Fediverse Punk Month — We can grow something better!
We invest too much of our culture in centralized, for-profit, corporate social media platforms. These platforms enrich billionaires, expand surveillance, and fund the cult of capitalist war, all while trapping us with addictive algorithms that feed us mindless content. […]
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UK regulator fines porn company $1.8 million for failing to verify user ages https://therecord.media/ofcom-porn-fine-verification
Italy may be the first EU country to impose requirements on private charging points in its transposition of the EU REDIII into national law: newly installed private charging points must be able to communicate with smart meters from June 30 onwards.
https://www.normattiva.it/uri-res/N2Ls?u…
>Mom: "Your fishtank seems to be flowing slowly"
>Dad: "No, it's fine, it's not supposed to flow strongly"
>Me: *looks*
>Me: "No, mom is very much right"
Ik ben een fan van orgels, van orgelmuziek, van veel filmmuziek, van Wagner die tenslotte de filmmuziek heeft uitgevonden, van mensen met een dikke vlecht in her haar en dus ook een van Anna Lapwood.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieFGwtEa9Qo
Pro Football Hall of Fame expected to change voting procedure following Bill Belichick snub https://www.nfl.com/news/pro-football-hall-of-fame-expected-to-change-voting-procedure-following-bill-belichick-snub
Ofcom fines 4chan £520K for OSA violations, including a £450K penalty for failing to implement age assurance checks, giving it until April 2 to implement them (Mizy Clifton/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-online-safety-regulator-f…
Is building an LLM inherently problematic? Not necessarily, but there's no good way to do it under capitalism. Is using an local LLM funding these evil companies? No. It's not.
Spelling and grammar checking is one of the few uses of LLMs that is not based on fundamentally failing to understand what an LLM actually is. A statistical model is gonna be *really good* at flagging things that are probably typos (low probability areas). There will be false positives, which is fine if you're actually paying attention...
@… Rector 2.3.1 works fine, except for a few warnings for me.
Now composer-unused is where my issues are; filing issues for it tomorrow.