One of my favourite things about Mastodon is being able to follow hashtags.
Roll for initiative - Mastodon
Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange I don’t know who to credit for this because it’s been stolen so much, but I love it.
6:05 PM • June 15, 2024 (UTC)
Never Pirated Anything - Mastodon
🌸 melanie kat 🌸 @zicklepop@nyan.lol i've never pirated anything in my life, i've just been using publicly accessible data from the internet.
3:20 PM • June 13, 2024 (UTC)
Google Sandbox: Online tracking instead of privacy
From for noyb:
With its Privacy Sandbox, Google wants to take full control over the analysis of the online behaviour of its users: Chrome now tracks every website you visit to generate a list of advertising topics. These include “Student Loans & College Financing”, “Undergarments” or “Parenting”, “Jobs & Education” and “Finance/Credit & Lending/Credit Reporting & Monitoring”. Advertisers then receive this information from the Chrome browser.
If you’re still using Chrome at this point, I don’t know what to tell you…
LLMs are like rocks - Mastodon
[Source not online
at time of site build.]
35th Anniversary of Tiananmen Square - Mastodon
Steve Herman @w7voa@journa.host June 4th marks the 35th anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre, in which the PLA killed hundreds, possibly thousands of civilians, stamping out weeks of protests in the heart of China’s capital. The government still suppresses mention and memorializing of the 1989 killings in Beijing. https://www.rfa.org/english/cartoons/tiananmen-35-years-later-05312024152814.html #六四 #天安門 #天安门
10:22 AM • June 4, 2024 (UTC)
Over supply services - Mastodon
Simon McGarr @Tupp_ed@mastodon.ie As a general rule, the state should over-supply services. There should be slack in the system almost all the time. Relaxed GPs with lots of time to talk to their patients. So many teachers that the main trouble is finding rooms for them all.
Not only does this see a better quality of service mostly, but it also cushions the system in the event of an unexpected shock.
Trump guilty of rigging 2016 election - Mastodon
Sin of empathy 🕷️🧂🌈🫙⚖️ @trabern@mas.to Just to recap, the guy who can’t shut up about how the 2020 election he lost was rigged just was convicted of rigging the 2016 election he won.
11:30 PM • May 30, 2024 (UTC)
Trump Guilty On All Counts
Sony Just Leaked Destiny 2’s ‘The Final Shape’ Expansion Early
Paul Tassi writing for Forbes
What precisely happened is still being worked out, but this appears to be an issue with Sony PS5 streaming, where the DLC was made available briefly through that service.
🤦🏻♂️
YouTube quietly disables dreadful Apple TV screensaver feature that shouldn't have been there in the first place
Daryl Baxter writing for iMore
This change isn’t the type of update that was released through the App Store — instead, it looks to be a server-side update. This means that YouTube essentially sent an updated command to its Apple TV app so it could stop playing its screensavers automatically.
Good riddance!
Spotify’s Car Things to Be Rebranded as Car Bricks
From Daring Fireball:
No word in Spotify’s Car Thing bricking FAQ about when they’re dropping support for Apple Music, Amazon Music, and YouTube Music. Oh, that’s right, they never supported any music services other than their own, despite having spent the last decade petitioning their home-turf European Commission to secure unfettered pay-no-commission access to platforms created by Apple and Google.
I agree with everything Gruber’s saying in this piece.
We're GREAT at imagining non-concious things are people - Mastodon
pmorinerie @pmorinerie@mastodon.xyz Repost with alt-text:
8:37 AM • May 26, 2024 (UTC)
Quiet Nourishing - Mastodon
Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange 12:48 AM • May 26, 2024 (UTC)
The ability to speak does not make you intelligent
I have a shirt with this phrase on it, immediately made me think of ChatGPT and all the other AI chatbots right now.
No Billionaires - Mastodon
Church of Jeff @jeffowski@mastodon.world #NoBillionaires
4:40 AM • May 24, 2024 (UTC)
AI Search is Going Well
Google AI and glue on pizza - Mastodon
Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 @gamingonlinux@mastodon.social Google AI is a hot sticky mess. Now they're telling people to add glue to pizza, as it took a shitpost from Reddit.
Credit: https://www.threads.net/@petergyang/post/C7S6fzINqZj
9:57 AM • May 23, 2024 (UTC)
Late stage capitalism and OpenAI - Mastodon
Peter Cohen @flargh@mastodon.social There's a "late capitalism is awful" point to be made about Scarlett Johansson being the actual spokesperson for Feeding America, a legit non-profit focused on food insecurity in the United States. Contrasting with OpenAI - a business that pivoted from being a non-profit to the absolute worst example of sociopathic Silicon Valley tech bro overreach.
I'm not clever enough and far too burned out these days to put the pieces together into a coherent narrative beyond, "Burn it all."
Microsoft Recall blocks DRM content - Mastodon
JP @daedalus@eigenmagic.net The fact that Microsoft's new Recall thing won't capture DRM content means the engineers do understand the risk of logging everything.
They just chose to preference the interests of corporates and money over people, deliberately.
8:50 PM • May 21, 2024 (UTC)
Find Sarah Conner - Mastodon
HighlandLawyer @HighlandLawyer@mastodon.social @tob @pluralistic
3:46 PM • May 21, 2024 (UTC)
Inside Microsoft’s mission to take down the MacBook Air
Tom Warren writing for The Verge
Over the past two years, Microsoft has worked in secret with all of its top laptop partners to ready a selection of Arm-powered Windows machines that will hit the market this summer. Known as Copilot Plus PCs, they’re meant to kick-start a generation of powerful, battery-efficient Windows laptops and lay the groundwork for an AI-powered future.
These sound like they might be competitive with Apple’s M series chips. It’ll be interesting to see the reviews once they’re out.
Windows Recall could solve my biggest problem in tech
Mark Hachman writing for PC World
Put simply: If you’ve seen it, so has Recall — it takes periodic screenshots of your desktop every few seconds, which it uses to hunt down details. […] But the images it saves can be interpreted via AI. So if you saved a document, that document image can be “read” via AI, and it will extract the text.
There’s an app for MacOS called Rewind that does something similar to this. It’s a third party app though, whereas Recall is from the OS vendor meaning it may have certain advantages or capabilities a third party wouldn’t.
Who ruined Google? - Mastodon
nixCraft 🐧 @nixCraft@mastodon.social I asked Google "who ruined Google" and they replied honestly using their AI, which is now forced on all of us. It's too funny not to share!
11:36 AM • May 20, 2024 (UTC)
2001 Predictions - Mastodon
AaronDavid @AaronDavid@beige.party 8:48 PM • May 19, 2024 (UTC)