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interfluidity, 4 days ago to random

even if you never use a microsoft product, people you interact with whom you trust, who may intend to respect your confidences, will unwittingly be running recall.

pixelfed, 5 days ago to Pixelfed

We're aware of Meta/Instagrams new policies around AI and the desire for artists, photogs and other creatives to migrate to another platform!

Our new mobile app is officially submitted for App Review, and we look forward to it finally being on the App Store ✨

#pixelfed

caseynewton, 9 days ago to random

This year at Platformer we want to tell more stories about the web as it enters a state of managed decline. Here's @zoeschiffer interviewing a man whose independent games site was crushed by a change to Google's search rankings and its embrace of AI: https://www.platformer.news/google-retro-dodo-core-algorithm-change-ai-publishers/

Here's Retro Dodo's founder:

RickiTarr, 10 days ago to random

Friends: Who are you listening to right now?

Me, very hip: Oh, you wouldn't know them.

This is a song playing the piano and howling and barking, and legit, he sounds pretty good. I've heard much more insane Mingus albums

cyberlyra, 10 days ago to google

Massive leak at #Google confirms what we have all known for years, just how much is tracked, stored, and monetized.

Even clearer now how Chrome tracks and reports EVERYTHING you do. For heavens' sake delete it now and move to Firefox

Also they've outright lied for years about their data collection and search practices.

Looks like 'Don't be evil' wasn't enough. ;)

https://sparktoro.com/blog/an-anonymous-source-shared-thousands-of-leaked-google-search-api-documents-with-me-everyone-in-seo-should-see-them/

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/28/24166177/google-search-ranking-algorithm-leak-documents-link-seo

Just, get off Google products already!

https://www.optoutproject.net/the-best-non-google-search-engine/

hazelweakly, 10 days ago to random

I can't tell you how beyond fucking infuriating it is that we're DDOSing and suing libraries and archives, but are sponsoring and funding Piracy Regurgitating as a Service (large language models)

This truly is a monumentally shitty timeline in so many ways

https://floss.social/@freetechproject/112525031374180024

thomasfuchs, 10 days ago to random

The AI hype might be the greatest pump and dump scheme in history

soweliniko, 10 days ago to random

fuck "plain text", it sucks, it's not actually a format, it's impossible to fucking work with consistently, unix got it wrong

sqlite files should be the standard form of data storage and transmission on computers

ajsadauskas, 10 days ago to random

Want to see the National Library of Australia on Mastodon?

Let them know by filling out this survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeU0qddTjTS_j7TG6t9MtuKWk7yWNYtRZZW-z6Ax2x6V7jOfA/viewform

And make sure you share this post so as many people as possible on here have the chance to fill in this survey.

jmsdnns, 11 days ago to random

I'll never forget the way the tech industry was sacrificed to counter inflation

Nov 2022: The Fed minutes show they want increased unemployment to stop inflation (1st pic)

June 2023: Bernanke and Blanchard say the labor market will have increasing influence of over inflation, and the Fed should continue slowing the economy (2nd pic)

May 2024: Where we are now, and tech roles are still rare. The few openings that exist still receive thousands of applicants

The image shows highlighted text from the Bernanke & Blanchard paper published by Brookings, available here: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/what-caused-the-u-s-pandemic-era-inflation/ > To the extent that commodity prices stabilize and sectoral shortages moderate-processes that both seem well advanced as of this writing (June 2023)—the goods market component of inflation is likely to decrease in importance, and the labor market component to become more dominant. Looking forward, with labor market slack still below sustainable levels and inflation expectations modestly higher, we conclude that the Fed has to slow the economy to return inflation to target.

billbennett, 12 days ago to random

Back from the dentist. Three weeks ago I had Covid, which kicked off tooth pain, now I need two extractions and a root canal. Will cost a fortune. Dentist tells me major tooth problems caused by Covid are commonplace.

nixCraft, 13 days ago to random

Google Ad from 1999. https://www.instagram.com/blackcactusx/p/C4llg93IaGb/

tilton, 13 days ago to random

kdnyhan, 13 days ago to random

Wow. A microbiology lab at Texas A&M accepted purchased raw milk samples from NPR for H5N1 testing, then contacted the milk producers to seek permission. When the producers said, "don't test our milk," the lab not only declined to carry out the tests but also refused to send the samples on to another lab.

intransitivelie, 14 days ago to random

What I wanted from AI: hundreds of robot servants to automate away all my stupid, repetitive tasks, leaving me free to pursue the life of the mind.

What I expected from AI: self-driving cars maybe, at some point.

What I got from AI: a wrong-answer machine which steals money from me and is powered by burning the rainforest.

Newmy, 14 days ago to random

My father-in-law had a never-opened, 48-year-old GE radio in his garage. No pairing, no logins, no setup. It just works.

larsfrommars, 14 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

edsuom, 16 days ago to python

To those who follow this account for #Covid rants and politely tolerate my posts about the wonderful and elegant #Python programming language I’ve used almost daily for over a decade: The #pycon2024 conference required masks because they apparently haven’t stopped caring about the people behind the keyboards.

Yes, masks. In 2024. At a tech conference. It’s a beautiful thing.

micchiato, 16 days ago to random

#Congress serves the wealthy.

“It’s not as if America’s rich and famous haven’t been lobbying for this to happen …. Taylor Swift …has been dogged by complaints about her incessant air travel … thanks to Sweeney’s flight monitoring efforts. Sweeney … compiled a video of Swift’s 2023 plane trips … to show that the pop star had flown 178,000 miles … roughly the equivalent of seven trips around the Earth …. tarnishing a public image … tightly protected and controlled. ” https://gizmodo.com/congress-just-made-it-way-harder-to-track-taylor-swift-1851492383

jenniferplusplus, 17 days ago to random

Do you ever just look at big tech, and think wow, this trajectory looks exactly like big oil, big tobacco, big automotive, and so on?

mpesce, 17 days ago to random

An NDA forbids former OpenAI employees, for the rest of their lives, from criticizing their former employer. Even acknowledging that the NDA exists is a violation of it.

http://windowscopilot.news/2024/05/23/chatgpt-can-talk-but-openai-employees-sure-cant/

Self-Driving Tesla Nearly Hits Oncoming Train, Raises New Concern On Car's Safety (lemmy.ml)

Craig Doty II, a Tesla owner, narrowly avoided a collision after his vehicle, in Full Self-Driving (FSD) mode, allegedly steered towards an oncoming train....

benroyce, 17 days ago to Pharmacy

today in #enshittification chronicles:

old heads remember when the local #pharmacy was an independent business. a sphere run by an independent class of #pharmacy professionals is now reduced by #corporate leverage into a cookie cutter wage slave existence

not that prices went down, of course

next up for the ghouls: your local #veterinary #clinic and your #veterinarian #vet

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/veterinarians-corporate-consolidation-1.7207186

GossiTheDog, 18 days ago to random

For those who aren’t aware, Microsoft have decided to bake essentially an infostealer into base Windows OS and enable by default.

From the Microsoft FAQ: “Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers."

Info is stored locally - but rather than something like Redline stealing your local browser password vault, now they can just steal the last 3 months of everything you’ve typed and viewed in one database.

video/mp4

simon, 18 days ago to random

A quick TIL today: you can listen to a full web page in Mobile Safari by selecting the "Listen to this page" - then accessing the same menu a second time to get controls for the rate of speaking, pause and skip-forwards/skip-backwards https://til.simonwillison.net/ios/listen-to-page