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

Oh, that thing I’ve been putting off for days? That insurmountable, torturous task? The thing that’s been haunting me with every step like a malevolent wraith? It took two minutes. I will not learn from this

fuck yeah motherfucker!!!!!

cloudflare's mastodon thingy, wildebeest, is dead in the water 🎉

https://github.com/cloudflare/wildebeest

#wildebeest #cloudflare

Us: Calmly crossing the street, collectively, for two minutes, to protest the broken infrastructure that allowed a woman to be killed crossing the street.
Driver: I’LL JUST DRIVE ON THE SIDEWALK TO GET AROUND THEM. #fuckcars #anticar #safestreets #slowstreets #trafficviolence #infrastructure #chicago #urbanism #activism #publichealth

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Like and boost this toot if you think that either catgirls are adorable and need more head pats UwU or that people are morally justified in destroying the private jets and yachts of billionaires

Y'know what I'm surprised isn't a more common acronym? "nntr" for "no need to respond".
You could just put "nntr" at the end of any message to indicate that you're just pinging the other person, not necessarily looking to start a conversation.

bringing the american IT sector to a halt by passing a city bylaw in Ashburn VA that all datacenters must put up "no dogs" signs

Ah, this is the best way to play Forza, for sure

There will sadly never be a better software name than Nero Burning ROM.

Zoom's current terms of service has two mentions of "machine learning" or "artificial intelligence" (https://explore.zoom.us/en/terms/) and most discussion I'm seeing about this fact today is referring to the section I'm less concerned about.

Section 10.2 allows Zoom to train AI using "telemetry data, product usage data, diagnostic data, and similar content or data that Zoom collects or generates" which is mildly unnerving, but I'm more concerned about section 10.4 in which you grant Zoom a license to your Customer Content.

Now, any service like Zoom needs you to grant them such a license before they can do things like display your video to the people who you wanted to talk to, so that's normal. But they've carved out rights to use that same license for a bunch of other purposes, including AI training, which they've lumped in with marketing and product development. And I don't see any exceptions even for privacy or protected health information.

So I am not a lawyer but I'm definitely going to ask one some questions.

thinking about this right now… can someone familiar with the firefish/*key codebase please, pretty please, disable animations on the prefers-reduced-motion: reduce media query? like your animations are cool and all, but My Brain Can’t Handle Them!!

rapid shitposting is the human equivalent of cat zoomies

"Tech experts are starting to doubt that ChatGPT and A.I. ‘hallucinations’ will ever go away: ‘This isn’t fixable’"

whoa no shit sherlock it's a statistical model that composes answers that are statistically probable, not factual. it's almost like all it does is put a bunch of words that look like an answer next to each other and has zero grasp of what a fact even is conceptually

The falkirk wheel has to be one of the top pieces of irl infrastructure that look like i messed something up in simcity

Stanford has perfected the create the problem and make money from the problem first, then pitch the “solution” and make money from that too while simultaneously being the problem approach.

https://venturebeat.com/ai/the-stanford-university-boot-camp-teaching-congress-about-ai/

TIL the New York Times style guide mandates removing all diacritical marks from text

what does it say about your society when your "paper of record" is so transparently racist

(rhetorical question)