Posts by ensslen@mastodon.nzoss.nz
(DIR) Post #AWAWgbW3tf3y6KE99U by ensslen@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-05-30T03:51:46Z
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@lightweight I don't know who needs to know this, but a bottle is not a standard unit. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_bottleThe US industry standard bottle is 355ml, in Canada, the same name is 341ml. A European longneck is 330ml, which is the size we use here in Aotearoa.Which doesn't even start on the "non-standard" sizes of bottles in common use...
(DIR) Post #AXtj3Xfz5D52VeXB56 by ensslen@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-07-20T21:15:59Z
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@strypey The preconditions for people voting via the internet include:1) eliminating the digital divide2) making the internet secure, so that people's aged devices can be proved to be casting the intended votes3) providing physical security to every person while they vote so that they are not intimidated by those with power in their environment.We closer to having a perfect voting system now than we are to being able to have a functional internet voting system.
(DIR) Post #AXxxGUIF9E3HlyKuTQ by ensslen@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-07-17T01:15:17Z
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Now I'm arguing with the mods of a private forum whether saying that "AI is over hyped" is a personal attack on the person who posted some AI hype.Part of me wants to give up and move.
(DIR) Post #AhdM5MgMa4nO5eSj7Q by ensslen@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2024-05-04T21:34:01Z
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An LLM use case would have to be one where:A. what matters is language form (content is unimportant),B. the ersatz fluency and coherence of LLM output would not be misleading,C. problematic biases and hateful content could be identified and filtered,D. The LLM was created without data theft, exploitative labor practices, or profligate energy and water use.Even setting aside conditions (B) through (D), what kind of [Information access] use case could satisfy (A)?https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3649468#sec-8
(DIR) Post #AkifFGdi4CgrmD6ZdY by ensslen@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2024-08-07T00:38:16Z
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"[Stats NZ] learnt that NZ Police had outsourced some research and were then informed that the vendor had used AI. NZ Police were surprised that they had not been told prior, and the vendor was surprised that it was an issue. This use raised important questions for NZ Police:- Who owns the data used?- What does it mean if the vendor used AI from offshore? If they did, does that contravene Te Tiriti o Waitangi regarding Māori taonga?"WHO OWNS THE DATA IS A QUESTION?https://data.govt.nz/blog/algorithm-charter-cop-the-rubber-hits-the-road/
(DIR) Post #AkifFHaYXPlIiidZMO by ensslen@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2024-08-07T00:44:15Z
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The answers, without a shadow of the doubt, are that the people who owned the data before "AI" was applied still own the data.As for a breach of Te Tiriti, I am considerably more concerned about the intended outcome of the research being a treaty breach in itself, than in the vendor breaching the treaty in a nuanced way.The basic competence of everyone involved is the concern. This is central government advising Police, and they're framing the discussion as if data ownership is in doubt.
(DIR) Post #AxHfM0OlXK9XyKo5Ka by ensslen@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-08-18T04:25:18Z
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I have to say that I strongly dislike Thunderbird. It's poor compared to most of the proprietary email clients I've been made to use. I wish there were better alternatives.Yes, I just complemented Microsoft Outlook. I used to really dislike Outlook. But it has a functional search. And more than a half dozen configuration settings, so that I don't have to reconfigure its search results screen every time I open it.
(DIR) Post #AyVyy1DIZLpIIBiZUW by ensslen@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-09-24T00:39:25Z
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@civillibertynz asks for New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) to obey the law. If it is not possible for NZDF to comply with the Public Records Act in some overseas deployments, then we must not deploy NZDF into those situations.The Operation Burnham inquiry concluded that NZDF should not be uncritically trusted to oversee itself. The Public Records Act remains the primary safeguard we have as a nation to hold NZDF accountable for its mistakes. https://nzccl.org.nz/submission-regulatory-systems-internal-affairs-amendment-bill/
(DIR) Post #AzCzHrnfdFpOgbTJOy by ensslen@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-10-14T18:39:45Z
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I'm speaking today on behalf of @civillibertynz at the launch of the Protect Protest Coalition https://protectprotest.nz/We're in GBLT1 of Victoria University of Wellington-Te Herenga Waka's Pipitea campus from 4:30 pm today, October 15.The event will include a showing of Operation 8, a documentary film about the 2007 police ‘anti-terror’ raids which led to a police apology to the Rūātoki community.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_New_Zealand_police_raidsHelp us stop our government from removing our rights!