Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org

wtf #python

Game programming is really hard because some bugs are incredibly subtle and easy to miss

#Violet appreciates the golden hour, chilly though it may be.

#DogsOfMastodon

If you make a dad joke without being a father are you a faux pa?

thanks, i hate it

Microsoft Slips Ads Into AI-Powered Bing Chat https://slashdot.org/story/23/03/30/0357205/microsoft-slips-ads-into-ai-powered-bing-chat?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

I've started adding an extra credit question to all my exams that is, in a nutshell, "Describe, in detail, some topic you studied for the exam but that the exam did not cover".

Most of the responses I get are of the form "I found <thing> really interesting and studied it in great detail, but you didn't ask me enough about it and I want to talk about it more."

This is super rewarding.

So look—I've never been quite as big of a Steven Wolfram fan as Steven Wolfram is.

But to if you can get past the idiosyncrasies, in this piece he does a better job than I could of trying to explain from the ground up what it is that ChatGPT is doing.

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-doing-and-why-does-it-work/

☣️ Unsurprisingly, #Amazon continues its planet-destroying practices. Reporting today exposes them secretly spending massive amounts of money to fight a new law up for vote next week in Oregon (US). The new rules would require large data centers and crypto miners to move to clean energy over the next 17 years.

⌛ Never mind we don't even have that long to stop irreversible #climate damage.

Please share widely to expose their evil, and #DitchAmazon.

https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2023/03/amazon-fights-oregon-data-center-clean-energy-bill.html

Consent-O-Matic is a browser extension that auto-responds to all the #GDPR and similar consent popups with optimal user preferences.

Unlike the extension "I don't care about cookies" which just accepts all cookies, Consent-O-Matic clicks the prompts on your behalf to reject most of the cookies. You can also choose what to accept/reject in the preferences.

Available for Firefox, Chrome and others.

I've been using this on Firefox for quite sometime now and it works great!

Their Github page has links to official extension stores: https://github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic#introduction

#AMO link: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/consent-o-matic/

#privacy #webextensions #addons #addon #extension #chrome #firefox #safari

In a First, Renewables Beat Coal In the US Power Sector In 2022 https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/03/28/0019220/in-a-first-renewables-beat-coal-in-the-us-power-sector-in-2022?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon