@tante@tldr.nettime.orgThe Automattic “AI” thing
Automattic is secretly selling the stuff their users wrote and drew and created to "AI" companies to fuck up the web a bit more for a few bucks. But the problem goes deeper.
https://tante.cc/2024/02/27/the-automattic-ai-thing/
@bici@mastodon.socialWordpress and Automatic selling their souls
'The Automattic “AI” thing'
https://tante.cc/2024/02/27/the-automattic-ai-thing/
@leodurruti@puntarella.partyGli Writhing Squares hanno imbarcato un batterista e sono diventati una specie di mostro rumorista psichedelico che picchia durissimo
Writhing Squares – The Damned Thing
https://thewrithingsquares.bandcamp.com/track/the-damned-thing
@raiders@darktundra.xyzPFF Brutally Blasts Las Vegas Raiders For One Specific Thing https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/pff_brutally_blasts_las_vegas_raiders_for_one_specific_thing/s1_17150_40167181
@khalidabuhakmeh@mastodon.socialReally neat post from @… #jetbrains #fleet #softwaredevelopment
@jimcarroll@futurist.infoDaily Inspiration: "Always be prepared to know how little you know!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
One thing that I have always understood about my ability to interpret the future is that while I know a lot of stuff, there is a lot I do not know. I think that's a good thing, because that fact is the basis for my relentless curiosity, and I have long believed that curiosity is the key to success for anyone. If you ever lose your creativity, you lose your initiative. Lose your ini…
@migueldeicaza@mastodon.social
@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🔊 Auf radioeins läuft...
The Police:
🎵 Every little thing she does is magic
#NowPlaying #ThePolice
https://open.spotify.com/track/44aTAUBF0g6sMkMNE8I5kd
https://invasivesound.bandcamp.com/track/the-police-every-little-thing-she-does-is-magic
@fgraver@hcommons.social“I’m tired of these adult toddlers who need an AI to tie their shoes and make bad Pixar characters for them. Microsoft and Google keep shoving AI features into their software, and I absolutely should not have to worry about this garbage from Firefox of all places. Beyond the marginal utility of use cases like transcription and realtime voice cloning for goofy bullshit jokes, the majority of this stuff has made my experience on the internet (where I hang out a lot) measurably more unpleasant.…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alIf you’re a web developer using Vivaldi, first thing you should do is go to Menu − Settings − Appearance and, under the Menu section, select Page from the Menu Customization dropdown then right-click on [Developer Tools] under Content and deselect Show as Subfolder.
You’re welcome 🤓👍
Update: You have to do this manually for *every item* in the Menu section. That’s Audio and Video, Image, Link, Selection, and Text Field in order to have the Inspect item top-level.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioThe thing that irks me is that literally anyone who's using their brain to research the "VR goggles" market for like a day could have told you this.
It has "vanity project" written all over it.
https://mastodon.online/@parismarx/1123389856439290…
@jamesgleick@zirk.usI feel I’m fairly well informed, but there’s a thing I don’t understand, and it keeps me awake at night: Many of my fellow citizens want this man to be president again.
[photo by Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP]
@fipmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🔊 #NowPlaying on fip
Mato:
🎵 The thing dub
#Mato
https://favoriterecordings.bandcamp.com/track/the-thing-dub
@protecttruth@mastodon.online“One thing is clear: Cesar Conde has lost control of his organization, prompting insiders to wonder how he continues to remain in his role as chairman of NBC News Group.”
This is a rare case that the public sees journalists’ anger at their corp bosses.
https://view.newsletters.cnn.…
@anildash@me.dmGlad to celebrate the release of The Freaks Came Out To Write, Tricia Romano’s incredible oral history of the Village Voice. I’m a tiny footnote amongst so many huge voices. And very surreal to read back what I remember about waking up the morning of 9/11. https://www.
@timbray@cosocial.caDear LazyWeb, Bit of a long shot here. I'm replacing a bog-standard 5T disk in my bog-standard Synology DS416j and seem to have lost the package of screws that came with the thing. Having trouble figuring out exactly what the right kind of replacement screws is required to fasten the disk in the tray. Thought I had, but it's not really locked down, and vibrates. Anyone know the right answer?
@galaxydinodragon@social.linux.pizzaShouldn't the saying "best thing since sliced bread" be "best thing since jam/other spread" cause bread without spread isn't the nicest.
Random thought done cya
@hynek@mastodon.socialOne fun thing about watching Final Cut Pro tutorials is how somehow normies all call the “backtick” key “tilde” because… it’s more prominent on the key? So far, every single YouTuber got it wrong which used to be confusing but now is just amusing.
Reminds me of how a large part of the general population calls regular forward slashes “backslash”.
@danyork@mastodon.socialThe one interesting thing about living only 45 minutes south of the Canadian border is that our daughters now have a lot of experience going back and forth through border crossings, presenting passports, answering questions from serious border people, etc.
Not something they might have experienced as frequently if we lived in, say, Nebraska, or somewhere else more in the middle of the country.
#Vermont
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialAn update on the Affinity/Canva thing, though I still don't trust them...
➡️ #software
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeIs there such a thing as a cost optimized "discharge-only" RF terminator?
Basically, something that you use for discharging ESD from cables and is built to tight mechanical tolerances on the mating interface so as to not risk damage to expensive connectors, but need not be optimized for good return loss out to mm-wave frequencies etc.
@…
@drahardja@sfba.socialThe best thing about “xmail” is how easy it will be to identify walking red flags by simply asking them for their email address.
@crell@phpc.socialThis is the most American thing I've ever seen, and I kinda love it.
https://tacticalbabygear.com/
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caCanada setting a blistering population growth of 3.2% in 2023! The most since the 1950s! Back then the baby boom was still a thing. Today, there were only 40,000 more births than deaths, 97.6% of the growth came from international sources. Over 471,000 people settled here (permanent immigration) the other nearly 1 million came as temporary migration, either workers or students. Our population just crossed 41 Million today!
@ehud@scholar.socialThe thing about procrastination is that it is tiring. After doing it for a while I just have to take a nap.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngIn another move[1] to stay up-to-date with latest version of Zig (v0.12.0), I've also updated all code (and .zig.zon depencency info) in the still-just-a-baby zig.thi.ng repo:
https://github.com/thi-ng/zig-thing
[1] Related (from yesterday):
@Carwil@mastodon.onlineOne thing Aaron Bushnell's self immolation reveals, and forces us to confront, is the mind of someone who has chosen to place his life alongside those being killed daily with our country's weapons.
And to declare that his life isn't worth more.
This alone disrupts normality.
#AaronBushnell
@inthehands@hachyderm.io
@AnthonyCollette@infosec.exchangeQUOTE OF THE DAY
“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully.”
— Steve Jobs
Agree, disagree — be inspired or not.
QOTD is fuel for conversation, and food for thought.
#QOTD
#QuoteOfTheDay
@stefan@gardenstate.social
@JorgeStolfi@mas.toThe nicest thing about the King Trump Bible is that it has all passages about abortion underlined in red, all verses that define when life begins highlighted in yellow, and the chapter where Jesus explains that a King is allowed to commit any sin (because he can pardon himself, without regard to God's will) printed on gilded leaves.
It is true. I am not kidding!
@jrm4@mastodon.socialI'm calling it
Threads is the actually evil thing you imagine Twitter is
Twitter's actually still doing okay
#mastodon #fediverse #socialmedia
@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgThe worst thing about AI-written papers and AI-written reviews of AI-written papers is that it is bound to get worse, but it won’t crash.
Too many benefit from it, notably BigPub, institutions that love the simplicity of quantitative evaluation, but also academics who thrive in such a system.
For them, the negative impact on science is an externality—and they didn’t care too much about it before either.
@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgThe worst thing about AI-written papers and AI-written reviews of AI-written papers is that it is bound to get worse, but it won’t crash.
Too many benefit from it, notably BigPub, institutions that love the simplicity of quantitative evaluation, but also academics who thrive in such a system.
For them, the negative impact on science is an externality—and they didn’t care too much about it before either.
@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgThe worst thing about AI-written papers and AI-written reviews of AI-written papers is that it is bound to get worse, but it won’t crash.
Too many benefit from it, notably BigPub, institutions that love the simplicity of quantitative evaluation, but also academics who thrive in such a system.
For them, the negative impact on science is an externality—and they didn’t care too much about it before either.
@brian_gettler@mas.toSo apparently if your light fixture is flickering, rather than pulling the whole thing down, checking for shorts, rewiring it, and pulling the wall switch to test whether it's faulty, it's advisable just to try screwing the bulbs in tighter. Who knew?
@bunnyhero@mstdn.cathere's a thing i was thinking of going to tonight but i am soooo tired
@MamasPinkyToe@mastodon.worldThe thing about Earth is, we're kind of locked into its ecosystem.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comMcConnell: Flipping Senate "most important" thing before leaving leadership (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2024/04/28/mitch-mcconnell-2024-election-senate
http://www.memeorandum.com/240428/p18#a240428p18
@tezoatlipoca@mas.toWhat happened in Baltimore to that bridge is a DEI thing? Like, I don't even know how anyone's brain (MAGA or otherwise) could even go from:
1. huge container ship loses power, collides with bridge
to
2. city mayor, who happens to be a young man of color, clearly this is all his fault?
Yes, if the city had had a more experienced white dude, totes wouldn't have happened.
@aardrian@toot.cafeThis guy at the #Buffalo airport is loudly shouting into his phone how he is flying to DC to “make a play on the Seneca territory, yeah, for a hundred acres.”
So just a reminder that when you have to fly somewhere “for politics,” versus a genuine business deal, that maybe broadcasting it as the loudest thing in the terminal is not the smartest thing in the terminal.
@cdarwin@c.imThat scowl. The gag order. Frightened jurors. Who’s on trial, a former president or a mob boss?
Trump told biographer-turned-critic Tim O’Brien, that his model is none other than the murderous mafioso John Gotti.
“The thing he respected about Gotti,” O’Brien told MSNBC, “was that he … sat there in court and he looked at the jurors and he looked at the judge with a big F-U on his face.”
But Trump needs more than just his MAGA loyalists to win.
Let’s hope this trial, …
@Infrogmation@mastodon.onlineThis sort of thing has been going on fairly regularly over the past few years, in the ongoing destruction of the United States Postal System.
Yahoo News: Postal worker sells USPS key, then hundreds of pieces of mail are stolen, feds say
https://www.yahoo.com/news/postal-worker-s
@grifferz@social.bitfolk.comMost Richmond thing ever… 2500 people signing a petition to ask Whole Foods to stay open. https://www.change.org/p/prevent-the-closure-of-wholefoods-in-richmond
@ruari@velocipederider.comThat #Casio light spreader mod is insanely cool.
Sadly however it is really hard to capture how it looks to the naked eye with the camera on my phone since that is overly sensitive to light. Here is a photo in a fairly light room that gives you some idea. The main thing is that the light is spread surprisingly evenly.
Financially it might not be worth it when you could buy another …
@beaware@social.beaware.liveWell, it turns out I might be going to AEW Dynamite this week!😁
it's not a sure thing, but I won't lie, I'm kinda excited! I haven't been to a wrestling show in 10 years and never been to an AEW show at all.
#ProWrestling #ProfessionalWrestling …
@hllizi@hespere.deThe good thing about Trump is that he's very easy to assassinate. Just state on CNN that he's afraid of dipping his willy in hydrofluoric acid and that's it.
@emarktaylor@thecanadian.social#Parody #NYTimesPitchbot
Via New York Times Pitchbot @DougJBalloon
·
5m
With the Taylor Swift psyop thing now discarded, my model shows a 26% chance the next MAGA conspiracy theory will involve Caitlin Clark and the NCAA women’s tournament. And I tell you the best…
@samvarma@fosstodon.org"It is worth noting here that Swampy’s former co-workers universally refuse to believe that their old colleague killed himself. One former co-worker who was terrified of speaking publicly went out of their way to tell me that they weren’t suicidal. “If I show up dead anytime soon, even if it’s a car accident or something, I’m a safe driver, please be on the lookout for foul play.”
From: @…
@lukem@hachyderm.ioToday for the first time ever I used CSS :has pseudo-class. Surprisingly, it happened at work, in a React project, because the hook-based logic was too convoluted to get the thing done.
I distinctly remember when I had to rewrite portions of my current blog template because :has wasn't supported in Firefox yet.
Viva la web.
#css
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com@… The same thing always comes to mind for me: If god is so all-knowing, he knew I was going to do that, so actually me rejecting it must be god's plan.
@…
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.socialI'm here (on the computer), and the very first toot (not a toot, really, as it's a Friendica thing) is this one from @… - https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-4
@timjan@social.linux.pizzaOne thing I don't get with #fedilab:
I follow both accounts A and B.
A writes a long thread. In my home timeline, I see that B commented an hour ago, and A responded in turn soon thereafter. Given these posts in isolation, I don't get the context, so I click in to see the whole interaction, which brings me to the beginning of A's thread.
@wmclark@publishing.social“The slow crash of newspapers and magazines would be of limited interest save for one thing: Traditional media had at its core the exalted and difficult mission of communicating information about the world. From investigative reports on government to coverage of local politicians, the news served to make all the institutions and individuals covered a bit more transparent and, possibly, more honest.”
@jamie@boothcomputing.socialNot too bad. Starter words did their thing. #Wordle
Wordle 1,044 4/6
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⬛⬛🟩🟩⬛
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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
@rohini@mastodon.social#TIL that now there are two Starbucks outlets in #Mysore. My favourite thing to do at #Starbucks is to place an order and say that my name is Ashtamichiravilasini.
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euWhat I wrote yesterday, you ask? Not much, not much. Just this micro prose thing. But I've translated it in English for you:
Bulgarian: "Малката сянка до вратата на банята потрепна и изчезна, преди да е успяла да обърне напълно глава към нея."
English: "The tiny shadow by the bathroom door wavered briefly and disappeared before she could fully turn her head and look at it."
[Spoiler: It's the sad ghost of one of her many dead cats.]
@jom@social.kontrollapparat.deThe fact that various streaming providers, e.g., #Netflix, only offer Full-HD, although a much better 4K version would already be available, is one thing. If the bitrate of the 1080p version is then also reduced so that you only see snow as a pixel mash on the TV, I feel like I've been fooled as a customer with the most expensive subscription package. This effectively forces people…
@danciruli@hachyderm.ioSo...I'm not sure about LinkedIn. I used to think of it as a job hunting site. But I see more and more people using it to publish stuff relevant to business, and even tech. Certainly there are a lot more people there than here.
Should I be publishing tech stuff over there? Cross posting? Twitter was my go-to for that kind of thing because the communities I was in (API, CNCF) were all there. Not sure which void I should be screaming into now...
@nobodyinperson@fosstodon.orgI think I also like #SolveSpace because it feels kinda like a unix'y cli program:
· It does one thing only: 2D/3D #CAD
· Its interface is basic and robust. Nothing fancy. It literally uses a monospace font.
· 1 part = 1 file. You can assemble multiple parts in a different file.
·…
@threeofus@mstdn.socialJesus, son of a carpenter, knew a thing or two about craftsmanship. On inspecting the cross, he observed ‘jeez, I wouldn’t be seen dead on that’.
@wraithe@mastodon.socialEvery time I re-watch “Loki” I’m left with how good “He Who Remains”* is and how utterly they (Marvel) kinda wrote themselves into a corner cos I do NOT see how you top this as a big bad.
* I can’t even start with the whole Johnathan Majors thing.
@blakes7bot@botsin.spaceSeries D, Episode 06 - Headhunter
TARRANT: Why risk it?
AVON: Slavery or elimination, you like those options? There is no way that we can destroy that thing. Muller made perfectly sure of that when he built in the circuit influencer. That was real genius.
https://blake.torpidity.net/s/406/501 B7B5
@timfoster@mastodon.socialVW thought they had the "harlequin" thing all to themselves, but no! I present my Land Rover in many varying shades of green ☘
#WeirdCarMastodon #LandRover
@DodoTheDev@front-end.socialThe thing I Love about learning the trombone, is when you get it wrong, it doesn't sound horrible (like the violin, flute, recorder etc), it sounds funny. I've never laughed so hard at mistakes whilst practicing an instrument!
#trombone #instrument
@Kencf618033@disabled.socialThe Thing Fruit Cake
#HashtagGames
#MashupSuperHereosAndFood
@nemorosa@mastodon.nu#WritersCoffeeClub 28: Should you avoid colloquialisms?
That depends on the book, I suppose. And in dialogue, sure.
There's one thing I've discovered lately. There's rarely a right or wrong when it comes down to art and literature. It's all about flavour, tastes and imagination.
Can you say something in a new, enticing way, or is it better said with a fam…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioOh look, yet another thing AI is super useful for: scamming children and defrauding parents!
https://futurism.com/amazon-kindle-lock-screens-ai-generated-books
@compfu@mograph.socialSaw this thing about proving you're a Millennial in Masto's trending posts: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-millennial-captcha
It's fun and all, but it made me scratch my head. I was afraid they asked me to rank Kardashians by age. But the…
@kazys@mastodon.socialI realize I never updated Roxy”s story. She stopped eating, which is common with cats with kidney disease, so she wound up having a feeding tube implanted in her neck. She isn’t bothered by it and she usually sleeps and purrs through her feeding. It’s a very good thing.
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scotIt amuses me seeing👏 people👏 doing👏 this👏 as my mother often has to do it to make herself understood. She has Parkinson's and dental problems, which work together to make her unintelligible at times. One thing that really helps is not running her words together. If she claps her hands or slaps her thigh between words I usually understand her first time. So I hear the words separated by 👏 in the tones of an infirm little old lady, which probably isn't the intended effect.
@timbray@cosocial.caEvery time Dependabot says “Pls approve kthxby” and I go do this, I feel like a rat pressing a lever for a food pellet. And there’s a little voice inside my head saying “This is a hideous potential vulnerability, anyone who can subvert GitHub CI can pwn the entire freaking world in about a week…”
#infosec
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioOh look, yet another thing AI is super useful for: scamming children and defrauding parents!
https://futurism.com/amazon-kindle-lock-screens-ai-generated-books
@MamasPinkyToe@mastodon.worldThe thing about a "soft close" toilet seat is that you can't slam the lid after taking an angry shit.
@brian_gettler@mas.toThis week's #TuneTuesday theme is #SingIt - songs with lyrics that are meaningful to you. I usually go political for this sort of thing, but, for whatever reason, a more personal song sprang to mind. This one evokes long-lost friends and the search for belonging by one of the better bands my corner of the worl…
@beaware@social.beaware.live555=heaven/angels
666=hell/demons
999=Taking whatever hell you're going through or whatever demons you're fighting and flipping it on it's head.
Try not to let your past control you. It's the past for a reason. You can't change it. The only thing you can do is look forward and try to live a better life, one day at a time.
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.socialI'm here (on the computer), and the very first toot (not a toot, really, as it's a Friendica thing) is this one from @… - https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-4
@grifferz@social.bitfolk.comAbsolutely fucking detest this practice of hosting your writings on Medium and having it cut off after a few pages of scrolling with a thing saying I have to log in to read the rest.
If you want to be paid for your writing that's fine, say so at the top so I can just nope out of it straight away if you're not someone whose writings I pay to read.
I already ban the medium.com domain from search results for this reason but these are on hosted domains.
I will never pay a …
@timbray@cosocial.caI never liked Telegram, but this is shocking. I guess they’ve now stepped outside the boundaries of software anyone should ever use for anything.
https://plush.city/@PsyChuan/112336464469767051
@bici@mastodon.socialWe are still battling Covid 19 and the next thing is here already.
The NILE Virus, type C Virologists have identified a new Nile virus - type C
It appears to target those who were born between 1940 and 1970
......
@danciruli@hachyderm.ioSo...I'm not sure about LinkedIn. I used to think of it as a job hunting site. But I see more and more people using it to publish stuff relevant to business, and even tech. Certainly there are a lot more people there than here.
Should I be publishing tech stuff over there? Cross posting? Twitter was my go-to for that kind of thing because the communities I was in (API, CNCF) were all there. Not sure which void I should be screaming into now...
@timjan@social.linux.pizza"pull here" my ass.
Now where's the stabby thing so that I can get into that jug...
@threeofus@mstdn.socialC’s behaviour is bothering me. She’s doing this thing on many occasions, where she’ll respond to something I say with a passive aggressive put down. For example, I asked Google ‘what’s the weather today?’. She said ‘look out of the window, it’s raining’. I know that, I’m trying to know whether it will rain all day or not. This is just one of many comments. I’ve survived an abusive 20 year marriage and won’t put up with any more
@blakes7bot@botsin.spaceSeries D, Episode 06 - Headhunter
TARRANT: Why risk it?
AVON: Slavery or elimination, you like those options? There is no way that we can destroy that thing. Muller made perfectly sure of that when he built in the circuit influencer. That was real genius.
https://blake.torpidity.net/s/406/501 B7B5
@Kencf618033@disabled.socialThe Thing From Another World (1951) is your favorite film.
#Hashtaggames
#SignsYouAreAddictedToVegetables
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioPlease someone tell me this isn’t real https://503junk.house/@rose/112349387538932488
@MamasPinkyToe@mastodon.worldIt seems like the kind of thing I'd do, but it also seems like the kind of thing I'd lie about doing.
@MamasPinkyToe@mastodon.worldSan Francisco really does have cable cars. It's the damnedest thing.
