CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@linuxgal

"The Merry Men"

Obviously.

@kkarhan @mcc @EUCommission

I assumed they "went with Motorola" because they were the only ones to return their calls. It's not like there is a huge or vocal movement for de-Googled Android phones. It's still incredibly niche. I really hope the partnership with Motorola helps more people realize that such a thing is even possible.

I looked up "Device Attestation" for GrapheneOS.

GrapheneOS attestation compatibility guide

Guide on using remote attestation in a way that's compatible with GrapheneOS.

GrapheneOS (grapheneos.org)

Is that what you are talking about? How they support and use a lower level of "attestation" so that people who make Android apps won't feel compelled to force their apps to only be valid when "attested" via the official Google Play Store? That sounds like a good thing. It sounds like a necessary thing before some developers will even consider supporting GrapheneOS.

@kkarhan @mcc

What's wrong with GrapheneOS now?

@mttaggart

It's the same "model" your know-it-all uncle uses every Thanksgiving: bloviation.

@troublewithwords @futurebird have you heard of @pluralistic novella "Unauthorized Bread"? Cause that's basically what happens.

@mttaggart

I can't get people to understand that the "hallucination" problem is unsolvable because "hallucination" is how it works. That's all it does. Next tokens based on the whole previous series of tokens that represent "the conversation" being had between prompts and responses combined with the hidden prompts that give the thing its flavor. The fact that it is "right" isn't part of it. That's why they never say, "I don't know". They don't know anything. They are literally making it up every single time. It's why they are so expensive and why they are ruining the environment. There is no recall, no memory, no "knowing". As I've seen it said elsewhere, "there is no 'there' there". It's worse than the Chinese Room thought experiment because at least that produces correct responses. This creates the illusion of a correct response. We are killing the earth and building an inescapable surveillance state around technology that will never get any better than it is right now.

@gwynnion

I'm like "write a script!" If I want to hear people shooting the shit, I'll join a Teams call. Otherwise, I'll just read the transcript that's been "edited for clarity" thanks.

@StaceyCornelius

I just signed up for Neocities. I'm giving it a go.

@PurpleStephyr @JoscelynTransient

Erectile dysfunction is a permanent part of my medical record for some reason even though it's on purpose.

@futurebird @wordshaper

I would never, in one million lifetimes, utter the phrase "catfisting". That's just... it's... No. It's a "no" from me.

@michaelgemar @futurebird @wordshaper

I have it, ironically enough, in a compilation by S.T. Joshi of stories that probably inspired Lovecraft.

When Irvin S. Cobb’s “Fishhead” appeared in the Argosy on January 11, 1913, among those who expressed enthusiasm for the tale was twenty-two-year-old H. P. Lovecraft, in one of his earliest published letters: “It is the belief of the writer that very few short stories of equal merit have been published anywhere during recent years” (Argosy, February 8, 1913). Lovecraft cites the tale again in “Supernatural Horror in Literature,” calling it “banefully effective in its portrayal of unnatural affinities between a hybrid idiot and the strange fish of an isolated lake, which at the last avenge their biped kinsman’s murder” (S 53–54)—a description that immediately brings to mind similar unnatural affinities between the inhabitants of Innsmouth and the ichthyic denizens of the deep described in “The Shadow over Innsmouth.”

@futurebird @wordshaper

% same fear from my uncle telling me stories about the catfish he'd catch noodlin'.

@futurebird @wordshaper

This is from "Fishead" by Irvin S. Cobb, published in 1913.

But the biggest of them all are the catfish. These are monstrous creatures, these catfish of Reelfoot—scaleless, slick things, with corpsy, dead eyes and poisonous fins like javelins and long whiskers dangling from the sides of their cavernous heads. Six and seven feet long they grow to be and to weigh two hundred pounds or more, and they have mouths wide enough to take in a man’s foot or a man’s fist and strong enough to break any hook save the strongest and greedy enough to eat anything, living or dead or putrid, that the horny jaws can master. Oh, but they are wicked things, and they tell wicked tales of them down there. They call them man-eaters and compare them, in certain of their habits, to sharks.

@footils @Jeroen89

I remember there used to be way more insects at night, even just 20 years ago, let alone 40.

@emilymbender

When I read that headline, it gave me the impression that "AI" was going to be declared as more than conscious in some way. I suppose that's just "how you write a headline".

I was pleasantly surprised at how sober Holly Baxter's take on "AI" was. She does not blindly buy in to the hype and she hasn't fallen down the rabbit hole of installing Claude and getting bamboozled by its magical cold reading skills.

I was further surprised to see just how much space was given over to your interview.

Thank you for even taking the time to continue talking to reporters when, as you said, you are often a checkbox just so they can say they did a "both sides".

@Daojoan

Star Trek has been flarging this up for years. We get good Trek in spite of who's controlling it, not because of them.

Abrams and Kurtzman don't even like Star Trek while Seth McFarland went out and made his own loving homage show because he loves Trek so much. Paramount hates Trek.

@emilymbender

So far, I've been able to politely decline. Not sure how long that will last.

@pentup @tiefling

It happens mostly when I click an external link, read the page, and then go back into Moshidon. It starts hanging and freezes then just crashes to desktop.

@pentup @tiefling

I love Moshidon @moshidon which is a fork of the no longer under active development Megalodon @megalodon

However, it crashes so often for me that I'm actually trying Fedilab @apps again. Even the I don't like many most of the design decisions they made, it hasn't crashed once. Like so many glyphs with no text to explain what they do. Are you trying to be Microsoft?

@obtener

We don't deserve dogs.