Aleenaa, to news
@Aleenaa@india.goonj.xyz avatar

A woman attempted to commit suicide due to being trolled on social media. Trolling is dangerous nowadays, it spreads hearted and take lives of innocent people!

The Kilpauk police on Tuesday arrested three YouTubers, including a woman anchor, on charges of driving a 23-year-old woman to attempt ending her life after they posted an interview of her without her consent.

https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/three-youtubers-held-for-causing-a-woman-to-attempt-to-end-her-life/article68228595.ece?utm_source=press.coop

#news #journalism #trolling #socialmedia #technology #humanrights #law @mastodonindians

alexanderhay, to news
@alexanderhay@mastodon.social avatar

Quelle surprise. But what's worrying is how apparently 'tech 'n meeja' savvy young people are so easily taken in by propaganda - err, I mean 'hype and marketing'.

"...Very few people are regularly using "much hyped" artificial intelligence (AI) products like ChatGPT, a survey suggests...

"...But the study... says young people are bucking the trend, with 18 to 24-year-olds the most eager adopters of the tech..."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c511x4g7x7jo

endless_stateless,
@endless_stateless@mastodon.social avatar

@alexanderhay I think 'savvy' has come to mean 'using as the maker intended' rather than 'using in a conscious and informed approach'.

alexanderhay,
@alexanderhay@mastodon.social avatar

@endless_stateless Oh, very true, but the 'savvs' honestly believe the original meaning still applies to them. The Mark of the Mark, as it were.

faab64, to ArtificialIntelligence

Israeli deadly #robots; The new weapon of the regime in the Gaza war

During the genocidal war and non-stop aggressive attacks against the Gaza strip, the IDF soldiers use remote-controlled robots that are used to perform various military missions such as reconnaissance, imaging, search and explosion.

During the recent attacks on the #Jabalia camp, the IDF widely used explosive robots; Especially in places where it was not possible to enter due to the intensity of the resistance.

#Gaza #Genocide #Technology #Military #Drones #Israel #IDF
@palestine @israel

rivas,
@rivas@mathstodon.xyz avatar

@faab64
Palestinians have been war and surveillance test subjects for decades, while the rest of the world take notes.
@palestine @israel

faab64,

@rivas the right wing/fascist government of Sweden, just signed a multi million dollar deal with Israel of weapons "that were shown to be efficient in battle" (read murdering innocent people in Gaza.

I am so disgusted by how ridiculous the current Swedish coalition government is that I just can't explain it.

weirdwriter, to tech

An events management and ticketing platform build with accessibility in mind from the start. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/eventably https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/eventably#/ #Events #Tech #Technology #Accessibility

metin, to ai
@metin@graphics.social avatar

𝘝𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘍𝘦𝘸 𝘗𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘈𝘳𝘦 𝘜𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 '𝘔𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘏𝘺𝘱𝘦𝘥' 𝘈𝘐 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘴 𝘓𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘎𝘗𝘛, 𝘚𝘶𝘳𝘷𝘦𝘺 𝘍𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘴

https://slashdot.org/story/24/05/30/0238230/very-few-people-are-using-much-hyped-ai-products-like-chatgpt-survey-finds

daniel,
@daniel@social.dhelonious.de avatar

@metin That's interesting because in my circle (tech-savvy nerds and researchers) a lot of people use and recommend the use of ChatGPT. For example, the tutor of a scientific containerization course I attended last week used ChatGPT extensively to solve some very specific problems. Of course, you could get the same results using search engines, but an AI is much faster in these cases and can at least point you in the right direction.

metin,
@metin@graphics.social avatar

@daniel Yes, I think it's a matter of time before AI will be widely used. Personally, I barely use ChatGPT, because I don't trust the output yet, due to the hallucinations. I'm waiting until that has been solved. But I know that it's already usable for exact purposes like coding.

news, to news
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Top Tech Tidbits for Thursday, May 30, 2024 - Volume 965
https://toptechtidbits.com/tidbits2024/05302024/

The Week's News in Access Technology
A Mind Vault Solutions, Ltd. Publication

Top Tech Tidbits. The world's #1 online resource for current news and trends in access technology.

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NVAccess, to KindActions
@NVAccess@fosstodon.org avatar

65% of vision impaired people are over 50 years of age, despite making up only 20% of the world's population.

Accessible technology benefits everyone. As we age vision impairment becomes more likely. NVDA's free and open-source technology ensures no one is unfairly disadvantaged because of their vision.

You can support NV Access providing accessible technology by donating:

https://www.nvaccess.org/support-us/#donation-support.

junesim63, to ai
@junesim63@mstdn.social avatar

"In 2018...the 5bn YouTube hits for the viral song Despacito used the same amount of energy it would take to heat 40,000 US homes annually.

This is a hugely environmentally destructive side to the tech industry. While it has played a big role in reaching net zero, giving us smart meters and efficient solar, it’s critical that we turn the spotlight on its environmental footprint"
Mariana Mazzucato

#AI #ChatGPT #Technology #Environment #ClimateEmergency #Water

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/30/ugly-truth-ai-chatgpt-guzzling-resources-environment

dlakelan, to fediverse
@dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org avatar

Today I spent several hours trying to help a friend think up ways to take control of the messaging for his dance organization. It's more or less just him running it at the moment but it's on the order of 100 people who are interested and sometimes come to his dance events. Right now it's communicating mostly through Facebook and Instagram. We talked about ways to make a website, forum, blog, sell subscriptions, calendaring 1/

dlakelan,
@dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org avatar

It quickly became obvious how much "enclosure" there is in tech. You can't even add a webcal .ics file to your android calendar! (Not directly, requires login to desktop Google calendar). And you can't export a Google calendar as an ics! (At all). In any case lots of companies want to be the middleman in your business eventually taking a huge chunk of revenues for what is essentially a trivial service.

We looked at , , , and .

dlakelan,
@dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org avatar

Anyone have thoughts about what kind of tech stack could help run a sort of club/business that has regular and special events, needs a public calendar, list of members, reserve spots in limited classes, take credit cards for tickets/door fees, post pictures and let people talk about the events, maybe have discussions about lessons or techniques or videos or music playlists or whatever other dance related stuff people might want to talk about... Probably other stuff we would need.

danie10, to technology
@danie10@mastodon.social avatar

How to Change Docker’s Default Data Directory

I’m getting ready to do this on my home server as it’s main boot drive is a 128 GB SSD, and it is always around 80% full.

This article will guide you through the steps to relocate Docker’s storage path for images, volumes, containers, etc., ensur ...continues

See https://gadgeteer.co.za/how-to-change-dockers-default-data-directory/

Jigsaw_You, to ai
@Jigsaw_You@mastodon.nl avatar

- whatever that means - is in safe hands. 😂

stefan, to random
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online avatar

"Centuries before audio deepfakes and text-to-speech software, inventors in the eighteenth century constructed androids with swelling lungs, flexible lips, and moving tongues to simulate human speech."

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/early-androids-and-artificial-speech/

#technology #automata #automatons

DM_Ronin, to hardware
@DM_Ronin@mstdn.social avatar
sohkamyung, to history
@sohkamyung@mstdn.io avatar

"Thomas S. Mullaney’s new book, The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age, published by the MIT Press, unearths the forgotten history of Chinese input in the 20th century. In this article, which was adapted from an excerpt of the book, he details the varied Chinese input systems of the 1960s and ’70s that renounced QWERTY altogether."

https://spectrum.ieee.org/chinese-keyboard

sohkamyung,
@sohkamyung@mstdn.io avatar

@liaizon My local library's Overdrive platform has the book. Already on loan, so I'll have to wait for it to be available before I can borrow it.

liaizon,
@liaizon@wake.st avatar

@sohkamyung I just searched on Overdrive and saw no results but happy its already up on http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=1FF00F53B19E94F5EB6AE24F78927147

renwillis, to ai
@renwillis@mstdn.social avatar

This is super interesting. It's just a conversation with a research about a study on LLM #AI actual potential. It's only a 13min video, but basically the study shows that most likely AI can't have infinite growth because there is a limited amount of data available to train on.

There's a finite amount of data & no matter how they mathed it out, it's not a J-curve or linear growth of AI's capabilities, but an S-curve every time.

Worth a watch: https://youtu.be/dDUC-LqVrPU?si=Tcuh4NAwsxInvoev

#tech #technology

kellogh,
@kellogh@hachyderm.io avatar

@renwillis more specifically, there’s strong evidence that exponential curves never exist in nature, only logistic curves in disguise

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