Notices by VM (Vicky) Brasseur (vmbrasseur@social.vmbrasseur.com), page 2

Unionized YouTube Workers Learn Google Laid Them All Off During City Council Meeting, from @404mediaco

https://www.404media.co/unionized-youtube-workers-learn-google-laid-them-all-off-during-city-council-meeting/

The “AI" didn't “hallucinate”.

It fabricated. Like the software-robot it is.

Stop implying there's any sort of consciousness behind these massive if-then statements.

Greece legalises same-sex marriage

🇬🇷🏳️🌈💕

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68310126

#LoveIsLove

@ntnsndr No, I haven't. When they revamped the site they actively disregarded the harm the design brought to many community members (headaches, migraines), causing a schism in the Knitterverse. I'd rather we have a pure-FOSS option for sharing projects.

I'm looking forward to someone releasing an #ActivityPub-enabled Ravelry-type thing.

It would be great to self-host and share craft projects more easily.

Merry CatsMitts to all who celebrate.

#CatsOfMastodon

Pythagorean Theorem Found On Clay Tablet 1,000 Years Older Than Pythagoras

"The conclusion is inescapable. The Babylonians knew the relation between the length of the diagonal of a square and its side: d=square root of 2," mathematician Bruce Ratner writes in a paper on the topic.

https://www.iflscience.com/pythagorean-theorem-found-on-clay-tablet-1000-years-older-than-pythagoras-72091

#math #maths

The Theory That Men Evolved to Hunt and Women Evolved to Gather Is Wrong

Man the Hunter has dominated the study of human evolution for nearly half a century and pervaded popular culture. It is represented in museum dioramas and textbook figures, Saturday morning cartoons and feature films. The thing is, it's wrong.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-theory-that-men-evolved-to-hunt-and-women-evolved-to-gather-is-wrong/

Headline text: “Recent restrictions on data scraping don’t have to derail your generative AI initiatives”

Headline subtext: “Here's how to get around user privacy and existing, longstanding copyright laws for profit”

Sun's out, tum's out.

#Caturday

@juliaferraioli I found a 2018 Black Duck report in my files. It includes this line:

“In The Forrester Wave™: Software Composition Analysis, Q1 2017, analyst Amy DeMartine notes that ‘developers use open source components as their foundation, creating applications using only 10% to 20% new code.’”

I’ve emailed you the Black Duck report.

@juliaferraioli Try this one:

https://www.synopsys.com/software-integrity/resources/analyst-reports/open-source-security-risk-analysis.html?intcmp=sig-blog-ossra22

@juliaferraioli Synopsys has been making the claim for years, IIRC, but I don't recall ever seeing methodology for their reports.

I'm looking to switch away from Trello for my personal #ProjectManagement tracking.

What do folks like for this sort of thing these days?

Criteria:

* Not Notion (already tried)
* macOS & iOS required (incl. sync)
* Would really rather not self-host
* Kanban-ish not necessarily required

Serious suggestions only, please.

Huh.

Consumer Reports (CR) has released a mobile app (iOS, Android on the way) that shows what data companies collect about you, then allows you to have CR get the data deleted:

https://www.permissionslipcr.com

Essentially, CR will act as the data ombudsman for anyone who asks them to. I love it.

CR is a non-profit that accepts no advertising or corporate sponsorship, and they have a great reputation. It's a superb choice to take on the data capitalists.

#privacy

Native Americans are asking The Apache Software Foundation, "…to take the necessary steps needed to express the ally-ship they promote so deeply on their website, to act in accordance with their own code of conduct, to “be careful in the words that [they] choose”, and change their name."

It'll be a big change, but IMO one that's necessary and overdue.

https://blog.nativesintech.org/apache-appropriation/

#OpenSource

I just walked into my local public library with a curiosity and walked out with a bag full of books to satisfy it.

And they say magic isn't real?

Treasure, use, and support your libraries, folks. They're the heart and soul of a civil society. ❤️