I think that unless you have some way to enforce accuracy, it’s meaningless and AFAIK automatic detection tools are no better than chance and to my knowledge, getting worse.

An AI bot operator isn’t going to tag their material as [AI], more likely than not they’d attempt to use [NOT AI].

I’d also point out that while lemmy doesn’t (yet) support hashtags, any “tagging” would probably benefit from using the existing method using a #tag.

Ultimately, you need to ask yourself, is undeclared AI that goes undetected by the community a problem, or the new “normal”?

I’ll note that I’m not a proponent of Assumed Intelligence and think that when the bubble bursts we’re going to be in a world of hurt, but with a little luck the billionaires will have lost their shirts in the process.

There’s nothing to host.

Create an iCal file and import it into your calendar application on your phone.

While this video is austensibly about Incogni, you’ll soon discover just how much it’s about VPNs and who owns them.

https://youtu.be/JFI1CfnDJxY

While reproducible builds are a good thing, for a bunch of reasons the whole stack is built on top of someone else’s microcode running on someone’s CPU, running someone’s BIOS, etc.

During an Linux Conf in Australia I attended a talk discussing the chain of trust and the point was made that when you buy something from a manufacturer, it is assumed that it comes to you unaltered, but the question is, how would you know?

In other words, you need to trust something somewhere and build on that.

If you’d like to see a working example of a backdoored compiler, because to compile something, you need to also trust your compiler, here’s a good discussion and show and tell:

https://youtu.be/Fu3laL5VYdM

There’s hardly any cost to a bot operator, malicious , opportunistic or legitimate, to hit your end-point, so once they found a reason to hit it, hitting it a million more times costs cents.

Operators like Meta seem to make it a sport, trying to hit you with multiple parallel requests from multiple sources, across both IPv4 and IPv6 simultaneously, resulting in an effective DDoS for small and medium end point owners and increasing costs significantly for anyone trying fruitlessly to stay ahead of their onslaught.

The malicious traffic by contrast, attempts to sneak in a request with dynamic rate throttling as part of their attempts to stay hidden.

Between these two extremes are the opportunistic operators who hit the same 404 endpoint day after day, hour after hour, minute by minute, for weeks with specific blocks the only remedy.

There are plenty of legitimate bots that quietly go about their business, hitting you every couple of seconds, leaving you alone for long stretches, incrementally crawling, honouring the robots.txt file and generally acting the way a considerate adult might. They’ve been getting lower and lower in numbers over the years.

Source: I have logs.

You don’t think that cron and grep is sufficient?

I worked for a now long defunct company with half a dozen of each, no idea which revision. My job was to crack and re-enable copy protection to create master tapes for bulk duplication.

I was told (as a teenager) that we had agreements with the copyright holders, but I never saw them. We also had an Orange…an Apple ][ clone, a Sinclair QL and a few Commodore and MSX machines.

My own computer was a VIC-20.

I’m surprised that the Spectrum didn’t reset when you put your feet up. 😁

For those not familiar, both the ZX81 and Spectrum were notoriously fickle when it came to power supplies … often resetting when you looked at it funny.

Source: I’m that old.

Also, nice socks!

Hmm …

https://lemmy.world/post/48061897

Give it time. My software career is also affected. At the rate they’re spending money at an order of magnitude higher than they’re making. They’ve also all borrowed money from each other. It’s going to collapse in a big heap. Hopefully before it sucks in mum and dad investors.

It’s been years and in my opinion nothing is looking remotely realistic as a primary phone. A de-googled Android phone appears to be the closest contender and I don’t see anything in that space that runs on more than very specific hardware.

Another approach is a dumb phone and a Linux laptop or tablet, but carrying around and charging two or three devices is not my idea of fun.

Note that I’ve been using Debian as my primary workstation since the turn of the century.

What do you intend to replace it with?

It appears to me that this globally sustained effort to control the internet and anything connected to it, is a good indication that the politicians billionaires are afraid of their voters subjects.

It’s last been updated three years ago, I’d be surprised if it still works.

You are not comparing like for like.

Twitter is pretty much 20 years old, so are Facebook, Reddit and YouTube.

In addition, they were essentially first of a kind in their niche.

The fediverse is not even a teenager and the growth spurt hasn’t set in and may never. In addition, the fediverse is utilitarian by comparison, not much beyond proof of concept. Apps, platforms and instances are fragile and evolving.

Basic things mostly work, but it’s not “cool” enough to tempt organisations to join, media companies, etc.

We barely agree on how things interact with each other, for example, Mastodon uses hashtags, Lemmy doesn’t.

Lemmy has communities, Mastodon doesn’t.

It’s not that one is better than the other, it’s still being worked out by the community.

You also have to remember that there have been many “failures” along the way. Geocities, MySpace, Usenet, AOL, bulletin boards and bang path addressing. The fediverse might succeed, whatever that means, or it might not.

I’m a user on Mastodon, Lemmy and Bluesky, they’re evolving day by day. I’m not sure if I could tell you what I like or dislike about each, they’re just different.

I can’t decide if this is real or an advertisement for the linked article service. I don’t see any CVE in the article which seems to be a good indication of the quality of the content.

I’m not saying that this is misinformation, but I’m extremely sceptical about the nature of this article.

Perth was hit by several storm fronts over the weekend. The second one knocked out the power for 20 hours with crews completely overwhelmed by the volume of failures.

The only thing working was water and gas which allowed us to cook and have showers. No heating and torches for light.

If we’re going to move to 100% electricity, and I think we must, we need to do better than power poles and fragile wire strung between them to distribute it.

For some reason we appear to have made local councils responsible for underground power deployment and there’s very little apparent in the way of converting existing suburbs, even though we rely on electricity more and more.

We need to fix that whilst moving away from gas.

The word you’re looking for is … abomination.

If and when this becomes mainstream, we’re going to need better software than OpenSCAD, FreeCAD and Blender to actually design the things you want to build.

If it helps, it’s the only thing I think of wherever I encounter it, bus lines, taxi numbers, number plates, street numbers, you name it.

So, yeah, I think it’s funny.