Posts by ephemeral@mograph.social
(DIR) Post #AGNU5aDOUChKYTTvrU by ephemeral@mograph.social
2022-02-11T13:36:57Z
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Follow up to this.Got a reply from the Commission, which states that you *can* use TOTP and a variety of other methods, but for some reason this is not listed on their main site.The options are here: https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/cas/manuals/EU_Login_Tutorial.pdfI have responded that this should be clear on their main site and they should not be instructing people to download the app on iOS and Android only.
(DIR) Post #AI41sPrJeOsqz76Ebo by ephemeral@mograph.social
2022-04-03T06:40:19Z
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@entreprecariat Very nice. She had such clarity.I've always loved the elegance of Bernard Stiegler's definition too: technology is "organised inorganic matter" ("la matière inorganique organisée"), even if the simplicity makes it inaccurate.
(DIR) Post #AICsYBhE45nEnEws9A by ephemeral@mograph.social
2022-04-07T13:08:17Z
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@entreprecariat wow, about 5 minutes in and this is so very on-point.
(DIR) Post #AICvJMV7uVApp3uZF2 by ephemeral@mograph.social
2022-04-07T13:39:13Z
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@entreprecariat Wow. That's my world shifted. Thank you for sharing this.
(DIR) Post #AJAQnf0vyoQ6UUVqy0 by ephemeral@mograph.social
2022-05-06T06:39:35Z
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@volpeon thanks for sharing this point.I had wondered exactly this before, and asked the question here. One answer (which I followed) was that detailed is better because it allows more of the experience of seeing the image for an individual. This, I guess, is partly personal preference.It might be a good feature request for Mastodon in future to have what you suggest, ie. two descriptions. I like this idea.
(DIR) Post #AJHIXsOl0ilDqDL0ls by ephemeral@mograph.social
2022-05-09T13:03:24Z
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@aral Once upon a time, Eir (then known as Telecom Eireann) were a national treasure in Ireland. They were the national provider of telephone services. Then in the 1990s they were privatised and turned into the abhorrent mess that they are today. To boot, there was a tulip-economy style push to sell shares to the public when they went private, which lots of people bought into and lost plenty of money on, under some pretty intense advertising pressure.
(DIR) Post #AJHIXxdpW6mw6PQcSW by ephemeral@mograph.social
2022-05-09T13:33:24Z
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@GiacomoSansoni @aral the sad thing being that they pushed the privatisation as if it was a public good. People bought into it because they thought that they *would* own something collectively (as shareholders) but somehow missed the point that they already owned it as taxpayers.It was a strange time though. I think a lot of people have forgotten just how weird and twisted that ideology became in the mid- to late-90s.
(DIR) Post #AJHP4gxd9hRreKgFbU by ephemeral@mograph.social
2022-05-09T15:23:42Z
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@drq yes agreed with this point about state accountability. Public representatives are just as open to corruption as companies; Ireland in the 90s is also a good example of this. But in the Telecom Eireann saga above, the sad point was more that people bought shares in something that they had already paid for, and were left with an inferior service.But I don't regard crowdfunding as particularly transparent either.@aral @GiacomoSansoni
(DIR) Post #AJoYeGgjYiCVNYKDYm by ephemeral@mograph.social
2022-05-25T15:16:09Z
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@stux wow. That's an amazing video too. I saw something like this a few years ago but it was completely unexplained. A tree that burned down from the inside. But on a really clear night with no lightning (or none that I noticed).
(DIR) Post #ANanZ6pEGpBoO8kjoW by ephemeral@mograph.social
2022-09-15T13:21:49Z
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Today a small group of humans (artists, repairers, hackers, breakers, foragers, growers) collectively opened a space in north-west Ireland. This porous territory will host us, at least for a short while. In 2022 this seems like a radical act.The space is named ^This is a three storey building for experimental collaboration, creating new work and developing conversations led by ethics of care and contemporary philosophy on the more-than-human. More news soon!
(DIR) Post #AQk5YC96M3qJCoxq2i by ephemeral@mograph.social
2022-12-18T19:26:47Z
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AI text or image generating systems are often trained using vast data sets, including scraping data from publicly available sites such as Flickr or Reddit.Today, people are creating massive databases of auto-generated text and image using these systems.Aside from the many recursive biases, what happens when the AI generators start scraping all the other AI generated text/image? What ghost will creep into that machine? Will data become redundant, or will machines train from machines?
(DIR) Post #AQk5YJF1yPkFDEnAky by ephemeral@mograph.social
2022-12-18T20:09:22Z
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Considering this makes me think about other tech that have recursively become less useful to general users (even if they have become more useful to others). A glaring example is Google's search engine.Once upon a time, Google search was the peak of cutting edge — a clever system that learned from human behaviour and generated results based on clicks. Now it is a barely useable husk of itself, manipulated by machines built to game the system, presenting pages and pages of useless results.
(DIR) Post #AQk5YPhbx4AhFcD58a by ephemeral@mograph.social
2022-12-18T20:14:19Z
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It's not that technology needs to be like this, but that the philosophy behind much of tech development pushes a myth of the "neutrality of data".While this is obviously untrue — all data is political, social and biased — it is another, perhaps even more glaring oversight to fail to see how easily manipulatable and vulnerable machine learning systems can be. This is particularly true if the machine learning is automated.
(DIR) Post #ASMjAtZeBsnTGcLUXI by ephemeral@mograph.social
2023-02-05T09:51:19Z
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@entreprecariat the quality of the artworks are similar.
(DIR) Post #Ad7D0KCmPChMKfwsSW by ephemeral@mograph.social
2023-12-23T22:43:06Z
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@Wolven I have this moment about once a month.
(DIR) Post #AdgQYcSosLrL9hy1Mu by ephemeral@mograph.social
2024-01-09T22:12:32Z
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I haven't bought a phone for over a decade, and have only ever had clunky old ones that I squeeze the life out of. As a result, I have zero knowledge of phones. I need a new (second hand/refurbed) one but my head is spinning with all the brands, models etc.I really don't need fingerprint scanners or lidar or anything like that. Something cheap that runs basic apps (firefox, signal, banking) and makes calls is more than enough. Any recommendations on a sturdy device that might last a few years?
(DIR) Post #Ahus6r7lNs8f0wLt7w by ephemeral@mograph.social
2024-05-15T13:12:54Z
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@Wolven this lecture is absolutely tremendous, and thank you to @mrvi for putting me onto it. What an extraordinary journey – thank you so much.
(DIR) Post #Ahv07x8RJvNtZzhc4O by ephemeral@mograph.social
2024-05-15T13:16:19Z
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This incredible lecture by @Wolven covers so much: ableism, cybertechnics, myth, mystery, erasure, all via a deep dive into what might be 'AI'youtube/google original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8JH0jAITnginvidious alternative: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=l8JH0jAITng
(DIR) Post #AvcyULasY15WAe0kdM by ephemeral@mograph.social
2025-06-28T20:14:57Z
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So duckduckgo has a 'no AI' version, at the link https://noai.duckduckgo.com/I do wish they went for an opt-in so you could choose the ai version at something like 'ai-dot-duckduckgo'. But it's better than nothing.
(DIR) Post #AvcyUTD4EQnJn6vqd6 by ephemeral@mograph.social
2025-06-28T20:21:21Z
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It's also way faster to load results, even when compared to the main one with AI turned off.