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"Technology is, and must always remain, in service to humanity." Inspiring words from Mustafa Suleyman our CEO of Microsoft AI .
Here's 4 different video demonstrations of Microsoft's new Copilot:
An AI companion for everyone - Microsoft
https://blogs.micro…

An AI companion for everyone - The Official Microsoft Blog
We’re living through a technological paradigm shift. In a few short years, our computers have learned to speak our languages, see what we see and hear what we hear. Yet technology for its own sake counts for nothing. What matters is how it feels to people and what impact it has on societies. It’s about...

Classifying Bicycle Infrastructure Using On-Bike Street-Level Images
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.19194v1

Classifying Bicycle Infrastructure Using On-Bike Street-Level Images
While cycling offers an attractive option for sustainable transportation, many potential cyclists are discouraged from taking up cycling due to the lack of suitable and safe infrastructure. Efficiently mapping cycling infrastructure across entire cities is necessary to advance our understanding of how to provide connected networks of high-quality infrastructure. Therefore we propose a system capable of classifying available cycling infrastructure from on-bike smartphone camera data. The system …

"Code is, ultimately, characters on a screen, and software engineers do nothing but hammer that code into shapes that spark Joy and Money. The fear and dread comes from a culture where people feel bad that they can't work quickly enough in the terrible codebase, where they feel judged for slowing down to hammer the code into better shapes that sadly aren't on the Jira board, and where management looks down on people who practice craftsmanship."
-- Ludicity

@… @… Wayback Machine's archive is very incomplete, I could probably scavenge more from my XMPP logs already. No real need for that data though other than feeding my curiosity. Thanks anyway!

Hello, caneandable.social! I'm Lanie, a 32-year-old #Christian woman from Pipe Creek, TX. I'm #aroace, #TotallyBlind,

🇬🇧 Hi, I'm Tomasz! Hello everyone from https://infosec.exchange! I moved here from my private instance https://mastodon.tomaszdunia.pl/@to3k

@… It sounds silly, but it makes sense. I used it in a stop motion game where frame deltas are usually rather high and liked it. Self-contained animations in a well-known file format with simple decoding API, ability to tweak compression strength per frame (including mixed lossy and lossless frames), disposal, blending and alpha channel... If what you want is a short vid…

Does anyone happen to know whether the old data of #identica users that weren't migrated over when it switched from #StatusNet to #pumpio has been archived anywhere? I see a mention that th…