They are starting to get it ...

If your municipality or power company are encouraging you to minimize your use of the AC during this #heatwave (while shovelling power to #AI companies)... ignore them & keep yourself cool.

#weather #ClimateChange #climate

John Oliver talks about AI slop. Thank you so much for telling the truth, informing about the harm & defending artists. 💚
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWpg1RmzAbc
If you are from the UK, Australia, or New Zealand, this PeerTube link will hopefully work instead: https://vid.freedif.org/w/vjtzRBhfYhpmCjimk3L96W

God, this bubble burst is going to be so brutal

How do I join the butlerian jihad

#TempestPHP has better docs than Laravel

https://tempestphp.com/docs

man, even when you buy an election, you’re really just renting it these days. worse than photoshop.

Also, I'm pretty sure I've said this before, but I'll say it again:

Part of your job as a senior is to tell your juniors about your fuckups. The embarrassing cringe reckless and lazy bullshit that you did when you were new, and the various times you brought down Prod. We ALL did it sometime. And then tell them: the moment you realized you fucked up, I know, the impulse is to try and cover it up, but don't do it. Come to the seniors you trust, and they'll help you unfuck it, and fight management tooth and claw like mamma and pappa bears to defend you from any shitheads in management. Because that's what our seniors did to us.

My doctor’s office just asked me if I consented to an AI scribe taking session notes. (Obviously I said absolutely not and over my dead body).

I am physically incapable of minding my own business so I asked for details. They confirmed that means the rooms are capable of recording now, but assured me that it is “completely deleted” in a “timely fashion”.

I’m with One Medical. So that means the steward of that data is AMAZON.

I am utterly horrified.

#tech #dystopia

@emd I have a Bosch and it's really good, but I bought it a few years ago. I heard some of the new ones are "smart". Avoid them like the plague.

🎶 Old MacDonald had a bot farm, AI-AI-oh! 🎶

@kaiserkiwi 😈💡 use the Amazon Associates API to search for books, then save the info to the DB.

@kaiserkiwi Telegram was bad for multiple reasons, but this seals the deal. I've never used it, myself.

@kaiserkiwi got it. I'd rather avoid Google, too. At the same time, if it's not a business and just for you, it might be convenient. What I typically do with these types of APIs is to "cache" all requests in the database, i.e. saving the record in my DB and making an external API request only if I can't find the item in the DB.

@kaiserkiwi How about https://developers.google.com/books ?
I've been meaning to build one on this API... of course, after all the other unfinished projects are done 😅

"Web browsers are dead" -- The Browser Company

First, they'll ask for your official IDs to confirm your age and identity.

This will create a large treasure trove
of sensitive data, which will attract criminals, and will inevitably leak from either negligence or malice, sooner than later.

Then, they'll claim your official ID is
unreliable, because it was stolen so many times, and demand you share your biometric data.

They will collect your face scan,
your palm scan, and even your iris scan (no exaggeration, these are all already being collected by some companies for identification). They will claim it's super safe.

This will create a large treasure trove
of sensitive biometric data, which will attract criminals, and will inevitably leak from either negligence or malice, sooner than later.

Then what? Rinse and escalate.

You will have lost control of not just your corporate social media accounts by participating to this, but to any data capable of validating your identity, to your privacy rights, to the protections you could use online to stay safe.

We don't have to wait that it escalates.

We can, and must, push back and say No now. Start to say No now.

#Privacy #Biometrics #DataMinimization #AgeVerification

@ramsey What I do sometimes when this happens is to do a fresh install of the framework in a new folder, then run a diff against the old codebase, and just copy over the changes. Much easier than trying to fix the original copy.

@kaiserkiwi hah! This is brilliant ❤️

@kepano this is fantastic! Gave it a try and it works seamlessly. It's a no-brainer if you are an Obsidian user 👏