Microsoft's GitHub next month plans to begin using customer interaction data – "specifically inputs, outputs, code snippets, and associated context" – to train its AI models.

Unless you opt out.

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/26/github_ai_training_policy_changes/

Late Night Diner.

San Jose, CA - January 2026

#photography #travel #travelphotography #streetphotography #nightphotography #americana #california #usa

The world is terrible and yet 165 people are watching a kākāpō asleep in her nest on “a small, predator free island in southern New Zealand.”

You can too.

https://www.youtube.com/live/BfGL7A2YgUY?si=pKlRecaDDCEx9k47

In an alternate universe somewhere, nobody has heard of “webcomics.” Instead, there are thousands of “telecomics.”

In 1992, Don Lokke Jr. coined the term “telecomics” to describe his new digital comic strips, drawn primarily in the ANSI art format and distributed online through BBSes.

This is the final in-depth profile in my "ANSI art and webcomics" series!

https://breakintochat.com/blog/2026/03/25/don-lokke-and-mack-the-mouse/

#webcomics #comics #retrocomputing #bbs #ansiart #textmode #longreads #history #computerhistory

This was the glare I got from Goobie when she noticed my lap wasn't completely free. So she did the only logical thing.

#CatsOfMastodon #WhiskersWednesday #WednesdayVibes #Wednesday

Did you know #coffee was, according to #legend, discovered by accident?

In 850 CE, a #goat herder noticed that his goats liked to nibble on an unknown berry. Curious about their energetic behaviour, he tried the fruit himself.

Elated, he brought the fruit to the #Islamic leader of his village, who declared it evil. The berries were thrown into a fire.
The fruit emitted such a lovely smell that the religious leader added the fruit to water & drank it. Coffee quickly spread.

#mythology