Mastodawn

Work outsourced out letter printing. The website we use has what I thought was a fancy AI chatbot that I enjoyed talking to about my problems. The conversation I just had with my boss and HR let me know it was a group of real people in an office who are very concerned about me.

Sarah Russell 6h ago

a hermit for hire

8h ago

The only thing I like about Summer is that it’s followed by Autumn.

Sarah Russell 10h ago

Amy 13h ago

I have a question for the #blind #ScreenReader using folks: Running the most recent versions of #jaws and #NVDA... I'm noticing that Jaws will not show a full list of results on the web while NVDA does. An example is modifying selective sync on dropbox. Jaws will show the first nine or ten checkboxes in the list but no more and refreshing doesn't fix this. Meanwhile, NVDA displays all of them without any problem so I know it isn't a dropbox issue. Is there a setting or something that I need to use to correct this very odd behavior? I'm experiencing it in other places too but I only have so many characters to write here. Boosts welcome for reach; but commentary about which screen reader is better is not. I use both and prefer it that way because I've found neither to be perfect. Oh, and maximizing windows doesn't fix this behavior either. Thanks in advance for any assistance!

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Sarah Russell 11h ago

@lulu_bear Have a great big snuggly hug. I hope things improve and I hope things will cool down soon there if they haven't already.

Sarah Russell 12h ago

Marcus Hutchins

14h ago

Had a very surprising ChatGPT experience: asked it to generate a quick summary of the WannaCry ransomware, and instead of referencing the person who stopped it by name, it simply put "(you)". When I asked it how it was able to identify that it was me, it citied its own message as something I'd said.

After pointing out I didn't say that, it did, ChatGPT replied that it was able to infer it by my account username and what it'd learned from my skillset across various chats. Not 100% sure if that's how it actually did it. Either way, pretty cool, but also a little bit scary.

It's pretty widely known that many tech companies, especially advertising ones build comprehensive profiles on their users, but it's rare that you get to talk to said profile and figure out what it knows about you.

Sarah Russell 16h ago

KentuckyConjurer 17h ago

I don't believe I've shared this here. It's one of my favorite finds ever on a trip.

This is in the archives in Frankfort, Kentucky at Thomas D. Clark Center for Kentucky History.

This family quilt was made to honor those in the family who passed, moving a coffin into the graveyard and writing the person's name on it.

Just beautiful.

1/3

Sarah Russell 17h ago

Douglas Hunsinger 18h ago

#Joke saw this on Facebook.
"Just before I pass away, I'm going to swallow a whole bag of popcorn kernels... just to make the cremation a bit more. exciting."

Sarah Russell 1d ago

Low Quality Facts 1d ago

I bet my fiancée that this picture of our cats could get 10 billion boosts on Mastodon.

She said she doesn't believe me. She said there's only 13 million accounts on Mastodon. She said there aren't even 10 billion people on Earth. She said it concerns her that I struggle so hard to comprehend large numbers.

Let's prove her wrong everyone. Boost away and show her just how awesome the Mastodon community is.

Sarah Russell 1d ago

DOTS RPG Project 1d ago

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