Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

LLMs exist to crush labour. That's not even my surmise, the people paying billions of dollars to fund this stuff are extremely open and explicit that this is their goal.

There are no ethical use cases for LLMs at this point in time. Maybe when the bubble has popped thoroughly. Not before.

EDIT: I should have expected this post would attract the deliberately obtuse shills, but my goodness

If we could admit the following, it would save many lives:

COVID is airborne

COVID is not over

COVID is a social justice issue & everyone deserves access to vaccines, respirators and clean air

COVID can impact everyone, not “only the vulnerable”

Lastly, the “vulnerable” deserve protection too. We are not expendable.

Trainbow!

The outright wrecking of the scientific infrastructure in the US under the current administration chilled me to my bone. Kept me doomscrolling. But I finally found a way to do something positive, in a small way: I dedicated some storage space and a bit of my internet connection to a decentralized backup of deleted research data.
I am happy to report that @SafeguardingResearch 's torrent swarm now has ca 14 TB storage and a Gbit connection more.
#sciop #safeguardingresearch #academicchatter

Vandag is weer WEIdag met een belangrijk vraagstuk: kan je een regeneratief landgoed worden zonder de vraag van het privé eigendom te stellen?

Concreet voor ons: mag je jouw huis dat je hier op de Kleverbergh bouwd later met overwaarde doorverkopen? Wat doed dat dan met de groep? Of kies je voor een model waar je als groep eigendom loslaat en je huis op termijn aan de plek geeft? Houdt dat in, dat mensen die al overwaarde hebben, dit dan ook moeten inbrengen voor het collectief?

#vrijkoop

Software devs are so bad at estimation that there is a whole methodology/movement based on refusing to estimate, but devs report the time they have saved by using LLMs, and I’m supposed to take that number seriously?

@why2025camp Outside the hackerspace @revspace , a car is parked with an infrared camera. We assume it is a license plate reader.

So we made a license plate and showed it to the camera.

Was chatting with @FaerieFearal the other day about how anarchist and punk furs are often hyenas, rats, and opossums, but I said there should be more seagulls and they brought the correct energy: why aren't there more pigeon furs?

Pigeons don't give a fuck about your borders.

Seagulls don't care if those are "your" fries.

More punk seagulls and pigeons furries please.

#furry

The irony of Determinate #Nix is that the people in the bubble they cater to spent so much time daemonizing Lix for virtue of being a fork, that now they have to do acrobatic mental gymnastics to not call their not-a-fork a fork

Boosting with cw and alt text. Sorry missed that the original poster didn't include alt text initially.

Looked it up. Its from this Wired article:
https://www.wired.com/story/ea-tried-to-stop-an-anti-dei-mod-for-the-sims-4-but-more-keep-surfacing/

as COVID cases start to rise (again) globally:

covid is not over

has never been over

and Won’t Ever Be Over until folks actually use precautions (masking, isolating, and vaccines) consistently and well

"What does reading code comments from some developers look like?"

🤔

#memes #webdev #programming

Hi

Anyone out there who can make some small changes to an Inkscape image in commons?

Probably 15 minutes tops for someone who knows what they are doing.

I can pay.

UPDATE
Found someone!
Thank you everyone for boosting.

#inkscape #illustration #commons #help

Wacom drawing tablets track the name of every application that you open

However, the title “Wacom drawing tablets used to track the name of every application that you open but now seem to have stopped for some reason” didn’t feel very snappy. I decided to do some more investigating.

This write-up of Wacom's information syphoning scheme is really good, but for me, the best part starts with the snippet I've included from near the end.