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In 2008 I wrote a networking utility program for Linux. It's still maintained and used. Take the first letter of every sentence in its (rather long) man page and it spells "Never gonna give you up" etc etc. Nobody has ever mentioned it.
A barred owl showed up in our backyard fir tree, early morning. Silently stoic.
I rarely see owls in our backyard, especially during daylight hours.
Barred owls are actually very invasive in BC. They're native to East Coast areas but have spread across Canada over the years. They're a threat to our native spotted owls, who mainly nest in old growth forests & snags in those dwindling ancient forest ecosystems.
You can see barred owls all over the island now. Many are used to more urban settings & they're in all municipalities.
#BirdsOfPrey #BarredOwl #raptors #predator #owls #nature #wildlife #StrixVaria #Strigidae #avian #InvasiveSpecies #birdwatching #birds #ornithology #Saanich #BritishColumbia #VancouverIsland #PNW
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This is the kind of funding the Fediverse actually needs. Better tools are great, but without people making things worth watching or listening to, we’re just building increasingly elegant infrastructure for arguing about infrastructure. Pairing creators with developers is a genuinely smart move.
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I’ve been syndicating my blog to MSN News since forever. Yesterday I published a post to my linkblog that points out MSN Copilot cited a random site by a right-wing guy in 75% of its election-related answers. This morning I coincidentally received an email informing me I’m kicked off of MSN. Fun!
And Ross Douthat is now on 60minutes. This is the dumbest timeline evar.
@lapcatsoftware I interpreted it to be a response to Google's recent move to make Android less open;
see also: Play Integrity, AOSP development changes, RCS, new APK restrictions, etc.
[i.e. it was entirely predictable that Google does not actually care about openness]
@jjtech That's a stretch, with no evidence for your interpretation.
I suspect I will always think it was a mistake to allow author styling of `<select>` elements and sub-elements, and yes, most other form inputs as well.
I acknowledge the reasons for supporting it are valid and real, and also that I’m likely just being an old sourpuss. I nevertheless continue to believe user interaction elements should be consistent with the host operating system, so that users subconsciously know what a thing is when they see or otherwise interact with it.
Ah well.
@Meyerweb
Particularly inputs as complex as date and time inputs, though many host OSes and browsers need to do a better job at usability and accessibility there.
Benny, almost every thinking person knows you’re the dumbest motherfucker in America but it’s astonishing to watch you continue to prove it every single day.
Good luck, America.
You’ll need it.
Google Will Turn Off Search for Schools That Reject A.I.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/03/us/google-search-schools-restrict-ai.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Crypto- and AI-focused super PACs have poured nearly $250 million into this year’s elections. Tonight we find out what it bought.
Here’s my guide to the races to watch, where the money went, and which results could embarrass the industry: https://www.citationneeded.news/2026-election-guide/
#crypto #cryptocurrency #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #USpol #USpolitics #citationNeededNewsletter
I'm reading about a Word "clone", apparently made by the same people who recreated "clones" of Adobe's software suite.
I don't know how legal any of this is, and I'm not going to get into that. But I can't help smiling at the reactions.
When they started pushing AI, they told us we would lose our jobs, whether we liked it or not. That AI would replace us, whether we liked it or not.
Now that someone has decided to apply the very same principle to their products, suddenly they don't like it anymore.
"You can create new games, but you can't recreate existing ones."
Hurts, doesn't it?
And that's the point. The problem isn't the technology itself, but the way certain sharks use it at other people's expense. When they're the ones on the receiving end, and only then, ethics suddenly becomes a concern again.
@stefano The AI bubble needs to burst already. I'm sick of it.
What could go wrong?
https://vorarlberg.orf.at/stories/3377895/
@Haubentaucher Naja.
Was will man erwarten? Ist doch der good-case, solange die EU keine guten #OpenWeight-Modelle anbietet und man sich von den USA abkoppeln möchte.
Im konkreten Fall frage ich mich, weshalb man ein Service in #Vorarlberg nutzen möchte, um politische Sachen aus #China zu recherchieren.
Generell wird uns nix übrig bleiben als selbst Modelle so zu trainieren, wie es in unserer Kultur opportun scheint. 🤷
Slopfest 2k26 continues with an election, a fanfic fiasco, and World of Slopcraft.
Can't wait until Nov 6th and the U.S. stops talking about politics because they're too busy taking off work and bringing a lot of services to a hault to commit virtual crimes.
All I'm saying is that I hope no one needs a nerd that day.
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