Ich bekomme immer häufiger mit, dass der Zugang zu Einrichtungen der Hochschulen nur noch gegen Nutzung von proprietären Apps gewährt wird: In Bochum soll das aktuell die Bibliothek und die Mensa betreffen, die zudem auch noch unterschiedliche Apps nutzen. Dabei gibt es einen elektronischen […]

Uh ... Routledge / Vitalsource, you're obviously operating from a strange usage of the word "perpetual" that I wasn't previously aware of.

OpenAI: we put our evilest AI in a sandbox that did in fact have an internet connection but mediated through a proxy that was only supposed to allow downloading python junk. It circumvented the proxy and we failed to notice for FIVE DAYS that it was going on an interstate crime spree with the […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fullywoolly/117013241064815417 I didn't get interviewed for this article, but at least they briefly mentioned one of the two recent Saskatchewan debris falls, and used it to introduce this quote which is going to keep me awake for a few nights: "The company [SpaceX] […]

So, Codeberg (which is a FOSS/freedom-focused code hosting site) is run as a cooperative, with members able to nominate measures/policies and vote on them etc. They just had a vote and approved policies making "AI" / LLM-based projects basically unwelcome there. The vote wasn't close; 70% voted […]

Cowboy Space (I hate their name so much) published their consolidated response a week ago but we just noticed it. We either have 3 days or 8 days to respond now. So... I guess I have to read this shit. Swearing a lot here will get me through it. A reminder: this is the 4th company that wants to […]

the number of computer science professors on fedi doing mindless LLM boosterism is pretty fucking depressing

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@stefano/116997064554463322 This is the problem with AI (which isn't so much a problem with AI): idiotic managers who think they can use it to cut costs. You can't. Or at least, you can in the short term, but you will pay in the long term.

Stefano Marinelli@bsd.cafe · last wk.

A few months ago, a client asked me to shave about €200 a month off our agreement. "We’re trying to cut back on expenses", he said, "to boost our cash flow." I was hesitant, but hey, I agreed. Fast forward to this morning: one of his team members calls me asking for help because - and I quote - […]

Hallo liebe Journalist:innen, ich weiß dass ich mich wiederhole, aber müsste es nicht statt „Bundesminister Schnieder gab auf der Plattform X bekannt“ eigentlich „Bundesminister Schnieder gab ausschließlich auf der einem weltweit Rechtsextremisten unterstützenden Privatperson gehörenden […]

🌊 In September 2023, seismometers around the world detected a mysterious signal repeating every 92 seconds for nine straight days. The source: a standing wave trapped inside a Greenland fjord. Here is what happened. A glacier in East Greenland had been thinning for years, no longer supporting […]

This is interesting news. Swedish education officials are investing heavily again in traditional printed textbooks. The national strategy aims to phase out digital devices for children under the age of six entirely, following a drop in international reading […] [Original post on mastodon.world]

Das Kanzleramt hat mir auf meinen IFG-Antrag zu den IFG-Aussagen des (früheren) Kanzleramtsministers Frei geantwortet. Sie „drohen“ mir aber erst einmal nur mit Gebühren. Das gönne ich mir doch, habe aber trotzdem darauf hingewiesen, dass Unterlagen, die zu […] [Original post on bonn.social]

I just realized that #AI will really help solving the #climatecrisis. Since conferences will be overwhelmed by junk submissions, reviewing will be given up. Nobody can do this any longer and nobody is willing to read the junk. As a result, we will meet our few buddies locally and at least the […]

NYC is considering a law that would make delivery drivers full-time employees with more rights and benefits more often. Predictably Uber, Amazon and Instacart are howling and sobbing about this and claiming they will need to raise prices just to survive and this is the end for them they will DIE […]

RE: https://esq.social/@SuffolkLITLab/116965151432978647 The government citing fake cases in immigration cases is especially troubling, because, unlike in high-stakes civil litigation, immigration defendants are often not represented by lawyers. So they might well have no one on their side in a […]

‘I can’t work in the farce of climate change cruise tourism anymore’: why Antarctic guides quit their dream jobs https://theconversation.com/i-cant-work-in-the-farce-of-climate-change-cruise-tourism-anymore-why-antarctic-guides-quit-their-dream-jobs-286216 “You’d see massive glacier calvings […]

No, OpenAI's new magic models did not autonomously hack Huggingface. Per OpenAI's PR blog post (https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/): "This incident occurred during an internal evaluation which prompts models to pursue advanced exploitation using complex […]

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Alter Schwede ey, der ganze Artikel is so dermaßen aus meiner Seele geschrieben! 🔥🔥🔥 Kundenservice aus der KI-Hölle "KI steht eigentlich für künstliche Intelligenz. Seit meinen Versuchen, die Bankgeschäfte meiner Mutter zu übernehmen, steht die Abkürzung aus meiner Sicht für etwas anderes […]

One of the most important things for technologists who want to improve elections to understand is the *actual* problems election officials have and the constraints under which elections operate in practice. That’s one reason that becoming a poll worker is so valuable; you gain insights that are […]

RE: https://federate.social/@mattblaze/116933329920689923 One of the top experts on voting security posted a fascinating thread about the Trump speech, and he looked hard at the documents. Important reading. ( @mattblaze please do a block post! )

Matt Blaze@mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 3w ago

OK, I've downloaded the docs from whitehouse.gov and am starting to go through them. They're easy to find; there's a popup on the homepage directing you to them Very irritatingly, the documents are only available in four zip archives (by topic category), which have to be extracted on your […]

Danger Dan wurde vom ZDF ausgeladen, weil es keine "angemessen kritische Einordnung und Distanzierung von den problematischen Inhalten in der Sendung und in angemessener Länge" gäbe, trotz 7 Minuten dafür. Beim Sommerinterview mit Rechtsextremistin Weidel gibt es immer noch keine Live-Faktenchecks

Brutal photo caption from The Guardian: “Gianni Infantino carefully explains to Donald Trump that he is not part of the Spanish national team.”

RE: https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/116947807636230506 Falls hier Menschen aus/um #Mainz Hinweise auf ein Zimmer oder zur Zimmersuche allgemein haben, würde ich mich sehr freuen! (eine Wohnung werde ich mir nicht leisten können; bin WG-erfahren und pflegeleicht) Eine sinnvolle Anbindung zu […]

Henrik Schönemann@lavaeolus.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 2w ago

My (unplanned) hiatus is over & it feels good to be back. Missed you people of the wider fediverse 💜 One major change happened in the meantime: I'm leaving @HumboldtUni and Berlin. My next station will be #Mainz, doing #DigitalHumanities at @unimainz and the University of Applied Sciences, in […]

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after a question by @ainali (https://social.coop/@ainali/116888911396795437), the awesome #opensource #fediwall software by @defnull, and a tip by fellow @wdscholia developer Moritz, we now have this #wikimania wall: https://wikimaniawall.toolforge.org/ cc […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Okay, LISTEN UP DO NOT BUY LG. Not ANYTHING LG. Not only are they actively spying on you, not only have they updated their TOS to include requiring you to NOTIFY GUESTS ABOUT WIRETAPPING LAW, on Windows they're pushing ADWARE through WINDOWS UPDATE along with their monitor drivers - including […]

Does Cookie Monster count as adversarial clothing? Hmmm https://mastodon.social/@AnnaAnthro/116936321738783524

Anna Anthro@annaanthro.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3w ago

“Companies have started incorporating “adversarial patterns” in their garments. They are carefully designed arrangements of shapes, colours and repeated motifs said to exploit weaknesses in some computer vision systems. The designers say advances in computing have made it easier to incorporate […]