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gamingonlinux, 4 hours ago to random

Google AI is a hot sticky mess. Now they're telling people to add glue to pizza, as it took a shitpost from Reddit.

Credit: https://www.threads.net/@petergyang/post/C7S6fzINqZj

biffvernon, 1 hour ago to climate

Perhaps denial of the climate crisis is the most important reason why Sunak must be removed from office.
#ClimateCrisis
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/23/sunak-backtracked-on-climate-policies-and-voters-may-punish-him

mhoye, 1 day ago to random

As always, domestic abuse is the flagship infosec threat model, the one where the victim has the least resources, the least recourse, where they're closest to immediate physical harm.

That this industry has failed at and mostly abandoned the idea of even pretending to try dealing with a threat model that's difficult and unprofitable and mostly hurts women is not news, but this new Windows Recall feature is next-level professional negligence.

mnot, 15 hours ago to random

UK privacy regulator has a word about 'recall'.

https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/media-centre/news-and-blogs/2024/05/statement-in-response-to-microsoft-recall-feature/

KentuckyConjurer, 1 day ago to random

notabene, 1 day ago to random French

Je suis dégoûté qu'on utilise l’accessibilité via les IA pour justifier de mettre de l'IA partout.
L'IA est écocide, tue à petit feu la création, va tuer encore plus d'emplois, est profondément inutile la plupart du temps, et la vie privée, oublions.

Ah ça, quand il s'agit de se servir du handicap, il y a du monde.

Quand il s'agit pour de bon de mettre les mains dans le cambouis pour RÉELLEMENT faire le nécessaire, ça se bouscule moins.

(Pensée du matin.)

fraying, 1 day ago to random

I was part of the first generation to take to the web and fill it with my hopes and dreams, my stories and music, seeking connection and building community.

Watching assholes like Sam Altman treat all that collected humanity as a strip mine makes me indescribably sad.

It also makes me want to punch him in his smug fucking face.

jesusmargar, 2 days ago to Starwars

#dune #starwars #frankherbert #arrakis #tatooine #plagiarism #scifi

nilspooker, 1 day ago to random German

"…it’s a little unsettling that Altman loves the film’s depiction of AI-user interaction, this vision of an AI that presents as your equal, that responds to you as if human, but in truth you have complete dominion over…"
"In a way, it also offers a portal into the ethos that governs OpenAI — an organization whose stated goal is to develop a safe AI to benefit all of humanity, but in reality has time and again been shown to more accurately be a vehicle for Altman’s ego…"

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/why-is-sam-altman-so-obsessed-with

davidallengreen, 1 day ago to random

New by me

Another inquiry report, another massive public policy failure revealed

If we had proper parliamentary accountability and ministerial responsibility in real-time, we would not have to keep relying on inquiries to reveal what really happened.

Substack
https://emptycity.substack.com/p/another-inquiry-report-another-massive

Personal blog (non-Substack)

https://davidallengreen.com/2024/05/another-inquiry-report-another-massive-public-policy-failure-revealed/

eric, 2 days ago to random

I wrote about CSS' new contrast-color() function, and how it's placing the effort in the wrong place. https://ericwbailey.website/published/contrast-color-is-a-good-thing-but-also-solving-the-problem-at-the-wrong-layer/

rem, 1 day ago to random

Reminder that our CFP is now open. Add your voice to 2024's ffconf: https://ffconf.org/articles/cfp/ - I'm already approaching some people who have submitted propsals.

davidallengreen, 2 days ago to random

If we had proper parliamentary accountability and ministerial responsibility in real-time, we would not have to keep relying on inquiries to reveal what really happened.

#ContaminatedBlood
#PostOfficeHorizon
#AfghanWarCrimes
#Covid

18+ STPo, 3 days ago to random French

CW: eye contact

Carnivius, 2 days ago to VideoGames

Was playing The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles on NES for first time and noticed it felt kinda familiar. Then realised what it reminded me of and did some sprite comparisons.

Top. Shatterhand. Developed by Natsume. Published by Jaleco in US, December 1991.

Bottom: The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. Developed by Chris Gray Enterprises. Published by Jaleco in US, January 1993.

Methinks Jaleco had CGE use Shatterhand as the basis for Young Indy.

#nes #videogames #retrogaming #pixelart

guffo, 2 days ago to random

Working is stupid. I'm designed for wandering around and eating berries and jerking off, not this MS Teams shit.

cindyweinstein, 3 days ago to ai

#AI

TetraLogical, 3 days ago to random

We're delighted to be sponsoring this year's Pixel Pioneers conference in Bristol on the 14th June.

This is a community conference for front-end developers and UX/UI designers and brings together a fantastic line-up of speakers, all focused on giving practical, actionable takeaways for those attending.

For more information and to buy your tickets, head to: https://pixelpioneers.co/

bryansmart, 3 days ago to random

I know ChatGPT 4O is amazing, but I'm beyond revolted and offended by it's fake caring enthusiastic attitude. I expect to ask it about my friend's cancer, and it either tell me how amazing it is I'm getting this first hand experience, or to tell me how sorry it feels I'm going through this. Either is infuriating in a way hard to explain, and inspires fantasies of kicking OpenAI devs in the balls! The world is full of fake. Do we really need an LLM pretending to care? Fucking revolting!

Richard_Littler, 3 days ago to random

Reading about how the toxic American eugenics movement of the 1920s inspired Hitler et al, to put their recommendations into action. And I also realise that some twittering billionaires are again repeating (long debunked) statements made by the blatantly racist, ableist eugenics movement.

xerz, 3 days ago to random

current mood:

kazuhito, 3 days ago to random Japanese

Best intention barriers (ARIA edition) https://marcus.io/blog/best-intention-barriers-aria

SteveFaulkner, 3 days ago to webdev

👉🏼 A SIMPLE CUSTOM
Had reason to re-read this recently.

“For whatever reason some people don’t like the standard HTML checkbox and radio button, they seek to jazz ’em up and in the process the often jizz up the usability/accessibility of these controls.”

#HTML #ARIA #CSS #accessibility

https://html5accessibility.com/stuff/2021/01/24/a-simple-custom/

aardrian, 4 days ago to accessibility

I have been reading through the State of HTML 2023 results site (https://2023.stateofhtml.com/) and I am so disappointed in the overall #accessibility efforts — both in the questions and in the code.

This may become a blog post.

I filed 3 issues today, have filed 15 since late 2022, and only 2 have been addressed:
https://github.com/Devographics/Monorepo/issues/created_by/aardrian

But these surveys keep pushing problematic info in problematic UIs, giving the wrong impression of… everything.

#a11y #HTML

NEBylines, 4 days ago to random

Melody muses on class visits to theme parks and stress about climate change | Melody Bird

https://northeastbylines.co.uk/excerpts-from-the-diary-of-a-teacher-on-the-verge-of-climate-breakdown-part-14-rollercoaster/?feed_id=368&_unique_id=6649a45d5ee26
https://northeastbylines.co.uk/excerpts-from-the-diary-of-a-teacher-on-the-verge-of-climate-breakdown-part-14-rollercoaster/?feed_id=368&_unique_id=6649a45d5ee26