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@HonkHase@chaos.social
Sag bloß, dass Kameraüberwachung keine Straftaten verhindern kann!
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Debora Weber-Wulff
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mastodon 4.6.9I still teach various media and software-oriented subjects at an engineering college in Berlin, Germany, although I retired in April 2023. Projects on Internet and eLearning interest me, as well as my work on detecting and educating about plagiarism.
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I spoke with some IT students about their jobs outside of class. Just a few years ago most were working at IT companies, mostly startups, here in Berlin. Today they are flipping burgers and manning the cash registers at Lidl. What a waste of talent, just because companies think that AI will solve all of their IT problems.
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@davidaugust
Not just Norway! Many European countries also have free healthcare, free college, parental leave, and more. It’s necessary to have a well-educated, healthy population that doesn’t fall for fascists…
Heute, Samstag den 4. Juli 2026, erhalte ich in Berlin von der PIN AG 10 Briefe. 4 sind aus Berlin (!), die älteste ist datiert auf den 15. Juni, 6 aus München, die älteste auf den 17. Juni datiert. Nutzt die PIN AG Pferdekutschen oder haben sie extra Lagerhallen für die Zwischenlagerung angemietet? Briefe aus den USA oder Schweden sind schneller da!
@ct_bergstrom@fediscience.org and Jevin T. West have made this excellent resource available called
MODERN-DAY ORACLES
or BULLSHIT MACHINES?
How to thrive in a ChatGPT world
https://thebullshitmachines.com/
Text, slides, videos, even short exercises
THANK YOU for making this usable for free in educational settings and for self-study, this is much needed!
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@bobdahacker@infosec.exchange
Now I'm wide awake! FIFA is this unprofessional? Great hack description, nice training material for interns. Maybe FIFA has another peace prize for you :}
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@cstross@wandering.shop @SteveClough@metalhead.club @gildilinie@beige.party
1976/ Computer Power and Human Reason
https://archive.org/details/computerpowerhum0000weiz_v0i3
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@j_bertolotti @davidaugust
True, although it is not every day. We still have lots of work to do!
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@cstross@wandering.shop @SteveClough@metalhead.club @gildilinie@beige.party
I'm currently re-reading the German version, Die Macht der Computer und die Ohnmacht der Vernunft. Very, scarily current. I am happy to have met Joe Weizenbaum in person, such an inspiring person he was.
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@sundogplanets
Mail. You will regret pitching stuff. Use cheaper surface mail.
And *gorgeous* pictures!!
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@NewtonMark@eigenmagic.net
There's an open source system that is similar to Slack, Mattermost. It can run on your own servers, so no one is harvesting your text.
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@voebb@openbiblio.social @wikinaut@berlin.social
Heute mal wieder unter der Woche: von ca. 08:00 bis ca. 13:10 war nur "Die Webseite wird voraussichtlich in Kürze wieder zur Verfügung stehen." zu sehen...
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@JMarkOckerbloom@mastodon.social @peterpur@hci.social
I wrote to the "author", he felt he was not able to use AI and didn't know how this sentence got in there. Right. I got a journalist to publish an article about it in German in the FAZ, in print and online (behind a paywall, unfortunately): https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wissen/forschung-politik/ki-einsatz-bei-springer-nature-buecher-denen-man-nicht-trauen-kann-110426568.html
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@voebb@openbiblio.social
Herzlich willkommen im Fediverse!
Warum sind die Digitalangebote im VOEBB so oft am Wochenende nicht erreichbar wegen 'Wartung'?
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@opencage@en.osm.town
The US made quite a radioactive mess at Thule:
https://hibakusha-worldwide.org/en/locations/thule
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@randomwalker @sayashk
Amen! I keep speaking about this, and have to keep disciplining myself not to slide into using human-like terms when speaking about the bot.
I just finished reading the "Stochastic Parrot" article by @emilymbender et al. yesterday. The paper is from early 2021 but they clearly see that anthropomorphizing is going to be a big danger (and explain how the dang things work and where the bias comes from).
Thank you for putting so many links into your article!
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@mmitchell_ai
That's cool if it works, but doesn't that mean using the copyrighted text *again* to erase it? That would normally also have to be licensed.... Or if the material is CC-SA then the entire code and database need to be shared ;)
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@benjacobsen @mmitchell_ai
CC-SA means 'share alike'. Anything that uses it must also be put under a share alike license. So there is no concept of fair use. In Europe a suit could stand s good chance of winning damages.
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@RKI@social.bund.de
Eure Stammdaten braucht einen Freitextfeld für Besonderheiten. Ich habe grundsätzlich keinen Geruchssinn, also passt bei mir die Frage nach dem Verlust gar nicht.