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QR code for #EICAR (antivirus test file)
ROT13 decode command to make EICAR test file on demand... Enjoy 😺
printf "%s" 'K5B!C%@[url=https://infosec.exchange/users/nc]nc[/url][4\CMK54(C^)7PP)7}$RVPNE-FGNAQNEQ-NAGVIVEHF-GRFG-SVYR!$U+U*' | tr '[A-Za-z]' '[N-ZA-Mn-za-m]' >EICAR<br>
I finally set up AI error detection for my 3D printer recently and it just detected its first print failure and like...if THIS is all the modern AI trend was, I would be extremely enthusiastic about it.
It's extremely low stakes stuff, if it gets it wrong with a false positive (because AI gets shit wrong all the time) then the worst thing that happens is I get a notification I can ignore. If it gets it wrong with a false negative then...it's not any different than how things were before setting it up where I might notice a bit late that it came detatched when I check in on it.
This is really the problem with modern AI tools, I would be on board with a lot of these systems if they followed one principle: "is this a use case where it's perfectly fine for a computer to guess wrong". A whole lot of modern AI tools cause a LOT of problems when the computer guesses wrong. But there are absolutely use cases where a computer guessing something wrong is not really harmful in any way and in those cases AI tools can be really useful.
I've had this conversation here before but machine translation is really the one that gets me the most.
Because machine translation is extremely, extremely useful for low stakes stuff like this. I use it all the time for like...just quickly translating a document to skim for a piece of information, and knowing that it may be slightly off, but probably in a way where I can tell, and if I'm wrong then it's not a huge deal anyway.
A video game walkthrough is a great example. Or like...I once bought an RPG supplement book that was in Spanish because it was for a game that had almost no supplemental material (fan or otherwise). I dumped the PDF's text into a doc and machine translated it to English. It didn't matter that it got some things wrong here and there, or had a really hard time translating one particular word that came up a lot, because...it's an RPG supplement. I really just needed the broad story beats and some monster data and whatever. I'm ad libbing it all. I'm sure it's more beautifully written in Spanish, but since I can't read it, that was my option. And if the translation was wrong...it didn't really matter since in the end I successfully ran these scenarios and we had a good time.
The problem is, as always, the use cases. People don't want to just use machine translation for personal information gathering. I'm sure there's people who would think it's acceptable to have dumped that same PDF into Google Translate and tried to sell it, even though it was a mess not fit for commercial use. That's very different than me choosing to do that on my own, knowing the pitfalls. And god forbid you use machine translation to do something like moderate non English posts on your fedi instances or try to guess if some Japanese celebrity is being transphobic or not based on machine translated tweets.
Especially given the way gendered terms work--or don't work and don't exist in some cases--in Japanese, Google Translate will make up pronouns on its own all day long, I've seen people accuse Japanese people of transphobia based on using the wrong pronouns when the Japanese post didn't USE pronouns, Google just invented some.
I'm not someone who thinks that AI and LLMs and whatever have no functional use at all. There's a lot of times they can be useful tools. The problem is that in our current landscape they almost never ARE, and even when the tools are useful people keep using them in ways that are super not suitable.
In a way, LLMs are the lawn darts of technology. In theory lawn darts could be played with totally safely. Everyone follows safety precautions, everyone makes sure nobody can enter the play area, only adults ever play with them. In reality, what happens is that kids play with them and get hit with them and go to the hospital.
Fursuit vs Art 👉👈
#furry #fursona #fursuit #furrymaid #furryart #furryartwork #fursuiting #furrymeme #furryfandom
Ivo Totev and Spencer Davis Creating a typeface is a delicate process. Each character (or glyph) embeds new attributes into the whole...Ivo Totev (SUSE)
#Linux is magic. Here are some tools I recently encountered that work only on Linux due to the aforementioned magic -
Inspect a command's effect before committing it to the filesystem - https://github.com/binpash/try
Box up misbehaving applications, forcing them to put files into the right place - https://github.com/queer/boxxy
Inspect a command's effects before modifying your live system - binpash/tryGitHub
I've learned over time that neurotypicals generally don't understand the impact of executive dysfunction from #ADHD. I've found that being a little more blunt can help. I tell them that having ADHD is like having inconsistent and unreliable free will.
Because that is literally what it is like for me.
Though neurotypicals are sometimes hesitant to believe that anyone can truly live like this, because it tends to interfere with core beliefs about free will and "everyone can pull themselves up by their bootstraps"
Getting non-disabled people to understand that some people literally cannot do a thing sometimes no matter how hard they try is a key challenge of disability activism. Because if they accept that, they'd have to challenge core beliefs about society and capitalism working
This is pretty amazing, actually. Now that I've caught up, that's gone straight into my RSS aggregator, that has. And an update every day? Wow.
Okay, putting it out for all who want to read:I'm writing a fantasy novel. It's very isekai, inspired by countless anime I love to watch.
Currently at 36 chapters and will continue with a new chapter EVERY SINGLE DAY forever, or until I stop.
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/90726/last-infinity
Thanks! Yep, EVERY DAY, minimum 500 words, often far more.
At least, that's the goal. Glad you're enjoying, have a blast. :)
Days without erasing anything from my white board
Just wish they hadn't evolved into glorified child care centers. They've been doing more in recent years, but they still have that ball and chain, which really makes things difficult.
lennyaa the explorer
#fursuit #kemonofursuit #kemono #furry #furryfandom #fursuiter #fursuiting #kemonosuit #fursuitphotography #furrycommunity #catfurry #catfursuit #fursuits
#ai #generativeAI
Edit: went back and found my friend that originated the quote from Facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/sQGLoN9wumXfgqHU/
The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from skill the ability to access wealth.www.facebook.com
i’m working on de-optimizing a project
the original dev built it with this ridiculous idea that we’d have millions of total users and tens of thousands of simultaneous users
in actuality it’s an internal tool used by like three people, and that’s all it was meant to be
The English water companies are demanding more money from the public after decades of neglecting infrastructure, taking on huge loans and paying out equally huge dividends.
What the water companies have done is taken away our human right to clean drinking water and in the process essentially committed theft at a large scale
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2lgl9kypno
The boss of Water UK says the UK's system is old and that bill rises proposed should be higher.Charlotte Edwards & Mitchell Labiak (BBC News)
Apple Repaired My iPhone Screen, But Now My Social Media Account Is Banned
How taking my phone in for an AppleCare-covered replacement got me banned from Snapchat, and how it could happen to you too.
What is your purpose, funny numbers stick?
We came across it on our recent spontaneous outing to Kallmünz, a small town in the area.
📸&🪡 @Areksim (Vino Studios)
My wife told me to take the spider out instead of killing him.
Went out. Had a few drinks. Nice guy. He's a web designer.
Specialises in debugging.
The Rocket City Trash Pandas were featured on the English Wikipedia's front page yesterday.
Their mascot is amazing?? https://www.milb.com/rocket-city/community/mascot-appearances
Schedule an appearance from Rocket City Trash Pandas mascot, Sprocket!MiLB.com
W-where did all the beautiful days at #EAST go? This thing was over so fast, I can't believe it 
At least I came back with a lot of stunning memories and wonderful new friends.
Thank you so much @Argon1001 and Maru for making this con such a special and unforgettable experience. You guys are the best 
🐕: Maru
🗺️: EAST 12, Suhl - Germany
📷: @Argon1001
#fursuiteveryday #furry #furryfandom #fursuit #fursuiter #fursuiting #east12 #furrycon
A whopping 80% of new US electricity capacity this year came from solar and battery storage
The number is set to rise to 96% by the end of the year
https://www.techspot.com/news/104451-whopping-80-new-us-electricity-capacity-year-came.html
Solar alone made up 60% of the 20.2 gigawatts of fresh capacity that went online from January through June. A large chunk of this can be attributed...Zo Ahmed (TechSpot)
Okay, putting it out for all who want to read:
I'm writing a fantasy novel. It's very isekai, inspired by countless anime I love to watch.
Currently at 36 chapters and will continue with a new chapter EVERY SINGLE DAY forever, or until I stop.
Work on foyer reveals John Sainsbury’s note buried in extension to London’s National GalleryMartin Bailey (The Art Newspaper - International art news and events)
Amazon is convenient. But multiple times recently I've discovered stuff; ordinary stuff, cheaper elsewhere.
Example today:
Patterson & Ilford Film Processing Starter Kit
£99.00 on Amazon
or you could go (as I did) to a non-gigantic behemoth company, Bristol Cameras, who are literally a camera shop... in Bristol, and pay £81, including delivery, for the exact same item. And give the business to a small firm who might possibly appreciate it.
Sadly it is often the case Amazon prime free delivery makes the difference to make Amazon cheaper. Not always, I agree.
Also, the Amazon "comes on Saturday" and "comes on Sunday", and "comes on bank holiday Monday" factor that few others manage, sadly.
I have moved on from Whisky from Amazon now, though...
Like, the problem with this tech, besides how they're harvesting their data sets, is how it's being used and how it's being advertised. The industry really WANTS you to believe you can trust the AI so hard that you can use it for really important stuff. Because if they set the expectation that "AI isn't that good at its job but its' great for situations where it's okay for it to fail", they definitely can't sell you on the products they want to.
But...we'd actually have some pretty damn good tools if they were pragmatic about it!
Like, I LIKE the fact that in Google Photos I can search the word "desk" and find some old photo of my desk or whatever. If it accidentally brings up a photo of my kitchen table then it really doesn't matter that much.
Now of course it being Google, there's the seedy underbelly of "they are almost definitely using my photos and my searches to train this model and for god knows what else", but that's a separate issue. Just in terms of pure functionality, being able to search my own photos for objects and having a computer guess what the objects in my photos are is great. Because the stakes are SO low.