Notices by Lilian Edwards (lilianedwards@someone.elses.computer)

Sunday treat 🙂
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RT @JudgeFergusonTX
Happy #LawyerCat day for all who celebrate!! Today is the 2nd anniversary of Lawyercat. To celebrate, here is the full and complete hearing from start to finish, with a few seconds at the end that you haven't seen! For the next year, may you all be here live and #NotaCat.
https://twitter.com/JudgeFergusonTX/status/1623668045104431106

V useful info in one place here about the datasets GPT3.5 is trained on. I knew this but it still takes your breath away:

"WebText2 is a private OpenAI dataset created by crawling links from Reddit that had three upvotes.

The idea is that these URLs are trustworthy and will contain quality content."

Have these ppl ever READ Reddit?!

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/how-to-block-chatgpt-from-using-your-website-content/478384/

Small incredible datum : "The entirety of Twitter’s Brazil team was included in the 7,500 people laid off earlier this month" https://www.wired.com/story/twitters-moderation-system-is-in-tatters/

Mastodon on your own domain without hosting a server - v interesting! So you can change instance without having to tell everyone a different handle.https://blog.maartenballiauw.be/post/2022/11/05/mastodon-own-donain-without-hosting-server.html

Added _ https://blog.maartenballiauw.be/post/2022/11/05/mastodon-own-donain-without-hosting-server.html

Energy consumption of conventional cloud based tech vs decentralised models - or crudely, Twitter vs Mastodon - anyone got news, views? See this post https://saturation.social/@clive/109345164021273865 @cjcolclough which suggests as i anecdata knew that server farms & relevant cloud code are run with great efficiency - but how much energy does pervasive tracking use that we cld save?