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The #fediverse is one of the few places remaining that's not infested with ads and slop. It has somehow resisted multiple takeover attempts. So treat it with care, and as a zone to be defended.
Get AI agents the fuck off Fedi!
They're an existential threat to small instances, and they're a primary contributor to moderator burnout.
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@salva_pl Egun on .☕️ 👋
Se ha montado mucho revuelo estos días por unas declaraciones de Sam Altman diciendo que es un desperdicio que tengas RAM desaprovechada en tus cacharros cuando estaría mejor en uno de sus campos de computación creando al dios-máquina.
En realidad no es tanto que Sam necesite esa RAM, y de hecho gran parte del hardware que ha comprado está en almacenes sin usar porque no tiene dónde enchufarlo ni lo va a tener, al menos durante un tiempo. Tampoco es que le moleste especialmente tener que competir por esa RAM, y de hecho las empresas productoras ya se han comprometido a hacerles la RAM que haga falta. Que no haya RAM para otra cosa también es parte del plan.
El tema es que el nuevo modelo del sector tecnológico es que todo lo procese la IA. Altman ya ha dicho que su plan de negocio es que le compremos "inteligencia" como compramos agua corriente o electricidad. Que seamos dependientes de su empresa y no tengamos capacidad de hacer nada por nuestra cuenta. Las declaraciones sobre la RAM van en la misma línea que otras anteriores sobre cómo es inconcebible criar a un bebé sin IA. Básicamente va de soberanía. De qué cosas puedes hacer por tu cuenta o con ayuda de otros como tú, y para qué cosas dependes de su empresa. Como dice otro gurú de Silicon Valley, Peter Thiel, competir es de perdedores, los ganadores montan monopolios, y tu RAM compite con su IA. Para que les salgan las cuentas, nos necesitan dependientes.
Misskeyのメモリ使用量が最高で170MBくらい減りそう
@zeborah I suspect nobody's revisited the numbers over time, because, of course proprietary vendors like Bibliocommons or whatever Kotui uses build various sorts of lock-in into their service and make extremely hard/$$ to get out of, putting NatLib over a barrel (that many of us could've predicted). @strypey @hindins
@lightweight Across the library sector the numbers get revisited fairly constantly. (At an individual library maybe not because migrations are massive and if you've only just migrated your ILS in the last 10-15 years you probably don't want to migrate it again any time soon if you don't have to... but we still talk to each other and there's always someone looking around because it's been more like 30 years.) Koha is one thing that's probably relatively competitive with other ILSs, because it's solid software and obviously Catalyst has All The Expertise.
But an ILS isn't a discovery layer so if that's what you need (and that's what Sirsi Enterprise is) then the question gets more complex.
As for other software - there's one that I want to bring back from overseas so I've asked colleagues "Hey you self-host this, how about we pay you to host ours too?" and they say "Hell no" instantly. One of my colleagues talked to someone who apparently asked Catalyst about it and the price was apparently not ... "competitive" is a harsh word because there are strong benefits to Catalyst that make it value for money, but if it's money the library doesn't have it's not happening. Anyway that was third-hand and didn't come with the precise numbers so I guess I could contact them myself and ask for our case, but I hesitate to waste anyone's time because I really do know the landscape here Pretty Well.
And then there's some other software I want to bring in-NZ, and {stuff is being complex, vague toot is vague} but if/when we get to the point of actually asking around then Catalyst will definitely be one place we ask. Very happy to hear other names too. I expect the same answer but there are some differences that might change it: worth a try and all.
New, by me: Tech Firms Dismantle Botnet That Turned 1.3M TV Boxes Into Proxies
Google said today it worked with industry partners to dismantle a botnet made up of more than 1.3 million Android TV set-top boxes that ship with malicious software which secretly rents the user’s Internet connection out to strangers and conducts advertising fraud. Experts involved in the takedown say the action is likely to sever the botnet’s access to more than 10 million additional compromised systems, including other Internet of Things (IoT) products such as Android-based healthcare devices and karaoke machines.
@briankrebs Oh god, please? I'm seeing so much random IP shit hitting my office website, and is it the residential proxy network bots or just the usual AH AI bots?
RE: https://cosocial.ca/@wdenton/117207539724356234
I asked Interac why this is happening but they wouldn't tell me anything. My credit union couldn't tell me. And what is Interac anyway?
@wdenton thanks for this write up. I chased down some Interac info one time and was similarly mystified about how it’s so bad.
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I think they’d like posts merged not just comments.
@yuliyan @Natasha_Jay LLMs are even worse at this, favoring people with made up experience but with white, male sounding names, emails and postal addresses, and male-coded job titles and narrative - predominantly cis white men.
@Garonenur Noch, ja, wir kämpfen gerade jetzt darum, dass das so bleibt:
@Garonenur nebenbei: es gibt evil-mode. Das ist vim in Emacs und laut Leuten, die es nutzen, ist es eine gute vim-Implementierung ☺
BREAKING: $EU (European Union) shares board members in deal with $AUST (Department of Australia) #BreakingNews
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Note that the post doesn’t necessarily go against your (re)posting style, but rather how it is represented in the apps. As others have noted, there are options that combine reposts, with Voyager (which is shown in OP’s screenshot) having an open issue ticket. Though you using the native repost function probably helps.
Thank you for your work, btw ❤️
Ever since I first saw Mechwarrior 2 in the mid 90s I've wanted to play it in VR. Just saw an upcoming project that uses the original game assets in a new VR-enabled engine - and of course it's slop. They've even produced 'covers' of the amazing original soundtrack, which I expect is also slopped.
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@voxel someone wanted to play it just like us but didn't have the skill to reimplement 90's 3D tech with today's.
@ArneBab
Ich fange damit nicht mehr an. Bin halt in vim drin, aber: ist emacs noch slop frei?
@Garonenur Noch, ja, wir kämpfen gerade jetzt darum, dass das so bleibt:
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