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Mauna Loa Observatory captured the reality of climate change. The US plans to shut it down.
US President Donald Trump has decided to defund the observatory recording the data, as well as the widespread US greenhouse gas monitoring network and other climate measuring sites. #ClimateChange
Adobe is now processing all your PDFs in the cloud, by default. The setting to “Enable generative AI features in Acrobat” was on, and I didn’t know it until I opened a document and Adobe asked me if I wanted a document summary. It’s annoying to have to click “No,” so I opened settings to disable the prompt.
THE PROBLEM
I sign Non-Disclosure Agreements for many of my clients. Adobe is a potential leak of protected information. I don’t know what Adobe does with this information. I don’t know what they store, or for how long. I don’t know what country (or countries) the data is stored in. I don’t know what LLMs are trained with this data. And I don’t need to know. What I need to know is that they won’t use default opt-in as a legal excuse to wiretap my information.
I recommend that you check your Adobe settings on all devices, for all Adobe accounts.
I told my husband that posting this could literally take down the instance and he is insisting I post it
2/2 if you ever want to build one, here’s a great 1/2 scale model (that you can totally scale up to full size!) which you can print:
https://www.printables.com/model/1194497-sojourner-mars-rover
Also, a great book about the mission:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/166161/managing-martians-by-donna-shirley/
My husband gave me a trail cam for our wedding anniversary today. I wanted to have a camera in this part of the backyard to see what kind of animals hang out here. It immediately caught these delinquents in the act of destroying our property 🤣
#trailcam #trailcamera #kauwboys #kauw #jackdaw #destruction #demolitioncrew #wildlifecamera #backyard #birding #birdwatching #birdsofmastodon #birds #cool #gadget #happy #greatgift
How long until Apple blocks that app in the US?
@ambiguous_yelp Your remarks surely have some merit worth consideration, but would probably be more persuasive if they were written the way a grown-up would.
You seem to have trouble with basic prose composition, but not with hashtags. It's pretty clear you're willing to make the effort when you have to. That makes the rest of your comment seem insultingly lazy.
@ambiguous_yelp You're free to express yourself any way you choose.
And everyone else is free to judge you for the choices you make.
Based on your expression, I find you childish, and I find childish people tiresome and not worth my while.
Bye.
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Not available for android phones. ☹️
That sounds like my town as well, but then I doubt they even know about these apps.
@thezenlady @InkySchwartz @rdfrkian @kenwhite.bsky.social Waze (which this was modeled after) had to figure out how to stop accepting submissions from spammers as well. It's doable.
After yesterday's meltdown from MAGA about these apps, lots of people have now heard of them. But if there are people in your area who don't know about them then lucky you! You get to be the person who shows them one thing they can do to fight the new police state.
@slowenough @thezenlady @rdfrkian @kenwhite.bsky.social The problem is, those people and reports are not spam but their sincerely help beliefs due to decades of "programming".
Also what meltdown over these apps?
Not surprising that the developer is being targeted by DOJ & Homeland since they have gone full nazi
@thezenlady @slowenough @rdfrkian @kenwhite.bsky.social
Maybe, maybe not. All I will say is nextdoor and Fbook are really popular and one of the main uses is public service stuff. Which sounds great right until we realize it mostly those sorts of complaints.
@InkySchwartz @thezenlady @rdfrkian @kenwhite.bsky.social The app is only useful in areas where there are a lot of people using it as intended. Fortunately, there are a *lot* of people in many if not most areas who are willing to do so!
Spam is a problem, but can be at least brought to a reasonable level by the programmers.
I realize what I should have been doing every time I mention it is to *also* encourage people to find their local defense networks. Worth more than any app.
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