Rivaclaw 🏳️‍⚧️ΘΔ @renbymon@computerfairi.es

🚨 The UK Data Bill returns to Parliament next week 🚨

It'll strip back your ability to challenge life-changing decisions made by AI.

Join 980 people who've signed our petition to protect the right to human review of automated decisions. #PeopleNotMachines

Sign now ➡️ https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ai-says-no-tell-keir-starmer-that-people-not-machines-should-oversee-life-changing-decisions

#AI #DUABill #DataBill #dataprotection #privacy #GDPR #ukpolitics

I was today years old when I was told that the way I hold pencil is good for writing letters but bad for drawing smoothly flowing precise lines. I changed my grip from tripod to violin bow OR pen and voila...

Thanks helpyoudraw tumbler for a helpful illustration

Super excited to be in the dealer's den this year! Come by on Monday and say hi! I'll have exclusive goodies including my new acrylic pinbadges, and may or may not be performing (pizza) summoning rituals. #Furry #Scotiacon

About a year ago I came across the Xenia Plymouth theme that @fern made and have been using it with a slight tweak to add a loading bar since then, until a few days ago when I was like "But what if it was using the summoning circle art from @Neotheta instead?"

Today I finally sat down to switch out the image, and this is the result!

The original artwork by Neotheta | Source code

#FlannDoesStuff

Just in time for #WerewolfWednesday, here's the raffle prize I did of capsaicincoffee.bsky.social's character, Alexis!

You all know how much I love drawing a lovely, snarly werewolf gal. 😊

#werewolf #WerewolfWoman #WerewolfWomen #monsterArt #wolf #anthroWolf #fangs #teeth

If you're in the UK and run a #Misskey/#Sharkey/&c instance, you may want to disable the "global timeline" (and probably "bubble timeline" too) in the default role, and enable it again in a role conditionally applied to local users.
This will prevent your instance from serving random notes you don't control to non-logged-in users, which may increase your risks under the Online Safety Act
(IANAL, this is not legal advice, consult your lawyers)

if you're responsible for a FOSS project, it's now time to consider how you can run your project without relying on the US.

like, using GitHub is fine. Continue using it - I do, too, and there's a lot of value of having projects centralized in one place.

but you **need** to make sure you have a contingency plan. is your repo with all branches and metadata backed up somewhere else? do you own your project's website, discussion forums, or something else that allows you to point your users and contributors to a new place if you need to?

can you continue work on your project if US-big-tech decides your very existence is no longer allowed?

now is the time to take inventory and build backups.

End results aren't as sharp/focused as I would have liked, but still kinda clear. :)

Taken on a Canon Rebel T3i/600D with a 200mm lens, f16, ISO400, 1/400 on the left and 1/16 on the right.

Sonic is very protecting of his little guys, even in werehog form

The biggest problem I have with GenAI is that it has totally taken away many people’s ability to evaluate what they can and cannot do.

I can tell when a skilled programmer didn’t write some code.

I can tell when a person without good writing skills wrote some text.

Never be ashamed. There is absolutely no shame at all in not being able to do something. I respect a “that’s beyond my capabilities” more than an attempt to pull the wool over my eyes with LLM garbage.