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Distributed systems, computer networks, formal methods, ethical CS, free/libre software, world history.

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pluralistic, to random
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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: How finfluencers destroyed the housing and lives of thousands of people; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/22/koteswar-jay-gajavelli/

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pluralistic,
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For the rest of May, my bestselling solarpunk utopian novel The Lost Cause (2023) is available as a $2.99, DRM-free ebook!

https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Cause-Cory-Doctorow-ebook/dp/B0BQGGP2XT/

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codepo8, to random
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Want to opt out of the new Google AI powered interface and get web results by default? Add udm=14 to the URL.

yabellini, to random
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This research shows that aptitude for learning foreign languages is a stronger predictor of learning to program than basic maths knowledge.

"These results provide a novel framework for understanding programming aptitude, suggesting that the importance of numeracy may be overestimated in modern programming education environments."

Relating Natural Language Aptitude to Individual Differences in Learning Programming Languages. Prat, et.al. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-60661-8

#TeachingTechTogether

vrruiz, to Astronomy
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A Brief History of the World’s First Planetarium. By Allison Marsh - IEEE Spectrum
https://spectrum.ieee.org/planetarium-history

fernand0, to random
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Nada es eterno en internet, parece http://blog.elmundoesimperfecto.com/2024/05/03/nada-es-eterno-en-internet/

geant, to twitter
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As of 2 May 2024, GÉANT will cease activities on its main profiles on #X (FKA ).

If you aren't already doing it, follow us on LinkedIn or here on Mastodon, where you can also find @SURF @DFN @nordunet @renater @sunet @restena

More about our decision: https://connect.geant.org/2024/04/29/geant-is-ceasing-activities-on-x-fka-twitter

geant, to Amsterdam
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Are you a Network Engineer or Architect looking for a new challenge in a company driven by a shared goal of improving research & education connectivity globally?

We are looking for a to join our team in , NL or , UK.

👉 https://jobs.geant.org/vacancies/83/network-architect.html

FileSender, to random
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We are happy to announce the release of #FileSender 2.48. 🤩
This #release includes a new nodejs rest client with #encryption support. Many included dependencies have had their versions updated. 🎯
Details on 👉 https://filesender.org/new-filesender-2-48-release/

#NRENs #networking @geant @SURF @renater @nordunet

Obijuan, to random Spanish
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Liberada version 0.5.0 de la colección stdio. Todos los ejemplos ya funcionan con icestudio 0.12 (apio 0.9.3)

https://github.com/FPGAwars/Collection-stdio

Ejemplo de una bola rebotando en un terminal serie
¡Es una bola movida por hardware! Las posiciones se generan mediante secuencias ANSI

video/mp4

jwildeboer, (edited ) to random
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What happens when every time your browser sends data to a tracker it makes a beep sound? Well, @bert_hubert did just that. And it sounds like you are listening to an old school modem. Creepy stuff! https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/tracker-beeper/

dmm, to ChatGPT
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"No, A → B is not equivalent to - B → - A in logic."

Except that the truth table that ChatGPT [1] generated says the opposite. Also, see the law of contraposition [2].

Claude [3] makes the same mistake.

I've had pretty good luck with the chatbots. This is the first thing that I have asked that all of them seem to get wrong.

Interesting.

References

[1] "ChatGPT", https://chat.openai.com

[2] "Contraposition", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contraposition

[3] "Claude", https://claude.ai

#chatgpt #claude3 #firstorderpredicatelogic #math #maths #logic

tforcworc, to random
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Back in 1980 we worked on IP because we knew it would replace the Telephone Companies. Now we need to work on building the Fediverse to replace the Cloud.

b0rk, to random
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a git cheat sheet

Mer__edith, to random
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📢 My @NDSSSymposium keynote is up!

On how we lost the crypto wars, why surveillance advertising must be understood as the foundation of "AI", & why the tactics of the past won't serve us in defending privacy today.

Text: https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/ndss-keynote.pdf
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA2fRRO4qug&t=2s

shollyethan, to random
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Today I'm launching a project I've been working on for several months - a browsable directory of self-hosted software:

https://selfh.st/blog/introducing-selfhst-apps/

It's a supplemental tool to Awesome-Selfhosted and meant to be an alternate view focused on details that I personally find more relevant. And more importantly - it'll always be up-to-date as it's built on the dataset I use to monitor updates and releases for This Week in Self-hosted.

Feel free to reach out with feedback!

pluralistic, to random
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Here's a fun AI story: a security researcher noticed that large companies' AI-authored source-code repeatedly referenced a nonexistent library (an AI "hallucination"), so he created a (defanged) malicious library with that name and uploaded it, and thousands of developers automatically downloaded and incorporated it as they compiled the code:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/28/ai_bots_hallucinate_software_packages/

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jgbarah, to random
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En las próximas Jornadas de Cultura Libre de la tendremos un Taller sobre Software Libre https://eventos.urjc.es/113506/detail/introduccion-al-software-libre.html 20 de marzo, campus de . Todo aquello que siempre quisiste preguntar y nunca pudiste. ¡Vente y lo respondemos!

pluralistic, to random
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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Palantir's NHS-stealing Big Lie; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/08/the-fire-of-orodruin/

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OmaymaS, to ai
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Github copilot suggests real use names!

Seems that, not only do they include copyrighted data, but also keep user names in the training data (which is sth irrelevant!)

What about private repos?

arstechnica, to random
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Spain tells Sam Altman, Worldcoin to shut down its eyeball-scanning orbs

Cryptocurrency launched by OpenAI's Altman is drawing scrutiny from regulators.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/spain-tells-sam-altman-worldcoin-to-shut-down-its-eyeball-scanning-orbs/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

arstechnica, to random
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Carmakers must bring back buttons to get good safety scores in Europe

In 2026, Euro NCAP points will be deducted if some controls aren't physical.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/03/carmakers-must-bring-back-buttons-to-get-good-safety-scores-in-europe/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

emilymbender, (edited ) to random
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I'm happy to announce that Chirag Shah & my paper "Envisioning Information Access Systems: What Makes for Good Tools and a Healthy Web?" is now available through ACM TWeb. A short thread of introduction:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3649468

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arstechnica, to random
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Meta will start collecting “anonymized” data about Quest headset usage

Info on hand/eye tracking, "physical environment," and more could be included.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/02/meta-will-start-collecting-anonymized-data-about-quest-headset-usage/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Drbruced, to random
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Given the rather sloppy headlines about what “Wordpress” is planning to do with allowing AI systems to collect user data, I will point out:

  • All the references to Wordpress refer to Wordpress.com, the hosting company whose parent company is Automattic. They do not refer to Wordpress the open source software project.
  • Wordpress.com has published a blog post outlining their policies so that you don’t need to rely on speculative and vaguely alarming news articles

https://wordpress.com/blog/2024/02/27/more-control-over-the-content-you-share/

I’m not trying to carry water for Wordpress.com but I’m frustrated by the sloppy journalism in this situation.

pluralistic, to random
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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Dinkclump Linkdump; The Bezzle excerpt (Part VI); and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/23/gazeteer/

#Pluralistic

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