Notices by Florian Ledermann (floledermann@mapstodon.space)

I've been toying a bit with using LLM's for generating solutions for simple spatial analysis tasks (clustering etc.).

Oh boy! 😔 This stuff will *cost lives* as it will inevitably be used in real-world applications in contexts that are not robust to bullshitting.

Not to speak of the countless hours wasted by experienced folks to fix the stuff junior "developers" come up with.

Productivity boost my a**. This will cause maintenance/debugging/cleanup work of unprecedented scale.

#llm #chatgpt

TIL my university #tuwien blocks incoming emails for the entire .host top-level-domain. Many #mastodon servers are hosted on masto.host, so this would block all confirmation mails from any of these servers (e.g. my instance), making it impossible to register an account. The mails are not even marked as spam, they are simply not delivered (while acknowledging delivery to the sender).

Is it only me, or is this a quite unbelievable and unacceptable intervention in communication infrastructure?

My university's #IT claims that the .host TLD is "potentially suspicious", and therefore all incoming email from any .host domain should be ignored without even notifying the receiver.

If you hear from someone who doesn't receive their confirmation mail from a #mastodon instance hosted on masto.host, this may be the reason (even if the instance has a different domain, mails will originate from masto.host). Such (IMO inacceptable!) policies are often shared in the IT community.

@jeremy @mastohost
FWIW TU Wien has now whitelisted masto.host, but the practice may be more widespread as such (silly and overshooting) blacklists may be shared in the IT community or even embedded in products they use ? .