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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.
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?!
Researchers say procedure not yet tested on people could eventually be used to help locate injuries or tumoursIan 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.
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/
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
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
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
Imagine relying to this with some flavor of "this person's last name is an accessibility issue". Unbelievable. You really fucking suck as a person if you do that
This isn't some X Æ A-12 situation, it's a surname that her family has bore for centuries and predates any and all information technology systems
When people have these kind of names, they’re not "causing problems to IT systems". It’s the other way around. It’s not any of these people’s fault that software has been designed with narrow western and anglo-centric cultural assumptions.
I have one (1) diacritic in my own name. It’s a normal French name. And it’s still causing me problems, or people not bothering with it which causes people to butcher its pronunciation.
I need anglophones to realize that English having no diacritics at all is an exception, not the rule
There are many beautiful things to see on the drive into Big Bear Lake, CA but one of the more interesting and unknown is the Planetarium Projector Museum. I...YouTube
thread in which I talk about why the "wrap your games console in a towel" or "reflow the bga" thing works to fix some consoles, and it's nothing to do with solder balls.
https://chaos.social/@gsuberland/113084336056277361
@greg@icosahedron.website right. there are three main types of capacitors used in consumer electronics: aluminium electrolytics (and their fancy polymer cousins), solid polymer (tantalum), and ceramic (more specifically multi-layer ceramic, or MLCC).chaos.social
without total control of media publishing, broadcasting, distribution & trading, there are no #techbro American billionaires; and without American #tech #billionaires, there is no American Fascism as we know it today.
if billionaires have no right to exist; neither their #media companies as we know them — the #FAANG & corporate media.
to kill American fascism you need to kill American corporate media as it is off and online.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/4/24235958/internet-archive-loses-appeal-ebook-lending
The Internet Archive has lost its appeal to lend out digitized books. A federal appeals court sided with the four publishers, which accused the nonprofit of copyright infringement.Emma Roth (The Verge)
Internet Archive was doing their best to play by the rules.
Fuck it.
This wouldn’t be the worst time in the world to make a contribution towards the wonderful folks who keep Anna’s Archive online: https://annas-archive.org/donate
The world’s largest open-source open-data library. Mirrors Sci-Hub, Library Genesis, Z-Library, and more.annas-archive.org
I know everyone has probably seen this but, Beary Poppins is my whole vibe.
The small nudge is bearfection.
Record measles outbreak in Oregon blamed on vaccine exemptions
Vaccine exemptions at nearly 9% in the state, enabling sustained transmission.
Buying ideas is not nice, never has been nice. It's as nasty as can be. You're a bad person for giving anyone a single dime over it, especially if you felt like it made you safer, not in danger.
If only there was a way to share files where random goons couldn't pin down your IP address...
