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vriska @vriska.bsky.social · Oct 18

if you actually want to see me post things follow the bridged account at @leo.60228.dev.ap.brid.gy

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 19h

i've never been inconvenienced before and i hope i never will be. it sounds terrible

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vriska @vriska.bsky.social · 20h

newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-...

vriska @vriska.bsky.social · 20h

i don't like that it isn't going to be properly integrated into the labelling system though, it's just a !takedown global label

vriska @vriska.bsky.social · 20h

bluesky is working on doing this but only for third-party clients, fwiw

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vriska @vriska.bsky.social · 20h

my hot take is that making hard bans impossible would be a bad idea but is also fundamentally necessary for stackable moderation to solve the problems it sets out to

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Ryan North? But - he died... 30 years ago this very night!! @ryannorth.ca · 22h

In video games, you will often find a fully roasted chicken abandoned on the ground, and eating it extremely quickly makes you feel better. What's less known is that this is also true in real life

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vriska @vriska.bsky.social · 21h

this means you'll give them to zoomers for free right?

vriska @vriska.bsky.social · 2d

is SVP status neutralized if the company goes bankrupt

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vriska @vriska.bsky.social · 2d

i have difficulty imagining a scenario in which this is actually, like, a problem, though

vriska @vriska.bsky.social · 2d

wait, IETF makes localhost being 127.0.0.1/::1 a SHOULD and not a MUST??

vriska @vriska.bsky.social · 2d

my posts get more attention on mastodon than here i think you all might just be bad at posting

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vriska @vriska.bsky.social · 3d

bluesky was explicitly founded as "a small independent team of up to five open source architects, engineers, and designers to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media [...] for Twitter to ultimately be a client of"

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vriska @vriska.bsky.social · 3d

i mean. that was the whole point, twitter was going to be the flagship implementation of bluesky's protocol

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vriska @vriska.bsky.social · 3d

rust has this feature too it's needed to express some complex control flow

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vriska @vriska.bsky.social · 3d

this is not something i'm remotely interested in actually having an argument about i was just assuming they were unaware of all the research showing how it's worthless

vriska @vriska.bsky.social · 3d

"We can have this conversation" (locks replies and makes claims i already posted counterevidence to)
lol

707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 3d

Hello there. If you want to have this conversation. We can have this conversation. But what you are saying is not true.

Also linking to an arxiv article from 2 years ago in AI development is a major red flag.

It's not snake oil. Can it be bypassed? Yes. Trivially? No.
The people who bypassed it-

vriska @vriska.bsky.social · 3d

the glaze authors' response was basically just "okay it doesn't actually work, but really it's the thought behind it that counts"

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vriska @vriska.bsky.social · 3d

(nobody remembers this, because it was resolved very quickly.)

vriska @vriska.bsky.social · 3d

i'm pretty sure they did?? i remember this exact discourse happening in 2023 and ending the exact same way

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vriska @vriska.bsky.social · 3d

the glaze authors' response was basically just "okay it doesn't actually work, but really it's the thought behind it that counts"

vriska @vriska.bsky.social · 3d

this is the most direct paper i'm aware of, tldr it's trivial to bypass and barely does anything anyway ("we found that Glaze (Shan et al., 2023a) performed significantly worse than claimed in the original evaluation, even before actively attempting to circumvent it") arxiv.org/pdf/2406.12027

arxiv.org

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vriska @vriska.bsky.social · 3d

glaze and nightshade are snake oil, researchers in the field have criticized the methodology from the beginning and more recent evaluations have shown that they don't work at all

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a wicked and unusual boy @myrrlyn.net · 3d

every day i go in to the office and collaborate with a graphical UI designer and every time he says he’s updated figma for me i do not say “figma balls” back at him. i would like a fifty thousand dollar bonus for this effort please

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vriska @vriska.bsky.social · 3d

*paul graham?*

vriska @vriska.bsky.social · 4d

youtu.be/WJSn1WmzHaQ

vriska @vriska.bsky.social · 4d

can't you just appeal it's not like they'd manage to take you to court anyway