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Slack is now using all content, including DMs, to train LLMs.
They offer a thing they're calling an "opt-out."
The opt-out (a) is only available to companies who are slack customers, not end users, and (b) doesn't actually opt-out.
When a company account holder tries to opt-out, Slack says their data will still be used to train LLMs, but the results won't be shared with other companies.
LOL no. That's not an opt-out. The way to opt-out is to stop using Slack.
https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/trust/data-management/privacy-principles
I've been playing Mau-Mau with this tanuki for a while now. I think he's cheating.
🦝 @Christenstein
📷 @Navak
#furry #fursuit #FursuitFriday
Just in time for #FursuitFriday, my photos from #FWA2024 are now live on @Furtrack!
https://www.furtrack.com/user/Kurrikage/album-3881
#fursuit #fursuiter #fursuiting
Fursuit photo/video sharing & searching for the furry fandomwww.furtrack.com
I finally got the chance to meet Nurko at #FWA2024 this past weekend. My other suit, Yotto also made a rare appearance as well.
- @juke
🐻 - Nurko
🐶 - @bluefops
📸 - Jet Horse
#fursuit #fursuiter #fursuiting #mascot #furry #furries #furryfandom #fursuitphotography #foxfursuit #costume #cosplay #fursuitfriday
why isnt the internet archive full of source code from abandonware
why isnt this a legal requirement yet
Climate scientists predict a bleak future due to insufficient action on climate change. They're frustrated with political and corporate interference, emphasizing the urgent need for global cooperation.
Some scientists have dedicated their lives to studying #ClimateChange. Despite the frustration and despair, they are determined to continue advocating for urgent action.
The message is clear: it's time to act before it's too late.
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/77-of-top-climate-scientists-think-2-5c-of-warming-is-coming/
"I expect a semi-dystopian future with substantial pain and suffering for the people of the Global South," one expert said. Nearly 80% of top-levelOlivia Rosane (ZNetwork)
Getting ready for that perfect throw for the #FursuitFriday. Or who am I kidding, I couldn't bowl for the fluff of me!
Beware of people who divide everything into 'positive' or 'negative' with no middle ground. A serious or critical conversation may not be -fun-, but that doesn't make it inherently negative either.
When I receive positive critique like 'I really enjoyed that!', it's good for my ego, but it doesn't help me improve.
@purple The last time I used xmpp was when I was a cloud architect for Palm. I built the automation architecture for the WebOS backend services, and I used xmpp as the message bus. Every machine had an agent, and thus an address, that could receive commands. Being xmpp, it was fast, robust, and delivery-assured.
My team proposed releasing it as open source, but HP (who bought us) didn't want us to do it at the time.
@darkphoenix @sekka I've been happy with Signal on the desktop...
The only problem with it is search, which is a problem on mobile too.
Threat models matter.
When a platform/service/app tells you they are “private” or “secure” always ask “from whom?”
Criminals, domestic abusers, law enforcement, data brokers, and intelligence agencies are all different attackers with very different capabilities.
"Back off! Why don't we see how you like it, huh?"
(Finally back home, and also I finally wrapped up a self-indulgent piñata pic for #TransforMAYtion~ As stressful as it is, I think I'd like to do more of this.)
A journey through busted tapes, the Internet Old Farts Club, and SPARCstations.Ars Technica
Apple today announced new accessibility features coming later this year, including Eye Tracking, Music Haptics, and Vocal Shortcuts.Apple
Computery PSA 
If you ever deal with making bootable USBs, get Ventoy! Ventoy is a bootable USB system that you install once (via easy and working commands), and then any time you want to boot an image, you just throw the ISO file directly onto the USB FAT partition.
No repartitioning, no setting bootable flags, no dd, no UEFI detection debugging. It works on UEFI and BIOS.
You just boot to Ventoy, which displays a nice (and themeable) list of all your ISOs, and select which one you want to boot.
No more keychain of 5 bootable USBs for different OSes. No more “damn, I wrote over that installer and now I want to use it again”.
I have one USB stick, with my general data transfer partition, bootable Ventoy, and the ISOs for Mac, windows, five different linux flavours, memtest86+, rescatux, clonezilla, etc.
One of the interesting things about this book I'm reading from 1968 is that Simak is using Heinlein's "rolling road" concept, originally published in the 1940 short story The Roads Must Roll.
Basically you have multiple parallel rows of moving slidewalks, each slightly faster than the next. The outermost is barely at a walking speed, the next is a little faster, and so on, until you reach the inner strip running at 100 mph. There are no cars, you just ride the road, stepping between strips to speed up or slow down.
I just thought it was interesting to see this come up almost 3 decades later and by a different author.
It's an intriguing idea, though entirely impractical from a technological standpoint (or trying to stand up in a 100 mph wind). But I have seen an illustration of a system that might actually work. It's greatly simplified, with just 2, 4, and 6 mile per hour strips, with the innermost strip equipped with benches so you could sit down while moving.
Dairy farmers get vast subsidies from taxpayers -- ridiculously high subsidies in some cases (though they have nothing on weapons contractors).You would imagine that would persuade them to do their civic duty in reporting possible bird flu cases. Nope.
https://www.notus.org/healthcare/farmer-bird-flu-cases-hide-cows-federal-government
If bird flu breaks out widely in humans, it will be beyond catastrophic.
Dairy farmers, increasingly polarized following the COVID-19 pandemic and worried about economic damages, are hiding likely bird flu cases in cows from the feds.Anna Kramer (NOTUS)
New development policy: code generated by a large language model or similar technology (e.g. ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot) is presumed to be tainted (i.e. of unclear copyright, not fitting NetBSD's licensing goals) and cannot be committed to NetBSD.
The largest study ever carried out on social media deactivation has found that disconnecting lowers users political participation and also their propensity to believe misinformationJordi Pérez Colomé (Ediciones EL PAÍS S.L.)
Presenting that cake like I'm on The Great British Bake Off~ 🍰
🐕: @\ZackHusky on Twitter
📸: @\XaviPurr on Twitter
#furry #FursuitFriday #fursuit
Folk might be interested to know that across the month of May, Sustainable Fashion Week’s #MendItMay campaign invites people to mend one piece of clothing, celebrating repair as an act of empowerment.
I think I'll have a go at my #mending pile. If anyone wants to share mending projects or #craft pics, that'd be lovely.
The stats for why #repair is great are pretty compelling:
![A navy blue flyer which reads:
SUSTAINABLE FASHION WEEK
Extending the life of a garment by an extra 9 months reduces its environmental impact by 20-30% (Traid)
Extending the average life of clothes by a third while reducing the need for new clothing would reduce the carbon, waste, and water footprints from the production stage by more than 20% (Nottingham Trent Uni]
77% of those asked at our clothes repair workshop said that they would keep the item that they had mended for at least another 3 years with a third of people stating that they would keep the item for more than 10 years. (Traid)
An estimated £140m worth of clothing is sent to landfill every year. (WRAP)](https://floof.org/photo/preview/640/480097 "A navy blue flyer which reads:
SUSTAINABLE FASHION WEEK
Extending the life of a garment by an extra 9 months reduces its environmental impact by 20-30% (Traid)
Extending the average life of clothes by a third while reducing the need for new clothing would reduce the carbon, waste, and water footprints from the production stage by more than 20% (Nottingham Trent Uni]
77% of those asked at our clothes repair workshop said that they would keep the item that they had mended for at least another 3 years with a third of people stating that they would keep the item for more than 10 years. (Traid)
An estimated £140m worth of clothing is sent to landfill every year. (WRAP)")
"They see all of this business with lifetimes and ownership as a dirty mess that Rust has had to adopt because it wanted to avoid garbage collection. But this is completely backwards! Rust adopted rules around shared mutable state and this enabled it to avoid garbage collection. These rules are a good idea regardless."
Great post by withoutboats: https://without.boats/blog/references-are-like-jumps/
