szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org
Living in the #wetlands of #Polesia (also spelled #Polesie) in #EasternPoland. Surrounded by #bogs and #forests, trying not to fuck up surrounding nature too much.
Taking care of a small pack of #dogs – #IdąPsięta.
Luddite working with hi-tech.
#RuralBroadband provider by accident. Starting a small LoRaWAN project to monitor our wetlands. Coding in #Python. Dealing with dirty data, cleaning them when time allows.
#Atheist. I don't *believe* in #science – science is the *only* thing that protects us from belief.
Fuck nazis.
My account on Twitter is still up, for good reasons. https://twitter.com/szescstopni
I check facts before I toot.
I sometimes toot in Polish.
Zdolny, ale leniwy.
Joined Nov 2022
Staram się bardzo nie zachowywać jak wujek na weselu, i chyba o wiele lepiej mi to idzie tu, niż niegdyś na Twitterze. Nie puściłem już tylu koszmarnie genialnie chujowych dowcipów, które wygenerował mój mózg.
Next generation chatbots will outperform earlier models and will generate much more effective hate speech.
When you live in a forest, driving back home from a #RuralBroadband installation can be a wonderful scenic tour. If your suspension is tough enough.
Żeby nikt nie miał wątpliwości – to totalna bzdura, ale ktoś to pewnie kupi.
Warto wiedzieć, że na różnych półkulach Ziemi woda kręci się w różnych kierunkach, i że kupując tani chiński zlew możesz doprowadzić do poważnego uszkodzenia całej miejskiej sieci ściekowej. Kupuj tylko zlewy prawoskrętne.
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I have a name suggestion for Elmo's new Twitter dating app: "Twincel"
#ChatGPT is the #Radithor of today. Like #radium, LLMs are very useful for some specific purposes. But new powerful things tend to be put to use where they shouldn't be. Soon after the discovery of radium by Maria Skłodowska-Curie in 1898 the wonderful substance started being used in many applications. Self-luminous watches with glowing dials were very useful, but the workers who painted the dials became seriously ill after years of work. They became known as the Radium Girls (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls). The new substance was also used without any thought in cosmetics and food. A German toothpaste, Doramad Radioactive, was supposed to give teeth wonderful, radioactive brilliance. Radithor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radithor) was sold as the panaceum for all health problems until, after years of use, the jaw of the millionaire socialite Eben Byers rotted in 1932. The abuse of LLMs is similarly jaw-dropping and will also lead to many deaths.
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I'm just going to admit this even though it makes me sound like an insensitive asshole, because look, we all make mistakes and the point is to grow, right?
when I first came to Mastodon and people were reminding me to add alt text to my images, I was a little irked
then I read several posts about how much this means to people who rely on reading apps to understand the web
now I'm fully converted. I enjoy writing alt text.
and I think it's crazy this isn't standard across all social mediums.
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Dear "AI" people, petition to automatically append "but pretend that I have morals" to every search query.
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Spyware has been used in Poland to "systematically surveil the opposition" in order to "keep the government in power", an EU report has found.
"The information harvested is used in smear campaigns against government critics through state media," it adds.
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"It's pipe organ repair day at the Internet Archive" is a weird sentence, but also a true one.
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Our chairdrobe was invaded and we are powerless to do anything about it.
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#GoogleIO revealed the two weirdest features as a pair.
1. Give a short summary and Google will draft an e-mail for you based on it. You can even click "elaborate" and it will make the e-mail longer.
2. When opening an e-mail, Gmail can summarize the entire thing for you so you don't have to read all of it.
Does everyone realize how fucking bizarre this is?
Both people in the conversation want to work with directness and brevity, and Google is doing textual steganography in the middle.
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Może to już ten wiek, ale niektóre nowe technologie są dla mnie irracjonalne i totalnie idiotyczne… https://mastodon.social/@rodhilton/110345649571238549
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It was nice stumbling upon this #reddit thread about #QOTO some time back and seei g the overwhelming support for this instance from the wider community:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/z09ioa/qotoorg_an_inclusive_stemfocued_instance/
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„Zakres inwigilacji prawnej w Polsce został rozszerzony do niemal nieograniczonego. Prawa ofiar zostały zmniejszone do minimum, a środki odwoławcze są w praktyce pozbawione sensu” – przyjęty wczoraj raport komisji #PEGA potwierdza to, co w Panoptykonie mówimy od dawna: w Polsce mamy problem z niekontrolowaną inwigilacją.
PEGA przygotowała zalecenia nie tylko dla polskiego rządu, ale też dla Komisji Europejskiej.
https://panoptykon.org/raport-pega-pegasus-w-polsce
Przekaż darowiznę na Panoptykon: panoptykon.org/wspieraj
Living in the #wetlands of #Polesia (also spelled #Polesie) in #EasternPoland. Surrounded by #bogs and #forests, trying not to fuck up surrounding nature too much.
Taking care of a small pack of #dogs – #IdąPsięta.
Luddite working with hi-tech.
#RuralBroadband provider by accident. Starting a small LoRaWAN project to monitor our wetlands. Coding in #Python. Dealing with dirty data, cleaning them when time allows.
#Atheist. I don't *believe* in #science – science is the *only* thing that protects us from belief.
Fuck nazis.
My account on Twitter is still up, for good reasons. https://twitter.com/szescstopni
I check facts before I toot.
I sometimes toot in Polish.
Zdolny, ale leniwy.
Joined Nov 2022
