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The news editor was creaming themselves over finally getting to use this headline:
"Biggar Penis Woods get the chop after getting blown too much"
https://metro.co.uk/2026/08/19/phallic-shaped-penis-woods-chopped-despite-swell-opposition-29412849/
@cstross I hope they didn't make a balls of that job
théorie :verified:
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<Insérer une blague sur le fait de "faire barrage">
joene 🏴
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25 years of Wikipedia
23 years of Wikimedia Foundation
7 months of Wiki Workers United's union campaign
2 months since requesting voluntary recognition in the UK with a supermajority of eligible staff
1 month since requesting voluntary recognition in the US with a supermajority of eligible staff
Statutory recognition is expected soon in the UK, as we have the numbers
On September 3 the US votes will be counted; again we expect to have the numbers to win NLRB recognition.
'(vidak) _(:3」∠)_
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Weird how there's sometimes empty CDROMs on archive.
#linux
jaz :twt: :wales_flag: ⁂
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I'm creating a list of resources for writers.
I'd like to include links to "writers' support" online communities, groups and forums. But all the groups I used to belong to have either disappeared or have become dubious.
Do you have a recommendation? Whether it's for writing craft, publishing / self publishing advice, or just general support and camaraderie?
The good part of the blood test is the breakfast following it
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@stefano my blood test place is adjacent to a bakery ... every 3 months I sneak in afterwards, and get this tasty bun called an Italiener.. its a faintly vanilla flavoured bun, laden with raisins, smothered in forbidden sugar. Pairs beautifully with butter inside, and a flat white coffee to balance things out. #nomnomnom
MORE DRILLING means more heatwaves, droughts, wildfires, floods and suffering.
New oil and gas projects won’t lower bills or keep people safe. They will fuel MORE CLIMATE CHAOS and biodiversity collapse.
The Bluesky Android app has a bug where it would log you out every now and then, but still remember your username. It's been years and it's still not fixed. How do you even make something like this in the first place?...
This is your regular reminder that the concept of time should not be involved in session management in any way whatsoever.
Tenim un problema de pressió turística.Tot està saturat.
Com per exemple; a Platja d'Aro es va comptabilitzar amb les càmeres de mobilitat el cap de setmana, uns aprox.43.000 vehicles quan entraven.
Només sents propostes com redistribuir l'activitat o, que els visitants no facin excursions d'un sol dia perquè genera aglomeracions en punts concrets, sinó que l'oferta sigui encara més atractiva perquè allarguin l'estada una setmana...etc
TENIM UN PROBLEMA, I GROS.
@Caelumtangi el meu truc és no quedar amb al meu amic els diumenges i encara menys a l’estiu. Platja d’Aro està impossible.
@fuzzyleapfrog Solche? 🙃
@Habrok42 Hahaha nein 🤣
The companies that run LLMs can also use this for PR to calm concerns from the public about the proliferation of such content.
From a CS perspective I can't think of any way to have a watermark that couldn't be easily defeated through additional processing. LLM dependent people currently take pains to remove em dashes so this new wrinkle has some of them in a panic.
But, why not just be honest and say you used and LLM? Why so bashful?
From a CS perspective I can't think of any way to have a watermark that couldn't be easily defeated through additional processing
The way that the current ones work is that they tweak the probabilities to generate specific patterns in the output. Where there's an equal probability of two words following another in the raw weights, they'll tune it so that there's a higher probability of one than the other.
If you know the weights and know the biassing factor, you can look at each word pair and see what the probability would be of the model generating that.
This means that the watermark is smeared all over the output. And it's not a binary thing though, each pair of word contributes something to the probability of matching the watermark and looking at the whole thing will give you a probability at the end.
Changing every other word should give you close to a 0% of matching the watermark but, at that point, why bother using the LLM at all? If you're going to change half of the words, you may as well just write them yourself. And that's a problem for people who want to share low-effort slop and pretend to be creative.
I want a map app where I can import all my gpx tracks and then ask it to give me a route to where I want to go. Not the shortest route, not the least hilly route, not the calmest route...
but the route that follows my existing tracks the least.
So that I can experience new places I haven't been before.
Does this exist?
A few people best me to it in commenting that the Parkinson's was not cured, but the symptoms were suppressed (which is a good thing, don't get me wrong).
As for the others focussing on the fact that this is a Faux News item: a stopped [analog] watch is right twice a day.
@CptSuperlative @idlestate I was going to go for "City of New Orleans" ... >.>
The Bluesky Android app has a bug where it would log you out every now and then, but still remember your username. It's been years and it's still not fixed. How do you even make something like this in the first place?...
This was quite interesting. Since being diagnosed I've had real battles with how I feel about it. In the beginning there was a tidal wave of relief. A life of feeling broken inside or different. To finally understand I'm OK and just wired differently, not wrong. Perhaps a chance to have a real conversation with myself that doesn't involve constant internal self-flagellation. But then came some strong resistance from the people in my life who I love and trust the most. It's not a real condition. I'm leaning into it. It's the medicalisation of the human condition and I'm just looking for attention. That was very very hard. Fedi was brilliant. But I continue to live with imposter syndrome. And the constant narrative in the press that I may have been misdiagnosed, or there is an overdiagnosis - maybe I am stupid. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe everyone is wrong and I am a broken boy. Even more so for wanting or daring to believe there's a reason for it all. And I'm back where I was 4 or 5 years ago. But looking at this article I'm reminded that there were soooo many assessments. So many different people. So many interviews and tests. With people stood in the corner of the room with clipboards whilst I undertook a series of physical tasks. At every stage there was a sense that so many people want to go through this process because they've seen something they identify with on social media. People seeking diagnosis. I pointed out at every stage I never asked about autism. I never even thought about it. I didn't even think I had autism and were they sure they wanted me to carry on with the process. And at the end of every stage, there was an emphatic yes. There is a range in the diagnostic assessment process (which is very very long and thorough, with people who have lots of fancy qualifications and who have spent their lives working to get to the stage of their career they're currently at). And if there's any sense it's inconclusive of they feel there's any question, then they do not diagnose. They say it's inconclusive. That they can't be 100% sure so don't confirm. They were very very clear with me (and in the subsequent reports) that there was absolutely no question. I was in the top range. The absolute best at autism. I don't know why. To be honest I still haven't really read it. I should probably do that, thinking about it. But I'm minded, reading articles like this..... how could so many people - so many people who are very highly paid doctors and scientists or whatever - how can so so many people over so many different assessments, get it wrong? I don't know what autism looks like. I'm just me. For the most part the me I've always been. And for a moment I had a chance to have a real identity. To accept myself and ask others to accept me. But all the time the narrative's that I'm a fool - misdiagnosed, deluded and just wanting attention - I won't know peace with it. The end. Sorry. Just wanted to get that out. X
A split in the spectrum? The ongoing battle to define autism
@TheBreadmonkey It's inconvenient to the system that some people do not/cannot conform.
Nartagnan
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English in the next toot
Y'a des gens ici qui ont soit 1) utilisé soit 2) fabriqué (sait-on jamais) un handbike musculaire ? (du genre de celui sur la photo)
#Boost #Retoot #FauteuilRoulant #Wheelchair #Handbike
My website and its RSS feed were/are compromised. 😱
I’m working on fixing things up. Thank you to everyone who reported the problem to me. (And, I suppose, thanks for subscribing to my blog!)
