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@mwl the hippo can run faster than you can; the hippo can swim faster than you can. Your only chance to outpace the hippo is during the bicycle stage of the triathlon.
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 @TheBreadmonkey @CountBinface What would have happened if the bin had received most of the votes, would it or he be allowed as an MP?  @TheBreadmonkey @CountBinface ๐คฃ
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 @guffo Given what we have here in the USA, you have every right to be proud.
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  You can now click on the number of posts under each story on the News tab, and you'll see what people write about that story. Mind that whose posts show up depends on people's privacy settings, you won't see every post that contributed to the story trending.
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Thought I'd share the technical details on this photo. Fuji Superia X-tra 400  We've actually released two features today that I'm really excited about. One is, as you may already know, displaying the author's fediverse account underneath link previews. But the other is showing a profile preview when you hover a user anywhere in the web app, with a quick follow shortcut.
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  @Gargron The profile on link preview feature is excellent. Will it work with bridged accounts too (ie Bluesky accounts that are federated with Bridgy, or a similar software)? Thanks! This is a smart move by @Mastodon. #Twitter / #X journalism is struggling, and #Threads doesnโt want journalism. Mastodon is leaning into it though, โTo reinforce and encourage Mastodon as the go-to place for journalism, weโre launching a new feature today.โ I think this is a lever for differentiation; making Mastodon more valuable to journalists and users. Today we're launching a new #Mastodon feature that will highlight writers and journalists that are active on the fediverse when their their articles are being shared. https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/07/highlighting-journalism-on-mastodon/
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Mastodon powers over 9,000 different fediverse servers and is used by around a million people every month, but did you know the core engineering team is just two people? Well, I'm delighted to announce that now it's three people! Welcome to the team, @dave!
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  Can someone ask Eugene if he can review my soft block of my profile again because the mod I keep appealing to does not seem to have a very good command of the English language? Switzerland passes law requiring #OpenSource software in the public sector. "All public bodies must disclose the source code of software developed by or for them, unless precluded by third-party rights or security concerns" Well done @maemst, great work!
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 I've seen more than a few folks on my Mastodon timeline express enthusiasm about Glaze, a system whose goal is to protect artists against style mimicry by generative models. If you're using this work, or otherwise have heard of it and thought "wow this is neat I'm happy people are doing it", I strongly recommend you read this blog post by security & privacy researchers Nicholas Carlini & Florian Tramรจr about evaluating Glaze's claims: https://spylab.ai/blog/glaze/
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@tedted "So we should maybe just be transparent that [schemes for protecting against machine learning] are mostly for show." @tedted yeah I'm p sure I caught a bunch of blocks for demonstrating a bypass to Glaze 1.0 w/ GIMP for lineart and flats (not by the glaze team but just periphery ppl) bc it fundamentally cannot work for those, and the Glaze peeps didn't really acknowledge that at all until their Nightshade paper ๐ฌ  @tedted@hachyderm.io security by obscurity will never stop being hilarious New Call of Cthulhu campaign on Chaotic Neutral and new in-person Blood on the Clocktower on No Rolls Barred? We're eating good tonight.
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 @funkaspuck Awesome! I see that Temu still has this in stock, for about the cost of a Starbucks coffee.  It can be OK for a guy with a fishing rod to go fly fishing in a local river without it being OK for a trawler to extract all the fish from the same river. The fly fisherman is not proof that the trawler is allowed to fish the river. Similarly, AI companies scraping material from the web to train their LLMs is not fair use just because humans are allowed to read that same content. |
