Olives @olives@qoto.org

https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/18/opinion_column/
What do you think of companies using "open source" to bootstrap themselves before switching to a quasi-proprietary license to make billions? Troublesome, isn't it? #OpenSource

https://reason.com/2023/08/17/brickbat-sorry-i-was-aiming-at-your-dog/ American cop tries to shoot dog. Misses and hits woman instead.

In America, the cops would shoot the dog.

I'm bringing this up as I saw someone complaining about it.

Apparently, drugs were over-prescribed and now the U.S. is over-correcting for it by making it harder to get pain meds at all.

As is evident, that isn't working well either (as it creates the opposite problem).

Speaking to a Japanese friend, it did become evident that the LGBT pronoun thing isn't very relevant there, as every common language construct is gender neutral.

No Game No Life. A satirical comedic anime about a couple of super gamers who get transported to another world by the God of Games.

Everything in this new world revolves around games, and winning games.

Everyone's favorite #anime, lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALZZx1xmAzg A British parody of the anti piracy ad.

Remember the days of Code Geass? Good times.

I'm kind of fine with Mastodon's chronological feed, although I could do with something like a RSS reader to mark / unmark things as read and to go through at my pleasure.

Maybe, also divide it into folders.

Someone came up with a scenario where a chatbot is tricked into handing over sensitive data, lol.

What you would presumably do here is, either hire actual support staff (lol), or limit the data which that particular context has access to.

Presumably, it can't disclose anything or access anything which it is technically incapable of accessing.