Craig Stewart

@ChrisMayLA6 From the Article "The Home Office insists a digital status cannot be lost, stolen or tampered with." Well, as an IT professional with 20 years experience, that shows a shocking lack of understanding from the home office.

@RonSupportsYou@mastodon.social I remember this. It's worse than that. When he asked how much it would cost he also offered to pay for it if it was less than some number of billions. I forget the exact figure. The WHO costed it at below that cost. Musk then got very quiet on the topic. _Then_ he bought twitter. And tried to welch on that deal having refused to do due diligence, and was sued into honouring the contract he agreed too.

@stefano too many people plan for how things work when everything is functioning as it should. Not enough people see the need to plan for how things work when everything is falling apart.

@KimSJ @ChrisMayLA6 yes, this is the exact same "head in the sand" attitude to problems that led directly to the Horizon miscarriages of justice. I really don't want to spend decades waiting for the government to finally accept that a massive IT system is broken in such a way as to be actively harming innocent people.

@inthehands in fairness to Dawkins, on the theism vs atheism debate, I do owe it to him for my own personal position on the topic. I used to be militantly atheist, until I saw what a dick head Dawkins was as a militant atheist, and decided I didn't want to be a dick head.

@bodhipaksa Dawkins is a pillock. His obsession with being some sort of Atheist messiah show's how he's narcissistic, and his insistence on making his arguments in the loudest most obnoxious ways possible show he doesn't care about anyone else.

@katemorley looks like a hardback. How did you restrain the urge to twat him with it?

@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie @eloy@hsnl.social I remember at the time MySQL was raised a lot as a reason why the purchase shouldn't be allowed, and mariadb was specifically created as a fork of MySQL because of the merger.

@j_bertolotti it's almost as if the "social" in "social media" is kind of important.

@maaikees@sw-development-is.social coding is just formalised instructions for a computer. The hard part isn't formalising the instructions you need to give. It's understanding the problem and identifying what instructions might possibly get to an acceptable solution. The problem with all "codeless" tools is that people who write code are seen as expensive, but the skill that makes them expensive isn't writing code, it's the skill the users of the codeless tools would need anyway.

@theeclecticdyslexic@mstdn.social @ApostateEnglishman@mastodon.world @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io given the existence of literally every single domesticated species, I'd argue that the only functional difference is the involvement of people. I would also like to raise the concept of humans as a part of nature. We are both a product of the world we live in, and a selection pressure on the world around us, just like every other species to have ever existed. Our obsession with separating ourselves from nature is arrogance.

@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie @eloy@hsnl.social MySQL belonged to Sun Microsystems when Oracle bought Sun, so technically Oracle own MySQL.

@girlonthenet@mastodon.social but my wife would be very upset if I had an online dating profile.

@yetiinabox #NotAllHeroesWearCapes

@dgar@aus.social and here I thought I was a geek.

@ApostateEnglishman the pope has been chasing Trump all around the board already. Have you not seen how angry Trump's minions are that they can't take him off the board. But that's the advantage of unlimited diagonal movement gives him.

@ApostateEnglishman unless it's a really clever gambit to defeat the Trump regime. After all this visit must have taken ages to set up. Charles III can only move one square at a time!

@lisamelton@mastodon.social on a slight tangent, I once got into trouble with work for participating in a chat about offensive language. I argued that being offensive is a useful tool in interpersonal communication, the main counter argument, and the one that started the conversation, was that foul language was always unacceptable. Throughout the discussion I was very careful not to use, or endorse, any foul language. Offending idiots is the right of all free thinking people.

@lisamelton@mastodon.social I take deep offence at the implication that techbros and transphobes are "motherfuckers". This is immensely insulting to motherfuckers everywhere!

@daniellatz@mastodon.social @maxleibman@beige.party we all need to live in the world as it is, and not as it should be, that much is true, but the world as it is includes our desire, and capacity, to make it more like it should be. Yes there is other injustice, but that doesn't mean we should stop trying to end this injustice. If we don't end the injustice we see because other injustices exist then the injustices in the world will never end.

@b0rk@social.jvns.ca have you seen the paint explainer for Diffie-Helman? That's quite a good way to get the idea across.

@b0rk@social.jvns.ca I mean, there's a point where a metaphor doesn't work anymore, because it's not the truth, just a way to explain part of the truth. If you need perfect accuracy you're just explaining reality. The paint metaphor also breaks down because there are tools for recreating paint colours accurately from pure pigments. Do that for (sxa), (sxb), and s, and you recover a and b. So it's not really suitable as a form of key exchange. But it is easy to understand on a basic level.

@revoluciana@chaosfem.tw I think, and I could be wrong, they don't like anyone being comfortable with their own identity. I'd say "you be you" but given the context I fear that's not as safe for you as it should be. Be safe, and be happy.

@theeclecticdyslexic@mstdn.social @ApostateEnglishman@mastodon.world @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io my point was solely in response to the idea that there is nothing like evolutionary pressure for LLMs during their development. Evolution is brutal, you survive to pass on your features, or you die. The development of LLMs will include that brutality towards models that don't meet the desired standards. The idea that there is something special about how evolution works because it's natural irritates me. It's simple brutality.

@solderandchaos that's pretty awesome. I assume you've seen stuff on how the James Webb telescope adjusts it's mirrors for real? That's also awesome!

@nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social @stux@mstdn.social again, while I don't disagree that this is the only way it has been done so far, I don't see why value creation is impossible at that scale.

@nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social @stux@mstdn.social and I think that sort of thinking infects the billionaire class, but also shows a lack of imagination and a lack of hope for the future.

@stux@mstdn.social I personally have no objection to the existence of a trillionaire. The objectionable thing for me is that they exist at the same time as people who are homeless, displaced by war, and/or having their very existence suppressed for ideological reasons. The super rich aren't a problem because they're rich, they're a problem because they get rich by expanding the suffering of others.

@b0rk@social.jvns.ca that's fair enough, and I think you've done an excellent job of it. I just like the paint analogy because it's easy to grasp that unmixing paint is hard.

@ApostateEnglishman@mastodon.world @theeclecticdyslexic@mstdn.social @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io 'there's no equivalent of an evolutionary "pruning" process to weed out falsehood or mediocrity, the way natural selection does with maladaptive genes' What the hell do you think the people training these models do with them when they aren't up to scratch? They prune the shit out of the results that aren't up to scratch. And yet model collapse has still been shown to be inevitable, as has the generation of false but plausible looking output!

@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io if bitcoin reaches a price of 5i I'm going to be very upset I didn't invest. Any real value price and I'm just not fussed.

@nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social @stux@mstdn.social I disagree. That it hasn't been done yet doesn't mean it's impossible. There exist millionaires who have become rich through value creation. But many millionaires have also become so by assuming wealth is a zero sum game and taking the wealth from others. Millionaire to billionaire to trillionaire is simply a matter of scale, that all existent billionaires and trillionaire have done so through taking wealth from others does not mean that is the only way to do it.

@JulianOliver@mastodon.social I have a static IPv4 and IPv6 address (well IPv6 address range) but that's because I asked for it. Because I'm a geek.