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She/Her or It/It's, trans to the people who know me. I'm less active here, oh well...
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Have you ever had a hug by a giant inflatable? I can recommend!

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@charlotte is a memory tube a plasma-state drive?
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@charlotte meanwhile france measuring how big a city is by how many hairdressers it has
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Charlotte lotteheartplural/Cinny cinny_heart_plural thetadelta ursaminor treblesand

confusion warning!

if a pooltoy is inflated it’s called a deflateable

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solidarity to the sinkhole

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transistor or something
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I hate bluetooth so god damn much

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bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦

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It appears the Dutch government has decided to greenlight the EU plan to make 'big tech' force-install software on all European phones that will automatically report any questionable photos in your private chat messages to the police. This is not actually about protecting the children. This is about removing the very possibility of private communications. We can tell because governments have exempted themselves from this legislation (!). Here's something I wrote earlier: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/end-to-end-encryption-european-internet-forum/

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putting online some of my rare photography i do... tagging @deetwenty who'se in the photo, and harman for their phoenix film.
an old-style headshot photo of …
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The term you are looking to dislike is "Generative AI". AI/ML has been used for decades and continues to be used for many useful, ethical, and not at all wasteful purposes.

It's what makes your low-light photos less noisy, it's how OCR works, it's how speech recognition works, it's how low-cost motion capture works.

Remember the original Kinect? That was powered by ML (paper).

GenAI, specifically, is the grift.

https://hackers.town/users/calcifer/statuses/113153938288390549
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If tech companies enable some feature, _except_ in the EU, then that's an excellent indication that the feature is bad and should not have been built.

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going back in time to the original USB committee meetings. I'm gonna appear out of a portal, wearing an eyepatch and a dozen scars, and yell at them to explicitly forbid power-only USB cables before collapsing into a heap of dust on the floor

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@charlotte mii would be banned from spaceports but that is normal and pretty much expected. why she's banned from catering work is a little more complex tho and has to do with a paper plane, a stove pot the size of a building, and some meat that shouldn't be there
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@androidarts just as suicide bombing using ordinary phones and cars that are rigged to explode their lithium ion batteries
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"It has become clear that cultures that have traditionally viewed the soil or water as living things are effective at preserving them, while the culture that treats soil and water as inert resources has created a planetary catastrophe in which most fertile soil has been destroyed and huge swathes of the globe are facing water shortages. No healthy response to the catastrophe is possible without acknowledging that Western civilisation is a failed civilisation, and that its notions should be interrogated in light of its consequences."

— Peter Gelderloos: The Solutions are Already Here

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Mia Rose 🖋️ Second draft in progress [72%]

Yknow what saddens me

Flappy bird is back bc some crypto asshole done a legal shenanigan to get it declared an abondened IP, to use it for a crypto garbage mobile app under that IP, against the wishes and without paying the original creator

So, when it's for scamming people, we can actually declare stuff as abandon ware, but not when someone just wants to bury a beloved series or franchise, like the English dub of sailor moon, which you can only pirate now

This is why you can't steal from a corporation, it's called reclamation

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