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matthewskelton, to random
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"Surprisingly, our results show that women's contributions tend to be accepted more often than men's. However, when a woman's gender is identifiable, they are rejected more often. Our results suggest that although women on GitHub may be more competent overall, bias against them exists nonetheless."

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308716997_Gender_bias_in_open_source_Pull_request_acceptance_of_women_versus_men

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sehe,
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@matthewskelton I'm not surprised by any of this. PRs are about communication, which includes skills like patience. Of course, the least surprising bit is the discrimination evidence, which is still apalling. Let's not forget about selection bias, though. Those women that knowingly participate, even masquerading under neutral/male names have made a few conscious choices that make it less surprising that their acceptance rates are above average.

aral, (edited ) to random
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What if we changed the rules so that if a US presidential candidate that supports arming Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people wins, 15,000 American kids are randomly chosen and killed. (Unlike Palestinian kids, they’d be killed as painlessly as possible, not screaming in anguish from having been blown apart by American bombs.)

What would you do? Still vote for Biden as is or move heaven and earth to have him change his policies and/or get the Democrats to pick another candidate?

sehe,
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@aral Why make up artificial consequences of voting if the actual consequences have already been far far greater than this?

rysiek, (edited ) to infosec
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Wondering if anyone has already started adding malicious LLM prompts to their User Agent strings and hammering sites of companies that might be expected to use "AI" for log analysis. 🤔

Inspired by:
https://tweesecake.social/@weirdwriter/112441889190313713

sehe,
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@rysiek That requires the software to be written spectularly badly to have any effect? The original story around "email LLM" also sounds very very unrealistic, and the comment chains are weirdly centered around cheerleading privacy-centered email providers. Something doesn't add up.

sehe,
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@rysiek Oh I know writing bad software is the norm. However, like sql injection, basic measures are actually not that hard, and indeed as you noted here: the fact that the AI has privileges to perform actions is the real problem here. It also seems that somehow they it is allowed to take prompts from tainted (untrusted) input. I don't see how that would be required for normal AI-agent. Perhaps I need to do some reading, as it could be that LLMs make no distinction between "context" and "prompt"?

sehe, to random
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Google, go home, you're drunk ¯_(ツ)_/¯

tml, to AirBNB
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Hmm, why does my host (for the apartment in Vienna I already checked out from, and already exchanged messages with after that) send me a WhatsApp message from Pakistan? Something fishy?

sehe,
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@tml So, yeah pretty fishy IYAM. Not in the way you feared. But come on.
#1 Outsourcing the communication for your BnB
#2 getting it wrong (you already checked out and communicated that)
#3 people in Pakistan are not "virtual assistants". They're people in Pakistan.

KydiaMusic, to random
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Thought you might find this article interesting in light of our previous conversation about perfect (absolute) pitch and how those who speak tonal languages might find it easier: https://news.uchicago.edu/explainer/what-is-perfect-pitch

@mcmullin @mxtthxw

Sorry I can’t remember who else was included on that thread.

But anyway, I wonder if there are any programs for adults to work on developing absolute pitch? 🤔

sehe,
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@etherdiver @KydiaMusic @mcmullin @mxtthxw Well underway with losing the perfect pitch, indeed. Harmless, but still a bit unsettling (and annoying for specific tasks like transcribing or rehearsal)

KenExline, to random
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sehe,
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@qurlyjoe @KenExline Image search supposedly backs that up with a source link. I've never seen image search say "This image is from the 60s".

sehe,
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@qurlyjoe @KenExline Ah delicious language at it again. "Image search tells me" vs. "Image search says" - which are both plenty ambiguous of course, but still not the same. No worries. It seems no older source exists, which makes it a rather suspect image indeed.

eighthave, to fdroid

Three years ago, had a similar kind of attempt as the . A new contributor submitted a merge request to improve the search, which was oft requested but the maintainers hadn't found time to work on. There was also pressure from other random accounts to merge it. In the end, it became clear that it added a . In this case, we managed to catch it before it was merged. Since similar tactics were used, I think its relevant now

https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/-/merge_requests/889

sehe,
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@gentoobro @eighthave You could easily drop the last word and have another true-ism that is perhaps more relevant.

GossiTheDog, to random
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    sehe,
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    @ixs @GossiTheDog I haven't analyzed the CentOS package but wouldn't this be a false negative if the xz code is linked statically? In my experience this is very very commonplace, though I guess for a project like openssh there are different priorities than keeping runtime dependencies down

    sehe,
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    @ixs I'm not sure that I think condoning dlopen is a good security practice. (Far from it?) but yeah I trust that openssh is one of the core packages that will actually be vetted against those policies, so that helps.

    And best to pick a distribution /release so old that no actor is interested is exploiting its vulns (think Win3.11, not WinXP)

    sehe, to random
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    Really warming up to NixOs by just enjoying seemless bleeding edge packages under Ubuntu using Home Manager.

    People have been telling me for years. I should have tried harder before.

    I'm still not convinced it's worth going cold-turkey since pure NixOs seems like an awful lot of reinventing the same old boring stuff in a new way (but for the last time?! famous promise). The mix is fantastic. Blows docker out of the water. Really nice for CI/QA

    sehe, to random
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    Byebye !

    I remember the day I switched to Authy because it would not vendor-lockin me for codes. Alas, today is the day where I ditched it because Authy - without warning - stopped supporting the desktop app, even hurrying the deadline by 5 months! That was 70% of the total notification window as far as I could tell.

    Requiring a mobile device for is not quite the same for me, and it can get lost (or stolen) way too easily for my taste.

    ct_bergstrom, to Birding
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    flying away in 4x slow motion.

    How did they coordinate their departure?

    Video of crows flying up from a yellow-leaved horse chestnut tree into the blue sky

    sehe,
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    @ct_bergstrom Extreme ADHD

    Cat_LeFey, to random
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    My dudes, and gals, and eldritch horrors, Do not post about your crimes on the internet.

    sehe,
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    @Cat_LeFey oh... /saves draft.txt

    yurnidiot, to random
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    someone understood the assignment

    view from car driving by a house that has dozens of skeletons in humorous poses for halloween decorations.

    sehe,
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    @manon @yurnidiot Lawn mobility for the win

    sehe, to random
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    Meanwhile in twitland

    sehe,
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    Look, @vzverovich this might have something to do with things.

    And the spam isn't even related to the firehose of political misinformation and batshit crazies being pushed on my timeline.

    mez, to random
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    Emily Post’s of the tech world, help!

    Is it rude to comment on a coworker’s keyboard button mashing? It’s just slap slap SLAP! all the time. So loud and smack-y. Not sure if it’s the keyboard or the user.

    Do I passive aggressively make a joke about it or just straight up ask them to type quieter w/out preamble? Or None Of My Business & let the person dominate that keyboard?
    😰

    sehe,
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    @mez It's always okay to let your needs be known. I prefer to be straight-forward, but YMMV. Solutions could be, replacement keyboard, isolation mats, noise-cancelling ear wear, rearranging the seating plan and combinations of the same.

    sehe, to opensource
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    "How We Made 4" video is stunningly informative. https://youtu.be/Qct6LKbneKQ

    Blown away how much MuseScore has crept up to . I have to try it.

    Rare project managed so well in land.

    I will admit, some years ago I gave @tantacrul little chance puling this off.

    I stand corrected. Every credit.

    @classicalmusic

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