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Boosted by jwz:
RiaResists wrote:

😃I heard shots 😃

Boosted by jwz:
noondlyt@hellions.cloud ("LAUREN") wrote:

Whoever coined the term "Nazi Prom" for the White House Correspondents' Dinner should receive a prize from the first level of the prize wall (erasers, fidget toys, packs of gum)

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
jensorensen ("Jen Sorensen") wrote:

Latest comic: The post-human economy

#labor #work #economy #workers #inequality #comic #cartoon

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

ah boeing, still can't take the speed brakes off automatically when a pilot applies max thrust.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
martin_t ("Martin Taibr") wrote:

@tante Eevee described it best:

"Content" is how you refer to the stuff on a website when you're designing the layout and don't know what actually goes on the page yet. "Content" is how you refer to the collection of odds and ends in your car's trunk. "Content" is what marketers call the stuff that goes around the ads.

https://eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/the-rise-of-whatever

Boosted by mbrubeck@mefi.social:
gardevoir@glaceon.social ("gardevoir, pokégirl!") wrote:

NARRATOR: In fair Verona, where we lay our

BEASTIE BOYS: SCENE

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

"""
Saying 'no' is hard and feels bad. But it's much easier if you've clearly defined the scope of your project.

Saying 'yes' feels great. But it can have a real cost over time.
"""

…and …you should also *write down* the scope of your project.

#NBPy

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

One thing I don't see anyone talking about that we probably should is the proliferation of captcha-busting anubis-busting browser-as-a-service services.

It's not that the big model companies are scraping the web and ignoring robots.txt. (Some are, almost certainly, but there are datasets to train on already and they're not scraping random sites so much)

It's that agent _users_ and the people serving them have a very large demand to access information with semi-automated systems. And they're building whole armies of ways around blocking.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I am enjoying the shout-out of the original version of Docker Swarm which successfully hid the multi-node nature of a Docker cluster, as opposed to current Docker Swarm which is "just Docker's clone of Kubernetes". For operational security reasons I cannot disclose why but IYKYK

#NBPy

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

is it just me or does the dynatac look like the sort of thing a baddie uses to call up his bomb in a movie?

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

For JupyterHub: "Should we support Windows? No."

[more nervous laughter]

#NBPy

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

i know, i know, the siemens wasn't in saved by the bell

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

"We're busy! Maintaining Jupyter is hard enough"

big mood

#NBPy

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

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sent from my siemens mobiltelefon C1

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Why is Jupyter a web app?

"HTML is the UI framework we could get to run on Windows"

[applause, laughter]

#NBPy

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@MaggieFero/116472986431768016

okay by the time Maggie is tapping out on liveblogging speed I don't feel so bad about being unable to keep up #NBPy

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Jupyter (writ large) is now 3M lines of code & docs, 407 GitHub repos, 17 GitHub orgs.

Sounds like we have quite a bit of scope here:

"Tools for the lifecycle of a computational idea."

#NBPy

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Min begins:

What is "scope":

- What are we here to do?
- What problem are we trying to solve?
- What problems are we NOT trying to solve?

Being clear about scope gives you the ability to say "no".

#NBPy

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Next up: "No Project Scope Survives Contact with Users" by @minrk #NBPy

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

This is all painfully on the nose as far as the mistakes being made today. This paper is going to fill half a dozen citation gaps in my case against AI; I've already written a few times that that even if your LLM automation is *extremely* successful you need a commensurate increase to your L&D budget to avoid catastrophic system collapse later, and it will be great to have such a venerable and comprehensive look at that exact problem. #NBPy

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

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Sent from my DynaTAC 8000X

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

more from Bainbridge:

"""
Intervention requires deep expertise of the working system, as well as diagnostic expertise to recover the fault.
"""

"""
When manual takeover is needed there is likely to be something wrong with the process, so that unusual actions will be needed to control it, and one can argue that the operator needs to be more rather than less skilled, and less rather than more loaded, on average.
"""

#NBPy

Boosted by jwz:
javi@goblin.band wrote:

But hey, who could knew that putting the VP of Marketing of facebook (2012-2023) in charge of Mozilla's new ad division would led to the very predictable outcome of Firefox becoming just another panopticon selling your personal data uh? WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING

Boosted by jwz:
javi@goblin.band wrote:

Firefox updated their Terms of Use? Let's see!

As you type a search query within Firefox, Firefox offers search suggestions to provide you with faster and more direct access to what you’re looking for. Some of the search suggestions come from your search provider (“Search Suggestions”). Others come from Firefox, and are based on information stored on your local device (including recent search terms, open tabs, and previously visited URLs), or content from Mozilla and Mozilla’s partners, including paid sponsors and internet resources like Wikipedia (“Suggestions from Firefox”).

Here chat. Here. This is where Firefox dies.

"information stored in your local device" and "content from mozilla's parners" and "paid sponsors".

This is a very convoluted way of saying "we use your personal data to segment you into something we can sell to advertisers".

This is EXACTLY what chrome does, this is exactly why a lot of us stopped using Chrome and moved back to Firefox.

In some circumstances Mozilla’s partners will receive de-identified search and interaction data, in order to serve relevant suggestions and measure user engagement with suggested content.

This is making me really mad. THIS IS JUST CORPO-SPEAK TO DESCRIBE HOW THE ENTIRE INTERNET ADVERTISEMENT INDUSTRY WORKS. This is HOW FACEBOOK WORK. This is how GOOGLE WORK. This is how the entire programmatic advertisement industry work. This is what we call "sell your personal data". No, no one sells your address, no one sells your name. BECAUSE IT'S ILLEGAL IN A SIGNIFICANT PART OF THE WORLD.

We also work with advertising providers to deliver relevant sponsored content using programmatic technologies. To support this, we may share limited, non-identifying information — such as device type, IP-derived location information, and category of content viewed — to help determine which ads to display. We don’t share any information that identifies you. You can turn off sponsored content in your New Tab settings at any time.

Oh it's so nice of you Mozilla, to do THE MINIMUM LEGAL REQUIREMENTS when selling our data. You don't share information that identify me? so nice of you! you know how else does that? Meta! Google! Tiktok! Somehow big tech mega corporations are willing to comply with the minimum legal requirements as you do, mozilla!

In some cases, we may share or publish aggregated and anonymized data to facilitate research or as part of the lawful business purposes outlined above (such as sharing aggregated insights with advertising partners).

This is called "advertisement segmentation" and it's what it paid for Zuckenberg fortress in Hawaii!! Going places, Moz, you are operating exactly as how Facebook used to do in 2016!

To provide our services as described above, we may disclose personal data to: Partners, service providers, suppliers and contractors

"We never disclose your personal data!!! well, unless it's one of our partners who pays us for it, of course!"

oh wait! they include a table of what kind of data they share with partners!

Technical dataLocationLanguage preferenceSettings dataUnique identifiersSystem performance dataInteraction dataSearch dataBrowsing data

The SHARE FUCKING EVERYTHING. THEY ARE SELLING EVERYTHING. "Unique identifiers" is the closest to personal identifiable data they can sell. That's what advertisers can use to make a profile of you: They may not know your name, but they will know everything else about you.

This is the same information that google collects and sells from you. THE SAME.

Fucking ghouls. This is where Firefox died, folks.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

"How do you know what the boring stuff is if you've never gotten bored while building or maintaining it?"

#NBPy

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

"The designer's view of the human operator may be that the operator is unreliable and inefficient, should be eliminated from the system."

- Lisanne Bainbridge, ****1983****

#NBPy

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

if your eggs float, that's normal even for cisgender people.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
amethyst@n7.gg ("Amethyst 🌸") wrote:

“The impact of a system is what we continue to allow”, a better corollary to the problematic “purpose of a system is what it does” coined by @amcasari at #NBPy

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

What's actually new:

- multi-agent, adversarial chaining
- lowest barrier to entry for advanced tools
- lowest barrier to entry for global deployment
- lowest barrier to entry for """infinite"""[1] compute

[1]: not infinite

#NBPy

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

per Hillary Mason, Depending on who you talk to, "agentic AI" could either be a chain of API calls, or "software that does stuff" … depending on who you're trying to sell it to.

#NBPy