Notices by Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)

Taken my account private, probably will delete because I don’t post here much anyway.

Also taking a MH break from social media in general.

On Wednesday, next Wednesday, a week on Wednesday, in two Wednesday’s time, three Wednesday’s on, or any other temporal variant, and including regional dialects are all totally alien concepts to it. And god forbid you discuss more than one timescale or event in one email.

What I do fear is that for those that do heavily invest, they’ll be required by the likes of Microsoft to begin to speak in ways that Copilot can parse and ‘understand’. Which in larger organisations will shape the way that they communicate with others, and it’ll spread. In the same way that American corporate speak, or Agile terminology has infected the rest of the world.

Our interactions, the things that make us most human, will be modified for the sake of corporate benefit over the coming years.

I’ve had a week of Microsoft Copilot integration testing across this organisation. Most features being assessed from user productivity to Azure admin.

And let me tell you, I’m coining it now, we’re going to be left with years of ‘Accuracy Debt’ when we see more organisations adopt it.

My very favourite example of just how fundamental these problems are were with user email synopsis and meeting time suggestions.

It's like, I'm not some kind of "it should just work" absolutist, but I think it must be tractable to users such that you can get the explanation of the relevant moving parts in the faq or whatever; and like I'm a dev with lots of track record in faffing around with things to get them to work, I feel like it's fair to say I represent the high end of the spectrum on that

Things that should go without saying: Boys are allowed to show emotion regardless of their disability status or neurotype, FFS

Have been handed a Windows 11 device for the first time after ~32 years using Apple devices.

May I just say: if this is how the majority of the world is treated by their computers, I don’t know why there haven’t been more Unabombers.

Launching stuff into orbit (especially humans) is really really hard. And it's getting harder and harder to do safely as the amount of space junk and satellites in orbit increase.

So many aspects of satellite pollution: space junk falls on us, space junk crashes into astronauts. The part that makes me angriest is all the light pollution from satellites and space junk.

And the part that worries me the most is all the atmospheric pollution. But there's a petition for this!

Sign here: https://pirg.org/edfund/take-action/tell-the-fcc-satellite-mega-constellations-need-environmental-review/

Full report on why you should sign is here: https://pirg.org/edfund/resources/wastex-environmental-harms-of-satellite-internet-mega-constellations/

[sorry if that was too snarky]

neat old film movie camera

This is written up in a Wired article too: "As Skies Fill With Space Junk, Nonprofit Urges US to Pause StarLink Launches" https://www.wired.com/story/pirg-starlink-environmental-review-space-garbage/

The next questions on the quiz would be:

2) How many eligible voters were erroneously (illegally) de-registered in these purges, so that they couldn't vote on election day?

3) Did they disproportionately target eligible Black voters for illegal de-registering?

4) Was the number of Black voters illegally de-registered between 2014 and 2016 larger than Trump's margin of victory?

5) Did Black voters ask for help with this in those 2 years prior to Trump winning the election?

But why bother? 🤷🏿♂️

Note: my Mastodon only sends me a notification for replies. So... this is only 73 new replies since last night around 11.

“Your order includes a white friend device and a white case.” I mean, the jokes write themselves. https://www.friend.com/product.html

I've realized today that it's lose-lose for me to talk about the flaws of Mastodon. Between getting picked apart, yelled at, and threatened, it's just not worth it. I don't think the decisionmakers want to change a thing and most of you-all don't ever run into the problems I'm facing here.

If you don't have a thousand daily rituals involving watching your back and protecting yourself from literal harm, sit down, shut up, and listen.

I am tired of protected men trying to explain things to me. Just fix it.

Wow, setting the IIgs to monochrome gives a way way better crisper image than I would have guessed

Chexder

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#retrogaming

Another quote of my own tumblr posts.

The fact there are two 2s is accurate to the tumblr post, btw.

@bbcmicrobot
#bbcmicrobot MO.2:F=1:Y=512:REP.:N=(N MOD4)+1:GC.0,N:MOVE0,Y:DR.1280,Y:Y=Y-F:F=F*1.2:U.Y<0
GC.0,5:F.I=-8.5TO8.5:MOVE640+I*75,512:DR.640+I*220,0:N.:MOVE0,512:DR.1280,512
C.6:P. TAB(3,8);"NO CROWDSTRIKE":P. TAB(2,10);"BSOD IF YOU STILL":P. TAB(5,12);"USE 6502";
V.19,N,0,0,0,0:N=(N MOD4)+1:V.19,N,5,0,0,0:I=INKEY(12):G.30