I’d be more receptive to this (publication and) article and author (I’m still boosting it) if as an artist I weren’t so totally disgusted by their use of an AI generated image that harms the livelihood of creatives, to complain about AI harming the livelihood of tech people. Edit - If this was done by the publication without the authors input even worse.
Sometimes I wonder whether this is the result of well-meaning folk who don’t know what they’re doing. Other times I wonder whether there are deliberate attempts to poison and overwhelm the volunteer-driven, open, accessible, valuable-but-not-profitable Internet.
I don’t fear Skynet launching an all-out attack on mankind so much as I fear bots swarming all human IO like midges at an Irish camp site in July. Debilitation by irritation.
@isotopp @ArtHarg Wow. I thought it was terrible when my co-workers send me AI "solutions" for issues, but at least they tell me it's AI so I can ignore it.
An anonymous reader shares a report: Software vulnerability submissions generated by AI models have ushered in a "new era of slop security reports for open source" -- and the devs maintaining these projects wish bug hunters would rely less on results…
Ho notato che il server a.gup.pe risulta sospeso da puntarella ("responsabili di attacco DDoS a bida") e bida o silenziato da lucci.xyz e devianze ("Domain used for DOS attacks.") perché "Domain used for DOS attacks"
In realtà il server gup serve solo a creare gruppi activitypub e i suoi account sono tutti gruppi che (un po' come le vecchie liste di distribuzione) consentono agli utenti di fare conversazioni tematiche. Se ci sono account molesti (immagino sia soprattutto shitposting) da quel server è solo colpa dei singoli utenti che lo usano; dovrebbero perciò essere sospesi quei singoli utenti o al massimo i singoli gruppi
Per essere più chiari, l'admin di gup non gestisce i gruppi gup. E gli account gup.pe non possono spammare, ma al massimo sono gli account di altre istanze del Fediverso che li menzionano, menzionando altri utenti: basta bloccare loro!
Chiamare questo un attacco DdOS è quindi sbagliato.
Qui potrete trovare una spiegazione di come funziona il sistema di gruppi di gup.pe: a.gup.pe/
Come saprete io non amo particolarmente i gruppi gup.pe e preferisco utilizzare i gruppi Friendica (che funzionano praticamente allo stesso modo dei gruppi gup) oltre che i gruppi Lemmy e, in realtà, ne gestisco direttamente diversi, ma ritengo che anche i gruppi gup.pe siano un patrimonio importante per tutto il Fediverso e che quindi non dovrebbero essere mai bloccati.
Fatemi avere un riscontro e, se avete informazioni diverse da quelle che ho io, proprio per i motivi che ho spiegato sopra, sono comunque direttamente interessato a capire quali possono essere i rischi potenziali. Quindi per favore, fatemi sapere 😅
Day 10 - #adventOfIOSAccessibility. Toggles or UISwitches are often found separated from the label that precedes (and describes) them; with an unclear label; missing a value, trait, or hint; or even not being actionable at all.
In the 2021 movie Silk Road, at around 19:23-19:26 into the film we can see Ross Ulbricht, the lead character, write a program on his laptop that uses curl.
I wonder if there's any movie where they went as far as creating the user on some platform and ask the question (or write whatever) as is seen in the movie
S těžkým srdcem musím oznámit, že z důvodu nečekané životní situace (zdravotní) jsem nucen prodat svůj BitcoinEshop. E-shop je plně funkční a připravený k převzetí.
Prosím, aby mě vážní zájemci kontaktovali na kryptoguru@email.cz.
I’ve replaced all the comments in my robots.txt file with a more readable and detailed web page on scrapers I block. It includes info on the multiple blocking-approaches and criteria I use, commonly-blocked scrapers I allow, and more fact-checking than most of the more comprehensive alternatives.
Here’s my thought process when deciding whether to block a scraper from seirdy.one, the scrapers I block, the scrapers I allow, and the ways I block them.
yo, I'm looking into additional things to block in the robots.txt for my website (basing a decent bit of it off of yours, plus any additional stuff I find), and I felt like I'd want to just throw this your way
I'm personally planning to block everything from the first url, as well as the following from the second url
all AI related tools
several of the "Intelligence Gatherers"
possibly several of the "Scrapers"
I would also like to note, BLEXBot is listed on the second site as an "SEO Crawler" and it indicates that it does not believe it is AI-related nvm, I mis-remembered and thought you had blocked it due to it being AI-related
do you have some examples of things that are incorrect?
there are several on that list that would probably be good to block, which you don't block (unsure if they're actually used in practice anymore or if they're just historical), such as
@solonovamax Several of those are LLM clients but not actually used to train LLMs. They are search crawlers used to power links in search engines that use third-party pre-trained LLMs. I decided that opting out of those only stops my site from being cited, but doesn’t stop LLM training.
@solonovamax I describe my criteria in the “Criteria for bad-bot blocking” section, and elaborate in “Exceptions: scrapers I allow, despite meeting some block-criteria”
Property lists are essentially XML files with a .plist extension. Here's how to edit them using the command line in the macOS Terminal app. appleinsider.com/articles/24/1…
Is anyone looking at levels of volunteer activity in digital public goods like Wikipedia, Reddit, and stackoverflow and whether exploitation of user content is associated with a decline in human participation?
As companies use ai to convert communal public goods into AI products, while extracting value from them, we could see a general decline in contributions that could lead to ecosystem collapse. Would love to see in depth scholarship wrestling with this. Cc @mako
Today NYC Mayor Eric Adams said he hoped recent events would accelerate implementation of a mask ban.
Reminder: There is no evidence that mask bans stop crime. Mask bans make cities more unsafe because preventing people from wearing masks increases the spread of diseases.
I'm going to geek out about a pop song. Something randomly made me think of the song "Lights" by Ellie Goulding (first released in 2010, then as a single in 2011). Yes, it has the same four-chord sequence through pretty much the whole song. So if you're going to do that, it's important to have variation in the arrangement, and especially a good build-up. The single version really ruins this IMO. Compare:
Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupLights · Ellie GouldingBright Lights℗ 2010 Polydor Ltd. (UK)Released on: 2010-01-01Associated Performer, Vocals,...
The difference in length is only 35 seconds. And why was 4 minutes 5 seconds deemed too long for radio anyway? But to shave off those 35 seconds, they condensed the song too much for my taste.
For example, the single version brings in the bass and four-on-the-floor kick drum as soon as the vocal starts, and adds the snare halfway through the first verse. The album version doesn't start the kick drum until halfway through the first chorus, and saves the snare until the second verse.
But the way they actually eliminated those 35 seconds was by shortening both the bridge and ending, and pushing elements of both to earlier in the song. The cello (or whatever that instrument is) from the original bridge is moved into the latter half of the second verse, where it now has to compete with the vocal, and the breakdown from the original bridge is gone. Then one of the "home, home" lines from the ending is moved into what's left of the bridge.
I wonder what exactly motivated those changes to the single version of the song. I guess the point of bringing in the full rhythm section faster would be to sell the song to the listener faster. But why shorten the bridge and ending, and move sections of both into earlier parts of the song? Did someone determine that there was actually too much bridge and ending in the original?
And would I think there was something amiss if I had never heard the original? Probably not.
@pesh I think I only knew about the album version because the local radio station where I first heard the song (in 2017) played that version, probably by mistake. That station also played non-standard mixes of some other songs. The operations of that independently owned station seemed, on the whole, only semi-competent. Yet I was cheering for it as the underdog. I might do a whole thread on that for the station's would-be 10th anniversary early next year.
Things that are remixed for radio are usually bad. I'm glad that with the advent of streaming services, that practice seems to be going away a bit. And then there's the song Better in Time by Leona Lewis, which had a single version that has a much better build-up and now seems to have supplanted the album version, but I remember struggling to find it in good quality in 2008. Album version (which is now the more obscure one): youtube.com/watch?v=mFRo-7113t… New/single version: youtube.com/watch?v=qSxyffSB7w…
LyricsOooh ooohHmmmmhIt's been the longest winter without youI didn't know where to turn toSee somehow I can't forget youAfter all that we've been throughGoi...
There have been some major changes with more to come. One thing that will affect existing users is, there is no longer a fenrir-daemon separate from the main launcher. It now launches in the background using just "fenrir" with the old option to run in the foreground now a flag. So to launch and keep Fenrir in the foreground:
fenrir -f
This means those relying on service files for systemd or runit, you will need to update your service file for the new version. The fenrir-git package available from the AUR is already updated for the new version. If you use a package manager such as yay to install and update fenrir, you may want to remove the existing cached package before upgrading:
rm -rf ~/.cache/yay/fenrir-git
yay -S fenrir-git
There will be a stable release coming hopefully later this month. Thee has been lots of refactoring and code cleanup over the last couple weeks.
If you are interested in contributing to Fenrir, pull requests are welcome or contact me if you would like to be added directly to the project. Both python coders and documentation writers are needed.
The manhunt for the United Healthcare shooter demonstrates something that I've tried to explain many times over the years, and that data shows is true: increasing police presence in a Black neighbourhood, usually *increases* the murder rate in that n…
Storm Dragon pushed changes to the testing branch of the audiogame-manager project Small bug fix. Hopefully working now for creating the settings.dat file.
Storm Dragon pushed changes to the testing branch of the audiogame-manager project I think I found a way to enter the user name for Side Parfty score boards.
Live album "XX Years Of Steel" out this Friday!Order here: https://lnk.to/NoS-XX-YearsOfSteelMixed by Christian Ice at Temple of Noise StudiosVideo by LyricV...
It brings a new Always-On-Display mode, a weather forecast app, a dice rolling app, persistent alarm and many other features, improvements and bug fixes!
We haven't released a new version of InfiniTime for almost a year, so we are very happy to release InfiniTime 1.15.0 today! The list of changes is quite impressive! I would like to thank everyone w...
nice way to integrate it into the ui. I have never seen "pull down to filter", is that a signal original ui pattern or did other apps use pull down for something different than refresh before?
@IzzyOnDroid I even took the pain to understand which blocks were unmovable and why, so I could manually move them to the beginning of the disk. After three failed attempts, my system could boot again… 🙈
@ptesarik dedication was using the Norton Utilities to localize a learning app by editing its HEX code, making sure the translated strings exactly fit into the space defined by the original locale 🙈 Those were the days, back in the 90s… I even remember the name of that learning game: "Googol Math Games" – eek, they are still around? Wow: dosgames.com/game/googol-math-… (I doubt my translation can be found anywhere, though – that was 1993/94 and done for a kid, no copy kept)
@IzzyOnDroid Nah, true dedication was when I disassembled SpartaDOS 3.0, printed it out and spent my summer holiday reading it and adding comments. That's how I stayed with my computer in a place without electricity.
* QuickEdit: a basic and lightweight Photo Editor 🛡️ * TriliumDroid: cross-platform hierarchical note taking app, for large personal knowledge bases 🛡️
And we reached a new milestone a few weeks earlier than expected: 30% of the apps at #IzzyOnDroid are now #reproducibleBuilds 🥳
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
Your explanation for each and every contradiction here must have better explanatory power than "Well, maybe it just got written down wrong or something." (Re...
eBay created the Include—Accessibility Annotations Figma plugin to help designers with accessibility considerations early in their project, and to help with designer-developer collaboration. It is available to the Figma community and free.
Raspberry Pi 500 updates sub-$100 desktop PC with more speed, optional monitor New Pi 5-powered PC also launches with optional portable 1080p monitor. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/1…
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I don’t fear Skynet launching an all-out attack on mankind so much as I fear bots swarming all human IO like midges at an Irish camp site in July. Debilitation by irritation.
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There is no well-meaning any more. We have monetized bug reports with bug bounties, and then even externalized that with orgs such as Hacker One.
Out there is a bunch of people thinking they can make a living off GenAI writing hacker bounties for them.
@bagder
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