@VogonTechnician

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Guided her 275 million followers to Vote.org

Urges her fans to register to vote and to learn about the issues

She’s the catalyst for over 35,000 new voters to register on Vote.org after national voter registration day

I can’t name a single one of her songs, but I’m a Taylor Swift fan

"Focusing on doomsday scenarios in artificial intelligence is a distraction that plays down immediate risks such as the large-scale generation of misinformation, according to a senior industry figure attending this week’s AI safety summit."

Yeah - it is frustrating that there's so much focus on silly sci-fi threats when *right now*, LLMs are being used to fill the web with spam.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/oct/29/ai-doomsday-warnings-a-distraction-from-the-danger-it-already-poses-warns-expert

AI doomsday warnings a distraction from the danger it already poses, warns expert

A leading researcher, who will attend this week’s AI safety summit in London, warns of ‘real threat to the public conversation’

The Guardian
Boost this if you’re reading this in dark mode 😎🕶️
Another example of why the death penalty is such a hopelessly bad idea. Mistakes will always be made, and no evidence is perfect. https://press.coop/@BBCWorld/111019340986794562
BBC News (World) :press: (@[email protected])

DNA exonerates man 47 years after rape conviction It is believed to be the longest standing wrongful conviction to be overturned in the US. #press https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66734064?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA&utm_source=press.coop

press.coop
Shavua tov from little Sprockles who hopes everyone had a restorative day #Cats #CatsOfMastodon #Sprocket #ThreeLeggedCat #TriPawd #Caturday

If you ship an app for macOS, please do this! I hardly see this at all with Mac apps.

In your info.plist, add `MDItemKeywords` and the value is a list of keywords for your app separated by commas. This will show up in your More Info window for your app under “Keywords”.

Why is this useful? Let’s say you make a Mastodon client app called anything BUT Mastodon, if you throw “Mastodon” in this list in `MDItemKeywords`, searching “Mastodon” in Spotlight would surface it as a search result!

You know what’s software engineering? Regaining control over a computer 20 billion kilometers away thanks to the design decisions made 50 years prior. #voyager2
PSA: Disabling iCloud Drive in iOS 17 No Longer Turns Off Third-Party App CloudKit Syncing

In iOS 17 and macOS Sonoma, turning off iCloud Drive no longer impacts third-party apps that use Apple's iCloud database to sync their data, a...

MacRumors
Developing Mastodon, I strive to use terminology that is familiar to as many people as possible so as to not put up unnecessary barriers in understanding. For this reason I am happy that we went away from calling posts "toots". It has always been a point of friction for people. Not that I dislike branding, quite the opposite, but in my experience receiving feedback over half a decade, it had a negative effect on the platform for little benefit.