Metal Mutton 🤖🐏 @SteelWool@computerfairi.es

Basically, a good way to never trust "it's okay, the data is anonymized" again is simply knowing what the "Hemisphere Program" is.

https://www.eff.org/cases/hemisphere

In short, the US government got access to number from, number to, datetime, length and sometimes location information for every call passing through AT&T's network from 1987 to today.

Then they ran an algorithm to de-anonymize every burner phone based on behavior. They did this because maybe some of those burners were used by drug dealers.

Toilets that signal *what* the infrastructure is, rather than *who* can enter.

📍: Bruges, Belgium

I used "crowdstrike" as a verb at work today, to paraphrase: "CI is broken because github crowdstruck us with a bad rust compiler update". AKA: usable any time an automatic update from a vendor breaks your infrastructure.

All I'm saying is, if they didn't want this neologism, they shouldn't have ruined my flight home from Italy.

#crowdstrike

"Body language expert" is a red flag waving a smaller red flag surrounded by red flags like some kind of Biblically-accurate red flag. Sorry, I don't make the rules.

From a few years ago, during Jasper’s artsy phase.

#Caturday #cats #CatsOfMastodon #photography

I very much hate casinos and gambling

This is kind of depressing, but probably true.

in 24 hours we've blown past 250 reviews for kitsune tails, what an amazing result! please do keep 'em coming though, we're aiming for overwhelmingly positive at 500, and then, the world!! >:3

On this day, 10 years ago, was released

Hungry Knight! (2014)

Creator(s): Team Cherry
Type: Flash
Language: [EN]
Status: Available through emulation

Flat design has gone too far

Get Firefox dotcom.

Download, install, & run.

Menu -> Add-ons and themes -> Extensions -> Find more add-ons: "ublock origin" -> uBlock Origin by Raymond Hill -> Add to Firefox

Why?

Because now that Chrome has dethroned Internet Explorer, one dark lord has been replaced by another:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-chrome-warns-ublock-origin-may-soon-be-disabled/

Is Firefox the best Web browser? No, far from it! But it's the *least* bad choice of browser that works with the modern excuses for websites you use.

The other day I was thinking about the efforts to de-genderize the Spanish language (by, for example, adding the -e neutral suffix to words that are separated into masculine -o and feminine -a) and how conservative people protest about the purity of language etc etc etc

And then I thought that the English language already went through this. English had genders at one point, like German and the Romance languages do. And now it doesn't. How did that go. What was that process like.

I love slopes now?! The speed you can get in this game is incredible. And the song for this bit is so choice.
#KitsuneTails

This is outrageous!

Intel is laying off over 15,000 employees and will stop all ‘non-essential work’

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/1/24210656/intel-is-laying-off-over-10000-employees-and-will-cut-10-billion-in-costs

#Intel #Layoffs #Labor #Tech

emails are turn-based combat

meetings are real time strategy

First to propose, first to deliver: the AI Act enters into force today.

It sets comprehensive rules to address the risks of AI:

🔴 Unacceptable risk AI, such as social scoring, is banned
🟠 High-risk AI, like in medical devices, must meet strict requirements
🟡 Limited-risk AI, like chatbots, must inform users they are interacting with AI
🟢 Minimal risk AI, such as spam filters, can operate with no added obligations

Europeans can now safely seize the opportunities of AI: https://europa.eu/!t4QTc8

“Study Finds Consumers Are Actively Turned Off by Products That Use AI”

https://futurism.com/the-byte/study-consumers-turned-off-products-ai

> When AI is mentioned, it tends to lower emotional trust, which in turn decreases purchase intentions

Like I've been saying, we don't need the term "slop". Consumers have decided that "AI" in its entirety is bullshit. And, honestly, they’re right.