Metal Mutton 🤖🐏 @SteelWool@computerfairi.es

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.

Cloudflare is the only company that has ever given literal nazis my mother's phone number, so my opinion of them is slightly worse than my opinion of hot garbage.
https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/112887890911515501

CrowdStrike shareholders are suing CrowdStrike https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy08ljxndr4o

What the fuck do you want?

#gamedev

wake up babe new tarot majors just dropped

the horror of needing to sleep

Commission~!

only 24 hours!!!

until kitsune tails dances onto steam and itch and into your heart. wishlist our queer furry mario game or find out more at https://kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails

#KitsuneTails #QueerGames #PixelArt #GameDev

As an archivist, let me say clearly:

Modern copyright law is actively harmful to the preservation and study of our culture.

It harms artists by giving undue power to publishers. It harms artists by limiting remixes. It harms preservation and research efforts.

It's broken. It's bad. It should be massively reformed.

"Keeping VLC free and without ads is a no-brainer. I know people focus a lot on that part but, for me, it’s just the way it should be and it’s not difficult for me to keep it like that... Sure, more money would be fun, but most of the people I know who have more money are annoying." -- Jean-Baptiste Kempf

https://www.welcometothejungle.com/en/articles/kempf-interview-vlc-videolan

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/g6cqr/iama_vlc_media_player_developer_ama/

https://usesthis.com/interviews/jean-baptiste.kempf/

#OpenSource #NonExtractiveSystems

i have juiced the titlescreen. pray i do not juice it further

Be honest! Do you ever cheat at single player video games?