Parienve @Parienve@qoto.org

To teach kids about democracy, I let them vote on dinner.

They picked pizza.

So I made bangers and mash because they don’t live in a swing state.

WTH are @mozilla doing.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-anonym-raising-the-bar-for-privacy-preserving-digital-advertising/

> Anonym was founded with two core beliefs: First, that people have a fundamental right to privacy in online interactions and second, that digital advertising is critical for the sustainability of free content, services and experiences.

Agree on the first; could not disagree more on the second. As if we've put even a fraction of the effort into investigating free online spaces as we have advertising! The world does not need ads for anything other than manipulating people into spending their money. End of.

> Mozilla and Anonym share the belief that advanced technologies can enable relevant and measurable advertising while still preserving user privacy.

I don't share this belief and I know many others do not. This is such a misguided move handling the trust you've enjoyed up to now.

The #enshittification continues ever more.

#ads #web #firefox #mozilla

@LoganFive

"We have helpfully activated notifications for you with this update. To turn notifications off, simply open Settings, then Preferences, then Options. Scroll down to the Customizations section, unlock Developer Mode, then turn on 'Remind me Later' after choosing an interval between 1 and 3 weeks"

After some conversations with friends NOT on the fediverse I've arrived at calling it "independent social media."

This is better than "open source" or other titles, it better conveys the central difference.

MASTODON, YOU ARE NEEDED

I'm the faculty advisor for our campus fire dancing club. We're doing a show for alumni weekend, and the students have chosen Y2K as the theme.

It'll be easy for them to choose songs from that time, as well as the obvious "1999", but are there any danceable songs *about the Y2K bug*?

If anyone knows, you would!

#music #asktodon #y2k

Progress on my extensible app launcher written in #ClojureScript and #gtk

- Added icons to app listing (they don't load properly on NixOS, but they are working)
- Render diffing on app listing, to not re-render the entire list on every keypress
- I'm now saving the last ClojureScript evaluation as the `ans` variable, so you can use `ans` as you would in your calculator.

This Recall thing is a prime example of how bad we are at understanding when something is a systemic problem.

It doesn't matter if *you* disable it. It doesn't matter if *you* install Linux. It doesn't matter if *you* set your computer on fire and move to a Luddite commune.

If you have *ever* sent sensitive data, no matter how securely, to another person who now has this shit enabled, and they find your data and look at it, your data is compromised, and there's nothing you can do about it.

• An Oxford comma walks into a bar where it spends the evening watching the television, getting drunk, and smoking cigars.

• A dangling participle walks into a bar. Enjoying a cocktail and chatting with the bartender, the evening passes pleasantly.

• A bar was walked into by the passive voice.

• An oxymoron walked into a bar, and the silence was deafening.

• Two quotation marks walk into a “bar.”

• A malapropism walks into a bar, looking for all intensive purposes like a wolf in cheap clothing, muttering epitaphs and casting dispersions on his magnificent other, who takes him for granite.

• Hyperbole totally rips into this insane bar and absolutely destroys everything.

• A question mark walks into a bar?

• A non sequitur walks into a bar. In a strong wind, even turkeys can fly.

• Papyrus and Comic Sans walk into a bar. The bartender says, "Get out -- we don't serve your type."

• A mixed metaphor walks into a bar, seeing the handwriting on the wall but hoping to nip it in the bud.

• A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves.

• Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They converse. They depart.

• A synonym strolls into a tavern.

• At the end of the day, a cliché walks into a bar -- fresh as a daisy, cute as a button, and sharp as a tack.

• A run-on sentence walks into a bar it starts flirting. With a cute little sentence fragment.

• Falling slowly, softly falling, the chiasmus collapses to the bar floor.

• A figure of speech literally walks into a bar and ends up getting figuratively hammered.

• An allusion walks into a bar, despite the fact that alcohol is its Achilles heel.

• The subjunctive would have walked into a bar, had it only known.

• A misplaced modifier walks into a bar owned a man with a glass eye named Ralph.

• The past, present, and future walked into a bar. It was tense.

• A dyslexic walks into a bra.

• A verb walks into a bar, sees a beautiful noun, and suggests they conjugate. The noun declines.

• A simile walks into a bar, as parched as a desert.

• A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to forget.

• A hyphenated word and a non-hyphenated word walk into a bar and the bartender nearly chokes on the irony.

All I can say is that Microsoft's #Recall is going to be a #privacy nightmare unlike anything before it.

There's no question as to "if that data will leak". It's a matter of "when". Be it on purpose or unknowingly by some 3rd party actor.

There are zero branches in the multi-verse where Microsoft's Recall doesn't become this massive privacy hole for people.

Lots of luck to everyone sticking with Windows.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy-and-control-over-your-recall-experience-d404f672-7647-41e5-886c-a3c59680af15

Are you tired of reading recipes online only to realize halfway through that the proportions are laughable and the #recipe is #AI #bullshit and you're making White Glue Sauce?

Why not reference the Joy of Cooking instead? No hardcopy with you? No problem! https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.126676 (among other sources)

#realWorld #realWork #realCooking #whiteGlueSauce #JoyOfCooking

@floweringmind @pointlessone But it looks like Firefox will retain the features required by ad blocking and privacy plugins that Chrome and related browsers are descoping.

"Mozilla will maintain support for blocking WebRequest in MV3. To maximize compatibility with other browsers, we will also ship support for declarativeNetRequest. We will continue to work with content blockers and other key consumers of this API to identify current and future alternatives where appropriate. Content blocking is one of the most important use cases for extensions, and we are committed to ensuring that Firefox users have access to the best privacy tools available."

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2022/05/18/manifest-v3-in-firefox-recap-next-steps/

I wrote a very short (and kind of silly) story about prompt engineering: https://www.daniellitt.com/blog/2024/5/30/a-short-story-about-prompt-engineering

Copilot+ Recall has been enabled by default globally in Microsoft Intune managed users, for businesses.

You need to enable DisableAIDataAnalysis to switch it off. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/client-management/manage-recall