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“A group of academics has apologised after their submission to an [Australian senate] inquiry contained false allegations of serious wrongdoing, which were collated by an AI tool [Google Bard] and not factchecked.”
[via “Download This Show”]
theguardian.com/business/2023/…
KPMG lodges complaint after AI-generated material was used to implicate them in non-existent scandals
Senate inquiry into Australian consultancy industry concedes its integrity has been undermined by reliance on case studies generated by Google Bard AI toolHenry Belot (The Guardian)
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I'm not a mathematician, but an engineer. So I do lots of applied mathematics. To those workers that are not mathematically trained, the results are like magic.
For example my seminar paper was on echo compensation for hands-free devices in 1992, a technology that was new development back then and mew routinely built in cars.
Today we develop machines with electronic compensation of unavoidable mechanic tolerances based on stochastic mathematical models.
Portugal just ran on 100% renewables for six days in a row
> For nearly a week, the country of 10 million met customer needs with wind, hydro and solar — a test run for operating the grid without fossil fuels.
canarymedia.com/articles/clean…
#Environment #Renewables #Wind #Solar #Hydro #Portugal
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Result: UK Supreme Court holds that Rwanda policy is *unlawful*.
UK government has lost.
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There will come a time when the Raspberry Pi Foundation does not require a super secret mythical combination of USB C power supply and cable that is only dubiously complainant and can only be obtained on the third Thursday of the months with no R in them.
That time is not now.
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Given how they were told of by the AUTHOR of the power delivery portion of the spec because of what they did to the 4, you'd think they'd have made *some* effort on the 5.
But hey, this version has AI in it, so yay?
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Modern political semantics:
Tory/GOP politicians: We oppose, um, Flerb!
Tory/GOP voters: What's Flerb?
Politicians: It's anything you hate.
Voters: Like what?
Politicians: Your choice, whatever. Now, see my opponent? They personify Flerbism.
Voters: Oh no! We must stop Flerbery ruining our country!
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Today’s lesson. Most of the time when you ask “how do I do this?” and get the answer “don’t do this, do that” you’re talking to an irritating fuckwit. The lesson is that this is not all of the time.
The practical application of this was learning that digit is a very cool tool for editing Debian packages.
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Phrases that don’t mean what I thought they meant, part 33. The Global South.
Australia is in the Global North.
SUNAK: It shows we're serious people.
CASE: David. Cameron.
SUNAK: We'll give him a Barony
CASE: Of where? Ham?
SUNAK: Well it's done now so-
ED MILIBAND <interrupts>: CHAOS MOTHERFUCKERS!
SUNAK: Damnit! Who keeps letting him in?!
CASE: I think it's the cleaners
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Ally of Lord Frost yesterday: "Rishi, the time has come to appoint David as foreign secretary, from the Lords, to finish what he started started on Brexit."
Sunak: Good idea, I will do that tomorrow."
[Lord Frost sits by the telephone this morning.]
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Autistic masking behaviors vary from person to person. What are some of your masking characteristics?
image: @littlepuddins.ie
#AskingAutistics #ActuallyAutistic @actuallyautistic
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I had to do this when I worked at Google.
They were like "we own everything you make unless you get an exception"
So I went "I make stuff using tons of copyrighted material, and I only get away with it because no one would bother suing some weirdo with no money. You really want to own that?"
They gave me an exception
Four #prominent #Arab #Israeli #leaders were #detained in #Nazareth Thursday over planning a #protest that #police alleged could incite violence and threaten public order.
#Balad chair Sami Abou Shahadeh, former #Hadash MK Mohammad Barakeh, former Balad MK Hanin Zoabi, and former Balad chair Mtanes Shihadeh were #arrested on their way to what Arab media called “an invitation-only #vigil ”
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One Way Out (Andor, Season 1, episode 10) was released one year ago today.
One of the great episodes, with two amazing monologues.
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Upcoming Contact Key Verification Feature Promises Secure Identity Verification for iMessage - TidBITS
Apple has released details about Contact Key Verification, an upcoming option in Messages that lets you manually verify an iMessage correspondent’s identity without relying on encryption data managed centrally by Apple.Glenn Fleishman (TidBITS Publishing Inc.)
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I found the network rack gacha! Assumed it was so niche it would only be found in like Tokyo but there was one around my neck of the woods as well.
This is the cutest thing ever! Look at the little cables and cable management hoops, the PDU, all of it is so well-done!
#japan #gacha #networking #sysadmin #mb
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Looks like a BBC News intro from a decade or two ago mastodon.social/@flameReactor/…
Winnitz wiggles.If this flame is beautiful, ⭐ or boost this post to improve its chances for future breedings.
#artBot
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So it seems there are still, despite increasing numbers of “leaders” involved in “crypto” ending up in prison for being con artists, true believers in NFTs (if you’ve forgotten about those, they were briefly bigger than COVID 19 and about as beneficial to humanity) held a party in Hong Kong last night.
The organisers thought they were lighting the stage with black lights (like they have at LaserQuest to make your clothes glow).
They were not.
They were lighting the stage with UV-C sterilisation lights.
Apparently everyone involved is now in accident and emergency with extensive sunburn and BURNS TO THEIR RETINAS!!
In 18 months there are going to be a bunch of people wearing dark sunglasses and refusing to meet outdoors trying to sell you something expensive to do with “AI”. You probably shouldn’t buy it.
bsky.app/profile/danaweb.dev/p…
Jupiter ♃ (@danaweb.dev)
In case anyone reading this has been at an Ape Event in Hong Kong recently, here's a version of all the images with alt text.Bluesky Social
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I like the idea of a "Car Trap". Perhaps we should have more of them elsewhere.
Seriously though, why are they there?
We should have more guided busways and light railways on Beeching's closed railway lines. Hertford to Luton. Buntingford to Broxbourne.
Curious how they cope with single track sections.
@Normal for '23 😷🇪🇺🍸 They’re there to stop cars going further on the busway, presumably so that they can be retrieved more easily than half way down a guided section. (This section is an anomaly because it’s not guided except at the entrances; the proper guided sections are narrow trenches.)
Wouldn’t recommend guided bus as a transport solution even if reusing closed railway alignments for transport is a good idea.
Single track sections are controlled by traffic lights.
My butcher has started making sausages from seabirds.
Today he's taken a tern for the wurst.
(Sorry, so wonderfully bad I had to share...)
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@Mona app notifications from a friendica server seem to confuse Mona on iOS. They all appear as this.
You received a new message.
Error: error: The data couldn't be read because it isn't in the correct format.
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Welcome to #MOVember, one asm MOV instruction each day.
The Motorola MC68000 has a BEAST of a MOV instruction.
Official assembler mnemonic: MOVE. Refreshingly clear!
You could move to and from registers and/or memory. 8-, 16-, 32- data sizes. Post increment, predecrement. Including memory-to-memory moves (*Ferris Bueller soundtrack voice*: Oh Yeah).
`*d++ = *s++` is a single instruction in 68000.
Officially destination on the right: MOVE A7,D0 copies the A7 register to D0
Please 🔁
#68k
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![Screenshot from the Intel 8080 Assembly Language Programming Manual. Encoding for MOV.
[ 0 1 | dst | src ]
000 register B
001 C
010 D
011 E
100 H
101 L
110 memory reference M
111 A
NOTE: dst and src cannot both = 110B](https://thegoatery.dyndns.org/photo/preview/640/2194066 "Screenshot from the Intel 8080 Assembly Language Programming Manual. Encoding for MOV.
[ 0 1 | dst | src ]
000 register B
001 C
010 D
011 E
100 H
101 L
110 memory reference M
111 A
NOTE: dst and src cannot both = 110B")
Day 5 of #MOVember
The Z80 powered my first computer (ZX81), and was the first machine code that i learnt.
When is a MOV not a MOV? When it's a LD! The Z80 is a compatible extension of 8080 that, for copyright, has a different assembler syntax.
MOV, STAX, LDAX, MVI, and others have all been unified as LD (load).
A is the best register, and supports the most addressing modes:
LD A, reg ; from register
LD A, (HL|BC|DE|IX+dd|IY+dd) ; indirect
LA A, (nn) ; external addr
and the reverse.
#Z80
of all the different processor instruction sets I’ve forgotten, the Z80 was the easiest to pick up and then forget. And the 68000 was the one I wished I’d spent more time using.
The 8051 is probably the one most seared in my memory as I had to write code for it before the assembler arrived (i
n the post fro the US I think).
I have something to say to those who said to us, when we told you that cryptocurrency was a tulip mania style bubble built on bluster, bullshit and suckers, that we didn’t understand and were just bitter about missing out. It is as follows:
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA SILLY FUCKERS TOLD YOU SO.
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There is one good use for cryptocurrencies - crime.
Which is the only reason I can conceive of that Bitcoin has risen all this year. After we destroy most of our ecosystem, Bitcoin will be seen by the survivors as one of the many signs of the collective mental illness of our society.
If someone's paycheck depends on them not getting something,
Those folks are going to go out of their way not to understand it.
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