Dr. Guillermo Power @gpowerf@social.cleverlibre.org

Turns out that Adobe is collecting all of its customers' pictures into a machine learning training set.

This is opt-out, not opt-in so if you use Lightroom, for example, it defaults to adding all of your photos to the set.

If these are unpublished pictures, work-in-progress, etc. they'll still be analysed as soon as they're synced.

I've been using Lightroom to sync photos from my Windows desktop to my iPad. Now I need to reconsider that.

Another ThinkPad brought over from the dark side. #hackintosh #opencore

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Computers used to scream out in pain when we connected them to the Internet.

This was a clue and we just didn't listen.

Finishing DOOM II never gets old.

If you're after #SteamDeck and #Linux news for gaming or otherwise, be sure to give me a follow. Usually plenty of stuff going up each day :)

Essentially an account set up this way should be able to be considered by a server as “read only” - no “reply” button.

Also the idea of an activity pub “bulk” API in the Server-to-Server API would be good for upstreaming data on boosts back to the sending server.

As twitter continues to struggle, I’ve heard folks mention government and emergency accounts that are intended for wide broadcast (like accounts warning of weather emergencies or tracking natural disasters, for example) but not necessarily for following others.

Is there a place in the “scaling the fediverse” conversation for broadcast-style accounts that aren’t expected to have “replies” but messages of which should be boostable (normal and “quote”)?

Great party

Twitter is 14 hours into an outage in Australia and New Zealand.

There's a housing crisis in many cities. But cars can park free. Why not claim public street-space for those who need it? If you disguise your shelter as a polluting, duly-licensed private vehicle, like artist Michael Rakowitz did...
...the authorities should be fine with it.

More on this thought-provoking art project here:

http://www.michaelrakowitz.com/plot-proposition-i

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Time for a proper introduction. I'm a wildfire and climate change researcher who has somehow remained employed in academia for 6 years. I worked in government for almost 10 years before that. Before that I studied neuroscience and biochemistry, before that business and German. Public interest science. Outreach, industry engagement. Anything to deepen the links between science and society. Oh and reading, and basketball, and work-life balance, and frivolity.

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I JUST FINISHED "THE MENU" ON HBO MAX, AND FREAKING WOW

My advice? Go in knowing absolutely nothing.

Don't watch the trailer.

Don't read the reviews.

Don't even check out the basic premise.

This is dope as hell, and I am freaking ECSTATIC.

That's all I'm at liberty to say.

#film #movies #cinema #CineMastodon

He never spoke much of his country, and never spoke arabic with his children (though he would speak it with his siblings).

I'd like to learn some day.

My grandfather was born in Aleppo. We never spoke much about it.

The two things I recall he told me were seeing the mount where christ was crucified, and the misery they lived after the war.

He told me of being a kid, sent out with gold to search for bread, and being able to buy only scraps.

He left soon after for Venezuela.

#Syria #Venezuela #Aleppo