Simon @spoltier@qoto.org

🤔 Do you ever wonder how companies are putting LLMs and GenAI apps into production? What stacks do they use? What architecture did they go with?

I put together a database of known public technical writeups with summaries of the key technical features.

With this release I think Amazon may have earned a spot among the top tier of model providers

Maybe we need a new FAANG acronym that covers OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and Amazon

I like GAMOA

The culture conflict in Mastodon has a bit to do with Americans being gobsmacked by the idea that it is socially good to correct others, and Germans being bumbledoozed by the possibility of minding your own business.

As a Balkaner, I obviously think everyone is wrong (me included).

here’s a previous example of it stumbling over Dutch to innovate a truly excellent new English word https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/112303571242065236

I’m struggling with whether I have the spoons and emotional bandwith to write an article on Assisted Dying policies. It is such a complicated issue and people have big feelings about it (understandably).

While I debate this in my monkey mind - I’m going to share a post I wrote on another social media site to explain why as a disabled person in Canada - I have concerns that medical assistance in dying has become dangerous.

People outside of Canada are unaware what our program has turned into - so I hope this will shed some light on it and help others recognize WHY I’m so torn on this issue:

I’m going to tell the story of “Kat” - a young woman with EDS (which I also have) living in British Columbia. She needed pain management, palliative care and a family doctor - but was unable to access these basic medical options.

She finally applied for MAiD thinking it would open up treatment options - because an ethical program would do just that. I know it sounds strange to apply for death as a means of getting treatment - but in Canada our law says ‘all options must be exhausted before MAiD’. Many people with treatable conditions apply thinking that if approved to die - our system will expedite the care needed to live.

What’s worse - her death was then misrepresented and romanticized in a video advertisement about the benefits of MAiD. The fact that she wanted to live and was denied medical care that could have saved her was conveniently left out.

Why do we need to romanticize assisted death? People who are trying to silence disabled voices should ask themselves that question. Most people agree letting a patient in unbearable suffering choose when they die is compassionate. It shouldn’t NEED a PR push.

Perhaps it’s because the powers that be are trying to inoculate the public so they won’t notice when more and more people with treatable conditions and disabilities start dying? So they craft a narrative about how peaceful and joyful it is?

No amount of PR or softly lit videos can change the fact that people with disabilities are dying who don’t WANT to die. People are fighting for years for medical care - being denied and left to suffer - and then presented with MAiD as the “solution”.

I’m in no way suggesting we not allow people the right to die - but we MUST centre the voices of those most at risk of harm and abuse. We can’t keep dismissing the concerns of disabled people just because we MAY want the option when our time comes.

The lack of outrage over deaths like “Kat” show how little respect there is for the lives of disabled people. How many people think we’re “better off dead” and are certain if they became disabled - they wouldn’t want to live

You can’t possibly know what you would want until it happens to you. Many people think disability is worse than death - until it happens to them. Then they realize that we can and do have full lives and WANT to keep living them.

Until you’ve gone through it - you shouldn’t presume to tell us how to feel about it. I don’t judge others for wanting the option - don’t judge me for calling out the ways it puts me at increased risk of coercion, loss of medical care and premature death.

We must hold the system accountable. If someone can be helped - we have a moral responsibility to at least TRY and help them before shepherding them to their death.

If more people realized the dangers of coercion - and cared about disabled lives - there would be more outage.

Please listen, learn & put aside your hypothetical scenarios - we must deal with what is currently happening We have to find a way to protect people like me. People like “Kat”. Those deemed “undesirable” or economically inactive. If we don’t - more of us will die.

I support the right to die - but let’s make sure we’re also providing people the right to live.

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/easier-to-let-go-without-support-b-c-woman-approved-for-medically-assisted-death-speaks-out-1.5937496

#MAiD #assisteddying #euthanasia #ableism #discrimination #eds #disability #disabilityrights

It is worth zooming in. It is remarkable.
On the wall of a medium sized hospital in Dublin, in Ireland a very small country.
Better than any election manifesto.
#IrelandIsOpen #Grateful

Maybe fun to know - using #MS365 means that the US government has bulk access to your data, which matters if you are a government yourself. Supporters of Microsoft will tell you you can easily use "double key encryption" to protect your MS365 data against US government snooping. This is how easily you can do that. Hint, it involves GitHub and compiling code: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/purview/double-key-encryption-setup

Experimental philosophy in action.

From trees to concrete spheres, see how Vanyu Krastev transforms everyday objects in Bulgaria into hilarious characters with just googly eyes! 👀✨ #StreetArt https://streetartutopia.com/2024/12/01/googly-eye-street-art-bulgaria/

@jimfl the exact moment in time of that 6pm event next year isn't 100% determined (and hence shouldn't be irreversibly baked into a UTC value), because we can't predict how that time might be affected by changes to the DST/timezone rules between now and the day on which the event takes place

2️⃣1️⃣ Here's the 21st post highlighting key new features of the upcoming v257 release of systemd. #systemd257

systemd-repart is systemd's dynamic, incremental automatic disk repartitioning tool. It started out as a tool for automatically creating additional partitions on first boot, in a declarative way, but turned into something a lot more powerful: a generic image builder with a deep understanding of fancy encryption (dm-crypt), authentication (dm-verity) and more.

"Beaucoup ne parvinrent pas à trouver de réponse."
Extrait des Chroniques du flash dans #Bikepunk les chroniques du Flash de @ploum
Qui était sur la table de nuit (parce que je suis couché, oui déjà🛌)

Règles du jeu :
- Prenez le livre le plus proche.
- Tournez-vous à la page 42
- Trouver la 2ème phrase
- Publiez la phrase dans un toot avec le hashtag et écrivez les règles en commentaire
- Ne cherchez pas votre livre préféré, le plus cool ou le plus spirituel. Optez pour le plus proche.
#page42

How much does it cost to operate a secure global messaging service? Last year @Mer__edith and the Signal team explained that it would probably cost $50m / year by 2025. https://signal.org/blog/signal-is-expensive/ — it is also super easy to donate a little something to support their costs. If you use Signal, consider chipping in a coffee’s worth per month https://signal.org/donate/

🎄You and your friends are cordially invited to Unison's #AdventOfCode season.

Spread the word: https://www.unison-lang.org/adventofcode2024/?utm_source=mastodon

Here are some science-backed cumulative culture reasons to read our newest preprint about cumulative cultures and developer problem-solving 😂 😛 (thread ⬇️ )

https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/tfjyw

Carmack & Rogan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udlMSe5-zP8 https://ma.tt/2024/11/carmack-rogan/