Anyway it’s fascinating to me that we’ve managed to build web authentication infrastructure that is neither secure, nor possible for most people over the age of 70 to make sense of. It’s kind of brilliant.
@sykescottages I have a booking with you but it's not showing up in my account. And because I don't have a booking in my account, there's literally zero way to contact you as far as I can see. Help! I want to ask questions like "how do I pay the balance"
Who is a composer?
This is the question we are posing and challenging at Music Patron.
Hear from Head of Music Patron, @sonia_stevenson about the ways we are supporting composers from a wide range of backgrounds, genres and career stages
#composer#newmusic#patronage
Rarely am I proud to share a vulnerability report...
"We cannot overstate how well Replicate communicated with our team and how swiftly they acted to fix the issue. No customer data was compromised, and no action is required by customers."
"Replicate not only demonstrated a deep commitment to maintaining the security of its products, but also upheld the highest standards of communication and transparency. ... The Wiz Research team has rarely encountered such professionalism and expertise."
wiz.io/blog/wiz-research-dis…
Security is hard and we take it really seriously. Kudos @nickstenning, @philandstuff, and team.
Wondering why you should support Music Patron? Hear it from our honorary patron Sir Simon Rattle OM CBE
ALT “I believe in supporting the music of tomorrow. Music Patron is a new and important way to do this. It gives ordinary people the chance to directly support a composer, provide that composer with game-changing income and help bring new music to life.”
Sir Simon Rattle OM CBE
Conductor
On the right side are brightly coloured circles, including one with a photograph of Sir Simon Rattle OM CBE
Today we’ve published a paper about the cyber-attack that took place last October.
Its goal is to share our understanding of what happened and to help others learn from our experience.
You can read the paper on our website, and hear from our CEO, Sir Roly Keating, in this accompanying blog post: bit.ly/BLCyberBlogMar
ALT An exterior view of the British Library at St Pancras, showing the clock tower. Green plants and bushes frame the bottom of the photograph, and a blue sky streaked with white fluffy clouds is above.
I have 🌟 a new preprint 🌟 to share!!
"Psychological Affordances Can Provide a Missing Explanatory Layer for Why Interventions to Improve Developer Experience Take Hold or Fail"
You can download it free and open access here: osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/qz…
absolute legend. this parking company is determined to pay god knows what lawyers bills and losing court costs rather than spend 50 quid on translation
walesonline.co.uk/news/wales…
Back in Nov, @anotherjesse generated tens of thousands of images using LCM, and he built a little tool that allows you to quickly browse/explore the latent space between prompts.
These latents are also known as "Nokens", where no prompts exists at this specific token location
ALT latent consistency model generated image of a noken, deep in the latent space of Stable Diffusion
So much interest in the egg plant recently, but only on its elegant flowers and not on its unique lifecycle.
It’s an annual, you should plant it in early spring. Flowers in July and harvest in October.
Bees love the runny yolk, it makes the best honey custard.