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Windows Copilot / GPT-4 thinks it can "think", and tried to argue to the point it got fed up and politely told me to get lost 😂 Cogito, ergo sum!

#AI #generativeAI #Cogito

We are hiring an Accessibility Specialist! The W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) is seeking a full-time staff member to work on digital accessibility standards and supporting materials.

Please share this within your networks and to qualified candidates
https://www.w3.org/careers/2023-accessibility-specialist/

Accessibility Specialist job posting

Open position for a Web Accessibility Specialist, for full-time remote work in the USA, on a one-year contract, to work on digital accessibility standards and supporting materials.

W3C

Re that last boost about Lidl GB recalling children's biscuits due to a security exploit - it's real not a mockup.

Lidl GB Product Recall Notice https://www.lidl.co.uk/static/assets/Paw_Patrol_Public_Recall_poster-500790.pdf

#lidl #lidlgb #productRecall #securityExploit #exploit #biscuits #uk

From my archives... this is what the command center of a mid-1990s dialup ISP looked like.

Later iterations would be more advanced, but this is how it started. A natural progression and leap of faith from the multi-line BBS it replaced.

#retrocomputing

🌱 My Neighbor Mastodon 3

Thanks, thanks, *thanks* for being more than 25K to follow my art here!

#Mastoart #ArtWithOpensource #krita

Fresh from my #inbox. Crackpot level: high.

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I'd like to know who you are.

Found your Open Source Project tests on my phone and laptop illegally and need to know what you use it for?

I need a lawyer to sue people who Tazed my dogs to death so I need to know WHAT THE FUNCTION OF THIS IS FOR TO ENSURE ELECTRIC CURRENT AND MIT ENGINEERING WITH GOOGLE DEVOPS ISN'T STILL BREAKING EVERY LAW, GLOBALLY AND IN THE MILITARY AND POLICE WITHIN THE UNITED STATES.

In its first year the one-man thinktank has:

* Questioned the tax affairs of Nadhim Zahawi in a saga that ended with the Conservative party chair being sacked.
* Campaigned against and highlighted the unfair treatment of subpostmasters in the Post Office’s Horizon IT scandal
* Suggested that Premier League football clubs may have avoided paying £250m in tax.
* Called out retailers failing to pass on the cut in the so-called tampon tax to customers.
* Forced the Solicitors Regulation Authority to warn the profession against pursuing “abusive litigation” designed to “harass or intimidate” their opponents into silence. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jun/25/im-embarrassed-about-how-horribly-overpaid-i-was-tax-campaigner-dan-neidle #Uklaw #tax

‘I’m embarrassed about how horribly overpaid I was’: tax campaigner Dan Neidle

The former head of UK tax at Clifford Chance says he is now free to expose wrongdoing and unfairness

The Guardian

Whatever is going on right now in #Russia, I do note this: #Twitter is now useless at tracking this. Junk accounts everywhere, no verified accounts, swarms of sketchy bluechecks.

The ONE thing that place was good at was breaking global news. But not now.

See everyone here tonight.

Models indicate that #VHABFs *🎈 are very susceptible to changes in #SpaceWeather ☢️, during stronger #GLE events**. This is largely due to their long cruise time at high altitude. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468896723000289

*very high altitude balloon flights beyond the #stratosphere via commercial entities such as #WorldView and #SpacePerspective

** Ground Level Event is a solar particle event where charged particles have sufficient energy to be measured at the #Earth's surface https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_level_enhancement

Picture : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NASA_Super_Pressure_Balloon_Begins_Globetrotting_Journey_(26978370252).jpg

#NYT 📆 May 5, 2023 The #northern lights have expanded farther #south. This phenomenon will peak in 📆 2025, during the phase known as #solar ☀️ maximum 📈. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/05/science/northern-lights.html

#SpaceWeather "The exposure of a human body to ionizing #radiation ☢️ has the same harmful effects whether the source of the radiation is a medical X-ray machine, a nuclear power plant, or radiation in #space 🌌. The degree of the harmful effect depends on the length of exposure and the radiation's energy #density." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_weather#Humans_in_space

#HumanSpaceflightHealth

Picture :  #NASA

Get Ready to See More of the Northern Lights

Over the past few months, viewings of the lights have increased in areas farther south than usual. That’s going to continue into 2025.

The New York Times