My 2023 resolution is to complete the #RunLikeAWolf challenge, hosted annually in August by @nywolforg
Using CWs descriptively and liberally gives your followers and instancemates a choice for whether to see your posts, without having to outright mute, block, or unfollow. It helps keeps our communities a pleasant experience for everyone.
The part of the Fediverse populated by furries is called the Fuzziverse. #feditips
"Dr. Poolvos, one of 1.2 Million emancipated Recoms, proposes to the Global Economic Forum that certain [Recom]binant DNA species are suited to be modified for life in space and to colonize the Jovian Moons. According to his vision, spaceborne resources could enable Climate Engineering efforts to stabilize Earth's damaged ecosphere."
(circa 2200 CE, colorized)
It would be another 100 years before the first autonomous colony on Callisto was finally established. Mars followed just a decade later.
If you're in the market for a laptop, I very highly recommend Framework! I have one of their first-gen 13" "DIY" models. They're good quality, very upgradable, and very repairable. The ports even swap out so you can configure expansion however you want. They just announced new AMD-based models today, and a 16" model with discrete graphics coming later this year! https://frame.work/
CEO of Google says their Bard Chat AI “makes mistakes” after it called Google a monopoly that needs to be broken up by the state. The bot also opposed Google in a hypothetical anti-trust lawsuit.
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https://fortune.com/2023/03/22/alphabet-ceo-sundar-pichai-bard-chatbot-things-will-go-wrong/
It’s crazy how so much criticism of ChatGPT/Bing/whatever is still wrapped up in anthropomorphism, even in tech media.
No, Bing didn't “lie to you" or "admit it was lying,” there's no thought process. It is autocomplete. Describing it in human terms just feeds into people seeing these technologies as intelligent.
shot: Mozilla cuts 250 jobs, says Firefox development will be affected (https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/changing-world-changing-mozilla/)
chaser: Mozilla is committing $30M to build Mozilla.ai: A startup building a "trustworthy, independent, and open-source AI ecosystem" (https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/introducing-mozilla-ai-investing-in-trustworthy-ai/)
@chrisisgr8 javascript is the correct tool for precisely one job and that job is placing a button on a website that says "click here for a free cupholder" and when you click it ejects your cd-rom.
Furry on main. I mostly make dumb jokes, bark at squirrels, and gripe about tech. 18+ only please.