For everyone fighting spam. Are you all blocking domains by default or just accounts?
I'm making the assumption now that all these are new domains but could definitely be blocking legit domains I realized.
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Tomorrow at 8am CET I'm publishing a post/newsletter about how ChatGPT 4 solved that Captcha. Except it didn't.
A few things:
* We should stop being surprised by digital algorithms solving digital challenges faster than humans.
* Captchas were being solved by computers back in 2013. Eleven years is a long time for us to then get a tool like ChatGPT that could not solve it.
* Captchas were never easy to solve for humans (and by design impossible for many)
* One reason Captchas kept being pushed was because we were all being used as free labor by Google for training AI, since 2014. Before training AI, we were transcribing books.
* It's estimated that 500 human years are wasted every single day â just for us to 'prove our humanity'.
* Tech progress isn't as fast as everyone is led to believe. It's either heavily misrepresented, or sometimes we're just late at becoming aware.
* An AI trained on George Carlin's material wrote new material. Not. Because actually humans wrote it.
* I've also added a video of Musk promising full self-driving "next year", every year since 2014.
I write a lot about digital ethics and human rights in tech. If you're curious I'd love to see you as a subscriber.
There's a traditional newsletter or you can opt for the RSS feed(!). You actually don't have to disclose personal data to subscribe to my content, which I believe was always what I loved about the early blogosphere.
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@cristinah dĂŒster, aber Ă€hnliche Gedanken sind mir durch den Kopf gegangen
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@strypey
> How? You can't "consume" water in the sense you consume energy. Why can't they just reuse the same water?
Data centres consume water directly for cooling, in some cases 57% sourced from potable water, and indirectly through the water requirements of non-renewable electricity generation.
Water used for cooling evaporates, and data centres do not have systems in place to capture that. Water is too cheap. Groundwater depletion is a thing, and data centres compete with farming and with local communities.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41545-021-00101-w
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2342490-how-much-water-do-data-centres-use-most-tech-companies-wont-say/
https://fortune.com/2023/09/09/ai-chatgpt-usage-fuels-spike-in-microsoft-water-consumption/
>> 80% of content in data centres could be stuff we never use again, stored by default to consume energy in perpetuity
> How? Doesn't data stored on hard drives only use energy when it's accessed?
A hard drive that is powered on consumes electricity. The more hard drives you buy and power on, the more electricity is consumed.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/15/power-grab-hidden-costs-of-ireland-datacentre-boom
https://volume.lboro.ac.uk/digital-waste-polluting-the-planet/index.html
https://theconversation.com/dark-data-is-killing-the-planet-we-need-digital-decarbonisation-190423
Some people are excited to use AI to kickstart their writing when they are tired and out of ideas.
Iâd argue that going for a walk or taking a power nap are viable options. When you are tired and have writerâs block chances are youâre not able to discern if language model output is the best you can do.
@meriksson Japp, jag har förstÄtt det som att det försvunnit massor av loggar.
The electricity and water use required by data centres is becoming cause for concern. Iowa and Ireland are calling for moratoriums on new development projects. Microsoftâs global water consumption grew 34% from 2021 to 2022. And estimates say that around 80% of content in data centres could be stuff we never use again, stored by default to consume energy in perpetuity for no purpose at all.
Generative video: Hold my beer.
Interesting stat from the Digital Decarbonisation calculator.
« One person creates 1.7mb of data a second. That equates to 10 full DVDs in a working day. »
Donât know how old that number is, but imagine the exponential increase with more people starting to generate video.
https://digitaldecarb.org/digital-decarbonisation-calculator/
We find ourselves in the age of being urged to use AI for rewriting our texts so they will sound more authentic.
I've placed an order for irony's tombstone.
@nyx Haha, yes, CC is certainly a favorite in the "adopted but lost" terminology/abbreviations.
A newline in character encoding can be defined as CR and LF combined into one (commonly called CR+LF or CRLF).
History becomes encoded. But what a carriage return and line feed looks like will be mostly lost in time.
@hula Tack! Blev uppmĂ€rksammad om den dĂ€r bara en kvart innan du la ut den. đ
Jag har lĂ€st DN:s intervju med Tietoevrys Sverigechef fyra eller fem gĂ„nger nu. Den kĂ€nns inte pĂ„ riktigt. Den Ă€r surrealÂistisk. TietoÂevry vet inte nĂ„got alls, inte en susÂning, om hur deras system har hackats. De vet bara att de sjĂ€lva garanterat inte har brusÂtit i nĂ„got led. Men anÂgriparna har vĂ€l knappast tillĂ€mpat magi, försöker artikelÂförfattaren Linus Larsson försiktigt framhĂ€rda: nog mĂ„ste det funnits sĂ€kerhetsÂhĂ„l? Det vet vi inte, menar SverigeÂchefen Venke, för TietoÂevrys sĂ€kerÂhet Ă€r absolut tillÂrĂ€ckÂligt hög.
Vi lever i en tid med en amerikansk presidentkandidat som inte kan binda ihop tvÄ sammanhÀngande meningar men som journalister och experter ÀndÄ tvingas hantera pÄ ett lÄtsat allvar. Jag menar inte att Tietoevrys hÄllning tas pÄ allvar av DN. Men att den över huvud taget kan uttryckas pÄ det hÀr sÀttet Àr ett tecken i tiden.
NÀr makthavare börjar uttala sig tvÀrsÀkert om sin egen skuldlöshet trots mÀngder av motbevis uppstÄr ett Orwellianskt sprÄkbruk som fÄr oss att ifrÄgasÀtta sanningen som vÀsen. Som fÄr oss att tvivla pÄ vÄr egen förmÄga att förstÄ, dÄ absurditeten Àr sÄ uppenbar. Som konstform Àr denna nutidssurrealism otvivelaktigt kittlande, men som vÀgvisare för en mer rÀttvis vÀrld direkt bedrÀglig.
Vi kan inte lÄta sÄdana hÀr ologiska uttryck för ansvarslöshet leta sig in i den allmÀnna diskursen som accepterade försvarstal. Vi pratar om en it-leverantör vars system hanterar en betydande del av den svenska befolkningens personliga data och informationsöverföringar.
FortsĂ€tt lĂ€sa hela inlĂ€gget/nyhetsbrevetđ
https://axbom.se/tietoevry-dn-ansvar/
Nu finns en del 2 ute med en titt pÄ den senaste kommunikationen frÄn Tietoevry.
"VÄra sÀkerhetsexperter har bedömt de potentiella attackvektorerna, och genomfört relaterade sÀkerhetsverifieringar."
Det Àr svÄrt att förestÀlla sig nÄgot mer intetsÀgande som uttryck för ansvarstagande och ÄtgÀrdshantering i den hÀr hÀrvan kring Tietoevry som jag skrev om för ett par dagar sedan. Citatet Äterkommer bÄde i Sverigechefens ursÀkt som förmedlas via Ny Teknik, och i Tietoevrys eget pressmeddelande.
Sannolikt fÄr vi invÀnta nÀrmare detaljer, utöver att man "bedömt potentiella attackvektorer", frÄn polisutredningen. Men polisutredningen Àr föga förvÄnande inte utan sitt eget drama, dÄ polisen sÀger att de inte fÄtt all nödvÀndig information frÄn Tietoevry medan Tietoevry svarar med andemeningen att "Joho, det har ni visst."
Visst sÀger man att nuet rimmar med det förflutna, för det var ungefÀr den kritiken som framfördes i den statliga utredningen som blev klar 2012. Tieto delade inte med sig av tillrÀcklig information efter att ett hÄrdvarufel slog ut ett 50-tal kunder i upp till flera veckor.
Nu pudlar Sverigechefen efter det senaste PR-haveriet i DN och skriver till Ny Teknik att "Mina svar blev inte som de var tÀnkta". Nu kom skrÀddarsydda citat via mejl, som alltsÄ i vissa delar Àr en kopiera-och-klistra-manöver frÄn samma kÀlla som pressmeddelandet.
"Svaren [i DN-intervjun] speglar inte hur vi ser pÄ saker och ting" skriver Bordal till Ny Teknik, och undviker i stort att tala om hur de ser pÄ saker och ting.
LĂ€s hela texten pĂ„ bloggen đ
https://axbom.se/tietoevry-del-2/
@Mabande @thecontinent Yes, that would be fantastic.
@cholling I mean, you said it first. đ
@usmanz I doubt that it's trying to. I have my own install(s) of Ghost on my own VPS. It's more akin to early Wordpress.
I don't know who needs to hear this, but Ghost now has import tools for Substack, Medium and Mailchimp content.
#Indieweb
I should update my post on #indieweb and using Cloudron for my VPS. Iâm getting closer to a situation where all the cloud software I need is on my own server.
Really enjoying the new app Outline for drafting documents, collaborating on documents and making them available for external review. It has replaced my bit.ai subscription. Will be used a lot for allowing clients to review and give feedback on reports.
cal.com has replaced my Calendly subscription.
Iâm using Baserow instead of Airtable.
And of course, Iâm running about six Ghost installations for different projects.
If all fares well with MiroTalk, that will replace any online meeting platforms Iâm paying for (Whereby at the moment).
Nextcloud is in line to replace Dropbox.
If I need to sketch interfaces Iâve got Penpot.
Iâm using Umami for web stats but thatâs been going on for a long time now.
Not sure Iâll want to replace Harvest, but there is the possibility of Invoice Ninja.
Anyway, there is so much satisfaction in hosting my own services rather than relying on corporate big tech versions of the similar software.
@edeverett Wow had not heard about this.
My prediction for today is that more and more employees will start writing down texts that argue for their own vision to be realised, but they will write it as if it was an AI output.
Because they know management will listen to an AI but not to them.