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2008, me: I love the idea of cryptocurrency
BITCOIN: The word "cryptocurrency" now means "financial scams based on inefficient write-only ledgers"
2018, me: I love the idea of the metaverse
FACEBOOK: The word "metaverse" now means "proprietary 3D chat programs with no soul"
2022, me: I love the idea of procedurally generated content
OPENAI: From now on people will associate that only with big corporations plagiarizing small artists and turning their work into ugly content slurry
I'm really concerned about the effect "generative AI" is going to have on the attempt to build a copyleft/commons.
As artists/coders, we saw that copyright constrains us. So we decided to make a fenced-off area where we could make copyright work for us in a limited way, with permissions for derivative works within the commons according to clear rules set out in licenses.
Now OpenAI has made a world where rules and licenses don't apply to any company with a valuation over $N billion dollars.
To Recap:
•President Biden admits Israel is killing civilians
•NYT/NBC/Al Jazeera document Israel is killing civilians
•WCK/B'TSelem/Amnesty/UN/UNICEF document Israel is killing civilians
Yet the US is still funding arms to Israel. This is a clear violation of the Leahy Laws. Enough. We must uphold US and International Human Rights law and stop the invasion of Rafah.
Ron DeSantis signed a law that prevents municipalities in Florida from requiring that employers provide shade and water breaks for outdoor workers.
A study found that heat-related deaths in FL shot up by 88% between 2019 and 2022.
Folks, this is the GOP's vision for America.
On aphantasia:
“I dream, but not in pictures”
“I can write entire articles, documents, or conference talks in my head while out for a run. It’s usually quicker for me to create content in this way than sit at a computer and think about it. I can come in from a run and type out 2,000 words, transferring what I’ve written in my head to the document.”
First time I’ve heard how I experience the world described in words! Also why I take photos.
https://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2024/04/21/on-having-no-visual-memory/
"[The moderator crackdown is] just a reminder that anything you post on any of these platforms can and will be used for profit. It's just a matter of time until all your messages on Discord, Twitter etc. are scraped, fed into a model and sold back to you." – @ben
h/t @dangillmor
I was the first person to ask my Honda dealer how to turn off data sharing. It didn't go well.Rani Molla (Sherwood News)
You Are Here.
Current atmospheric CO2 levels are higher than ever in human history, and far earlier...
This is human-caused #climatechange.
Play audio from a serial port!!!
I came up with an encoder that can turn audio into a 115200 baud serial stream that when played back thru an RC filter, recovers the audio. :] #lookmumnocomputr
You can make this easy player here!
https://github.com/ruenahcmohr/115kaudio
1 bit ADC that frames result as serial data. Play the audio with a lowpass on TxD. - ruenahcmohr/115kaudioGitHub
Oh niiice. I guess you used something like CVSD modulation or BTc to generate the BIN file?
Really cool hack to use a UART to do it!
EDIT: I just read more of the thread, using the comparator and an R-C to generate it - neat! yeah, that's CVSD, some old arcade games did it with a Harris chip.
if you wanted to do software emulation of the R-C, it is possible - Roman Black pulled it off in the 2000s with their Binary Time Constant algorithm
Under-appreciated museum fact:
You can approach any volunteer and ask for a comprehensive tour of their "Top 5 least favorite sticky residues"
Fuelled by climate change, the world's oceans have broken temperature records every single day over the past year, a BBC analysis finds.
Nearly 50 days have smashed existing highs for the time of year by the largest margin in the satellite era. #ClimateChange #Nature #Science
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68921215
Every single day of the past 12 months has seen a new global sea temperature high for the time of year.By Matt McGrath, Mark Poynting and Justin Rowlatt (BBC News)
⚠️Hundreds of the world’s leading climate scientists expect global temperatures to rise to at least 2.5C (4.5F) this century, blasting past internationally agreed targets and causing catastrophic consequences for humanity and the planet, an exclusive Guardian survey has revealed. #ClimateCrisis
Exclusive: Planet is headed for at least 2.5C of heating with disastrous results for humanity, poll of hundreds of scientists findsDamian Carrington (The Guardian)
You know there is one advantage to being terrible at remembering people's names: I'm really good at forgetting people's deadnames, too.
It's a curse and a blessing. A blurse.
that is slightly a problem for me, since there's 3-4 trans people (and last year we had a cis guy who doesn't use his birth name too!) living here and sometimes deadname mail shows up.
So I gotta go on the house chat and be like "we got mail for a Steve, did anybody used to be a Steve?"
🎞️Been waiting for nyaa!~
#fursuit #kemonofursuit #fursuiteveryday #kemono #furry #furryfandom #fursuiter #fursuiting #kemonosuit #fursuitphotography #furrycommunity #catfurry #catfursuit #fursuits #nfc2024 #nordicfuzzcon #nordicfuzzcon2024 #analogphotography
Climate scientists are angry, helpless, and overwhelmed as they watch humanity accelerate toward the climate cliff that will likely destroy much of our civilization. But they have no choice other than continuing to fight, as long as they can.
Exclusive: Survey of hundreds of experts reveals harrowing picture of future, but they warn climate fight must not be abandonedAlessia Amitrano (The Guardian)
Landowner David Hampton planted larch pines in a Douglas fir forest in Oregon in the shape of a giant, 300 feet smiley face 🙂
Every autumn, the larch pines turn orange, and the smiley face stands out.
I’d like some suggestions (feel free to boost). I run a small club (80-100 people) and we need to collect annual dues. The actual payment processing I want to use PayPal (or similar). But for the membership management, tracking who has paid, emailing reminders, etc I want to #selfhost. I want to run a web site where people can login, see their dues status, get a link to go pay, cancel their membership, update their details, etc.
Anybody know some software I can run in like a #homelab or #selfhosted environment to manage club membership and stuff? The only constraint is that it can’t be Windows based. I don’t have any Windows infrastructure.
Easily monetize your WordPress site w/ subscriptions, courses, paywalls, communities, more. MemberPress is the only WordPress membership plugin built for 7-figure creators.MemberPress
Here's a brilliant neologism: "slop", for text generated entirely by LLMs and published, unwanted, on the Internet
> Watching in real time as "slop" becomes a term of art. the way that "spam" became the term for unwanted emails, "slop" is going in the dictionary as the term for unwanted AI generated content
Source: https://twitter.com/deepfates/status/1787472784106639418
Google has delisted a series of websites providing DIY hormone therapy after receiving a demand from the UK government
“In the short term, they will be left with no healthcare at all. However, they will find alternatives, as they always have.”Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
I mean one of my first jobs was fix something where the only code was a literal assembly printout, somewhat faded, and a file for the binary that got burned to an EPROM. I had to patch in a jump to a separate bit of code I put in a spare bit of space and then back in to the right place.
LOL, no, not remotely comparing to what NASA did. It was a tote machine, and I could change the EPROM if I screwed up.
NASA are awesome
Fun bit of “throw the new guy in the deep end” though.
Here's an interesting case-study on the way the media/press distort reality:
"Children must show ID to use social media"
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/08/children-must-show-id-to-use-social-media/
Why is the word "children" in there? These ID checks don't only apply to children, it's an ID check that *everyone* will need to abide by since there's no way to know if you're a child or not otherwise.
The headline should say "All UK internet users must show ID to use social media"
In fact, for Children there's no point in showing their ID since doing so would mean their account would be denied.
It's *ONLY ADULTS* who will be showing ID at all.
Under-13s will be kicked off platforms as Ofcom unveils bolstered age checksThe Telegraph
"World’s top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target"
Exclusive: Planet is headed for at least 2.5C of heating with disastrous results for humanity, poll of hundreds of scientists findsDamian Carrington (The Guardian)
