“We created a self-opening fridge with an AI camera that tracks what you put in and take out.”

Please for the love of any and all deities I am PROSTRATE on the floor begging you for fair energy prices and accessible public transport I do not need a fridge incorrectly guessing what is in my 17 Tupperware containers and refusing to open because I haven’t paid my monthly £24.99 subscription of “Fridge Door Lock Plus”

Rare and raw footage of two coyotes encountering each other in the wilds of a hotel lobby.

w/Levi @burnsybeanx3@x.com

#fursuitfriday #fursuit #fursuiter #fursuiters #fursuitvideo #furry #furryfandom #denfur #denfur2024

Come here and get your hugs for #FursuitFriday! 😊

📷 https://twitter.com/KAHusky
🧵 https://www.whitewingcreations.de
📍 #EAST12

*advertiser spends billions a year and spies on me through 30 different apps*

"d-do you want to buy... *looks at my receipt for a GPU purchased yesterday* do you want to buy a GPU?"

Six habits of successful entrepreneurs:

1) Rich parents

2)

I'm away from my computer today which means #FursuitFriday content is coming from what I happen to have on my phone. In this case a blast from the past - a POV of what it's like to give Dorey a noseboop (and get photobombed by @azakir ) at ScotiaCon 2018 I think? Or 2019.

🪡 @selkiesuits
📷 Zelandeth

I've got a new and fun 90s computing inspired datawave single out today on Bandcamp (and everywhere else)!

It's also Bandcamp Friday so the artists (like me!) get all the proceeds from each sale!

https://diym.bandcamp.com/track/welcome-to-the-world-of-computing

#datawave #synthwave #retrowave #bandcamp #bandcampfriday #music #mastomusic

#Blahaj goes „AAaaaaaaaaaaAAaaaa“ for #FursuitFriday!

📸 @parcatheorca.bsky.social
🧭 #furry weekend at Freizeitland Geiselwind organized by @2pfoten

Snuggle puddle commences for #fursuitfriday

Adorable floofs clockwise from Top Left - Royce, Cormack, Yours Truly and Dougie
🧡🩶🤎🤍🖤

Love you all 🤗🤗

✂️ @TheKareliaFursuits

#fursuit #snuggle

Outing Karlovy Vary (27.04.2024)

🗣 https://Coconut_foxie.t.me
📷 @JtheSerg

Photo gallery link on my Telegram channel!
#furry #fursuit #outing #KarlovyVary #Coconut_Fox

Sometimes when life bites you...you bite back. Especially easy when you’re a shark🦈🤔

#furry #furries #fursuit #fursuits

I feel like I'm using so much time surviving that I barely have time living:

Organizing, budgeting, buying groceries, cleaning, making food, eating, sleeping, working, showering, general body hygiene, working out...

And then you still try to fit time in for the things you actually want to do:

Learning Finnish, reading up on photography, enjoying nature, practicing drawing, maintaining social connections, meet with friends...

Like how are you supposed to fit all that into a day or even into a week?!

Sometimes when I feel really annoyed at surveillance capitalism, I go into Google and Bing maps and submit home photo deletion requests on behalf of a few home owners in my area.

When you delete enough homes on a street, it skips the entire street on Street View. It's great.

Also, they don't validate emails or that you actually own the home you are asking to delete, and there are no laws against doing this.

You are welcome.

"Just Google it" has been replaced with "just give up"

Well done team

We ( @juke and I) made it down to Orlando for our first Megaplex and had a good time even with my late arrival. I’m looking forward to calling this my new homecon and calling Orlando my new hometown in a week now~ 🌴🦊🌴

New England: my last appearance/event will be at the RI furbowl on Saturday night, so if you would like to say goodbye or send me off that’ll be the time to do so before I have to pack up for the trip southward. Hope to see you there if you’re in the area!

#fursuit #fursuiter #fursuiting #mascot #furry #furries #furryfandom #fursuitphotography #foxfursuit #costume #cosplay

Okay, that's … what the fuck? That's amazing!

We tend, I think, to imagine that the days of simple scientific 'miracles' – Newton and his prism, Fleming and penicillin – are at an end. Anything really useful will take years of work and a mountain of kit to make happen.

Nope. Take tartrazine, the food colouring used in Doritos, and paint it onto your skin. Shine a red light on it. Your skin is transparent!

How many medical applications does that have?!

https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/sep/05/common-food-dye-found-to-make-skin-and-muscle-temporarily-transparent

Common food dye found to make skin and muscle temporarily transparent

Researchers say procedure not yet tested on people could eventually be used to help locate injuries or tumours

^{Ian Sample (The Guardian)}

It astonishes me that people expected LLMs to be good at creating summaries. LLMs are good at transforms that have the same shape as ones that appear in their training data. They're fairly good, for example, at generating comments from code because code follows common structures and naming conventions that are mirrored in the comments (with totally different shapes of text).

In contrast, summarisation is tightly coupled to meaning. Summarisation is not just about making text shorter, it's about discarding things that don't contribute to the overall point and combining related things. This is a problem that requires understanding the material, because it's all about making value judgements.

So, it's totally unsurprising that the Australian study showed that it's useless. It's no surprise that both Microsoft and Apple's email summarisation tools discard the obvious phishing markers and summarise phishing scams as '{important thing happened}, click on this link' because they don't actually understand anything in the text that they're discarding, they just mark it as low entropy and discard it.

AI worse than humans at summarising information, trial finds

A test of artificial intelligence (AI) for Australia's corporate regulator ASIC found it was worse at summarising info than humans were.

^{Cam Wilson (Crikey)}

Jul Reindeer at MFF23

🦌: jul_deer
📌: FurFest

#Furry #Furries #Fursuit #FursuitFriday #Photography #Anthro #FurryArt #FurryArtist #MFF #MFF23

"The modern era of AI calls for a risk-based approach to regulation"

No it doesn't. It calls for a consequences approach to regulation.

If your system harms someone, you decided to build and deploy it and so you are liable for damages and redress proportionate to the harm. Same as if it was a tractor. Or a cow.

Mass shootings in the US:

2014: 273
2015: 336
2016: 383
2017: 348
2018: 336
2019: 417
2020: 610
2021: 690
2022: 647
2023: 656

So far in 2024: 385

We do not have to live like this. No other country on the planet does.

Carla Denyer, #GreenParty Co-Leader professed herself baffled at the system by which MPs have to secure spots in a Commons chamber much too small to seat all of them by arriving early to place down a prayer card, likening it to “a medieval version of putting your towel on a deckchair”.

#This is a parliament where not every MP has a seat, there’s nowhere to plug in any of your devices to work from, or somewhere to put your water. This is just the basic stuff.”

Reform of Parliament is overdue.

I have had this open in a tab forever. I don't recall where I got the link from. But I finally watched it.

If you're a web developer, it's worth the 5 minute time investment!
https://briefs.video/videos/what-is-react/

What Is React.js?

A video from Webbed Briefs

^briefs.video

OMG i haven't had scrollbars in firefox for SO long and i finally bothered to look for how to do it

Go to about:config and set widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.style to a number between like 1 and 6 (inclusive). There are different styles!! Round,, square,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, i missed them so much..... i'm tearing up...

thank you ff255 you are my hero forever https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/scrollbars-disappear-in-firefox-100/m-p/22144/highlight/true#M9228
#firefox

Re: Scrollbars disappear in Firefox 100

I have found 2 ways to make arrows appear (maybe there's more Need to change variables in FF's about:config 1. widget.non-native-theme.gtk.scrollbar.allow-buttons  true or 2. widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.

^{connect.mozilla.org}

In light of the Internet Archive losing its appeal to hachette, I just wanted to point out some websites you should avoid:

* https://annas-archive.li/
* https://downmagaz.net/
* https://ebook-hunter.org/
* https://forcoder.net/
* https://freemagazines.top/
* https://liber3.eth.limo/

If you were to download books from these websites, you might cut into hachette's more than three billion dollars of annual revenue. So make sure to avoid those websites and the following:

* https://libgen.is/
* https://oceanofpdf.com/
* https://pdfroom.com/
* https://pdfstop.com/
* https://pdfdrive.to/
* https://pdfmagazines.club/
* https://sci-hub.se/
* https://singlelogin.re/
* ... or any of the other sites listed at https://rentry.co/megathread-books

#internetarchive

Liber3

An eBook search engine works on ENS & IPFS.

^{liber3.eth.limo}

Content warning: UK politics Reveal/hide

To everyone in #GameDev:

Rebinding keys is a basic accessibility feature. Stop leaving it out.

Just found about a French MP with a slash in her last name : Emeline K/Bidi. I’ve never seen that before! https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emeline_K/Bidi

One more concrete example for the "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names" article

personnalité politique française

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