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markhughes

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Boatperson, computer wizard, qualified counsellor, stick twizzler, father, and self enquirer.

Helping those building democratising technology to reverse the corporate capture of online spaces. Ex: #SafeNetwork

Techy self: https://fosstodon.org/@happyborg

Techy blog: https://dweb.happybeing.com

#nobridge

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tbaldauf, to random
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Journalist: "So what do you think long-distance air travel is going to look like in 2050?"

Climate Scientist laughs derisively: "By 2050, most long-distance holiday destinations will be uninhabitable, so I expect the majority of long-distance air traffic to be non-existent by 2050."

Phew. Hadn't heard it THAT bleakly during a live interview yet.

markhughes,
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@tbaldauf
There's an implication there that home will remain inhabitable, wherever you happen to live. ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ

dangillmor, to random
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Taylor Swift adopted one of Elon Musk's worst moves: launching lawyers at a student who's doing a totally legal (and useful) thing: tracking of her highly polluting private jet. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/02/06/taylor-swift-jet-tracking-legal-threat/

(I hope someone she trusts persuades her to drop this, pronto...)

markhughes,
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@dangillmor who knew, Taylor Swift has something in common with Barbara Streisand ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

pvonhellermannn, to random
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A little-discussed detail in the Lavender AI article is that Israel is killing people based on being in the same Whatsapp group [as a suspected militant.

https://blog.paulbiggar.com/meta-and-lavender/

markhughes,
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@pvonhellermannn not mention up to twenty others who are expected to be killed in the strike at that suspected associate of a militant.

jbzfn, to llm
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โ˜ ๏ธHallucination is Inevitable: An Innate Limitation of Large Language Models
โ€” arxiv.org

"By employing results from learning theory, we show that LLMs cannot learn all of the computable functions and will therefore always hallucinate. Since the formal world is a part of the real world which is much more complicated, hallucinations are also inevitable for real world LLMs"

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11817

markhughes,
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@jbzfn it's not hallucination. That requires mind, imagination and perception, none of which are present in LLMs.

Those using the term are creating a false image in their own minds and those who don't know that it's wrong.

Ironically, this is what they imply LLMs are doing, but just create output using a statistical model which includes errors, delivered in a plausible and convincing way.

Most would call this bullshit. So call it that and stop bullshitting people as if you're an LLM.

onepict, to random
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Personal opinion.

Despite RMS I think of the GPL and using those licences as a gift to the commons in perpetuity.

Unlike more permissive licences you aren't at risk of future releases being locked up in a kinda "Pray I don't alter the deal more" vibe.

There's nothing petty in how I use it.

But then I tend more towards the collective freedoms, than the freedom of anything goes.

I believe future generations should have access to all the code.

markhughes,
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@onepict
Yep. It was only recently I properly understood why I was always reluctant to contribute to a permissive #FOSS project. I knew it was bad, but Redis have given the example I needed to explain it in one word.

All my own projects are GPL and I will never contribute to anything like #MIT, #Apache or #BSD licensed code. If I need a project I'll just fork and switch it to GPL. #Licensing

nilesh, to random
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Example of LLM hallucination wasting humans' time ๐Ÿ˜ฆ https://hackerone.com/reports/2298307

markhughes,
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@nilesh it's not a hallucination, it's called an error.

deflockcom, to TeslaMotors
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confirms intentions to new users a temporary to let them post

This man is a joke who the fall of X

https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/15/musk-charge-new-x-users-fee/

markhughes,
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@deflockcom the "free speech absolutist" is a genius. Um, actually it's another word I'm looking for, help me out here.

markhughes, to foss
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We now understand why permissive #licensing is bad for #FOSS.

#Redis taught us why #GPL is important and #MIT, #Apache, #BSD etc allow corporations to enclose and steal our contributions.

#Israel's use of #Lavender for targeting in #Gaza, which may also use the code we donated to the commons, shows that we need to be more restrictive if we want to avoid assisting war crimes and probable #genocide.

I hope some lawyers are on this, and will help us add exclusions to protect from such use.

markhughes, to chrome
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With Google already dominating web browsers with and now attempting to lock it down to access only approved websites using ...

...before long secure open internet will mean not only hosting your own services like Mastodon, email etc, but hand rolling your own apps and web browser.

Unless...unless somebody can build a truly open peer-to-peer storage and communications platform that has no gatekeepers.

๐Ÿ‘‰

markhughes, (edited ) to threads
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I hear that has 10m users hours after launch.

I hear that it is a shit show already.

I'm sure that its culture will be very different to / , and since culture is what is important about the fedi I'm going to say that federating with a large and different culture will affect Mastodon culture in negative ways and could easily dominate the culture here.

If you think a small decentralised culture can survive a large influx from another, maybe ask a Native American.

markhughes, (edited ) to random
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Poll:

markhughes, to cryptocurrency
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If a was more, not less energy efficient than the incumbents, faster and able to handle transactions at scale with less cost, would that make it desirable?

Another way of asking this is whether you see any other significant problems, with the principle rather than the implementation?

I have long criticised Blockchain but am not opposed to decentralised electronic cash, and interested to learn if those critical of are fundamentally opposed.

shoq, to random
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Good morning. The next phase begins with this news. I personally always felt Bluesky might prove more versatile and capable of rapid growth than many AP enthusiasts wanted to contemplate. (And @mmasnick ain't wrong about much.)

Bluesky opens up federation, letting anyone run their own server.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/22/bluesky-opens-up-federation-letting-anyone-run-their-own-server/

(Let the protocols ascend and the bridges rise! Competition almost always improves things.)

markhughes,
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@shoq @mmasnick
Two reasons is just more of the same:

  • VC backed company decided...
    and
  • servers
markhughes, to Israel
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, US and UK governments are deeply complicit in the of brown people in , a new holocaust.

"The US state department has failed to act on internal reports of human rights abuses by Israeli army and police units, according to a new report raising new questions over whether Washingtonโ€™s continued supply of arms to Israel is breaking US law."

The US is breaking it's own laws and avoids the humanity of the international, criminal courts.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/18/biden-weapon-report-israel-abuse

markhughes, to Israel
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100 days since the attack and Israel is still murdering Palestinian women and children in mass terrorist attacks of its own.

dentangle, to random
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Sourcehut and Codeberg are both down, as is Sourcehut's status page on Codeberg.

I know about this because of IRC (distributed) and Mastodon (distributed).

markhughes,
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@dentangle I made a proof of concept decentralised git hub for use with the , a storage and comms system (currently in testing).

Taking it further was more than I could handle but I showed how it could be done using a SvelteKit web UI, and git in the browser on a decentralised filesystem, also hosting issues in the git repo (using git-bug as a library compiled to WASM).

markhughes, to ai
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What if AI cannot replace people's jobs but is part of a con trick.

Not conning the wealthy corporations who are enthusiastically firing their skilled workers, supposedly to replace them with statistical models that, it seems are not turning a profit for their owners.

What if the con is really about convincing skilled workers that they must accept lower pay and worse conditions.

Where have we seen this before?

markhughes, to privacy
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Governments in UK and EU want to read all your private messages but routinely delete their own, especially just before an inquiry into their crimes.

markhughes, to movies
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I highly recommend the film Beatriz at Dinner with and .

Superb from start to finish.

Currently free in UK on BBC

markhughes, (edited ) to BBC
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Mr Holmes (Ian McKellen on 2) or ignoring on BBC 1.

Not a difficult choice for me.

Don't feed on the deaths of 14,000 children tonight. Make a statement that , and the support it has from corrupt UK & US governments is unacceptable to you.

Or not, but live with your choice whatever it is. Don't pretend you care if you can't bring yourself to not watch it.

is murdering civilians en masse. Are you ok with that or not?

markhughes, to Israel
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According to UK government lawyers, Israel is committing in which makes those supplying arms complicit in those war crimes.

Joe Biden will escape, the US not being a signatory of the because it commits torture and other crimes in service of its hegemony.

Rishi Sunak and David Cameron better lawyer up.

Kier Starmer can be shamed as a supporter of 's .

fulelo, to Israel
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#BBCNews - #Israel - #Gaza war: #Hamas says deputy leader Saleh al-Arouri killed in blast in #Lebanon capital #Beirut
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-middle-east-67859135

Al-Arouri is said to have been among four people killed in an explosion at Hamas's office in Dahiyeh, one of the Lebanese capital's southern suburbs

Al-Arouri was the deputy head of Hamas's political bureau and known to be deeply involved in its military affairs

markhughes,
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@fulelo More UK and US complicity in .

take note, this is in direct defiance of their ruling that humanitarian assistance must reach those in .

fulelo, to Israel
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- - latest: and block US call for immediate Gaza at UN - live page:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-68631712

markhughes,
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@fulelo
Did he point out that Israel first attacked Iranian territory in the form of its Embassy?

That's not a claim nor an irrelevant fact.

chose to escalate this conflict, and to accelerate its genocide.

While the UK & US continue to supply the weapons of that have - so far - killed tens of thousands of innocent women and children in .

fulelo, to Eurovision
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Fans of 2024 - the final is live on the website plus commentary etc :
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/entertainment-arts-68992694

markhughes, (edited )
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@fulelo
Watch if you care to ignore 's massacre of 14,000 children.

trumps

josemurilo, to bluesky
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"If you want to scale, you have to design with scale in mind. makes several interesting choices in order to distribute the load of running the system more onto the actors that can handle load, and less on those that canโ€™t. This way, applications running on top of atproto can scale up to large userbases without issue.

Thatโ€™s the hope, at least. Earlier this week, hit five million users, and is far more stable than Twitter was in the early days."

https://steveklabnik.com/writing/how-does-bluesky-work

markhughes,
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@josemurilo
The #SafeNetwork is non-VC backed, autonomous and #p2p (no servers, gatekeepers, intermediaries or walled gardens) and is designed to scale without developers having to add infrastructure - so any individual can create a killer app and have it scale. This levels the playing field for both developers and users.

Oh, and it isn't a social network but a platform on which apps like that can be built, along with all manner of other apps and services.

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