Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

The cool thing about writing code is that the computer is doing exactly what you tell it to do.

The cool thing about debugging code is slowly learning what you actually told the computer to do.

Good on Soundcloud - they’ve revised their terms of use to say they won’t train AI on user content, and any future AI plans will be opt in. https://musically.com/2025/05/14/soundcloud-changes-terms-of-use-to-reflect-its-ai-policies/

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@courtcan Sounds about right. It's currently costing them vast sums of money. They're not spending that without the expectation they can recoup it eventually.

And even if you try to avoid getting dependent on AI for your own life, you can't stop your employer and every business and organisation you deal with getting sucked into this trap, so one day you'll be paying for that when their costs go up

Instead of storing my data in the cloud, I just store it in the bush. It's the same thing, only palette-swapped. More accessible, too.

Introducing oniux: Kernel-level Tor isolation for any Linux app

oniux is a tool written by me and some other folks for isolating arbitrary applications through Tor using Linux namespaces.

Check out the amazing blog post!

https://blog.torproject.org/introducing-oniux-tor-isolation-using-linux-namespaces/

#Tor @torproject

Rust slower than C? This cannot stand…

Let yourself be nerdsniped for cash!

https://infosec.exchange/@joshaas/114505176758997415

"I am an administrator at New York University, responsible for helping faculty adapt to digital tools. Since the arrival of generative AI, I have spent much of the last two years talking with professors and students to try to understand what is going on in their classrooms. In those conversations, faculty have been variously vexed, curious, angry, or excited about AI, but as last year was winding down, for the first time one of the frequently expressed emotions was sadness. This came from faculty who were, by their account, adopting the strategies my colleagues and I have recommended: emphasizing the connection between effort and learning, responding to AI-generated work by offering a second chance rather than simply grading down, and so on. Those faculty were telling us our recommended strategies were not working as well as we’d hoped, and they were saying it with real distress.

Earlier this semester, an NYU professor told me how he had AI-proofed his assignments, only to have the students complain that the work was too hard. When he told them those were standard assignments, just worded so current AI would fail to answer them, they said he was interfering with their “learning styles.” A student asked for an extension, on the grounds that ChatGPT was down the day the assignment was due. Another said, about work on a problem set, “You’re asking me to go from point A to point B, why wouldn’t I use a car to get there?” And another, when asked about their largely AI-written work, replied, “Everyone is doing it.” Those are stories from a 15-minute conversation with a single professor.

We are also hearing a growing sense of sadness from our students about AI use. One of my colleagues reports students being “deeply conflicted” about AI use, originally adopting it as an aid to studying but persisting with a mix of justification and unease."

https://www.chronicle.com/article/is-ai-enhancing-education-or-replacing-it

#AI #GenerativeAI #Universities #HigherEd #Education #Writing

I am so fucking sick and tired of "managing my cookie preferences".

I have my cookie preferences, and they are set. I don't need to manage them. *You*, website--YOU need to manage MY preferences. I want to set them once and have every site obey them.