Pthorn @Pthorn@qoto.org

I think that fact that we're using AI to write emails because we find it hard and AI to summarise emails because we can't be bothered to read them suggests that we should take a look at how we communicate rather than boiling the oceans to have LLMs hallucinate at each other on our behalf.

Fuck Microsoft and Fuck Nadella.

As expected, the 24H2 update installed 'Recall', it can't be uninstalled.

To disable the Microcoft spyware, run this as admin

C:\Windows\System32>Dism /Online /Disable-Feature /Featurename:Recall

Can't vouch that all the people you share your screen, code, IP, private details, will disable theirs. consider NOT sharing anything ever again.

Fine iagttagelser: "Tre fødselsdagskort i postkassen føles måske mere, som om man betyder noget, end 46 x tillykke på Facebook." https://analogist.dk/smaa-butikker-posthuse-fastnettelefon/

The process for how I write the current version of macOS:

1. Try and spell Seqyoaia. Give up.
2. Remember it is 15. So write 10.15. That looks wrong. erase.
3. write 15 and that looks weird.
4. write macOS 15
5. Consider goat farming.

http://fuckingappleversionnumbers.com

Elon #Musk has just called himself “Dark Maga” during a rally with #Trump. How can science or European government institutions still justify being active on X, a de-facto right-wing extremist propaganda platform?

‘Using GPT-4 to generate 100 words consumes up to 3 bottles of water.’

I’d like to see the climate cost flagged in simple terms like this every time we are about to use AI. Like a calorie counter for the climate. A pop-up AI warning label, like nutritional information on food packaging. If nothing else, it might make us individually aware of the collective cost of using AI frivolously.

#AI
#ClimateDiary

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/using-gpt-4-to-generate-100-words-consumes-up-to-3-bottles-of-water-ai-data-centers-also-raise-power-and-water-bills-for-nearby-residents

For folks buying new Apple devices:

"If you buy a new iPhone or iPad and don't have enough iCloud storage to back up your current device using iCloud Backup, you're eligible to get temporary iCloud storage."

Worth reading this note from Apple, doing the prep before you start the transfer...

https://support.apple.com/en-us/104980
#Apple

Det er idag 1 år og 1 dag siden jeg skrev denne kronik. Desværre er den stadig fuldkommen relevant.
https://www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk/debat/nej-vi-skal-ikke-vaere-verdensmestre-i-digitalisering

Fuck you Sama and your shity AI company. You are stealing from artists plain and simple. Nobody asked you to do this. Nothing of value will be lost today if your company shuts down. OpenAI is begging the British Parliament to allow it to use copyrighted works because it's supposedly "impossible" for the company to train its artificial intelligence models without using copyrighted material — and continue growing its multi-billion-dollar business — without them. https://futurism.com/the-byte/openai-copyrighted-material-parliament

At the height of One Million Checkboxes's popularity I thought I'd been hacked. A few hours later I was tearing up, extraordinarily proud of some brilliant teens.

Here's my favorite story from running OMCB :)

https://eieio.games/essays/the-secret-in-one-million-checkboxes/

finally! it's here! thought crime!!! https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/01/argentina-ai-predicting-future-crimes-citizen-rights

“Declare your AIndependence: block AI bots, scrapers and crawlers with a single click”

https://blog.cloudflare.com/declaring-your-aindependence-block-ai-bots-scrapers-and-crawlers-with-a-single-click

Not a huge fan of Cloudflare but them offering this service is both an indication of the scale of the abuse (this level of traffic costs money) and the changing attitudes towards "AI"

I have to admit, AI has saved me a lot of time. Every time I start reading about some interesting new app or service or product and see that it has "AI", I immediately stop reading and don't waste any more time on that thing.

The life of a repo man is always intense.

Welcome to the party!!

Innovation will start booming with Switzerland mandating government software to be open source.

Public money for public code, forever!

#OpenSource #Transparency #DigitalSovereignty

https://www.zdnet.com/article/switzerland-now-requires-all-government-software-to-be-open-source/