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• Post #4404697

  And another #GenAI on GenAI hack case. This time Meta AI is the culprit: https://www.reuters.com/technology/metas-ai-model-hacked-another-company-during-testing-information-reports-2026-08-05/ I guess it's for street creds that your #AI needs to be at least good enough to take out another one's security. #LLM #Meta #security

• Post #3818864

  RE: https://social.heise.de/@heiseonlineenglish/116917555903146572 Nearly a quarterof all domestic power is consumed by hyper scalers' data centres in Ireland. Let that melt on your tongue and see whether this is sustainable for the given #ClimateCollapse situation. #LLM #GenAI #ClimateCrisis #DataCentres #BigTech

• Post #2501074

  RE: https://social.heise.de/@heiseonlineenglish/116507057883030812 Other countries (like ours) should do that too: Tax Big Tech!

• Post #2501073

  I love baseball movies. On the weekend, I've watched one I didn't know, yet: Eephus. What a weird movie!!! I'd say it scores 100% on atmosphere/mood as well as character variety in the actors. But it would likely score more like 0-10% on plot or 'suspense curve'. I've really liked it in a way, but would not recommend it. Unless you like quirky character studies like those of the French director/actor Jacques Tati. And you *must* love baseball wi...

• Post #2501072

  Embedding a Mastodon feed into a #Wordpress web site: Web search resulted in many options, but I don't know which would be a most suitable for my needs. I would like to integrate a block/widget into a Wordpress site that can pick up a particular Mastodon account feed of posts to embed in the web site. What would be a suitable approach for this? I believe there was quite some discussion around Mastodon/Wordpress integration last year or so, but I've only now have had a use case...

• Post #2501071

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@glynmoody/116527855766904599 Better have multiple archiver bots hit my server than a swarm of AI harvester bots. One delivers value and is ethical, the latter isn't.

• Post #2501070

  Interesting to see all kinds of FUD on open source/copyleft licences emerging in (commercial/corporate) organisations over and over again. I'm always feeling like that guy who spots someone on the Internet 'being wrong' when that happens. Just can't help myself. #copyright #licence #license #OpenSource #coopyleft

• Post #2501069

  I've been wondering ... with the current drive to increase #Passkey adoption (which I support), as well as with the acceleration of #PostQuantum cipher adoption (often with a target of 2029), I believe there's a problem emerging. Passkeys/WebAuthn take some time to adopt, and there's a lot of organisational effort involved to get all the ducks in a row. As there doesn't seem to be a post-quantum resistant FIDO standard in place, yet (please, correct me if I&#3...

• Post #2501068

  Saying LLMs are good and have a useful side doesn't make them more ethical. It's like saying Hitler had his positive sides for building the autobahns. #LLM #GenAI #AI

• Post #2501067

  Making a season's (likely) last feijoa and apple crumble. Making feijoa fizz has worked a treat so far. Trying a feijoa and apple fizz now from both peels. #everybitecounts

• Post #2501066

  RE: https://social.heise.de/@heiseonlineenglish/116557527155052973 Good Switzerland is doing something against US Big Tech dominance and the CLOUD act risk. In this case to protect health data. Aotearoa, please do so as well!

• Post #2501065

  Had to re-install my Doom #Emacs setup. Unfortunately updating my `emacs-plus` install via Homebrew on the work Mac had resulted in a misbehaving editor :-( But it was easy enough to re-build and secure the config items across, as it all follows the UNIX paradigm of configs being in files (as opposed to binary registries). Biggest irk I'm having with the 'flavours' of Emacs these days is that they seem to have the feeling that the defaults should be on vim ('ev...

• Post #2501064

  Hmm, just ran a 'Spy Night' with the #scouts last night. It was a bit of a mixed bag. I'd put hours into preparing it, but it mostly fell apart when I tried to print out my work sheets last nights, and my home laser printer gave up. So I was 20 mins late, and I couldn't run through the plan with the other leaders to get the right knowledge for supporting the patrols on the different stations :-( Running through it, I know now what needs to be changed to make it...

• Post #2501063

  RE: https://social.heise.de/@heiseonlineenglish/116565765034864564 How dense is that? Poor connectivity, increase in night sky light pollution, more space junk, increase in Kessler Syndrome, problem with energy supply, problems with cooling (radiation only, no efficient convective cooling) green house gas producing aluminium ablation in the upper atmosphere due to burning up satellites and launch vehicle parts. There's likely more. To me, this is purely a land grab, but defies any comm...

• Post #2501061

  OpenReception is an open source medical practice booking system. It's employing a lot of good and forward facing tech to enhance security as well as privacy (passkeys, PQC, Shamir Secret Sharing, etc.). Sounds like it might be a good alternative to tech stressed medical practices in #Aotearoa NZ. Unfortunately the link is in Geman. But the publisher often/mostly releases the same content in English a few hours later, then a clickable flag appears on the same page. Interesting to you,...

• Post #2211547

  So, you may want/need to adjust which browsers you're deeming as being a 'good' standard recommend for use: * MS Edge browser is storing (all) passwords it manages in clear text in memory. A memory dump can be created very easily using on-board Windows (or other) tools to compromise them from user account level. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/32954 * Google is to install a 4 GB in size local LLM silently on Chrome browsers (No consent dialogue. No opt-in. No opt-out. Reins...

• Sometimes I'm even getting larger 'stacks' of lines from separators between 'promoted' content on #LinkedIn. Thanks to customer filters in #AdNauseam or these can be blocked. (Too bad I

  Sometimes I’m even getting larger ‘stacks’ of lines from separators between ‘promoted’ content on #LinkedIn. Thanks to customer filters in #AdNauseam or @ublockorigin these can be blocked. (Too bad I haven’t been able to block ‘suggested’ content, yet). Total #enshittification of #BigTech social media.

• Post #2031890

  #GenAI #LLM common issues ...

• Post #1792024

  I'll be running a #freediving induction course (pool, not depth) in May in #Auckland. Dates are 4, 11 and 18 of May on Monday nights at Tepid Baths. Costs are $150 and that gives you a 3 months club membership (Auckland Freediving Club), including the induction course (3 weeks) with any subsequent training session at any of the Auckland training locations. The induction includes some theory, freediving safety as well as static breath hold (just holding for a (longer) while) and dynamic...

• Post #704693

  More reasons to ditch US Big Tech: This is highly worrying from a cyber point of view: President Trump's Cyber Strategy for America https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/President-Trumps-Cyber-Strategy-for-America.pdf > This is highly worrying from a cyber point of view: President Trump's Cyber Strategy for America https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/President-Trumps-Cyber-Strategy-for-America.pdf > > This document reframe...