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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

kevinrothrock@infosec.exchange ("Kevin Rothrock") wrote:

Putin says all terrorist suspects were apprehended en route for Ukraine, "where early reports indicate that a window had been prepared to cross the international border." Certainly looks like the Kremlin will blame Kyiv, presumably paving the way for more mobilization.

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• 9d5ae9a29915c56e.mp4 (remote)

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Even 48 seconds of Fox News is too much.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/23/a-distillation-of-fox-news/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GDfq6533ro

Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

th@v.st ("Trammell Hudson") wrote:

Please like and share this post.

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• Street sign that says “please like and share this post” (remote)

nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

Surprised to learn that core::iter::adapters::zip can actually be not so zero-cost!

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):

paninid@mastodon.world ("Sampath Pāṇini ®") wrote:

Commercial real estate interests are #gaslighting everyone.

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• photo of two contrasting statements about Gen Z's attitude towards the office. At the top in white text it reads: "Gen Z in the office: This is a prison. We're supposed to do this forever until we die?" Below, a caption "Gen Z per Forbes:" A 'Fortune' magazine excerpt that says, "Gen Z loves the office, actually—and they're romanticizing the office and 'yassifying' their cubicles." Underneath the text, a photo of six smiling young adults in an office setting. (remote)

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

Wrote a Jupyter (cook|note)book that implements a Retrieval Augmented Generation (#RAG) system powered by #Elasticsearch and Gemma #LLM.

Inspired by MongoDB's cookbook (🙇🏻‍♂️) and mostly done as a learning/scoping exercise, but a twist is my notebook lets you easily toggle between different models and ES-doing-the-data/query-embedding (via ML nodes in your deployment) vs doing all of that yourself when ingesting/querying.

https://github.com/lloydmeta/huggingface_elasticsearch_rag

#ML #genai

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):

a2_4am ("4am ❧") wrote:

@mcc if USA is so great why did they make USB

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):

kobilacroix@jorts.horse ("Kobi LaCroix") wrote:

Turns out my computer is overheating because it doesn’t have an actual fan inside. There’s just a little gnome who goes “vvvvvvvvvv” every now and then.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Another from the roll.

📷 Canon AE-1 Program
🎞️ Silbersalz 250D
🔭 Canon FD 50mm/1.8
💃 Wife

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #Silbersalz35

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• A beautiful woman with black hair, dressed in a white shirt, olive cap, tartan woolen skirt, a black belt with a metal bee for a buckle, French heel shoes, and a snake necklace, is playfully leaning on a metal guardrail.

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

brianleroux@indieweb.social ("Brian LeRoux 💚") wrote:

no, open source isn't 'over' but a whole lot of folks are now finding out (yet again) why open governance and foundations are important

how many times does this have to happen before ppl realize the bait'n'switch vs open governance is a deliberate choice?

#opensource #opengovernance

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Zuck sent his Black VP of Civil Rights to tell his users that they're silencing marginalized voices. Cowards.

White supremacy 101.

#meta #threads #instagram

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• A screenshot of a social media post Roy Austin: "While we're no longer proactively recommending content about politics or social issues on our platforms, if you want that content in your feed, you just have to say so - we're putting the control in your hands: Follow accounts that interest you and that you want to see content from and their content (political or not) will be in your feed. You can also go into your Settings and under Content Preferences, you will find an option that allows you to see more political content ("don't limit")."

Reblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):

moshboy wrote:

oxbridge, bbc micro / acorn electron (1983) https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/20639/Oxbridge/

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• dude riding a red bike with a basket on the front with papers overflowing and flying through the air. he is wearing university attire (black flowing vest, tie, hat with the square top. in the background, a river to his left (with people in a boat), trees and a tall building.

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

I'm looking for 2 tix to see #Eggy at Brooklyn Bowl tomorrow. Hoping this message makes it over to the shakedown.social side of the fediverse...

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

I was mentioning this argument by @pluralistic to @phae@fberriman.com yesterday:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/12/youre-holding-it-wrong/#if-dishwashers-were-iphones

Cory touches on something I keep coming back to, calling iOS a "planned economy", and refers to it as "technofeudal". Possibly more apt analogy is High Modernism (ala James C. Scott):

https://home.uchicago.edu/~csunstei/moreisless.html

Brasilia on ARM, as it were.

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

gpuopen@mastodon.gamedev.place ("GPUOpen") wrote:

✈️ As our amazing presenters head home from another great #GDC, we're sharing more about what they presented to #gamedev there!

Head over to #GPUOpen for our #GDC2024 wrap-up blog, with the decks and videos from our sponsored sessions 🎓

https://gpuopen.com/events/amd-at-gdc-2024/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=gdc24

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

jfmblinux@mastodon.jfmblinux.fr wrote:

#Google announced that starting in June 2024, ad blockers such as uBlock Origin #uBO will be disabled in Chrome 127 and later with the rollout of Manifest V3 (#Mv3).

#ManifestV3 is deceitful and threatening to your privacy, and now is a good time to switch to #Firefox (@Mozilla@mamot.fr) (@mozilla@mozilla.social ) and/or #TorBrowser if you haven't done so already!

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Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

nealcurtis@mas.to ("Nihil Curits") wrote:

This is a toot for all those courageous folk who really just want to scream about how awful everything is but spend time trying to find something interesting and positive to post. Keep up the great work. Your efforts are appreciated.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

This is the same company that is trying to geographically ring-fence browser engine choice under the theory that it doesn't *have* a global market to answer to, only the specific EU jurisdictional restraints that apply when an iPhone is sold in the EU.

They're literally geofencing progress in the EU, then turning around to claim that the global market is more relevant when it suits them.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Oh. My. God.

*"An Apple spokesperson told reporters on a background call Thursday that it believes the global smartphone market is more relevant to reflect where the company competes.":*

https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/22/24109033/doj-apple-antitrust-lawsuit-legal-expert-praise

This is from the same company that claimed Safari was really three browsers in a trench coat to claim smaller market share [ checks notes ] 5 months ago:

https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/02/apple_safari_browser/

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• "An Apple spokesperson told reporters on a background call Thursday that it believes the global smartphone market is more relevant to reflect where the company competes." (remote)

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab") wrote:

I think part of what makes "Chess" so lovable is that it's a little microcosm of Gen X - world almost at war at every moment, on every level, in every field, for our entire youth, and once it looks like the danger's been defused somewhat and we're all gonna live a lot longer than we had thought we find out there are worse things than the eternal spectre of life in a radioactive wasteland.

But we go on pretending
stories like ours
have happy endings.

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

web3isgreat@indieweb.social ("web3 is going just great") wrote:

Solana memecoin frenzy sparks trend of incredibly racist meme tokens

March 22, 2024
https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=solana-racist-memecoins

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• Solana memecoin frenzy sparks trend of incredibly racist meme tokens Solana memecoin trading has been booming lately, with people making money by speculating on tokens themed around various memes and jokes. Amid an explosion in trading innocuously-named meme tokens like dogwifhat has also been a rise in blatantly racist tokens, named after racial slurs, featuring racist caricatures, or named after antisemitic conspiracy theories. The tokens became so popular that projects showing newly-released tokens, like DEXScreener, became full of such tokens. DEXScreener released a statement on Twitter to say that "We'll be reviewing our token profile moderation policy in the coming days. We won't be the gatekeepers of what happens on-chain, but we're definitely not here to spread hate." The replies to the tweet were, predictably, full of people accusing DEXScreener of "censorship" and "going woke". (remote)

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

adamshostack@infosec.exchange ("Adam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified:") wrote:

General Motors has not promised to support privacy legislation that would prevent them from changing their minds. https://infosec.exchange/@dangoodin/112141015412138440

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):

downey@floss.social ("Michael Downey 🇺🇳") wrote:

:boost_love: #boostsWelcome

#FridayFeeling #quotes #Threads #Meta #Facebook #FediPact

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• Photo of Mark Zuckerberg wearing a suit and tie. To the left, white text on blue: "They 'trust me.' Dumb fucks." Mark Zuckerverg co-founder of Facebook, born May 14, 1984 Dobson's improbable Quote of the Day (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Social media does not have the power to separate us from our friends and family. Platforms are platforms, not island prisons.

I personally find framing #federation as a savior for personal relationships to be a wildly manipulative talking point.

It's simply untrue. I keep in touch with the people most important to me using a myriad of technologies. I've never felt as if I'm missing out on someone's life because we don't share the same social platform.

#threads #Fediverse

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

But there are some good takes too! Not many, but some:

https://www.threads.net/@ianbetteridge/post/C40ftEUNNaw

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):

fluxwatcher ("Ricardo Martín") wrote:

Mark Zuckerberg first post in the #fediverse.

#meta #facebook #threads

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• A cartoon by Paul Noth depicts some hills where sheep are grazing. Two of them are looking at a billboard with the electoral propaganda of a wolf, where he is seen in a half-body image dressed in a suit, and the slogan 'i'm going to eat you'. One of the sheep says to the other, 'he tells it like it is'.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

When I sign up for a software subscription, it is through the App Store if I can help it. I use Apple as an intermediary because I know that when it's time to cancel, all I need to do is open setting, click iCloud > Subscriptions > Cancel Subscription.

I've never had to Google how to cancel. I've never had to call a 1-800 number and speak to a rep who's trained to convince me not to cancel. And I've never had a SaaS company "accidentally" charge me again the following month.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

When I create a new account on a platform, I use Sign in with #Apple, or I create a Hide My Email address. These features help me reduce the number of companies that sell my email address.

That's a win for me, the consumer, but marks a loss for companies that rely on user data revenue.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Libertarian tech bros disguised as consumer evangelists want to remove #Apple as the intermediary between our credit card numbers and software as a service companies. They want to reopen the spigot of user data on our iDevices.

That is all this is.

If they cared about the consumer, they'd lobby for user data protections. But they don't care about us. They care about their wallets, which feels a bit light since Apple has removed their ability to spy on us.

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Yay! Now we can all go back to ignoring Candace Owens & Ben Shapiro.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/22/inevitability/

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• Candace Owens/Ben Shapiro (remote)