Metal Mutton 🤖🐏 @SteelWool@computerfairi.es

I've read a lot online about how "Y2K was overblown". As an engineer who worked like crazy in 1999 to correct our systems this drives me crazy.

Today I read about games going offline, watches getting frozen and airline tickets showing the wrong date.

Because of a leap year. Which happens every FOUR years (give or take).

Yeah Y2K was a once every 1000 year issue.

Isn't 2038 going to be fun.

🐭Hi hi check out this cute commission for SatyricalSol!!!!~ This was really fun x3

Commission

Never roll your own date time library kids

I love the little queer people in my phone ​​

Amados protozoos, abran mis caminos.

I don't know what the fuss about leap years is about when too many people seem unwilling to properly account for the existence of non-binary folks in their code (or, heaven forbid, politics).

Statistically, Feb 29th is even rarer.

What's next, elements other than H/He in the universe‽ Don't be ridiculous

#TransRightsAreHumanRights

Patreon YCH event result for Nukepone!

#sfw #furry #anthro #outfit #burger

Here's a breakdown of #Pico8 0.2.6's new "waveform instrument" encoding: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=45247

Toys for Bob is splitting off from Activsion Blizzard and going indie https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/toys-for-bob-is-splitting-off-from-activsion-blizzard-and-going-indie?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

I'm an expert in PHP

Pretty
Hardcore
Procrastination

Part 2~~~
#xenia #furry #furryart #linux

Built different (lul)

Style study! I Drew Xenia in the style of Sabrina Online~
#xenia #furry #furryart #linux

Tech bros want robot slaves/servants to do work for them or engage with them because unlike biological humans they have no choice or rights.
I want robots who can be my friends by personal choice, just like biological humans can be.
We are not the same.

If you're on Tumblr, the AI scraping is being rolled out NOW NOW NOW.

You can turn on 'Prevent third-party sharing for [blog name]' to opt out.

You have to do this for each blog individually. It wasn't there for me at first, but when I navigated to my blog settings via View blog it updated - don't know if that was coincidence. Anyway:

On web: select Account > Your blog > View blog > Blog Settings

I'm off to see if there's anything I can do on WP. #tumblr

I want y'all to notice something else about tumblr's opt-out AI setting. Look at how it was officially announced:

And now I ask you to consider something else: When we introduced "blaze other people posts", Staff also got a lot of flak for making it an opt-out setting. But really it wasn't (at first): When it was launched, every tumblr user got a pop-up the next time they logged in telling them about the change and warning them to go to settings and disable the new checkbox if they weren't ok with it. And you didn't really get opted-in until you had seen that pop-up: It could have been better, but at least there wasn't anyone being opted-in without their knowledge.

But with AI? no pop-up, just a (very hidden) new checkbox in the blog settings, and a @staff announcement. An Staff post that makes an strong use of passive voice to not making it too clear that tumblr ACTUALLY has partnered with AI companies to sell your data: It looks like they are being nice and giving you the chance to add an extra layer of security against data scraping, right? nothing too urgent, don't worry about it!

But then the 404 media post went out a day before they intended to (quietly) launch this and they had to rush it out. With the verbiage that was intended for a purposely low-key announcement. Sure, without that 404 post there would be some low-key pitchforks and torches, but they weren't planning to let us know that AUTOMATTIC ALREADY HAS A DEAL WITH OPENAI TO SEND YOUR DATA BY DEFAULT, just that "hey we are giving you this new setting to discourage any AI company to user your data for training... that would be crazy if it happened, uh? hehe".

@faraiwe Added alt text.