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  • my favorite awk snippet is !x[$0]++ which is like uniq but doesn’t care about order. basically, it’s equivalent to print_this_line = line_cache[$current_line] == 0; line_cache[$current_line] += 1; if $print_this_line then print $current_line end.

    really useful for those long spammy logs.







  • that’s the problem with deletion requests, the data isn’t in there. it can’t be, from a purely mathematical standpoint. statistically, with the amount of stuff that goes into training, any full work included in an llm is represented by less than one bit. but the model just… remakes sensitive information from scratch. ih reconstructs infringing data based on patterns.

    which of course highlights the big issue with data anonymization: it can’t really be done.


  • blech. literally every expert said we shouldn’t do this and the rightoids did it anyway because they’re obsessed with culture.

    edit:

    some of my favourite nonsense includes

    • a documentary from the 70s about the mods subculture
    • the criminal code
    • a waterfall
    • a speech about the welfare state
    • the post of national ombudsman of justice
    • a house where a painter used to live
    • a jet fighter

    this is insane. and when interviewed by aftonbladet, the cultural policy spokesperson for the sweden democrats said, quote

    Det är en bekräftelse för den öppna nationalism som jag och sverigedemokraterna står för

    lit. “this is an affirmation of the open nationalism that me and my party stand for”

    the fucking what