szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

Greetings.

You know, you hear about BIRD FLU and the risk of spread, and how someone seemed to care?
Well, I saw two dead crows, one very suspicious, without injury, on a neighbours lawn, and tried to call the number listed to report it, and they had no idea if the collected such info? We are not getting all the #Government services we pay for!
#NSGov #NaturalResources #NSPoli #BirdFlu #Crows

I've lots of crows, we're friends. But they saw me carry their fallen comrade away with gloves on #Target

Government press release about the #OnlineSafetyBill :

Looks like the hideousness of #AgeVerification might become explicit, for web users in the UK can expect even more irritating banners,, people being asked to turn on their cameras / being locked out for not having a camera, blocks from sites which find it easier to exclude people from the UK, and scams about age verification / submitting photos / government ID.

Happy Friday everyone!

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/online-safety-bill-bolstered-to-better-protect-children-and-empower-adults

My heartfelt thanks to all of you who use AltText to add descriptions to your pics and media. As someone who used to be able to see but has been blind for over 30 years now, it allows me to see the pic in my mind and is greatly appreciated and allows me to enjoy them.

Another heartfelt thanks to those who use #CamelBack in their hashtags. This makes it so much easier to understand with a screen reader and for those who read print as well! ❤️

Alright so last night I said hey folks, I'm 40, dyspraxic as heck and can't draw, and it bothers me, pls recommend me a beginner-friendly course, and drawabox was recommended among others.

Started it today. Dude's telling how to draw smooth lines that don't wobble; use your whole arm not your wrist, practice each stroke first to build muscle memory, put your eyes on the end, do the whole thing in one constant motion at one constant speed and don't think until you're done with the line, I nod along and go alright and give it a try and ffs this is welding, this is literally MIG welding, it's also how you spray paint and clearcoat, it's how you brush polycrylic onto wood, and I've been drawing crappy wobbly lines my whole life because no bugger ever told me "Hey Dan why don't you try moving the pen like you're spraying lacquer onto a pinball playfield."

Still cannae draw, but at least I've figured out how to do straight smooth bloody lines with a pen, wish I'd put two and two together ten years ago

Facebook content moderators call the work they do 'torture.' Their lawsuit may ripple worldwide | Euronews

>Eight hours a day, his job as a content moderator for a Facebook contractor required him to look at horrors so the world wouldn’t have to. Some overwhelmed colleagues would scream or cry, he said.
https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/06/29/facebook-content-moderators-call-the-work-they-do-torture-their-lawsuit-may-ripple-worldwi #Facebook #META #Kenya

Ad blockers are also cybersecurity. Say it with me.

They reduce malvertising, watering hole attacks, and general malicious script execution. It’s not all about you, ad firms.

Much is made of how "you are the algorithm" on Mastodon, and it's generally true if you mean solely what you see on your feed.
But there are other algorithms in play here. They indirectly influence what appears on your feed, and they can be rigged.
Take trends. It's available under the Explore/Search tab and produces a list of popular posts. (This is about posts, not hashtags.)
Considering that an algorithm is merely instructions on how to complete a task, it's worth looking at how this "popularity algorithm" is populated.
The documentation at mastodon.org tells you how "trends" are decided.
There's a lot of ways users can opt-out of the process, such as adjusting the visibility of their posts, but I'm going to focus on a bog-standard public post.
Under "Status", the popularity algorithm looks at "publication time/date", with likes and boosts as allegedly optional aspects.
If your algorithm is designed to measure how popular a post is, however, the numbers of likes and boosts are included. Those are very basic metrics of "popularity".

Redensarten, dargestellt von Elefanten
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#sprache #comic #mastodon #elefanten

@sudelsurium Super cute profile picture!

Does anyone else talk to their dog in a James Cagney voice, or am I just an eccentric old lady?

"Lata mówienia, żeby nie zabezpieczać załączników PESELem nie poszły na marne" 🙃

Apropos of nothing in particular, but there’s only 17 shopping days left until Bastille Day.

@TexasObserver @gusbova The problem is Ascension - they just sold the hospital they ran here that they just bought some 2 years ago. They had so many MDs, nurses and staff quit on them that they were in danger of going tits up. So they decided it would be easier to run away than actually treat their staff with an ounce of respect.

Koniec dnia. W porównaniu do wczoraj dziś była piękna pogoda. Pora spać 🌄

#Wyprawa2023