Life is Tetris @tetrislife@social.cleverlibre.org

For my next class on AI I'm considering only allowing students to submit papers written by ChatGPT, giving grades based on how well they're able to hack/prompt the machine to produce interesting theory. I imagine some students will cheat and do some of the writing on their own.

The reason human rights can appear to be universally embraced yet never be enforced lies precisely in the fact that who is registered as human remains eminently negotiable.

@futurebird

I moved here from Reddit rather than the birdsite, so my experiences may not be quite what you're looking for, but I started out with an introduction and hashtags.

I followed a few hashtags, and then followed some of the Fedifolk using those regularly.

Then, I started visiting the feeds of boosted Fedifolk.

It's taken a wee while to get a feed that I love browsing, but I don't mind that. I love this self-curation thing.

Hope this helps!

@MisuseCase @plexus @daveliepmann Isn’t that ever a telling example? It used to be that you *could* repair a car without engaging the services of a mechanic with authorized diagnostics tools and certified parts from the sole supplier.

I’s not fine that we’re being forced into a world where spreadsheets not only are not offered, but cannot be written.

@daveliepmann I don't think spreadsheets could be invented today. "It's too complicated. Users won't understand. Who would buy this?" Instead of lifting peopled up towards general computing, we have dumbed computers down to cater for 7 second attention spans. We have A/B tested our way into stupidity.

@nano I’ve been thinking this exactly for years! Computers don’t need to get better… software does!

@jalefkowit You can keep your skills current or you can write a little web app. I'm not sure you can do both.

You run a #FreeSoftware project? This is your occasional reminder to move away from #Discord and #Slack and other #Platforms.

As convenient as they seem, every "platform" is a #WalledGarden. They can and will pull the rug from under you any time it's in their interest, without regard for yours.

Migrate your community to systems under community control. Before it becomes a crisis.

https://en.osm.town/@amapanda/111771768413699746

#ProtocolsNotPlatforms #DataSovereignty #SelfHosted

It's like how we ask athletes to be superhuman and when they get caught doping we commence the ritual of pearl clutching and performative teary-eyed mea culpas. What did we think was happening? It's called publish-or-perish. We explicitly judge academics based on how much they publish. Of course ambitious people take risks to juice those numbers -- that's like the definition of ambition.

@amcewen @gilest we used to be able to publish stuff by dragging files into a folder called "Public" (or public_html on some Unix systems). Maybe we should make that work again.

@jasongorman The underlying assumption for that gamble, I guess, is that AI will eventually replace the senior developers too.

There is a special circle of hell for lackeys who legitimise surveillance capitalists like Facebook and aid their efforts to take over (or at least sabotage) emergent non-corporate spaces like the fediverse when they should be protected from them at all costs. Those who give them every benefit of the doubt and temper all historic evidence of wrongdoing with anecdotes of the very good people they know, working there in good faith. You know who you are and exactly what you’re doing. Shame on you.

Did you realize that we live in a reality where SciHub is illegal, and OpenAI is not?

@alex A picture is worth a thousand words, but takes up the space of a million of them.

@surendrajat @cendawanita It is the Hindi dialects and folk cukture that are rotting away. How many of you listen to Kajri, Hori, Thumri, Dadra etc.. Do you guys speak in your native dialects in cities? At least at home?

I being a Keralite perhaps know more Thumris than an average UP fellow of today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uhossX4UXs

Most of us don’t know exactly what we want, but we’re pretty sure we don’t have it!

The key to a great Mastodon experience is finding and following #hashtags you find interesting. Doing this has allowed me to find all sorts of interesting people and blogs lately. Some of my most enjoyable follows are:

#homelab #selfhosted #woodworking #3dprinting