Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

Stop calling it AI, even this term is a marketing grift

You know how there's a bunch of critical infrastructure powering the internet (and presumably a lot more than the internet) is badly maintained and underfunded (often by just a few people)?

We know about several examples in the open source world, but I'm sure we all also know about several examples in each of our personal lives, in each of our places of business.

And it's like that *everywhere*

I've rarely seen any organization that wasn't chewing gum and balling wire all the way down.

For Pride Month this year, the corporate PR offices are getting their banners ready!

#pride #csd #pridemonth #lgbtq #lgbt #queer #capitalism #pinkwashing

Is there a way to block everyone from a specific instance from seeing my posts without it also blocking the people from that instance I follow or who follow me?

#MasterdonHelp #Help

bluesky made a moderation decision!

the CEO, Jay (below), claimed the post from the English Nationalist threatening to push a black woman off a roof was "metaphorical"

they didn't ban the nazi (the devs are following her, and the CEO was following her until everyone called her out on it)

they did make a new rule that the post would have been against

they didn't act against the account

the new rules also appear to ban doxxing nazis or advocating punching nazis. i wonder* how those will be interpreted.

and in conclusion, the purpose of a system is what it does

All crew,

We have updated our privacy policy for all Enterprise crew members.

The policy describes how we use internal sensors to generate a transporter signature of your brain and body at the quantum level, and when and how we transmit that info to third-party planets.

Worf

Finding someone's list of favorite $thing on their personal gemini capsule/blog/website/whatever is like crack to me. Games, books, movies, software, whatever it is I love seeing the lists of things someone likes enough to make a list on their space on the net. A lot of the coolest things I've found on the internet were discovered that way.

Anybody have a comprehensive list of GPOs to disable all of the ai/cloud/telemetry functionality in MS products? Copilot, onedrive, alt text generation in office, the works. Anything that can potentially violate NDAs by sending content of your system to MS.

one thing i'd like to see in a microblogging service is decoupling accounts from follow channels. so instead of having alts u can have ur 'main stream' and opt-in 'vent' or 'lewd' or 'art' or 'friends' or whatever and any of these can be set to private individually. like if u had multiple twitter circles but circle members chose to be there instead of being dragged in

Hey y'all, i know you know this, but while you definitely shouldn't use GPTs for legal research, also don't rely on GPTs for RESEARCH, PERIOD.

They are neither giving nor TRYING to give you intersubjectively associated and derived facts; they are not even remixing factual CONCEPTS into new forms.

They are modelling human biases out into digestible bullshit with a statistically-determined high probability of being swallowed.

That is all.

They don't have to be this way, but, at present, the people making them have no incentive to change them. So. Don't lean on them for fact stuff. It's not what they do.

I’m creating an open source alternative to the torment nexus

Any fedi programs out there default to automatically refuse connections from instances with >10k users?

I don't know of any and it seems like an oversight tbh

Follow up: if you are limiting your participation in public indoor activities, are you considered or do you consider yourself immunocompromised?

Are you limiting your participation in indoor activities in public due to covid?