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@josephcox@infosec.exchange
@josephcox@infosec.exchange 404media has paywalls. Here's the cited thread, without Xitter's login requirements either:
https://xcancel.com/tdietterich/status/2055000956144935055
Interestingly, the core is "If a submission contains incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of LLM generation," then the authors get booted. Subtler slop will slip through.
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@CheapPontoon@beige.party
@CheapPontoon Yup, you need a suitable UPS and that can be challenging to find.
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@CheapPontoon @jalefkowit @machias With a little more tech, you can have the UPS send you messages when its battery gets low, so your housesitter only needs to visit in those cases rather than *every 4 hours*.
https://www.foodsafety.gov/food-safety-charts/food-safety-during-power-outage
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@CheapPontoon@beige.party
@CheapPontoon @jalefkowit @machias If someone with this sort of problem has the space and the money to do so, plugging the fridge into a suitably sized uninterruptible power supply (UPS) should help. The UPS will complain if it runs out of power, and it will shield the fridge from brief power flickers. It doesn't have to run the fridge for long, it just needs to be able to supply enough amps during the outage to keep the fridge's computer running. 1/
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@funkylab @0xabad1dea @FourT4 The English of Beethoven's day (c. 1800+/-30) was Modern English, so it would be mostly mutually intelligible, but there have been a lot of vocabulary changes since then. Not ELI5, but maybe ELI230?
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@fishter_uk@mastodon.scot
@fishter_uk @stooovie @mhoye This is just the Jevons "Paradox" https://www.greenchoices.org/news/blog-posts/the-jevons-paradox-when-efficiency-leads-to-increased-consumption
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@ArmouredWizard@dice.camp
@ArmouredWizard@dice.camp And remember, if you haven't successfully practiced doing a restore, then your backups probably don't work.
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@raiderrobert@mastodon.social
Different solutions to an algorithmic problem may have different time, space, code size, maintenance complexity, etc. tradeoffs, and be better for different scenarios.
A storage system that supports downtime-free upgrades is going to have more complexity than one that requires downtime. Which is better depends on your needs.
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Code is good if it is fit for purpose. Without knowing the purpose, one is left to make assumptions about the purpose, and ask if the code is fit to that assumed purpose.
An example of buggy code is a good example only if it has the specific bugs being demonstrated. A candidate busy beaver program is good only if it is in fact very slow.
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@jelte@mastodon.nl
@jelte@mastodon.nl @raiderrobert@mastodon.social Higher code/branch/path/etc coverage suggests not just better tests but also better testability of the code under test. Testability is relative to specific testing infrastructure, rather than being something solely inherent to the code under test. Eg, you're not going to get good coverage of error handling without a way to inject errors, and you're not going to get good test coverage of side effects like monitoring signals or logging without a way to capture and test those.
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@susankayequinn @amalia12 D2D is Draft2Digital? I have just started seeing posts about how they are enshitifying their offering, starting with charging all authors to list with them, and charging authors that don't sell enough even more.
I don't know what alternatives are out there, but it is only going to get worse from there.
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@trendless@zeroes.ca @Rhyothemis@zeroes.ca "This persistent immune stimulation promotes CD4+ T cell activation, facilitating maintenance and potential expansion of the HIV reservoir, which is predominantly harbored within the GALT. Additionally, microbial metabolites could in turn affect the kynurenine pathway, whose enzymatic activity has been associated with the size of the HIV reservoir." 2/
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@trendless@zeroes.ca Thank you for the link to the paper @Rhyothemis@zeroes.ca . Here's a quote from there that explains why they suspect the causality goes in this direction: "Persistent gut barrier dysfunction allows microbial-derived products such as lipopolysaccharides (LPS) and bacterial DNA to enter systemic circulation, driving chronic immune activation." 1/
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@david42@mastodon.online
@Rhyothemis@zeroes.ca @trendless@zeroes.ca From the press article you linked to "The findings offer clues as to how the gut microbiome may influence the amount of virus that persists in the body." Same direction of causality.
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@Rhyothemis@zeroes.ca @trendless@zeroes.ca From your quote, "This suggests that interactions between the body and the microbiome may influence how much virus remains in a dormant state" is a weak claim that the causality goes from (body-microbiome interactions) to (viral reservoir size).
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@trendless@zeroes.ca Interesting correlation, but why do they think there's a causal link in this direction?
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@richlv@mastodon.social @tab2space@mastodon.social @eanakashima@hachyderm.io Sounds like something Paul Bunyan would've done, had he skied.
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@colossal@mastodon.art Check out the photographer's own gallery: https://www.barrywebbimages.co.uk/Images/Macro/Slime-Moulds-Myxomycetes
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@curiousicae@tech.lgbt @dorgaldir@mastodon-belgium.be @mxchara@seattle.pink "since there is no differential diagnosis between Autism and ME/CFS". WTF?
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@mastodonmigration__dup_134@mastodon.online
@mastodonmigration @FediTips And if you expect an instance to go away, and want to migrate, you have to do so before it goes away. There is no way to migrate *after* it goes away.
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@Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de For some reason, Bitdefender claims the keepandroidopen[.]org links are suspicious. You might reach out to the KAO folks to have them get to the bottom of that and get them unblocked.
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@Quasit @illogical_me @rootschange @zeank It would be nice to migrate to platforms supporting E2EE. Matrix supports end-to-end encryption (E2EE) including in chat rooms. XMPP itself is not encrypted, but can be configured to support E2EE, eg, with OMEMO, although this can be finicky to get right. IRC itself is not encrypted, but you can layer E2EE over IRC, eg, using E2EIRC.
https://hanez.org/document/irc-vs-matrix-vs-xmpp/#e9a32a08
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMEMO
https://github.com/novus0rdo/e2eirc
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@pikesley@mastodon.me.uk see recursive pollution and model collapse. Eg https://berryvilleiml.com/2026/01/10/recursive-pollution-and-model-collapse-are-not-the-same/
But also see this paper arguing that collapse does not happen if you accumulate training data rather than replace old data with new data; instead, it converges towards a limited level of errors.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.01413
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@evacide@hachyderm.io Before writing yet another guide, see if there already is a good enough guide you can share, as is or with some commentary, and/or contribute to, rather than starting from scratch.
For a starting list of existing guides, see page 5 of the full version of
https://www.turnoffyourphone.org (that guide is good too).
ObXkcd: https://xkcd.com/927/
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