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eob, 2 days ago to random

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/editorials/2024/06/07/the-irish-times-view-on-election-counts-a-festival-of-irish-democracy/

It does, admittedly, go on for a very long time. While most of Europe will vote on Sunday and deliver its results that same evening, the final outcome of Friday’s European Parliament elections in Ireland’s three constituencies will likely not be known until the middle of next week. Local election counts will also stretch over the full weekend, at least. If a returning officer deems it necessary, proceedings may continue well past midnight. But with democracy across the world under pressure from voter disengagement, demagoguery and conspiracy theories, Ireland’s electoral count is a robust counterweight to these anti-democratic trends.

Mer__edith, 10 days ago to random

Signal strongly opposes the newest #ChatControl proposal in Europe.

Let there be no doubt: we will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees.

This proposal--if passed and enforced against us--would require us to make this choice.

It's surveillance wine in safety bottles.

See more: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/majority-for-chat-control-possible-users-who-refuse-scanning-to-be-prevented-from-sharing-photos-and-links/ @echo_pbreyer

aparrish, 14 days ago to random

testing out a bit of code to display text on the gameboy by rendering 3px x 8px characters to VRAM tile data and tile maps, as needed at runtime. I like that the density of this allows more information on screen, but i'm worried that in practice it would be difficult to read—both because of the small size on an actual hardware screen, and because of the letters that don't take well to being rendered at 3px width, like Ms and Ws

eob, 15 days ago to random

Powerful graphic for a story in the May 27 New Yorker about abortion, the courts, and the people

technicallymims, 19 days ago to random

feels like AI has done something to some tech journalists akin to what crypto did to some investors

RE: https://www.threads.net/@kylie.robison/post/C7PefkyvycB

molly0xfff, 20 days ago to ai

"it's all stored locally" is not a panacea for these alarming privacy-invading products!

what exactly is stored locally? what data is extracted from that local data and sent to the company's servers? is that local data being backed somewhere?

#AI #privacy

eob, 21 days ago to random

As Ellen Ullman observed, we build computer systems the way we build our cities—over time, without a plan, on top of ruins

All software development is iterative

All software plans are wrong

The only way we advance is by learning from failures

carapace, 22 days ago to golang

Is this a bug in Go's regexp package? This program should print false instead it prints true:

package main

import (
"fmt"
"regexp"
)

func main() {
r := regexp.MustCompile("^1|0$")
fmt.Printf("%v\n", r.MatchString("00"))
}

I checked against Python's re module and it works as expected:

>>> import re
>>> r = re.compile('^1|0$')
>>> print(r.match('00'))
None

#go #golang #google

eob, 23 days ago to random

Well, it lasted less than a year

OpenAI had a much vaunted team working to make sure that AI would remain aligned with what humanity wants, even if the AI becomes smarter than humans

The leads and other team members have left, and Leike has expressed criticism about lack of support for this work

eob, 29 days ago to random

I remember an Ireland of poverty, clerical control, and stifling conformity

Today, the country took to the Eurovision stage, represented by a non-binary witch dressed in the trans flag

This is the New Ireland I celebrate / Éire Nua abú !