FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

ars technica: we don't know how they did it but google chrome now extracts a pint of blood every time you log on

chrome user, dizzy from blood loss: I swear to god I am like this close to switching to firefox

another chrome user, on the verge of fainting from severe blood loss: no need to resort to that, just switch to [insert today's trendy chrome fork here] and be smart like meeee

like genuinely there are times walking around the city when i feel like 2023 seattle is a freaky mirror image of 1970s new york. boarded up windows, steel bars, anticapitalist graffiti everywhere, asshole cops, rude drivers, a not-always-dependable public transit system.

during smoke season it's like, hold on, let me check my information rectangle for local terror fog readings. yup, the terror fog that will kill you if you breathe too much of it is really bad today. better close the windows

the two genders

i don't know if the text supports a trans spidergwen headcanon

like let's be clear, "gwen stacy is trans" doesn't really mean anything because it's got no bearing on the story. it's not explicitly confirmed in words, it isn't brought up as a point of conflict, she just *has* a trans flag and that's all the information we're given.

what it does mean is that she is at least as likely to be trans as she is cis. her being cisgender is equally irrelevant to the plot and equally unconfirmed *by* the plot.

so fuck it. spider-gwen is trans. fight me

"maybe she's just an ally"

allies love putting trans flags with the words "protect trans kids" written on them inside their room above their bedroom door where literally no one else could see it but them

Google’s widely opposed ad platform, the “Privacy Sandbox,” launches in Chrome

Chrome now directly tracks users, generates a "topic" list it shares with advertisers.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/googles-widely-opposed-ad-platform-the-privacy-sandbox-launches-in-chrome/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

@Nifflas Ok I checked all the keys,
L is linkedin
W is word
X is excel
N is one note
P is powerpoint
O is outlook
T is teams
Y is yammer

WHAT THE FUCK IS YAMMER?

I have to admit that, if your goal is to have a ton of angry readers send you a detailed list of every single mistake made in your "AI"-written piece, Star Wars is not a bad choice of topic.
TL;DR: ChatGPT&co can write text that makes some superficial sense if you squint your eyes hard enough, but not much more than that.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/08/gizmodo-ai-errors-star-wars/

Just a reminder of how dangerous trusting machine learning to reconstruct an image is.
(from https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-020-01048-5)

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@ret Those are just as bad. :(
There needs to be more restrictions on those sort of single-use electronics.

Single-use vapes are such an environmental hazard when not disposed of correctly; they should never have been allowed on the market.

https://fosstodon.org/@Ryanteck/111029023060513597

"mom, how are computer programs made"

"you see, when two silly catgirls like each other very much-"

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