Tootfinder

Was würdet Ihr auf dem Fragebogen zur #Musterung ankreuzen?
– Ja, ich möchte bis zu 23 Monate 24 Stunden am Tag tun, was meine Vorgesetzten von mir verlangen.
– Ja, ich möchte lernen, wie man andere Menschen tötet. Mit dem Messer, Bajonett, mit Maschinenpistolen, Maschinengewehren oder als Scharfschütze durch gezielte Schüsse in den Kopf. Oder durch Handgranaten, Panzer, Bomben oder Torpedos.
– Ja, ich bin bereit als Soldat oder später Reservist für meine Regierung zu sterben, egal wie diese zusammengesetzt sein wird.
Die Skala ist 1 bis 7. Was würdet ihr wählen? Tipp: wenn alle 1 wählen, wird dennoch gemustert werden und unter den Gemusterten eingezogen werden. Wenn Ihr zwei oder drei wählt und kein anderer Lust hat, seid Ihr dran. Falls Ihr zwei oder drei wählt, seid Ihr jetzt vielleicht nicht dran, aber in fünf Jahren, weil dann alle anderen „aufgebraucht“ sind und die älteren Jahrgänge gemustert werden, die nicht 1 angegeben hatten.
#Bundeswehr

How some people are using the term "slop" as a descriptor for low-grade AI material, after emerging in reaction to the release of AI art generators in 2022 (Benjamin Hoffman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/11…

Is Slop A.I.’s Answer to Spam? A Phrase Emerges for Bad Search.
A new term has emerged to describe dubious A.I.-generated material.

There's a thing called Capability Security done by Spitely Gobblins.
Haven't really spent enough time to say I understand it. Doesn't sound like it's really finished yet.
Making it explicit in the software when you give someone a bit of data that you also send the permissions on what can be done with it.
https://spritely.institute/static/papers/spritely-core.html
Or there's a thing called Veilid. They store data on a public network in encrypted form. Making it so you can in fact show it only to your friends like Facebook first promised, not even to Facebook Inc or the Mega-Mind.
They are also not quite finished as a software library without much in the way of apps.
https://veilid.com/
Something like these things are gonna be needed because sooner or later angered public bullying won't work, and it can't work on those doing it in secret.
The corporate/government/advertising matrix multiplier engine will eat everything you have published and make inferences for those systems about you from it. Many of them even true. Some true that you don't even realized about yourself. Lots of it wrong and biased.

I will refer to this guy as "Mistake Man" from now on...
https://www.askamanager.org/2024/06/update-i-was-rejected-because-i-told-my-interviewer-i-never-make-mistakes.html

update: I was rejected because I told my interviewer I never make mistakes
It’s a special “where are you now?” season at Ask a Manager and I’m running updates from people who had their letters here answered in the past. There

Vermittlungsausschuss berät auch über #Straßenverkehrsgesetz #StVG
Die Bundesregierung hat am 6. Juni 2024 den Vermittlungsausschuss zum Zehnten Gesetz zur Änderung des Straßenverkehrsgesetzes angerufen. Es wird gemeinsam mit vier weiteren Verfahren in der nächsten Sitzung des Verm…

Thunderbird, POP, Gmail - techie advice requested
if anyone would be so kind, and knows an answer :-)
Thunderbird in POP mode. Working fine with the mailboxes at my web host.
Recently I also got a Gmail box for a particular project. What I've noticed is, emails come into Gmail & just sit there for ages (e.g. maybe 20 mins) instead of downloading to my laptop.
They always do arrive, but is there any way (from either Tbird or Gmail) that I can "force" the download?
#Thunderbird #Gmail #POP

#TIL that a #neologism for unwanted AI-generated content polluting our spaces is "#slop". This is an excellent analogue to the existing "spam" term.

Is Slop A.I.’s Answer to Spam? A Phrase Emerges for Bad Search.
A new term has emerged to describe dubious A.I.-generated material.

That number 81. No coincidence at all. 🙄
Never mind the unconstituitionality of setting age limit. It's OK if the party of "constitutional conservatives" does it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/11/us/north-dakota-age-limit-election.h…

North Dakotans Approve Age Limit for Members of Congress
A ballot measure left voters to decide whether 81 is too old for some political jobs. It was one state’s answer to an issue that has been a focus of national debate this election cycle.

Silicon Valley's best kept secret: Founder Liquidity.
https://www.stefantheard.com/silicon-valleys-best-kept-secret-founder-liquidity/

Silicon Valley’s Best Kept Secret: Founder Liquidity
Ask most venture-backed founders why they get 10x more equity than employee #1, 100x more equity than employee #5, and 1000x more equity than employee #15, and you'll get the same answer: "I'M TAKING SO MUCH RISK, IT'S SO HARD TO START A COMPANY, I MADE A BIG MOVE!!!" And