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Kevin Marks

@KevinMarks@xoxo.zone

mastodon 4.7.3

Reading your thoughts, if you write them down first.

3885 Followers

4574 Following

28 Posts

Joined April 05, 2017

my website:

https://www.kevinmarks.com

other mastodon:

https://indieweb.social/@kevinmarks

pronouns:

he/him

github:

https://github.com/kevinmarks

Kevin Marks @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone

· 11mo ago

Key findings:
45% of all AI answers had at least one significant issue.
31% of responses showed serious sourcing problems – missing, misleading, or incorrect attributions.
20% contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details and outdated information.
Gemini performed worst with significant issues in 76% of responses, more than double the other assistants, largely due to its poor sourcing performance.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2025/new-ebu-research-ai-assistants-news-content

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory

An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

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Kevin Marks @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone

· 44mo ago

Google: We're no longer supporting the Torment Nexus. Please upgrade to the Torment Pixel.

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Kevin Marks @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone

· 9mo ago

@anguinea I've been saying coprolite

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Kevin Marks @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@NewtonMark @wall_e @pluralistic it's doing that in midwinter? What's it going to be like next summer?

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Kevin Marks @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone

· 9mo ago

Replying to

@cstross@wandering.shop @LillyHerself@mastodon.social @jbenjamint@mastodon.scot it adds a bit more friction to the act of taking a screenshot for dog piling use, as you have to maintain unblocked sock accounts to take the shot with.

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Kevin Marks @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@fergycool@mastodon.social what Mac are you running it on? From what I recall (I was working on QuickTime Video capture at the time) the FireWire DMA was tricky to get right and the autofocus noise supression would leave sync gaps in the audio.

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Kevin Marks @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@randahl you should plot that last stacked bar half as wide and twice as high if it represents 6 months rather than 12

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Kevin Marks @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@alsvha @scalzi SludgeFeed or BottomFeed?

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Kevin Marks @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@scalzi devolve or dissolve?

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Kevin Marks @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone

· 32mo ago

Replying to

@CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk this reminds me of danah boyd's thesis on teen publics ~15 years ago “their idea of public is not about all people across all space and all time. They want publics of peers, not publics where creeps and parents lurk.” This is part of the original twitter illusion - that you were talking to the people who you follow, not those who follow you, and not the firehose feed. That created a good normative sense for the most part, but the illusion broke with search and reply notifications

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Kevin Marks @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone

· 35mo ago

Replying to

@strypey @siderea @paninid @mastodonmigration Twitter had some tools to mitigate this. Originally this was the "only show replies from verified people" aimed squarely at the famous posters to ignore the masses. That's become useless as Ticks on twitter are now parasites. However there are "mute thread", "leave thread" and "limit replies" affordances on twitter that do address this problem of scale of replies that Mastodon doesn't have. Hope that helps.

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Kevin Marks @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone

· 35mo ago

Replying to

@ids1024@fosstodon.org @thephd@pony.social I'm getting flashbacks to all the Endian.h stuff we had in QuickTime to deal with all the different processor architectures we compiled to. Which is pretty much how Apple can swap CPU options to this day.

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Kevin Marks @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone

· 27mo ago

Official exit poll:
Lab 410 Con 131 LD 61 Reform 13 SNP 10 Other 25
Boring
Fun version:
Lab 420 Con 69 LD 69
Then we can have a Labour split so it's
Lab 345 Woke Labour 75 Con 69 LD 69
Woke Labour as official opposition with all committee and PMQ privileges

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Kevin Marks @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone

· 47mo ago

Replying to

@klillington@mastodon.ie see also http://guidetomastodon.com/

guidetomastodon.com

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Kevin Marks @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone

· 35mo ago

Replying to

@strypey @siderea @paninid @mastodonmigration Bluesky doesn't yet have the scale where this is a problem. Threads I don't use so can't comment, but I expect they'll have some tooling based on Instagram. Mastodon didn't have this problem of scale and fame initially, and the tooling hasn't caught up yet. It's about where twitter was in 2014, when I wrote this https://www.kevinmarks.com/twitterhatespeech

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Kevin Marks @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone

· 35mo ago

Replying to

@thephd@pony.social @ids1024@fosstodon.org the other half of this was the QuickTime QA team who built and ran a really deep set of tests across multiple CPU architectures for every commit to be sure that you had used them correctly. That's a bit harder to put into a language standard.

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Kevin Marks @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone

· 47mo ago

Replying to

@feditips@mstdn.social for android use the web app and accept the save to desktop prompt. It works great. I can't vouch for iOS because Apple lags on web standards.

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Kevin Marks @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone

· 39mo ago

Replying to

@leaverou@front-end.social previously when looking at tags I have found Rosch's prototype theory better than strict hierarchies - the latter has historically been about shelving convenience when trying to locate a single copy. The prototypes are more about "what kind of thing does this resemble?" - experts in a topic will recognise more kinds of things than the general reader. Using tags more loosely can help communicate these different prototypes and help them search elsewhere too.

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Kevin Marks @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone

· 29mo ago

Replying to

@VeryBadLlama@mas.to The universe winds down. That's how it's made. But memory is everything to lose; Although some of the colors have to fade, Do not believe you'll get the chance to choose. Regret, by definition, comes too late; Say what you mean. Bear witness. Iterate. John M. Ford 2003 https://nielsenhayden.com/electrolite/archives/003789.html

nielsenhayden.com

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Kevin Marks @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone

· 29mo ago

Replying to

@VeryBadLlama@mas.to De Vermis The worm drives helically through the wood And does not know the dust left in the bore Once made the table integral and good; And suddenly the crystal hits the floor. Electrons find their paths in subtle ways, A massless eddy in a trail of smoke; The names of lovers, light of other days -- Perhaps you will not miss them. That's the joke.

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Kevin Marks @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone

· 48mo ago

Replying to

@Danhon@mastodon.cloud you missed the rel=me verification built into mastodon - if you link the author's byline page on the website to the mastodon page and back, you get a green tick ✅ in the mastodon profile. This can also verify other non-mastodon urls.

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Kevin Marks @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone

· 76mo ago

Replying to

@mattl hi there, are you using indieweb sync tools?

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Kevin Marks @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone

· 24mo ago

Replying to

@zephoria Ellen wrote about the cultural impact https://web.archive.org/web/20081005032646/http://www.beyondsatire.us/?q=node%2F272

web.archive.org

Randall Munroe's visit to Google (xkcd) | Beyond Satire

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Kevin Marks @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone

· 33mo ago

Replying to

@BelieveinScotland@mastodon.scot how much of that is due to post-Brexit decline of most other food and drink exports though?

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Kevin Marks @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone

· 32mo ago

Replying to

@Gargron@mastodon.social given that the spam is mainly the same images, could you hash them and use that as a rejection filter?

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Kevin Marks @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone

· 45mo ago

Replying to

@Meyerweb@mastodon.social see also https://xoxo.zone/@KevinMarks/109671433057680076

Kevin Marks: "@iandunt@toot.community They need to do a lot bet…" - XOXO Zone

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