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x00001, 5 days ago to random

Artist: https://objkt.com/tokens/KT1NXC9SqvYftjHacdqYcokDFdgssMdS71zk/3?ref=tz1PwsqBqCNTkLh6W6fa4FiBkGSAdJSNzqUo

Your (Self) Image Is Corrupted with animated desktop environment in green pixels

x00001, 6 days ago to random

Start asking users why they don't add alt text.

• Alt Text Pirate Queen

x00001, 6 days ago to random

Are you up in Lucy's Bz? :confusedlucy:

I am! :emeralda:

x00001, 7 days ago to random

The data obtained by 404 Media includes privacy and security issues that Google's own employees reported internally. These include issues with Google's own products or data collection practices; vulnerabilities in third party vendors that Google uses; or mistakes made by Google staff, contractors, or other people that have impacted Google systems or data. The incidents include everything from a single errant email containing some PII, through to substantial leaks of data, right up to impending raids on Google offices. When reporting an incident, employees give the incident a priority rating, P0 being the highest, P1 being a step below that. The database contains thousands of reports over the course of six years, from 2013 to 2018. In one 2016 case, a Google employee reported that Google Street View's systems were transcribing and storing license plate numbers from photos. They explained that Google uses an algorithm to detect text in Street View imagery.

Google Leak Reveals Thousands of Privacy Incidents: https://www.404media.co/google-leak-reveals-thousands-of-privacy-incidents/

jadedtwin, 8 days ago to random

Edit: because of some individuals, I've learned I'm a terrible human. Ignore everything I've said.

Bye.

x00001, 10 days ago to random

🎉 Look Alive, Chooms! 🌈 Just in time for Pride Month, we're dropping a fresh, fierce sticker in the shop! 🚀 Be Glitchy, Hack The Planet! 🖥️🎨 Flaunt 'em high and shout to the cyberuniverse that you're queer and proud, all while you're slaying it on your cyberdeck! Stickers hit the store TONIGHT! 🚀✨ Support the revolution! #RadioFreeSociety: https://ko-fi.com/essbee 💖🖤💜

x00001, 11 days ago to random

Yeah, that's a pretty big con.

chiefgyk3d, 12 days ago (edited 12 days ago) to random

I don’t know why there are accounts linking to twitter/X posts on Mastodon. That shit will turn people off to your content around here. Most of us left that. It’s fine if you want to repost content on both platforms but stop linking to Twitter on mastodon. Learn that we are different and separate communities and how we interact.

#mastodon #twitter #fediverse

x00001, 12 days ago to random

"Nvidia denies the characterization of the listed data repositories as 'shadow libraries' and denies that hosting data in or distributing data from the data repositories necessarily violates the US Copyright Act," Nvidia's court filing said. The chipmaker did not go into further detail to define what counts as a shadow library or what potentially absolves these controversial sites from key copyright concerns raised by various ongoing lawsuits. Instead, Nvidia kept its response brief while also curtly disputing authors' petition for class-action status and defending its AI training methods as fair use. "Nvidia denies that it has improperly used or copied the alleged works," the court filing said, arguing that "training is a highly transformative process that may include adjusting numerical parameters including 'weights,' and that outputs of an LLM may be based, at least in part, on such 'weights.'"

Nvidia Denies Pirate e-Book Sites Are 'Shadow Libraries' To Shut Down Lawsuit: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/nvidia-denies-pirate-e-book-sites-are-shadow-libraries-to-shut-down-lawsuit/

x00001, 12 days ago to random

Did You Know:

SynAck, 12 days ago to random

It's awesome that most financial transactions really, really, really want you to pay via credit card (by making it a lot more onerous to pay with any other method) and then charge a 1-3% "convenience fee" for doing so.

How did we let them get away with this and make this the norm, people? How did we not push back on this the first time one of these profiteers tried to foist this upon us?

:facepalm:​

x00001, 13 days ago to random

My new implants arrived! Thanks to @revengeday & @LevelUp! :pixelheart:

x00001, 14 days ago to random

Switchroot is an open-source project that allows Android and Linux-based distros like Ubuntu to run on the Nintendo Switch — absolutely not something Nintendo approves of much less supports, endorses, or encourages, etc! I covered the loophole that made this possible back in 2018. Back then the NVIDIA Tegra X1-powered Nintendo Switch was still new and Linux support for much of the console's internal hardware in a formative state (a polite way to say 'not everything worked'). But as the popularity of Nintendo's handheld console ballooned (to understate it) so the 'alternative OS' Switch scene grew, and before long Linux support for Switch hardware was in full bloom...

Ubuntu 24.04 Now Runs on the Nintendo Switch (Unofficially): https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/05/ubuntu-24-04-nintendo-switch

x00001, 16 days ago to random

But maybe you're not quite at that stage yet. Maybe you need to eke out a little more life from the computer you've got before turning to a new one. If you’d rather keep your old computer in service a little longer, you've got more options than you might think. These options vary in terms of the time and money needed.

Everything You Can Do to Keep an Old Computer Running: https://archive.is/TF7H5#selection-585.0-585.53

x00001, 17 days ago to random

In exchange for selling them repair parts, Samsung requires independent repair shops to give Samsung the name, contact information, phone identifier, and customer complaint details of everyone who gets their phone repaired at these shops, according to a contract obtained by 404 Media. Stunningly, it also requires these nominally independent shops to "immediately disassemble" any phones that customers have brought them that have been previously repaired with aftermarket or third-party parts and to "immediately notify" Samsung that the customer has used third-party parts.

Leaked Contract Shows Samsung Forces Repair Shop To Snitch On Customers: https://www.404media.co/samsung-requires-independent-repair-shops-to-share-customer-data-snitch-on-people-who-use-aftermarket-parts-leaked-contract-shows/

x00001, 18 days ago to random

The digital seas be brimming with swashbuckling Alt Textless treasure just waiting to be discovered! 🌊🏴‍☠️⚓️

x00001, 18 days ago to random

Pirated for Alt Text

x00001, 20 days ago to random

Artist: https://www.instagram.com/marielarrive

x00001, 20 days ago to random

Announced Tuesday, May 21, the Tech Against Scams coalition will act as a convening body between a network of tech companies to "collaborate on ways to take action against the tools used by scammers, educate and protect consumers, and disrupt rapidly evolving financial scams." Members include Meta, Match Group (Hinge, Tinder), Coinbase, Kraken, Ripple, and Gemini. They are joined by the Global Anti-Scam Organization.

Meta, Match Group, and more announce new anti-scam coalition: https://mashable.com/article/anti-scam-coalition-formed-meta-match-group-coinbase

x00001, 20 days ago to random

Pirated for alt text

x00001, 21 days ago to random

Hertz caught attention last week for how it handled a customer whom it had charged a "Skip the Pump" fee, which allows renters to pay a premium for Hertz to refill the tank for them. But of course, this customer's rented Tesla Model 3 didn't use gas — it draws power from a battery — and Hertz has a separate, flat fee for EV recharges. Nevertheless, the customer was charged $277.39 despite returning the car with the exact same charge they left with, and Hertz refused to refund it until after our story ran. It's no isolated incident either, as other customers have written in to inform us that it happened to them, too....

Some People Who Rented a Tesla from Hertz Were Still Charged for Gas: https://www.thedrive.com/news/hertz-is-charging-tesla-model-3-renter-277-fee-for-gas-wont-back-down

x00001, 21 days ago to random

Here's how TIOBE ranked the 10 most popular programming languages in May:
Python
C
C++
Java
C#
JavaScript
Visual Basic
Go
SQL
Fortran

FORTRAN and COBOL Re-enter TIOBE's Ranking of Programming Language Popularity: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/