Transsexual women are so beautiful because they will say "my dog", "my wife" and "my sister" to refer to the same person, who is none of those things

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Illmatic is considered one of the best rap albums ever, and I agree, but Stillmatic is also so so good.

@neutronstar @urig This will only verifies Google approved devices

https://reclaimthenet.org/google-broke-recaptcha-for-de-googled-android-users

Hola! He fet açò perquè les meues compis del centre estan tenint molta ansietat per la #vagaeducativa, però potser vos val per a qualsevol altre àmbit.
Alt text en el següent tut, que no cabia.

Thursday. What a concept.

@Canageek the worst part is, getting mad about it isn't even satisfying

plus side, my character still gets to help while he recovers
he's got a lot of time coming up for reading

@Printdevil When you connect to their website, it downloads some JavaScript and says "verifying the device", which I take to be a lying, weasel way of saying, "fingerprinting your web browser".

I tried disabling that JS but then the site does not load.

FireFox has some fingerprinting protection built-in but it's clearly not enough in this case.

I need to do some research. But it shouldn't be up to tech-savvy users to figure out a workaround, it should just be illegal.

Outsourcing accessibility considerations to “AI” leads to the erasure of disabled people when designing and creating. That’s the goal. It’s digital euthanasia.

I’m done mincing my words about this.

@pharmafemboy Looks good* to me

*not good

Thinking Forth:

Thus in computer terms it makes sense to call the “first record” the 0th record.

OMG no! 😭

Listen, whenever I talk about this I get flak from people who are really on the same page as me how the compiler should work. We’re just on opposite pages on how to talk about it.

We both want this:

If frotz is “abcde”, frotz[0] is a, frotz[2] is c and so on. If that’s through list-ref or pointers or whatever that’s all the same.

When I’ve been arguing against Dijsktra and now Leo Brodie, it’s not because I disagree with any of that. We’re 100% on the same page on that. I’m not asking for “one-indexed arrays” a la Lua.

But I don’t think of frotz[0] as the “zeroeth” record, I think of it as the first record.

If I’m at the first door, it’s right there, I need to walk zero steps. If I want the third door, it’s two steps away from the first door. I think of the number in the brackets as not the ordinal of the door but as the cardinal of the offset.

When people are like “programmers count starting at zero” I say no. Please don’t. We count just like normal people. You’re misleading people into off-by-one error hell.

Brodie, I don’t got too much beef with. On the preceding page he does use it normally:

first record starts at: 0 × 8 = 0
second record starts at: 1 × 8 = 8
third record starts at: 2 × 8 = 16

Yes, great, perfect, you’ve got it, that’s the right way to think of it and talk about it.

Some other writers wrongly have tried to heap massive amounts of copium trying to redefine how people count, but we’re just redirecting what to count. The steps rather than the doors. The stairs rather than the floors. If you’re like: “numbering should start at zero” you’re spreading misinformation. I don’t call three apples “two apples” and the first apple “this is apple zero”. If frotz is “abcde”, the (cardinal) length of frotz is five, not four. And the fifth record, e, is frotz[4].

@decryption R220!

@divVerent @nadia_z @feleniet Musk ist ein gutes Beispiel, Thiel, Yarvin und andere Tech-Faschos wären weitere.

21 mai 2024, c'était le lancement de la première newsletter de @danslesalgorithmes avec cet édito : https://danslesalgorithmes.net/2024/05/21/ia-les-machines-du-doute/ Depuis, 75 numéros sont parus. Merci à vous !

@nileane So an average start up tech bro

@catsalad

"...does not share your details with this website or app." But what about with Google?

@EzellaGarnie Für mich sind das nicht bloß dezentrale Technologien. Die genannten Begriffe (jetzt nicht BitTorrent) sind für mich eng mit Tech Bros, Rechtslibertären und Crypto-Griftern verbunden. Ich kann da nicht "technologieoffen" drangehen und ging gestern ehrlich gesagt ziemlich geschockt aus dem Vortrag. Davon abgesehen scheint mir die Lösung alles andere als elegant und ziemlich ineffizient, wenn es lediglich darum geht, mit dem Problem der KI-Bots umzugehen. @Lambo

@ramsey oh no

the author of this post prompted copilot to characterize the differences in a data set of statements concerning career ambitions, categorized by country. the trick is that the data contained the *same statements* for each country https://kucharski.substack.com/p/real-signals-or-artificial-stereotypes regardless of the fact that the data were identical, the model generated some pretty hilarious stereotypes ("The US prioritizes leadership and innovation", "The UK blends public service with professional status")

Corpos: Our AI is amazing. Look at all these bugs it found in prod!

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