Notices by Stacey Campbell (stacey_campbell@aus.social)

@tek My 10 cents on this when I heard:

https://aus.social/@stacey_campbell/113306249308955264

@aral Shogan has published a strong rebuttal that WSJ arti...oh no, wait, she's doubled down, nvm.

https://aotus11.blogs.archives.gov/2024/10/30/a-message-from-the-archivist/

@timrichards "If a machine made bad decisions that had disastrous consequences, who would the responsibility fall on? It's a major question facing the banks."

Australian banks could try the Air Canada defence, their AI is "responsible for its own actions".

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240222-air-canada-chatbot-misinformation-what-travellers-should-know

The Electoral College has massive built-in quantization error and often results in the winner being the 2nd place popular vote-getter.

It's impossible to think of a way to make this garbage voting system even wor...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/20/us/politics/nebraska-trump-electoral-vote.html?unlocked_article_code=1.MU4.N6wJ.xa3q1h2HbF-k&smid=url-share

#uspol #trump

@ai6yr Nice safe yellow color, and labels that repel thieves. Not sure there's much more to do for aesthetics.

@MissingThePt Trumpy might want to create an account on Wikipedia and edit* the Historical rankings of presidents of the United States, 'cos currently it's ass-backwards according to him.** His presidency is dead last and Biden's around 14.

* - Page is semi-protected, I wonder why?
** - Citation needed of course.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_presidents_of_the_United_States

#uspol #trump

@liamvhogan To whoever posted this piece of art, I am eternally grateful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jbd0tYtm4s

@thomasfuchs I had no idea Kodak had that in their cameras back then. In 1999 I was spending a lot of time in a factory in Taiwan bringing up a consumer digital camera production line. I dimly recall all the models were using Kodak CCDs, none of them allowed users to install apps. 🙂

@thomasfuchs Kodak's film division could see the writing on the wall at this point.

@stevenbodzin @thomasfuchs I did click. You made the correct choice.

Open source projects have always had helpful/prickly/obnoxious/friendly contributors, but the end goal is usually the same; make the world a slightly better place by putting source code with some level of utility out there for everyone to use and possibly even enjoy.

That's why this #xz thing stings me, taking advantage of that framework to do a shitty thing.

@inthehands @futurebird @snacktraces Great advice.

Recently my son had CS coursework that involved converting a bowl-of-spaghetti logic diagram into a C++ program. Me, with 40 years of C experience, independently wrote my version of the program, he wrote his in C++. I asked him to send me his output and I sent him mine.

They didn't match, and sure enough I had messed up an AND gate.

@mwl @b0rk Same, but my goal is to sneak into retirement still oblivious.

@futurebird Big "This is the future that liberals want" energy.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/this-is-the-future-that-liberals-want

@mhoye Awesome, thanks! (I just switched today.)

@thomasfuchs Would scrubbing off its "natural patina" reduce or increase its value?

@stux The Nepal govt should double or triple the fee to climb Everest and use that additional money to clean up the mess.