Well played.

@acb @jon GE/EMD engined but not GE built.

That body style though was found in various European designs.

These days EMD is a well established supplier of locomotives in Europe (EMD model 66 notably)

@a1ba And always remember you can build a bidirectional linked list with a single pointer per node. Fun for making students think.

I think fedizens should be able to disable replies to some or all of their posts

https://neilzone.co.uk/2024/12/i-think-fedizens-should-be-able-to-disable-replies-to-some-or-all-of-their-posts/

@jwildeboer I was too. In fact I was a complete asshole as a student.

@jwildeboer Are you sure - I've met some pretty enormous egos in my lifetime and some very small ideas 8)

Seriously - agree 99%, and the other 1% is about the importance of talking to constructive other people when trying to solve a problem, particularly the old farts who can tell you "we tried this but we got stuck because of XYZ"
(not the ones who say 'we tried this it doesn't work')

@ada_ada_ada For the code generator side take a look at stuff like Termite 2 and where it got before everyone ran off to do AI. Computation size is definitely a problem but compared to LLMs it's a tractable one now even if a decade ago it was not clearly so.

does anyone in europe or the UK know of any windows stickers to stop birds crashing into said windows that are NOT made from vinyl please?

edited in case anyone else is looking too: i'm ordering a white chalk marker pen for glass and am going to draw on the inside of the window,s probably the dot or line patterns recommended by some bird experts. i'll let you know if it works!
and i might stick some sticky notes up there in the meantime ...

@ada_ada_ada 3/ We've really not hit the depths of where the generative stuff can go either. Absolutely nobody in law enforcement right now has any idea wtf to do when an LLM on a personal device is up to generating interactive CSAM and the like.

There's a bunch of current serious LLM abuses where the regulation right now depends on it being in the cloud.

@janotomko @penguin42 CAPTCMPA sounds all too much like an x86 instruction these days.

@ada_ada_ada 2/ instead we'll see the classic peak, crash and then steady rise of the bits of the technology that work well - stuff like reading human scrawl, and blowing the correct shit up.

The tech industry has other things coming for it - to become a true legacy industry it'll have to adapt to liability, real quality, formal methods and the like. Stuff we know how to do but forgot to invest in.
And formal method driven code generators for example really can replace programmers.

@ada_ada_ada I would disagree with a chunk of this. The current "AI" fad is the same story as C++ or Java. "Here's a neat idea lets use it for everything, demand it from clueless CEO level down and then wonder why it goes to shit"
The core of the current work as you correctly point out is basically pattern matching at speed and scale. There are a vast number of tediously boring and important applications of that, so whilst the LLM chat crap may implode, the rest is unlikely go away

wanderer, a self hosted trail logging app, has added federation via ActivityPub. You can now follow, like and comment on trails shared from other instances.

https://wanderer.to/

#ActivityPub #Fediverse

@65dBnoise @bartgroothuis There are a bunch of trivial attacks. It only takes someone to 0wn a major Chinese home battery provider and push bricking firmware to all the devices, or the firm to go bust. Doesn't even need the paranoia scenario.
There is also a second line of attack that works even against secure setups because if you hack some of the hourly price feed data you'll be able to cause mayhem just from the network effects of millions of devices responding.

It's the Didcot Repair Café today. 2pm till 5pm. Round the back of the Soha building by the station, on the one way lydalls road. There will be a Sustainable Didcot flag outside the very small car park.

Bring along your broken things and we will see what we can do to make them work again. No guarantees but we'll do our best.

#Didcot #RepairCafe

@penguin42 Really easy - if it's drinking all your water it's AI, if it's drinking all your beer its marketing/sales.

Intel to replace their marketing people accenture and AI.
I guess if your ship is about to sink anyway you might as well pull the plug

https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2025/06/intel-will-outsource-marketing-to-accenture-and-ai-laying-off-many-of-its-own-workers.html

#intel #ai

Priorities...

#GenAI #LLM #AI #ClimateChange

@doboprobodyne @Ayoun76 @Sobex @TimWardCam @ChrisMayLA6 I'm sure counter terror police have to be investigating it to make sure it was just a bunch of angry people not a Russian funded operation.
Agreed on that.