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@ploum I don't drive cars with computers (unless you count that little chip in the fuel injection system as one). The one I currently drive is 26 yo, perfect for my bog.

The more you understand computers, the more you value systems without them.

I drink so much carbonated beverages that pretty soon my carbon footprint will exceed that of Taylor Swift.

Yesterday ended well. Today was so hectic I didn't get a chance to look at the Moon, but I assume it might have changed a bit.

Can't simply boost from my instance, but this post on AI source data quality is important circumstances.run/@davidgerard

@benroyce @frank_w Wasn't AI invented for the sole purpose of making 3D TV great again?

@frank_w

oh boy

AI is useless shit. it's essentially the same as crypto: hype but the substance is less genuine tech advance and more a certain class of tech bro buying in on ethusiasm, the only difference being the mark for the con job is FAANG rather than sad randos playing a casino

AI is going the way of 3D TV

if we ever discover (fossils of) life on mars, we're definitely gonna give it a binomial nomenclature name with "bowie" in it, right?

This is how today started. The cumulus (those fluffy clouds) are fine, but the cirrus behind them mean the weather will change. Probably for worse.

Not sure what to do now. A post appeared in my feed. My instance has issues with showing complete threads so I went to the original site to get context. The post I saw here was edited and is much better now, but it didn't update here. If I now boost it from here, will my followers see edited post or the old one cached here?

Concerning CrowdStrike:

We are now at t+26h. Please compare how much we knew about the xz-attack after less than a day with what we know about the chain of events of giant outage yesterday.

If something similar had been caused by an OSS component, we would see congress discussing a ban on open software in critical infrastructure already.

@CStamp This picture is not from my area. It's been like this there for many days, apparently no one reacted. Or someone did, but the utility ignored reports. But now you made me realize I should act – I'll send the picture to that county's office and will see what happens. Also, this will force the officials to have their first contact with Mastodon :)

I have no idea what happened here, but it eerily resembles some code I've seen recently. Switching the power off and on a few times might help.

Hacking Scientific Citations

Some scholars are inflating their reference counts by sneaking them into metadata:
Citations of scientific work ab... schneier.com/blog/archives/202

#Uncategorized #academic #hacking #fraud

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