Carlos Solís
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@mcc@mastodon.social I demand UTI no wait
Carlos Solís
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RE: https://phpc.social/@kboyd/117451745062521637
MY POLITICAL PROGRAM
I DEMAND
UBI
UBO
NO UB
(Universal Basic Income; uBlock Origin for all; stop using C++)
Carlos Solís
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I am reading the EU Kids Act, and I want to be clear and concise: fuck online age verification.
That said, if I am reading it right, fedi instances *could* be configured in a way that spares them from age verification requirements?
Age verification is basically Chapter II Section I Article 6 point 1 of the Act:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:52026PC0681#:~:text=minors-,Article,service,-%2E
There are 5 things that each individually can make a social media service or video-sharing platform required to do age verification:
Alex Chapman
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I may start streaming and uploading on audiopub soon, thanks to TG Drop Deck.
It's so amazing to finally have a program and a platform that allows me to do this without all the extra cognitive load that comes with doing it on the big platforms like Youtube and Twitch using OBS, which I can not for the life of me wrap my head around!.
@tonygeb23 Thank you so much for creating TG Drop Deck!.
https://tgstudios.app/drop-deck/
#accessibility #audiopub #blind
Audiobook of "Sherlock Holmes: A Scandal in Bohemia" (1891) by Arthur Conan Doyle
Gabriele Svelto
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Every one of these LLM pushers assumes a pristine environment that they can pillage, without acknowledging that the garbage they emit becomes a persistent part of the environment. The quality of their outputs can only degrade over time, because all of them in aggregate are poisoning their collective inputs.
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hypebot
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Heh. I misremembered the date--thought it was today, but looks like it was October 5. On that day, 10 years ago, I posted a link to Mastodon on Hacker News, with the title "Show HN: A new decentralized microblogging platform". That it made it to the front page ended up bringing the first 5,000 users, setting the project on the trajectory it's on today.
@wyatt different sizes and different connectors for maximum user confusion
Ok, looks like this is the week of funny experiences.
Customer: "I had an AI check our server and it says the SSH port is open and that's not very secure."
Me: "Yes, you asked us to open it so you could access the server via SFTP (actually, you wanted FTP, but we discussed it a bit and found this compromise). Don't worry, it's only accessible from your IP and you land in a dedicated FreeBSD jail. From there, you can only access the 'exchange' directory on your server, where you can upload and download files without affecting the application."
(NB: I had suggested a VPN, but they declined because it was too complicated.)
Customer: "Yes, but maybe it's still insecure. Can't we close it?"
Me: "No, unless you want to lose access to that directory."
Customer: "Ok, thanks."
One hour later:
Customer: "Hi, I think we've found a solution. We've just created an app (!!!) with AI that lets us access the files anyway, but more securely than SSH (!!!). Can we install that and close SSH? Oh, and not in the dedicated jail, but directly in the application's jail, because it needs access to the application's files."
Me: "Frankly, I trust SSH in a dedicated jail, restricted by the firewall, a lot more. I don't think this is a good idea."
Customer: "Ok, thanks."
Half an hour later:
Customer: "Ok, now it's secure. I had another AI check it and it found some security issues, but it fixed them all. Can you install it and disable SSH?"
Me: "I strongly advise against it. I can see problems coming."
Customer: "Ok, thanks."
One hour later, my phone rings.
Their internal IT guy (who has access to the machine, which, after all, belongs to them) had given the AI the login credentials to go ahead with the operation.
Except the AI had managed to lock itself out via the firewall, without even starting the app. And now they couldn't get back in.
Fortunately, I had my own access, via VPN, to a separate jail that the AI hadn't touched (or even considered).
Customer: "SORRYSORRYSORRYSORRYSORRY! From now on, we do things your way."
Well, at least it ended well.
PS: The customer knows I'm sharing this story and agreed to it.
@stefano Sounds time like your invoice should show a significant surcharge for extra challenging work
I am reading the EU Kids Act, and I want to be clear and concise: fuck online age verification.
That said, if I am reading it right, fedi instances *could* be configured in a way that spares them from age verification requirements?
Age verification is basically Chapter II Section I Article 6 point 1 of the Act:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:52026PC0681#:~:text=minors-,Article,service,-%2E
There are 5 things that each individually can make a social media service or video-sharing platform required to do age verification:
@rysiek It's a really good idea to prepare for it and try to find ways around it, because if we are honest, the eu leadership have already made up their minds and no matter how much we push back, it will pass eventually.
Anyway - this is a newish thing in Canada and I think you should be on the lookout for it. They are sending fascist provocateurs to anti-genocide/Israel protests with the intention of starting fights, and then doing the selective Andy Ngo style edit to suggest that antifascists are unhinged violent terrorists. This is definitely real. They are hunting for clips but so far the ones they have are junk/make them look bad, but SOMEONE is paying for this, I am certain.
Which brings me back to Canada just recently passing a law that makes criticizing Zionism a hatecrime akin to antisemitism. And the demands of the pro-Israel lobby to pass further, stricter laws to shut down these protests.
Now I can't prove the people who want those harsher laws are paying the people trying to start fights and selectively edit video at anti-genocide protests but?
It would stand to reason, given that this behavior is not being concealed very well.
There is a little time capsule of the UI as it was on that exact day, as I recorded a demo video for the Product Hunt submission. You can see how some UI concepts have persisted to this day, even as the details and level of refinement changed. You can also see the original blue accent color... I took that color palette from a website where people posted various color palettes, I do not remember its name anymore.
@Gargron
Colorhunter maybe? That's the one I used to use. Launched by Steve DeGraeve.
Personalescrito
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Brazil’s Lula wins electoral court challenge against Meta for alleged pro-Bolsonaro algorithm bias
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/south-america/brazil-lula-wins-electoral-court-challenge-meta-alleged-bolsonaro-bias-rcna603835
Andrew (making toys)
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News stories about the weird and corrupt Kimberly Guilfoyle all seem to mention that she was Trump Jr.'s fiance but don't mention that she was married to Gavin Newsom.
Both are relevant or neither is relevant. (Both are.)
You wanted autonomous agents, you got autonomous agents...
"An OpenAI research model stuck without funds on an Ethereum test network went looking for someone else’s wallet, found one through recovery phrases that were already public, and spent from it to finish a coding assignment [...]"
FYI @davidgerard
@cybeardjm lol the use case
@nileane Perfect 👌 I also feel like it’s giving fibonacci sequence vibes 😅
There's this phenomenon of "so bad it's good" and it's bullshit.
That's a movie that is accidentally good. Good in spite of itself.
Good because it's cheesy, excessive, overly earnest, weirdly produced, etc.
"good" is subjective.
Did you enjoy it? It's good.
Can you recognize the art in it? It's good.
Outsider art is sometimes very good, in spite of its usual lack of technical skill.
Who Killed Captain Alex is a good movie.
