 I think I need a virtual nipple or something to add to all my web pages to prevent all AI farms from gobbling stuff up and turning it into slop. Maybe I'll add a subdomain to my site: porn.alexschroeder.ch and every other page then has a link to it. Something like Hat tip to @eeeps based on his high quality comment: Low fuckin’ quality??? What a great idea. I think I need a virtual nipple or something to add to all my web pages to prevent all AI farms from gobbling stuff up and turning it into slop. Maybe I'll add a subdomain to my site: porn.alexschroeder.ch and every other page then has a link to it. Something like Hat tip to @eeeps based on his high quality comment: Low fuckin’ quality??? What a great idea. Sold the last of my legacy Internet addresses. Two /23, one /24, 6 ASNs. Raised $81k. Could have made them a me thing, but transferred them to Public Resource first so they could do good things. Do you have legacy addresses but don’t want the hassle of selling them? Give them to Public Resource, I’ll sell them, you’ll get a tax donation for your in-kind contribution (the bill of sale sufficient proof for the IRS for you to claim them, I’ll handle all the registry formalities).
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@carlmalamud I thought selling address space was against the rules? I used to manage a couple /19s and a couple /21s and a /23. What’s 20,992 IPv4 addresses worth these days?  I'm interested in knowing more. I have a connection with an organization who is sitting on subnets they are not using.
 Wealth of Elon Musk Wealth of Jeff Bezos Wealth of Mark Zuckerberg Federal Minimum Wage Three words: tax the rich. If you’re a biologist and feeling overwhelmed by computer things and your internet searching is giving you too much or too little info, you might find this book exactly what you need Legit question: if users of LLMs are supposed to “verify the results”—and that disclaimer justifies the results being inaccurate—in a world where LLMs eventually taint/replace all the results, how will these users verify the results? Through what service or method is the verification of accuracy expected to occur?  @sara If only well-known fallacies of closed systems, tautologies, complete fkn gobbeldygook, etc. had been established centuries ago. I think it's a hangover from the 2010s. Like we put stuff up on the web, and built APIs and asked for public data to be available via API, bus schedules, twitter embeds, Facebook,etc. So there's the mindset that if it's on the web it's open. On Fedi, the cultures a bit different. Yes we're in public. That doesn't mean you can just post our writings elsewhere. Ask first. @nexusofprivacy has a good guide for developers to consider. https://nexusofprivacy.net/consent-for-fediverse-developers/ I know my profile is discoverable. But then I post under my real name. I work with a FOSS project. I do talks and posts about online privacy and the risks of the virtual panopticon. So I know they are public . But I'm also choosing how I present that. Maven grabbed those posts , Librecasts and Dentangles while randomly assigning tags and ignoring other tags. Without making it opt in. I keep seeing, again and again, that people with “audiences” and “reach” experience a lot of friction on Fedi and generally leave, while all the folks here who are looking to meet other folks to chat with absolutely love it. I don’t know if this is caused by technical or cultural factors, but I love and want to protect this aspect of the Fediverse.  Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that everything is perfect and nothing should change. But “it’s a shitty place to try to be an influencer” is among the loudest complaints (and it’s understandable why that might be), and that one should be ignored. Discovered this morning that Maven https://heymaven.com (a social media startup who's CEO is ex OpenAI "Ken Stanley: leading the Open-Endedness Team at OpenAI") is mass importing public posts from the #fediverse with no links back to the original and no way to delete them. It seems there is no Opt-out or Opt-in mechanism at all. It also has posts from #Bluesky pulled in via @bsky.brid.gy that are also not linked back to the original. Here's an example: https://app.heymaven.com/profile/66927  
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 A guy who used to work for a company that commits blatant content theft is once again committing blatant content theft. And, bafflingly, getting away scot-free. I guess because Fedi users don't have million-dollar legal departments.  Thank you for sharing. I found my shadow profile on maven, too, spanning 5/17/24 - 6/8/24, but not every one. They've stripped hashtags from the bottom of my posts. Image AltText seems to be missing or inaccessible there. And, they add their own imprecise tags. I wonder if hashtags in the body of a post would stop them, get stripped – bastardizing the content, or simply be ignored? What about Emojis? I'll throw a hashtag into today's post and see if it turns up there in a few days.  Looks like I'm in there, and somehow they scooped up a "Mentioned people only" post????? Listening to a lot of John Coltrane today. All I can think of is Miles Davis telling him that if he can't stop his damn solos he should trying taking his lips off the sax for once. (Paraphrased from a half-remembered passage in The David W. Niven Collection of Early Jazz Legends, 1921-1991.) Yesterday, Selenskyj gave a speech at the Bundestag and the far-right AfD and the weird new far-left-right-pro-Russia-something BSW left the plenary. Their sponsor Wlady would probably not have been happy otherwise. Today, the German Onion (Postillon) wrote that the democratic parties now decided to put up a Selenskyj stand-up display to get rid of the fascists for good: https://www.der-postillon.com/2024/06/pappaufsteller.html 🤣  @bastianallgeier So, the situation is tragic and intolerable. But that's an amazing take on it! Yes, let's do it! 😄 Further to this point, it belatedly occurs to me that Swartz was railroaded for downloading scientific papers that he ostensibly had a right to access. Meanwhile Sam's OpenAI business model is more or less predicated on downloading the entire internet, licensing be damned. I learned today via a mainframe group I'm part of that Lynn Conway has passed away at age 86. She was an absolute legend in computing, and led an inspiring, authentic life.  I'm not sure how listening to The Cure nonstop is affecting my mood. I guess I should be grateful the sky isn't weeping blood. Quote of the day... "Everything looks like a conspiracy if you don't understand how anything works."
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> I’m not pro-Palestinian, but I’m pro-truth. And the truth is, the Palestinians have been oppressed and suppressed and murdered and controlled and dispossessed for decades. That’s just the truth. There’s no post-traumatic stress disorder here, because the trauma is never post...
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  @sundogplanets That is one smug baby goat! It's so gratifying to see happy confident little goats.
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@m In Sweden, the rightmost EPP party lost one seat, and the ECR party also lost vote share, while the Left gained one seat, and the Greens kept the one they got after Brexit (so a gain from the 2019 election, if not from the outgoing parliament). So I'm quite relieved. Given how much talk there was in media of an extreme right wave sweeping over all of Europe, I expected it to be much, much worse.  If the EU Greens are anything like the Australian Greens: |
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