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Old school nerd
Knows things about computers that would drive you insane
Hacks on Firefox at Mozilla
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i know what and why but the phrase “cost of living” really bothers me as a political phrase
bro it shouldn’t cost anything to live. we should be living in community and taking care of each other. our whole thing is so fucked
“affordability” and “cost of living” are alien phrases from rich people
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Here's the thing I can say to younger queer folks now in case they don't know this: before the internet they told us there were ZERO others like us. ZERO. They told each and every single one of us that we were wrong and alone and didn't have stories that deserved to be told in fact had stories that could not be told at any cost.
So when they say there aren't *enough* of us now to defend our rights, to stand up for basic human rights, when they say we're too few to consider, too fringe, too little too vulnerable, too outside to consider? They're lying again, still and always.
They want queer people to feel like we're alone when we really, really, really fucking ARE and HAVE BEEN and WILL ALWAYS be here and if you feel alone because everyone around you says you are, remember they lie.
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Let's talk about the "Four Essential Freedoms of Free Software" a bit, particularly in relation to the principles laid out here: https://destructured.net/casa
The Four Freedoms, for anyone who doesn't know, are another, earlier quartet of principles that serve as a kind of definition of "free software" in the context of FOSS. They've been foundational to much of how we understand the purpose of open source since their formulation in the mid-1980s.
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Preventing methane leaks is in my top five climate solutions. This is very stupid.
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Although it isn't well known, the famous opening scene of "My Neighbor Totoro," showing a bird's-eye view of a truck driving along a country lane, is actually an homage to the opening sequence of Chiba's "1, 2, 3 and 4, 5, Six." The "sick mother" storyline is also featured in both works. 5/5
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Manga artist CHIBA Tetsuya has passed. He was 89. I had the privilege of meeting him several times at manga-related gatherings, and he was a humble, funny guy. He's famous for such shōnen manga as ”Ashita no Joe" and "Ashita Tenki ni Naare," but his shōjo manga were groundbreaking and loved by girls back in the day. Before SATONAKA Machiko made her professional debut, she was convinced that no man could have written shōjo manga like that, and believed it was a woman using a man's pen name. 1/5
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I started a discussion about updates to the urlbar design in Firefox if you are into that sort of thing
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we've created a no AI notice that we'll be using to reassure people seeing our trailers and games, with hand drawn lettering and a relaxing cute sleepy fox, and it's also up on itch in multiple formats for anyone to use: https://eniko.itch.io/cute-fox-no-ai-notice
options include with/without fox, opaque/transparent, and 4k, 2160p, 1440p, 1080p, and 720p resolutions
@deKay I played Reverie Under the Moonlight a couple years back and came away fairly unimpressed. It was a bit too linear for my tastes. Gameplay aside I found it really dark which clashed with the apparently childish appearance of the protagonist. I'm tempted to give this one a try if it's better than its predecessor mostly because I'm a sucker for metroidvanias.
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"Because big tech platforms essentially do not have customer support and make it impossible for their users to contact a human, many people experiencing run-of-the-mill tech problems have turned to ChatGPT. And, increasingly, ChatGPT is telling people that have normal tech support problems that they have discovered something journalistically notable and that 404 Media, specifically, can help them. Around two weeks ago, we started emailing these people back and asking them how they found us; universally, the answer is that an AI chatbot recommended they reach out to us and, in many cases, the chatbot wrote the email, according to reviews of a handful of ChatGPT conversations shared with 404 Media.
Over the last few months, 404 Media has gotten dozens of clearly AI-generated story leads and tips, many of which appear to have been copy pasted directly from ChatGPT or other chatbots into an email client by a real human. Some of these tips are (or could be) of legitimate public concern and we are happy to get them and to look into them. Many, though, are not."
#AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #ChatGPT #Media #Journalism #News #BigTech
Go highway thieves, go!
Dear fedi I'm livid. An acquaintance of mine almost finished college and after doing an *unpaid* six months internship was offered a follow-up contract for less than 500€ a month. If you wonder why European young people are mad that's pretty much why.
I'll be doing anything in my power to make sure he'll never work there so if you have an opening or internship for a young person starting his career let me know.
He'll finish the equivalent of a bachelor in computer science in May next year, has done some six months of hands-on work in security and is one hell of a worker. I can personally vouch for him. He's based in Italy and can do both in-person and remote work, and might be able to relocate to the NL and possibly the UK if need be.
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Long time no absurd post for Dune Sietchposting, so here's a fresh one.
The forms of Schulz have been obeyed.
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