I am shopping around for attorneys to sue a couple businesses over their use of AI and automated voice customer service.

Due to my Parkinson's Plus, MSA, I have speech issues and over this past month, at multiple businesses, I haven't been able to get past their AI customer service loop to speak to a human because the AI can't understand me.

I even made an #ADA request for a human worker to the AI prompt.

I am going to sue to try to force their AI to understand an ADA prompt, or offer one, to bypass the AI/voice only customer support and directly connect to a human. #AI

One issue is, I talk slow and deliberate because I have to get the words out and some phrases are slower than others and AI customer support is too impatient to wait and moves on mid-sentence, not understanding my request

Dandelion BASIC devlog

I can see the issue I am having is because I am trying to follow the source code of the original 8080 Tiny BASIC so closely.

I do not necessarily need to copy every single detail, but, the process has been rewarding. In the end I was able to learn how to do macros.

Given I have my tool chain set up nicely, perhaps I could experiment with my own execution engine.

The Tiny BASIC should be based around what is useful to the project.

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@thomasfuchs OMG 🚮

Thanks for sharing this Thomas, I had missed it

Vance and rest of pro-data center crowd keeps saying that if electric bills don't go up everyone will embrace nearby data centers. They can generate their own electricity they claim! Problem is the way they're doing it is with polluting gas generators. Vance says there's a solution, they're going to let the data centers build their own nuke plants. Oh yeah, the locals will love having their once unspoiled rural lands ruined by monstrous, noisy data centers and a nearby nuclear power plant. After all, what could go wrong?

But hardware support among these alternative operating systems is inconsistent (with NetBSD sitting at the top of the pile, but well under Linux and Windows.)

And, as with all things, there are degrees to all this. I recognize that I will probably end up having to make compromises in some of the things that I use in order to continue to do much of the work that I want to do.

In much the same way that I begrudgingly keep a windows 10 box around so that I can interface with some windows only hardware, I will allow Linux on devices that support Linux, or for activities that I can't perform in other environments unless/until I can afford to replace them.

Heard there was a major outage in multiple AI services simultaneously

Ils l'ont bien abimé, il n'a rien lâché

C'est un de mes plus anciens clients, plus de 15 ans de travail, dix procédures au compteur 😅

Ils veulent pas qu'on passe par la porte, on passera par la fenêtre, et sans effraction ☝️

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@AberdeenLocal1312/117201292302112535

Give our interview with #AustisticiInventati a listen today.

All major platforms or https://sabot.media/post/resistance

@NewsHund @kelleynnn Of all the issues with generative AI, the one that frustrates me most is entirely preventable. Even after saving hours or days of work, people can’t be arsed to even glance at the output before uncritically sharing it with others.

The shift from "you need to optimize your thinking/rationality" to "yeah, LLM use breaks your cognitive abilities but what can you do" that so many middle aged men went through is literally brainmelting.

#ConsumerProtection & #ConsumerAdvocacy accounts to follow:

🌐 INTERNATIONAL
@iFixit - How to repair things yourself

🇩🇪 GERMANY (in German)
@BVL_Bund - Federal Office of Consumer Protection & Food Safety
@umwelthessen - Hesse Ministry of Environment, Agriculture & Consumer Protection

🇬🇧 UNITED KINGDOM
@WhichUK - UK-based non-profit consumer org

🇺🇸 USA
@ConsumerReports - US-based non-profit consumer org
@ErinBrockovich - News site founded by US environmentalist & consumer advocate

@framaka et moi c'est la typo dans PI qui me trigger :(

@dreid @Corax42 omg this makes me nauseous 😵‍💫 legit happy I abandoned that ship

@legoktm @LucasWerkmeister I've not been able to reach it from .uk in ages either - wasn't sure if geoblock or just down...

aren't these kind of great for SDF applications?

Shared infrastructure is how the #Fediverse can grow without recreating enshittified platform silos.

We’re excited to share that Bonfire is working with Mastodon on two critical areas of Fediverse infrastructure: remote media storage and automated content detection.

Built around open Fediverse Auxiliary Service Provider (FASP) specifications, this work will help platforms connect to shared services instead of each having to build and operate the same capabilities alone.

Our aim is to make these capabilities open, interoperable, and available for any federated server to adopt.

A big thank you to @Mastodon@mastodon.social team for involving us in this work. We’re looking forward to building together and sharing what we learn along the way.

Read the full post: bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bu...

#ActivityPub #FASP

A viral essay called AI agents a "civilization" after they attacked Hugging Face. Scientists say that framing is exactly what AI companies want.
Also: Nvidia's $13B Hugging Face deal, and a COOL $399 robot duck.
New AI Inside with @jeffjarvis
https://aiinside.show/episode/what-happens-when-nvidia-owns-hugging-face

@LucasWerkmeister ah thanks, interesting.

also:
> However, the NLRB website is currently not reachable from a German IP address

wtf!

TIL biarc splines

Absolutely incredible post on this whole topic by @idothethinking.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy. 👏🏻 Well worth your time if you're in Berkeley, but plenty to learn for anyone fighting for bike lanes (or housing, or city improvements of any kind) in any location. darrellowens.substack.com/p/reflection...

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:zr7ndahzlv7kdferhns2lre5/post/3mumts4wsgk2g

Reflection on Berkeley’s Bike ...