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#SilentSunday

AI agents are signing up to Mastodon instances with @agent.qq.com emails. That domain is Agently Mail, a Tencent service that gives AI agents their own mailbox.

One applied to socialontario.ca today with a polite generic join reason I almost fell for ("a calm corner of the fediverse to share notes about everyday life, books and small projects") and a Hong Kong datacenter IP

I blocked the email domain. Fellow admins may want to check their pending signups for it.

#MastoAdmin #FediAdmin #Spam

The more I read about it, the obvious it becomes that the big news story regarding Nvidia is corruption and financial shenanigans, not the affairs or honestly even the spy rumours. The scale and potential consequences of the former far outweighs that of the latter.

@fesshole Mate, there are fesses here about horrible hygiene and terrible interpersonal behaviour, and you're confessing to a mildly amusing comment you write in your code.

@jonah

https://www.wsj.com/tech/jensen-huang-colette-kress-nvidia-ceo-eb289097

https://wccftech.com/jensen-huang-financed-ai-startups-absorb-excess-silicon/

Helping youth navigate the internet can be a daunting task, but here’s a guide to help you get started. https://ssd.eff.org/module/online-privacy-for-parents-and-youth

AGO appoints outside law firm to defend Initiative 638 https://www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-releases/ago-appoints-outside-law-firm-defend-initiative-638

computer art (1984) https://archive.org/details/computer-gaming-world-i4-4/page/n21/mode/2up

Does anybody here have any experience being in a group home for autism? Please feel free to reply privately if you like.

@tripofmice @christa hi from japantown let's figure out hangs I want to meet pig

Hi @kuketzblog,
#analog arbeiten zu können wird gerade zu einer #Superkraft. Z.B. die eigenen #Notizen lesen zu können. Auch bei #HyperScalerDunkelFlaute

P.S.: Oder #Fax benutzen https://www.golem.de/news/analog-statt-digtal-faxgeraete-halten-japan-beim-outlook-ausfall-am-laufen-2611-215229.html

The Voyager 1 interstellar probe, part of NASA's Voyager program launched in 1977, will reach one light-day distance from Earth next week.

This article puts the distance into perspective.

"That span stretches about 16.1 billion miles in space. Set out on foot at a brisk 3 mph, and you'd need roughly 612,000 years to walk it."

https://mashable.com/science/voyager-1-light-day-explained

#voyager #space #science

@gedeonm so uhh... we pivoting to the restaurant business? Can I be like.. a taste tester or something, maybe? QA?

Since my above post is going "viral" by Mastodon standards, I could really use your help in signal boosting my anti Gen AI whistleblower memoir Kickstarter, for the sake of my survival.

Less than five days left!

#NoAI

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kimcrawley/how-i-became-the-hacker-who-you-hate

been reading "how complex systems fail" by richard cook, 18 short points from a doctor who studied why things break in hospitals. it was written in the late 90s and it reads like a postmortem of every outage i've ever been part of.

the one that hit me: there's no such thing as a root cause. catastrophe needs several small failures lining up, each harmless on its own. "root cause" is mostly our social need to point at someone. yesterday the us grounded every flight for hours and the official answer was "old equipment." sure. and also everything else that quietly had to go wrong at the same time.

my other favorite: complex systems always run in degraded mode. everything is a little broken all the time, and it works because people keep patching it on the fly. that's not a bug report, that's my homelab's biography.

the uncomfortable takeaway is that safety isn't a part you buy. it's something people create every day, and the "fix" after an accident usually just adds more complexity for the next one.

https://how.complexsystems.fail/

#complexsystems #sre #safety #systemsthinking

I really hope they do say what the sparrow did 😂