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ben,
@ben@werd.social avatar

"The pervasive nature of modern technology makes surveillance easier than ever before, while each successive generation of the public is accustomed to the privacy status quo of their youth." #Technology https://werd.io/2024/online-privacy-and-overfishing

Centurion480,
@Centurion480@mastodon.social avatar

If we want our tech companies to do good, we have to understand that their ground state is to create planet-wrecking nonsense, grifty scams, and planet-wrecking, nonsensical scams. We need to make these companies small enough to fail, small enough to jail, and small enough to care
#technology #Markets #corporatism #oligopoly #monopoly #capitalism #ClimateChange #sustainability #environment
https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/30/posiwid/#social-cost-of-carbon

ben,
@ben@werd.social avatar

"While young Taiwanese users discuss everything from relationships to celebrity gossip on Threads, the app has gradually become a gathering space for progressives." https://werd.io/view/665611b88daf0a60c802e4f2

underlap,
@underlap@fosstodon.org avatar

@ben I'm glad someone finds Threads useful.

bsletten,
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Dear self/autonomous-driving developers, if you think you’ve planned for everything, you haven’t:

#technology #ai #robotics

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7Z83oeSSQE/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

JeremyMallin,
@JeremyMallin@autistics.life avatar

I think I charge my phone more often than I used to. I used to let it get all the way to single digits before recharging. Lately, I've been recharging when it's still over 75%.

Cassandra,
@Cassandra@autistics.life avatar

@JeremyMallin My headphones drive me nuts. No warning at all and then suddenly the alarms are so annoyingly repetitive that I have to stop listening immediately.

ashleyspencer,
@ashleyspencer@autistics.life avatar

@JeremyMallin my mouse doesn’t warn me, it just dies lol

alexanderhay,
@alexanderhay@mastodon.social avatar

[SLOWCLAP]

"'I was misidentified as shoplifter by tech...'

"...[Sara] says after her bag was searched she was... banned from all stores using the .

"I was just crying and crying the entire journey home… 'Oh, will my life be the same? I'm going to be looked at as a shoplifter when I've never stolen'.

" later wrote to Sara and acknowledged it had made an error..."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-69055945

Lazarou,
@Lazarou@mastodon.social avatar

@alexanderhay oh look, it's exactly what everyone said would happen.

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
@GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai avatar

@alexanderhay

No due process and full fascism.

MsHearthWitch,
@MsHearthWitch@wandering.shop avatar

I loathe current-AI in basically all its forms. It's unethical, absolutely divorced from anything that resembles consent.

But you know what I would want AI for?

Smarter driving instructions. A GPS in my car that learns how I like to drive - no lefts on busy streets for example. That when I ask about things like a coffee shop or takeout food en route gives me the option to specify if it has a drive thru and is it on the right side of the road?

AI that serves me, not replaces me.

Jorah,
@Jorah@wandering.shop avatar

@MsHearthWitch For me, the starting point for an improved driving app would be one that recognizes that my stopping for fuel isn't a crisis.

Sklent,
@Sklent@pagan.plus avatar

@MsHearthWitch Tech companies definitely need more rules and more naps.

inkican,
@inkican@mastodon.social avatar
msquebanh,
@msquebanh@mastodon.sdf.org avatar

successfully the liver of into a 71 yr old male patient with giant right lobe . The patient is moving freely without acute or hyperacute rejection reactions 7 days post surgery.

of a living human. China's xenotransplantation has reached a significant in the field - of .

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202405/1312995.shtml

rlstone4dems,
@rlstone4dems@mastodon.social avatar

@msquebanh These scientists are truly gifted. May the male patient live long!

msquebanh,
@msquebanh@mastodon.sdf.org avatar

@rlstone4dems This medical surgery breakthrough could potentially save many lives of people suffering from liver cancer.

kubuntufocus,
@kubuntufocus@mastodon.social avatar

🎉 Exciting News! The new Ir GEN 2 Series is here! 🎉

Enjoy quality without sacrificing performance or value. The Ir series marries the enterprise-class hardware from Carbon Systems® with the meticulous OS integration and Linux-first support from Kubuntu Focus®.

• KFS 24.04 LTS Noble Numbat
• Intel® i5-13500H, 12C/16T
• 100% sRGB display IPS
• Dual channel RAM, dual NVMe

Check them out here: kfocus.org/spec

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hal_canary,
@hal_canary@mastodon.sdf.org avatar

when I was a child, you could watch TV and never be interrupted by your TV crashing.

#technology #electronics #engineering #computers

outofcontrol,
@outofcontrol@phpc.social avatar

@hal_canary You clearly never owned a Zenith that had bad connection in it. A good slap on the side every 20 minutes usually solved that issue.

shansterable,
@shansterable@c.im avatar

Following a bunch of techies on Mastodon be like:

I am a run-of-the-mill Android-phone-Windows-desktop-Gmail-user but now I'm in the process of transitioning from Gmail and using Duck Duck Go to research how to set up a Linux desktop.

Oh, and also now Signal-curious.

What is this place? Some kind of privacy cult LOL?

alexanderhay,
@alexanderhay@mastodon.social avatar

@shansterable That had better be a Thinkpad you're typing on!

madargon,
@madargon@is-a.cat avatar

@shansterable Or other way - privacy cult chose this place because there is no surveillance here. As a paranoid I use it as only social media service :blobfoxmlem:

bsletten,
@bsletten@mastodon.social avatar
digs,
@digs@sci.kiwi avatar

Exciting times in the world as we roll out our new transmitter design, with much longer battery life and smarter , thanks to the brilliant DOC Electronics Team. Here’s site lead Petrus with 5 year old Ako. 📸 Dani Whitaker

digs,
@digs@sci.kiwi avatar

It’s incredible that Ako is still alive. She hatched with an open fontanelle (the skull didn’t completely fuse) which required world-first surgery by the vets at Wildbase in NZ. Read more here: https://www.massey.ac.nz/about/news/k%C4%81k%C4%81p%C5%8D-brain-surgery-a-world-first/

paninid,
@paninid@mastodon.world avatar

The miracle of “” is that the words generated actually form sequences which humans process as plausible formulations of sentences in language we know.

trochee,
@trochee@dair-community.social avatar

@paninid less-figurative "miracles" also exploit pareidolia in the same way, viz finding Jesus in your toast

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