rysiek

rysiek, 23 hours ago to random

I am now verifying a @QubesOS installation ISO I am going to use very soon, and I need a trusted source of their master signing key fingerprint.

/me looks at the 10-year anniversary t-shirt I physically got from QubesOS team at #38C3 :blobcateyes:

Right. :blobcatcoffee:

#JustNerdThings #QubesOS

rysiek, 3 days ago to random

who called it "war of attrition" instead of "battle of Endure"

/I am so sorry, Star Wars fans

rysiek, 3 days ago to random

There is no AI, just somebody else's glorified Markov chain.

rysiek, 5 days ago (edited 5 days ago) to infosec

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

#InfoSec

rysiek, 5 days ago to random

"S" in "LLM" stands for "Secure"

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

"ChatGPT [prompt] consumes (…) up to 25 times more than a Google search"
https://www.brusselstimes.com/1042696/chatgpt-consumes-25-times-more-energy-than-google

> Making sure your electricity comes from wind, solar or nuclear power is a logical first step. Google itself, for example, says it has been running entirely on green electricity since 2015.

Story misses a crucial point:

👉 The goal isn't just to add green power. The goal is to emit less CO2!

New green capacity needs to replace old dirty stuff. Not be gobbled up by new data centers for AI.

🧵

rysiek, 7 days ago (edited 6 days ago) to random

Whenever a manager at a company (especially a large one) says:

> I'm sorry, we cannot afford a raise for you at this time

…ask yourself if what they really mean is:

> I'm sorry, we cannot afford a raise for you and a huge payout (dividends, bonuses, etc) for the management and stockholders simultaneously, and our priorities are obvious.

You'd be surprised how often that's the case.

Oh, and get into the habit of reading any available financial disclosures before having that talk! Just sayin…

rysiek, 7 days ago (edited 7 days ago) to random

Hey @nextcloud I see you made "AI" the "centerpiece" of #Nextcloud Hub 8?
https://news.itsfoss.com/nextcloud-hub-8/

What model are you using?
What data has it been trained on, and by whom?
Can I recreate your model from scratch?

Edit: the "centerpiece" part might have come from It's FOSS News, although Nextcloud messaging around AI is similarly excited.

rysiek, 7 days ago to random

I cannot wait for the next hype cycle. The AI one is so dank and tired.

rysiek, 13 days ago to random

We will all have to one day explain what we were doing during the Gaza genocide.

And a lot of us will have to atone for it.

rysiek, 15 days ago to random

Okay, so, podcasts are great but sometimes I prefer to read instead of listen. 🤔

So what if – hear me out – there was a thing like podcasts, but for text! 🤯

It would still be distributed via RSS, you could still follow them and automagically pull them to your device. But instead of audio, there would be text. ✏️

👉 We could call them: textcasts!

And get this: I already have one! It was super easy to set up, actually. You can find it here:
https://rys.io/en/feed.rss

rysiek, 16 days ago (edited 16 days ago) to random

May the Forth be with you!

rysiek, 16 days ago to random

Oh my Dog, @baldur yet again hits multiple nails square in their heads:
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/react-electron-llms-labour-arbitrage/

🔥 🔥 🔥

> Tech management will sacrifice technological progress – performance, design, and general product effectiveness – if it disempowers labour.

> If you’re unlucky enough to have to use any of this garbage we’re shipping and calling ‘software’, now you know why it all feels a bit shit.

> This is what unions were made for

🔥 🔥 🔥

rysiek, 16 days ago to random

I just discovered @stefan 's blog and holy moly there's some damn neat stuff there!

Loving this:
https://www.stefanjudis.com/a-firefox-only-minimap/

rysiek, 16 days ago to infosec

Dear #InfoSec Hivemind!

We've seen supply chain attacks where old unmaintained npm packages were taken over and malwared, targeting devs.

We've seen attacks that typosquatted names of popular npm packages to get devs to include these accidentally.

We've seen malicious JS libraries hosted on large CDNs, used in attacks.

Have we seen a case where a JS library / npm package got taken over, malwered, and then published to CDNs in order to target websites that include it?

:boost_ok:

#WebDev

rysiek, 17 days ago (edited 16 days ago) to random

Whodunnit?

rysiek, 18 days ago to random

I had some leftover egg whites, so I decided to try making a homemade yolk-less mayonnaise for the first time.

I have never made homemade mayonnaise before. New skill get!

It came out a bit too lemony, but still tasty. I call this a success.

Anyway, behold: my First of Mayo!

rysiek, 19 days ago to random

Torment Nexus is inevitable; if we didn't make it, someone else would.

It's good it was us, because we can deploy it least unethically.

It is of course unfortunate that it kills a person a day, but we estimate that within a million years it will have caused slight enjoyment for over9000³²² people.

The amount of pleasure is, clearly, incomparably higher in the long run than the amount of current suffering caused by it.

So we had a moral duty to create and profit from this here Torment Nexus!

rysiek, 21 days ago to random

neolibs: the market will solve it!

the market: haha lol AI brrrrt synergy pffffft lalala blockchain weeeeee! hiccup

rysiek, 21 days ago to random

If #DNS is so great, why is there a .int, but not a .float, .char, or .double? 🤔

rysiek, 23 days ago to random

A few days ago @ward tooted about how it's somehow "AI art", but if it's human-made, inexplicably it's just "content":
https://easymode.im/notes/9s9fhdg8jh3gi3h7

His toot has been living rent-free in my head ever since.

I had ranted a few times before how "content" is a corporate-y way to devalue art. How "user-generated content" is a term designed to make it easier to deny the significance (not just monetary) of the amazing stuff people create online.

Contrasting this with "AI art" is jarring, and spot-on. 👀

rysiek, 22 days ago to random

I'll need to get an Akkoma account somewhere, won't I.

sigh

rysiek, 22 days ago to random

A friend mentioned to me that he was always bothered by this line in The Matrix:

> The human body generates more bioelectricity than a 120-volt battery and over 25,000 BTUs of body heat. Combined with a form of fusion…

If Machines have fusion, why do they need humans?

Well, I figured it out. Humans are not there for energy.

"AI" is just as much of an exploitative sham in The Matrix as it now. It's all an elaborate Mechanical Turk.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/amazon-abandons-ai-stores

Thanks for coming to my TED talk! 🤖

rysiek, 24 days ago to Bulgaria

Well that sucks.

https://www.edps.europa.eu/press-publications/press-news/press-releases/2024/edps-decentralised-social-media-pilot-end-successful-story_en

> The EDPS pilot project of EU Voice and EU Video has proved that public bodies, like EUIs, can offer social media platforms that respect individuals’ fundamental rights

> Unfortunately, despite our efforts to find a new home for EU Voice and EU Video in other EUIs, we have been unable to secure new ownership to maintain the servers and sustain operations at the high standards that EUIs and our users deserve

#EU #Fediverse

rysiek, 23 days ago to random

Hey @patrick_breyer_mep as #EUVoice is going to be shutting down, perhaps it's time to add building and maintaining sovereign social media infrastructure to campaign promises for the upcoming #Europarl elections? :blobcateyes:

Or is that somewhere there already and I just missed it? 👀