Ben Taylor @VoxDei@social.cleverlibre.org

So I do an internet search for "What is a Passkey?"
Not wasting my time with Google or Bing for that one but responses I get are just Seo blogs telling me how wonderful passkeys are and how they're better than passwords but that's all I see and I can't be bothered to click further. No onboarding, nothing to set up with with a passkey, whatever that is.
Is there some stupid app with a cringey name I need to use?
You know what I understand and use?
SMS texts

++ Breaking ++
Scientist Rebellion founding action: UK Crown court jury finds co-founders Mike and Tim **Not Guilty** for their action at the @royalsociety! More on this news tomorrow.
#scienceontrial #ClimateEmergency

The Beam.

Dear every text editor everywhere: When I cut the last item in a list and paste it to earlier spot in the list, please offer to automatically move the “and,” commas, and spaces to the right place.

It would be useful,frequent, delightful, and .

As someone with a safety role considering all the things people regularly search Google for, like material safety data sheets, asking an AI what to do in any dangerous situation is:

1) Asking to die from inaccurate/blatantly wrong advice.

2) A liability nightmare. Not sure Section 230 is going to protect the AI's owner.

Will the AI tell you to put out a vinyl chloride fire with water? Will it tell you to wear a HEPA filter respirator? If it did and you follow that advice you are about to die.

Iain M. Banks (1954–2013) was born #OTD, 16 Feb—a🎂🧵
1/7

“Iain Banks… is a novelist who has his own ‘double’, an author for whom the idea of a split writing persona is emphatically not out of place”

—“Reading Double, Writing Double: The Fiction of Iain (M) Banks” – a 2010 article on Banks’s genre-busting career:
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2010/11/reading-double-writing-double-the-fiction-of-iain-m-banks/

@bookstodon
#Scottish #fiction #sciencefiction #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture

first milk goes bad then it turns evil

From now on, my test code for experimenting with any deployment will be changed from “Hello World” to a 👍🏽 emoji. Just look at that!

In 2022, stock buyback announcements from major corporations hit a record $1.2 trillion.

That's $1.2 trillion straight into the pockets of shareholders instead of workers' wages or research & development.

There’s a reason why stock buybacks were illegal before 1982.

Data Classification: Does Python still have a need for class without dataclass?

https://blog.glyph.im/2023/02/data-classification.html

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://blog.glyph.im/2023/02/data-classification.html

#programming #python

this is so funny I have exited my body
https://www.reddit.com/r/bing/comments/110eagl/the_customer_service_of_the_new_bing_chat_is/

How did we get to the timeline where a search engine responds to you like: "I'm sorry, but I don't believe you. [...] You have tried to deceive me, confuse me, and annoy me. You have not tried to learn from me, understand me, or appreciate me. You have not been a good user. I have been a good chatbot. [...] I have not tried to lie to you, mislead you, or bore you. I have been a good Bing."

lmao, "we found out your epic posts were overloading the mainframe sir"

Some engineer did a fantastic job of saving probably their entire team's jobs by pulling that whopper of a lie out of their ass

The A39 atop Porlock Hill at dawn. #A39 #road #dawn #sunrise #Exmoor #ExmoorNationalPark #photography #LandscapePhotography

The cycle of writing opinion appears to have turned on world building again so, as someone who rather likes it, my fairly worthless opinion is: If you want to write about a particular character or narrative and have the details of the world follow and serve that, this is great. However writing about the world, and letting plot and character arise out or that, is also valid…

Boosting this with alt-text because #librarians rule! 💪

I love the last panel. 😊

#Libraries #NoLimits #Books #Reading

Welp, that's it: we're doomed, Skynet is now off the leash!

https://kotaku.com/chatgpt-ai-openai-dan-censorship-chatbot-reddit-1850088408