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Bill Zaumen

bzdev@fosstodon.org

<p>While my background is in physics, I joined fosstodon.org because of developing a Java class library and some applications and wanted to share those.</p>

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    @pypi@fosstodon.org Phishing has gotten so bad that I ignored a text message from my insurance company - it wanted me to click on a link that looked kind of funny. Later, I got an email with a legitimate link (shown in text-only mode), so I used that. What should have been a trivial request took me close to an hour to handle because of problems with docusigns brain-dead UI.

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    @georgetakei@universeodon.com If the account attributed to Emily Heller is accurate, what could have happened is that some officers told her to move, some ICE officers/agents wanted her to stop, and the officers/agents didn&#39;t communicated with each other. Should some ICE managers face charges for criminal negligence for sending inadequately trained armed agents out in public? Let&#39;s look into that too.

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    @QasimRashid@mastodon.social Given the article @Steve_Holcombe@mastodon.social provided, it would appear that (a) they argued/talked about something, (b) the &quot;white MAGA man&quot; had consumed 500 ml of wine, but claimed it was not a factor while police could smell alcohol on his breath after the shooting, and (c) he claimed the gun went off by accident. So, one question I would add is why do we allow people to have guns without any sort of testing/licensing to show that they can handle t...

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    @Em0nM4stodon It depends on what type of AI and what you use it for. I&#39;m using an AI program, a grammar checker named language tool, but while a talk claims it uses a neural net, others stated the free version is just an expert system. It runs as a server, so I wrote some code to feed it text while tracking line numbers and pruning out equations and coding examples. What it spits back is then turned into compiler-like error messages and I made the corrections manually.

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    @molly0xfff To put a doubling of the odds in perspective, one might note that multiplying 0 by 2 still gives you 0. A friend once sent me a fake blackmail letter as a joke, so I sent a reply saying he could have all my Porsches and Mercedes if he would just please, please burn all the negatives. I mentioned it to some friends who knew both of us and some guy standing there said, &quot;how many Porsches and Mercedes did you have?&quot; I said &quot;as many negatives as he had.&quot; Everyone e...