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they/it reskeet extraordinaire cs student, interest in compilers & hci sometimes inappropriate, but i don’t repost nsfw imagery all my skeets are released to the public domain pfp: @locofur.bsky.social 🔞

going to the zoo as a furry means just collecting as many pictures as possible of certain animals to send to friends who have them as their sonas

i want to write an ag*nt for shits and giggles so i make a loading animation for the frontend but then i actually have to write the frontend so i do some of it in elm but i want to actually engineer the harness so i start planning that

Look, I’m an open source maintainer, and if you want people to use that FOSS software as an alternative to that proprietary software it’s good to understand why people wanted to use that proprietary software in the first place and why they might be hesitant to switch It’s not because users are dumb

Academics “examined the behaviour of mainstream large language models provided by Elon Musk’s xAI, Meta, Google, China’s Alibaba and France’s Mistral and found the introduction of bias happens even when the AI tool is instructed to preserve the original sense.”

AI altering meaning of users’ drafts on issues from abortion to climate, study finds

Researchers say small changes in drafting could spread rapidly and create long-term shifts in public opinion

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what purveyors of the "permanent underclass" meme don't understand is that there was ALWAYS a permanent underclass (lumpenproletariat) and the bourgeoisie has simply identified a convenient mechanization technology to put SWEs there

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

Grindr has been caught sharing users' HIV status and precise location with advertisers without obtaining valid consent. They must immediately stop prioritizing profits over users’ safety, and make privacy the default across its platform. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

EFF to Grindr: This Pride Month, Put Safety and Privacy Over Profits

This Pride month, we’re calling on the dating app Grindr to prioritize LGBTQ+ user safety by making privacy the default across its platform. That means no more sharing personal data with advertisers

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