“Iran is run by religious fanatics.”

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@dashrb Hello! I'll be building my first home server this weekend. What might cause a system to not have good uptime? What did you use this server for? Any insights you have to share would be greatly appreciated!

If you replace a junior with #LLM and make the senior review output, the reviewer is now scanning for rare but catastrophic errors scattered across a much larger output surface due to LLM "productivity."

That's a cognitively brutal task.

Humans are terrible at sustained vigilance for rare events in high-volume streams. Aviation, nuclear, radiology all have extensive literature on exactly this failure mode.

I propose any productivity gains will be consumed by false negative review failures.

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus.

FOSS nerds: the Torment Nexus cannot be ethical until it is Open Source

I don't usually praise Y takes, but this one is rather excellent.

@geerlingguy @claudeai Good news! They have in fact not profited exorbitantly, as not a single one has made any profit whatsoever.

@parismarx If the public had the chance to vote on whether OpenAI should be denied access to their personal, verbatim interactions with ChatGPT, it would be overwhelmingly popular, because no one likes being exposed to companies like that. Thus I think endowing them with mental health monitoring responsibilities is a begrudged solution people resort to after leaping over way too many other questions and problems.

@parismarx Relying on surveillance systems from tech companies to monitor theoretically dangerous people is a poor alternative to actually preventing mental health crises through robust welfare programs and meaningful reforms. Only one of those options can be weaponized by the state (or even the tech companies themselves, in some cases).

@parismarx Licensed therapists who regularly engage with the mentally-unwell are a completely separate matter from tech platforms capable of mass surveillance, and I disagree with conflating the two.

We are actively witnessing state access to user data cause more harm than that which it prevents. I wish I lived in a country where it were otherwise.

@julesbl I'm still new to software, but would one solution be some kind of open security standard maintained by a non-profit? (I know nothing, elucidate me)

In general I've always been baffled at how locked-down mobile devices still are. I know GrapheneOS is working on their own phone, but I don't know if that solves the banking question.

@SmallGreenPixel I too am learning Python and Linux, and am trying to work in the tech field. The learned wizards speak in riddles and I am often confused and intimidated!

Welcome, friend.

@parismarx Does Meta screen and report their users this way? Can you cite examples of this supposed balance between safety and privacy you speak of? I'm genuinely asking.

Truly, I wish that people being put on watchlists was only ever for protection of the public, but then those surveillance practices get weaponized when malicious administrations take power.

@parismarx Let me preface this by saying I am no champion of corporations, and I am certainly not a libertarian.

1. No, private industries are most certainly not the surveillance state—they are tools of it. When the state demands information from private companies, the companies hand it over. That very thing is happening with ICE right this moment to hunt down undocumented people.

2. So Google should start alerting governments of every potentially-dangerous series of search queries?

@parismarx Sam Altman is a lying sociopath, to be sure...but let's pump the brakes. You think a private company should be alerting governments of people's hypothetical thought-crimes? I think that is a horrible take. What happened in Canada is awful, but the answer isn't "expand the surveillance state."

To hell with AI, more innovation like this please.
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Sadio Mane, The Liverpool Star from Senegal (earning approximately 10.2 million dollars annually),has given the world a lesson in modesty after some fans spotted him carrying a cracked Iphone.His response is legendary:
"Why would I want ten Ferraris, 20 diamond watches and two jet planes? What would that do for the world? I starved, I worked in the fields, I played barefoot, and I didn't go to school. Now I can help people. I prefer to build schools and give poor people food or clothing. I have built schools [and] a stadium; we provide clothes, shoes, and food for people in extreme poverty. In addition, I give 70 euros per month to all people from a very poor Senegalese region in order to contribute to their family economy. I do not need to display luxury cars, luxury homes, trips, and even planes. I prefer that my people receive a little of what life has given me," Mane said.

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"A computer is like air conditioning - it becomes useless when you open Windows."

@_elena @max @ben I think a big part of it needs to be a cultural norm shift where people get used to donating to individual creators instead of paying monthly subscriptions for streaming platforms' overabundance of content. (Quality over quantity)

The cost difference wouldn't be that bad; I think it's the mentality shift that's more difficult. Patreon has certainly made this easier, but their UI is lame and it'd be rad if there were a non-profit alternative.