Danielle Foré
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crazy how many stories around californian politicians genuinely trying to improve the lives of their constituents end with “and then SB xyz was vetoed by gov. newsom”
Unpopular Fact: The #stockMarket is just as nonsensical as #NFTs and #CryptoCurrency. The stock market just has more history of people believing in the nonsense.
@howtophil
Actually it's even lesser sensical than NFTs or crypto currencies (or nonsesical on more levels)
With NFTs you just buy and sell stuff
With stocks the stock holders also try to control the business direction and the leadership of the company.
While the first is already pure gambling the second just blows my mind.
If stock buyers think they can run the company better they should create their own company. They should only buy stock of companies which they think a run will and sell when they think it's managed badly.
Influencing business direction is a bit like fiddling with the roulette wheel while playing
Chip Butty
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Right, I'm on mastodon.art, uhhh... have some art then! Practiced animating hair on an OC. The ponytail came out quite well, I'd say
@sebsauvage jamais vu, mais d'un autre côté j'encode rarement en AV1 (ça prend un temps de dingue sur ma vieille patate...) ni de l'audio en >2 canaux.
Tu les lis avec quel logiciel ? (Est-ce que le problème viendrait d'une option de compression mal supportée par un logiciel, ou vraiment de l'encodage ?)
Tu utilises quelle version de ffmpeg ? (Est-ce qu'une mise à jour / une vieille version corrigerait le problème ?)
@rfnix
J'ai essayé de lire avec mpv et vlc, j'ai des problèmes dans les deux.
Ma version de ffmpeg c'est ça :
Baptiste Fluzin
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Summer is peak demand season at a men's grooming clinic in Japan, where appointments are becoming harder to get as scores seek to rid themselves of body hair for relief from brutal, sweltering heat. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08/21/japan/japan-men-hair-removal/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #heatwaves #beautyservices #tokyo #men039sissues
@miss_rodent warlike clade for sure
@miss_rodent like sapir-worf for "does having the primary means of interacting with the world being knives influence possible cultures"
China Is About to Launch Its Most Ambitious Moon Mission Yet https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/08/21/0121220/china-is-about-to-launch-its-most-ambitious-moon-mission-yet?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
@villavelius oh, gekke gedachte... een auto? misschien carpoolen?
Ach nee... dat is te woke
@villavelius andere idiote gedachte... een paard en wagen?
Oh nee, dat is grachtengordel elite
This is not normal. This is the climate emergency happening right in front of us, right now.
Across the globe, people are suffering from wildfires and floods caused by the impacts of worsening climate change, while the world’s wealthiest polluters are still earning billions of dollars.
Enough is enough. Make them pay
https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/85446/climate-emergencies-photos-of-2026-part-ii/
@greenpeace Please tell this to those rich environmental destroyers. We poor people can do nothing about it.
tante
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Is anyone running a matchmaking service to pair recently-retired programmers with open source projects that need maintainers?
dada
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Vous êtes fans du dernier framework à la mode côté frontend ? Très bien mais n'oubliez pas ce que peut déjà faire le HTML tout seul https://chrisburnell.com/html-can-do-that/
@jernej__s @simulo @freya @aurynn
Qt apps on Mac stand out because they don’t use the native view classes but they try to mimic the style. Everything looks almost right but behaves subtly differently. It took them over a decade to get the keyboard navigation shortcuts in text fields to behave the same was as every other text field on the system.
Kunnen ze niet gewoon zoals iedereen met het OV naar hun demonstratues gaan?
Boeren: trekkers op snelweg soms juist veiligste optie https://nos.nl/l/2627636
@villavelius oh, gekke gedachte... een auto? misschien carpoolen?
Ach nee... dat is te woke
Argentic – An L402 Lightning toll booth for AI scraping agents
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49384477
#HackerNews #Argentic #L402 #AI #Scraping #Lightning #Toll #Booth #Tech #Innovation
Angela Antunovic
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Alexis Bushnell
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Join KBtL Attendees in a round of getting to know each other, speed-meeting style, but with a twist. KBtL will host two of these events over the course of the weekend, with no EA on either. Registration opens 1-September, are you excited?
#kinksky #conference #meetup #powerexchange #diversity
What do you like the most about the Fediverse and Mastodon? 
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@Em0nM4stodon I’d go with the classic “the friends we made along the way”. People being people.
Chip Butty
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Does copyright protect your AI-generated content in EU? Apparently not. Content that is entirely generated by artificial intelligence is not protected by copyright. EU copyright law has strictly human-centric foundation.
Daniel J. Gervais: 'When you put your name on an article that's written by ChatGPT or Claude, you're basically putting a provenance mark on it saying: I take responsibility for this. I haven't written it, but I'm putting my name on it. That doesn't give you copyright, but it does give you liability for the content' https://euobserver.com/232898/interview-does-copyright-protect-your-ai-generated-content-in-europe-lets-find-out/
Gervais, Daniel J. and Shemtov, Noam and Marmanis, Haralambos and Zaller Rowland, Catherine, The Heart of the Matter: Copyright, AI Training, and LLMs (September 21, 2024). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4963711 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4963711
"Munich Local Court has held that AI generated logos do not enjoy copyright protection. Neither mere prompting nor the selection between several AI suggestions is sufficient as a human creative contribution. For businesses, this is ambivalent. On the one hand, content generated purely by AI can hardly be protected on an exclusive basis, which has implications for brand building and content strategies" https://www.germanlawinternational.com/intellectualproperty/copyright/from-the-printing-press-to-ai-how-the-eu-plans-to-modernize-copyright-law-164154/
