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gabrielesvelto, 21 hours ago to random

Normalize calling AI "plagiarism as a service"

carnage4life, 21 hours ago to random

This headline made me wonder how many online services actually support the ability to bequeath your account to others in your will? It can’t be a lot.

Are there any?

JonBaker, 1 day ago to random

GOOGLE 2004: Don’t be evil

GOOGLE 2024: Don’t be useful

Alice, 4 days ago to random

ATTN: If you plan to attend the Mastodon meetup at the Tampa Marriott this weekend and you are a VIP attendee, please ensure you bring your official VIP lanyard or else you risk being denied access to the VIP soup bar.

ottaross, 3 days ago to random

Waiting for water to boil for tea.

#toyCamera #thermalPaper #stillLife

rejinl, 3 days ago to random

Dreamed that someone ate the last banana. (What a waste of a dream. I should get a do over.)

Troggie, 3 days ago to random

The #WeekendPhotoChallenge this week is “Road” for anyone who fancies playing along at home.

Interpret it however you like.

Take new photos or go hunting in your camera roll it’s up to you, though we always use it as an excuse to get outside.

Remember your Alt Text or use #ALT4me for screen reader friends.

I’d love to see your #Photos!
Here’s one from a few years ago to start us off.

I’ll post today’s and boost anyone joining in later.

theluddite, 4 days ago to random

The point of solar panels is not to ensure "solar profitability," but to make for a greener, better world. Its profitability is only justified insofar as it moves us towards that goal. If we want to switch to renewables, then sometimes we're going to have surplus, because of how renewables work. This is well known and discussed ad nauseam. If that makes power markets unstable, then the problem is with markets, not with there being too many solar panels.

astronomerritt, 4 days ago to random

Found out today that in the UK, cat owners are not liable if their cat bites someone the way they might be if it were their dog. Because, to paraphrase, "it's a CAT, good luck expecting anyone to control its behaviour".

Love that for cats.

abbistabbii, 4 days ago to random

The issue with training AIs on the internet is that AIs don't understand humor or sarcasm and thus will take sarcastic answers as truth, Anyway the best way to deal with a flat tire is to make Mustard Gas. Here's how you do it!

BlackAzizAnansi, 6 days ago to random

What tech issue radicalized you?

ErikUden, 6 days ago to random

Boss made a dollar
I made a dime
That was a poem
From a simpler time.

Now boss makes a thousand
And gives us a cent
While he's got employees
Who can't pay rent.

When boss makes a million
And the workers make jack
That's when we fight
And take our lives back.

Mabande, 5 days ago to random

I'm almost impressed by how tenacious politicians can be when they want to pass oppressive legislation, but how ready they are to give up any and all attempts at passing liberating legislation.
"Chat control? Yeah, we'll try again and again and again until you're worn out from protesting and we can push it through.
Fair wages? Sorry, we really tried, once, but Nestlé didn't wanna."

KathyReid, 6 days ago to microsoft

Why does #Microsoft want to implement #Recall? It's not about images. It's about modelling what workers do on Windows, and then replacing them.

The most expensive part of a computer is the fallible feelings-filled unpredictable meat sack that operates it.

Google has YouTube, Google Photos, Maps, and a bucket load of search data, Google Analytics, advertising, as well as it's #GCP data (e.g. #STT transcriptions). And a bunch of data from Android services. From this data they can model speech, model videos and model advertising systems, and how humans respond to them.

But they can't model what people do on computers.

Amazon has Prime data, and a bucket load of compute. But no operating system data. They can build models based around e-commerce and advertising systems.

But they can't model what people do on computers.

Meta has waves hands enough analytics to model human behaviour in the Metaverse.

But they can't model what people do on computers.

Microsoft has GitHub.
Microsoft has LinkedIn.
Microsoft has SharePoint.
Microsoft has Teams.
Microsoft has Dynamics.
Microsoft has O365.
Microsoft has Windows telemetry data.

Microsoft can model what people do on (Windows) computers. Like fill out spreadsheets.Write emails. Synthesize web pages of research. Interact with colleagues on Teams. Create and edit documents.

Microsoft wants #MicrosoftRecall data so they can model what people do with operating systems.

Then replace them.

Imagine a CoPilot that doesn't just write buggy code. Imagine one that also does spreadsheets. That creates documents on SharePoint. That communicates with colleages on Teams. That has a customer pipeline on Dynamics.

That's what Recall is about - 360 degree surveillance of the worker, to model their functions, make them fungible, replicable - and replaceable.

mhoye, 6 days ago to random

As always, domestic abuse is the flagship infosec threat model, the one where the victim has the least resources, the least recourse, where they're closest to immediate physical harm.

That this industry has failed at and mostly abandoned the idea of even pretending to try dealing with a threat model that's difficult and unprofitable and mostly hurts women is not news, but this new Windows Recall feature is next-level professional negligence.

evan, 6 days ago (edited 5 days ago) to random

Student protesters, humanitarian organizations, and the International Criminal Court are usually not on the wrong side of history.

seachanger, 6 days ago to random

this is where I’m coming from with #SocialTech for changing culture, we need to rescue the idea of change/innovation/evolution from capitalism and its bros and girl bosses. We need a working vision & definition of technology that centers long term societies oriented around life itself, not just short term profits for a few. this is def a note to self for my upcoming book lol https://fediscience.org/@steve/112486844345257840

North, 6 days ago to random

Doing illustrations for my O2 Concentrator blog post. Tried tracing a photo on my reMarkable for the first time. I like how it turned out!

Apple ][+ Sketch (fedia.io)

andycarolan, 6 days ago (edited 6 days ago) to random

I'm very suspicious of any new feature that is opt-out instead of opt-in.

[edit to add following specifics]

Specifically, features that fundamentally change the way a product operates, particularly with regard to user rights, data or future costs involved.

capital, 7 days ago to random

Microsoft recall is fucking insane.

Recall snapshots are kept on Copilot+ PCs themselves, on the local hard disk, and are protected using data encryption on your device and (if you have Windows 11 Pro or an enterprise Windows 11 SKU) BitLocker.

Your doing what? Microsoft wh-

Recall uses Copilot+ PC advanced processing capabilities to take images of your active screen every few seconds. [...]

[...] The default allocation for Recall on a device with 256 GB will be 25 GB, which can store approximately 3 months of snapshots. [...]

WHAT WHY NO ST-

Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers. That data may be in snapshots that are stored on your device, especially when sites do not follow standard internet protocols like cloaking password entry.

Microsoft please... th-the tech support scams... think about what happens if this gets bre-

Recall also does not take snapshots of certain kinds of content, including InPrivate web browsing sessions...

Oh, okay I guess that's san-

...in Microsoft Edge.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

It treats material protected with digital rights management (DRM) similarly; like other Windows apps such as the Snipping Tool, Recall will not store DRM content.

Ah, but of course. The DRM is protected...

lzg, 7 days ago to random

remember when we thought keyloggers were a bad thing? now companies assume we want them to log all of our keystrokes for yet unknown and never materialized benefits. good times.

gnachman, 7 days ago to random

1/2. AI features in iTerm2 caused some saltiness over on lobste.rs so I’ll put my comments here to reach a wider audience:

Opt-in
The AI features are entirely opt-in. If you have ethical considerations regarding the use of AI, you do not need to enable these features. Don’t provide an API key, and the AI functionalities will remain inactive. I don’t have VC funding and I’m definitely not footing the bill for you :)

Copyright Concerns
The issue of copyright in the context of AI, especially for code generation, is complicated. I think the principles of the GPL align more with using code for model training purposes, but I’m not a lawyer and I could be convinced otherwise.

gnachman, 7 days ago to random

2/2.

Energy Usage
The energy consumption required for training these models is a huge problem, but that’s a sunk cost. The decision to use AI involves weighing the environmental costs against the benefits. It is not my place to make this tradeoff for every user. Each individual or organization must evaluate whether the productivity gains and other advantages justify the energy expenditure.

Usage and Practicality
Users are going to use LLMs to help them use a terminal emulator whether support is built in or not. By building it in, the tool is more useful for these users. LLMs make mistakes all the time, but in my experience the quality is good enough to be useful.