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ubernostrum@infosec.exchange ("James Bennett") wrote:
I just learned that Oracle, which is shoveling unbelievable amounts of cash into getting everybody to use LLMs, also has a policy forbidding contributors to OpenJDK from using LLMs to generate code, citing code quality, security, and legal concerns:
Mastodon FeedBoosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
cobalt123@beige.party wrote:
RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/117004581857498570
Completely fascinating discussion with much time shared to answering questions and suggestions. Very important work Spritely is up to. Been a financial supporter (low $) for over a year and will continue! Thanks especial to Christine and David.
Mastodon Feedoh wait! I am wrong! https://docs.stripe.com/invoicing/overview#out-of-band-invoices
"If a customer pays an invoice out of band (outside of Stripe), you can manually change the status to paid through the Dashboard or API."
okay maybe this is what I'm going with
Mastodon FeedBoosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
totherme@tech.lgbt ("gds") wrote:
@glyph in what I hope is the worst* recommendation in your feed today:
I met someone recently who uses LuaTeX to manage all their invoices.
The invoice doc is composed almost entirely in LaTeX, and there's just enough Lua in there to pull the latest component prices from a stock database, and store any side-effects that need storing. The PDF is guaranteed to have accurate prices at the time of invoice generation, and invoice time is also when the stock DB gets updated.
I think they were using it for managing stock/invoicing for bathroom remodelling.
*But hopefully at least a bit entertaining.
Mastodon Feedas I slog through several new APIs that I don't particularly want to learn, along with massive piles of feature complexity, I glance over at the Stripe docs to see if maaaaybe things have gotten more relaxed, but nope, the state machine from "unpaid" only has three edges, one that goes to "customer paid it through stripe" and two others that go to "voided" or "uncollectible" https://docs.stripe.com/invoicing/overview
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi"):
chuck_wendig@threads.net ("Chuck Wendig") wrote:
I got salty about AI bullshit because it's all such bullshit, so here is me being very mad and probably not very clear about how mad it makes me. Do with this as you will. *kicks rocks*
Mastodon Feedjscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
Imagine being stupid or cynical enough to paint Dr. Fauci as a villain.
Mastodon Feeddoing my daily reload of https://keeb.io/products/sinc-lm-kit to see if I can burn a bunch of money yet. looks like still no. I swear I've been waiting on this keyboard for a year now
Mastodon FeedBoosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof: :Nonbinary:"):
pikesley@mastodon.me.uk ("Edgar Allan PoE") wrote:
OMG #Strudel is amazing
Mastodon FeedThe Atwood Dial Principle continues to hold up https://www.heise.de/en/news/Mastodon-Founder-Steps-Down-as-CEO-Receives-One-Million-Euros-11081969.html
Mastodon FeedBoosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
jalefkowit@hachyderm.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:
@glyph @cthos I just think of it the way city dwellers in Victorian times must have thought about horseshit. It's a good day when you get home without too much of it on your boots
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jwz:
zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:
@cstross I am reading his posts
if there’s anything in him that’s against the current grift, he needs to reverse course now. he’s doing the dirty work of today’s sharks, and if that’s not his intent then it’s on him to change tact instead of spending his time making up names for me and people like me.
Cory keeps becoming a main character on here because he responded to some fairly predictable pushback on his use of LLMs by first telling his critics they weren’t socialist enough (offensive to me for both obvious and less obvious reasons), then by accusing AI critics of engaging in purity culture. the latter accusation is still used by AI boosters, because of Cory. I saw a ridiculous amount of guilt on my feed from AI critics who like Doctorow and didn’t understand that he was just name-calling.
Charlie, I respect you and your work. sincerely, please help me out here. am I meant to be nice to a guy who does the above openly? I have no particular desire to be the bigger person here.
Mastodon Feedjonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:
Alphafold was like the topline, A1 example of "not all AI shit is bad" and they fucked it. The only thing Google will never shut down is the Unmitigated Self Own & Footgun Factory Showroom.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof: :Nonbinary:"):
Chilifornian@pixelfed.social ("A Bravo") wrote:
This young Red Tailed hawk was working on his landings today. Flying is easy, landing not so much #hawks #birds #wildlife #nature #photography #nest #birdsinflight #wildlifephotography
#redtailedhawk
Mastodon Feedbrib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof: :Nonbinary:") wrote:
Graphic design is NOT my passion
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jwz:
mcfadden ("Brian McFadden") wrote:
A scams-based economy is not one that will last. https://patreon.com/BrianMcFadden
Mastodon FeedBoosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
ninawillburger@social.anoxinon.de ("Nina Willburger") wrote:
WOW, new finds from the Ice Age! Two absolutely stunning Ice Age figurines from the Swabian Jura were found, dating back around 40,000 years.
The tiny carvings, about the size of a thumbnail, depict two birds, rendered with remarkable attention to detail. Snow grouse, buzzard, or perhaps capercaillie? Their exact species remain unknown.
Mastodon Feedjonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:
RE: https://mstdn.social/@hkrn/117004052393948286
Google is absolutely undefeated at sucking so bad
Mastodon FeedBoosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof: :Nonbinary:"):
Victoire@sunny.garden wrote:
And more cello recording :3 It feel quite naked without the rest of the music but I like this very much. The hight notes were trouble but not as much as I thought. 😌
Mastodon FeedBoosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
shinmera@tymoon.eu ("Yukari Hafner :v_lesbian:") wrote:
imagine being born as part of the greatest generation and dying anyway
Mastodon FeedI need an invoicing solution.
I want something that can send emails, schedule reminders, nicely format PDFs, and has a well-documented API for uploading line items from time tracking.
I've used Stripe invoicing for this in the past, but in the situation where one has clients that use *other* payment mechanisms, IME this creates annoying reconciliation gaps.
Any recommendations?
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social wrote:
We've published an overview of how we protect against data extraction from locked devices with the recently improved secure element rate limiting, locked device auto-reboot, strong passphrases, 2nd factor fingerprint PIN, stronger exploit protections and more:
Mastodon FeedBoosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
david@tech.lgbt ("a fresh pup of coffee :bowie:") wrote:
The link-in-bio app for the furry fandom that I've been working on, #PawPals, is now public! The goal is to replace things like linktree and carrd for furries, as you can search for profiles and make new connections. Please give it a try!
Mastodon FeedRE: https://mastodon.iftas.org/@iftas/116999079831534200
Have you taken the @iftas Social Web Operations Survey yet? 🧐 There's only one day left!
Mastodon FeedBoosted by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):
sarahjamielewis ("Sarah Jamie Lewis") wrote:
RE: https://mastodon.social/@sarahjamielewis/116994970688711387
A big thank you to everyone who has started discussions / reaching out / testing patches.
I've updated the AI removal patch to purge a few more files that I missed the first time around.
There is also a new patch, that removes the newtab sponsor heavy/widgety home (808 files , 420419 deletions)
There is also a PR open to document testing instructions for the curious.
And I've opened some issues for discussions to each patch to collect any feedback from testing / open questions etc.
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
oh, i've just thought of something...
Mastodon FeedBoosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
chrisbeiting ("Chris Beiting") wrote:
Can’t wait to start this tonight @pluralistic
Mastodon FeedBoosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:
This week, something reminded me of a weird experience I've had over the years.
I was probably intending to blog about it at some point, but it's a difficult topic to cover without sounding weirdly self-congratulatory, and I kind of hate that tone. I dunno, maybe it's from years of working in tech? :V
One of the hazards you'll face if you share any of my hobbies or interests is other people--well-meaning, honest, and usually very kind people--praising your apparent "intelligence".
This has also come up a few times indirectly, where friends would be like, "So I asked my [very technically respected] friend about you, and they said cryptography is only for mega-geniuses."
This sort of experience, however it manifests, makes me feel uncomfortable for many reasons.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof: :Nonbinary:"):
davidrevoy@framapiaf.org ("David Revoy") wrote:
🔥
Sources and bonus timelapse: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/063.html
Mastodon FeedBoosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof: :Nonbinary:"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:
Sense check for people working in cybersecurity in operations roles in the trenches:
I’m not finding or seeing cyber incidents off the back of Generative AI still. Are you? Not ones you’ve read about online - I mean ones you’ve actually dealt with.