Metal Mutton 🤖🐏 @SteelWool@computerfairi.es

The term you are looking to dislike is "Generative AI". AI/ML has been used for decades and continues to be used for many useful, ethical, and not at all wasteful purposes.

It's what makes your low-light photos less noisy, it's how OCR works, it's how speech recognition works, it's how low-cost motion capture works.

Remember the original Kinect? That was powered by ML (paper).

GenAI, specifically, is the grift.

It's not fully implemented yet, but it's already recognizable as being Minesweeper. Not bad for about two hours' work. #pico1k

Savage!

finally got my video-exporter to output audio as well, so now i'm ready to record trailer footage

Do you need dark mode or do you just need to decrease your screen brightness?

I think most people (myself included) don’t have an intuition for orders of magnitude (e.g., the difference between millionaire and billionaire).

One way to appreciate this is time, since we all experience it. Here's the difference between a thousand, a million, and a billion seconds.

Mozilla leadership
(in ref to https://mozilla.social/@mozilla/113153943609185249 )

#comic #firefox #mozilla

mozilla withdrawing from mastodon due to a lack of funds but having enough money to finance shitty ai research is like finding out your local library closed because they spent all their money on an inflatable dinosaur exhibit

#Mozilla has announced that they are closing their Mastodon instance.

But at least, they are hiring a lot, which is nice.

Like:
- Machine Learning Engineer, Gen AI
- Principal Product Manager, Generative AI
- Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Gen AI
- …

Wait, are they hiring for something else than AI ?

Glad you asked:

- Senior Staff Software Engineer, Ads
- Client Analytics Manager
- Product Policy Manager, Ads
- …

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/careers/listings/

kitsune tails is 15% off on steam (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1325260) and itch (https://eniko.itch.io/kitsunetails) for the next week

GamesRadar+ said "Nintendo wasn't brave enough to put lesbian fox girls in Super Mario Bros. 3" and PCGamesN called it the PC's "very own answer to Super Mario Bros. 3", so if you like lesbian fox girls and SMB3 you should definitely give it a look

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9uaIPrJghE

a while back, someone asked, "why isn't there a way in C to tell if my code is optimized?" thankfully, we can implement this as a library function

He's not small he's a grower

Mistaken beliefs programmers have about gender:

- People have only one of two genders
- People will have only one gender in their entire life
- Okay, people will only have at most two genders in their entire life
- A person's pronouns can be derived from their gender
- Pronouns can be enumerated in a dropdown list
- People will not change their pronouns
- A person has pronouns
- A person has a gender

Reading through Mozillas jobs page: "Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Gen AI", "Senior Staff Software Engineer, Ads", "Program Manager, AI 360", "Principal Product Manager, Generative AI","Sr Staff Fullstack Engineer, Anonym", "Senior Manager, Sales (Anonym)"

I see they have fully pointed the ship towards a future of AI and Ads.

The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from skill the ability to access wealth.
#ai #generativeAI

New: Snapchat is reserving the right to use your own, AI-generated likeness in ads that can then target you. The setting is on by default according to our tests https://www.404media.co/snapchat-reserves-the-right-to-use-ai-generated-images-of-your-face-in-ads/

Links to Tumblr blogs are as useless as links to Twitter. Both are gated behind a mandatory login.

#Mozilla abandons #Mastodon and the #Fediverse. Figures.

https://mozilla.social/@mozilla/113153943609185249

Took my new Ortlieb Back-Roller Classic pannier bags out for a test ride.

Stopped to take a photo next to another mode of foot based transportation.

Yabba-dabba-do!!!

#biketooter #cycling

That's bold, Mozilla, given that 100% of the unwanted AI that I've had pushed on me in the past two weeks has been from you.