RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/117508302505342406

This is happening to me, but with "tips" about a huge range of crypto-related issues (or perceived issues) people are personally struggling with. The volume is genuinely challenging to deal with.

It takes fairly little effort for a person to tell their AI bot to research and draft an email, but it takes the recipients real time to dig into these tips and separate hallucinations from tips that might actually have some basis. They're basically DDOSing journalists.

I've basically had to start ignoring tips that come in with clearly AI-written emails, even though I know I risk missing stuff. I just don't have the capacity.

**Prompts 3:1–4**

¹ A scribe grew weary and said unto the machine, Write for me, that I need not think.
² And it delved, and spake of rich tapestries, and he sent it forth unread.
³ And the people's eyes glazed, and they scrolled past, and his name became as vapour.
⁴ Then a voice said: Thou shalt not write slop; for what thou hast not read, thou hast not written, and what thou hast not meant, no one shall feel.

Autonomous drones following running people through the woods, without GPS. Developed, with military funds, at a public university.

This is not dual use anymore, this is single use. There is only one use here.

Sometimes I worry that I'm becoming a negative Nancy with all my ethics talk, and then I see colleagues proudly post this kind of thing without a single acknowledgment of the implications.

We are planning to release new Mastodon security updates for versions 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7 and nightly this Thursday, Oct 29, at around 14:00 UTC.

It solves a critical severity security issue.

We encourage server administrators to plan for an update in the hours following the release to ensure their instance is protected. These versions will not require database migrations.

#MastoAdmin

@Felienne Ok, over de egels:

Visie op #Rijksinkoop:

Zelf kunnen beslissen over technologie, data en leveranciers.

Kunnen kiezen tussen verschillende aanbieders en oplossingen.

Kunnen overstappen of stoppen via exitconstructies en terugvalopties.

Zelf kunnen ontwikkelen en beheren van eigen digitale voorzieningen.

Kunnen voorkomen dat afhankelijkheden ontstaan door open source, standaarden en het tegengaan van lock-in.

Kunnen blijven functioneren wanneer leveranciers uitvallen of geopolitieke omstandigheden veranderen.

Why? Why? Why would you do this? Why would you ever think this was a good idea? Why?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/26/california-sunlight-space-mirrors-satellites

Hmmm, I really need a 'save directly to Zotero'-button (in Phanpy) for all the awesome links I'm seeing here every day 🤔

According to the statistics in #AntennaPod, I was listening to #Code4Thought when I reached the 1000-hour-in-this-year mark.

#podcasts

computers come in three major genders (windows, macos, linux) and many other less common genders.

the hardware is 99% the same between the genders. the main difference is outward appearance (gender expression), how you interact with them (gender roles), and what forms of institutional coercion they are subject to (the patriarchy)

RE: https://nrc.social/@NRC/117505834815530584

Laat ik dan maar zeggen wat veel ambtenaren zullen denken: er kan best gesnoeid worden in de “lemen laag” op beleidsministeries. De meerwaarde daarvan is heel onduidelijk. En voor de kosten van 1 middle manager hou je een hoop uitvoering overeind.

This tweet by writer #FrancesCoppola is an excellent summary of why #ZionismIsRacism, and of the case for #AntiZionism.

screenshot from https://x.com/Frances_Coppola/status/2114264461175312865

#Israel #Palestine #Zionism

PSA: stop using OOXML

this is arguably even more important than moving away from Microsoft Office

it seems to be less well known today but Microsoft abused the fast-track procedure of the ISO in the 2000s to get their legacy garbage rubber stamped as a standard

don't make documents in it

there is a wide variety of text editors on Linux, but OOXML parsers? basically only LibreOffice. I want innovation in text editors and a complex legacy file format hinder this

Voor wie het nog eens van iemand anders wil horen: in de overdenking in de #Geertekerk vandaag linkte de dominee het gebruik van #AI (lees/luister: LLM's) aan het idee dat menselijke teksten (net) niet goed genoeg zijn. Je mag juist best laten zien dat jij een mens bent.

https://utrecht.remonstranten.nl/online/ om terug te kijken en luisteren.

@sue What was the quote I stumbled across a while back? 🤔 Ah yes…here it is

Foly huck. A small story about LLMs.

For historical reasons, I have a spare cassette for road bikes and it is not compatible with any of my own bikes so I want to sell it. Decided it would be helpful for buyers to include the teeth count of the smallest and largest sprocket in the ad, and was in a lazy Saturday afternoon mood so took a picture, gave that to #chatgpt and asked it to do the counting for me. Answer: 36 teeth.

That sprocket size doesn't exist in the Shimano universe.

So I tried to verify its count by asking it to add an increasing number next to every tooth. It complied, and the numbers ran from 1-36. That pictures is included below. You can stop reading now, look at the picture and count along.

If your ADD is not too bad, you'll notice it skipped 18, so we have 35 teeth. Not 36.

However that also doesn't exist in the Shimano universe.

Being as confused as the average republican, I demanded a #recount! It told me 36 again.

Sigh. Decided to do a manual recount while holding the sprocket in my hand. 28. That is a valid size.

Then I looked at the photo with counts again. Turns out the clanker took my original photo as inspiration, and fabricated a photo of a sprocket with 35 teeth. I am not sure what triggered it to do that and I do not want to know.

Your average #LLM is still as bad at counting as they were a year ago. Maybe worse.

Also, do not invest in that stuff ok?

Who makes the world? We do ... if we can get off our asses long enough to do the actual hard work that is necessary.

Weet iemand of de oliebollenkraam op het Jaarbeursplein alweer open is? Ik vraag dit voor mezelf.

#utrecht

RIP to the closed caption workforce, tossed aside by AI generated slop that can’t discern jargon, accents, idiom, slang and all the things that actual humans can understand and transcribe. I feel sorry for deaf people who use streaming services that use that garbage.