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phrawzty, 4 days ago to random

I feel like most in-house software is tacitly released under the Hot Potato Licence.

larsfrommars, 5 days ago to random

idk i feel like it probably says something about our education system that people frequently have nightmares about being in it decades after the fact

saddestrobots, 5 days ago to random

strip away the "AI" branding and the new google thing is

"we take search results and decontextualize them by putting them in an unsourced blob of text"

turns out that's worse than being sent to a website where you can see the context of the original thing (a joke site, an SEO spam blog, some reddit guy, &c.)

onelson, 6 days ago to random

The AI hype machine feels like The Forever Purge but for Tech April Fools Shit. It's like, nah, we're punking you all year now. One day is not enough anymore.

stavvers, 8 days ago to random

Heads up to anyone using facebook or insta: you'll receive a notification about your data being used to train AIs. The opt out process is deliberately convoluted and you have to fill out a form to object. This is what I wrote in mine, and the objection was immediately registered as successful, so feel free to copy.

Masto reply bores, this is not a post on which to fart out your opinions about Meta or AI or whatever. So don't. I'm sharing helpful info for people who need it, not for you.

polotek, 7 days ago to random

What's wild about this is that it sounds similar to the thing Microsoft just announced and is putting in all Windows computers.
https://mastodon.social/@zackwhittaker/112486102998856636

jef, 9 days ago to random

OpenAI: At long last, we have created an AI voice that sounds like Scarlett Johansson, as described in her classic legal demand letter "Don't Create An AI Voice That Sounds Like Me Or I'll Sue"

bk1e, 10 days ago to Bloomscrolling

Field of fire(wheels)
Canon FTb, nFD 70-210 f/4, Kodak Gold 200
#BloomScrolling #BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography

bk1e, 10 days ago to Bloomscrolling

Some sort of false yucca, I think
Canon FTb, nFD 70-210 f/4, Kodak Gold 200
#BloomScrolling #BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography

beanclock, 11 days ago to random

petition to popularise bread slices long ways for xl sandwich purposes

NanoRaptor, 11 days ago to random

The iMac cube was not a success.

foone, 11 days ago to random

Terrible idea: Christian programmer who comments their code with references to Bible verses which are applicable to the code's situation

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

Trump has said FOUR times that he will withhold federal funding from schools that require vaccines. Not just COVID. ALL.

This is most schools. This is hitting me where I work. This will lead to children dead from measles. It's obvious, inevitable.

Someone on here said they just couldn't bear to vote for Biden to keep Trump from office since at least under Trump there were better masking rules.

I hope that person sees this.

Worse is worse.

edit: because I don't know measles from smallpox

LibrarianRA, 11 days ago to food

1979 McDonald's Onion Nuggets
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#McDonalds #OnionNuggets #Food #Advertisement #FastFood #Retro

danderson, 12 days ago to random

How to tell your OSS is ridiculously popular: people aren't 100% sure they didn't embed it, and tack on the software equivalent of "packaged in a facility where peanuts were also present" to the license list.

This watch contains software, so statistically probably contains at least traces of curl.

whitequark, 11 days ago to random

none of these words are in the bible

xor, 12 days ago to random

I wrote today's LA Times crossword puzzle, a challenging themeless (in fact: my themeless debut!)

Solve in the paper or online: https://www.latimes.com/games/daily-crossword

pabloniusmonk, 12 days ago to Texas

Texas made the wrong decision on toll roads

Lawmakers turned to toll roads to boost the TX economy & address population growth without raising taxes, but the consequences spiraled.

Some state leaders rightly regret the policies & laws that drove the toll road construction boom. “We were sold a bill of goods. We were just looking for how to find money. We now know that this was the wrong way to do it.”

🆓🔗
https://archive.is/8uXOe

https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/editorials/2024/05/19/texas-made-the-wrong-decision-on-toll-roads/

@dallasnews #Texas #TollRoads

zhuowei, 12 days ago to random

[Monorail guy] AI “agent”:

   A = WITHOUT
GENT = PEOPLE

burritojustice, 12 days ago to random

seriously Costco

video/mp4

limi, 14 days ago to random

@gruber The hydraulic press is implied.

alexwild, 14 days ago to Texas

While the Texas GOP’s ongoing destruction of public education may seem ideological, it’s worth looking past the culture war smokescreen. It’s simpler than that. The people doing it are pouring state money into their own pockets.

It’s just crime.

#Texas #HISD #MikeMiles

https://www.fox26houston.com/news/report-texas-tax-dollars-diverted-out-of-state-to-charter-schools-founded-by-mike-miles

futurebird, 15 days ago to random

Cats keep trying to start a union— but it’s too easy to attract scabs with offers of scritches and greenies. And every single cat thinks they are “union leadership” — add to that their intractable negotiation skills and the problems are obvious.

touk, 15 days ago to random

A COMPUTER CANNOT BE HELD.

THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER MAKE.

mcc, 16 days ago to random

Oh… so you describe yourself as a "computer toucher"? How quaint… personally I command my computer from afar with my immense psychic abilities… turns over three playing cards on a table, they show a red diamond, a blue circle and a long error message concerning "dbus"