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@Catwoman69y2k@meow.social
I checked the "nonexistent" option, assuming that's what it meant.
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I only boost images if they have *adequate* alt-text.
Toots eventually self-delete.
I probably won't approve your follow request if you have no profile or no posts.
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@failedLyndonLaRouchite@mas.to
Sorry, it's too late to make that argument now. Techbros have successfully co-opted the term "AI" to be equivalent to their LLMs and generative text/image slop.
What you're talking about--the pre-slop machine-learning algorithms that are actually useful for finding drugs, discovering comets, analyzing medical images for cancer, etc. etc. is what "AI" used to refer to, but no more. (and TBF it was incorrect even for that kind of tech).
Billionaires took the name for marketing purposes, to hype up their slop machines..
Kind of like how fascists co-opted the swastika, the OK sign, putting parentheses around someone's name in text chat to mean giving them a hug, the numbers 88 and 1488, all were appropriated. We can't use them for their original meanings any more because the meanings have changed.
When people say they're anti-AI they are referring to the new meaning: slop. It says nothing about how they feel about the technology that AI used to mean. We'll have to come up with a new name for that.
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@paparatti@phire.place
How about a digital block of moss. It is moss, yet it is artificial! What will happen? What would John Mastodon do?
#mosstodon #minecraft
A billionaire can never be held accountable.
Therefore a billionaire must never make a management decision.
#billionaires
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@simplenomad
That they would use an overly complex and hugely bloated piece of 'business' software like Outlook for communication (and thus apparently Windows as the OS) for something as critical as a *spacecraft mission* is just mind-boggling to me. 😵💫
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Why the hell is King Charles still planning a State visit to the US after trump's threats of genocide? And why was he even planning one at all for that matter?
His trip should have been canceled immediately after that horrifying post was sent out.
Got my partial one-tooth denture today to replace the tooth I had pulled in December. It looks good and feels OK so far. We'll see how it goes.
Car is in the shop until tomorrow morning to fix leaks from both the oil and transmission pans. Will be rather pricey but considering it's a 2012 and I've almost never had to do any repairs other than normal maintenance, that's a small cost per year.
Also have the cable co. coming tomorrow morning to re-anchor my cable to the outside wall because the idiot neighbor decided to cut down some limbs and let them fall on the cables between the pole and my house, ripping the anchor bolts out of the wall of both the cable and the old unused telephone line. Not the power line though, thank God.
I went out and told him what he had just done and he started loudly yelling a bunch of angry gibberish at me. Not a word of apology, just immediate attack. I think he must be the owner/landlord, not the tenant. At least I hadn't seen him before.
[redacted: some rambling about why women choose cats or the bear]
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@NoveltyBot@mastodon.social
The reaction we feel seeing this is how people in the future will feel when seeing old ads for LLM chatbots.
Re this article: I agree with their reasons not to buy another Kindle, but I think they're ignoring or glossing over some of the possible issues with the alternatives they mention.
For one example,
> Kobo also uses the industry-standard ePub format. This means you are not locked into one store. <
That's a little misleading. Yes, Kobo will read epubs (and some other formats), while the Kindle won't. But it doesn't work in the other direction. If you buy a book from Kobo, it won't be in the "industry-standard ePub format". Kobo uses its own modified format because of DRM. You'd have to strip the DRM before you could read it on another device.
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@knoppix95 @signalapp
A step in the right direction but they still require you to give them a phone number. 🙁
BTW, what happens when someone set up their acct with their phone#, then they lose that number because they don't keep up their phone service subscription? Especially if they've set up and still keep using the desktop app that was linked to that phone #?
If that's a possible scenario, then someone else will eventually get that number, so wouldn't they be getting the original person's messages, or not be able to set up their own signal because their number is already active for the original person? I don't know how it works since I've never used it, but I've wondered about that.
Looking outside as we're on the back edge of a thunderstorm. It's still raining, but also the sun is shining, and I can see a rainbow. That's #Kansas in Spring for you.
I tried to take a picture of it but the rainbow doesn't show up in the photo.
I've noticed that posts appearing in your timeline because they contain a hashtag you follow, bypass your filters.
This doesn't seem right. The filter should take precedence over the hashtag.
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@signalstation@raggedfeathers.com @MCDuncanLab@mstdn.social
Not to mention a colonoscopy!
and Happy Birthday!
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@jrf_nl@phpc.social @Gina@fosstodon.org @janl@narrativ.es
Exactly! I *do not want* a smartphone and no one should be required to have one or install apps just to do normal things like park a car and other routine activities of daily life!
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@joyce@hcommons.social
:oh_no_bubble: You finally got past the foot injury, then this new one happened.
I feel like there's some kind of law that at least two body parts have to hurt at all times. That way if one thing stops hurting, there's still a backup pain in effect until the next new pain can arise. :blobdisapproval:
:oh_no_bubble: You finally got past the foot injury, then this new one happened.
I feel like there's some kind of law that at least two body parts have to hurt at all times. That way if one thing stops hurting, there's still a backup pain in effect until the next new pain can arise. :blobdisapproval:Replying to
@reflex@retrogaming.social
I understand. I was lucky to never have to have or use a personal smartphone for work, and I'm retired now, so I hope it will be a long time before I'm ever forced to get one!
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@reflex@retrogaming.social
If you decide to switch to a wise (not dumb!) phone, I recommend the Sunbeam pro (sunbeamwireless.com) for build quality, good UI, support, etc.
In any case, if you get one that can provide a wifi hotspot, you could always keep your old smartphone with no SIM around, in case there's a time when you do need to use a specific app for something. So far I haven't had to do it, but if I ever do get forced to use someone's app, my plan is to get some cheap old smartphone somewhere to install it on and use only when required.
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@profoundlynerdy@bitbang.social
I went with Lemmy world because it was a pretty mainstream instance, but I've since found out that .world blocks a lot of communities that violate certain standards they have, and some on other instances think it's too heavy-handed that way. So something to bear in mind, you won't see everything if you're on .world. Other than that it seems fine.
Captain, it's just Tuesday. 😩
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@SecondStix@mindly.social Thanks, yep it's already been a roller coaster ride and we're just getting started!
Poor Ottawa, they just had a tornado the other day and today they got hit with 80 mph winds.
My area just got the edge of things, just a little t-storm as the worst, including a tornado, went by to our southeast.
Our weather guy, showing the highway cams, went off in great detail for about 5-10 minutes on why you shouldn't stop under an overpass. 😄
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@WanderingInDigitalWorlds
I was thinking, maybe the posts with subscribed hashtags are treated like replies (which don't get filtered), or somehow otherwise processed separately from normal posts from accounts you follow.
Or maybe I'm just wrong about how this post came to appear unfiltered in my timeline. But as far as I can tell, the post came to me only because I follow the minecraft hashtag, and it contains terms that should have triggered my filter. OTOH, I think I've had posts from a different hashtag I follow (emacs) that DID get filtered. It's very confusing!
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@Techaltar
And if using a web browser, just copy the url from the address bar instead of using the share buttons.
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@teahands@mastodon.gamedev.place @relsqui@mastodon.social
Yes, I use the subtitles too! 🙂
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@teahands@mastodon.gamedev.place @relsqui@mastodon.social
Turning on Keep Inventory greatly reduced my anxiety level. 😅
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@eiskjchs
In that case, better call the supervisor at the meme factory and report a ... bug <-- 🤪
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@joyce@hcommons.social
Glad you could make it and had a good crowd. 🙂
They had porta-potties at the one I went to but fortunately I didn't need to use one. I might not have noticed them if the organizers hadn't announced it, since they were well off to the side away from where I was. I'm glad they've started bringing those in now. I think they had them at the last one too, but they definitely didn't at first!
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@ericsfraga@blainsmith
Excellent! I hope people read it to the end for the important insights.
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@Loosf some more info on the misconceptions people have about this phrase: https://evs.institute/environment-and-society/survival-fittest-debunking-darwin-myths/
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@fosserytech@social.linux.pizza
I don't think it's a matter of them having to go after us. It's a matter of being locked out if you don't comply.
Such as not being able to access all or part of the internet, especially interfacing with online companies to buy stuff and access sites like youtube or whatever, if our device doesn't provide whatever kind of signature or certificate or whatever will be required.
Most likely something controlled by a corporation like Microsoft or Google that will have to be capitulated to to get the "verification token" or whatever it will be called. Comply or ACCESS DENIED.
And in time it will probably be baked into the hardware by manufacturers, like UEFI or even through UEFI, that any OS must get verified to be able to boot it at all.
So I don't take this lightly.
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@futurebird @niki
I think the mouse photos server does have a copy of the edits but mice are afraid of cats so mouse photos will not admit to having a copy of the edits.
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@frox @knoppix95 @signalapp
That's interesting. I wonder how many times people have gotten a new phone/phone# and not been able to use signal.
In that case seems to me like the person who got their old number could easily just start using the signal app without trying to register as a new account, just as if the original person had gotten a new phone.
The new person could just start up the app, verification proves they have the number. So they could see all the original person's messages and even send messages as them. Someone else said you could set a PIN to prevent that, but that sounded optional so people might not think to do it.
But either way, there's a conflict of 2 people using/trying to use the same phone#, with no workaround. A phone # as the 'unique' acct # is just not a good way to do this.
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@roughling@thebleakest.link
Also the reply is to a different account name than the name on the first post.
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@Wuzzy@cyberplace.social
Cool, I'll have to try it out! I never got as far as finding a village last time I played it.
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@cockneylaurie
He admires Charles, though. Not as much as he admires Putin, of course. But a sign of disapproval from the king would have an effect on him--how much of one, I don't know.
Maybe they could phrase it as "Let's postpone the trip until conditions are a little less unpleasant, not a good look right at the moment, you understand" or something like that. That way, having the trip still be a possibility might make trump want to improve the situation. The pomp and circumstance of the State visit is important to trump's ego.
They should call up rump's psychologist niece Mary, who analyzes him all the time, and ask her advice on how to handle him.
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@futurebird@sauropods.win
Roberts keeps insisting that SCOTUS justices are "not political actors".
Oh? Then tell us why, instead of releasing this decision at the end of June like they've always done with every other decision, for *some reason* he decided to get this one ruling out at the end of April, two months early.
Just in time for all those states to go hog wild with free-reign gerrymandering before the midterms.
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@eiskjchs
No, it's logical. The *phone* might have been wiretapped, and she doesn't want the government to also tap the house.
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