Notices by d.rift (feonixrift@x0r.be)

@chris I fed it something innocuous and it decided I was an angsty middle eastern descent barely-not-poor person in dubai who needed ads for personal security products, qaran apps, and xanax. Never feed these machines; not only will they target you, they are also frequently completely wrong. (The photo was of my knee and some notebooks on a patio??)

@chris Also great tool though for introspecting the machine; yikes. I would never have guessed just how far off it would be. Maybe it's biased against people who sit on the ground. I knew it could profile people and detect locations, which is why I tend toward contextually tight photos, but I hadn't thought through that modern AI's inability to say "unknown" could misprofile me that hard.

@rysiek @ll1t @0xfffffffe Location data is in my opinion probably worth an "adjust settings so this is harder to hit without user interaction", as you suggested up-thread, for people with moderate risks. It has a nasty tendency to be possible to refine over time, in the hands of persistent stalkers.

@alcinnz And yet somehow we are stuck with context unaware git merge. 🤷♂️ What would developer expectations of minimum software capability look like if our own tooling wasn't conceptually decades out of date...

Lessons learned on fedi: Following cryptography furries will give you nightmare fuel about _every_ chat protocol. Come for the cute ears, stay for the math fears.

@Polychrome yeah I may be resisting plushies on this one... although I did get talked into a murderdrones plushie. And a Minecraft firefly one.

@Polychrome In standard, audiobook, and boxed set graphic novel edition. And fan made video games. And an entire (not bad, actually, but needs all the cw) movie.

@Polychrome And as a plus? It got my kid interested in _both reading and history_. So, major win in my book. Even if her way of expressing that was to respond to a history lesson with "Omgs it's just real life fnaf! So much child murder." which uhm, ok? I guess? Not what I'd normally call a selling point, that.

@Polychrome haha nope. The writing quality on the books isn't awful though.

Seriously, half of IT are furries, and another 10% otherkin; HOW did "are you human" on captchas ever get through QA?

@Polychrome I am a computer nerd and I just learned this word. Perhaps it's shininess nerds who use it? It's good though, should be spread.

@siina @Polychrome fwiw, I'm a very plain internet user who avoids all {sexuality, nudity} content, and your cw have always been tasteful and adequate for happily following on here with my usual word mutes in place.

@siina @Polychrome so like, a) do you, nobody's opinions matter, mine included, and also b) wtf is their problem you're good at this