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w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:
A US Army Reserve soldier who died earlier this week while supporting State Department's security staff in Jerusalem has been identified as Lt. Col. Orlando Bandeira. "He was discovered unresponsive in his residence. Lt. Col.’s Bandeira’s death is under investigation," according to DoD.
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404mediaco ("404 Media") wrote:
The safeguards ElevenLabs put in to prevent people from cloning politician voices ahead of the election can be bypassed in 2 seconds, which we did accidentally and then were able to repeat over and over
https://www.404media.co/elevenlabs-block-on-cloning-bidens-voice-easily-bypassed/
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
running an example of training now from "The Burn Book" (cargo run --example guide)... amusing to see my processors all chortling away
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Regarding LB[1]: You can also find the article here:
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drwho@hackers.town ("The Doctor") wrote:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/05/health/cyberattack-healthcare-cash.html
"How did UnitedHealth (the parent of Change Healthcare) keep it out of the news so long? Or have these things become so common that they're no longer newsworthy?"
They are so common, they are no longer newsworthy.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Someone on TikTok left a comment that said people in the tech world use acronyms and jargon as weapons. 😅😅😅
Facts tho
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
reluctantly, I am getting to be impressed by Visual Studio Code and rust projects
Mastodon Feedcmiksche ("Christoph Miksche") wrote:
Has anybody good experience with Amazon, DPD or Hermes delivery?
Here in Germany these are the most unreliable delivery companies in my experience because they outsource the delivery to 3rd parties and don’t have the employees on their payroll…
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mweagle@hachyderm.io ("Matt Weagle") wrote:
Pt 2….
“ When I asked ChatGPT to write me a Quarkus PanacheEntity, I was initally delighted with how much code it produced. “Wow,” I thought, “it would have taken me ages to write that much code!” But when I looked closer at the code, I realised I wouldn’t have written that much code, because the code didn’t need to be there.”
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
I mean, dig the simplicity:
use rust_bert::pipelines::summarization::SummarizationModel;
let summarization_model = SummarizationModel::new(Default::default())?;
summarization_model.summarize(&input);now to think about hallucinations & the models’ ‘desire to please’
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
So there's a post going around from someone who used to work on Flutter denigrating web tech related to a product I've consulted on heavily.
It's hard to know if it's more disappointing that smart people are unwilling to peek under the hood when confirmation bias is more comforting, or if the shitty legacy of React on products is going to continue to tarnish the web's reputation for another decade.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
One day I will write a book on how to email colleagues.
Title: I'm not inside your head please start from the beginning
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Cmastication ("JD Long ✅") wrote:
Holy shit. Supply curves slope up! Huge if true.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
a side-facing summarization tool will be essential for what I am working on. dealing with a GPT is like dealing with a dementia patient, in that they do not remember the conversation, so one has to send the existing conversational context/history along with each and every request. this starts getting slow and expensive after a while, so summarization of context is needed at periodic breakpoints. rust-bert looks like a useful toolset...
https://guillaume-be.github.io/2020-11-21/generation_benchmarks
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Everyone shut up. Shut up Lutz.
I just found a website that showcases all the fake movies and TVs shows referenced in media. This includes all the shows-in-shows from #30Rock
Can't wait to watch Hard to Watch: Based on the Novel Stone Cold Bummer by Manipulate
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
New post, kind of weirdly personal-feeling one. I don't know if it'll land with you, but I hope it at least gives you something to consider.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:
IT'S DMA DAY! 🇪🇺 🎉🎉🎉
The EU's Digital Markets Act is now in force and to celebrate we're doing a deep dive into what's going to happen next.
Follow the link:
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/the-digital-markets-act-is-in-force-what-happens-now/
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
GitHub - huggingface/text-embeddings-inference: A blazing fast inference solution for text embeddings models
https://github.com/huggingface/text-embeddings-inference
this looks really interesting
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
mwl@io.mwl.io ("Michael W Lucas¹ :flan_mail:") wrote:
Holy crap, this essay.
"The wealth that exists in this country does not come from making things that people love... The structure built around these valuable creative products is bloated in ways that starve and imperil that creative process, but those privations also hold it in place."
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glennf@twit.social ("Glenn Fleishman") wrote:
Fascinated by how comics pass from an artist’s hand through to the printed page—or a display? I’ve spent years researching, interviewing, and developing *How Comics Were Made: A Visual History from the Drawing Board to the Printed Page*.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/glennf/how-comics-were-made?ref=3pmfzo
It’s now live on Kickstarter! If you’d like to a rich history of 130 years of newspaper cartooning told with original art, printing artifacts, and much more, help me make it a reality and get youself a copy!
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
nicklockwood ("Nick Lockwood") wrote:
Apple in 1984: what's the best possible user experience?
Apple in 2014: what's the user experience that will maximise our profits?
Apple in 2024: what's the worst possible user experience that doesn't technically violate EU law?
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Most of the money is going to people who already have lots of it. Even millionaire movie stars face the stress of wealth inequality!
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charlesroper@indieweb.social ("Charles Roper") wrote:
New programming font designed by Frere-Jones Type for Intel. Interesting.
"Identifying the typographically underserved low-vision developer audience, Frere-Jones Type designed the Intel One Mono typeface in partnership with the Intel Brand Team and VMLY&R, for maximum legibility to address developers' fatigue and eyestrain and reduce coding errors. A panel of low-vision and legally blind developers provided feedback at each stage of design."
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Of course, I post this link, but we now live in such an age that there is a smol worry in the back of my mind that somebody is going to reveal, "Surprise! That was TormentNexusGPT all along!" 😩
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
"AI is the junk food of meaning-making in the same way that social media is the junk food of human connection and junk food is, well, junk food."
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
You ever notice the era of people saying frontend is too complex overlaps almost perfectly with the era where everyone started using React?
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I found this small essay by Andrew Perfors on the topic of creation and meaning, especially as it relates to "AI", to be a thought provoking and worthwhile read. "The work of creation in the age of AI":
http://perfors.net/blog/creation-ai/
I need to set aside time to read the Walter Benjamin essay too.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Nowadays I'm embarrassed to have grown up in a Boeing town. They had a better reputation back then!
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
Techmeme@techhub.social wrote:
After IAB appeals, the EU's highest court rules that IAB Europe's advertising model uses personal data and is therefore subject to GDPR (Cynthia Kroet/Euronews)
https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/03/07/iab-europes-advertising-bidding-model-uses-personal-data-eu-court-rules
http://www.techmeme.com/240307/p18#a240307p18
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
dymaxion@infosec.exchange ("Eleanor Saitta") wrote:
I feel like the abusive mode of software business models is so embedded at this point that we have a generation of designers who don't actually know how to prioritize user utility — which was already complicated for folks to understand even before the enshittification started.
