Posts from 9 December 2023

Someone defended the Plagiarism Machine to me the other day by saying that the people who are going to use it weren't going to pay artists in the first place, they were just going to go to the second page of Image Search and steal something from there anyway. But the categorical difference is that in the old way, there was a non-zero chance of getting caught. The Plagiarism Machine makes that impossible because it is a copyright laundry.

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Attached: 1 image happy stylish but illegal ikea monkey day to those who celebrate

Attached: 1 image If you want to know how the #COP28 UN Climate Change Conference is going, this post says it all...

Content warning: AI snark

Okay, #ADHD folks - what symptom suddenly makes sense, now that you understand ADHD better? I'm not talking about general stuff, like difficulty concentrating, I'm talking about specific phenomena, like having trouble following a conversation at a party. I always thought I had this problem because my ears are about a foot higher than the people speaking, but now I'm starting to think that the real difficulty is that my brain has trouble turning the volume down on all the other talking in the room. (I will occasionally repost this, along with whatever new symptom I've thought up... Apologies for the repetition) #ItAllMakesSenseNow

OpenUK @openuk@hachyderm.io is asking for volunteers to help to run State of Open 2024 - a celebration of open technologies (#opensource software, hardware, and data) in #London in early February. You get to attend the #SOOCon24 conference, alongside working for a portion of the time. https://stateofopencon.com/volunteer-2024/

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Scalable software today means software working on many machines owned by a single entity. Instead, it should be reclaimed to mean software that works across machines owned by many different people. Let's take 2024 to stop building The Plagiarism Nexus and focus on human empowering technologies. And do that again in 2025. And every year afterwards.

If somebody asks you to take part in an icebreaker game, your only responsibility is to make them regret it

You got coding problems, I feel bad for you, son. I got 98 problems ‘cuz I’m off by one.

Attached: 2 images I finally made one.. Die Hard Christmas ornament. Not that difficult to make, you just need some reflective material of some sort, got from KMart. It has room for improvement, I only have a black and white laser printer, and perhaps it could be smaller. Maybe I'll make more..

Attached: 1 image I'm sorry, did you forget the last 200 years of technological progress advancing productivity yet leading us to work even longer hours? If we want to work less, we need unions, not tech.