“Do you have an uncle named Euler?”

How is a psychic going to help?!?!!

Do they make the brake lights flicker faster?

That’s very fair, indeed.

Perhaps awareness of one will spark awareness of the other. I suppose my concern is that plasticisers are sort of a ‘hidden’ risk, for the most part. They’re used in nearly every food packaging (and prep, such as hoses) that isn’t contained in glass, or served up in its own peel.

Microplastics are terrifying and all that, but I’m sort of more worried about plasticisers like BPA, BPF, BPS and the rest of the alphabet of BP-whatever’s that was created and brought into use after the dangers of BPA were realized.

Just a heads up - if something plastic says it’s BPA-free, it probably uses a different bisphenol compound that is less studied than BPA. And is likely as toxic (or even more toxic)!

But nobody ever talks about those, because science words.

The problem is that now the first page of results is all AI garbage and wrong, so you’re not 100% sure at what point you’ve reached the sane internet.

My understanding is that they are focusing on adding in “AI” features in a big way, and that’s why they cut development on the other work. 🫤

Build a small EMP device. Figure out how to trigger it from terminal. Delete the key bindings for vim. Map them to the trigger you have for the EMP.

… good luck…?

I guess I’m going to show up to my next meeting with my boss as my boss.

Well, I just realized I completely goofed, because I went with .arpa instead of .home.arpa, due to what was surely not my own failings.

So I guess I’m going to be changing my home’s domain anyway.

A couple years ago I got an electric lawnmower super cheap. I only discovered earlier this summer the lawnmower and accompanying weed whacker were being discontinued, and if they break in ways I can’t fix, I’ll have a 60v, 5 amp battery to recycle play with.
It hasn’t occurred to me to reuse the battery for some other fun project. There will be shenanigans.

You’re old fashioned.

I mean. It’s any website that has user communities, if their users skew that way.

Polyamory isn’t some niche kink.

I’m familiar with a convention that has been ongoing for a long time. It has been running for about 30 years, and they had their leadership and management down pat. They even had developed their own CRM software to run the operations of the convention. They ran a pretty tight ship, and have an actual board, with a coterie of dedicated volunteers.

COVID messed things up for them. They had to cancel a few years, but last year they returned to the hotel they’d used for a number of years (pre-COVID) that they regularly sold out. They had been debating moving the convention to a different city to gain access to even larger hotels. Last year was sort of a bust. They barely met their reserve with the hotel. The magic had sort of dropped out of the event. This year they did move to a city about 45 minutes from the original one, to a smaller hotel - hoping to save on costs as they rebuilt their fan base.
Unfortunately, the city they picked was where a preponderance of their dedicated attendees live. Their attendance did grow, but they failed to meet their hotel reservation reserve by a lot, because many attendees drove in, or crashed with local friends. After penalties were paid out, they had to tap into ticket sales (which fund the incidentals and the next year’s convention), and then into the scant reserves of the convention. Now, it may not be possible for them to ever field another convention again.

Which is all to say - Conventions are hard. And even committees with decades of experience can mess things up so dramatically that they just ruin the entire lineage.
A teenager? Even a smart one - I’m surprised they even got a venue.

That’s the reason I killed IPv6 on my network.

My dog eats shoe soles when she gets separation anxiety, and miraculously, she hasn’t managed to need surgery (for that) yet.

That one was free, but the next dog fact is gonna set you back $10k.

(And we know the shoes are an issue. The last 3 were a friends shoe that was accidentally left here in a place we didn’t spot them, our dog sitter’s mom’s shoe (from her closet!), and my wife’s shoe from the ’no dog area’ when we forgot to close a baby gate.)

So - I don’t think Firefox would be generating captions for PDFs on PDF creation.

But of the major ways that PDF’s do get created - converted from text editors or design software, I know that Microsoft Word automatically suggests captions when the document creator adds an image (but does not automatically apply captions), and I believe that some design software does, as well.

I think that, functionally, both suggesting captions at time of document creation, or at time of document read are prone to the same issues - that the software may not be smart enough to properly identify the object, and if it is, that it is not necessarily smart enough to explain it in context.
By way of example, a screenshot of a computer program will have the automatic suggestion of “A graphical user interface” (or similar), but depending on the context and usage, it could be “A virus installer disguised as ___ video game installer.” Or “The ___ video game installer.” Between the document creator and the creation software or screen reader, only the document creator would really know the context for the image.

Which is all to say that I think that Mozilla has the right idea with auto-tagging, but it will always fail on context. The only way to actually address the issue is to deal with it within the document creation software.
But I wouldn’t be opposed to ML on those that can auto-suggest things or even critique how content authors write their descriptions.

We need the name of those officers and the contact information for every relevant ethics/review/legal committee that can fuck up their lives.

Yeah… I realized that like an hour later, and couldn’t figure out how to respond appropriately. Then I forgot all about it because ADHD.

But yeah. I definitely got whooshed here.
In my defense, I guess I wasn’t expecting to see a joke in the thread, so … well, I didn’t see one.

I’m not confident they are authoritative on the matter.

Don’t consider me to be, either, but I have more details in my response to them.

https://lemmy.sdf.org/comment/10635782

Exchange allows users to access data and Microsoft services and it comes with good documentation and a whole slew of controls for org admins.

Active Directory provides authentication services, and it is mostly for your internal users (so they can access org services, including Exchange), but it’s very common to allow guests and to federate under certain circumstances, so your AD talks to their AD and external guests can authenticate and use resources that have been shared with them.
It is also well-documented with tight control in the hands of administrators.

Copilot is a black box. Their terms of service are vague. Microsoft’s responsible AI website comprises of marketing speak, no details, and the standards guide on the site is mostly questions that amount to “TBD”. Administrative ability to control data sharing is non-existent, not yet developed, or minimal.
We don’t know the scope of data gathered, the retention and handling policies, or where that data/any models built from that data are going to wind up.
My read is that they’re waiting to be sued or legislated before they impose any limits on themselves.