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@leftsidestory@mstdn.social
2025-06-22 00:30:01

Park Discovery 🏞️
公园探险 🏞️
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Lucky SHD 400
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️?
#filmphotography

**English:**
This black-and-white photograph depicts a small outdoor kiosk or stall. The kiosk is adorned with various plush toys, prominently featuring several Mickey Mouse dolls hanging at the top. Below the toys, there are shelves stocked with small items, possibly keychains or small trinkets. The front of the kiosk displays images of ice cream cones and bottles of beverages, suggesting that it might also sell refreshments. The setting appears to be a park or a fair, with trees and a fence v…
English alt text: A black and white photo of a park path flanked by evenly spaced trees with their trunks painted white at the base. A few people walk quietly along the paved walkway, framed by natural foliage. Trash bins are visible in the background, contributing to the everyday tranquility of the scene.

中文替代文本(Chinese alt text):一张黑白照片展示了一条公园小路,路两旁是整齐排列的树木,树干下部涂有白漆。几位行人安静地走在铺设的步道上,周围环绕着自然景色。背景中可见垃圾桶,为这幅日常宁静的画面增添了现实感。
English alt text: Two large ducks shaped object float in a narrow water channel. One duck is in the foreground, reflected in the water, while the other is partially hidden behind a metal grid structure. The scene features an interesting contrast between the playful shapes of the ducks and the rigid geometry of the metal structure. Trees and a building with windows are visible in the background.

中文替代文本(Chinese alt text):两只大型鸭型物漂浮在一条狭窄的水渠中。一只靠近前方,在水中有清晰倒影;另一只则部分被左侧的金属网格结构遮挡。画面中趣味盎然的鸭子与硬朗的金属框架形成鲜…
English alt text: A wooden platform nestled among tall trees, covered by a striped canopy. A person stands on the platform, which is accessed by a stairway. Beneath the structure is a bilingual sign, possibly in Chinese, and fencing and foliage frame the background, suggesting a serene park or nature retreat.

中文替代文本(Chinese alt text):一座建在高大树木之间的木质平台,上方覆盖着条纹遮阳篷。一人站在平台上,通往平台的楼梯清晰可见。平台下方有一块双语标牌(可能含有中文),背景中的树木和围栏营造出宁静的自然氛围。
@timbray@cosocial.ca
2025-06-26 17:42:02

In which I recommend that if you’re building or upgrading a moderately serious music-listening system, you use Qobuz and include a cheap Mac Mini: tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20

A Screenshot of the Qobuz mobile app. From top to bottom:

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@catsalad@infosec.exchange
2025-06-26 11:44:53

Found a bunch of BSides with fediverse accounts I wasn't following. I should probably update my fediverse #BSides index... 😅
Bsides & InfoSec Cons by Region
📌⁠ infosec.exchange/@catsalad/111

@tiotasram@kolektiva.social
2025-07-25 10:57:58

Just saw this:
#AI can mean a lot of things these days, but lots of the popular meanings imply a bevy of harms that I definitely wouldn't feel are worth a cute fish game. In fact, these harms are so acute that even "just" playing into the AI hype becomes its own kind of harm (it's similar to blockchain in that way).
@… noticed that the authors claim the code base is 80% AI generated, which is a red flag because people with sound moral compasses wouldn't be using AI to "help" write code in the first place. The authors aren't by some miracle people who couldn't build this app without help, in case that influences your thinking about it: they have the skills to write the code themselves, although it likely would have taken longer (but also been better).
I was more interested in the fish-classification AI, and how much it might be dependent on datacenters. Thankfully, a quick glance at the code confirms they're using ONNX and running a self-trained neural network on your device. While the exponentially-increasing energy & water demands of datacenters to support billion-parameter models are a real concern, this is not that. Even a non-AI game can burn a lot of cycles on someone's phone, and I don't think there's anything to complain about energy-wise if we're just using cycles on the end user's device as long as we're not having them keep it on for hours crunching numbers like blockchain stuff does. Running whatever stuff locally while the user is playing a game is a negligible environmental concern, unlike, say, calling out to ChatGPT where you're directly feeding datacenter demand. Since they claimed to have trained the network themselves, and since it's actually totally reasonable to make your own dataset for this and get good-enough-for-a-silly-game results with just a few hundred examples, I don't have any ethical objections to the data sourcing or training processes either. Hooray! This is finally an example of "ethical use of neutral networks" that I can hold up as an example of what people should be doing instead of the BS they are doing.
But wait... Remember what I said about feeding the AI hype being its own form of harm? Yeah, between using AI tools for coding and calling their classifier "AI" in a way that makes it seem like the same kind of thing as ChatGPT et al., they're leaning into the hype rather than helping restrain it. And that means they're causing harm. Big AI companies can point to them and say "look AI enables cute things you like" when AI didn't actually enable it. So I'm feeling meh about this cute game and won't be sharing it aside from this post. If you love the cute fish, you don't really have to feel bad for playing with it, but I'd feel bad for advertising it without a disclaimer.

@usul@piaille.fr
2025-06-26 04:53:58

Affaire de Bétharram : en 1998, les ratés de la justice face aux agresseurs présumés
lemonde.fr/societe/article/202

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-06-26 20:15:48

Sources: Instagram and TikTok are working on versions of their apps customized to run on TV screens, following YouTube's success in attracting a TV audience (The Information)
theinformation.com/articles/ti

@floheinstein@chaos.social
2025-05-26 12:37:36

I just read the story about the Italian kidnapped by a New York couple and tortured to disclose the credentials for his crypto assets - and the first thing that came to mind was XKCD 538 "Security" about the five dollar wrench.
Am I a bad person?
#xkcd538 #xkcd

    [Cueball is holding a laptop up in two hands, showing it to his Cueball-like friend who is examining it while holding a hand up to his head. Above the top of the panels frame, there is a box with a caption:]
    A Crypto nerd's imagination:
    Cueball: His laptop's encrypted. Let's build a million-dollar cluster to crack it.
    Friend: No good! It's 4096-bit RSA!
    Cueball: Blast! Our evil plan is foiled!

    [Cueball is holding a closed laptop down in one hand while giving his Cueball…
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy
2025-06-26 19:25:21

"The most worrying possibility behind Earth’s [accelerating warming] is how the general nature of clouds may be changing in response to climbing temperatures. It’s a feedback loop that could potentially exacerbate warming and is one of the single biggest uncertainties in predicting future climate."

Graph showing that global temperature increases much faster since 2010 compared to 1970-2010
@timbray@cosocial.ca
2025-06-26 18:11:47

More on the crisis in open-source maintenance as exemplified by libxml2: lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1025971
Some money *has* to start flowing into this community or the foundations we all rely on will start rotting away. Given the many-bi…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-06-25 19:31:13

License plate reader company Flock has stopped US agencies from accessing cameras in CA, IL, and VA after reports of lookups related to ICE and an abortion case (404 Media)
404media.co/flock-removes-stat