Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

Are there people out there who are looking at #LLM/AI-generated content as pollution?

Because that is the analogy that makes the most sense to me. It's creating huge externalities for the profit of a few - proliferating enormous amounts of digital pollution (as well as real-world greenhouse gas pollution).

The more #AI/LLM churn out content for the internet, the dirtier the water, so to speak. Or the air. And the less it functions for users.

"my brother in christ" - old, boring
"my sister in satan" - new, interesting

however i introduce
"my sibling in the void" - unique, engaging, yet neutral

big ergo doesn't want you to know

Data brokers are launching an attack on proposed CA legislation #SB362 that would let people opt out from all #databroker services en masse. Because they know everyone will do it if they can. The #DELETEAct would be good for Californians. Tell your legislator you support it and don't let these dodgy businesses kill it. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/16/ad-industry-tries-to-quash-proposed-data-broker-regulations-00111513

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In a country where nearly every iota of our psyches and our physical spaces has been captured for the purpose of generating a profit, the ongoing existence of public libraries feels not just radical, but astonishing. https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/08/are-libraries-the-future-of-news/

I canʼt believe I have to tell people this, but

- Donʼt buy smart home shit
- Donʼt download an app to get a free smoothie
- Donʼt sign up for something you heard about in a piece of junk mail
- Donʼt create an account with fucking McDonald's or Chipotleʼs or whatever
- Donʼt use a coupon or a discount for something you werenʼt going to buy anyway
- Donʼt sign up for free trials
- Donʼt let the devil in through the front door
- Donʼt let them sell you anything

You will not come out ahead.

For Canadians finding their news blocked by Meta and, in all likelihood, Google, I'd like to offer some accounts across the country that are posting to the Fediverse.

*cracks knuckles for thread*
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#Canada
#cdnmedia
#Meta
#Twitter
#mastodon
#Google

@marcan this is why, for a while, my contribution to open source was not code

It was priming the pump on bugs: did you try this? Could you get this log? Here are the instructions if you don't know, etc

Thank you for endorsing what was often thankless work at the time

@arisunz this issue exists in lots of places!! should be talked about more

on Windows, compiling an executable in most languages will probably make the linker embed the absolute path to the pdb inside your executable (which might contain your system username)

with Rust, it will embed the compiler version into your binary: If you’re using rustup then the absolute path to the compiler version is inside your user folder

in C and Cpp, if your build system gives the compiler an absolute path to a compilation unit, the __FILE__ macro will expand to this absolute path (and therefore may end up embedded in the binary in lots of forms). also if you don’t have -no-canonical-prefixes and you use a compiler version inside your home folder, you might end up with your username embedded in paths to compiler-internal headers in the debug symbols (not sure about the binary itself)

definitely something to be aware of if you’re shipping binaries for anything