RE: https://mast.eu.org/@aloxe/117485556424191517
I would like to point out that there's also @remi who does the RPM PHP packaging and lot of other work for the PHP ecosystem and my work would be much harder without his work.
AfD-Mitglieder und rechte Streamer haben sich für heute angekündigt, um das Team der Panda-Apotheke unter Druck zu setzen.
Ab 15:30 Uhr gibt es angemeldeten Gegenprotest bei der Apotheke. Kommt vorbei und zeigt der AfD, dass in Bielefeld ihre Hetze keinen Platz hat!
"And just go straight in like you're going to stab it. And barely touch it...barely touch it." -- Bob Ross
Please stop anthropomorphizing AI executives.
They're not sentient and they can't actually think. They just predict the next token using statistical patterns scraped from LinkedIn, X and the Financial Times. The apparent "understanding" is simply a parlor trick: They produce text strings that *sound* plausible, but they don't actually have any understanding of the world.
I'll grant that they became a lot more technically impressive when Reinforcement Learning from Investor Sentiment pipelines were introduced, but fundamentally they're still just stochastic bullshit generators. Running them in a loop and giving them access to the internet will end up being the most expensive mistake in the history of technology.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@tazgetroete/117480876989244033
Ein Gesetzesbrecher, der lügt und Geschichten erfindet… wer hätte das gedacht, liebe CDU, als ihr #Dobrindt ins Amt gewählt habt?
Man muss Dobrindt und Springer als misstrauenswürdige Quellen einstufen. Egal was sie behaupten, auch wenn es noch so glaubwürdig erscheinen mag, man muss es aufwändig prüfen und Hintergrundinformationen einholen, bevor man deren Nachrichten verbreitet. Sie könnten erlogen sein und Lügen sollte niemand verbreiten. Schon gar nicht sollte man Lügen in Ämter wählen.
The team at @fosstodon.org/@ThePSF are looking for a developer in residence to work on CPython.
They are looking for someone to enable, strengthen and organise work of new and existing volunteers.
Global remote role, to $170K, apply by Nov 19
https://pythonsoftwarefoundation.applytojob.com/apply/or9un7DlwI/CPython-Developer-In-Residence
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actually, 4 is a very hard to guess number, and is secure from modern attacks
Ursula K. Le Guin was born on this day on October 21, 1929 in #Berkeley, #California
#OnThisDay ##UrsulaLeGuin #writers #poets #birthdays
hey. after about 17 months at Carbon Robotics, I got laid off with several dozen other people last week with no warning. if you know of web development roles at places in the tech industry that are not a soul-sucking nightmare (a dying breed) please get in touch: https://gameboat.org/resume/
this piece of shit is trying to get his sister to submit to a mental exam during the case https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69520118/altman-v-altman/
Same playbook as when his AI convinces a teenager to kill himself, pull out the old "It's such a shame some people have mental problems 😔" card
Christ what a fucking monster
- Trump has purchased a voting machine and orders CISA to hack it
- Instances of votes flipping to MAGA all over the country start happening
There are only two dots here folks please I am fucking begging you to connect them.
Bitte unterstützt sie gegen die Drohungen durch die #AfD
"Im Grunde hat es gezeigt, wie gefährdet unsere Demokratie schon ist, wenn ich in meiner kleinen Apotheke sagen kann, ich mag die AfD nicht. Wenn ich deshalb bedroht werde."
Elisabeth Kutter, Apothekerin
https://www1.wdr.de/nrw/bielefeld/apothekerin-bielefeld-afd-infostand-100.html
Saying "nobody should be forced to use LLMs" is like saying "if you don't like tobacco, don't smoke it" on an airplane where people are smoking tobacco.
@pathunstrom A couple of years ago, I was brought in as a moderator to help de-fascist a community that had practically turned into 4chan, in one of the most fundamentally-abuse-attracting and difficult-to-moderate categories of community (privacy/security-related).
The policy was set as "no fascists, no alt-right, nothing that looks like it" and people would either get banned immediately (if clearly intentionally abusive) or get a warning otherwise that they were expected to take seriously (doubling down would be grounds for a ban). Every ban was permanent but revocable if someone showed genuine reflection and commitment to do better - this sometimes took minutes, sometimes months or even longer, sometimes never.
Randos complained for months. "You just call everyone a nazi", "how do you define fascist then", "you're being unreasonable", "the alt right aren't fascists", and so on, and so forth. Without exception, the ones complaining about it the most were the ones who already had a track prior record of being an asshole in different ways. A lot of the bans were the result of brigading attempts from, well, fascists who objected to being pushed out, pretending to be 'new users' and mysteriously immediately knowing about previous bans that happened before they joined.
It took a while, but they eventually gave up. The result was a pleasant community to be in, unusually pleasant for a privacy/security community. I haven't been around there for quite a while now, but my understanding is that it's still a nice place to this day.
"No fascists allowed" works, even under the worst conditions, and the "no, seriously, this is not up for debate, the moderator decides" is a critical component of making it work.
ich meine es komplett ernst wenn ich sage: französische protestkultur zum weltkulturerbe erklären. diese völlige selbstsicherheit der bevölkerung, dass ihr zusteht das land lahmzulegen, statt lieb bitte und danke zu sagen, weil man mal für fünf stunden ein paar schilder in die luft halten darf.
Ein guter Kommentar zu den Protesten und Riots in Frankreich bei @tazgetroete
there is a lot of talk about autistic self-advocacy and it's crucial without a doubt.
and having allies is hugely important as well.
not to speak over us, not to dictate to us - but to support us
it pains me to see this narrative of us vs them taking over the discourse