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foolishowl

@foolishowl@social.coop

[...] "Revolutions do not allow anyone to play the schoolmaster with them." -- Rosa Luxemburg, The Mass Strike, Chapter 4.

I'm a libertarian socialist, a social ecologist, and a humanist, I know my way around Linux, and I'm partial to speculative fiction and TTRPGs.

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cstross, to random
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Welp, I knew Microsoft's CoPilot+ Recall was going to be a privacy disaster but I didn't expect it to turn into an enterprise computing catastrophe for Microsoft quite this fast!

But this can't be a one-off. Any large enterprise that has to comply with a regulated privacy environment—HIPAA in the USA, GDPR in the EU, banking/insurance/finance globally—must be considering a ban on Microsoft installations on laptop/desktop computers right now or be breaking the law.

https://infosec.exchange/@SecurityWriter/112558224281615019

foolishowl,
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@cstross @rivetgeek The CEO of the Boeing of microprocessors said in an internal video that going forward, the corporation will use AI tools in all design, coding, and validation.

SomeGadgetGuy, to windows
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It just clicked in my brain. What I haven't been able to articulate about why I'm so anxious about Recall. I'm sure others have already gotten to where I am.

It's worse than "a system that tracks everything you do" and stores that info in a basic database that could be easily compromised.
It's worse than a nanny surveillance tool for companies to spy on their employees.

It's inescapable.

It doesn't matter if I make a dozen "how to disable recall" tutorials. The second YOUR data shows up on someone ELSE'S screen, it's in THEIR recall database.

It won't matter if you're a master expert specialist. You can't account for EVERY other computer you've ever interacted with. If a family member looks up an old email with your personal data in it, your data is now at risk.

If THEIR system is compromised YOUR data is at risk.

I just went from "vague feeling of unease" to "actively writing templates to canvas elected officials, regulators, and attorneys general."

foolishowl,
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@SomeGadgetGuy @mountdiscovery Microsoft depends on institutional clients, especially government agencies, many of which have stringent legal rules about access controls. There's no way Recall can be compatible with those rules.

What's astonishing me right now is that I would have expected a whole lot of Microsoft's clients to push back, "We'll have to stay with Windows 10", but I'm not seeing any hint of Microsoft backing down.

TarkabarkaHolgy, to 13thFloor
@TarkabarkaHolgy@ohai.social avatar

So in honor of #PrideMonth

I am reading an article about how every time ancient art depicts a goddess as sexually alluring, they always get labeled a "goddess of fertility". Even when there is no indication of children, pregnancy, or anything fertile.

The article argues that some goddesses were deities of sex and pleasure, without the maternal fertility aspect.

I am like 🤯 🤯 I have a whole entire archaeology degree and we never addressed this...

#mythology #sex #religion #archaeology

foolishowl,
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@TarkabarkaHolgy I'd done a wiki-walk the other day on Mediterranean goddesses, and it seemed like a definite pattern to their roles getting redefined and restricted by patriarchy.

foolishowl,
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@TarkabarkaHolgy I'd wondered what archaeologists had to say about it.

RickiTarr, to random
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America: You need to have health insurance!

Me: Cool, that makes sense, but it's going to cover my whole body, right?

America: Depends, do you use your teeth and eyes?

foolishowl,
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@RickiTarr I'm fond of the insurance plans for optometry where for $240 a year, they'll pay for a $100 exam.

foolishowl, to random
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I despise the US criminal justice system.

But fuck that guy.

foolishowl, to random
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I would like to see more public statements of committed opposition to "generative AI". I want to know if there's anyone left who can be trusted.

foolishowl,
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This is after I found out that OSI and the Linux Foundation are working on "open source AI" projects, a few days after Red Hat announced it's working on "AI". Mozilla has been sending mixed messages about "AI" for months.

Both Intel and AMD are integrating NPUs into their processors, so hardware manufactured after 2023 is no longer reliable. I'm getting ads for laptops with those processors.

It's looking like the end of general purpose computing.

ShaulaEvans, to edutooters
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I know a horrifyingly vast number of people in education circles who are all-in, gung-ho about AI.

How do you teach environmental studies while you are supporting catastrophic waste of water & active global warming?

How do you teach kids that plagiarism is wrong when you are promoting plagiarism?

How do you teach kids that consent is important when you are promoting the wholesale non-consensual unpaid theft of original creators works?

@edutooters

foolishowl,
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@galad @ShaulaEvans @edutooters Part of what gets me about this bubble: it's obviously unreliable now, and given its rapid deployment, the engines are going to start inputting their own output, so it's going to get worse, not better.

alfiekohn, to random
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I love my neighborhood

foolishowl,
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@alfiekohn @futurebird This seems like a case for you.

DrALJONES, to random
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Report

VP Harris’s speech disrupted by members of the Service Employees International Union.

"Harris, Harris, you can’t hide, we charge you with genocide”

At a trade union conference, union members denounced Harris & the Democratic Party & its complicity in Israel's genocide in Gaza.

They called on their union - representing nearly 1.9 million US & Canadian workers - not to endorse Biden.

13.20 GMT MAY 23 AJ UPDATES

..

foolishowl,
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@DrALJONES How many people were involved?

SFRuminations, to scifi
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Everyone wants to remake the good stuff... what about remakes of the truly awful shows with fantastic potential in their ideas?

My suggestion: a modern version of Ark II (1976) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0127989/?ref_=ls_t_19

"Three young scientists travel around the country in the 25th century after the world has been ravaged by pollution. In their hi-tech RV (called Ark II), they study the land and help out those in need."

Is that not a fantastic premise?

foolishowl,
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@nyrath @SFRuminations That's the episode I remember the most.

In retrospect it was astonishing that there was a TV show for kids with a post-apocalyptic premise. On top of that, the post-apocalyptic fiction we were getting, just a few years later, often favored rebuilding the world of capitalist economic progress, just with a few reforms.

Ark II in general, and that episode in particular, directly questioned what we understand progress to mean.

bedirthan, to DnD
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You know what's odd?

Optimizers around 5e say that a +1 is about a ~5% increase in success, but that assumes that the range of results is 1-20.

As we know the range of results in the game actually stretches from about 1-40 and the range of difficulties is 5 to 35. Neither of those would be a range of 1 to 20.

So all the arguments about optimization are about a ~2-3% gain.

foolishowl,
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@bedirthan What's always seemed odd to me is that I would expect a GM to respond to increasing skill levels with increasing challenge levels. So optimization wouldn't mean a long term increased rate of success, just a narrowing list of competencies as secondary abilities are sacrificed for a primary ability.

eniko, to random
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remember when trump said if we just stop testing for covid it would go away as if by a miracle and everyone thought that was a scandalously stupid thing to say

on an entirely unrelated note since 3 weeks ago the CDC no longer requires hospitals to report covid hospitalizations and now biobot is no longer showing covid wastewater data for the US

foolishowl,
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@eniko People kept saying that with Biden in office, we'd finally have support for reasonable public health policies. Instead we got public declarations that COVID was over, and liberals joined conservatives in rejecting masking and other precautions.

lifewithtrees, to actuallyadhd
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A job post that explicitly requires someone with "high executive functioning"

Is this #ablemism?

@actuallyautistic @actuallyadhd #audhd

foolishowl,
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@lifewithtrees @actuallyautistic @actuallyadhd That is absolutely ableism.

foolishowl,
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@lifewithtrees @actuallyautistic @actuallyadhd To expand a bit, it's making a statement about what sort of person should apply for the job, and using pseudo-medical language to do it, instead of clearly describing the job and leaving it to us to decide whether we are willing to do it.

On top of that, it sounds like a way to describe bad working conditions as if it's the responsibility of workers to cope rather than of management to improve working conditions.

passthejoe, to guix
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I'm as intrigued by as I was by , but ultimately I'm not sure the complexity is worth it for me.

Even has a ratio of complexity vs. benefits that fits well with my work (and play) flow.

, and all hide enough of the nitty gritty behind the scenes — updates happen without me needing to know it.

And traditional is so familiar and reliable, it's hard not to tap it for just about any use case.

foolishowl,
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@passthejoe I've tried using Guix a few times. It makes a lot of sense to me as a system you can spin up by specifying a few parameters in a deployment management script. It seems less suited for a personal desktop system that I'd work with daily.

futurebird, to random
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When I pick up a wild ant such as this Camponotus pennsylvanicus minor worker I’m always anxious that I return her to her colony. I followed her after letting her go. She ran the full length of a football field then suddenly up a pole. Waiting there another ant of the same species. They fussed over each other. Grooming and feeding each other for several minutes. Then they tucked into a nook in the fence and went to sleep! I guess they won’t be taking me to their main nest today.

The sister she ran to find after the strange experience of running over my hand for a bit. They are feeding each other which ants do when nervous.

foolishowl,
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@futurebird I'm impressed you followed a single ant the length of a football field.

janl, (edited ) to Starwars
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I have a theory. Can you help me sort this out?

foolishowl,
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@janl Star Trek is a horribly dismal dystopia presented as if it were a utopia for some reason. At least in Star Wars the revolutionaries win sometimes.

evacide, to random
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Everything about Durov's statement is so profoundly dishonest that I feel like engaging in a point-by-point debunking is a waste of time. If most of the messages on your platform are not end-to-end encrypted AT ALL, it is less private and secure than platforms whose messages are all e2e by default.

https://t.me/durov/274

foolishowl,
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@aiefel @rakoo @fifilamoura @evacide Rufo reveals the terrifying fact that Whittaker advocated anti-sexist policies as the capstone of his argument.

Like, all the hell of late capitalist polycrisis, and that's what you're afraid of?

foolishowl, to random
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Apparently part of what's happening is a power grab by university administrations.

"She says most schools already have mechanisms — like faculty senates and academic councils — through which faculty members and administrators can engage with each other over what's happening and how to respond. But at many schools, she says, administrations are currently ignoring that structure."

(Warning: NPR)

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/01/1248099600/campus-protests-faculty-arrests-letters-no-confidence-votes

LehtoriTuomo, to actuallyautistic
@LehtoriTuomo@mementomori.social avatar

Someone asked whether I ever played Doom. No, not really. I told that I've never liked first person shooters and then it hit me. I never liked them as there's too much going on. In fact, I've never been a big fan of any types of shooters, the only exception being Cannon Fodder. Now, with the new-found autistic perspective, it makes perfect sense. Sensory overdrive all the time equals no fun. How about my fellow autistics, any fans of shooters?

@actuallyautistic

foolishowl,
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@LehtoriTuomo @actuallyautistic I used to like them when I was younger. It depended which ones you were talking about though. I was a big fan of the original Unreal.

gwynnion, to random
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It's great Biden decided to die on the hill of supporting genocide during a do or die election against Trump.

I guess Zionism matters more to him than everything else.

foolishowl,
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@orangelantern @gwynnion That doesn't account for most of Congress, over a hundred university administrations, and many liberal organizations choosing to die on the same hill.

I have to think they believe this is critical for US imperialism.

jasonkoebler, to random
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The publisher of a small imprint of roleplaying games magazines/speculative fiction shuts down after 22 years because their submissions have been flooded with AI to the extent they cannot wade through them:

“The problem with AI is the people who use AI. These are people who think their ‘ideas’ are more important than the actual craft of writing, so they churn out all these ‘ideas’ and enter their idea prompts and think the output is a story.”

https://www.404media.co/bards-and-sages-closing-ai-generated-writing/

foolishowl,
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@jasonkoebler Within the space, there's been a lot of soul-searching and reinvention, as many of us have confronted racist and colonialist ideas that were foundational to the hobby and that persist in unexamined cliches.

LLMs are thoughtless cliche machines, that could overwhelm a lot of that hard work of reinvention.

fkamiah17, to random
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Student at Columbia 💖

foolishowl,
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@samhainnight @fkamiah17 I think part of it is the effect of proletarianization. Professions that were middle class are not anymore.

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