All most AI detectors show is that their dataset was trained on human-written works. When someone bitches that my Linux and open-source stories were written by AI, I simply reply, "Where do you think the AI learned about Linux and open source?" With several thousand (Yes, thouand) stories on those subjects under my belt, I know exactly where AI learned its lessons.
Un pouco máis, establecerase no canto... e comezará a facer unha rede.😳
#CatsOfMastodon #catsofbluesky #catsuit #gatos #Кот #gatosdomastodon #gatosdomesticos #CatsOfFediverse #catsofpixelfed #кошка #кошачий #котят #Настроение #Кототерапия
This would straight up freak me the absolute F out 😂
Next up, a #DEFCON #VPN service sounds awesome. Like with email there is plenty of expertise on how to build VPNs. Technically it is a realistic goal, so let's investigate!
To be attractive to a large customer base you need to offer a lot of locations with an ever changing pool of addresses for when some get blocked by someone in the world.
Those two things mean you need a pool of providers and great automation playbooks where you can easily spin up and provision "secure" VPN gateways all over the world.
Because of the reliance on 3rd parties, unlike with email, you now have to worry about the legal concept of the 3rd party doctrine, so have some more lawyers ready to do battle.
Then two things happened, I spoke with two different people with experience in the VPN game. First someone who served as a CTO to a large VPN provider.
They spent all their time trying to save money, automate more, and respond to non-stop customer complaints from over seas business people. China would block some VPN addresses and they could no longer connect to their company back home and they needed to do that RIGHT NOW. So a sort of daily fire drill. The increasing VPN competition meant they had to keep spending on advertising and cost control.
The second person put the final nail in the coffin. They explained as far as they could tell about half of all VPN providers had ties to intelligence services. Either as fronts or investors or super friendly "partners". Iran, Russia, China, North Korea, some Middle Eastern countries, all play in this space.
This means half of the VPN providers have a different business model than the other half. Their goal is maximum people at the least cost to cast as large a monitoring net as possible, and revenue from paying customers doesn't have to actually cover your operating costs.
Building a #VPN service the right way would mean we would be more expensive, in fewer locations, and support only the strongest technologies - all things that would reduce your pool of potential customers.
So, like the private email idea, it was interesting to investigate, we learned a lot, and we will never enter the VPN market.
Instead we run free #Tor relays and support @torproject Please support Tor and other privacy technologies.
The fact that you think Haiti is a failed state and yet know as little as possible about how it got that way is an indictment on your country and its historical narrative.
The US was one of the countries most invested in ensuring the failure of the Haitian state from the very beginning—they still had slaves. They didn't want Haiti to become a beacon of hope.
The Haitians won one of the biggest underdog wars in modern history and were immediately pressured by the US and other White countries to pay reparations to the French.
Reparations. To their former masters. For the theft of their own bodies.
Haiti was immediately cut off economically at the knees. There is a long history of the US interfering with Haitian affairs ever since. When we say Black people can do anything, Haiti should be example number 1: because when we do amazing things, there's always White people who want to stop us.
Having a sleep after learning how to create value.
#goose #EgyptianGoose #BirdPhotography #Photography #BirdsOfFediverse
"Humans are to blame for climate change".
Really? Is a Bangladeshi seamstress to blame? Is a street child from a Brazilian favela to blame? Or perhaps a subsistence fisherman from Somalia or an elderly tribeswoman from Papua New Guinea?
Some quite specific humans are to blame.
The date is an interesting fact, but thr last sentence is the kicker....
One from last week I didn't get round to posting.
Another Studio Ghibli evening here
Oh, so now scraping data without permission is bad for AI training? 😂 how ironic 😉
Anthropic accuses Alibaba of using thousands fraudulent accounts to extract Claude AI model capabiliti and data. Anthropic urged Congress to penalise the companies behind scrapping attacks like this and to ramp up measures to prevent US tech from being stolen. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyklykn5dwo
How about Anthropic pay first for stolen books, and all content out there for its shity ai?
A brief guide to Unix editors:
- vi is a trap
- vim is Stockholm syndrome with keybindings
- neovim is a lifestyle brand
- emacs is a religion
- nano is a cry for help
- micro is nano with imposter syndrome
- helix is TikTok vim
- kakoune is vim for people who hate vim
Why Drawing Tablet Brands Won't Collaborate on Linux FLOSS Drivers
After investigation; Gaomon, XpPen, and Huion won't collaborate on open-source drivers because of outdated naming conventions. Here's what I learned from direct contact with their technical teams, and what I plan to do to move forward.
Link to article: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1154/why-drawing-tablet-brands-wont-collaborate-on-linux-floss-drivers
Summer solstice 2026, last night, ten minutes past sunset... on our way back from the very end of the valley.
#MountainMonday #LandscapePhotography #Video #Alps #Mountains #Lake #SummerSolstice
In this time of political instability and uncertainty, just a note that Larry has now outlasted six prime ministers.
Inside a 92-Year-Old Painter's NYC Studio
"Jacqueline Gourevitch is a painter who was born in France in 1933. She moved to New York in 1940 with her family in order to flee the holocaust. Her paintings are in the collections of The Museum of the City of New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, The National Academy Museum, and more."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnnBlc_BPeE #art #JacquelineGourevitch #artists #ArtistInResidence #NYC
How to create an account on #WSocial in 13 easy steps:
1️⃣ choose a username
2️⃣ choose a password
3️⃣ choose your interests
4️⃣ download the #WIdentity app to your phone (two options: Apple AppStore or Google Play Store)
5️⃣ scan a QR code
6️⃣ create a PIN code
optional: enable biometrics; re-enter PIN
7️⃣ choose whether you simply want to verify that you're human or if you also want to verify your name
8️⃣ choose the verification method (automatic photo review, request a manual review or scan your passport chip)
9️⃣ scan your passport's picture page
1️⃣0️⃣ scan your passport's chip
1️⃣1️⃣ take a selfie
1️⃣2️⃣ scan a QR code to link the W Identity to your W Social account
1️⃣3️⃣ enter your PIN code
Congratulations, you're verified*!
(* for two years)
Demonstration in all its simple glory here:
📺: https://inv.nadeko.net/Vcq4MiabpEQ
Please save this toot as reference if you ever hear somebody say that IT'S TOO COMPLICATED TO JOIN THE FEDIVERSE BECAUSE YOU NEED TO PICK A SERVER 🤡