@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.
Can't simply boost from my instance, but this post on AI source data quality is important https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/112814393953471895
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
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 :)
@CStamp The bad code? Yes. This power pole? Not yet.
Hacking Scientific Citations
Some scholars are inflating their reference counts by sneaking them into metadata:
Citations of scientific work ab... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/07/hacking-scientific-citations.html
Slowly moving to https://circumstances.run/@Szescstopni. This account will stay up for a while.
Living in the #wetlands of #Polesia (#Polesie in Polish) in #EasternPoland. Surrounded by #bogs and #forests, trying not to fuck up surrounding nature too much.
Taking care of a small pack of #dogs (most of them rescue dogs) – #IdąPsięta.
#RuralBroadband provider by accident. Starting a small #LoRaWAN project to monitor our wetlands. Coding, mostly in #Python. Luddite.
#Atheist. I don't believe in #science – science is our defence against belief.
Fuck nazis.
I check facts before I toot.
I sometimes toot in Polish.
Zdolny, ale leniwy.