environments we say we allegedly one to get away from.

Not having these things is not what differentiates the fedi from centralized platforms. Giving people the tools to build whatever experience they want safely is what is going to put this place over the top.

Anything less than that and it’s just recreating less featured versions of stuff we already have.

Mekka does a good job of laying out why basing the direction of the fedi based on what we don’t like is a losing game, especially when those dislikes are based on shallow and myopic points.

hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/113…

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Mad Villain

My dislikes of places like TikTok outpace my likes, but one of the things it has over the fedi is diversity of content, which is ridiculous to me considering it’s a closed platform with wonky curation.

I can fun stuff, serious stuff, comforting and informative stuff all together because it has a variety of people from all walks of life sharing what they think is interesting.

The fedi has always fought against this diversity while claiming this place is ‘better’ while refusing to acknowledge the tooling is worse, safety is an after thought in most places and most fedi projects are managed by untrustworthy people.

I believe in the fedi becoming the de facto experience on the web, but there is a lot of to do to get there. We still haven’t realized the potential of this place because, quite honestly the platforms we have at the moment are not good enough for use by people who don’t have extensive experience in tech. And that’s not even getting into the inherent bigotry of the fedi for anything not white.

This place still just lacks the basics when it comes to building dynamic communities.

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Just learned about Emissary, the social web toolkit.

At first glance, it looks like an extensible server that lets you define/extend ActivityPub types with your own, or with custom workflows/access rules.

Now I have to keep myself from going down a million rabbit holes with this. Tempted to dust off my old federated Steam/Itch game/digital project distribution idea, seems a whole lot more doable with something like Emissary than entirely from scratch.

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Think it's got a bit of a problem knowing what language I want.

[deangelisdf/write2audiobook: A powerful tool designed to convert text-based documents into engaging audiobooks. Perfect for anyone looking to make reading more accessible, whether for people with visual impairments or for those who simply prefer listening on the go.](github.com/deangelisdf/write2a…)


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🪞 Introducing Mirror Hall, an app to turn any Linux devices into a second wireless monitor!

We use semi-custom P2P screen sharing optimized for low latency. Only Mutter-based DEs are currently supported as *senders*, whereas all DEs work as receivers.

This is our first unstable release, sp please be kind and report issues. If you are an #ARM user, we would love your help testing the gstreamer pipeline on new phones!

notes.nokun.eu/post/2024-09-22…

#linux #opensource #foss #gnome #apps #gstreamer

#linux #foss #opensource #apps #gnome #arm #gstreamer
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Custom Maps Help

I've been playing around with Google Maps lately to create custom maps.

I don't like google but have no experience with any other apps and have never tried mapping of any sort before.

I'm trying to create a map layer(s) that has historic sites, stone circles, woodland, cemeteries, UNESCO sites etc. So if I'm traveling I can stop and see them.

I've created my own Google Map using lists of sites from Wikipedia. This has gone ok but leads to a lot of data cleansing and the functionality isn't great.

I've seen this website but it isn't as complete as the Wikipedia text lists ive imported: hmdb.org/

I'm completely new to this and have no experience. Are there any good resources out there for me to use or contribute to?

I'd like to de-google as much as possible.

P.S. do I need to enable developer mode or root my phone to install open street map now?

Thanks!

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NAME THE MAN. I will not be surprised to learn the man is a xenophobic piece of garbage and that this attack is a direct result of the CAQ policies of hate, fear, and division in this province.

3 men injured after man with knife walks into Montreal-area mosque: cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/ma… #cdnpoli #polcan #assnat #polQC #QCpoli #polMTL #MTLpoli #CAQASTROPHE

#cdnpoli #assnat #polqc #polmtl #caqastrophe #qcpoli #polcan #mtlpoli

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I just remembered the famous story about how the original ARM processor had extremely low power consumption by accident, so much so that it could run off leakage current. [1] I wonder if any recent ARM application processor (not a microcontroller, but something with an MMU that can run Linux) has power consumption that low. And if so, how does it fare on benchmarks?

[1] Hacker news thread with citations: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2…

The ARM chip was low power essentially by accident. The designers wanted to keep... | Hacker News

news.ycombinator.com

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Sometimes being a #HealthAndSafety / #IAQ advocate can feel a little lonely, but I'm an eternal optimistic – and not without reason.

When I bring air quality monitors to events, and make the data easy to access, people respond. People here at #MatrixConf have been monitoring the air quality, adjusting ventilation, and noting when things are concerning. I never even had to ask!

The trick is making the invisible visible, and giving people the tools to make informed decisions.

... and in case you're curious, here are the live data feeds for the event!

LAB Green: aranet.cloud/public/b7v923hk
LAB1: aranet.cloud/public/r52ec3cg
LAB3: aranet.cloud/public/wnh5g37q
LAB4: aranet.cloud/public/v8m3c3w3
Organizer Room: aranet.cloud/public/dx9vb3r9

A screenshot of a dashboard showing CO2 levels across five rooms in a conference. CO2 levels are running between 508 and 693, with some dramatic spikes here and there. (The REALLY dramatic spikes are when someone picked up the sensors to inspect them up close. Don't worry, our rooms never actually had 6000 ppm CO2! We maxed out at about 1500 ppm CO2 yesterday.)
#iaq #HealthAndSafety #matrixconf
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