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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
fblive@live.freebooters.uk ("Freebooters live") wrote:

I've gone live!

A bit of Divinity with Freebooters and friends

#owncast #streaming

https://live.freebooters.uk

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• gifv: Live stream preview

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

as i ponder that there are three basic variations of this algorithm, i feel like i may have chosen the wrong one.

i'm on my second go.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
courtcan ("Court Cantrell does not comply") wrote:

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@david%5Fchisnall/116379211678912109

This is one of the best descriptions of AI that I have read so far:

"It isn’t a technology, it’s a branding term, and it’s a branding term used almost exclusively for things that have no social benefit."

-- @david_chisnall

#NoAI
#AIisAScam

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
mia@front-end.social ("Mia (web luddite)") wrote:

the more we're all encouraged to optimize our time and deliver more output, the more i want to never hit a single metric again in my life.

i want to commit on a project and never launch it. i want to code slower, spend more time choosing colors, re-invent wheels that will never get used - not better, just different - taking as long as possible.

i want to spend my time imagining different ways to say a thing, just to enjoy saying it differently.

zero output, always only process forever

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
sashag@anarres.family ("Sasha :verifiedtransbian:") wrote:

Being called out has never hurt so much. You have no idea :blobcatpensive:

"Check in on your queer friends with ADHD/ AuDHD right now cuz their Justice Sensitivity combined with their Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria means that they are both acutely aware of how f*cked up things are *and* also feel personally responsible for fixing it *while* dealing with the helplessness inherent in the reality that individual action is not gonna do it this time. This means that their brains/bodies are going into overdrive and also that they are feeling guilty for any kind of self-care or joy in their lives because their brain weasels are telling them that resting or being happy while others cannot/are not is selfish. It's an exhausting state and we're not OK."

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

Anthropic set the project across open source projects and provided access and reported the vulns. Typically, you'd expect to see NCSCs spinning up advisories to patch high impact vulns, CISA telling orgs to patch etc etc etc.

What's actually happening is... uhm... a whole heap of nothing but people copy and pasting marketing about how cybersecurity is over.

It's not though, is it?

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

I don't think anybody actually watches videos any more, so here's MWT's core point -

The flagship and lead vuln in the research is a BSD vuln, it cost $20k to discover with Mythos. Anthropic only reached a crash, and the vuln class in 99%+ cases never reaches RCE, just crashes.

So.. cool.. you spent $20k of VC money to find a crash as the flagship vuln. But... uhm... that isn't the end of the world.

The proof is going to be if any of the open source vulns turn out to be important. So far:

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• gifv: 598a13f01e931fc8.mp4

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

I’ve had a bunch of people ask my thoughts on Anthropic’s Mythos. I’ve read the research paper they released and the numbers, and basically I agree with @malwaretech’s take. It’s marketing. The cybersecurity industry is historically very good at marketing cyber pearl harbour and the need to buy magic boxes.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Obviously, Best Viewed In (TM) to get the transitions and component demos to work.

adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁") wrote:

#SmolFedi v1.0.10 brings some improvements

• Correct tag parsing in post
• Change background color of posts, according to post visibility (Public/Unlisted/Direct)
• Possibility to delete a list in prefs page
• Confirm deletion of List anand Post
• Position page in the thread
• Better message if data directory is not writable
• Manage pinned posts
• Better nav menu (easier to click)
• Add links [ ^ ] to original instances of posts and profiles
• Add button to clear all notifications
• Adjust style for checkbox/radio in polls
• Cleaner post format selection in prefs
• Adjust post sanitization to render more basic html tags

https://codeberg.org/adele/smolfedi

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

i have had a very cool idea but i have absolutely no idea how to achieve it yet.

jwz wrote:

9 boosts, nine. Damn, you folks just do not appreciate my work here.

Boosted by jwz:
ghibli@beep.town ("Studio Gifli") wrote:

Attachments:

• gifv: I hit the pig!

Boosted by jwz:
rjblaskiewicz@mstdn.social ("Bob Blaskiewicz 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱") wrote:

1/3 of my class used AI on the most recent paper in my Critical Thinking class. This is a disaster. I caught one when it confidently made up a quote in an article I know better than anything I've ever written myself. I looked at the document history, and the whole paper appeared less than a minute after the document was created.

From now on, even looking at AI is cheating in my classes. No second chances. Seriously, we need to go back to typewriter labs.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

(my CLOUD subscription was apparently cancelled)

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

oh yes, i'm sure the little 'unsubscribe' link in the phishing email will do the trick.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Was going back through some 12+ year old slides and fixing broken script links and such, and noticed that my talk from 2014's (joke) DHTML Conf is still up. The whole thing was set up as a "ok, but what if we put on a conference from the year 2001?", and I played along by doing in-browser slides...in IE...6.0...in a VM, on a Mac.

But that wasn't revealed until the end.

So if you have IE 6 handy...

https://infrequently.org/01/dhtmlconf/

EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Boarding the 3am train north to Chicago 🍕… eventually. It’s currently been delayed half an hour, which is great because I would have missed it if it had left on time 😆. #TransOnTrains

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
maxleibman@beige.party ("Max Leibman") wrote:

When AI boosters talk about universal basic income to excuse all of the jobs they claim they can eliminate, ask:

“Then why are you working on AI, and not on universal basic income?”

If you are a journalist in this space and you don’t ask this every time UBI comes up, you are not doing your job.

EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Going to bed at 1, alarm set for 2 to get up and catch a train. This is fine.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

I’m annoyed that it’s obvious we’re in phase 1 of this 3-step cycle

1. Republican president tanks economy and gets us involved in a forever war.

2. Democratic president fixes the economy.

3. People get impatient about things not being as good as they used to be so they vote Republican.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

The key to successfully posting a joke on Mastodon is to also upload a detailed schematic

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

Helping out some of my kids’ friends with tech, and once again am reminded that domestic abuse is absolutely the flagship threat model in this industry, the place the victim is closest to real physical harm and has the least recourse and resources available to them. The hardest problem, almost totally unaddressed, exaggerated when the victim is underage.

Boosted by jwz:
jrconlin@mindof.jrconlin.com ("j-r conlin") wrote:

"Philz Coffee" is such a weird name to pick for a nazi bar.

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
mia@front-end.social ("Mia (web luddite)") wrote:

There are still absolutely beautiful websites using basic css and html with little or no js. professional web dev has gotten more complex along with specialization, but you can still build personal sites with 20yr old tech. and some new stuff is simpler.

What we've lost, it seems to me, is the broad indie pipeline to both learning and socializing (and socially learning).

partly because we who learned it 20yrs ago have landed in more specialized/complex jobs.

Boosted by jwz:
xan@xantronix.social ("[HANDMAIDEN] xan") wrote:

oops, accidentally went viral on LinkedIn by simply saying "i will not use LLMs and you cannot make me" and WOW some C-suite types get real bigmad

Boosted by jwz:
kestral@masto.hackers.town ("Kestral") wrote:

Holy shit, it's really true.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@isagalaev oh man you have no idea

Boosted by jwz:
AlSweigart ("Al Sweigart") wrote:

"The dumbest person you know is being told 'you are absolutely right' by an AI right now."

Boosted by jwz:
galacticstone ("Galactic Stone") wrote:

Only livable wages can prevent warehouse fires. 💰 🔥

#EatTheRich #LateStageCapitalism