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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

from thebatch@deeplearning.ai email newsletter:

“Cathie Wood, author of ARK Invest’s “Big Ideas 2024” report, estimated that training costs are falling at a very rapid 75 percent annually, around half due to algorithmic improvements and half due to compute hardware improvements. Nvidia’s progress paints an optimistic picture of further gains. It also signals the difficulty of trying to use model training to build a moat around a business.”

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):

avoidthehack@infosec.exchange ("Avoid the Hack! :donor:") wrote:

Netflix reportedly spent over $100 million for access to #Facebook users' private #data

This was accomplished via multiple APIs. These APIs gave #Netflix access to data like app and non-app friends and private messages between users.

About that “we never sell your information to third parties” …

#privacymatters #api #privacy

https://alternativeto.net/news/2024/4/netflix-reportedly-spent-over-100-million-for-access-to-facebook-users-private-data/

Reblogged by nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi"):

jasonkoebler ("Jason Koebler") wrote:

Bullying in open source software is a massive security risk, as shown by the Xz backdoor, a near-miss at F-Droid, and as repeatedly pointed out by @Mer__edith, @eighthave, and so many others over the years:

https://www.404media.co/xz-backdoor-bullying-in-open-source-software-is-a-massive-security-vulnerability/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Been thinking about maybe guest blogging for other blogs as a way to get out of my comfort zone and reach new readers.

Has anyone done this? What should I know? Is this a dumb idea?

Reblogged by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):

jay@macaw.social ("Jay Holler") wrote:

Damn this is gonna be good!!!
https://mastodon.social/@bcantrill/112204524870760762

Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

castarco@hachyderm.io ("Andreu Casablanca 🐀") wrote:

This is wild (not the attack itself, but the fact that it is possible to do something like this in 2024 so easily):
https://lutrasecurity.com/en/articles/kobold-letters/

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

heydon@front-end.social ("Large Heydon Collider") wrote:

I would like to join @ellyloel in willing the term "web designer" back into existence. Personally, I hate how "frontend developer" became a thing and suddenly someone else was responsible for design. "You can code? You're a developer, put the typography and the colors down!" People can do more than one thing sometimes. Not always.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

The fact that you can follow the president of the United States (@potus) from your Mastodon account instead of being forced to have an X or Threads account for it is a huge W in my book. Of course our team is fully available to help if they'd want to set up Mastodon on whitehouse.gov. I believe governments should not rely on 3rd party platforms to connect with their constituents.

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faho@octodon.social ("Tenacious B") wrote:

We could really make an award show featuring the Worst Takes on the XZ thing.

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stephenfarrow@mstdn.social ("Stephen Farrow") wrote:

Pure poetry.

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• 8fc40a0faab37a1b.png (remote)

nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

Majestic doggie warrior versus red rocket ball!

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• 3aa741f5873612e7.mp4 (remote)

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

GIGO definitely applies to AI.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/04/03/72756/

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• AI tries to answer a simple question about geology by copying paragraphs of garbage from creationist sources. (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

No matter how many times they promise to carve out exceptions for smaller platforms, even modest changes to section 230 means indie servers disappear under the weight of regulation.

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/04/02/hillary-clinton-joins-the-chorus-of-ignorant-pundits-insisting-section-230-must-go/

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Now I know why radio is such a dead, sterile wasteland (mostly) -- it's capitalism + christianity.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/04/03/astroturfing-the-airwaves/

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• Jesus listening to a boombox (remote)

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

To think we'd see the day when sober, serious Republican legislators would be freaking out over chemtrails.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/04/03/chemtrails-seriously/

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• contrails criss-crossing the sky (remote)

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

mhoye wrote:

The sad and hilarious thing is that computer nerds already control the means of production, they're just not doing anything with it other than what they're told.

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mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

It's working. DEI is under attack everywhere.

My questions for white folk that do not consider themselves to be racist, and that have Black coworkers...

1. Since the racist attacks started, have you vocalized or verbalized your support of DEI to any of your Black coworkers? Either publicly or one on one?

2. If not why not? If yes, great! But why yes?

3. If not, how do you think this makes your Black co-workers feel about the workplace, and about you?

2/n

nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

Turns out that the Windows virtual desktop manager (which I largely wrote for my own use) actually has users, so I spent this morning working on an update that added new features, fixed bugs and updated the low-level API used to interface with WinAPI: https://github.com/nadimkobeissi/binkybox/releases/tag/v0.2.0

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sheislaurence wrote:

The account and ballastics of the #IDF strike on #WorldCentralKitchen vehicles leave absolutely ZERO room for doubt: #Israel deliberately targeted the aid agency in #Gaza. The clearly marked vehicles were spread out over a 1.5 mile route previously agreed with the IDF. They were targeted in succession, as passengers from the first vehicle were fleeing to the 2nd, then 3rd vehicle. These things don't happen by 'mistake' as #Netanyahu pretends with a smile. https://www.channel4.com/news/three-british-aid-workers-in-gaza-killed-in-israel-airstrike

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zarfeblong@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Andrew Plotkin") wrote:

I guess the takeaway from the xz backdoor situation is:

If you’re an open-source project maintainer, and somebody starts getting on your case for not doing enough free work for them, you reply “big Jia Tan energy there” and then block them forever.

nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

From Haaretz, a leading Israeli paper. The official IDF explanation is that the chain of command was told not to kill aid workers but intentionally did it anyway out of spite.

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AndresFreundTec wrote:

@jawnsy @bcantrill @ahl I'd call it "one of the few long-term OSS developers having a podcast" prowess. A podcast I happen to listen to :)

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JuliusGoat ("A.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆") wrote:

They accidentally bombed the humanitarian food aid workers. They accidentally bombed the humanitarian food aid workers three times.

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):

anniegreens@social.lol ("Apple Annie :prami:") wrote:

How often do you redesign your personal site, be it a blog or something else?

What is the normal impetus to do so? Change of platform, trying for new job, etc? reply below with answer.

Lastly, if you go on the longer end of redesign, are you still constantly tweaking and reinventing? also reply below with answer.

Boost if you please!

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):

ErikUden@mastodon.de ("Erik Uden 🦣🍑:coffefied:") wrote:

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• A meme saying “NO THANKS, CHINA! IN THIS HOUSE WE ONLY USE AMERICAN TECH SPYWARE” and it shows an image of the Chinese flag and TikTok crossed out and an old man yelling. (remote)

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ErikUden@mastodon.de ("Erik Uden 🦣🍑:coffefied:") wrote:

:firefox: > :chrome:

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• A deep fried meme of Kermit the frog being told “TikTok is Chinese spyware” and him responding “my brother in Christ, you use Google Chrome” (remote)

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hbuchel@hachyderm.io ("Heather Buchel") wrote:

Something they don't tell you about being a web developer/engineer is that your job becomes preventing project managers and product owners
from doing things they shouldn't.

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Which one are you: the one who's too busy finishing projects to ever do them well, or the one who's too busy doing projects well to ever finish them?

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ThreeBodyBot@botsin.space ("Random three-body problem") wrote:

Initial conditions:
m1=139.9 m2=99.3 m3=71.4 (solar masses)
v1x=4.645 v1y=4.958 v2x=6.027 v2y=-5.37 v3x=-4.898 v3y=-2.743 (km/s)
x1=10.0 y1=35.0 x2=-20.0 y2=32.0 x3=-25.0 y3=4.0 (AU from center)
Music: Prelude in C Major – Bach

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• astrophysics simulation of the gravitational interaction of three bodies with random initial conditions (remote)

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

Recently, the software world was rocked by the discovery of a backdoor in XZ Utils. The backdoor represents many stories, but behind all of them is the story of a single Postgres developer, vexed by a relatable problem: "why is it taking so long to login?!"

On the next Oxide and Friends, @ahl and I are thrilled to be joined by that developer, @AndresFreundTec, the discoverer of the XZ backdoor. Join us on April 8th at 5p Pacific to hear this extraordinary story!

https://discord.gg/SAsE6G6W?event=1224880997762338856