Wednesday, September 9th, 8am pacifiic.

“I’m giving you a choice: either put on these glasses or start eatin’ that trash can.” 🕶️

@AnarchoNinaWrites Between Greenland and...This...it was only a matter of time until we started trying in earnest to arrive at even dumber ways and means than what we pulled in Hawaii.

Physical therapist: "Do you have any resistance bands at home?"

Me: "Are you thinking more Rage Against The Machine, or, like, Woody Guthrie?"

Physical therapist: 😑

@sjvn Was I a mad scientist? I was livid!

@annaleen WAT?! Yay, robot found families!

@piepants Not as badly as me. I totally overlooked the katakana.

Skinnycat, stuffed so full of meat paste she won't eat her remaining wet food, just sauntered by my face waving her ass, stopped and licked the discarded empty meat paste tubes.

So the discarded tubes got a goodbye, I did not.

This cat is basically me. And now I know why you all loathe me.

The problem with using LLMs to research information is that this technology generates text, it does not report information.

Generating a map is not the same as finding an accurate map that already exists. Same for any other pieces of information.

And even if it was able to find and report information without modifying it (what a search engine does basically), it cannot evaluate if this information is accurate.

Adjust your level of trust accordingly.

#NoAI

@MHowell @jbrownesq @timoj @ai6yr This actually is not very useful, since a true uncompleted call doesn't return supervision, and a "faked" uncompleted call does. This can be easily detected with the appropriate kind of trunk or other interconnection.

One month in and I'm ever happier to have joined @igalia. As part of the two-person global strategy team, I get to help out across the organization, but right now my focus is on WPE WebKit, Servo, and Moonforge.

Each of these projects is fascinating, full of promise, and at a very different moment in their lifecycle.

... if you ever wanna geek out about browser engines or embedded devices, I'm here for that!

https://blog.riley.pub/working-at-igalia-worker-owned-tech/

#OpenSource #FOSS

@2legged @JugglingWithEggs Some actors after playing in huge movies think that "stardom" is not worth it, and instead decide to play in whatever movie they feel like playing in, regardless of stardom potential (or actually away from stardom potential). She's a good example. Elijah Wood, and Daniel Radcliffe too. Becoming an A-lister also involves losing the ability to have a somewhat normal life. Kate Winslet or Elijah Wood can take the subway if they feel like it. Di Caprio? Not so much.

@qurlyjoe @ai6yr The traditional method is to watch for a short utterance followed by silence as indication of human. Continuous utterance as indication of answering machine/voicemail. However, they are considerably more sophisticated now.

@thomasfuchs
FABulous! 🙏🏻😀

@ljwrites
He released me, and the dishes did get done. Eventually.

Due to ongoing disappointment with how infosec.exchange moderates racism (or doesn't, as the case may be), and a conversation with one of their moderators which very much left us disillusioned as to their capacity for taking racism seriously, we will be blocking that instance from mastodon.art in two weeks.

Context: https://mastodon.art/@Curator/117123315920205462

🇺🇦 Happy Independence Day of Ukraine.

Proud of our people. Proud of Ukraine.
Ukraine is free. Ukraine is strong.
Slava Ukraini🇺🇦

544 words on “Once Is Enemy Action,” a science fiction novel about the origins of modern technofascism. (9802 words total) #dailywords

@JessMahler You can do like a Chinese emperor and cut off that part of your skirt... or your leg idk.