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NewtonMark

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Australia. Pug owner. Private pilot. Professional internet geek. Opinions vary.

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Not sure if you’ve noticed, fellas, but nobody needs to buy either of them.

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It is impossible for a ChatGPT outage to be “major.”

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So incredibly patronizing. Imagine believing that a year and a half of disruption could make everyone not have interpersonal skills.

It’s not the pandemic, Fortune. If they’re accurately conveying contempt, I figure their interpersonal skills are just fine.

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I can’t be the only one who thinks it’s risible to see a campaign from the people who make gambling legal to tell us all about the harms of gambling.

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@vampiress @abstractcode That looks extremely well regulated, and certainly less socially harmful than what we have now.

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Do I NEED a 23rd camera?

No.

Do I WANT a Fujifilm X100 series camera?

Oh god do I how!

Shame the fuckers are so expensive.

NewtonMark ,
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@vampiress I have never even heard of anyone with 23 cameras. You should strive to attain that record. You go, girl!

(helping)

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Well this one looks fun**.

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@vampiress @stilgherrian This is why one should never listen to ATC.

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Scarlett Johansson is annoyed at Sam Altman for stealing her voice. https://www.npr.org/2024/05/20/1252495087/openai-pulls-ai-voice-that-was-compared-to-scarlett-johansson-in-the-movie-her

One day OpenAI will acknowledge that its entire business is built on misappropriation of intellectual property. Today is not that day.

Part of OpenAI's schtick is blurring the line: They handwave past copyright concerns over their training data, mounting a plausible but contestable claim of fair use. But then they pull shit like this.

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Slack is now using all content, including DMs, to train LLMs.

They offer a thing they're calling an "opt-out."

The opt-out (a) is only available to companies who are slack customers, not end users, and (b) doesn't actually opt-out.

When a company account holder tries to opt-out, Slack says their data will still be used to train LLMs, but the results won't be shared with other companies.

LOL no. That's not an opt-out. The way to opt-out is to stop using Slack.

https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/trust/data-management/privacy-principles

We offer customers a choice around these practices. If you want to exclude your Customer Data from helping to train Slack global models, you can opt out. If you opt out, Customer Data on your workspace will only be used to improve the experience on your own workspace and you will still enjoy all of the benefits of our globally trained Al/ML models without contributing to the underlying models.
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    NYPD Assistant Chief James McCarthy pepper sprayed himself in the face at point blank range in response to a New York protest against Israel’s genocide in Gaza. https://nypost.com/2024/05/12/us-news/top-nypd-cop-pepper-sprays-himself-breaking-up-anti-israel-protests/ #acab

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    @vampiress Some real “aiming the wrong end of the gun” vibes right there.

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    The trains were out because Sydney, so I decided just fuck it and walked to tonight's venue.

    That's ONE way to make up for not getting enough exercise earlier in the week.

    14,000 steps, 11.6km

    Good thing I got a ride home or my legs would be 100% dead right now.

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    @vampiress You must be drenched.

    NewtonMark ,
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    @vampiress Miraculous.

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    “Quiet quitting” isn’t a real thing, it’s the product of an emotional disorder experienced by managers, where they have a vague unexplainable suspicion that their team members are terrible even when they’re producing superb work. Any company concerned about quiet quitting in their workforce can completely eliminate the phenomenon by clearing out their middle management ranks. https://www.irishtimes.com/business/work/2024/04/25/quiet-quitters-test-employers-even-more-than-staff-departures/

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    @jpm “I should be able to just inflict the consequences of my poor headcount planning on them and expect them to absorb it for free!”

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    Every location where The Matrix was filmed in Sydney. https://gizmodo.com.au/2024/04/matrix-filming-locations-sydney/

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    I don’t think Apple stopped to wonder if anyone wanted or needed this before they launched it. https://gizmodo.com/apple-vision-pro-already-forgotten-about-1851426564

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    If you want any more Z80 microprocessors, you have until the middle of June to submit your last orders. (Ping @foone)

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    UK Govt review used to limit the provision of gender-affirming care included AI-generated images of fake non-binary children. https://www.404media.co/uk-gender-affirming-care-ai-generated-children/

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    Shout out to the air traffic controller who did his best to help out the Jabiru pilot whose engine failed at 9500 near Dubbo this afternoon.

    Airplane ended up landing safely in a paddock (I’m sure all of us on the area freq exhaled a simultaneous sigh of relief when we heard the pilot check in from the ground)

    The controller knew enough about GA to be able to tutor the pilot through the iPad taps he’d need to use the ruler to measure his distance from Dubbo. Not something I expected to hear.

    Anyway: Good outcome, three cheers for everyone involved.

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    There needs to be a Mastodon feature where once a post hits X number of boosts, it self-destructs.

    Nothing good ever comes of too MANY people boosting a post.

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    @vampiress This one got more than 2000. https://eigenmagic.net/@NewtonMark/111940484144831608

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    Once again, someone in Australia's ATC organization didn't show up for work, and their roster is so stretched that the affected console will be unattended for the shift, so a block of airspace between Ballina and the Sydney Northern Beaches is under TIBA procedures.

    TIBA means ATC doesn't tell any airliners about traffic conflicts, and all controlled airspace reverts to uncontrolled. "Don't bother calling us, nobody's listening."

    TIBA is usually what you expect overflying war zones where there's no ATC capability. It's not what you expect from a technically advanced first-world country with a stable government.

    Flights will be cancelled due to this: Airlines will risk-assess and decide that mid-air collision risk from spending an hour following GPS airways in uncontrolled airspace in one of the world's busiest air corridors is too high, and they'll stay on the ground.

    Australia's semi-privatized ATC system is a failed experiment. Air Services is a broken organization that's incapable of doing its job. It needs to be nationalized. #avgeek

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    Millionaire newsletter doesn’t think Boeing should start by getting rid of its millionaire executives.

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    “A world-first study has found that when asked a health-related question, the more evidence given to ChatGPT the less reliable it becomes -- reducing the accuracy of its responses to as low as 28 per cent.” https://www.csiro.au/en/news/All/News/2024/April/Good-evidence-confuses-ChatGPT-when-used-for-health-information

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    @vampiress @stilgherrian Seems pretty obvious that ChatGPT has passed the peak of its hype cycle. Sora is OpenAI trying to convince its audience that they aren't a one trick pony (they're a one trick pony)

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    Rubbish taken out. Leaves swept on my balcony. Windows closed. Preparing for the multi-day deluge about to smash Sydney. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-04/torrential-rain-triggers-flood-watch-for-sydney/103665240

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    @liamvhogan @MattHatton @vampiress The Audley Weir is open for traffic again. I have a good feeling about this.

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    The author doesn’t call it out explicitly in so many words, but Australia and its government are disgustingly racist, and Andrew Leigh is a coward and a simp. https://www.abc.net.au/religion/bernard-baffour-prejudice-denial-australian-visa-system/103655840

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    You could have responsibly and pragmatically run them down with your car, but you didn’t and these are your consequences.

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    One for @NewtonMark to laugh at.

    Slovakian BMW-powered flying car tech sold to Hebei Jianxin Flying Car Technology Company. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-68669296

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    @stilgherrian I've never seen a use case for an airplane which requires $100,000 worth of repairs if someone runs a shopping trolley into it in the Coles car park.

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    @stilgherrian @vampiress Amphibian. It's not terrible, it's just been flown by idiots who've crashed it into lakes.

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    @vampiress @stilgherrian The other fun thing about it is that it's marketed as the kind of thing where you can land it on a lake, throw out the anchor, fling the doors open, kick back, and spend the afternoon fishing before you fly home again.

    Which neglects the fact that one of the only things that makes fishing on a lake fun is beer. Which you can't drink if you're flying. :-)

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    Ok, fine. They can sell to someone more confident. https://amp.abc.net.au/article/103619384

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    @vampiress They’re all so fragile and skittish. It’ll devastate them.

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    Switched to Ivory because toot! hasn’t been updated in years and Ivory does quote-toots better. At last!

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    This will make some people delightfully angry. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/15/long-covid-symptoms-flu-cold

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    Virgin has just become the official airline of the Inner West. https://www.executivetraveller.com/news/flying-with-dogs-cats-virgin-australia

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    @MattHatton They’re just n a pet carrier, it’ll be fine.

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    @vampiress @MattHatton @liamvhogan Matt’s just mad because he doesn’t have a dog.

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    @vampiress What kind of workshop? Opinion research? Working group? Planning? Something else?

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    @vampiress So it'll be like a lecture with an interactive element?

    Maybe start with a brief-ish monologue about the philosophy behind the tool to get attendees into the right head-space, then introduce some representative example case studies, then walk through implementing them.

    You'd have to choose case studies/walkthroughs to fit the available time.

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    @vampiress There you go: You're almost done :)

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    The most recent data dump from NSW Health shows the lowest number of COVID-19 hospitalizations since December 2021. https://covidlive.com.au/report/daily-hospitalised/nsw#2020

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    @vampiress You can't explain it to Americans. They just don't understand it.

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    @vampiress If it’s any consolation, the original Commodore joystick was the same as an Atari joystick, just injection moulded in a different color.

    The pinouts on the DB-9 were the same.

    There weren’t many joystick OEMs at the time.

    If you pull it apart you’ll see a board with switches made out of steel wafers pressed into a dome shape which completes a circuit when flattened. The wafers eventually crack. These joysticks are definitely life-limited.

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    @vampiress This was the joystick everyone wanted. Virtually indestructible. Expensive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAC-2

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    @vampiress I'm only mildly surprised that they've survived for long enough to be available on eBay in 2024. It's even odds whether it'd survive being driven over by your car tyre. Very solidly built.

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    The park next to Sydney Uni looks very colorful. Lots of red and white asbestos hazard tape and day-glo orange bunting. Festival aesthetic, five stars.

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    Is there anywhere where you CAN invest $100k in property? Where are you going to find something that cheap?

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    Blocked @ghostie. You might like to preemptively do so too.

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    @vampiress There are a lot more if you scroll back through his timeline.

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