Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

Don't like strangers busting into your mentions to give unsolicited opinions?

This could be solved if the Fediverse had better comment controls.

You should be able to make a read-only post if you want.

And you should be able to make a public post that's only writeable to followers.

You should also be able to lock a thread if it becomes a vector for abuse.

Hi, I work with generative machines. Everything from Markov chain generators to GPT-3. I’ve trained and tuned many models with GPT2 and 3, all with the intent of simulating human interaction.

I know a fair bit about generative machines, both how they work, and how to tune and interact with them to get particular results.

I need you to hear this: they do not know or understand anything. They are complex probability tables.

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It's a really frustrating battle between making multiplayer games that are responsive and fun to play and games that are secure. There's kind of no way to do both really well, because responsive games have to let the client do more, which opens the door for cheating.

An obvious "solution" is to validate what the client does on the server, and of course most of the time game servers are doing just that. But there's only so much validation you can do before you start slowing down the server.

lmao betterhelp the therapy app startup is having an ftc action against it because it’s been sharing customer data with facebook to target ads

remember the days when you could put something in quotes and search it and get only results that contained that exact phrase? i miss those days

Android 14 introduces financed devices, where the financing entity has the capability to lock(!) the device in case of a missed payment 🧐 https://commonsware.com/blog/2023/02/11/random-musings-android-14-dp1.html

a lot of policy discussions are hung up on first-order shit like "should we do recycling" and "what things should we recycle" rather than second-order shit like "the guys who say theyre doing the recycling for us are just taking the garbage 5,000 miles away and throwing it in a river"