Shamar @Shamar@qoto.org

@minimalprocedure@mastodon.uno

Ciao, giusto un aggiornamento veloce, visto che volevi menzionare il mio articolo altrove e non vorrei finire per pesare negativamente sulla tesi che vuoi sostenere: dai un occhiata all'errata corrige.

http://www.tesio.it/2021/09/01/a_decompiler_for_artificial_neural_networks.html

@namark

According to the same reasoning, compiling a C program is a lossy compression that does not preserve the exact source code and, as such, it can be decompiled and reused freely.

(Note however the correction I did to the article)

I wonder how many people who CANNOT code are working as #MachineLearning experts out there.

#AI demystified: a decompiler

To prove that any "artificial neural network" is just a statistically programmed (virtual) machine whose model software is a derivative work of the source dataset used during its "training", we provide a small suite of tools to assemble and program such machines and a decompiler that reconstruct the source dataset from the cryptic matrices that constitute the software executed by them.

Finally we test the suite on the classic #MNIST dataset and compare the decompiled dataset with the original one.

#ArtificialIntelligence
#MachineLearning
#ArtificialNeuralNetworks
#microsoft
#GitHubCopilot
#Python
#StatisticalProgramming
#VectorMappingMachine

http://www.tesio.it/2021/09/01/a_decompiler_for_artificial_neural_networks.html

@wolf480pl

I don't know your setup, but in the past I used to intercept calls to annoying tools with properly named scripts in the PATH that did what I wanted them to do.

Today I explained special relativity to my eldest daughter.

At her age (12 years old) I was struggling to understand it by myself, because nobody was able to explain it to me.

It took 2-3 year to really understand it despite reading anything I could about it: I remember the day when I was trying to explain what I did understand about it to a schoolmate and pieces finally went all in place.

Now she grasped the implications of c as a constant despite the reference system in roughly an hour.

Her smile was... amazing.
I feel so proud...

(I had to tell this to someone)

@mala

If you just want to cry out loudly "I reject #Capitalism!", sure: you can keep playing by its rules.

But if you want to FIGHT capitalism you NEED to challange its core rule that those who have more capital are those who can do more.

Otherwise you'd better become another Capitalist-fanboy.

@wire@anarchism.space

#AWS, as any other #USA corporation, can be obliged to intercept and hand to Government, those report.
Under US law.

US citizens might be somewhat protected by law IF they had a way to learn that this happened to them (and they have NOT) but #Mozilla collects crash report all over the world, that usually use #Thunderbird because they TRUST and NEED its security.

What can go wrong?

They CAN technically access them. Assuming they will not is overly naive.

It's believing in propaganda like "we shall do no evil" despite all the evidence, despite #ECHELON, despite #Snowden files...

Overly naive.
Believing that a military power like the USA would not use this intelligence weapon is really like believing in fairy tales.

And btw, law have never been an issue for #Bezos when he adopted anti-union strategies in #Amazon that are, in fact, illegal in Europe.

@rysiek@mastodon.technology @mala

@devnull

As I said, you are right about this.

Basically I realized that anything that is centralized or even just USE shits like #GoogleAnalytics, #Facebook buttons, #Youtube embeed or anything else that allow visitors' tracking should be avoided and publicly shamed.

So, again, you are right.
I should have moved those articles (and those on dev.to) ages ago but simply hadn't the time as I gave more priority to other stuffs (some of which finally landed on my website or on Jehanne OS).

What I can say?

Sorry.

@PINE64

@devnull

You are totally right! 😉

In fact, it's something I'm going to fix soon by simply moving those Medium articles on [my personal website](http://www.tesio.it).

Back then, when I wrote those essays, I had not any better alternative for various reasons.

But sure, I've had a safe web site [since late 2018](http://www.tesio.it/2018/10/03/this-is-simple.html) and I should have moved it before.

Having said that, do you have any actual objection on what I wrote?

I mean... beyond the "[tu quoque](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque)"...

@devnull

Welcome on board:
https://medium.com/@giacomo_59737/the-web-is-still-a-darpa-weapon-31e3c3b032b8

@mala

There is a huge difference between the economical power of AT&T in the 70s and the power that each bit collected by #Google provides them.

The power provided by money grows linearly with each cent.

The power provided by personal data grows exponentially with each bit.

Google is not just a threat to the US rhetoric about free market and competition like AT&T was.

It's a global threat to the #freedom of everybody and each of us.

I know it's difficult to see the difference if you have been raised in the US, but AT&T was just a monopoly (like Standard Oils before and so on) Google is a weapon pointed to billions of people and to all democracies of the world.

Their lobbying power is simply too strong all over the world. Their propaganda too effective.

#Fuchsia is an attempt to replace Linux in Android with something under their full unchallenged control.

It doesn't matter how good is the code, spreading it further hurts our already broken cyberspace.

____

As you know, and just like you, I'm happy to talk with everybody, even Google's employees, nazi's or terrorists.

They are people.
They can learn and change.

I used to debate with them often when I had more time, even here on Fediverse.

But I would NOT spread their creations. Too dangerous.

@fsfe under #Google's patronate since 2007

With something between 10% and 20% of it's budget coming from #Google since 2013.

🤷‍♂️

https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus-2007.en.html

https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus-2013.en.html

@mala

I prefer to not associate with #Google.

Nothing good can come from there and their money taint anything they touch and corrupt anyone they reach.

Anything they do is either to increase or to stabilize their power over people.

Forget #Fuchsia if you care about users' and developers' freedom.

@fsfe

I wonder how proud he will feel looking at the huge amount of money that #FSFE got from #Google since 2013.

More than 10% of its budget.
But hey! Less than 20%!

https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.en.html

@fsfe @kirschner

I wonder how proud he will feel looking at the huge amount of money that #FSFE got from #Google since 2013.

More than 10% of its budget.
But hey! Less than 20%!

https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.en.html