hometown - Link to source

lol just as expected

---

The Canada Revenue Agency paid $18 million for a chatbot the auditor general says gave her team the wrong answer 66 per cent of the time.

..

“We found that Charlie provided accurate answers in only 2 out of the 6 questions we asked it, while the other public web-based conversational artificial intelligence tools answered 5 out of 6 questions accurately.”

The finding stunned Liberal MP Anthony Housefather, who asked Hogan at the time “how is it that the government’s tool specialized for the CRA is worse than the average tool that anyone else can access anywhere?”

unpublished.ca/news-feed-item/…

The CRA spent $18M on 'Charlie,' a new tax information chatbot that is wrong most of the time

Unpublished
in reply to Zazzoo 🇨🇦

mastodon - Link to source

Hubert Figuière

@zazzoo
I posted about it in Feb 2024. mapledice.ca/posts/2024/02/14/… (shameless plug)

It has a link to the original news

Air Canada chatbot

CTV News Vancouver reports Air Canada’s chatbot gave a B.C. man the wrong information. Now, the airline has to pay for the mistake: Air Canada has been ordered to compensate a B.C. man because its chatbot gave him inaccurate information. Good.
Maple Dice
@Zazzoo 🇨🇦

mastodon - Link to source

Do you remember NFTs? I remember NFTs. They exploded onto the scene in 2020 and were *everywhere* in the public discourse. At their peak in 2021, there were something like $25 billion in NFT sales globally. There were NFT Super Bowl ads. Jimmy Fallon had Paris Hilton on his show to awkwardly shill for NFTs.

And then, by 2022, 2023 at the latest, the bubble had burst and NFT market had lost up to 99% of its value.

Blessedly, I never have to think about those fucking Bored Apes ever again.

I remember thinking, when NFTs first appeared, that they were so obviously a scam, but also a vague sense of surprise that such an obvious scam was proliferating while we were still living through the previous blockchain-related scam, cryptocurrency. And since the NFT bubble burst, we moved on absurdly quickly to the next tech scam-bubble, AI.

1/

A chart, sourced to Bloomberg News Reporting, depicting the AI bubble. A handful of companies—Nvidia, Microsoft, Intel, AMD, OpenAI, xAI, and a few others—are depicted as overlapping circles covered in a tangle of arrows depicting the flows of trillions of dollars back and forth between these same few companies.

mastodon - Link to source
Kdo mi to tu nevěřil, že tyhle staré fláky od Alphaville nestárnou? Jo, tohle mít na silvestrovské TV show, snad bych se po letech i chvilku díval. :)
youtube.com/watch?v=kMqg0DB7-s…

Alphaville - "Big in Japan" & "Forever Young" Live (Silvester Schlagerboom, 31.12.2024)

Der Live-Clip von Alphaville aus der Show "Silvester-Schlagerbooom" mit "Big in Japan" & "Forever Young" am 31.12.2024Follow Alphaville on:Instagram: alphavi...
YouTube

mastodon - Link to source

Trump’s DOJ Pressured Lawyers to “Find” Evidence That UCLA Had Illegally Tolerated Antisemitism
---

“The end goal was never to conduct a thorough, unbiased investigation,” said one DOJ lawyer. “The end goal was to file a damn complaint — or have something to threaten the university.”
propublica.org/article/ucla-an…

#News #UCLA #College #DOJ #Trump #USPolitics #Law #Palestine #Protest


The Shakedown: Trump’s DOJ Pressured Lawyers to “Find” Evidence That UCLA Had Illegally Tolerated Antisemitism

An investigation by ProPublica and The Chronicle of Higher Education reveals how the U.S. government ignored due process to gin up its attack on the University of California.
shoshana.gordon@propublica.org (ProPublica)
#Trump #News #law #palestine #doj #protest #uspolitics #college #ucla

mastodon - Link to source

I'm really glad I switched to #Linux.

Being able to understand what the issue is then having the ability to solve it by yourself is a great feeling.

And I'm by no means a tech person!

My computer is finally "mine".
I'm the one in control, not a f***ing corporation making billions by sucking out my private info.

Honestly, it feels like I'm back in the 2000's when computers were fun to use.

#tech

#linux #tech

mastodon - Link to source

„Manche Leute sollten einfach mal die Fresse halten“, sagt das Känguru.

Irritiert schaue ich auf mein Smartphone.

Das Känguru fährt fort: „Was Frau Schröder gesagt hat, ist doch einfach ableistische Kackscheiße!“

Jetzt interveniere ich: "Entschuldige, aber das hier ist nicht der Account von @marcuwekling ! Das ist doch gar nicht dein Platz."

„Frau Schröder sollte auch keinen Platz mehr in den Medien bekommen, ist aber trotzdem da.“

„Touché“, erwidere ich und scrolle auf Mastodon weiter.

@Marc-Uwe Kling

mastodon - Link to source

An der Affaire um die verzockte Zahnarzt-Altersvorsorge kann man gut sehen, was eine Aktienrente für die Versicherten früher oder später bedeuten würde.

tagesspiegel.de/berlin/ambulan…


„Ambulante Versorgung stünde ernsthaft infrage“: Zahnärzte schicken wegen drohender Rentenpleite Bettelbrief an Gesundheitsministerin

Zahnärzte aus Berlin, Brandenburg und Bremen bangen um ihre Renten: Ihrem Versorgungswerk droht ein Milliardenverlust. Nun fordern sie Hilfe vom Bund und kritisieren Berlins Wirtschaftsverwaltung.
Alexander Fröhlich (Der Tagesspiegel)

mastodon - Link to source

Should other countries treat Americans the same way America is now treating tourists by taking DNA, fingerprints, mug shots and by going through the past 5 years of their social media?

#poll #america #tourism #travel #news

  • Yes (55%, 50 votes)
  • Not sure (2%, 2 votes)
  • No (37%, 34 votes)
  • They can’t do that. I’m an American (4%, 4 votes)
90 voters. Poll end: 2 days ago

#News #travel #poll #tourism #america

mastodon - Link to source

Climate models & weather models all deal with chance and probability. Most of us (including me) do not understand probability all that well. Can we use checking the #weather, personally, to better understand #ClimateChange?

mgifford.github.io/risky-weath…

#ClimateRisk #ExtremeWeather

Risky Weather: Model Comparison

mgifford.github.io
#climatechange #weather #extremeweather #climaterisk
This entry was edited (2 days ago)

mastodon - Link to source
You now qualify for 10 more upgrades. Would you like to see them?
[Enter "yes" or "no"]
Occupancy Scanner(240000000.0 credits and 80 status).
Storage Level 8(220000000.0 credits and 80 status).
Hyperspeed level 9(400000000.0 credits and 80 status).
Storage Level 9(245000000.0 credits and 90 status).
Hyperspeed level 10(450000000.0 credits and 90 status).
navi speed upgrade(50000000.0 credits and 100 status).
Storage Level 10(270000000.0 credits and 100 status).
Two-Drone Package(1500000000.0 credits and 100 status).
Hyperspeed level 11(500000000.0 credits and 100 status).
Stocks level 5(125000000.0 credits and 100 status).

mastodon - Link to source

@WeirdWriter wrote this blistering counterblast to #LLM infiltration into our communities and how it undermines our confidence in our ability to create and do what we love. As well as the joy and care in community rebellion when it can seem hopeless.

sightlessscribbles.com/the-col…

Writers also need support, they'd like to eat and pay rent sometime this month. Especially as the market appears to be hostile to true writing that doesn't enforce the status quo.

Support:

sightlessscribbles.com/support…

Tip me, Sightless Scribbles

A fabulously gay blind author.
sightlessscribbles.com
#llm @Robert Kingett

mastodon - Link to source

It's that time of year again! 🎄 🎄 🎄
Wait, no not that, we mean: ⌚ ⌚ ⌚

Yes, it's time for a new Gadgetbridge release! 🎉

Version 0.88.0 supports even more gadgets than before, is more stable than ever, handles and displays your data better, and fixes several mild annoyances.

And it does all this while keeping your health data fully private, outside the reach of vendors and big tech. 💪

Get it now at Codeberg, F-Droid or IzzyOnDroid. 📦

Read more here: gadgetbridge.org/blog/release-…


Gadgetbridge 0.88.0: New devices and key fixes - Gadgetbridge

A free and open source Android application for bluetooth devices.
gadgetbridge.org

mastodon - Link to source

Shoutout to the legendary Tuta community 🙌

Thank you all for taking the time to partake in our yearly survey!

Your feedback and opinions help us build stronger, more secure and user-focused Tuta Products. 💪❤️

💡📊 Check out the highlights of our User Survey 2025: tuta.com/blog/tuta-survey-2025

More than 80% are likely to recommend Tuta.

Tuta User Survey 2025 | Tuta

Check out the feedback from this year’s user survey and learn what we’ll focus on in 2026.
Tuta

mastodon - Link to source

Yesterday was the third anniversary of Raspberry Pi announcing that they'd hired an ex-cop (specifically a Technical Surveillance Officer) as their "Maker-in-residence", and then pissing off a huge segment of their target market by acting completely oblivious as to why that might be a problem.

I missed my calendar reminder about it, so instead you can celebrate the third anniversary of Buzzfeed writing an article about it:

buzzfeednews.com/article/chris…

#RaspberryPi #milkshakeDuck


Raspberry Pi Hired An Ex-Cop And People Are Pissed

“I think what we’re looking at is a dogpile that’s being organized somewhere,” a Raspberry Pi cofounder told BuzzFeed News.
Chris Stokel-Walker (BuzzFeed)
#raspberrypi #milkshakeduck

mastodon - Link to source

Ich bemerke in der Teamrunde, dass eine Paketstation für Rollstuhlfahrer*innen doof ist, weil man an obere Fächer nicht rankommt.

Einwand: "Es gibt auch Rollstühle mit Lift-Funktion"

Ich: "Joah, das ist keine Barrierefreiheit. Dann brauchen wir auch keine Treppen. Es gibt zusammenklappbare Leitern, die können alle mitschleppen."

Seufz. Das ist manchmal echt frustrierend.

#barrierefreiheit

#barrierefreiheit
This entry was edited (3 days ago)

mastodon - Link to source

RE: mastodon.social/@dangillmor/11…

people are not making the connection that this is Palantir bullshit. remember when Trump gave them free reign of ICE during their first coup? remember how Biden bent over and did nothing about it?

it’s one thing to announce this bullshit. it’s another to not to, immediately, make the connections.

which, reminds me: start mentioning Palantir, Thiel and his “liberal” poniboi every time y’all mention ICE.

Dan Gillmor (@dangillmor@mastodon.social)

Trump regime wants to force ALL visitors to the U.S. to install government-controlled spyware on their phones, and submit detailed personal data -- even DNA, apparently -- to the authorities.
Dan Gillmor (Mastodon)
This entry was edited (3 days ago)

mastodon - Link to source

This week in #FDroid (TWIF) is live:

* @marcprux caught on video
* Schedule your #39C3 #CCC visit
* Switching relays in #ArcaneChat #DeltaChat
* #Thunderbird drops #MaterialDesign3 🤯
+ 8 new apps
& 156 updates
- 1 app archived

Click play: f-droid.org/2025/12/11/twif.ht…


Keeping it open (video version) | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 11 Dec 2025, Week 50 F-Droid core We had great reach with our “F-Droid and Google’s Developer Registration Dec...
f-droid.org
#fdroid #thunderbird #deltachat #CCC #arcanechat #39c3 #materialdesign3 @Marc Prud'hommeaux
⇧