Mastodawn

Amy van der Hiel 1d ago

having a kinda “go back to Massachusetts, pinko!” morning today

(I’m the pinko)

Amy van der Hiel 1d ago

if you use GitHub you now need to actively disable AI co-pilot if you don’t want it to collect or use your data.

https://github.com/settings/copilot/features

Is there a term for this kind of no agreement tech railroading?

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Amy van der Hiel 2d ago

Paul Cantrell 2d ago

Keeping money from going to the Harry Potter franchise isn’t just a symbolic gesture. It’s about preventing real harm to real people.

https://www.advocate.com/news/jk-rowling-anti-trans-organization

J.K. Rowling uses personal wealth to fund anti-trans org

This is where "Harry Potter" profits are going.

Advocate.com

Amy van der Hiel 2d ago

🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)Jul 4, 2025

Good morning Fedi!!

Amy van der Hiel Mar 20

chaotic enby Mar 20

My #Wikipedia request for comment just closed, finally banning #AI content in articles! "The use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited"

Kudos to all who participated in writing the guideline (especially Kowal2701) and the whole WikiProject AI Cleanup team, this was very much a group effort!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_articles_with_large_language_models/RfC

Wikipedia:Writing articles with large language models/RfC - Wikipedia

Amy van der Hiel Mar 17

Carine Bournez Mar 17

Kid wants to know how a router knows where to direct the packets it receives from the Internet to devices on a LAN.
Anyone has an intro course to NAT and NAT traversal (understandable for a middle schooler, I mean)?

Amy van der Hiel Mar 12

reminded today of an image I think of often when certain issues are being raised again.

Years ago a woman (I unfortunately never got her name - please add her info if you know it) in the Semantic Web community drew the Semantic Web stack with “bickering” as a fundamental layer

Amy van der Hiel Feb 27

because I like you, today’s morning music motivator: “Brand New You’re Retro” by Tricky with Martina Topley-Bird (ht conversations earlier this week on old favorite trip hop with @wz43rtx and @koalie) https://youtube.com/watch?v=RU1cZMnpxGo&si=tebNg4fWymC5gy_M