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@Strandjunker@mstdn.social Your system has been failing to stop them for decades. Stop waiting for it to work. It is not going to happen.
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We each live in our own perceptual universe, no two sensoria are exactly alike, but, because we all live in the same physical universe, we imagine it is a shared whole, its entirety common to us all. But our perceptual worlds are as unique as we each are, each unique perceptual world adding to the creation of the whole of reality.
Pagan Theologian. Ethicist. In self imposed exile from academia. Regenerative farmer. Photographer. Punk. Open data advocate. Virtual world developer.
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Dogmatic religion is a bitch:
Virtually Real: being in cyberspace:
I'm sorry Dave I can't do that: ethics in software developmentment:
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@gypsyvegan @gcluley "If our national security rests on US technology, we have no national security." This applies just as much for us here in Australia.
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@timnitGebru And developers. A developer here was boasting just the other day how she got a big grant from Bluesky for dev on activity pub and couldn't see why it was a problem.
Let's use this shot for the next Tasmanian tourism promotion. Fun fact: Forestry and Tas Fire are exempted from air pollution laws in Tasmania.
Sent my feedback to my Labor member today about Australia's support of the US illegal actions in Iran. The very young staffer told me that (a) We support the US and Israel in their quest to ensure Iran does not get nuclear weapons and (b) Australia is not giving any actual assistance to the US in this endeavour.
When I questioned the veracity of both of those statements she told me she "believes that the government would not lie". And then got super righteous telling me that "that's just your opinion", and informed me that it was not her job to enter into conversations with people but just to hand on the information the government had given her.
Super great way to encourage people to vote for you.
If most young people are this gormless I despair for us.
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@geos Solidarity brother. Good on you for fighting this good fight. I have been blocked by several people because every time I see someone post a link to something on substack I politely ask them to consider not signal boosting those who monetise Nazis.
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@noondlyt You might enjoy The Enchantments of Mammon: how capitalism became the religion of modernity by Eugene McCarraher
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674984615
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-01/anthony-albanese-national-address-fuel-crisis-iran/106522770
Albanese saying he will do everything he can to protect Australia from the effects of the war while sending our troops there. -10000000 points.
"Dear students,
As you know, in February the University announced that all students, staff and faculty will now be offered access to the Google chatbot, “Gemini.” In a series of emails to the Georgetown community, the Interim President and Interim Provost explained that this is part of a larger plan to put “generative AI” (a term which they do not define, but by which they appear to mean simply chatbots and other chatbot-like data products) at the center of a whole range of university activities, from scholarship and curriculum development to the various functions of the administrative bureaucracy.
I was not surprised to learn that Georgetown, like most American colleges and universities, has succumbed to the pressure to appear part of the “AI” in-crowd (and to the temptation of the resources being made available to those in that crowd). But even though everything I have done in my professional life has been in some way based on the expectation that institutions will tend towards corruption, corrosion and capture, when I think about what this particular instance of that phenomenon signifies for you, the students of Georgetown, I feel very sad and angry. And I decided that the best thing to do with that sadness and anger would be to write to you all directly about why this decision by your university, which may seem on the surface to be an example of garden variety corporate thoughtlessness, should disturb you deeply, and provoke you to fight back."
Emily Tucker
Executive Director
Center on Privacy & Technology
Georgetown Law
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@0xThylacine@photog.social https://www.maltron.com/store/p19/Maltron_Single_Hand_Keyboards_-_US_English.html That is an expensive keyboard.
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@Canageek@wandering.shop I am not saying it is perfect. There is also the issue of the psychological effects on humans of becoming dependent on these things.
I am suggesting that we can be discerning and weigh the risks depending on the variables.
Software can't lie or hallucinate as it has no intent or perception. These are just words their developers use to avoid having to say that they wrote very bad software.
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@Canageek@wandering.shop It should. It isn't a thing built by stealing other people's work as it uses only the SUSE docs as its data set.
It is never going to use a giant data centre because in runs locally and is aimed at new users not businesses.
This kind of single purpose SLM is the only use of this technology that I would consider ever thinking about using. And it will probably be one of the very few uses of this tech which will be around after the bubble bursts.
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@saltywizard@beige.party I am hoping somebody realises that the cost of rebuilding all the destroyed fossil fuel infrastructure would be better spent on renewables.
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@Black_Flag@beige.party This is due to Christianity and its concept of the end of days wherein times is a linear construct rather than a circular construct.
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@Lana@beige.party It should be no surprise that these models do this,. They are trained on our data. We are prejudiced so they are too.
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@skua Employing poorly trained juniors for such roles shows how much they care about our input.
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@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange This is about the epidemic of loneliness. So many people are so thoroughly alone that even a chatbot is better than the ache of being alone.
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@hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange I know I may regret asking this. But you can't hide from the dark. I keep seeing people mention cannibalism but I haven't seen any sourced claims. The only sourced piece I have seen is a lengthy denial that there is any such thing in the files. Is this information sourced?
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@dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org @alexhaydock@infosec.exchange @amonduin@mastodon.social @nemo@mas.to @Samaelius@mastodon.social https://www.androidauthority.com/graphene-os-major-android-oem-partnership-3606853/ Does anyone of you know if this has progressed?
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@shtrom Yup, and weapons. https://www.pm.gov.au/media/australia-provide-defensive-military-assistance-gulf and behind the "defensive assistance to gulf states" lie is the fact that they are sharing the surveillance info with the us - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-17/australian-wedgetail-aircraft-sending-intel-to-us/106465940
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@Canageek@wandering.shop I agree. I would look for another distro if SUSE started putting machine generated code in.
But I do think there are applications for this that are useful. e.g. medical image processing https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/ai-tool-can-analyse-complex-cancer-images-rapidly-offering-potential-to-personalise-treatment
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@Canageek@wandering.shop I found this https://github.com/openSUSE/mentoring/issues/259 It isn't an LLM. It is a locally running SLM.
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@JohnSullivan The United States was founded on genocide. Stop trying to be great and aim for being decent.
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@Joshsharp Morality features in nobody's KPIs.
This sentiment has been around for a very long time. Think about how long the expression "it's not personal, it 's just business" has been around, That means "All I care about is money".
Why do we suddenly have to use an area code to call within the local area?
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@troed@masto.sangberg.se Or you could normalise qualitative assessments over quantitative ones.
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@Canageek@wandering.shop What is the source of this information please? The only thing I can find is https://www.phoronix.com/news/GSoC-2026-Exciting-Projects Which is a student doing the Google summer of code said they had an idea for such a project.
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@Hiltibrant@mastodon.social @lyndamerry484@mastodon.social Looking at you Linux Australia.