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CaptainJanegay

@CaptainJanegay@mastodon.coffee

General-purpose northern lesbian. Don't like coffee (don't tell anyone). Autistic.

I'm a union official, I work at a co-op, I've previously been a pride organiser. Also a self-hosting nerd, fietser and occasional seamstress.

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

SomeGadgetGuy, to windows
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It just clicked in my brain. What I haven't been able to articulate about why I'm so anxious about Recall. I'm sure others have already gotten to where I am.

It's worse than "a system that tracks everything you do" and stores that info in a basic database that could be easily compromised.
It's worse than a nanny surveillance tool for companies to spy on their employees.

It's inescapable.

It doesn't matter if I make a dozen "how to disable recall" tutorials. The second YOUR data shows up on someone ELSE'S screen, it's in THEIR recall database.

It won't matter if you're a master expert specialist. You can't account for EVERY other computer you've ever interacted with. If a family member looks up an old email with your personal data in it, your data is now at risk.

If THEIR system is compromised YOUR data is at risk.

I just went from "vague feeling of unease" to "actively writing templates to canvas elected officials, regulators, and attorneys general."

CaptainJanegay,
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@SomeGadgetGuy I'll be interested to see how apps like @signalapp respond to this. Is it possible to prevent people from using the app if they have Microsoft recall enabled? Etc

stux, to random
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She has a real good example of how algorithms on platforms like Instagram not only try to make you addicted but also divide us even more

I real LOVE the fact Mastodon and most of the Fediverse software avoids this all together

A girl explaining comments shown on an example Instagram posts. It looks at your age, gender, interests and serves comments based on that.

CaptainJanegay,
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@shadowwwind @stux @mekkaokereke Right - you do get a sort of interest-based filter, because you will see more content from accounts and instances that other people on your instance interact with. That can have big downsides: for example, if your instance is very white then you may rarely see replies by black people, unless someone on your instance is interacting with them, which is a problem that needs mitigation; but it's still a lot better than what commercial platforms do.

SethRudy, to random
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Thinking about AI again.

Yesterday, the AI-powered bird-ID thing my mom gave me detected what it identified as a scarlet ibis.

Now I have a couple options. I can say, hey, this AI has seen a lot more birds than I have, so if it says one of the two national birds of Trinidad and Tobago stopped to eat in my backyard, so be it. Or I can look at the photo and say, well that there’s a cardinal.

You have to already know stuff to know the AI is wrong. But no one is going to treat it that way.

CaptainJanegay,
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@Oggie @SethRudy I mean, if this is the level of accuracy you need, you could also just make some polyhedral dice with pictures of different birds on the faces

stavvers, to random
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the perfect wikipedia paragraph doesn't exi-

CaptainJanegay,
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@LinuxAndYarn @Nickiquote @stavvers hyaena are matriarchal and very good at working together for the benefit of the group

CaptainJanegay, to random
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Does anyone (maybe @FediTips ) know of a masto client with very granular feed controls?

For example, I would like to be able to:

  • Filter certain words on a per user basis, so that I can e.g. filter posts from someone who posts a lot about a TV series whose main character is called Cat without limiting my access to the best thing about the internet (cat pics)
  • Decide that I only want to see a randomly selected 30% of posts from an account that posts good stuff but overwhelms my feed

Ideas?

CaptainJanegay, to random
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God, I'm using a new-to-me phone and now I have to teach it to swear and say vagina all over again

vagina_museum, to random
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On this day in 1533, Italian anatomist Hieronymus Fabricius was born. In his work on foetal formation, he illustrated the uterus and vulva, somewhat idiosyncratically, and also illustrated the clitoris, fairly well.

From De formato foetu, 1604.

CaptainJanegay,
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@mshaw @vagina_museum And who hadn't spent a lot of time in vaginas, fwiw

What I'm trying to figure out is the protruding sphincter thing...

Edent, (edited ) to random
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You receive a call on your phone.
The caller says they're from your bank and they're calling about a suspected fraud.

"Oh yeah," you think. Obvious scam, right?

The caller says "I'll send you an in-app notification to prove I'm calling from your bank."

Your phone buzzes. You tap the notification This is what you see.

Still think it is a scam?
1/3

CaptainJanegay,
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@simonwood @Edent The bank do need to confirm that: they only know that they called your number, but they can't be sure that you picked up - maybe someone else has access to your phone, or it's been lost or stolen, or you changed your number and forgot to tell them.

Unfortunately this only makes this attack more persuasive.

Telling them you'll hang up and call back on the main number is a good option, and the bank employee should always be happy for you to do so.

Buuut this is Chase...

CaptainJanegay,
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@Extelec @Edent That's normal. It's to confirm that someone else hasn't just stolen your phone. The rest of the thread explains, but this is a legitimate notification, it's just being misused.

CaptainJanegay,
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@simonwood @Edent Well, it asks for your password as well, which would significantly increase their confidence - although ofc this notification is not actually used to verify your identity in that situation.

But my point is that it's entirely believable that the bank would need some kind of verification when they call you, and a lot of people won't pick up on inconsistencies like this, especially when they've just been told someone has fraudulently taken £300 out of their account

fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
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This is brilliant. Some rancid TERF emailed the Lib Dem Mayoral candidate in her area with some "polite questions" and got this response.
Bravo Hannah 👏 🤣

Dear Vonny I unequivocally support trans rights, as do the Liberal Democrats. I have absolutely no interest whatsoever in any of your hate filled agenda which is persecuting an already vulnerable minority and putting children at risk. Trans people are no threat to me whatsoever as a cis woman. You are extremely welcome to take your mayoral vote elsewhere. Best regards Hannah

CaptainJanegay,
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@fkamiah17 Went to check Vonny aka Jean Hatchet's Twitter to see what the other candidates said, and she's not on Twitter any more! Where do we think she's gone - spinster, truth.social, 8kun?

Leave it to this asshole to make me consider voting for a Lib Dem for the first time since my inaugural bad vote in 2010.

CaptainJanegay, to random
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Based on my extremely unscientific observations, it feels like there's a major online disinformation campaign happening to make women afraid of accessing reproductive healthcare.

There have always been myths and scare stories floating around the internet, but I've never before seen so many people absolutely terrified about two things - side effects of hormonal contraception, and pain from routine cervical screening.

I don't know where this disinformation is circulating, but it's really harmful

CaptainJanegay,
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And in case anyone reading has come across any of this, and is worried:

Hormonal contraceptives often have side effects, and the side effects are underresearched. But for most people, they are minor, and they stop quickly if you stop taking the medication. Different types of HBC will affect your body differently, so if one doesn't work for you, it can be worth trying another.

CaptainJanegay,
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Cervical screening is uncomfortable but not painful for the majority of people. If you're worried about the process, speak to the healthcare provider beforehand - they have lots of options to help, ranging from going slowly and explaining every step as you go along, to using smaller instruments, to offering pain relief.

And consent-wise, intimate exams are just like sex: you can say stop at any time, and they will stop, and you can try again in a different way on a different day.

CaptainJanegay, to random
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I've found a use of ChatGPT that I think is ethical and appropriate: producing a paragraph about the dangers of training LLMs on LLM-generated text, which I've now fed into shreddit to replace all my old reddit comments with. ✌🏽

mayaisloading, to random
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Maybe, please, concider boosting. For science.

I saw a post asking people for controversial money tips that would get them canceled and the answer were "billionaires should not exist" and "everyone should have free helthcare". Nah, honey, that's not controversial, that's common sance for most ppl.

So, let's try again. Give me your controversial money tips. And I mean CONTROVERSIAL!

By tomorrow morning I want to be mad of all of you, personally offended by most and on the brink of blocking at meast 5 of you. Concider it a challenge.

CaptainJanegay,
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@oblomov @mayaisloading Bonus points for the absolutely horrific smell. Truly anti-social.

mekkaokereke, to random
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Shout out to all the 1st generation Nigerian American students about to be falsely accused of cheating, because some amateur hour AI cheating detector software recognizes that you write just like cousin Chukwuma back home! 🇳🇬🤷🏿‍♂️

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/16/techscape-ai-gadgest-humane-ai-pin-chatgpt

CaptainJanegay,
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@mekkaokereke This is a really fascinating study in how the tech economy integrates into post-colonial* power structures, and has the very strong potential to perpetuate them. Horrifying.

*"Post" in the sense of "after the advent of"

CaptainJanegay, to random
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The UK government simultaneously using navy ships to deliver aid to Gaza and also continuing to allow arms sales to Israel is just mind-boggling. No, I'm not surprised, but I am furious.

ChrisMayLA6, to Sexism
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So the good news is that the gender pay gap continues to close, although its still around 9% in aggregate terms (with wide variations).... but, its now 55 years since the Equal Py Act - that's at least two generations - and still we haven't made it to full equality.

Yet more evidence that sexism continues to pattern our society & we (still) need to work on eradicating it.

#sexism #genderpaygap #economics

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/06/gender-pay-gap-in-great-britain-smallest-since-reporting-first-enforced

CaptainJanegay,
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@KimSJ @ChrisMayLA6 This is the distinction between a pay gap and a wage gap. A wage gap is "two people do the same work to the same standard but the woman/black person/disabled person etc gets paid less"; a pay gap is "huh, so we stopped doing that but women (and other marginalised groups) are still getting paid less, I guess the factors are more complex"

ChrisMayLA6, to ArtificialIntelligence
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This week I've been mainly reading, no. 143.

Becky Chambers, A Closed & Common Orbit (2016), expands a plot element about AI from her first book into the central focus of this sequel. (implicitly?) picking up a plot from McCaffrey's classic The Ship that Sang, this is a compelling story of how an AI achieves it/her independence & their friendships that this entails. Once again Chambers has written an emotionally rich, unusual but highly timely SciFi.


@bookstodon

CaptainJanegay,
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@ChrisMayLA6 @bookstodon Ah, I loved this series - especially Record of a Spaceborn Few. I really enjoy the way Chambers considers how different contexts influence the social structures her characters exist in.

CaptainJanegay,
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@ChrisMayLA6 @bookstodon Enjoy!

CaptainJanegay, to DuckDuckGo
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Ok, FINE. What other alternative browsers are people using, instead of Gargle or FuckFuckNo?

(Context: https://www.reddit.com/r/duckduckgo/comments/1adxgy4/give_duckduckgo_ai_chat_a_spin/ )

#FuckFuckNo #DuckDuckGo

JimsPhotos, to nature
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Such a beautiful duck. First time I've photographed one.

Mandarin Duck (m)

Today at Rutland, UK

CaptainJanegay,
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@JimsPhotos Last time I saw a photo of one of these on masto, someone was in the comments insisting that it must be AI generated because no real duck could look that silly. I love them.

skinnylatte, (edited ) to food
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I don’t know who spread the rumor in the west that rice cookers are simply ‘unnecessary single use gadgets for foodies who eat a lot of rice’, I think of them more as ‘versatile device for depressed people with no (emotional, not literal) spoons’

Put rice (don’t even need to wash it), water, place vegetables, meat, tofu, eggs. Add soy sauce. Close the lid. Walk away.

And if you get a nice one: cook rice and eat off the cooker even 3 days later.

Even the cheap ones are so handy.

CaptainJanegay,
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@skinnylatte Ahhhh! That makes sense! I've always been baffled by the concept of a rice cooker because rice is so quick and simple to cook. I didn't realise they can do other things WITH the rice! That sounds really useful!

CaptainJanegay,
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@skinnylatte (To be clear, there are lots of interesting and more complex ways to cook rice that require genuine skill; I don't know how to do that thing with the yogurt base that goes all crispy, for example. But I always got the impression that rice cookers can't do that either, that they're just for boiling & steaming - maybe I was wrong, though!)

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