Growing up in the 90s, we were taught never to give personal details away online. The internet hasn't gotten any safer since then, so why the fuck is the UK government demanding people do the exact opposite? It's so dangerous to just hand over ID to random sites for AV.

Are you into #NLP #ML or #ASR?

@mozilladatacollective is running a model #competition with $USD 20k in prizes 💰️ 💻️

One of the key open problems in Automatic Speech Recognition is #CodeSwitching - where speakers use different languages or dialects in the same utterance.

This competition focuses on code switching in three languages - North American Spanish and English, Indonesian and Javanese and Spanish and Nahuatl.

Your challenge?

Build ASR systems that accurately transcribe natural, code-switched speech across these three under-served language pairs, improving the SoTA for these speakers.

https://competitions.mozilladatacollective.com/competitions/1/lost-in-transcription/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=kathyreid

I hereby proclaim 2026 the international year of #webstalgia. This is a time where we, surrounded by the dreary artifacts of a thoroughly enshittified Internet, rediscovr with fondness the technology and institutions that served us so well in the early years.

To celebrate it, I have given my personal blog a major restyling, the third in 21 years. I even re-established the blogroll, because I am reading blogs again. From a RSS feed reader.

http://cottica.net

#blog #rss #minimalism

This is a picture of Sonny Rollins (1930-2026). It’s weird to think that the jazz saxophone has a longer (and more thoroughly thought about) tradition than the entirety of software development.

@timaeus Unterlassen, wegen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_(data_center). Oder ist #Klimaanpassung hier als Sportsgeist nach der Pfeife von Musik, Bezos & Co. zu verstehen?

Mit #Ollama, #LLMStudio & Co. können offene, kostenlose Modelle lokal genutzt und eben mit eigenem Ökostrom betrieben werden: https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2024/03/17/how-to-run-an-llm-locally-on-your-pc-in-less-than-10-minutes/1412826

@benjamin @JoAnn
I’m Rania from Gaza 💔
We lost our home, and now my children and I are living in a fragile tent with no protection from the cold, heat, or insects.
My children suffer every day, and I am unable to provide their basic needs 💔
Please don’t leave us alone. Any donation or share could help us survive 🙏🤍
🔗 Help & donation link in bio.

@quixoticgeek
Corporate oligarchy

@sebsauvage
Je ne parlais pas forcément de rentrer plus dans les détails, mais mettre PFS à côté de chiffrement par ex. C'est quand même fait un point critique qui fait que deltachat n'est pas vraiment sécurisé et qu'il ne faut (dans son état actuel) surtout pas l'utiliser pour des conversations critiques (ex militantisme)

@gMoon I suppose because we haven’t yet come to a decision on what to do with Comfort Zone? (It’s the weekend)

But only two options are on the table anyway: end the show, or continue it in some way or form outside of MacStories. The option where we remain on MacStories does not exist.

@pallenberg Special Basketball-Edition

@EUCommission I can already hear people saying, "We don't care whether it's a danger to health. We just want the cheapest products on the market and make money!"

It happens already in electronics, fashion, etc.

Many don't care about public safety. They only care about the immediate effect on them and that's the pocket.

thank you wikipedia for explaining why the operating system should not a source of randomness???? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_number_generator_attack

Random numbers typically go through several layers of hardware and software before they are used. Bits may be generated in a peripheral device, sent over a serial cable, collected in an operating system utility and retrieved by a system call. The subverted bits can be substituted at any point in this process with little likelihood of detection.

it's so easy to just not read from the OS lmao

@slightlyoff I have a 4-port KVM, although I'm only down to 3 working machines. It's nice to have the fourth available when helping fix someone else's system!

@sebsauvage y'a tellement de données en circulation sur le darkweb qu'on n'arrive même plus à les trier convenablement.
Et la c'était juste Kévin du service marketing qui a déconné.
Tu rigoleras moins quand ça sera Carole de la compta qui pétera un watt.

We just passed the freight train. It was full of trailers on Intermodal wagons. About ¼ of the trailers had Amazon branding.

When I was a kid I read Ionescu's play Rhinoceros, where the inhabitants of a small French town turn one by one into a herd of wild, rampaging rhinoceroses. I was told the play was "absurdist", and read it as such. But living in the United States now, I see it's completely realistic.

The proper way to correct antivaxxers

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@panos is the external account support already running on catodon.rocks? will it require a local account to use external accounts?

TIL: 90% of Kenya's energy supply comes from renewables, of which geothermal covers 43 percentage points