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fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Saying an LLM is "AI" is like calling your Roomba a feng shui master because it pushed a chair around.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
NouranKhaledGh ("Nouran 🍉") wrote:

I am very scared. I don’t want to experience the displacement again.

Please always keep us in your thoughts.

#gaza #palestine

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

Just had a video call with @Aseelsehwel from Gaza. Like every family there, they need your help to survive.

Our governments have failed us, we are the only ones who can help. Your donations go directly to keeping families like Aseel’s alive as they struggle to survive Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people.

Please help Aseel and her family if you can.

https://chuffed.org/project/138285-help-sehwel-family-with-their-medical-treatment

Please boost.

#Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #FreePalestine #StopTheGenocide #StopIsrael #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #MutualAid #fediAid

aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

Every death in Palestine is a precious life lost forever and also a nail in the coffin of the humanity of the West.

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

Back in January when I pointed out the problems with continuing to actively use X, paying for a blue checkmark, praising Elon despite his egregious behavior, etc., Manton did two things:

1. He defended the heck out of this guy and told me how wrong I was in every possible way.

2. He removed this guy’s name from his website. 🤔

The name is still gone, but the business affiliation persists to this day. I wonder where exactly the line is drawn? Or if there even is a line.

#indieweb

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

Every now and then I check in on this guy to see if he’s maybe somehow changed. Hoping that his past bigotry was just some kind of fluke.

The last time I did it, he was praising Musk right after the Nazi salute. This time, he’s just sticking with regular racism. Unless you can give me a better explanation for what “not Polish” means here. (But please don’t insult yourself by trying — we all know what he means.)

But hey, what a lovely advertisement for Tesla! Totally on brand. #indieweb

aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

OK, so here’s likely the simplest possible example demonstrating:

• The same route, implemented as both a Kitten JavaScript Page (.page.js) and as a Kitten Markdown Page (.page.md)

• How to persist to the default Kitten JSDB¹ database.

(That first line with the nullish coalescing operator creates a “table” on the database with a default value for the count if it doesn’t already exist.)

https://kitten.small-web.org

¹ https://kitten.small-web.org/tutorials/persistence/

#Kitten #SmallWeb #web #dev #JavaScript #HTML #Markdown #example #comingSoon

aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

Alt text (continued due to Mastodon’s 1500 character limit on alt-text):

Source of Button and Reactions components:

/**
Simple Reactions control.

Broadcasts «reaction» event.
*/
function Button ({ Icon }) {
const iconName = Icon.name
return kitten.html`

export default function Reactions () {
return kitten.html`

aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

Coming soon (likely this afternoon, I’m writing tests and docs and updating examples as we speak)…

This is the sort of thing you’ll be able to do with Markdown pages. Just pop any arbitrary JavaScript you want in the new script block in the front matter and then import and use components as well as plain old JavaScript tagged template variable interpolation (not shown in this example) inside your Markdown.

The screen has all the code (sans the end of the last line of CSS and the closing tags for the and in the Reactions component, which I couldn’t make fit without reducing the font size) for the example you see in the browser with functional buttons that persist their state to Kitten’s built-in default database.

When I say all the code, I mean all the code. There is no scaffolding. Those two files are the only two files in the project.

https://kitten.small-web.org

#Kitten #SmallWeb #SmallTech #HTML #CSS #JavaScript #JS #Markdown #web #dev #comingSoon

aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

Here’s more information from the BDS movement on Microsoft (this is what the first link on the site leads to):

https://www.bdsmovement.net/microsoft

#BDS #Microsoft

aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

Rewriting the Windows section of Kitten’s installation instructions.

Update: it’s live now.

https://kitten.small-web.org/

#Kitten #SmallWeb #SmallTech #web #dev #HTML #CSS #JavaScript #NodeJS #FOSS #tech #Windows #Microsoft #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #BoycottDivestmentSanctions #BDS #FreePalestine

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
mhoye wrote:

Kinda flew under my radar, I guess, but head of the Technological Defense Division at the Israel National Cyber Directorate, whose name is Tom Artiom Alexandrovich, was arrested at Black Hat in a child predator sting operation.

He was allowed bail, fled to Israel and has since purged his social media presence.

Special relationship between the two countries, I guess. Common interests at the highest levels.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/israeli-official-arrest-nevada-release-b2809024.html

https://www.timesofisrael.com/senior-israeli-cyber-official-detained-in-las-vegas-as-part-of-child-solicitation-probe/

aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

We will continue to live within an unjust system as long perpetuating it is seen as what normal people do while fixing it is considered the purview of a select group of specialists.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
shoq ("Shoq") wrote:

Would anyone in Europe like to help me do a simple price comparison between common household purchases? I ‘m convinced the public has no understanding that pricing is not competitive, but predatory, and long ago ceased to have anything to do with real costs, only the producer’s share price. It’s time someone documented this fraud. Journalists don’t seem to be very interested in doing this kind of work.

Boosted by jwz:
th@v.st ("Trammell Hudson") wrote:

This end is called the Thagomizer, after the late Thag Simmons.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
RustyMiko@meow.social ("🔞 RustyMiko (commissions are OPEN)") wrote:

I'm so tired, lads.

https://fightchatcontrol.eu/
#chatcontrol

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
NouranKhaledGh ("Nouran 🍉") wrote:

Only the western part of Gaza City is left, crowded with about one million people.

One million souls stuck between the bombing and the sea, waiting for the unknown.

In the coming days the rest of Gaza City will be invaded

Will we be thrown into the sea?

#gaza #palestine

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
NouranKhaledGh ("Nouran 🍉") wrote:

I don't know why donations are getting slower by time 😢 We need your help all the time

We are living the toughest time ever, and we expect that the worst will begin soon 😞

Please don't ignore my request. If you would like to donate, kindly check the bio

Could you please share this post with your friends?

#gaza #palestine

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
NouranKhaledGh ("Nouran 🍉") wrote:

Our suffering is not only bombing, hunger, and displacement.

It is also that there is no real human life.

The humidity in Gaza reached 75% in the past days.

Can you imagine newborn babies and old people living in tents in the hot and heavy air?

This is insane!

Please help my family in the link in the bio 🇵🇸 :underheart:

#palestine #gaza

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Aseelsehwel@mas.to ("Aseelsehwel🇵🇸") wrote:

Gaza before the war

#gaza @palestine

Boosted by jwz:
hotdogsladies ("Merlin Mann") wrote:

I think about this video a lot.

Almost daily.

It's changed how I move out of frame.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FOzD4Sfgag

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Aseelsehwel@mas.to ("Aseelsehwel🇵🇸") wrote:

The occupation is expanding its destruction in the Al-Zeitoun neighborhood, issuing warnings to the areas of “Asqula” and its surroundings. People are being displaced at this very moment, at night, in a tragic scene! The occupation is destroying Gaza City and reducing it to ashes in silence, using a new method described as “silent erosion” @palestine #gazaunderattack #gaza #StopGenocide #war #genocide

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële"):
elilla@transmom.love ("elilla&, europe penetrator") wrote:

when email spam started getting too big a problem to handle by filtering keywords, the use of statistical methods to classify spam was a small revolution. you'd click "spam" or "not spam", and the computer would slowly learn to categorise the emails you in particular receive.

generative "AI" is nothing more than the cooptation of that mechanism on the spam side of the equation. capitalists now use very powerful computers to write spam that would statistically look like "not spam", therefore unfilterable by statistical methods.

I don't see any solution to this problem other than a "web of trust"–like system of human curation. like I trust the judgement of my friend Rebeca, Rebeca trusts Fátima, Fátima trusts the Gamer's Quarter magazine that she's read for years and knows the writing style of the authors. So when I open Gamer's Quarter the computer says, "probably human-written", according to my network of trust.

but we never managed to get PGP signatures to go mainstream, even when corporate phishing became a real-life problem. the sociology is always the crucial part, not the technology.

Boosted by jwz:
aby@aus.social ("Aby--not fast, just furious") wrote:

#KarlMarx #labubu #Communism #googlesearch

Boosted by jwz:
dashdsrdash@tilde.zone ("-𝚍𝚜𝚛- (has pronouns)") wrote:

@gvwilson

Wikipedia keeps a list of Musk's predictions about self-driving, with date of proclamation and range of predicted dates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%5Fof%5Fpredictions%5Ffor%5Fautonomous%5FTesla%5Fvehicles%5Fby%5FElon%5FMusk

It starts with the 2013 prediction of 90% of miles driven autonomously in 2016.

I wonder if they should keep a list of predictions about LLMs?

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

Seeing someone confidently claim on Hacker News that “everyone who works seriously with documentation prefers RST to Markdown.” Sure, Jan.

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq-Y7crQo44

Here's a lesson how everything is political, even Monte-Carlo algorithms.

There's now no way a politician would look at this and *not* want to actually use it as a redistricting tool. And this will harm people.

Reminds me of those sociopaths who treated Snowcrash as a blueprint rather than a cautionary tale.

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

If you thought someone should have been keeping track of all failed predictions of Elon Musk about autonomous driving, well here it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%5Fof%5Fpredictions%5Ffor%5Fautonomous%5FTesla%5Fvehicles%5Fby%5FElon%5FMusk

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Just ordered food delivery. The app is telling me "the courier is en route to your location" and now I feel like I'm in an action movie.

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Another Worldcon in the books. Thank you to everyone who said hello to me, came to one of my panels, attended my reading, came to get a book signed, or danced at my DJ set! Every single one of you is fabulous.