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• Post #3812832

  Mike Judge still got it - Beavis and Butt-Head Become A.I. Tech Bros: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWeca3sU6hw

• Post #3812831

  Cool, over 18 years ago I worked as a developer/maintainer of a hydrological simulation model at the European Commission. This is still in active development, and is used for European-level flood forecasting. Today the current developers (who are not on Fedi AFAIAA ) added the latest source code to #Zenodo, and added #ORCID tags of previous and current contributors, so it's now part of my ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3686-337X If any of them are reading this: thank you,...

• Post #3812830

  Useful Firefox add-on that detects and highlights em-dash characters on webpages. Handy for AI #slop spotting: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/em-dash-detector/

• Post #3812829

  RE: https://pdx.social/@patc/116857419881554592 Paging @wtfpdf ....

• Post #3693289

  "The sales pitch for #AI is heavily predicated on the fact that this is all a profitable and sustainable venture that evolves into computerized sentience, and there's simply no evidence that's true. These models are all absurdly expensive to run, and the mad dash toward pseudo-productivity masked the reality that execs blew gargantuan wads of cash on negligible net benefit and a lot of chronic migraines." https://karlbode.com/the-ai-hype-reckoning-is-upon-us/

• Post #2092591

  Just found out the Open Preservation Foundation (#OPF) has quietly started to embrace generative #AI in its new ODF Validator tool. I have some concerns, so I opened this issue: https://github.com/openpreserve/odf-validator/issues/293 If anyone wants to weigh in on this, please do!

• Post #1152235

  Oh, Boards Of Canada mail mysterious VHS 📼 tapes to fans, sparking speculation about possible new album: https://stereogum.com/2495125/boards-of-canada-mail-mysterious-vhs-to-fans/news #BoardsOfCanada #BoC

• Post #1152233

  "This terminal is linked to a giant brain 10 miles away in the heart of London": https://doomlode.bandcamp.com/track/a-giant-brain-ten-miles-away-in-the-heart-of-london

• Post #636332

  Interesting, the Bodleian library created a #Python library that converts #TIFF or #JPEG source images to #JP2 #JPEG2000 (using a #Kakadu wrapper), and does various quality checks on the result: https://github.com/bodleian/image-processing Will definitely give this a try for an upcoming in-house TIFF to JP2 conversion pilot project!

• Post #636331

  Meanwhile on a major digital preservation mailing list I'm subscribed to, someone posted an announcement of a report about "AI for Government Archives". The announcement e-mail (by the lead author) looks like it's largely #AI-generated, with the typical formatting signs like emoji lists, excessive use of boldface, the works. Haven't looked in any detail at the study itself, but announcing it like this doesn't exactly inspire confidence, to put...

• Post #586753

  Oh, a new Squarepusher track; album to follow in April: https://youtu.be/cAvdRtOdRcM?si=GgKKLv5dsY8bdRsx

• Post #558122

  Maintainer of #chardet, a widely used #Python character encoding detector library, replaces entire existing codebase with #AI-generated code, and changes the license in the process. The original author isn't pleased: https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327 #vibecoding #opensource 😱