Pthorn @Pthorn@qoto.org

Happy Crowdstrike outage day to all who celebrate

The OpenAI ChatGPT app on macOS is not sandboxed and stores all the conversations in **plain-text** in a non-protected location:

~/Library/Application\ Support/com.openai.chat/conversations-{uuid}/

So basically any other running app / process / malware can read all your ChatGPT conversations without any permission prompt:

"That sizable investment will go toward the data centers needed to run AI, the power grid, and AI chips" #IdiocrazyIsADocumentary

https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-return-investment-disappointing-goldman-sachs-report-2024-6

“On the energy demands of "AI" • Buttondown”

https://buttondown.email/maiht3k/archive/on-the-energy-demands-of-ai/

> If you use clean energy sources for that added demand, you've used up some of the clean energy supply that could have gone somewhere else. Until we actually have more clean energy than we need, throwing lots of it at training and using "generative AI" models is just going to make the climate crisis worse.

“I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicity”

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/

> The market is so distorted that it's almost as bad as dabbling in the crypto space. It isn't as bad, meaning that I haven't yet reached the point where I assume that anyone who has ever typed in import tensorflow is a scumbag, but we're well on our way there.

I wish I had the energy to write something this angry about “AI” because I’m absolutely this angry. Today’s must-read

Nice easter egg on Phil’s cockpit dash… well done.

Six years ago I did a prank on the Bitcoin Blockchain.

I got an art company to verify that I painted the Mona Lisa.

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2018/06/how-i-became-leonardo-da-vinci-on-the-blockchain/

Since then, my stunt has been cited in two-dozen academic papers.

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/citations/#2018

Write that silly blog post. Test the limits of what works. Build something daft. Poke the bear. Experiment.

You never know what will happen if you do.

honestly feel like I'm losing my fucking mind reading this shit. how does this make any fucking sense? you send an AI bot to a video meeting you're not attending where presumably other coworkers will also send their bots?????? to what fucking end? what is the point of this? why are we having NPCs video chat with eachother? what gets done with this? what is the purpose? how is this not just a fucking email? is this what jokerfication is? this doesn't make any fucking sense!

Foredrag om generativ AI og fremtiden fra en AI-konsulent fra CapGemini.
Overraskende nok, pølseselgeren mener vi må spise mer pølse. Og ikke nok med det, vi skal erstatte alle måltid med pølse. Det er faktisk en bra ting med pølse i alt.

Og hvorfor er pølse bra?
Fordi pølseprodusentenes aksjekurs har gått til værs etter at de har annonsert at de kommer med enda større og bedre pølser.
Ergo, pølser er fremtiden!

Hvem tør foreslå danske politikere fra Facebooktinget at der er alternativer?

https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/112455456338250699

🌟 Last week, an intriguing auction hit eBay — the badge of Apple Employee No. 10. There was just one small problem — it was a total forgery.

Enjoy: https://cabel.com/2024/05/16/the-forged-apple-employee-badge/

hi hello i see it's time for our semi-regular reminder that your browser's incognito mode does not protect you from surveillance!

"ChatGPT consumes a lot of energy in the process, up to 25 times more than a Google search. Additionally, a lot of water is also used in cooling for the servers that run all that software. Per conversation of about 20 to 50 queries, half a litre of water evaporates – a small bottle, in other words."

AI is predicted to consume twice as much energy as the whole of France by 2030

Training GPT3, took 1,287 MWh (Megawatt hours) of electricity.

https://www.brusselstimes.com/world-all-news/1042696/chatgpt-consumes-25-times-more-energy-than-google

d.23. april sendte @fsfe 's danske lokalgruppe (https://community.fsfe.org/t/handleplan-og-arbejdsgrundlag-for-fsfe-danmark/963) et åbent brev til alle partiernes IT-ordførere, om hvorfor det er på høje tid at gøre fri og open source software til den nationale standard.

Hvis du gerne vil læse det, deler
@agger også det åbne brev her: https://blogs.fsfe.org/agger/

#PMPC #FreeSoftwareFreeSociety #PublicCode #BæredygtigIT #opensource #dkpol

"Borgernes penge forsvinder ned i den offentlige sektor" er et populært refrain på højrefløjen, så måske skulle vi gøre mere ud af at minde om hvor penge der "forsvinder" bliver af.

Højere løn til offentligt ansatte? Øh nej*.
Flere lærere/sygeplejersker/plejere/sagsbehandlere? Øh nej.
Indsats imod skatteunddragelse & snyd? Øh nej.
Flere penge til ledige/udsatte/syge? Øh fucking nej.

Dyre konsulenter? 🎯
*Direktørlønninger m.m.? 🎯
Militært isenkram? Ja, åbenbart.

Vejen FREMAD er åben. Vi bør slå ind på den nu - vi kan ikke blive ved med at tage så magne dumme beslutninger og købe så meget software vi ikke ejer og ikke har kontrol over!
".. vi er overbeviste om, at det på sigt vil være for det bedste, økonomisk såvel som sikkerhedsmæssigt, både af hensyn til databeskyttelsen og landets suverænitet, at indføre denne klausul, om at al offentlig software skal være fri software/open source" #foss
https://community.fsfe.org/t/digitaliseringsproblemer-kan-loses-med-fri-software/1152

Real-time footage of the AI bubble bursting…

VIdeo description:
A wooded,, green area with a close-up of a large soap bubble forming inside the loop of a string and slowly, in slow motion, growing larger and larger before it pops. Overlaid on the video are scattered text quotes that appear and disappear, as if they are speaking in unision with the bubble growing and popping:

What is it?
It’s AI
How can it do that?!
It’s mindblowing.
It’s going to take over the world.
It looks so real.
This is all happening so fast!
We need to invest 7 trillion to make it grow bigger y’all!
But it’s not making any money!
I can control it.
It’s actually pretty silly.
But you just have to believe!
And it’s using so much energy!
And water…
Wait, is this all a hallucination?
(soap bubble pops)
Ah, fuck.
Clean that up please.
Sam, has your orb scanned all the eyeballs yet?
Yeah, we need everyone to keep an open mind here.

It’s been a day since folks learned about the passing of Charles Edge, a pillar of #MacAdmin community.

A profound loss - to family, children, loved ones, friends and colleagues.

This quote feels apt, based on my experience and stories shared by folks last night about Charles.

“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.”
- Samuel Johnson

Charles Edge died unexpectedly on Friday. 😢

I can't say that I knew him well, but I did know him. He was a fixture of the Mac Admins community, and you could tell right away on meeting him that he was kind, smart, and a hard worker. He was impossible to dislike.

Many of those reading this may not know who Charles was. If you have a Mac that is managed by your employer, chances are good that Charles had a hand - directly or indirectly - in some aspect of how it is managed. His influence would have made that experience smoother and more secure for both you and your employer.

Charles will be missed greatly by those who knew him.

THEY FIXED VOYAGER!
NASA IS SO FUCKING AWESOME!

https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/04/22/nasas-voyager-1-resumes-sending-engineering-updates-to-earth/

#space #voyager1