Pthorn @Pthorn@qoto.org

In the 15+ years people have been promoting blockchains, this flowchart remains undefeated.

"Den danske stat står i et nyt milliardudbud til at indkøbe software-licenser og søsætter for første gang et samlet storindkøb af cloud-løsninger. Men det kan være problematisk i en tid, hvor man vil frigøre sig fra amerikanske tech-giganter, lyder det fra ekspert."

Hvad er det #dkpol ikke har forstået?

https://www.version2.dk/artikel/trods-kritik-om-monopol-og-usa-afhaengighed-staten-vil-kaste-milliarder-efter-microsoft?utm_source=nyhedsbrev&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=version2_daily

Hello, I’m a disruptor, very smart, here to create efficiency. I’m just going to drill holes in the bottom of this boat to see which parts of the hull are mission-critical.

EVERY DAY IS GLOBAL SWITCH DAY
#zelensky #trump #vance #musk #noX #noMeta #UnplugTrump

I've seldom seen a meme capture an entire ideology this well. Kudos.

It is once again time to give thanks to Brian Fox, the Black American programmer that has given us BASH and echo! Thank you for your INCREDIBLE contributions to open source software, Unix, and Linux. It literally would not be the same without you. BASH is still absolutely foundational to all computing today. Happy Black History Month to an absolute icon!

#bash #bashscript #echo #foss #linux #unix #BlackHistoryMonth #gnu

Tesla CEO now spending all his time supporting hateful ideology worldwide.

His political ambitions and projects, such as the election lottery and Twitter acquisition, are funded through loans on his Tesla stock.

If you’re buying a Tesla or charging at a Supercharger you’re financially supporting these efforts.
https://masto.ai/@euractiv/113891934012247213

Sabot in the Age of AI

Here is a curated list of strategies, offensive methods, and tactics for (algorithmic) sabotage, disruption, and deliberate poisoning.

iocaine
The deadliest AI poison—iocaine generates garbage rather than slowing crawlers.
https://git.madhouse-project.org/algernon/iocaine

Nepenthes
A tarpit designed to catch web crawlers, especially those scraping for LLMs. It devours anything that gets too close. @aaron
https://zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes/

Quixotic
Feeds fake content to bots and robots.txt-ignoring #LLM scrapers. @marcusb
https://marcusb.org/hacks/quixotic.html

Poison the WeLLMs
A reverse-proxy that serves diassociated-press style reimaginings of your upstream pages, poisoning any LLMs that scrape your content. @mike
https://codeberg.org/MikeCoats/poison-the-wellms

Django-llm-poison
A django app that poisons content when served to #AI bots. @Fingel
https://github.com/Fingel/django-llm-poison

KonterfAI
A model poisoner that generates nonsense content to degenerate LLMs.
https://codeberg.org/konterfai/konterfai

This is useful information for Microsoft 365 subscribers. The notification I got about the price rise said nothing about them bundling AI into the new price. And certainly nothing about the option of sticking with the old plan & price, without AI.

https://www.consumer.org.nz/articles/you-don-t-have-to-pay-the-microsoft-365-price-increase

Ja då kör vi hörni woop woop!

Please don't tell me what feature you are adding #ai to now

Protip:

When designing a user interface, imagine some old woman using it, say Margaret Hamilton, and she's clicking your app's buttons and saying to you, as old people do,

"Young whippersnapper, when I was your age, I sent 24 people to the ACTUAL MOON with my software in 4K of RAM and here I am clicking your button and it takes ten seconds to load a 50 megabyte video ad and then it crashes

I'm not even ANGRY with you, I'm just disappointed."

I think that fact that we're using AI to write emails because we find it hard and AI to summarise emails because we can't be bothered to read them suggests that we should take a look at how we communicate rather than boiling the oceans to have LLMs hallucinate at each other on our behalf.

Fuck Microsoft and Fuck Nadella.

As expected, the 24H2 update installed 'Recall', it can't be uninstalled.

To disable the Microcoft spyware, run this as admin

C:\Windows\System32>Dism /Online /Disable-Feature /Featurename:Recall

Can't vouch that all the people you share your screen, code, IP, private details, will disable theirs. consider NOT sharing anything ever again.

Fine iagttagelser: "Tre fødselsdagskort i postkassen føles måske mere, som om man betyder noget, end 46 x tillykke på Facebook." https://analogist.dk/smaa-butikker-posthuse-fastnettelefon/

The process for how I write the current version of macOS:

1. Try and spell Seqyoaia. Give up.
2. Remember it is 15. So write 10.15. That looks wrong. erase.
3. write 15 and that looks weird.
4. write macOS 15
5. Consider goat farming.

http://fuckingappleversionnumbers.com

Elon #Musk has just called himself “Dark Maga” during a rally with #Trump. How can science or European government institutions still justify being active on X, a de-facto right-wing extremist propaganda platform?

‘Using GPT-4 to generate 100 words consumes up to 3 bottles of water.’

I’d like to see the climate cost flagged in simple terms like this every time we are about to use AI. Like a calorie counter for the climate. A pop-up AI warning label, like nutritional information on food packaging. If nothing else, it might make us individually aware of the collective cost of using AI frivolously.

#AI
#ClimateDiary

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/using-gpt-4-to-generate-100-words-consumes-up-to-3-bottles-of-water-ai-data-centers-also-raise-power-and-water-bills-for-nearby-residents