Ozzie D, NP-hard  

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Another drop in the ocean. Parent, healthcare provider, IT/infosec hobbyist, bike commuter, cohousing resident, Susboid, and compulsive volunteer and over-committer. Loves language, music, singing alone and with others. Please contribute to your local instance admin. Trans rights == human rights.
MLKjr quote"Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows"
Stephen Jay Gould quote"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."
Ranum's maxim"You can’t solve social problems with software"
If the Constitution still has meaning, a judge needs to block the regime from trying to take over mail-in voting, League of Women Voters says in suit
https://www.universalhub.com/2026/if-constitution-still-has-meaning-judge-needs-block-regime-trying-take

RE: https://mastodon.social/@invadersil/116324993175863094

TWO THINGS:

1. it’s shocking how well written this terms of service document is. #Microslop uses plain language and proper emphatic formatting to identify what’s important.

2. this was updated on October 24, 2025. since then NOT ONE TECH JOURNALIST has read it; because, not one tech "journalist" has reported that #Copilot IS MEANT AS #ENTERTAINMENT.

Fourth Estate my ass.

Satya Nadella gifted Sam Altman a billion of Windoze money for a lap dance?

c’mon #tech #journalism. DO YOUR JOBS!

There’s no i in denial.

My first band played songs like “Duvet”, “Eiderdown” and “Blanket.”

We did covers.

Grumpy Northern Foodie found these in Iceland! Darlic bread! Garlic bread tear and shares shaped like Daleks. Would Daleks approve of sharing? 🤭😆 Is this an #AprilFools day joke? Kinda hope not. And kinda hoping they have a GF version.   #DoctorWho would def approve of sharing!

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mattsheffield/116332497422486698

this is digital blackface and racist as fuck.

whomever is doing this knows Black people are THE Culture; so how swell it is to make money off Black culture without Black people?

and don't get me started with the fact that automata are proxies for SLAVES.

don't hesitate to call out Alphabet/Google/Youtube for making money off Black digital slaves.

this isn't progress. this is still baldfaced racism.

Man accidentally gains control of 7,000 #robotvacuums
Sammy Azdoufal wanted to steer his #DJI Romo with a controller. Building his app, he used an AI coding assistant to help reverse-engineer how robot communicated with DJI’s cloud. But he soon discovered that the same credentials that allowed him to see and control his own device also provided access to live camera feeds, microphone audio, maps, and status data from nearly 7,000 other #vacuums across 24 countries.
https://www.popsci.com/technology/robot-vacuum-army/
Man accidentally gains control of 7,000 robot vacuums

Sammy Azdoufal just wanted to steer his DJI Romo with a gaming controller.

Popular Science
#AI #datacentres can warm surrounding areas by up to 9.1°C
Hundreds of millions of people live close enough to data centres used to power AI to feel warmer average temperatures in their local area
They discovered temperatures increased by an average of 2C (3.6F) in the months after an AI #datacenter started operating. In extreme cases, increase in temperature was 9.1C (16.4F). The effect wasn't limited to the immediate surroundings of the data centers: but up to 10km away
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2521256-ai-data-centres-can-warm-surrounding-areas-by-up-to-9-1c/
AI data centres can warm surrounding areas by up to 9.1°C

Hundreds of millions of people live close enough to data centres used to power AI to feel warmer average temperatures in their local area

New Scientist