@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsWhenever people are commenting on another half-assed, crappy #LLM feat, claiming that there are "some" use cases for this "#AI", substitute "AI" with "genocide".
Because, you know, there are "use cases" for genocide too, and apparently a lot of people don't mind, as long as they can benefit from it and look the other way.
#NoAI
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle Cloud partners with Replit to expand the use of Google's cloud offerings and AI models and to jointly support AI use cases for enterprise customers (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/04/google-replit-ai-vibe-coding-anthropic-cursor.html
@cdarwin@c.imThe Department of Homeland Security has been quietly demanding tech companies
turn over user information about critics of the Trump administration, according to reports.
In several cases over recent months, Homeland Security has relied on the use of administrative subpoenas
to seek identifiable information about individuals who run anonymous Instagram accounts,
which share posts about ICE immigration raids in their local neighborhoods.
These subpoenas have also…
@servelan@newsie.socialElon Musk Says Tesla FSD Now Lets Drivers Use Phone in Some Cases - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-fsd-full-self-driving-text-drive-iillegal-elon-musk-2025-12
@cdarwin@c.imThe Department of Homeland Security
has been quietly demanding
tech companies turn over user information about critics of the Trump administration,
according to reports.
In several cases over recent months,
Homeland Security has relied on the use of administrative subpoenas
to seek identifiable information about individuals who run anonymous Instagram accounts,
which share posts about ICE immigration raids in their local neighborhoods.
These s…
@elduvelle@neuromatch.socialI'm running an improvised tutorial on #Zotero at my work tomorrow. Do you all have useful tips that I could share with my "students" - beyond the basics? Or specific use cases that you might use it for, beyond citing references in papers that you write?
For example I recently moved on to using its integrated PDF reader for peer-reviewing and it works well…
@shriramk@mastodon.socialI regularly use Claude Code, but I'm struggling to see much of use yet for Claude Cowork. (I've installed it just in case I think of a use, but other than giving me a quick keystroke to access Claude itself, not much has come to mind.) What are your interesting use-cases?
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioThe whole thing is optimized for scams, deception and other criminal behavior:
- user interface that deceptively pretends it's a human you're talking to
- claims from companies highly exaggerate capabilities
companies and "experts" constantly hype "AGI" which they (funnily enough) do to both make investors greedier and spread fear and as a distraction because these algorithms can't actually do what they keep promising
- large-scale accounting and financial fraud (e.g. what Nvidia is doing with circular selling)
- biggest case of copyright infringement in history
Note: I think the underlying technology is really cool, and definitely has use cases and can be used for actually good things. But: some technology just has more downsides than upsides, and some should only be used by experts in controlled environments. Leaded gasoline, asbestos and chlorofluorocarbon are also all really cool technology.
In this case perhaps the techology itself doesn't do anything inherently bad, however the people making it are lying about what it can do, the people selling it are motivated purely by greed and the people using it (often forced to do so) are being deceived.
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialHow generative AI is used in the financial sector.
#AI
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioMy solution to the problem @… mentions:
1. Make password the •only• login field. No username/email! Just password, and you’re in!
2. Because they now identify users, passwords must to be unique across all users in a system.
3. For security reasons, require passwords to be unique across all sites on the entire Internet. A password can be used at most once in human history.
4. This renders account recovery impossible in many cases.
5. Over time, users are thus able to use fewer and fewer sites, eventually being forced offline altogether.
6. Success!
https://mastodon.social/@jwz/115776511391611416
@bogo@hapyyr.comQ: How do you convince people to use privacy respecting technologies for communication?
I am looking for real life use-cases to include into my #FOSDEM talk and beyond.
If you have encouraged someone to switch to say Signal, or Sessions, or XMPP or some other tool/protocol, please share here or via DM.
Anonymity is guaranteed. You can use also my Sessions messenger session: 0531634…
@nohillside@smnn.chApple might be in a better position than others to launch this successfully because it can build it on an established base (all iPhones out there). Still don‘t see the use cases though. And don‘t even mention privacy issues 🙄
Apple Developing AI Wearable Pin - https://apple.slashdot.org/s…
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems#TIL
> The macros describing this structure live in <asm/ioctl.h> and are
> _IO(type,nr) and {_IOR,_IOW,_IOWR}(type,nr,size). They use
> sizeof(size) so that size is a misnomer here: this third argument
> is a data type.
>
> Note that the size bits are very unreliable: in lots of cases they
> are wrong, either because of buggy macros using
> sizeof(sizeof(struct)), or because of legacy values.
#Linux
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euI like AI. I like robots. I love machine learning automation. I don't like it when their use cases are replacing people, spying on or profiling people, prosecuting people, submitting people into subscription, creating "art", "videos", "pictures" and scumbag "memes", warfare, propaganda, disinformation, deepfakes of any kind, ads, trolling, pumping up stocks, just plain wrong search results that force you to waste twice as much time to confirm they …
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialOpenAI launches the OpenAI Academy for News Organizations, which offers journalists AI training, open-source projects, and practical use cases (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/openai-academy-for-news-organizations
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialJust as during his first term, El Cheato is stealing money for military housing to use for his pet projects.
During the first term that pet project was "the wall".
Now it is to give "bonuses" to active military personnel.
In both cases this means reduced, or no, housing for military families - which is what Congress intended when that taxpayer money was appropriated.
"Trump’s $1,776 ‘warrior dividend’ repurposed from military housing aid"…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioRE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115883445350346364
I think the technology could be used responsibly for narrow use cases (e.g. writing code is a narrow use case), with the very important caveat that the training data needs to be properly licensed and authors properly compensated (unless they licensed stuff free for commercial use); as well as companies offering it being transparent and honest about what LLMs actually do.
Anyway, even if that’s the case (and that’s a big if and certainly not the case today) I have serious doubts concerning the long-term financial sustainability of companies like idk Anthropic.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialChinese humanoid robot startup Galbot raised over $300M led by China Mobile's industry investment fund at a $3B valuation, bringing its total funding to $800M (Eudora Wang/DealStreetAsia)
https://www.dealstreetasia.com/stories/galbot-raises-over-300m-467245
@khalidabuhakmeh@mastodon.social
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialImagine ChatGPT but instead of predicting text it just linked you to the to 3 documents most-influential on the probabilities that would have been used to predict that text.
Could even generate some info about which parts of each would have been combined how.
There would still be issues with how training data is sourced and filtered, but these could be solved by crawling normally respecting robots.txt and by paying filterers a fair wage with a more relaxed work schedule and mental health support.
The energy issues are mainly about wild future investment and wasteful query spam, not optimized present-day per-query usage.
Is this "just search?"
Yes, but it would have some advantages for a lot of use cases, mainly in synthesizing results across multiple documents and in leveraging a language model more fully to find relevant stuff.
When we talk about the harms of current corporate LLMs, the opportunity cost of NOT building things like this is part of that.
The equivalent for art would have been so amazing too! "Here are some artists that can do what you want, with examples pulled from their portfolios."
It would be a really cool coding assistant that I'd actually encourage my students to use (with some guidelines).
#AI #GenAI #LLMs
@vyskocilm@witter.cz> We found that the “Other” category increased to 11% this year, and this was primarily driven by Hetzner (20% of Other responses); we plan to include Hetzner as a response choice in next year’s survey.
https://go.dev/blog/survey2025
Well done @…
@stf@chaos.social
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net📊 Risk assessment: For most use cases (server admin, development, non-sensitive data), the practical risk is low. Your Docker logs and configs likely won't be
valuable in 15 years. However, healthcare, finance, and government sectors should act now.
⚙️ Quick fix: Suppress the warning by adding LogLevel ERROR to ~/.ssh/config for specific hosts. Better solution: Enable post-quantum key exchange on your SSH
@Marwe@troet.cafeDie EU-Kommision macht eine Konsultation zu #OpenSource für den Einsatz in ihrer Verwaltung und sucht Stellungnahmen und Use Cases, z.B. von Unternehmen, Verwaltungen oder Einzelpersonen:
> The European Open Digital Ecosystem Strategy will set out:
a strategic approach to the open source sector in the EU [...]
a strategic and operational framework to strengthen t…
@brichapman@mastodon.socialDTO-BioFlow is using AI to analyze decades of marine biodiversity records, revealing insights that support ocean monitoring, conservation, and restoration. 💙
https://dto-bioflow.eu/news/using-deep-learning-unlock-decades-mari…
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