Parienve @Parienve@qoto.org

RT @ChrisGr93091552@twitter.com

Explored github copilot,a paid service, to see if it encodes code from repositories w/ restrictive licenses.

I checked if it had code I had written at my previous employer that has a license allowing its use only for free games and requiring attaching the license.
yeah it does

https://twitter.com/ChrisGr93091552/status/1539731632931803137

GitHub Copilot… or, as I like to call it, Untested Library Injection as a Service (ULIaaS).

#microsoft #github #copilot

This wiki is about #permacomputing, a radically sustainable approach to computing inspired by permaculture.
https://permacomputing.net/
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So Google Chrome is actually going ahead with killing off ad-blockers and privacy extensions. I wonder if this will signal a shift back to (the far superior browser) Firefox?? https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/08/google_blocking_privacy_manifest/?td=rt-3a

I worked in telcom and telcom adjacent fields for the first several years of my professional career, and it utterly shook my faith in any company in the world to have my best interests in mind, especially w/r/t data security.

The whole tech industry is a trash fire, but especially companies that *should* know better are disgustingly cavalier with our data.

If your threat model includes ... I mean, anyone even remotely savvy, any state actors, any skillful non-state actors, destroy your smartphone.

It's interesting to see so many discussions around #LaMDA, sentient AI and so on.

It's just a shame that, beyond the two partisan camps ("it's human!"/"it's not human!"), there isn't much room to ask a simple question: if an AI had ever to become sentient, how would we know that?

We're way beyond the Turing test here. You can now entertain a long conversation with an AI without even realizing that you're not talking to a human.

So how do we know if the AI is actually coming up with independent thoughts or just mimicking and elaborating on pieces of the huge datasets it's been trained on?

How do we know if those thoughts were genuine or just words that statistically maximized a sophisticated cost function?

And how do we even define "independent" and "genuine" thoughts? Humans say and do a lot of things just to maximize social acceptance or personal gain: does it mean that our thoughts and actions are sometimes "less" human?

We are discussing a lot about human intelligence and sentient models, but we haven't even come up with a shared definition of what makes something "sentient" or "conscious". How can we even get to agree on something that we haven't even agreed on how to measure?

Why did nobody tell me about Consent-O-Matic? It's a browser extension that automatically clicks on GDPR consent dialogs to indicate that you do not consent to your data being shared. Available for all major browsers.

https://github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic/#introduction

Tauri 1.0 – Electron Alternative Powered by Rust

https://tauri.studio/v1/guides/

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://tauri.studio/v1/guides/

#programming #rustlang

Best practices for inclusive CLIs

https://seirdy.one/posts/2022/06/10/cli-best-practices/

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://seirdy.one/posts/2022/06/10/cli-best-practices/

#a11y #practices #programming #unix

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Does anybody know whether the Daum search engine (Korean) uses an independent index+crawler or uses another engine's API? Been trying to figure out and the language barrier is making it hard for me to find answers...

the essential problem of teaching:
learning is like building a pyramid. The person who already knows a skill sits atop a pyramid. the new learner stands on the ground intimidated by the height of the pyramid.

the naive teacher says “no sweat, it’s easy! i’ll tell you how to build your own” looks down and describes the top stone.

the learner confused doesn’t know where a pointy stone is gonna go in a foundation. the teacher, lookong down can’t see her foundation stones at all.

@alexandra 16MB _should_ have been enough for everybody. I'm dead serious :D!

Reduce, reuse, recycle.

But:

- In order to reduce, there need to be proper infrastructure to compensate for the thing being reduced;
- In order to reuse, things need to be durable and easily maintainable, modularly upgradable and repairable;
- If you go to the recycle step ignoring the first two, you've already lost.

As we see, just "changing consumer habits" doesn't work.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

`git log -S some_variable_name` returns all commits where `some_variable_name` is in the diff (either removed, added, or modified)

super useful for tracking down regressions where you know the variable that's the culprit

Do I know any one with experience with alpine/pmos or arch/manjaro packaging, and has some free time to spare a couple of free software projects? I want to package some mobile python apps for #pmos and #manjaro but I rather not learn yet another packaging format beside deb/rpm/setuptools which I am allready managing 😅.

#pinephone #linuxphones

Praise Dobbs for f3(1) "fight fraudulent flash".

I purchased 2TB flash drives, ran "f3probe -n -t /dev/sdX" on them, only for them to report 29 GB usable.

Hello 1 star review, report to Amazon for false advertizing, and full refund return.

https://github.com/AltraMayor/f3