Notices by Anthropy :verified_dragon: (anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz)

I just had to upload this myself so I could pin it.

I think it's a really important message beyond just the fact that computers and networks are an amazing gift to society, I think it's equally or more important to note that conformity is a curse.

We should all be able to have our own opinions and ways to view the world, without being resented for it, without being cast out for it.

It's diversity and inclusion that make this world a greater place; not some narrative that disagreement is wrong

or even questions like "what if a healthcare provider decides to use ML/Algorithms/statistics to decide whether someone should be insured or not" which has been happening for DECADES .. and that is the absolute tip of the iceberg.

and please don't prove my point by going "AI will never XYZ", it's not about bashing things for social media brownie points, it's about preparing for the fucking singularity on our fucking doorstep, it will come, sooner or later, regardless of denialism

Tired of the blind dumb AI/ML bashing. Not all of it is bad, things are rarely ever that simple, and AI/ML is no exception.

Yes AI is marketing, but that doesn't mean all the AI/ML stuff is bogus, or even that it always uses more energy. Try look up e.g GraphCast or AlphaFold that are radically improving weather prediction while also doing it with less resources, and democratising protein folding by making it that much lighter that everyone can do it, removing a bit of monopoly from Big Pharma.

If you actually care about improving things rather than just getting on the same bandwagon as everyone else, it's vital to have a nuanced and informed opinion, otherwise you're not going to have the impact you hope for. Neither AI nor ML is new, and the only reason you are upset about it now is because tech companies are shoving it in your face to try and be relevant. But the things you actually see advertised is a fraction of what's going on. We can't just "get rid of AI", even if we'd want to.

"Are you an AI fanboy":
No. I'm a realist. I see that nobody is answering the questions that we need to answer *right now*;
- Big Tech just wants AI to save them and make them relevant again
- Governments are just waiting to see how it plays out
- Society is partially blindly rejecting it and partially blindly trusting it, when it's not going away, and only going to get more complicated

NOBODY is ready to answer questions like "WHAT IF Self-aware superhuman AI shows up TOMORROW?"

@vncresolver UI nightmares

I'm at the #eurofurence #ef28fedi meetup, any moots around? :anthropyblepvca:

Found a wild @volpeon EEEE'ing up the #EF28Fedi wall

@bmacDonald94 @bruce A lot of webdevs use CDNs from google to distribute stuff like jquery and what not else frontend stuff.

If you want to specifically block the sign-in related stuff leading to google I'd recommend blocking something like accounts.google.com .

You can do this by adding it to your hosts file (/etc/hosts on mac/linux, C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts on Windows), looking something like this:

127.0.0.1 accounts.google.com

it'll remap the domain to localhost, blocking it.

Can we all just take a moment and appreciate how there is not a single ad or paid account optimization algorithm or whatever in this place, you can just go to this social media platform of all things, with no adblocker on an unpatched windows xp box, and expect a good time, hop on some IRCs and the experience is complete. this is truly the internet like it's 2001, this feels like home :wvrnFlat:

@SuperDicq if you're a user, yes I wouldn't recommend to use windows, but producers of DRM software or companies that use DRM and anticheat and what not, enjoy the kernel level restrictions they can put in place, if that access gets removed that would be one less reason for them to lean on windows.

Funny article on Notebookcheck https://www.notebookcheck.net/Microsoft-paves-the-way-for-Linux-gaming-success-with-plan-that-would-kill-kernel-level-anti-cheat.888345.0.html

Very good point honestly, if Microsoft starts blocking kernel access also for DRM softwares, this will no longer be a reason to use Windows.

Dear everyone who throws childish fits about the EU's mandate to attach bottlecaps to drink containers:

𝓢 𝓴 𝓲 𝓵 𝓵 𝓲 𝓼 𝓼 𝓾 𝓮

Sincerely,
someone who can't believe this amazing feature wasn't there before and is now never mixing up or losing or having to put a bottlecap down anywhere anymore because the bottle is now finally a single unit, and absolutely can't believe there are people out there that get triggered by such a minor change.
:dragon_sip:

"hububuh I want to decide what I do with my bottles"

1) Humans lost that privilege and if you don't understand why then just go check out any fucking beach or hiking trail or average street or literally anywhere on this fucking planet because our plastic waste littering is only getting bigger every year, maybe just buy a different type bottle if it bothers you so much?

2) Nobody took away your ability to manipulate the bottle, just don't fucking litter

I got a trophy that might upset some people here. But I'm still proud of it because we do a lot of good work that gets snowed under the negative attention around LLMs, which is only a tiny fraction of actual AI. Just look up stuff like GraphCast and AlphaFold that are decreasing power usage for entire fields of science while simultaneously advancing them by decades.

@georgetakei I bet they were a banker :dragonbros_nod2:

@a1ba ultimate proof that foxes are eepy

Hope is not a strategy. (V. Lombardi)

Failure is not an option. (G. Kranz)

Action is the foundational key to all success. (P. Picasso)

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. (W. Disney)

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. (W. Butler Yeats)

It always seems impossible until it's done. (N. Mandela)

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. (S. Covey)

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. (W. Gretzky)

People: radiation baed, 5G baed, LTE baed, phones scary
Also people: *goes to the beach specifically to bake in the ionising radiation despite getting significant cancerous radiation burns in the process*
Also people: *buys 400THZ photon radiation emitting 100W transmitter specifically to enjoy the warm feels of this "infrared lamp"*

There are few things that make me feel like an alien visitor as much as seeing people do this and being unable to wrap their minds around why I find that funny 👽

@arstechnica hahaha forget RAGs, knowledge graphs, fact checking APIs, hybrid models, dynamic memory networks, etc etc, Apple has figured it all out! just tell them not to hallucinate! ez pz truly redefining AI as Apple Intelligence :woozy_clown: