Tech Consultant by day.
Tired by night.
Omnicrafter
Crafting and dog pics on my Instagram: Yalc321
Senate Republicans blocked legislation establishing a binding code of ethics and stricter recusal requirements for Supreme Court justices.
A day later we learned that Clarence Thomas received even more free vacations from GOP megadonor Harlan Crow.
You can't make this stuff up.
It's kinda depressing how tumblr is imploding now and I'm seeing half my follow list go "man, after seeing both twitter and tumblr do this, it's really showing how it's a bad idea for a social media network to be run by a company who can make arbitrary changes without user consent.
anyway, here's my bsky: ..."
McGill: Microsoft says server farms are destroying the planet, so we're limiting the institutional cloud disk space we're giving you to 20 GB only
CIHR: You're still required to keep all your original data sets for all your research until 5 years after the end of the grant though
Me: If you and Microsoft want to actually do something about the planet, maybe pull the plug on OpenAI instead
McGill: If you have questions about the new policy read the email again good luck bye!
This isn't a joke
Microsoft instituted a new policy limiting academic accounts to 20 GB only
FOR ENVIRONMENTAL REASONS
McGill has no internal, local research data storage service because they went all-in on Microsoft services
And yes, CIHR requires that researchers hold on to original research data for 5 years after a grant ends
Meanwhile Microsoft is boiling the fucking oceans with its AI bullshit
Hypothesis: queers make up roughly or more than 50% of the active people on Fedi.
Boost for science!
You are: