Notices by Noelle :verified: (noellemitchell@mstdn.social), page 3

Slack users horrified to discover messages used for AI training

"However, it remains unclear what exactly happens when users opt out. Commenters on Hacker News slammed Slack for failing to explain whether opting out deletes data from the models or "what exactly does the customer support rep do on their end to opt you out.""

#news #AI #Slack #business #media #press #tech

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/slack-defends-default-opt-in-for-ai-training-on-chats-amid-user-outrage/

Apparently I love reading books about technology companies lol.

I'm still reading Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk's Twitter by Zoë Schiffer and I just started reading Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy by Jonathan Taplin.

So yeah...I sense a theme here. 😅😆

#books #tech #reading #facebook #google #amazon #nonfiction

Lol Elon is claiming that 1.7 million people are joining X every day 🤣🤣🤣 I highly doubt the number is that high

#ElonMusk #Twitter #X #SocialMedia #tech

https://mastodon.social/@TodayInTwitter/112121428225795436

I can't believe people are still using Twitter. I don't miss being on there at all.

#SocialMedia #Twitter #X #ElonMusk

I have a blog again! Going to use this blog for sharing my thoughts and writing about books I read. Excited to be blogging again!

#books #blog #writing #WordPress #blogger

https://bookswithnoelle.wordpress.com/2024/03/15/back-for-the-third-time/

I'm not going to be connecting my WordPress.com blog to the fediverse this time because I feel like it made everything confusing having a Mastodon account *and* a blog on the fediverse. 😅 :fediverse: :mastodon:

#blog #fediverse #mastodon

"The modestly funded West Haven Library has spent more than $12,000 over the last three years to lease just 276 additional digital titles beyond what patrons can access through a consortium of public libraries. Eighty-four of those books are no longer available. If that same amount had been spent on paper books, it would have covered about 800 titles."

#books #reading #libraries #publishing #writers #news #press #media #bookstodon

https://apnews.com/article/libraries-ebooks-publishers-expensive-laws-5d494dbaee0961eea7eaac384b9f75d2

Apparently #Bluesky is open to the public now, which means I still won't be creating an account there. #SocialMedia

"... the website loads in a special browser built into the app, rather than your phone’s default browser. In 2022, privacy researcher Felix Krause found that Meta injects special “keylogging” JavaScript onto the website you’re visiting that allows the company to monitor everything you type and tap on, including passwords. Other apps including TikTok do the same thing."

What the hell?? This is so creepy.

#Meta #JavaScript #Privacy #web #SocialMedia #News #Threads

https://gizmodo.com/meet-link-history-facebook-s-new-way-to-track-the-we-1851134018

@seanbala I've been thinking the same thing lately. You don't really need accounts on every single fediverse platform since they can all communicate with each other. And only so many platforms I can actively use with only 24 hours in a day. My favorite platform on the fediverse is Mastodon.

Last night I deleted my Pixelfed account because I never used it. I really like Pixelfed but I hardly take photos, so it felt like the account was sitting around getting stagnant. I posted only two photos on Pixelfed in the eight months I had the account.

I also deleted my Storygraph account because adding books to it was starting to feel like a chore instead of something fun. I might go back to tracking books I read in a notebook.

Two accounts gone then I guess. 😅😄

I'm now following over 100 blogs on WordPress/Jetpack app! 😄 Always looking for more blogs to follow on there.

#WordPress #Jetpack #RSS #blog

I've been seeing a lot of posts on #Threads about how bad the #Instagram algorithm is now. Apparently a lot of people are getting way less engagement on their posts than they used to on IG. It seems to mostly be bookstagram and #photography accounts, at least from what I've seen.

This seems like the perfect opportunity for #Pixelfed to step in and fill the place Instagram had. 😁 :pixelfed:

Perfect way to start the day: updating the Pixelfed app so I can start posting stories!! 😍😁

Pixelfed stories are here!! :blobcathappy: :blobcatcamera:

#Pixelfed #App #SocialMedia #Android

Pixelfed stories isn't coming out until 10 pm tonight PT, so I have quite a few hours to wait. I'm counting down the hours. 😀📱 Super excited. 😁

#Pixelfed #app #android

I'm so excited to start posting stories on Pixelfed!! 😀 My username is @noellemitchell@pixelfed.social in case anybody wants to follow me. I think you have to have a Pixelfed account in order to view Pixelfed stories though. 😅

#Pixelfed #app #fediverse

"A small update!
First on Bernie's condition, unfortunately he has still been unable to pass urine on his own even with the medication and the vet trying to express the bladder. This means this afternoon he has again had to be sedated and have another catheter fitted. They are hoping they can keep this catheter in for 48 hours so he can have surgery on Monday."

Please boost and donate if you can!

#cats #Mastodon #donate #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #fundraiser #GoFundMe

https://www.gofundme.com/f/bernies-life-saving-surgery

Why are so many people in the replies on this post so upset over Pixelfed Stories? I think it's a fun feature and I'm excited to start using it, I don't understand the reaction it's getting. Seems unnecessarily negative.

#Pixelfed #SocialMedia #fediverse

https://mastodon.social/@pixelfed/110535134864530111

A feature that's coming to the Pixelfed app are stories. They're already available on the web in beta but they're coming to the mobile app and I'm super excited about it. 😁 Can't wait to start using it.

#Pixelfed #app #mobile #stories #tech #fediverse

So you know how I posted a few hours ago that any day now #Twitter would have another outage? Apparently that day is today ? Seems like the outages are about every four or five days right now. ?

#TwitterDown #SocialMedia #tech #lol

https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/