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amydiehl,
@amydiehl@mstdn.social avatar

If you want your best talent to leave and go to work for your competitor, then go ahead and force them to return to the office. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/05/12/rto-microsoft-apple-spacex/

beatricejess,
@beatricejess@masto.bike avatar

@Npars01 @KatM @amydiehl
When?
He's 9 and he's far from that point.

thepoliticalcat,
@thepoliticalcat@mastodon.social avatar

@beatricejess @Npars01 @KatM @amydiehl Believe me, by the time they turn 10 or 11, they've got their own social networks, and you're only needed to feed them and ferry them places. And make sure they get their shots and checkups and homework done, of course.

Alice, (edited )
@Alice@beige.party avatar

I was just reminded of around twenty years ago when this guy who I knew on LiveJournal took extreme creative liberty and used the head from my LiveJournal profile pic and Photoshopped an image of me and sent it to me as a "gift" and I was just like "uhhhhhhhhhh...thank you?"

amiserabilist,
@amiserabilist@med-mastodon.com avatar
Alice,
@Alice@beige.party avatar

@amiserabilist Andrew McCarthy could get it!

Liliki,
@Liliki@sfba.social avatar

Considering the way mothers are treated in this shithole country, I'm outraged to see all this bullshit celebration of mothers this one stupid day per year.

Give us control of our reproductive system, safety from abusers, equal pay and maternity leave, for starters.

No? Too extreme?
Then fuck off.

I have a bear to meet in the woods.

JoscelynTransient,
@JoscelynTransient@chaosfem.tw avatar

@Liliki i think that will be my new go to when dudes get sexist and weird - sorry, I have a bear I need to go see in the woods! 😂

Liliki,
@Liliki@sfba.social avatar

@JoscelynTransient
It'll be the new "sorry... I'm washing my hair" 🤣

simon,
@simon@simonwillison.net avatar

Several of the major social media platforms - Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, Twitter - have effectively declared war on linking to things and I absolutely hate it

"Link in my bio" / "Link in thread" / "Link in first comment"... or increasingly no link at all, just an unsourced screenshot of a page

JeffGrigg,
@JeffGrigg@mastodon.social avatar

@cnx @simon @mhoye @anildash

When I see a screenshot of an off-platform post, I often go find the source, and post a reply with the link (URL).

Some groups don't allow links. I regularly tell them just how unhelpful that is.

tallship,

@simon

A couple of things there Simon. How do you know this? Are you still using the deprecated, privacy mining, monolithic silos to which you refer, or are you just taking this on the word of good, 3rd party information sources?

If it's the former, why?

If it's the latter, then yippie kai yay! The demise of these platforms is underway and in full swing - just as Steve Ballmer once called Linux "Cancer", the fact that these silos aren't simply ignoring links to particular resources, especially those in the , and have taken up with the practice of actively blocking them, is a good thing; and you, as a , should be proud.

Yet again, if it is the former, and you really insist on validating and monetizing those privacy mining silos via your subjugation as inventoried chattel there, consider pinning something akin to the following to the top of your profile (make sure to read the alt-text for the image):

ryanhoulihan,
@ryanhoulihan@mastodon.social avatar

What if Apple switches search and AI to ChatGPT and just kills Google

moirearty,
@moirearty@mastodon.social avatar

@ryanhoulihan Apple gets something like 20 billion dollars a year from Google for search inclusion. It would be a poor decision.

ryanhoulihan,
@ryanhoulihan@mastodon.social avatar

@moirearty You know who else has endless money

qurlyjoe,
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social avatar
qurlyjoe,
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social avatar

@failedLyndonLaRouchite
You do you. 🤣

MBNashTN,
@MBNashTN@mstdn.social avatar

@qurlyjoe
I don't mind (as long as it isn't for some some legacy admission). But kids who got hosed by DeVries and predatory lenders? Sure.
I paid off mine. Granted it was only $7500 (86.08 a month for 120 months, and I had a coupon book). Could afford rent, food, and the loan. No car. Made about $5.00 an hour. Some lean times. Philosophy didn't pay well.

baldur,
@baldur@toot.cafe avatar

One of the things that the Stack Overflow brouhaha demonstrates is that it doesn’t matter if a service was founded by people trusted by the community (Atwood and Spolsky) and was broadly community-led. If it’s a VC-funded startup, they will sell out their users at some point.

hyc,
@hyc@mastodon.social avatar

@baldur "VC-funded startup" isn't even the only factor - plenty of cool projects started out with no VC funding, but then got acquired later in their life by private equity types. A clean start is no guarantee.

boud,
@boud@framapiaf.org avatar

@JasonPunyon @baldur

Looks like 16.9 GiB for stackoverflow.com.sqlite.br (16.9GiB) and roughly 6 GiB for the rest. Maybe people running instances could add searches on data dumps like these?

jasonkoebler,
@jasonkoebler@mastodon.social avatar

Scoop: Solar storm is causing farmers' tractor GPS systems to go haywire. Many have shut down planting altogether during a critical period. A Deere dealer said accuracy is "extremely compromised"

https://www.404media.co/solar-storm-knocks-out-tractor-gps-systems-during-peak-planting-season/

gsuberland,
@gsuberland@chaos.social avatar

@thetaphi @jasonkoebler kinda hard to run accurate GPS in the middle of a G5 class geomagnetic event tbf.

matthewskelton,
@matthewskelton@mastodon.social avatar

@gsuberland @thetaphi @jasonkoebler Indeed, which also suggests that the over reliance on GPS for centimeter accuracy in crop planting is a nasty failure mode that should be avoided.

The solar storm is just a dress rehearsal 🎭 for nation state actors knocking out GPS and causing food shortages.

AllanBarte, French
@AllanBarte@mastodon.social avatar
vv666,
@vv666@mastouille.fr avatar

@AllanBarte malheureusement tellement vrai.
Et notre gouvernement qui en remet systématiquement une couche à des cinq électoraliste et idéologique.

GottaLaff,
@GottaLaff@mastodon.social avatar

Yesterday’s COVID shot hit me like a freight train. I’m pretty useless today. ☹️

GottaLaff,
@GottaLaff@mastodon.social avatar

@DebR Ugh, I know, huge day, I'll be exhausted at the end.

That's why I'm glad we got our shots yesterday. Hopefully I'll be better.

Thank you! Have a happy MD!

GottaLaff,
@GottaLaff@mastodon.social avatar

@ottaross I'm so glad you didn't offer unsolicited med advice.

rysiek, (edited )
@rysiek@mstdn.social avatar

Hey @nextcloud I see you made "AI" the "centerpiece" of Hub 8?
https://news.itsfoss.com/nextcloud-hub-8/

What model are you using?
What data has it been trained on, and by whom?
Can I recreate your model from scratch?

Edit: the "centerpiece" part might have come from It's FOSS News, although Nextcloud messaging around AI is similarly excited.

rysiek,
@rysiek@mstdn.social avatar

@vt52 so, while CC By-SA works are free to use, the licensing terms are crucially important. This is in no way captured by the "Ethical AI Rating".

It also does not capture at all the labor issues around training of LLMs. Who tagged and categorized the data? We know how that works in the BIg Tech space:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/16/techscape-ai-gadgest-humane-ai-pin-chatgpt

@nextcloud

rysiek,
@rysiek@mstdn.social avatar

@vt52 and finally: does "Red" mean "unethical" and "Green" – "ethical"?

If yes, that would mean that @nextcloud is facilitating use of tech they themselves consider unethical.

If not, then why is this called "Ethical AI rating" in the first place?..

RickiTarr,
@RickiTarr@beige.party avatar

I'm going to ramble a bit, but it will hopefully come around to something. When I was growing up, I read a lot of older historical book series, a big one would be the Little House On The Prairie series. While I really enjoyed it, there are some very obviously negative portrayals of Native Americans and African Americans. I remember being angry about it as a kid, and my Dad telling me, that part of learning about history is that we have to acknowledge the people we were, and still are. But because Little House on the Prairie is only semi-autobiographical, I still have mixed feelings about this. I do think they are well written books by a female author, an interesting perspective on early American life, and as an adult I can see and acknowledge the issues with the text. If we try to get rid of every author with racist ideas there wouldn't be much left to read from the 20th Century, and it also feels like being dishonest about who we are. So, I'm very mixed, how do you all feel about it? Do you think children can handle books with racial issues like this if it's explained to them? What is our responsibility here?

cjpaloma,
@cjpaloma@mas.to avatar

@RickiTarr Kids (like the young of many species) are designed to be -mostly- sponges, they learn from what they are exposed to. If animals learn the wrong stuff, they don't survive.

The saying "garbage in, garbage out" while overly simplified, applies.

Far too many of us are already not spending enough time unlearning the garbage we were fed about racism, sexism, assumptions about how to live with others, peace, economics, how to treat the environment, etc. around us.

Aviva_Gary,
@Aviva_Gary@noc.social avatar

@RickiTarr The problem is "the classics" used is classics...

For ONE GROUP OF PEOPLE

Whereas there are classics for many and yet none of those are looked at... 🤔

But yeah... I would want way more than what we get

gsuberland,
@gsuberland@chaos.social avatar

TIL that mustard plants grow very tall and have purple flowers that bees really like. I planted them because they're a great "grow literally anywhere" plant you can just yeet into the ground and leave to do their thing, and they're great at weed suppression and outcompeting grasses, but I didn't know they'd end up looking nice and making the bees happy too.

... now I'm in the mood to do some guerilla gardening.

gsuberland,
@gsuberland@chaos.social avatar

@abetterjulie money tree (pachira aquatica)

gsuberland,
@gsuberland@chaos.social avatar

@JetForMe too dark atm but will post some when I next go out there

augieray,
@augieray@mastodon.social avatar

Taking a short Mastodon break. I'm tired of the culture of criticism here. Unlike Twitter, on Mastodon, it comes from those on the left who attack liberals for not meeting their purity tests. I've been attacked for wanting to help defeat Trump by those who don't like a Biden policy; for COVID-safe dining outside with heaters because that harms the environment; for traveling masked because some immunocompromised feel they can't. Stop attacking others; start being the change you want in the world.

DrGeof,
@DrGeof@mastodon.social avatar

@augieray

If I may, please consider blocking just a bit quicker.

You will be greatly missed.

kaffando,
@kaffando@mastodon.social avatar

@augieray
I don't like this, at all. I absolutely get what you're saying (& going through) though, so please take care and return soon. Your voice is far to important to be outside the conversations we need.

matthiasott,
@matthiasott@mastodon.social avatar

By the way, do you have a personal website and does it have a home page? (I’m pretty sure it does… 😁)

I would love to know: what’s on your “home” and why?

Feel free to share a link, of course. 🤗 As always, I’m also asking on behalf of my newsletter subscribers.

sarajw,
@sarajw@front-end.social avatar

@matthiasott my "home" is almost everything!

https://sarajoy.dev

It was a cool gimmick, but the longer the "cards" get, the less well it all works, really....

rachsmith,

@matthiasott links to all of the notes on the site. I read somewhere that pagination is pointless if you have a static site and are not making requests to a database, thought “oh yeah fair point” and put them ALL there. Has a nice side effect of being able to just cmd/ctrl+F to search the titles.

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