"You have tampered in the Gods' domain!" the god shouted.
"Well, maybe, but you gods tamper in the human domain all the time!"
"That's... That's different!"
"How?"
"We are Gods! It's what we do!"
"And we are human. Likewise."
"I..." The god sighed. "Fair. But keep it quiet, okay?"
La realidad es que no ha cambiado nada en absoluto, la accesibilidad sigue siendo la misma que antes y a las empresas les importa exactamente lo mismo que antes, es decir, casi nada
Accessibility is a right, not an option.One year ago, the European Accessibility Act came into force, making life easier for millions of people living with a disability or reduced mobility.
What changed?
✔️ More accessible products and services across the EU
✔️ Easier access to transport, education, and job opportunities
✔️ Better prices through fairer competition
✔️ More job opportunities for accessibility expertsFind out more: link.europa.eu/f4RfVq
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Accessibility is a right, not an option.
One year ago, the European Accessibility Act came into force, making life easier for millions of people living with a disability or reduced mobility.
What changed?
✔️ More accessible products and services across the EU
✔️ Easier access to transport, education, and job opportunities
✔️ Better prices through fairer competition
✔️ More job opportunities for accessibility experts
Find out more: link.europa.eu/f4RfVq
The EAA sets EU-wide accessibility requirements for certain products and services which are key for the inclusion of persons with disabilities in our digital world.European Commission
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The first two major Casey Junior scenes from Dumbo, now in HD and with better transitioning audio than I've seen on youtube before. Ideally I wanted to mesh ...Dwurban (YouTube)
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A few days ago, my brother turned 50. I feel like I'm not old enough to have a brother that old. I mean, just a little over 21 years ago, my mom wasn't that. Where did it all go?
I've just realized that I will turn 50 in about the same amount of time between now and when I first joined Mastodon.
Well, wel, well, the UK's productivity problem has reached the Royal Family.
Since 2012, when the Sovereign Grant was introduced, the Royal Family's official engagements (which the SG is intended to fund) have failed from 4,127 to 2,273 in 2025.
However, the SG continues to climb (next year it will reach £100m).
One might say it's a demonstration that the Royal Family are just like the rest of the workforce, but it also suggests taxpayers are being taken for a ride.
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#AudioMo Day 27 - June 2026
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Dude! If you’re going to live a life of crime, at least do your research ahead of time. I actually did not intend that to rhyme. Oh my God, it just keeps happening. Lol
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If there's one thing I find sad about the modern internet, it's that we lost the ability to thing like this. Not all of us did, most of eastern Europe still can, but the US and UK especially are pretty bad in this regard. Separate the art from the artist and the work from the employee. Let work be work, private life be private life. If an employee of a company does something disagreeable with their own money and on their own time... well, it's their money. Huge respect for the company here for standing by their principles despite mob pressure. P.S. If you disagree here, do you think it's right and proper for companies to be cancelled over one of their employees being transgender or attending the pride parade? Because that's absolutely what's going to happen. Governments change. Attitudes change. Sometimes people we heavily disagree with gain social prominence or come into power. Making sure that privately expressing an opinion doesn't impact the company you work for is a check on the power of those people, who will happily use whatever power they have to crush our value!. corneill.es/@pi_r/116821863509…
@mtriclot Here is their response :
"Hello,Mullvad is a political company. We fight for freedom of speech, freedom of information and the right to privacy. These are firmly held values of the founders of Mullvad.
Mullvad protects the right for people to express things we don't agree with. We protect the right of everyone to access views we don't agree with.
We also live these values by being tolerant in our daily work. Everyone is welcome to collaborate with Mullvad if they share these narrow core values. As employees, contractors, customers, suppliers, lobbyists, campaign partners or whatever it might be. No matter what their other opinions are and no matter whether the founders or anyone else in Mullvad dislike them. The founders themselves fundamentally disagree on several important issues.
This is what allows us to advance our common causes. Being in a tolerant and intellectually open environment is also liberating and promotes truth seeking.
The more people do this, the better a place the world will be.
It should be obvious that Daniel's private donation to a political party is not part of Mullvad's values or mission, in the same way that someone's opinions on animal rights, taxes or public healthcare policy isn't."
My response : You say: “Mullvad defends the right of individuals to express opinions with which we disagree. We defend everyone’s right to access viewpoints with which we disagree.”
This is a purely rhetorical statement that no one (not even you) can agree with. You wouldn’t defend opinions that call for murder, to put it bluntly.
In my case, I do not agree with giving free rein to fascist opinions. The world does not become a better place because of them, contrary to what you write.
It’s clearly not possible to get a refund: you have a 14-day cancellation policy (which has expired in my case), and I don’t blame you for that. I shouldn’t have paid for such a long period, especially with a non-decreasing rate, and I’m the only one to blame. I just wanted you to know why I won’t be renewing, and why I’ll be urging everyone to steer clear of Mullvad."
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"Australia pledges tougher enforcement of social media ban for teens" over "Eighty per cent of Australian children escape social media ban "
It feels like this entire failed policy is just a way to avoid having to actually regulate social media companies
They are incredibly predatory, sell personal data, manipulative in a way designed to drive addiction, and its closed so it makes regulation impossible
This ban pretty much implies that these things are fine in general, which they are not
yep. and australia was the country that was the right combination of indifferent to child welfare, enrapured by empty political performance, and utterly technologically illiterate, to be the test case for this little accountability-dodge.
and the companies will respond by saying well, we need more of your data.
I’m currently about halfway through Careless People, the insider dump on Facebook.
The company is so much worse than I thought. And they treat each other even worse than they treat their customers.
How about the BBC programming language.
Didn’t they just license and rebrand MS Basic?
There's quite a few fixes for it on my git repository: git.stormux.org/storm/rhvoice-…
Currently there are easy install scripts for Linux and Android. I'm not sure how to do it for Windows systems, but contributions are welcome.
Es ist heiß. Und hier kommt der absolute Geheimtipp: Stell den Ventilator nicht direkt ins Fenster.
Ich liebe Nerds, die nicht beim Bauchgefühl stehenbleiben, sondern konsequent put it to the test praktizieren. Genau so ein Fall ist mir schon letztes Jahr begegnet: Statt nur zu vermuten, wo ein Ventilator am besten funktioniert, hat jemand das Ganze mit Anemometer, Raspberry Pi und einer erfreulichen Liebe zu sauberen Messdaten tatsächlich ausprobiert.
Ergebnis: Luft aus dem Fenster zu blasen (natürlich mit einem weiteren geöffneten Fenster, durch das frische Luft nachfließen kann) funktioniert deutlich besser als sie von draußen hineinzuziehen. Und noch besser: Wenn der Ventilator nicht direkt am offenen Fenster steht, sondern mit etwas Abstand hinausbläst (optimalerweise irgendwo zwischen 50 Zentimetern und 1,5 Metern), wird der höchste Lufstrom erreicht, mit entsprechend stärkerem Frischluftzustrom.
Hier das fantastische Video:
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Conclusio: Wenn ihr an heißen Tagen die warme Luft aus der Wohnung bewegen wollt und frische hinein, dann pustet raus statt rein. Und gebt dem Ventilator etwas Abstand zum Fenster. Manchmal ist der beste Hitzetipp eben nicht mehr Power, sondern smarte Positionierung.
PS: Für Fans von They Might Be Giants hier mein Motto:
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for those who haven't seen it:
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mullvad ceo donated 450k euros to fascists. the thread includes good comments that expand on other shitty privacy companies' ceos like proton and brave
i strongly recommend other punks read these, and share this with our peers. your money is literally funding fascism by using them
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i see proton emails on flyers all the time. i see brave and mullvad on mfs' computers and their screenshots
i get it. navigating this shit is like playing wack-a-mole with a million apps every day all the time. it takes tremendous energy and diligence, so i don't blame people for nor knowing!
but there are better options! tuta hasn't fucked up yet. ivpn hasn't fucked up yet. tbf all the browsers are bad but librewolf is probably the closest thing to good for most of us
what pisses me off is when i tell a supposed comrade or even friend that, "hey, brave is using your traffic to get ad revenue to lobby against gay marriage" and they say "oh no! anyway" and it's still there
dawg you must do better. today.
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@pseudonym same but if I’m honest, it’s my love for the deterministic era of computer software, in the 8-bit and 16-bit era when multitasking and machine “state” weren’t enforced by monolithic, undocumented registries and UUIDs
Ah that’s probably why I hated MS-DOS 5 adding serial numbers to floppy disks
@pseudonym by the by, I had to try and define the word “probabilistic” for the first time yesterday — someone had, understandably, thought it was a joke word — and luckily I didn’t have to define “probability”.
But without that, I thought maybe #deterministic and #probabilistic are antonyms, opposites. Are they?
Today in history:
On June 27, 1967, Barclays Bank unveiled the first automated teller machine (ATM) in the town of Enfield, north London.
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Are you annoyed with the anthropomorphizing language being used in the "AI" discourse, but not sure how to talk about this stuff without it? Nanna Inie and I have got you covered:
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Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie In our op-ed for Tech Policy Press ("We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI'"), we made the case against the...Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 (Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000: The Newsletter)
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unhelpful/misleading term: "train" as applied to LLMs better terms: "compile", "build"James Widman (Mastodon)
also, 100% re misleading metaphors.
i blame von neumann.
@Petesmom You're not wrong, but maybe "extended predictive text" instead of "on steroids" because on steroids refers to how organic creature behaviour changes when it's given extra hormones.
But that's neither here nor there
@jeffcampo
I am _so_ going to use "predictive [text] slot-machine"
In Spain we call slot machines "tragaperras" which translates roughly to "coin swallowers".
I think it also fits.
Too generous by half @emilymbender
Stochastic parrot -not- "probabilistic automation" in ley use probabilistic is as opaque as stochastic, but everyone knows parrots don't understand the language they mimic.
Bullshit -in stead of- "hallucination" and "model mistakes" because if it's an response made without the intent to be correct it is by definition bullshit.
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I don't usually have to describe the output of LLMs, but when I do, I like to say "it emitted some text which seemed to say".
But even "seemed to say" is too anthropomorphizing.
One time, I even tried "it emitted some text which, if it had been written by a human, would say..."
But maybe I could go with "it emitted some text which, if it had been written with intention, would say..."
hallucination → undesirable output
This is the way
Zero pronouns, just "it". I call it the Robot or the text Robot. It doesn't have a human name. I also frequently refer to it as "the BS machine".
I've definitely been using "input" terminology for a long time as well. Though I also like "input prompt", we've had a "command prompt" in computing for a long time, it's never really felt like an anthro term to me. And "input prompt" is a subtle shift on existing terminology.
I really like "unexpected results" over hallucinations... Though I am still very hesitant to acknowledge the term hallucination at all. Even the notion of errors seems kind of wrong. The output may include things that you didn't want in it, but in no way does that mean the system failed.
I think that's the weirdest thing about these Gen AI systems. Not the anthropomorphic language trying to humanize the machines, but the functional language falling to represent what they do.
I use these tools and still hate the language.
I will be a stick in the mud.
now I so want the same resource in French.
I've been struggling with exactly this
« hallucination → undesirable output »
Why not a more straighforward "erroneous outpout"?
An undesirable result could a result that is accurate but that is not the one I am looking for. A made-up quote is more than undesirable, it is erroneous.
« Pronouns are chosen each time, and avoiding pronouns usually reserved for people (and pets), e.g. he, she, and singular they is a good first step. »
Isn't singular they "it"?
Thanks. I've been calling it the plausible sentence machine.
If "undesirable" output is too emotive, how about "unreliable" output?
> artificial intelligence → probabilistic automation
hybrid intelligence → augmented human intelligence
image recognition → image labeling
speech recognition → automatic transcription
the model shows bias → the model reflects bias
model mistakes → model errors
chatbots are good at … → chatbots are good for …
hallucination → undesirable output
@emilymbender this is really great, thank you!
In conversations about AI, I rarely if ever hear people refer to a chatbot as anything other than "it," maybe I keep good company, but the output of these machines is still so unnatural to me I just can't see these things as conscious, or even just cognisant.
I do, however, frequently take shortcuts in talking about LLMs when saying things like, "trying to get it to understand," or "arguing with it," or "it thinks that..." I know I should say things like "trying to bias the output" instead of "trying to get it to understand," but the linguistic shortcut of using the word "understand" is just so much easier sometimes.
news article for business audiences: "An algorithm is a set of instructions that tells AI what to do."
[I lay my head down on my desk and wait for the oceans to rise]
@gbsills
Just trying to watch the news at night before bed and the commercials for Life Insurance which permeate that space are mostly adorned with "Using the power of AI!"† as a selling feature.
Which I'm sure works well for segments of the population which
A) Only know AI as that thing they can ask about that weird bump on their neck and get told it's totally not cancer (or totally is cancer) and breathless believe it as it was delivered in a confident tone.
B) People who will invest in said company knowing that the "AI"‡ is most likely just a model based on existing choice structures used to maximize profits by denying as much as possible without raising suspicion.
C) generally, by keeping the concept of "AI" in a positive/helpful context to further entrench it as an essential and inevitable component of our society.
† AI as commonly used meaning chat-bot LLM
‡ AI as general term, in this case likely a weighted-network / expert-system style scoring algo
The intro to WALL-E combines an image of a post-apocalyptic Earth with the post-war vocals of "Hello Dolly." It connects the post-apocalypse to the aesthetic...voyou1 (YouTube)
Yeah, right, and Al Gore invented the Internet, Al-Gore-ithms, and AI too!
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Peter Brown
in reply to European Commission • • •Nobody wants to be alternately frozen or scalded in the shower so perhaps some minimum eligibility standards should be introduced for taps and shower controls.
#BlindAltBot
in reply to European Commission • • •Point in fact: the EU Accessibility Act offers too many loopholes for organizations that don't offer "products". So nothing much changes, because the EU Accessibility Act itself was made to be a toothless instrument, despite sustained action by disabled activists from the late 20th century onwards.
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While I agree with most of the statement, I would like to point out that most Open-Source projects are done by individuals or small teams who mostly do not even have the time, experience or knowledge on how to make their projects properly accessible, needless to say that they mostly operate on donation basis.
A solution could be requiring OSS to work on accessibility if receiving EU funding or financing 3rd party contributors to aid in making the software accessibly.