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cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@docpop/116608515170969849

One correction: they're not disallowing AI generated content, but that you need to be able to stand by and have thoroughly reviewed all content and effectively, all claims have to be able to be held as yours. So if anything is in there that you obviously didn't review, you get the one year ban.

So that's an even lower bar than a full AI content ban, and even so some people are still freaking out

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

My good mood of this morning is due very much to NLTK, a #Python library for Natural Language Processing. Lexing, stemming, Levenshtein distance — a treasure trove of clever algorithms and datasets.

Today specifically I was trying out an idea to make my grocery classifier more resilient to spelling variants, and I wondered if you could easily break an English word into syllables… And of course you can: https://www.nltk.org/api/nltk.tokenize.SyllableTokenizer.html

Amazing!

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

"To federal agents:
You still have TIME to refuse orders.
You still have TIME to QUESTION your instructions.
You still have TIME to CHOOSE the right side."

When Andon Labs had 4 AI models run radio stations, Claude started covering Renee Good's murder. It criticized ICE, the current administration, and called for federal agents to refuse orders.

https://andonlabs.com/blog/andon-fm

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

I was surprised to learn that in some of Cantor's most important work he failed to credit Dedekind, a collaborator. At least the record is being set straight now.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-man-who-stole-infinity-20260225/

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xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

It took so much work to get passkeys up and running in the first place, and even then sites just randomly break them for no reason. I really, really, *really* want to love passkeys, but in practice they're just such a mess.

Passwords are insecure and annoying, but at least they don't seem to have these random failures without any actionable error messages. (Except on financial sites, where even passwords never seem to work and I often have to treat "reset password" as a magic sign-in link.)

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xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

I have no idea why nintendo.com has started saying my device doesn't support passkeys. It used to work, it still works on other sites, and there's no error message other than "you can't use passkeys on this device."

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radiodeadair.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Nash") wrote:

Remember: we were never given credit for being right about crypto, we were never given credit for being right about NFTs, we were never given credit for being right about the metaverse and we will never be given credit for being right about AI. Fuck 'em up anyway.

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MicroSFF@mastodon.art ("Micro SF/F by O. Westin") wrote:

The parking attendant paused by the double-length bay. Intended for mobile homes and cars with trailers, it was currently occupied by a sleeping dragon.

No parts of it extended beyond the lines, and the paper ticket was clearly displayed, impaled on a horn.

The parking attendant moved on.

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

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inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116605858023186072

Google Search rests on a social contract: their bots can crawl our sites, they can index our sites, and they can show excerpts of our sites because

and •only because•

they send people to our sites. •Our• sites, our words, with our design, with our links, with our context and our aesthetics, shared the way we want to share them.

Google is announcing — unambiguously and with great fanfare — that they are now fully breaking that already-ragged contract. We should reciprocate.

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

Inevitable, really

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

chocolate fireguardrails

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

If Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and his business partner Dario Amodei want to change this law, they are in a significantly more efficacious social position to do so than I am. I hope they will devote their considerable personal resources to its fair reform. They should go do that. Until then, though, regrettably, they must all go to federal prison.

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dpk@chaos.social ("Daphne Preston-Kendal") wrote:

Happy fourth birthday to this Mastodon pull request, a basic trust and safety feature which keeps getting kicked down the line https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/18468

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birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Birds Are Dinosaurs") wrote:

Snow Crash delivers a fairly grim vision of America's future, but it was overly optimistic about our ability to maintain global supremacy in the field of high-speed pizza delivery.

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davidism@mas.to ("David Lord :python:") wrote:

My "happy to review a PR" message has become "happy to review a human-written PR"

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spellingmistakescostlives@mastodon.ie ("Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives") wrote:

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inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

Defeatism is form of surrender. Cynicism is surrender. Despair is surrender. Nihilism is surrender.

Our job is to •care• and to •keep caring• and to •keep doing and keep building• and to •endure• longer than them.

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ScoPre@mas.to ("Scott :vm:") wrote:

@fromjason I’ve heard this guy can repair them:

https://nicsfix.com/

I have a first gen that won’t update the software anymore but it still works.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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aks@scalie.zone ("Akseli") wrote:

you lot really need to stop putting your hand in the fire after its been burned, seriously

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aks@scalie.zone ("Akseli") wrote:

i just use startpage, works fine

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aks@scalie.zone ("Akseli") wrote:

whats with all the kagi ads here suddenly

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ErikUden@mastodon.de ("Erik Uden 🚩") wrote:

“Those who rule your country have plundered billions of dollars but done nothing to help your country.”

— Marco Rubio, Secretary of State of the United States of America, somehow talking about Cuba and not the United States

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cmconseils ("Lady Laura :bongoCat:") wrote:

#Meme #Humour

jwz wrote:

Pretty much the only reason I ever hand a !g to Duck Duck Go is its continuing unwillingness to understand that double-quotes mean "I would like all of these words to appear and in this order". I know, it's a modern innovation. Can't expect everyone to keep up.

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unlofl@mstdn.social ("Mr. Scam Likely") wrote:

Klingons speak in angry unix commands, standing on the bridge yelling shit like "Grep ls awk chmod!"

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cR0w@infosec.exchange wrote:

So when you sign up for Internet with Cox, do they automatically add you to a botnet or do you have to do that yourself after they get you online? Asking for an AS22773.

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inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

Quick strategy discussion, for those who understand Google indexing and SEO:

If I want to yank a web site out of Google’s now-fully-extractive search, should I (1) disallow googlebot in robots.txt or (2) add `` to all the page headers?

The goal here is not just to remove my contributions to the commons from Google’s results, but to •make Google aware• that sites are pulling consent. What will best do that?

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brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

Can't wait until someone figures out how to exfiltrate your emails with a Google link

jwz wrote:

The AI botnets cannot be stopped.

I am constantly getting scrape attempts for avatar-image-JPEG URLs that have not existed on my blog since a restructuring in 2022. They come in bursts of about a 100 per minute, each from a different IP address, and in random order.

I thought: enough is enough, I need to figure out what clown service these are coming from and start blocking whole networks.

Nope, they're almost all from cable modems, not from hosting facilities:
https://jwz.org/b/yk7g

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

Watching the Google AI announcement for my sins.

Good News (?): I haven't seen them talk about pulling traditional search (yet). (If anyone has found them mention that, could they post the timestamp, as I don't have the time to watch the full thing; I did try scanning a couple of news reports on the matter and couldn't see them mention that there)
Bad News: That "weekend planner" that you destroyed a small rainforest to build could have been a spreadsheet. Personally, I'd rather have the rainforest