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@blindbargains If you are going to boost the kind of garbage you have just done in the past few minutes, which effectively means you are endorsing it, it is definitely time to unfollow this account. It's not perfect but this is an incredibly useful training resource. This is most definitely not worthy of your organisation and makes you look like a bunch of idiots.
@Blind Bargains
in reply to Brian Hartgen

aaron
aaron
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Hmm, maybe it was removed but I can’t see anything super questionable. I was just skimming though

#Fediverse #OpenSocialWeb #Mastodon #Canada #CanPoli
This morning I got a response Letter (by email) from the Speakers Office of the House of Commons of Canada in response to the Open Letter* so many of you all signed back in June!

Here is Speaker Fergus’ letter in full. Reply with what you think we should do next to encourage MPs and Parliamentarians to ask for this!
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Dear Mr. Alemany:

Thank you for your letter and proposal concerning Open Social Web.

Many Members, their staff, members of the Press Gallery and Canadians use social networks as a primary tool for consuming news, sharing stories of interest or to comment on news or information. The House of Commons established a presence on social networks in 2017, with a consistent branding, to share information and, critically, to provide Members increased and mobile access to relevant parliamentary information so that they may share this information with their social media followers.

Although the creation of an Open Social Web would present a promising opportunity with several advantages for the House of Commons, as enumerated in your letter, it also brings numerous challenges and risks to the organization (e. g. extensive engagement from many stakeholders, adoption of specialized and secure infrastructure and the need for content moderation and curation).

To date, we have had no requests for this type of service from Members. This would be a substantial undertaking that would require direction and approval from the Board of Internal Economy (BOIE) before being considered for prioritization and implementation. Even if mandated to offer such a service, we would be unable to ensure its adoption and widespread use among parliamentarians.

Thank you for your interest, and please be assured of our continuous support for more open, secure, engaging and informative multi-channel experiences for our users.

Sincerely,
Hon. Greg-Fergus, P.C., M.P

*Open Letter: chrisalemany.ca/2024/05/31/ope…
cc: @Paulatics

A jpg version of the original letter sent. It is on Speaker of the House of Commons letter head. I have blacked out my address.
The second page of the letter includes his final sentence and his signature along with the long list of CC recipients of the letter.
#fediverse #Mastodon #canada #canpoli #opensocialweb
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Gudas bude v NHL nosit jako pátý český hokejista kapitánské céčko
ceskenoviny.cz/zpravy/gudas-bu…

Buy a laptop or tablet from @starlabssystems with elementary OS so that I can pay rent 🙏🏼 starlabs.systems/?rfsn=4227837…
A StarLabs StarLite Mk V tablet with detachable keyboard running elementary OS
@StarLabs Systems
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beautiful women named "Let's Encrypt certificate expiration notice for domain" keeps messaging me

Hello everyone @Friendica Support !
I filed this issue on github and it has been pretty ignored. Of course I don't expect it to be taken into consideration, but I would like to know if I'm the only one who perceives this feature as a problem. I would also be curious to know if in your opinion the issue is easily solvable, or if it requires an unjustifiable effort?


For those who do not have a GitHub account, I report the text of the Issue here:


Good evening everyone.

Introduction

Like most software in the Fediverse, Friendica accounts can also be "followed" through their RSS feed.

In this way, it is possible to use the string https://INSTANCENAME/feed/USERNAME/

For example, the account of the Friendica group "School" is
poliverso.org/feed/scuola/

Is the feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Unfortunately, however, the feed of the Fediverse accounts publishes only the contents of that account and not, for example, those reshared.

This choice, although understandable for normal accounts, is much less understandable for Groups (the former Forums), since these groups do not publish (if not rarely) their own contents.

Describe the feature you'd like

The developers Lemmy have brilliantly solved the problem with their "Communities" (the Lemmy version of Activitypub groups) and today it is possible to follow the feed of the Lemmy communities through the string
https://ISTANZA/feeds/c/NOMEUTENTE.xml?sort=New

And in fact the feed of the "Fediverso" community is perfectly queryable by a feed reader
feddit.it/feeds/c/fediverso.xm…

Even Lemmy displays a feed that presents all the posts published in the local communities (https://ISTANZA/feeds/local.xml?sort=New) and even all those of the federated "timeline" (ISTANZA/feeds/all.xml?sort=New).

I therefore wonder if it is not possible to make it so that at least the "Group" type accounts can display a feed that also includes shared content.

Describe alternatives you've considered

I can't think of any valid alternatives.
I tried in vain to follow a Friendica Group with a Lemmy account (basically I signed up to the "group" which obviously in Lemmy is seen as a "Community"): basically I wanted to use Lemmy to make him export the RSS feed...
Unfortunately, however, there are still problems that do not allow the contents of Friendica to be correctly synchronized in the community view of Lemmy.

@Friendica Support

The Other Side of AI No One is Talking About youtube.com/watch?v=wAgDicfEWF…
in reply to Andre Louis

Tamas G
Tamas G
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finally, not a doom and gloom video about AI tech only, thought it was going to be that

ahahahaha when an AI can't get the nuance between the version of the operating system and the screen reader, you know there are issues.
"JAWS for Windows 3.11 is an older version of the JAWS screen reader. Specifically, JAWS for Windows 3.11 was released in the early 1990s. You would need to look for JAWS versions from that era, such as JAWS 2.0 or earlier, which were compatible with Windows 3.11.
If you have any more specific questions or need further assistance, feel free to ask!"
in reply to Seedy of Chucky

Tamas G
Tamas G
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@TheCube @jaybird110127 ahahaha OMG. "JAWS 95 was released in 1995. This version was significant for several reasons, particularly for its groundbreaking features related to web accessibility. Users could view basic and advanced information about HTML elements using INSERT+SHIFT+F1 and CTRL+INSERT+SHIFT+F1, respectively. This included attributes and values for the current element and its hierarchy." Sure, sure... Since HTMl was well-defined in 95. :D
@Jayson Smith @Seedy of Chucky
in reply to Tamas G

Seedy of Chucky
Seedy of Chucky
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@jaybird110127 JAWS XP was released in 2001. It introduced several improvements over prior versions, including better support for Windows XP, enhanced performance, and new features that improved accessibility and usability for visually impaired users.

Key improvements included:

Enhanced Compatibility: Improved support for Windows XP, ensuring smoother operation and better integration with the operating system.
Performance Enhancements: Faster response times and more efficient processing, making the screen reader more responsive.
New Features: Introduction of new functionalities and commands that made navigation and interaction with applications more intuitive and user-friendly.
These enhancements made JAWS XP a significant upgrade, providing a more seamless and efficient experience for users.

@Jayson Smith
in reply to Tamas G

Andy
Andy
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@TheCube @jaybird110127 The Brailliant is a line of braille displays developed by HumanWare. These devices are designed to help visually impaired individuals read and interact with digital content through braille. The Brailliant series includes various models with different numbers of braille cells, such as the Brailliant BI 14, BI 20X, and BI 40X.
@Jayson Smith @Seedy of Chucky

I was having a nice day until I saw this and have made the executive decision to make it all y'all's problem as well
pavement and roadwork with some misplaced paneling covering underlying infrastructure

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Are there any A.I. detector Firefox plugins that tell you the probability the page you're reading was written by gen AI at a glance?

Playing around with the new iOS 18 features and I thought the new command mode of Braille Screen Input will make me the ultimate forms wizard, just opening the BSI, filling one field in, switching to commands and over to the next field. It sort of works with the dots 1 and 4 navigating to the previous and next item but it also goes over every single label, anything that is not a form field etc. Tried the same by setting the rotor to form controls but as soon as an edit field is found the editing commands jump in and I can only navigate by characters, words and lines. What would actually help is a gesture simulating the pressing of tab to jump to the next interactive element. Rant, and voice, over. #Accessibility #Blind #Apple #iOS
#Accessibility #apple #blind #ios
in reply to Paweł Masarczyk

Cary ✨
Cary ✨
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yeah that's weird, I don't know why it only allows you to switch the rotor between characters, words, and lines in BSI. Switching the rotor to form controls would be nice, especially on a website or app with form fields. Maybe you should submit feedback to apple regarding this thing.

Tor insists its #network is safe after German cops convict CSAM dark-web admin

Kind of boils down to opsec fail here. Using outdated software, which in this case didn’t properly secure Tor connections.

Timing attacks are still viable (especially with hostile nodes), but this reads as an #opsec fail to me.

Remember: a major part of anonymity is maintaining great opsec.

Obligatory: Tor is not “just for criminals,” despite one getting caught in this case (glad he did tbh). Regular people use Tor everyday.

#cybersecurity #security #privacy

theregister.com/2024/09/19/tor…


Tor insists its network is safe after German cops convict CSAM dark-web admin

Outdated software blamed for cracks in the armor
Iain Thomson (The Register)
#privacy #security #network #cybersecurity #opsec

Gonna just react to everything from now on with this Venn Diagram
Venn diagram of the words WHAT, THE, and FUCK. Overlapping parts read, WHAT THE, WHAT FUCK, THE FUCK, and in the middle, WHAT THE FUCK.

Whoops, I gave the FreedomScientific AI Companion my Mist World Gem Simulator JS file, and now it's helping me code it to be better, the idea of talking about JAWS has just, flown out the Window, I guess.
I did this to test whether the field has a text length limit. It was shocking to me that those smart developers at FS did not code in a maxlength to the input, it's like, the least you could do to prevent large use of the API.
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Seedy of Chucky
Seedy of Chucky
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Apparently if you ask it about a screen reader other than JAWS it'll refuse to help you. I say suck that API dry. They've sucked us dry enough over the years; they can eat the costs.

Challenge: How many questions will it take the new Freedom Scientific AI chat bot to give me something totally ridiculous? fscompanion.freedomscientific.…
Answer, only one. It just told me that R and Shift+R can be used to navigate to the next/previous slider on the Web.
On the more amusing side, it was also perfectly happy to tell me that NVDA+N can be used to access the NVDA menu, and that I should quit JAWS and switch to NVDA first. A real shame we can't share the conversation...
in reply to Nikola Jović

Tamas G
Tamas G
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what's interesting is that I can get it to admit being powered by Open AI and GPT-4, but it will refuse to say it's ever Claude-powered, which tells me they are probably using 4O mini for this with custom embeddings of the training / JAWS documentation.
in reply to Nikola Jović

victor tsaran
victor tsaran
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@Tamasg A good fine-tuning would go a long way here. I am surprised this was not done by FS devs.
@Tamas G

The #Linux 6.12 pull request for #PREEMPT_RT is handed to Linus. Likely the first PR ever submitted in printed form. #kernel #LinuxKernel #Realtime
#linux #realtime #kernel #linuxkernel #PREEMPT_RT
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Bubu
Bubu
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at cccamp last year some kernel devs did merge request review on printed out lkml emails (which came from an endless paper printer). 🙂

I set up this server for myself and my friends, but i swear to god i'm literally the only one who posts here.

One person occasionally boosts. Another raaaarely replies, but I feel kinda like a spammer every time i look at the "Local" feed and it's just "me me me". :/

in reply to masukomi

Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
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That just means the local feed isn't a good UI for such a small server.
in reply to Matt Campbell

masukomi
masukomi
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@matt meh. I don't think there's much of anything else for it to ever show really. They BARELY use it it.
@Matt Campbell

Captain Picard looks sternly at the main viewer. “OPEN A CHANNEL TO THE FERENGI VESSEL!” White text on a red background appears on the view screen that reads “OH, YOU'RE USING AD BLOCK? WE SUPPORT OUR OPERATIONS WITH ADVERTISING REVENUE DISABLE YOUR AD BLOCKING PROTOCOLS IN ORDER TO COMMUNICATE WITH THIS VESSEL. -THE GRAND NAGUS” Picard mutters “OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE”

How do you make holy water? You boil the hell out of it.

“It was May 8th 2020 for the third time, and Ryan had already caused two traffic accidents.”

Ryan "Quicksave" Romano is an eccentric adventurer with a strange power: he can create a save-point in time and redo his life whenever he dies. Arriving in New Rome, the glitzy capital of sin of a rebuilding Europe, he finds the city torn between mega-corporations, sponsored heroes, superpowered criminals, and true monsters. It's a time of chaos, where potions can grant the power to rule the world and dangers lurk everywhere.
Ryan only sees different routes; and from Hero to Villain, he has to try them all. Only then will he achieve his perfect ending... no matter how many loops it takes.

royalroad.com/fiction/36735/th…

When Google Drive gets ARM support on Windows and I can finally mount my Drive FS in Windows Explorer again, I will be one happy person. A bit sad that it's only until now that Google decided to pick up that project again, most likely with cloud customers driving that decision.

Couldn't make it to the #matrixConf but you don't want to miss out on the talks? We've got your back!

Head to 2024.matrix.org/watch and watch the talks in real time, starting at 10:00 CEST tomorrow

#matrixconf
in reply to The Matrix.org Foundation

picofarad
picofarad
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is there a good guide for setting up the microservices needed to use the "rooms" on the wider network? synapse single threaded i can't join most of the channels on, say, matrix.org; it's just too slow.

The guides made my eyes glaze over, and i'm a systems architecture person. send help :-)

User preferences are increasing importance for user experience ericwbailey.website/published/…

Si escriben en #español y viven en #EstadosUnidos o #Canadá, esta convocatoria les puede interesar.
¡Anímense!
Primer #PremioInternacional de #LiteraturaEnEspañol en Estados Unidos y Canadá, de #LiteralMagazine: literalmagazine.com/primer-pre…

#literatura #escritoras #escritores #libros #cuento #novela #poesía #concursos #ConcursosLiterarios #PremiosLiterarios #castellano #literaverso #USA #writers #LiteraryAwards #LiteraryContests #WritingContests #WritersOfMastodon

#USA #canada #writers #libros #espanol #literatura #poesia #escritoras #literaverso #estadosunidos #Premiointernacional #literaturaenespanol #literalmagazine #escritores #cuento #novela #concursos #concursosliterarios #premiosliterarios #castellano #literaryawards #literarycontests #writingContests #writersofmastodon

After a full day of sharing ideas, talking and socialising at #matrixConf, it’s time for drinks (and food!)
A picture of a crowd in a garden, socialising, drinking and eating
#matrixconf

fun fact: if a piece of software helps you out, it only takes 3 minutes to write a quick e-mail to its author/maintainer and thank them.

All the books I've read about business management, professional development, and so on, could be summarized in 10 pages or so.
There are some great books out there with incredibly insightful and useful concepts, but holy shit if they like to bubble up those concepts into never ending meandering and useless anecdotes.

"You could improve your workflow with these 4 concepts, but first, let me tell you about the time a seagull pooped on my ice cream and the lesson I learned from eating shit"

Man, if Mozilla had spent any real time in the last decade making embedding/using Gecko feasible for anything except Firefox, there'd be so many Gecko-based browsers right now.

My entire journey with developing Gecko stuff and working for Mozilla started because embedding was possible (though difficult).

It's sad to see Mozilla management continue to just not learn anything at all. Misfire after misfire. But they're more important now than ever :(

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in reply to Cwiiis

Stuart Langridge
Stuart Langridge
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oh look here's us having this same discussion a decade ago and not being heard then either, sigh kryogenix.org/twitter/55152926…
in reply to Stuart Langridge

Emmanuele Bassi
Emmanuele Bassi
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@sil I think this has been pretty much a constant source of dismay among people that worked on Gecko
@Stuart Langridge

Oops, I accepted to be in the CRA panel at NSSS on Monday nsss.se/y2024/agenda/monday/

I can't stop thinking back to that Best Buy experience yesterday, buying the laptop - the sales associate tried to really upsell me on Windows AI laptops, and how these NPUs will help me code offline with AI assistance, something I can't do on Intel chips, but could do with the Qualcomm AI-powered gismos. I flat-out told him that I need the compatibility for VMWare and drivers, and would not go with ARM, but he really tried to push it, claiming VS code supports offline AI coding only on Qualcomm
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Tamas G
Tamas G
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it was down to the HP and an IdeaPad 32-GB ram config model they had in-store, and I got a chance to look at the XPS13 with the touch-bar and squished-together keys (something that was out for me from the get-go.) About the only agreement we found was in the sentiment that the mid-range of computing is eroding - you either get something heavy meant for gaming with dedicated GPU and weaker battery, or something light and thin that sacrifices a bit of the oomf and AI power to give that to you.
in reply to Tamas G

Tristan
Tristan
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Windows hardware is truly a nightmare these days, especially for notebooks. Between AI and Copilot, shitty Intel CPUs with continuingly awful thermals, ARM PCs being woefully underwhelming... maybe the only good thing is AMD, and even then problems still exist. I had a lot of excitement for ARM; all of that is gone now that Snapdragon blew it. I have a Windows desktop and linux mini PC server that meet most of my needs, so I've concluded that I'm probably going to get a MacBook. Sigh
in reply to Tristan

Tamas G
Tamas G
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@tristan yeah, AMD was in the cards for sure, but sadly if I still want to enjoy Mac OS under VM, probably for the last time if Intel is dropped next year or after, I had to go with them still. What blows my mind is the thermal envelope of this chip, going from 28W all the way to 115W. That's huge, which means my battery could be 10+ hours with light browsing but turn into 3 hours with running a local LLM and ramping up the power. ARM needs time to mature in ecosystem sadly.
@Tristan
in reply to Tamas G

Leo
Leo
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Unfortunately they rely on pushing users who might not know how AI or PC's work. This is why I mostly go in just to see the laptop, then buy it online. No one is going to talk me into a computer I don't want online :).

Rant: I think a new interview question is in order for us.

"We have a programatically enforced code formatting standard we've been consistently using for years. Without seeing the output, will you want us to revisit it?"

If they answer anything other than "no," they fail.

I am SICK AND F'ING TIRED of developers fighting over code formatting. No one agrees on one single way.

Our way is both conventional and consistent. Deal with it.

#software #Developer #SoftwareDevelopment

#software #developer #softwaredevelopment

I'm noticing that LLMs are horrible when you start asking them to name the title of the next book in a series. We're talking about major just making things up ...

Adwaita is really pretty freaking great. It makes designing responsive apps just… easy?? Here’s an update to Butler, my Home Assistant app, for GNOME 47 and Adwaita 1.6.

Update coming soon to Flathub!

#GNOME #Adwaita #Flatpak #Flathub #HomeAssistant #Linux #OpenSource

Screenshot of two windows side-by-side. On the left: a larger "desktop" size window with the settings in a dialog window, centered and floating over the parent window. On the right: a smaller, skinnier "mobile" size window with the same settings shown as a bottom sheet that slid up from the bottom.
#linux #opensource #homeassistant #gnome #Flatpak #flathub #adwaita

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Cassidy James Blaede
Cassidy James Blaede
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Drag-and-drop can be pretty sweet on GNOME, too. Did you know you can drag-and-drop credentials from your password manager, and drag colors between color pickers? Check it out!

GNOME reshared this.

Oh, my. It would seem that while the FSCompanion.ai is meant to answer questions about JAWS, Windows and other applications it ... um ... will be happy to chat about other things, as well.
in reply to Leo

David Goldfield
David Goldfield
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@Lprazdnik See the main Freedomscientific.com landing page for info on the JAWS 2025 beta.
@Leo

Mit dem #Köln|er #Fahrradkalender @koeln gibt es die Möglichkeit, diverse Termine mit Fahrradbezug zentral zu sammeln bzw. einzusehen. Seit heute unterstütze ich das Team. 🗓️
@fahrradkoeln
events.fedibikes.social/@koeln
#köln #fahrradkalender @Kölner Fahrradkalender @FahrradKoeln group

Frage ans Publikum:
Ist DAS 2024 noch zeitgemäß?

"#SheTransformsIT – gemeinsam für ein innovatives, souveränes
Digitaldeutschland
Frauen für Digitalisierung zu gewinnen, ist eine gesamtgesellschaftliche Aufgabe. Die Veranstaltung der Initiative #SheTransformsIT ...
Denn nur durch verstärkte Interdisziplinarität und die Zusammenarbeit aller können wir das bis lang ungenutzte weibliche Potenzial für Digitalisierung heben."

Fehlt es uns wirklich "nur" an Frauen - oder an echtem Mut zu Diversität?

#shetransformsIT
in reply to Katja Diehl

Dirk Blank 🇩🇪
Dirk Blank 🇩🇪
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Es fehlt nicht an Mut zur Diversität! Es fehlt an Mut ohne "Mauern" im Kopf zu denken.

Gelder für Initiativen werden von Leuten vergeben die nicht nur "Mauern" he, she, it im Kopf haben.

In der IT geht es um Expertise. Solange Menschen mit IT-Expert verniedlichend als Nerds bezeichnet werden ändert sich nichts. Hier sind viele Mauern einzureißen.

U.a.

@bkastl und @Lilith zeigen, daß Frauen eine gute Expertise haben.

Viele Nerds (he, she, it) werden nicht ernst genommen!

@Bianca Kastl @Lilith Wittmann

I changed my company postal address on my VPS provider’s website. This sent a confirmation email to me. Which sent my auto-reply about being on sick leave back to them. Which created a support ticket. Which created confusion in their system about why I created a support ticket.I got a reply to that ticket that would appear to be AI-generated. The automated reply-tool couldn’t figure out what my question was. 😅

So many bots are going to be just arguing with each other in perpetuity.

Acabo de terminar El Resplandor, y estoy sin sueño. ¡Espero que no empiecen a oírse ruiditos extraños! Qué bien escribe el maldito, y que mal cuerpo leer este libro... Ahora necesito algo cozy y cuqui para desintoxicarme.
#Redrum #TheShining #esplendor #StephenKing #Bookworm #Bookstodon
#bookstodon #bookworm #stephenking #redrum #theshining #esplendor
in reply to José Manuel Delicado

Sukil Etxenike
Sukil Etxenike
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Sí, hace mucho. Ahora estoy con las cosas que flotan, después de pasar por un perro muy cariñoso.

A project analyzing human language usage by scraping the web is shutting down because "generative AI has polluted the data." It's going to become much harder to analyze human use of language with the rise of AI-generated stuff being everywhere.

404media.co/project-analyzing-…

#Tech #AI

#AI #tech
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