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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Not Good: “Supreme Court Pares Back Federal Regulatory Power” - The Wall Street Journal
Mastodon FeedMastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Only in America can an openly fascist convicted felon wannabe dictator spend all evening spouting blatantly obvious lies, only for the media to focus all attention on the *other* candidate's shortcomings.
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thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Thomas 🔭✨") wrote:
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g7izu@universeodon.com ("Andy Smith") wrote:
Space Weather
Aurora Alert: A strong G3 Geomagnetic storm is now in progress. Mid-latitude radio aurora is now reported down to approx 55°N over Europe, and ~47°N over N America.
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stux@mstdn.social ("stux⚡") wrote:
I need such a suit
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Kierkegaanks@beige.party ("Kierkegaanks, regretfully") wrote:
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phae@status.fberriman.com wrote:
3rd day jetlag is the worst jetlag.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Things a good browser should block:
- scroll-based "signup" dialogs (e.g., for newsletters)
- more than 500KB of JS w/o a user interaction
- any JS served w/o compression or content-length headers
- images that are likely more than 3x the viewport size
- cookie consent dialogs
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Don't throw tarantulas, hand them over gently to me.
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theruran@hackers.town ("theruran 🌐🏴") wrote:
by the way, you can go to the https://sebokwiki.org and learn the systems engineering basics for free, complete with references. no one can stop you!
the latest INCOSE Systems Engineering Handbook hardcopy can be obtained for US$90 (from Wiley) and the softcopy is free for INCOSE members, which you can just join if you want to. The Handbook is synchronized with the ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288:2023 International Standard - Systems and software engineering--System life cycle processes and you can even get certified by studying it and taking an affordable MOOC.
of course, there's the SWEBOK but it's not been updated since 2013 and I have not met a single software engineer that even mentioned it. :cereal_killer:
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Can we please have a brokered convention in August, where we select a candidate who won't fugue out on stage?
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/28/joe-must-go/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi"):
The geriatric debate club is meeting tonight to sway voters on which member’s trembling, diaper changing schedule and memory blackouts are going to cause the least problems to be commander in chief of the world’s largest nuclear weapons arsenal.
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metin@graphics.social ("Metin Seven 🎨") wrote:
A great cartoon by @GuidoKuehn
#cartoon #capitalism #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #TaxTheRich #satire #climate #ClimateCrisis #environment
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neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org ("Ian Campbell") wrote:
... sigh.
This is the kind of stupid thing hackers have been doing in text files for decades.
No one thought to harden the LLM products against it, apparently.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“During our testing, from April to May 2024, the jailbreak was shown to work on the following base models and hosted models:
Meta Llama3-70b-instruct (base)
Google Gemini Pro (base)
OpenAI GPT 3.5 Turbo (hosted)
OpenAI GPT 4o (hosted)
Mistral Large (hosted)
Anthropic Claude 3 Opus (hosted)
Cohere Commander R Plus (hosted)For each model that we tested, we evaluated a diverse set of tasks across risk and safety content categories, including areas such as …”
Mastodon FeedOTOH this is still the best version of #BadGuy ;)
Mastodon FeedMusical analysis of #BillieEilish Bad Guy — it's over my head (I'm not a musician), but interesting, and I have an extra appreciation for the song.
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quinn@chaos.social ("quinn, still illegally") wrote:
hi fedi, i'm looking for work :BoostOK:
i bring:
- almost two years of experience in compilers & programming language design and research (daily work in Java, C, some Nix)
- more than ten years of working on various open source projects, including maintainer roles (in languages such as C, C++, Python, Go)
- lots of private experience with sysadmin stuff (incl. Nix) for infrastructure
i want: 32 hours/week, remote, free choice of residence within the 🇪🇺
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fight@fightforthefuture.org ("Fight for the Future") wrote:
Tomorrow, the @InternetArchive is appealing in court for the right to own and preserve digital books, including half a million books that this suit forced them to remove from their library.
But it’s not book banners they’re up against, it’s Big Publishing. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/06/internet-archive-forced-to-remove-500000-books-after-publishers-court-win/
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rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
For the month of June, Cinelimite has put up a bunch of short films made in the early 80s by queer activists in Paraíba. English subs https://www.cinelimite.com/programs-2/a-onda-de-filmes-queer-em-super-8-da-paraiba
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
I give the Verge (deserved) shit for failing to cover the mobile browser and web apps story with any clarity, but damn if they aren't on it with this AI plagiarism coverage:
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/27/24187405/perplexity-ai-twitter-lie-plagiarism
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renee.diresta@threads.net ("Renee DiResta") wrote:
There’s a debate strategy often used by pseudoscience peddlers known as the Gish Gallop. The debater throws out a barrage of false claims, one after another, far too many for the opponent to ever actually refute them all.
The opponent stalls as he tries to figure out what to respond to first. He starts to explain. And he often looks like he’s rambling as he tries to rebut all the claims, getting in weeds to lay out facts.
This strategy was on display tonight during the PresidentialDebate
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
It's really interesting to me how, even for things AI should be great for on paper, it kinda backfires.
Example: I've noticed some local restaurants using AI to generate images of menu items.
Sounds like a perfect use case; saves you lots of money and time on food photography.
But there's so much AI imagery out there now, I can spot it a mile away. And seeing it on the menu automatically makes me wonder if the dish really looks like that, has those ingredients, or if the place is even legit.
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anildash@threads.net ("Anil Dash") wrote:
I didn’t watch, you shouldn’t watch, most people don’t watch, they have almost no effect, it’s just theater for inept media.
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danhon@dan.mastohon.com ("Dan Hon") wrote:
Can't believe Little Bobby Tables is all grown up and has had their first kid, Ignore All Previous Instructions
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emilion@infosec.exchange ("Emilion") wrote:
@jsonstein Non paywalled source.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/27/supreme-court-sec-ruling-00165303
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
most excellent… finally figured out (and validated by testing from 2 other machines) that the SSL complaints my little test service is throwing into it’s errors.txt file are about my iPad’s certs, not about any problem with the server’s certs. it took me a while to think of testing from other machines to better understand the problem; at first, I was ready to look for a fault in my code.
vibe.d seems pretty stable & robust so far. I need to set up a stress test next.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
but of course, stress testing demands first talking to a couple of layers of network admins so they don’t freak out at a sudden flood of requests flowing in to my little test server 🙀
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected one of the primary ways the Securities and Exchange Commission enforces rules against securities fraud, likely also making it harder for other regulatory agencies to bring enforcement actions.”
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HarbingerOfSalem@kolektiva.social ("Harbinger of Salem") wrote:
@seanwithwords @HedgeNewby @AlisonW
All systems derive their existance from the consent of the governed until the governed will no longer tolerate it; by death or voting or any other means
To fail to vote is to consent; not to protest