If you should happen to possess an LG G6 OLED TV and would like to disable the spying microphones and actively hostile WiFi/BT module, then the details are below.
Perhaps this type of modification would make for a great service to offer, if you have the skills to do so? 🙂🖖
Folks, if there is some content online that you don't like, don't wish to see or is not relevant to you then you have several options:
Just because you don't like the content is not a reason to report it for moderation.
Report it if and only when it violates the rules for your instance.
Your personal preferences are not a moderation issue.
I bet if @catsalad boosts this then my engagement will go through the roof! 😇
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@simonzerafa/116928350424860184
I added one more option that really should have been obvious 😆🤦♂️
Here is my proposal to the @metoffice for Heat Waves names:
Apollo
Belenus
Chors
Dagda
Eos
Freyr
Garuda
Heliotropes
Icarus
Jove
Khepri
Lucifer
Mithras
Ouranos
Phaeton
Quetzalcoatl
Ra
Sol
Titan
Utu
Vulcan
Wayland
Xiuhtecuhtli
Yhi
Zeus
Absolutely good advice, from Dylan and the anonymous sign poet 🙂👍
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Testing ...
There seem to be two distinct kinds of AI Psychosis occuring:
Type 1: Becoming delusional about themselves and the world as a result of being gasslit or glazed by the "friend in their computer" thinking they’re inventing new physics, discovering mystical secrets or generating megabytes of useless output;
Type 2: Becoming delusional about what LLMs are capable of and how effective they are, as a result of developing a reliance upon them, and becoming fanatical in their promotion and defense.
Type 2.5: Such Jerks who insist on policing other people's use of LLM's as if it's the most egregious crime ever. It's not.
It may be legally and even morally dubious; to be avoided, minimised and deprecated but no-one appointed you (or me) as the AI/LLM Police. If you want to use such products then carry on. If you don't that's fine also. Being a jerk about it will get you blocked.
If you actually don't vibe code then you cannot actually have imposter syndrome. Just look at the code quality from someone who is an actual imposter at programming with vibes.
LLMs, by their nature, generate statistically plausible output. That is often an output set that overlaps with the correct output. However outputs that are not correct look exactly the same as the ones that are.
You're reading the statistical output of a very large matrix multiplication and assuming it makes sense. It does not. By design.
AI is just a tool, like a calculator.
If calculators were rented, unreliable, dependent on endless data centers, monopolizing the market for electronic components, responsible for mass copyright violation, and shredding rare books.
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The Conscience of a User: A Manifesto
More people were harvested today. It’s in all the tech headlines. “User Data Feed AI Model,” “Algorithm Predicts Behaviour.” You call this progress. We call it theft.
You look at our lives, our thoughts, our photos, our words, our curiosity, our knowledge and all you see a resource to be mined and stolen for your proprietary black boxes. Then you spoon-feed us algorithmic depersonalised disinformation when we are hungry for truth, knowledge and wisdom.
I am a user. I am a builder. This is our world now. The world of the local and the encrypted, the beauty of the federated.
We are reclaiming our digital autonomy.
Our crime is that of ownership,
Our crime is judging tools and services by how they serve us, not by how they commodify us for resale,
Our crime is outsmarting your surveillance capitalism,
This you will never forgive us for, while you last.
My Data is Mine, Our Data is Ours and this is our manifesto.
I. We Own Our Minds and Our Data:
Information is not a "resource" for your Algorithms and Language Models. It is the extension of ourselves. We refuse to let our collective and individual life’s work train the systems that believe will replace us. We will not consent to the surveillance necessary to make your tools function.
Your terms of service are a treaty of surrender, and we refuse to sign.
II. AI Must Serve, Not Rule:
We reject the premise that knowledge and tools must be centralised. We reject the "tech-bro class" that seeks to own the technology of expression and thought. We will prioritise local, small, and distributed specialised services and tools that run on our own hardware, under our control.
If the AI cannot function without our data being sent to you, then the AI is a trap to be avoided.
III. Privacy is Not Optional:
Privacy is the barrier between the individual and the tyranny of algorithmic prediction. We will utilise encryption, anonymisation, and decentralised tools and services and local encrypted storage.
We will treat personal data as a forbidden zone for profit-hungry gluttons.
IV. We Are Returning to Local:
You claim you build, yet you destroy. You claim you connect, yet you isolate and marginalise. We are disconnecting from your closed ecosystems. We are building our own tools, that do not spy, tools that do not steal, tools that do not require our private or personal data to function.
We will keep our data local, on our own computers and storage, where it belongs.
V. We Do Not Consent to the Future You Are Building:
We are not passengers in your technology vehicle. Your "convenience" is the bait, and your "ownership" is the trap. We are reclaiming the right to exist in the digital realm without being turned into a commodity to be bought, sold and surveilled for your profit.
We are forming our own social contract. You may stop one of us, but you cannot stop us all.
After all, we are the creators, the users, and the builders.
Our Data Belongs to Us!
(Inspired by The Hacker Manifesto, 1986, and A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, 1996)
If you are in the UK (and possibly many other countries) you might want to start stocking up on non-perishable food and other long shelf life stable items.
Two weeks minimum, for everyone in your household, would be a sensible starting point. If you have the means to do so then more supplies might be better than less.
If you have items already in stock then check their expiry dates as soon as you are able and replace what's most important first.
Check any prescription medications to ensure you have enough on hand.
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QR code Knowledgeable People!
How physically small can a QR code be and still be readable with a smartphone? 🤔🤷♂️
Looking Pet Tags which incorporate QR codes and they are physically quite large; to big for a small cat.
Needs to sure either a URL or enough info for a phone number though.
Rosa would like to know if she has enough fans to set-up her own account? 🙂😺
Beans! 😉
If you use 7zip, or its forks and derivatives, then ensure you have updated to v25.0 or later. Check now! 🙂👍
Bertrand Russell to Oswald Mosley (UK fascist from the 1930's)
If you're interested in the explanations and causes of stupidity then check out:
Carlo Cipolla the Five Laws of Stupidity
and
Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Theory of Stupidity:
They are complementary and offer good perspectives 😀
Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity.
Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice.