@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioRE: https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux/116041309989733171
Good thing we're destroying the Internet for entirely performative "for the children" bullshit while there's child rapists in the highest ranks of government and business.
This fucking timeline.
@scott@carfree.cityit kind of saddens me how everyone on the bus is looking at their phone. i know the internet's favorite "gotcha" response to this is to show old-timey photos of everyone on a tram reading the newspaper. but those newspapers were locally produced. on our phones we're all scrolling the same platforms with the same algorithms controlled by multinational companies directing our attention. it's a loss of local character and connections
@cjust@infosec.exchangeThis made it through multiple levels and multiple rounds of design and marketing approval.
At no point did anyone stop and think?
Really? This is the design we're going with?
Not one person who had any rudimentary internet skills.
Not one hero in one meeting had even the one ounce of temerity or one gram of courage to stand up and say
HEY - THE HAND ON THE LEFT IS SUPPOSED TO BE WEARING A RING.
@pdmckone@mstdn.ca[Driving down the street in the IoT-detector van]
Tech Trainee: [Viewing a screen showing dozens of blue triangles] Wow, look at all the Bluetooth stubs.
Service Tech: Yep, all those appliances that no one has hooked into the internet yet.
Trainee: So we're going to use the factory presets to hook them up for their owners?
Service: God, no. We check to see if they're out of warranty and brick 'em.
Trainee: That's awful.
Service: Yeah, it is. If they had hooked them into the WiFi like we told them, we wouldn't have to drive around to do this.
Trainee: We're punishing them for not connecting their appliances?
Service: No, I mean we could brick them remotely.
#ShortFiction #IoT #Brick
@cdarwin@c.imWhat will people do when AI can handle most current white-collar tasks?
I don't know.
And that's the whole point.
Nobody knew what displaced agricultural workers would do, either,
-- until they did it.
The absence of a visible next chapter isn't evidence that there won't be one.
It's evidence that we're bad at predicting what humans will invent when constraints shift.
@soundclamp@mastodon.xyzRE: https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/116015417391480927
The sad part is we don’t even need all these satellites. All we need is the FCC to direct internet companies to build fiber networks (because the internet has become an undeniable commons)…
@lapizistik@social.tchncs.deWhat LLMs and the Turing test¹ tell us: most of us not only are² stochastic parrots³ but are also fine with that – otherwise we would not happily use LLMs to produce all the output we communicate to others.
One could frame this as “insult to humanity” but I prefer to call it telling.
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¹the Turing test does _not_ measure “intelligence”. I recommend to read the original paper:
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
@privacity@social.linux.pizzaDeanonimizzazione online su larga scala con LLM
Gli LLM possono essere utilizzati per eseguire una deanonimizzazione su larga scala. Con un accesso completo a Internet, il nostro agente può reidentificare gli utenti di Hacker News e i partecipanti ad Anthropic Interviewer con elevata precisione, dati solo profili e conversazioni online pseudonimi, un'operazione che richiederebbe ore a un investigatore umano dedicato. Progettiamo quindi attacchi per l'ambiente chiuso. Dati due d…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioRE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116144776295217687
Well tomorrow will be the absolutely last resort to fix that iMac Pro, trying to install macOS from thumb drive
Internet recovery is failing, possibly because the SSD isn’t partitioned right (which is hinted at that while it boots into target disk mode I don’t see any disk when connected to it).
We shall see…
@groupnebula563@mastodon.socialRE: https://mastodon.social/@GroupNebula563/116128481311158144
we are officially at the “getting drawn as a gigachad” stage of my internet fame :P
