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@anderslindberg jag tycker det är väldigt fel att skicka vapen samtidigt som Sverige fortsätter importera rysk gas. Det betyder att Sverige aktivt pumpar in resurser till båda sidor i kriget. Det borde Sverige inte göra.

"Rysk gas används i Nynäshamn – två år efter krigsutbrottet"
sverigesradio.se/artikel/har-a

"Ett år efter kriget startade – Sveriges gasimport från Ryssland fortsätter"
greenpeace.org/sweden/pressmed

"EU imports record volumes of liquefied natural gas from Russia"
ft.com/content/1e70ff72-52d8-4

@vkc I think you did this one perfectly 🙂

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I'm at the point of begging my fellow academics:

Don't be so fucking gullible when it comes to tech companies and don't do their PR work for them

Your seminar on "using AI responsibly" is just volunteer PR work for a tech company

Your partnership with Meta is just volunteer PR work for a tech company

They are lying to you and manipulating you and it's embarrassing how bad you are at spotting this

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@seanfobbe It would be much better to let students grade their own essays, as Phaedrus does in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. 🙂

@seanfobbe hmm ok so we have one machine generating text trying to mimic what a human could have written, then that machine-generated text is fed into another machine that tries to process it, perhaps producing some other text as a result. It all seems pointless, nobody learned anything.

However it's not like nothing happened. Money was probably paid to Microsoft and/or Google (they are the winners here), and lots of computational resources were wasted.

@nixCraft

> Are you paying for the ai/robot service?

I guess we are all paying in the sense that those high-tech plagiarism machines are mainly useful for faking things, they are tools for fraud.

For those of us interested in communicating with other human beings, there is a price to pay in that we will be increasingly surrounded by machine-generated bullshit instead of meaningful communication.

The world needs things like honesty, peace and democracy, not auto-generated bullshit text.

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It's World book day*!

What's your favourite source of legal and free ebooks?

Mine are:
1 - Gutenberg Books
2 - Libby (library App)
3 - Archive.org
4 - Libvox
5 - Smashwords
6 - Wikibooks
7 -Tech Books For Free
8 - Complete Works of William Shakespeare
9 - Baen books
10 - Local Library

[* Due to holiday scheduling it's on diff dates in the UK & Ireland to than the rest of the world - still Book Day ! ]

Links to all (except local library hopefully you have one!) are below.

#books #FreeEbooks

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Rikspolischef Petra Lundh:
"Tidigare så har jag absolut tyckt att det är bra med offentlighetprincipen och annat ... ".

Citatet från den f.d. domaren och riksåklagaren är autentiskt om än avhugget. Det handlar om huruvida förundersökningar ska bli offentlig handling.

Ska ganskande journalister behöva förlita sig på godtyckliga läckor istället?

Nej, i kampen mot de kriminella gängen går vi alldeles för långt i att montera ned rättssäkerhet och medborgerliga rättigheter. Bevara demokratin!

@zaivala wow, mentioned in Wikipedia, you beat me there! 🙂

Look, I'm famous! Mentioned in this great talk by @dos fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event (at 15:40 into that) where he mentions me and says "...one vital observation... " - I made a vital observation! 🎉 Proudly adding this to my list of things to brag about.

Much of my life may have been pointless but not all of it: let it be known that I did spend a significant amount of time with trial-and-error to find the exact time delay needed for the USB connection to the modem to break down. 😄

@neil it's the bloat. The bloat needs to be stored somewhere, there's no way around that. You can't just wave a magic wand and think the bloat will go away, that's not how bloat works.

@BengtBivrin ja precis, samma sak där. Vi vill att det ska finnas en lärare i klassrummet, som är där med eleverna under skoldagen. Skoldagen har en viss längd, klasser kan inte göras hur stora som helst, och en lärares lön kan inte trollas bort (även om vissa försök gjorts i den riktningen). Så skolan kommer att kosta, det kommer inte att magiskt bli billigare. Till skillnad från vägbyggen eller vad som helst där det kan ordnas bättre maskiner och färre människor då krävs för att göra jobbet.

@BengtBivrin ja det är en del av förklaringen men det finns en annan sak också: vården är ganska mycket en verksamhet där det behöver finnas människor, man kan inte rationalisera bort hur mycket som helst. Det gör att vården blir mer och mer "ineffektiv" så att säga, jämfört med resten av ekonomin. Andra saker blir i princip billigare med tiden p.g.a. effektivisering och automation, men inte vården (nästan inte i alla fall). Så vården skulle egentligen behöva en ökande andel av resurserna.

@meraord hittar du säsong 1 på nåt vis, eller blir det säsong 24 (!?) som är på svtplay?

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Apple and the EU 

Just found out that it's possible to donate to Phosh here: liberapay.com/Phosh/

Donations there go to the developers @agx and @devrtz

If, like me, you appreciate that awesome project and rely on it everyday for your device, you know what to do! 😉

@phosh

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google rant:

a little website i shepherd for a friend has a contact form. it uses php mail() via sendmail. ive done all the things: fail2ban, recaptcha, spf, dkim, reject dmarc policy; the config is just as tight as my personal mail server, and few to no illegitimate form submissions ever make it as far as the mta.

gmail happily sends a daily dmarc report congratulating me for successful spf and dkim tests, yet refuses to deliver any messages to a gmail inbox. at the same time, the target gmail inbox is stacked full of spam, all from gmail.com addresses.

google is a bully and a tyrant and hostile to the open internet. msft does the same shit.

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