What is Hackers' Pub?

Hackers' Pub is a place for software engineers to share their knowledge and experience with each other. It's also an ActivityPub-enabled social network, so you can follow your favorite hackers in the fediverse and get their latest posts in your feed.

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도널드 트럼프 미국 대통령의 막내아들 배런(19)과 덴마크의 이사벨라 공주(18)를 정략 결혼시켜 그린란드 문제를 해결하자는 주장이 해외 네티즌들 사이 화제다. n.news.naver.com/mnews/articl... 거대한 엿을 마음을 담아 날립니다. 이 계정은 지난 8일 게시글을 통해 "배런 트럼프와 이사벨라 공주가 결혼하고 그린란드를 미국에 혼수로 주면 될 일"이라고 주장했다.

"트럼프 막내아들·덴마크 공주 결혼시키자"…그린란드 신...

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hi and folks!

are there any organizations that work in the online privacy, , and/or digital sovereignty spaces?

basically like the EFF, but Canadian; the Chaos Computer Club, but Canadian; you get the idea.

The CCLA seems to be doing some work on this (ccla.org/our-work/privacy/), but I am looking for more targeted/focused orgs.

There's also openprivacy.ca/work/, which I had not heard of.

Boosts OK & encouraged! Thank you!

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Heute ging wieder eine Meldung rum, dass sich Journalist*innen ab sofort für den Herbert-Quandt-Medienpreis bewerben können. Wenigen scheint bewusst zu sein, in wessen Namen sie da stolz über ihre Preise berichten. Wer also war Herbert Quandt? Quandt (*22.6.1910) war ein Großindustrieller 1/2

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:fediverse: :activitypub: がもうちょっと一般化するために自分にできることないかなあということを最近考えてる。

そもそもそんなことを実現する力は自分にはないし、 :mastodon: とかがソーシャルメディアのメインストリームになるべきだともあまり思ってないけど、
いつか時代が多少の後押しになり、また自然と注目が集まるときがポツポツとあるだろうという気はしており、その時まで大きくなりすぎずともこれが続いていてほしいなという気持ちは結構強くある。

メールとか :rss: みたいに流行り廃りとは多少距離を取りつつ、しっかり標準技術として世の中に生き残って欲しい :vivaldia_5:

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“마크 러팔로의 턱시도 위에, 진 스마트의 드레스 위에도 작은 배지가 달렸다. ‘BE GOOD’이라는 두 단어가 적힌 배지다. 여기서 ‘굿’은 미네소타주 미니애폴리스에서 이민세관단속국(ICE) 요원의 총에 사망한 러네이 니콜 굿을 추모하고, 부당한 공권력을 행사하는 트럼프에 대한 저항을 촉구하는 구호다.”

‘비 굿’과 미국 민주주의 [한채윤의 비 온 뒤 무지개...

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I'm so sick of LLMs and AI. Let me try and organize my thoughts into something vaguely coherent.

I don't have any real qualifications to discuss this; I'm just a random anarchist, social science nerd working in tech. This isn't trying to be objective or the truth™.
Just giving voice to some ideas and hurling them into the not-quite-void of my Mastodon community.

Obviously, there's the slop of it all. That has been discussed extensively (and still is), but doesn't fully explain the ick.

Smarter and more qualified people have already covered the environmental catastrophe of the massive datacenters this technology relies on.

I'm not even getting into how the scale of current LLMs is made possible by massive non-consensual data extraction and the quasi-monopolization of the internet by a few giant corporations.

My main issue is the vision of the world and values implicit in this push for AI.

Some people have found LLM tools to be empowering (as Cory Doctorow is fond of saying: centaurs). Good on them. But I don't think I'm going out on a limb when I say that this isn't why bosses and tech companies are cramming AI into everything.

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Replacing human support with crappy AI chatbots, threatening to fire people unless they embrace AI, using exploited labor to train models: This all points to a worldview in which humans are sometimes necessary, always inconvenient; the least-worst option to fulfill some economic roles.

Hence, they should be replaced whenever it can be done profitably, and optimized when it can't. That's what reverse-centaurs are: inconvenient humans optimized for a task.

And fuck if that doesn't rhyme with a lot of current and historical systems of exploitation: "Scientific management", offshoring, gig work, Amazon warehouses, two-tier contracts, etc.

I don't claim that those are all equally bad, but they have something in common. They're ways to wield power in order to create one or more underclasses that can then be treated like tools.

Maybe this makes me a radical, but I feel like human rights and dignity are more important than profit. So forgive me if I don't give a shit that your agent can write code, poetry, or a recipe.

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I'm so sick of LLMs and AI. Let me try and organize my thoughts into something vaguely coherent.

I don't have any real qualifications to discuss this; I'm just a random anarchist, social science nerd working in tech. This isn't trying to be objective or the truth™.
Just giving voice to some ideas and hurling them into the not-quite-void of my Mastodon community.

Obviously, there's the slop of it all. That has been discussed extensively (and still is), but doesn't fully explain the ick.

Smarter and more qualified people have already covered the environmental catastrophe of the massive datacenters this technology relies on.

I'm not even getting into how the scale of current LLMs is made possible by massive non-consensual data extraction and the quasi-monopolization of the internet by a few giant corporations.

My main issue is the vision of the world and values implicit in this push for AI.

Some people have found LLM tools to be empowering (as Cory Doctorow is fond of saying: centaurs). Good on them. But I don't think I'm going out on a limb when I say that this isn't why bosses and tech companies are cramming AI into everything.

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Ich bin ja dafür, dass wir ekelhaft ab sofort immer auf "d" enden lassen.
Einerseits um zu jederzeit klarzustellen, was von rechtsextremistischen Parteien zu halten ist.
Andererseits um die zu verwirren, wenn sie unsere Texte als Trainingsdaten scrapen.

Also: ist ekelhafd. Die ist ekelhafd.

Spread the word.

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“싼값에 인공지능 학습하자”는 정부…저작권 단체 “정당한 보상은 당연” n.news.naver.com/mnews/articl... 정부와 산업계는 인공지능 학습에 사용하는 저작권에 대한 보상은 저렴해야 한다고 주장했다. “인공지능이 학습할 때 사용하는 한 권의 저작권과 사람이 공부할 때 사용하는 한 권의 저작권을 단순히 동일하게 생각할 순 없다” 미친 것들. 지들 특허하고 코드도 다 까라고 해야할텐데.

“싼값에 인공지능 학습하자”는 정부…저작권 단체 “정당...

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What would be optimal maximum number of poll options in ?

(Note: the participative polls, Google Doodle style, would be great for eg. negotiating meetings... but I understand the technical difficulties and risks and it is not supported by just now ...)

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I'm not presently hiring, but I think a really effective engineering interview would be to explicitly ask someone to use AI to solve a task, and see how they navigate. Ignore results, the way AI is driven is maybe the most effective tool at exposing idiots I've ever seen.

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DRI is working on a web page to list and signpost notable people, organisations and departments that have abandoned X due to and distribution.

Please share with us the X handles/names of departed accounts and where those people/orgs can now be found for our signposting page.

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