@grumpybozo@toad.social2025-11-29 23:34:20
Voice authentication???
I would not trust the basic competence of any org doing that. Facial recognition is bad enough.
Part of this is that I’m whatever the voice equivalent is to face-blindness. I don’t believe that such a thing as a “voice print” can exist. I can tell the difference between Neil Young and Bob Dylan, but any more similar and I’m lost.
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2025-12-29 18:34:45
Totally normal situation:
Ruh 🐱 is eating from the bowl. Mr Ek 🐱 comes through the window. He walks up to the bowl. She notices him and stops eating to sniff his snout. Ek uses the opportunity to start eating the food. Ruh looks at me surprised.
After a minute, Ruh shouts at him. He answers with a hiss, and continues eating.
#cat
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-28 23:07:59
I love that so many Americans turned out to not just protest policies that hit personally,
but to rally in support of democracy writ large.
For many, it was their first time taking this kind of action,
and they were doing it in a way that expressed optimism and possibility rather than giving in to anger or despair
@lysander07@sigmoid.social2025-11-28 15:09:26
Ontology is shaping up to be the buzzword of 2026 because they are offering what #LLMs are lacking: formal grounding
LLMs offer creativity but need logical grounding. Ontologies provide this formal structure, anchoring meaning and unifying diverse data sources into a single semantic layer. They are essential for achieving precision and are one of the most reliable defense mechanisms against
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-12-27 18:53:49
If you’re a mediocre manager / executive / admin / leader, what this feels like is •you• have a brilliant idea that will fix things or save a bazillion dollars or boost the metrics or whatever, but all these annoying underling keep telling you that you can’t do that for reasons that you don’t understand and that make no sense to you and you suspect they’re kind of making up.
And you keep saying “Can’t you just…” and they keep giving these confusing gobbledygook answers and the result is that your brilliant leadership cannot come to fruition.
4/
@benb@osintua.eu2026-01-27 14:34:55
How war makes kids grow up angry: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/27/how-war-makes-kids-grow.html
@DamonHD@mastodon.social2026-01-27 17:20:29
#today I wrote up a set of answers to a UK government consultation on 'Energy Smart Appliances' https://www.gov.uk/government/consult…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-27 03:23:30
Chris Madel, a defense lawyer who had been running for governor of Minnesota as a Republican,
said he had decided to end his campaign
because he had become outraged by the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minneapolis.
The operation “has departed so far from the stated goals that it is simply a disaster,” Mr. Madel said
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-27 03:20:40
The Trump administration appeared to acknowledge on Monday that its investigation into
the killing of a Veterans Affairs nurse, Alex Pretti, by federal agents this weekend
was limited to a “use of force” review meant to establish whether government employees had violated training standards.
Such a move, disclosed in court filings, would represent a much narrower inquiry
-- focused on tactics and conduct
-- than one that would examine whether federal agents shoul…