Notices by Jim Jones (greatbigtable@mastodon.social)

RE: https://mastodon.social/@iFixit/115881176706138985

We should all fight for the #RightToRepair. Stuff like this is why.

Dog Giveaway Afternoon

#HumaneSocietyAMovie
#HashTagGames

@bruces "Altman claims that users are beginning to see it his way. “GPT-5 is the first time where people are, ‘Holy fuck. It’s doing this important piece of physics.’ Or a biologist is saying, ‘Wow, it just really helped me figure this thing out,’” he says. “There's something important happening that did not happen with any pre-GPT-5 model, which is the beginning of AI helping accelerate the rate of discovering new science.” (OpenAI hasn’t cited who those physicists or biologists are.)"

@killyourfm if you hadn't told me, I would have guessed that was a mermaid tail.

@bruces someday Russia will take building safety codes in regard to windows seriously. Until then, these tragedies will continue to happen.

@Gargron agreed. 100%! This is a bad UI change.

@greenWhale @Fragglemuppet Absolutely. I ESPECIALLY like it when people quote post using screenshots.

If people are going to do that, PLEASE make the effort to put the text of those posts in the alt-text. I am sighted and they are hard for me to read. I am sure that they are a necessity for the sight impaired.

@Fragglemuppet alt text. It's not that hard and even a little bit goes a long way.

I am listening to a lot of #funny #cozy #mystery novels right now?

Do the #bookstodon or #amreading communities have any suggestions for light mysteries that will make you laugh?

Thanks in advance.

@Gargron I turn off watch history and only use my subscribed list. Turning off watch history seems to "break" youtube's homepage. You don't get algorithmic suggests and instead get a banner asking you to turn back on watch history.

I just scroll down on my subscribed list and work my way up on videos that I may or may not want to watch.

If I am feeling organized, I do that, but add the videos to a watch queue and work my way through that (removing as I watch).

Much better experience.

@Gargron looks like the cover of a noir detective novel. Awesome.

Life of Pie

#SweetToothABookOrPlay
#HashTagGames

- my wife's suggestion

@Gargron Happy Birthday!

@Gargron Is there a list of the various badges somewhere? I have seen a few -- social butterfly, cool-hunter, oracle, etc --and I think they are great.

@Gargron This is VERY COOL and I look forward to what you have in store for it in the future. Thank you. It was a pleasant surprise.

@cstross @vincent How would you read out a URL like: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/ ?

@vincent @cstross That's what I would say as well.

I have been hearing more and more people say "Anti Pope Dot Org Back Slash Charlie" recently and that's what baffles me.

@VeryBadLlama my wife and I started a community board game night over a decade ago in our late 40s. I have made some of the closest friends of my life from that group. It's been worth the effort.

@silverwizard from there, of the police still won't do something, it turns to filing court orders to get information from the IP holders about who had the IP at the time of access and harassment.

Good luck.

@silverwizard the method in the Forbes article uses a blog and site statistics apps to gather the IP information. Same principal.