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@alice@lgbtqia.space I have the inverse problem - a lot of the time I see someone with cool nails and want to compliment them on them (because they're cool nails, not because of a flirt)... but as an outwardly cis man it pretty obviously will *look* like a flirt.

@z@blat.at @alice@lgbtqia.space I mean, my "ulterior" motive, if I have one, is partly that I've always wanted cool nails (and cool hair - but early androgenic pattern baldness hinders that) but in the absence of courage, I'll admire other people's

@ricci@discuss.systems as others have noted, the local-diffusion nature of Fediverse hashtags is a feature, not a bug. I want people from likeminded communities who interpret the point of my hashtags similarly to me to see them - I do not necessarily want people from very different communities to do so.

@Salum it's hard to tell, because the initial post could be someone deliberately being ironic

@golgaloth@writing.exchange @Axolotl1@gaygeek.social I think "a kind of fluorescent yellow greenish-purple" also turns up as a description of it (of course, the point being that it's an impossible colour)

@hannorein@mastodon.social in addition, I think the thing people miss about physics-based models is that they also validate our understanding of systems - a statistical fit just "gives answers" without really telling us much about *why*, which is surely the point of science?

@astronomerritt@hachyderm.io @dave@alvarado.social Honestly, as one of the people who grew up in England who *did* have some awareness of the Troubles (via left-wing parents etc), I'm always astonished how various modern British politicians have been cavalier about what a tremendous (but also fragile) achievement it was. (One of the reasons I was furious about Brexit was that it was clear it made the GFA slightly weaker, given it really only works if we can "pretend" that the border between NI and Eire sort-of-doesn't-exist. )

@mhoye the irony, presumably, being that this is actually canon to some interpretations of the Bible (in the Old Testament, "Satan" is implied to be working for God - his job being precisely to test people.)

@MelissaBearTrix I voted no, but I do when leaving hotels etc in places I don't know well. I live in a rather safe, quiet location so...

@anne_twain@theblower.au @dee@social.treehouse.systems they generally don't think about anything other than the idea that "cis women are in danger" - the concept that trans men or trans women might be in danger is difficult for them (and they generally don't even think about trans men existing at all, hence the guy in this video's brain just turning off).

@agowa338 @BenjaminHCCarr we already produce melanins to protect us from radiation - what do you think dark skin colouration comes from? (Producing as much per unit volume as a fungus would be hard though, and all fungi are just naturally more radiation resistant than mammals)

@kagan people who are incapable of stepping outside their own culture (because they've never had to) often believe that they're never "political", because for them, "politics" means "stuff that makes me step outside my own direct needs".

@h5e @Salum Me too, but I guess there *are* people in the world who might actually do this

@evan@cosocial.ca @alice@lgbtqia.space Evan, I know I'm piling on here, but seriously. It should be obvious to you that you can't *tell* if people don't want their content boosted without *asking* them. This is what "informed consent" means. You strike me as someone who thinks you can solve social problems with tech, but this isn't true (and never really has been). If you want to both let people know your services (which, tbh, I'm not sure I see the point of, but you do you) exist *and* actually get consent, the correct flow would be: If the account in question has not been seen by your service before, *reply to the post you want to boost, asking for consent to boost it, fully explaining what tags.pub is*. Store and respect the response, and allow a mechanism for opting out in future. (Ideally, you should also allow the response to be "for that one post", "for only these tags", or other limiting selections, not just "opt in for everything".) Doing anything else isn't opt-in, it's opt-out, and deeply disrespectful of social contracts. Saying that consent matters when you clearly haven't considered *just asking* shows you have no real understanding of what consent (or a social contract) is.

@grimalkina@mastodon.social luckily, at least it is fairly easy to remove most ebook DRM...

@modrak_m @ngaylinn indeed, I am aware of at least one analogous case to the "example" in the article... and it was very obvious at an early meeting that "Bob" had no understanding of the outputs they were discussing

@shom@gts.shom.dev @alice@lgbtqia.space @z@blat.at I even own some press-on nails (from Etsy even)... but I hadd a big panic attack when trying to use them the first time (a year ago now), partly because they wouldn't stay on and partly due to anxiety so I have never gone back.

@penwing@wandering.shop it is depressing how Starmer seems genuinely constitutionally incapable of actually having identifiable political passions, isn't it?

@oddtail well, a reasonable way to estimate is to look at a phone designed to do much of that already - the Fairphone series are designed to be modular and repairable... but even they have the main storage, memory and CPU soldered to the mainboard to make things light and thin (as, increasingly, laptops do) https://www.fairphone.com/the-fairphone-gen-6

@oddtail "bricked" just really means "doesn't boot to the OS" - this could be anything from software damage (say, a firmware update that doesn't complete successfully and breaks the bootloader that runs when you turn the phone on) to actual hardware damage (say, a component burns out on the motherboard for the phone).

@agowa338 @BenjaminHCCarr there is, I believe, already a study done on melanistic fungi as radiation shields in spacecraft, or using melanin outside fungi (eg: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7182175/ )

@peterb @j_bertolotti well, and the closely related "This may have good uses, but the negatives are too high" (analogies: asbestos, CFCs, etc). The problem with technologies like this is that the industry in question often requires legislation to stop them using the tech despite its harms - and governments are slow to legislate because of the short-term economic effects & lobby influences.

@jbowen @diazona LLM with a fuzzer and some known "soft" parts in the kernel - the (poor) write up admits that the prompt that found this vuln told the tool the key function to try to exploit (although the exploits were all generated by the tool - which also explains why the original code *works* but also has bugs like claiming to support multiple payloads via arguments passed to it, but in fact does not).

@admin@mastodon.slightlycyberpunk.com @beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com that's sort of buried in the article, in the bit where they say that some of the additional work includes Engineers reviewing 'partially complete' work begun by colleagues using AI... it's just that it's *buried* in the article because it absolutely doesn't want to dwell on the implications

@Impossible_PhD are boosts welcome?

@EI3JDB @mhoye indeed, I went with "interpretation" because most Christians don't see it that way for various reasons, but Job is pretty clear!

@faithisleaping@anarres.family I'm so glad that people are posting things like this, in general. As a minor point of agreement from a different direction: Grayson Perry (Turner Prize winning artist who happens to also like cross-dressing - and is very secure in saying he is male) has noted before that in cross-dressing circles, there's the "people who just like cross-dressing" and the "people who were clearly there because they wanted more than just cross-dressing [but you needed to let them figure it out themselves]".

@ngaylinn I think it's more depressing that the author thinks that no-one is talking about these issues - I am not sure if it's depressing about their bit of astrophysics or about science itself. I have been talking about precisely these issues in academia for several years now - and I don't think I'm particularly special! So, the question is; is it just that the "LLMs are obviously a case of dangerous intellectual automation" people aren't getting into the groups that adopt LLMs wholesale?

@Natasha_Jay @tickboxrobot one wonders if the Alt-Text is from a first draft with Darren, or if the artist is enjoying creating parallel "Alt-Text" version of their comics in general

RE: https://mastodon.social/@gvwilson/116265527045047663 @gvwilson a salient account not just for open source development but also much of academia where there are parallels

@huertanix @pluralistic I've been saying from the start that when you talk to people about "things they use LLMs for", it's the same as "things they don't think are valuable".

@Impossible_PhD Happy birthday! I love the tiara!

@jonmsterling I've certainly heard mixed feelings on "AI" from students this year, compared to last year - and it's true that the most ardent believers that "AI is changing everything" are around my age [although it's not a universal belief in my cohort by any means, and there's at least as many strong AI skeptics there].

@bhtooefr @oddtail indeed - see even the Framework Desktop being soldered RAM because they wanted the best latency they could get (since it's shared GPU/CPU), given that Framework are "all about" modularity. I still feel that we're losing something by not having modular devices, even if they're thicker and heavier!

@bhtooefr @oddtail yes, as I was getting to with the fairphone post, it's a bit depressing that (especially "thin") laptops are getting increasingly "phone-like" over time. Obviously, yes, it has trade-offs in resilience and manufacturing costs... but I like having hardware you can actually alter *some* parts of!

@hannorein@mastodon.social I seem to recall some general paper on statistical models (the "AI" approach here) showing that this is essentially always going to happen due to the sparsity of data near the tails of the distribution. That paper suggested an over-estimation of rare event frequency though - it was trying to argue that models make the same trade-off as humans do re "1 in a million" events and their significance.

@jenniferplusplus @ariadne @julian Data has discussed having "subroutines" and other non-neural network software components in other episodes; and he seems uniquely dependant on a particular hardware implementation ("positronic matrix") that apparently has actual neuron-like elements. Whatever his software architecture is, it's not "an LLM"...

@penwing@wandering.shop I am choosing to see Harriet Harman - who is one of the more trans-friendly old guard of New Labour, at least - being given that Advisor on Women and Girls role as being a not entirely bad thing in that direction. But an 'uit could be much worse' isn't really great, I agree

@penwing@wandering.shop see, for me it was the other way around - Harry August vibed with me more than Ministry of Time. (In this case, I also think maybe it's more approachable for a lay audience, but I may be wrong). The State of the Art is very much "Banks explicitly has The Culture comment on [late 70s] Earth", but a lot of the commentary is relevant now.

@royalrex@mastodon.online @grimalkina@mastodon.social wow, that's an *aggressive* policy.

@ScottishGreens@mastodon.scot Congratulations to Iris, I'm sure she'll do great things!

@natural20@mastodon.ie yeah, I was hoping they'd manage to get somewhere... but I also thought the odds were stacked against them. (At least something has come out of it, though!)

@penwing@wandering.shop interestingly, up here in Scotland, the Lib Dems were campaigning for precisely this change (from AMS to STV).

@alanxoc3@tilde.zone @tante@tldr.nettime.org we still have poetry, at least?

@geeksam@ruby.social @mweiss@infosec.exchange @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io I think, pragmatically, it's more that you can't stick a plural on a missing word :p

@penwing@wandering.shop for Time Travel, I would be inclined to go with, say, The First 15 Lives of Harry August. The "time travel" is unconventional, but it's written arguably for a less genre-involved audience, and it does address many of the sub-genre's concerns. For First Contact, even though it is "from the other side", if it doesn't have to be a novel , I might pick Iain Banks' The State of the Art. Like a lot of First Contact stories, it's *really* about humanity. (Or, left field, Nnedi Okorafor's Lagoon?)

@hannorein@mastodon.social I don't think it [edit: I typoed "I" here and only just noticed] was whining, it was trying to sound "insightful" (and argue that we "understood" why humans make reasoning errors (without mathematics) about rare events). This was a bit before the current "AI can solve everything, omg" hype cycle.