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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Nov-2024 02:18:49 JST Paul Cantrell

   in reply to

   @nazokiyoubinbou @Awks
   Nazo, I think you misunderstood the post you’re replying to.

   In particular, please reread this sentence more carefully [emph added]:

   “It is a measure of the ••risks incurred•• with AI that corporations can't progress this tech without ••finding a way out of taking liability•• for errors.”

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   Chris Siebenmann (cks@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 16:24:24 JST Chris Siebenmann

   My standard attitude on digital signatures for anything, Git commits included, is that you should not sign anything unless you understand what you're committing to when you do so. This usually includes "what people expect from you when you sign things". Signing things creates social and/or legal liability. Do not blindly assume that liability without thought, especially if people want you to.

   In re: https://fosstodon.org/@vbatts/112185576755787518

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   Moira (moira@c.im)'s status on Sunday, 26-Nov-2023 10:36:04 JST Moira

   in reply to

   There are two climbing roses by her gate,
   one to each side, with velvet blooms, small,
   but heavily scented, suitable for soaps, salves

   and potpourri. They blossom out together,
   several hundred, perhaps a thousand whorls
   French pink, shading to cream, the haunt

   of matching shy arachnids. How tall they'd grow
   she doesn't know, having twined an arch of willow
   whips atop her gate, to bind them to.

   In her middle years, her family took this place
   and named it for the stony creek, dry
   in summer, rolling through between house

   and garden. A storm year came; that garden up
   and vanished down a river to the sea,
   leaving them three dead plum trees and a rose.

   She started fresh, by the house. For the rose
   she chose north, a shaded wall, and while the bush
   liked a hidden spring there, for drinking,

   it never cared for the paucity of light. It'd
   stretch its greeny fingers roofward, up
   and over; send roots drilling left and right;

   make awkward shoots. Shift it one more time,
   she thought. Maybe both sides of a sunny gate
   she'd build, with an arch. The spot she had in view

   she could muse on from her kitchen window.
   Again two days of digging, and with her bow saw
   made one rose two. Would they take another journey?

   It seemed they would, though they'd always want water;
   She'd have to remember to make the hoses reach.
   She wouldn't mind if the roses wouldn't mind.

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   Open Risk (openrisk@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Oct-2023 21:08:50 JST Open Risk

   in reply to

   @Gargron There are similarities in people's lemming behavior but also important substance differences that are good for the #opensource community to keep in mind.

   Blockchain architectures typically target problems that could be solved with slightly less decentralized / automated designs if people really wanted to.

   In contrast, "AI" is a class of useful algorithms (LLM) cleverly packaged to be seen as something magical. But they already solve something fairly practical, its not 100% hype.

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   AJ Sadauskas (ajsadauskas@aus.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 17:37:06 JST AJ Sadauskas

   Right now, could you prepare a slice of toast with zero embodied carbon emissions?

   Since at least the 2000s, big polluters have tried to frame carbon emissions as an issue to be solved through the purchasing choices of individual consumers.

   Solving climate change, we've been told, is not a matter of public policy or infrastructure. Instead, it's about convincing individual consumers to reduce their "carbon footprint" (a term coined by BP: https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/23/big-oil-coined-carbon-footprints-to-blame-us-for-their-greed-keep-them-on-the-hook).

   Yet, right now, millions of people couldn't prepare a slice of toast without causing carbon emissions, even if they wanted to.

   In many low-density single-use-zoned suburbs, the only realistic option for getting to the store to get a loaf of bread is to drive. The power coming out of the mains includes energy from coal or gas.

   But.

   Even if they invested in solar panels, and an inverter, and a battery system, and only used an electric toaster, and baked the loaf themselves in an electric oven, and walked/cycled/drove an EV to the store to get flour and yeast, there are still embodied carbon emissions in that loaf of bread.

   Just think about the diesel powered trucks used to transport the grains and packaging to the flour factory, the energy used to power the milling equipment, and the diesel fuel used to transport that flour to the store.

   Basically, unless you go completely off grid and grow your own organic wheat, your zero emissions toast just ain't happening.

   And that's for the most basic of food products!

   Unless we get the infrastructure in place to move to a 100% renewables and storage grid, and use it to power fully electric freight rail and zero emissions passenger transport, pretty much all of our decarbonisation efforts are non-starters.

   This is fundamentally an infrastructure and public policy problem, not a problem of individual consumer choice.

   #ClimateChange #urbanism #infrastructure #energy #grid #politics #power @green

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   goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Saturday, 01-Jul-2023 08:27:40 JST goatsarah

   Ok, they ended that a minute or two before I thought they were going to.

   In the book, she worked out it was a lie before she went outside. They discovered the code for the display and noted that it was only 8192 * 2048 pixels: enough for a helmet, but not enough for the cafeteria view screen.