If it’s actually true that WordPress only makes $23K a year from donations that really puts the idea that donations are a sustainable open source business model to bed. It powers 40% of the web and only receives a fraction of one person’s salary in return. Ouch. werd.social/@ben/1132170023499…
Russian law could ban the child-free lifestyle.
Russians who promote 'child-free movement' could soon face hefty fine, Putin says woman's purpose is to birth children and basically, being childless is a threat to national security and state longevity
They are trying to consolidate that the woman’s role boils down to exclusively bearing children
Now we know where JD Vance got his anti cat woman, pro birth woman talking points #USPol
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***** Where AI excels *****
Obviously, to anyone familiar with my missives on these topics, I am extraordinarily critical of generative AI systems. I won't bend your ear (or eyes) with the details in this message. My stance on this is clear enough.
BUT, I do want to emphasize that my concerns are almost entirely with generative AI, not with AI in general.
First: I don't worry about "evil AI systems" taking over the world or exterminating humanity. Great sci-fi plots though. The most evil AI in film I know of is the computer from "The Invisible Boy" (1957). I mean, that is one really, really nasty AI, who turns Robby the Robot into his slave. Jeez. But these are fantasies.
One sector where AI really excels is in analysis of patterns. Medical diagnostics. Speech recognition. A long list where these machine learning systems are just vastly better than humans at dealing with masses of data and extracting key insights from them. Sidenote: I really enjoy watching the #Google speech recognition system at work, as it quickly corrects, capitalizes, and in other ways "homes in" on utterances as your continuing speech provides more context. I'm pretty constantly amazed at how it picks up on what I would consider to be subtle cues.
In any case, the distinction between this kind of AI and generative AI is not made frequently enough or clearly enough by the mass media at least, with so much attention on generative AI these days.
And it's a very important distinction to keep in mind.
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Yeah, it's those #JustStopOil protesters trying to get your attention to the planetary catastrophe by throwing soup over the protective cases of paintings, who are the real problem, right? RIGHT?
#vangogh #fossilfuel #FossilFuelCriminals #FossilFuelMafia #BigOil #ClimateAction #stonehenge
I talk about cops online, and I have cops hate-following me through their puppet accounts. Sometimes, they reply or DM me.🤷🏿♂️
I talk about GOP politicians, and I have them too. Hi!
I talk about VC bros. So many fleece vests!
For the most part, people are surprisingly reasonable. I'll rant about 10 things, and they'll reply "Mostly fair. But 9 is wrong."
But the 2 things get me the most push back:
* Holding white women accountable for their own actions.
* Advocating for Black women at all.
1/N
Then I remembered, that "evidence does not persuade." So there is no evidence that I could possibly show to convince the 50% of white folk that are super open-minded, that close to half of the other 50% of white folk that are less open-minded, are women. 🤷🏿♂️
7/7
Americans really need to unhitch this conceit stereotype that racists are froth-mouthed, southern, conservative, and not in their own house. Most of my racist experiences come from mid-Atlantic liberals oblivious to their harm.
Just like we all have to kill the cop in our heads, white people have to kill the racist in theirs.
My one big piece of advice to anyone entering tech:
Don't get used to tech company salaries.
Don't get mortgages and car payments that you can only afford with tech company salaries.
Build as much emergency funds as you possibly can with tech company salaries.
Fully expect that you'll get laid off the exact same time the entire rest of the industry stops hiring people, and it may be a couple years before hiring starts back up again.
Sure, you may think those 6 figure salaries means you're living on easy street, but when it comes with only working 8 out of every 10 years, those numbers aren't near as good.
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I wish vector search as a thing would die, or return to the back seat and let traditional indexing things have the first shot.
"oh but vector search is great because it clusters similar concepts!"
Yeah you know what concepts are similar? Different names, different model numbers for things, things that are related to _but different from_ what I searched for.
If I search for "morgan", a result for "morton" is a bad result. If I search for "atari ste", a result for the atari falcon is bad.
I swear half the degradation in websearch these last few years isn't due to content farming and SEO spam, it's purely that search engines collectively decided that people were searching with the wrong words, and that giving them results that are loosely about the broad chunk of concept space near the thing they asked about is better than giving them what they fucking asked for.
Sure, tell me about related concepts. Separately from the results for the sodding word I searched for.
If you run any service, you should try to use it without #google from time to time.
Just log out from Google for a week and observe how your service works. Maybe you realize, that you prepared a nightmare service for ungoogled customers.
For example this youtuber invested into his own video service to be less dependent on youtube. But if you try to log into your existing account without google, you have to pass the #reCaptcha purgatory.
What an irony...
And for some reason they log you out after several days, so nextime you want watch other released episode you have to pass reCaptcha again...
I am sooo annoyed by this...
Hello Stroongers!
Here's part two of #StroongeCast where we answer some user comments about us as a couple, expound more upon the peeling of the orange, discuss our respective mother-in-laws, talk about whether hugging is more of a cultural thing perhaps, and get interrupted twice.
PS. Stick around until *after* the closing music for a little outtake...
For those who want to listen elsewhere, we're pleased to announce that we have an RSS feed so you can paste this into your podcatcher of choice, be that Apple Podcasts, downcast, Overcast etc.
Orange Responses (and then some) youtu.be/vfoXyuk-qmg
Download here: onj.me/media/stroongecast/02_-…
RSS feed: onj.me/media/stroongecast/inde…
Long read but the TL;DR is basically that SaaS is the canary in the coalmine for the #growth fallacy. The arithmetic is so simple it boggles the mind how this mindset came to dominate in the first place: Growth stagnates for these megacorps because there's no more customers. Once you're on 95% of all PCs there's simply no remotely reasonable way to keep growing, let alone grow faster, yet that's what these supposed "business geniuses" expect.
I'm so tired of reading takes on moderation that begin and end with "decide what content I see". That's not even half the question.
It's not about what I see. It's about who can see me. I want to be in control of who has access to me.
For all of it's myriad flaws, activitypub does actually do that, somewhat. And other protocols just don't. Either they're 1:n, 1:all, or all:all. It's so baffling to me that this is the only option that even attempts to do 1:some.
And it's even more baffling that no major implementation has actually taken advantage of that. Followers only should be just the beginning of how you control who're speaking to, not the end.
Every time someone creates an alt on this network as a way to partition their posts to specific audiences should be understood as a failure to live up to the best promise of activitypub.
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Okay y'all, I need to understand this. So someone said that a Pixel 8 is faster than an iPhone 15. Can someone help me understand why someone would say such a thing? The iPhone 15 has a much better SOC than even the Pixel 9, and Google has said that they aren't pushing for benchmarks. This person is using a screen reader, TalkBack and VoiceOver. Meanwhile, to me, the Pixel 8 feels even slower than my iPhone SE 2020, and the Samsung Galaxy S20 FE. Like I guess it could be their way of coping with Android, but I mean there are people who genuinely like it. And yes, it has LLM image descriptions now, so I mean there are people that will put up with it just for that feature. But, meh, sometimes people are unknowable.
#Android #iOS #accessibility #blind
Veo cantidad de gente hablando del "consumo desmesurado" de energía de la IA –aunque en realidad se refieren a la IA generativa, por cierto– cuando ésta representa un porcentaje relativamente bajo –sobre el 10% la última vez que lo vi– del consumo energético de los centros de datos, que a su vez representa entre el 2% y el 3% del consumo energético global. Es decir, que estaría entre el 0,2% y el 0,3% del consumo energético mundial.
Por comparar, el transporte marítimo de mercancías representa casi el 9% del consumo energético mundial, y la práctica mayoría se obtiene a partir de combustibles fósiles. Y a menudo transportan productos del otro lado del planeta solo para ganar un céntimo más por unidad.
No sé, por poner las cosas en perspectiva...
Mir fiel gerade auf, diese Geschichte funktioniert heute wahrscheinlich nur noch schwer, weil ich mich im Gespräch mit einer anderen Person evtl erst über die Definition von „ehebruch“ einigen müsste. Und wahrscheinlich ist das heute auch fließend. Und ich glaube, ich habe zum ersten Mal ne Ahnung was Konservativen da Angst macht 1/2.
#Bibel #Evangelium #FediKirche
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@ondrej ano, to samozřejmě vím, stejně jako Island a Lichtenštejnsko. Ale není to EU. Stejně tak není v EU Velká Británie, přesto ta zpráva (a naštěstí i ceny služeb) vypadají stejně.
Přitom by stačilo to zprávu formulovat třeba takto: "Užívej si v {země}. I tady, stejně jako v celé EU máš ceny jako doma…"
Vidíš, a to já už si ani nepamatuju, jak vypadá volání v UK.
Máš pravdu, ale asi je pro operátora jednodušší napsat EU než zmateným lidem vysvětlovat co to znamená EHP nebo ESVO ;).
айтишники странные..
типа, они реально работают вот с этим?
ПО — пасмурный очкарик
ОЗУ – очень злая улитка
ОС – острый сырок
ЦПУ – целевой паучий умысел
ПК – пентаграмма кашелотов
Muy interesante y necesario el debate que han abierto en @humanite_fr: ¿cómo reconquistar el mundo del trabajo frente al Rassemblement National? En las últimas legislativas muchos trabajadores y trabajadoras se abstuvieron o votaron mayoritariamente a la extrema derecha.
#LivingBlindfully
V dnešní době doslova na koleně vzniká různý open source hardware. Dnes jsem narazil na digitání fullframe fotoaparát. Vývoj ještě není u konce a v podstatě na něm děla převážně jeden člověk. Výstupy již však jsou. Je to fascinující co všechno lze "doma" dnes vyrobit.
Hey @Tutanota, where’s the “not spam” button? I can’t find it anywhere and I keep getting legit emails wrongly marked as spam.
Thanks!
Street art op elektriciteitshuisjes in Den Haag, hierbij de nieuwste in de collectie door SOGOshow
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Wat ik jammer - maar oplosbaar! - vind is dat er geen #kaart bestaat waarop je zelf met #fiets of #lopend een #route kan uitstippelen die je langs een aantal van deze #kunstwerken brengt.
Het dichtst wat daar bij komt is een kaart van #MapComplete.org waarop kunstwerken staan vermeld maar nu nog erg leeg is. Deze huisjes staan er bijvoorbeeld niet op. Het oplosbare bestaat eruit dat mensen ze wel zelf kunnen toevoegen. 😉 #DenHaag
Voor de duidelijkheid: #MapComplete werkt op/met dezelfde database waar heel veel apps op werken: #openstreetmap.org (de Wikipedia van kaarten). Wat je toevoegt komt dus uiteindelijk bij iedereen terecht. Doen dus!
NIS2 is not regulation, it's a directive. That means NIS2 alone is not a thing for businesses, it's a thing for the governments - as each member state has to transpone the directive into a nation state legislation. E. g. I don't care the NIS2 alone, however I am looking for the novelisation of the Slovak Cybersecurity law.
This long intro brings me to conclusion I can't imagine any EU directive to be mandatory (for adoption) by default to Switzerland.
Debby
in reply to Oskar • • •Ich finde diese Initiative einfach großartig! 🤩 Metalab für Menschen mit Sehbehinderung oder Blindheit zugänglich zu machen, ist ein so großer Schritt in Richtung Inklusion. 🌈 Ich wünschte, ich könnte teilnehmen.
PS
Hast du die Braille-Tastatur selbst 3D-gedruckt?
Oskar
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