I keep my browser quite clean but the point is not "I have nothing to hide" but rather "stop!". The people that are documenting this (and taking legal action) have a fantastic site that explains the illegalities of this, at least in EU, UK, and California.
#privacy #linkedin
browsergate.eu
In the intersection of the categories "terrible" and "not surprising" is the news that LinkedIn is scanning every user's computer for literally thousands of browser extensions. I popped open DevTools on Brave and watched it scan for minutes on end.
This is new from Claude (Sonnet 4.6). It tried, and luckily failed, to run commands on my computer without first asking.
In a recent study (n=1) observing men using public urinals while typing on a phone with both hands, the researcher found a 100% correlation to a lack of hand washing.
The researcher was quoted as saying, "I hope he pissed on his shoes."
- OpenAI / ChatGPT shows up 9 times, Amazon / AWS 6, and Google only 4 times
- Meta has nearly zero impact with only one entry
- Even LibreChat is more pervasive than Meta with 3 entries in the register
#ai #opendata #publicsector #canada
- 48 systems are available for members of the public
- 103 different vendors or partnerships of vendors are listed
- Microsoft shows up 46 times (47 if you count GitHub Copilot), not surprisingly given the pervasiveness of Microsoft in the public sector
Here are a few highlights:
- The data is a mess, or in their words "the information included has been gathered through different instruments at different times, not all entries are complete, and formatting may vary"
- 407 systems are listed in the register from 42 GC organizations
The Government of Canada Treasury Board released a Minimum Viable Product of an AI Register that "collects information about AI systems that are or have been in use within the GC." GC is now asking for feedback on the dataset.
open.canada.ca/data/en/data...
Yep, today's 200 grit version is perfect.
All three of those are at least 3,000 people larger.
I suppose the signs are customized for each region, so that people in Newfoundland aren't going "WhereTF is Stettler?" If you are somewhere else in #canada and go to a #canadapost outlet, I would love to know if #Stettler shows up on the sign.
On the rare occasion that I visit a Canada Post outlet, it always staggers me to look up at the sign and see the 5,000 person town I grew up in.
I mean, what about Steinbach, Manitoba? Or Kenora, Ontario? Or ... I had to look this one up ... Bridgewater, Nova Scotia?
The Day 2 prompt for Flash Fiction February is done. 432 words using the prompt of "Steal".
If you want to read it, join the Storytelling Collective Discord or the FFF course (for free even!).
www.storytellingcollective.com/courses/flas...
#writing #fiction #flashficfeb
The Day 1 prompt of Flash Fiction February is done. 811 words using the prompt of "Elsewhere".
If you want to read it, join the Storytelling Collective Discord or the FFF course (for free even!).
www.storytellingcollective.com/courses/flas...
#writing #fiction #flashficfeb
A floral display overlaid on a woven fabric background, with the words "I'm writing 28 stories this February".
January is over, which means the great people at Storytelling Collective are hosting Flash Fiction February once again. I wrote 17 days last year and hope to beat that this year.
Each day that I write something for the day's prompt, I'll post a brief summary here.
www.storytelling-collective.com
At least for the immediate future, expect to see posts here on Bluesky, and likely some posts about other aspects of my soon-to-be online presence.
#fediverse #gaming #ttrgp #foundry #writing
I honestly don't know exactly what that means for me yet including what that means for Bluesky, but all of my ideas for pushing my writing and gaming - and I have a lot of such ideas, let me tell you - will look to be focused on fediverse solutions.
In the past week, I have seen Nate Whittington move from Substack to (what looks like) a site running off Obsidian, and @index.wericmartin.com.ap.brid.gy strike out on his own fully fediverse-first. Nearly all of my non-work hours consist of being in or around gaming in some fashion, so ... I'm in.
For me, I resisted any of the fediverse tools like Lemmy or Peertube. As recently as six months ago, I had even wrote a few articles on a Substack I created.
But now, I think I am ready to make the plunge and dive in. My killer app for embracing the fediverse? Gaming.
Probably my favorite example though was this seemingly ancient grandmother (she was probably 70, but tbf, I was 29 tops) I met while doing genealogy research at an LDS site. She was a Windows power user because she had to become one so that she could do her family history research. Killer app!
I've long said that everyone needs a killer app before they jump in on a new (to them) technology or paradigm. For my parents, they didn't embrace computers until I showed them how to use the Internet to look up race horse pedigrees. After that, my dad used his computers extensively for photography.
I would say it was impressive that you finished it all, but maybe masochistic is a better choice.
A composite image created from pictures taken on New Year's Day from 2019 to 2024 of a trail in the Edmonton, Alberta river valley. Each image is taken from approximately the same location, and it is clear from the picture that there was far less snow in 2024 than in all previous years.
On New Year's Day 2019 I took a picture on a ride in the river valley through a treed area that is single-track-ish. I have rode that route every NYD since. Here is a six-year retrospective of the route, all six pictures taken at approximately the same place. #bikesky #bikeyeg
A half-finished bottle of a special edition "futuristic flavored" bottle of Coke titled Y3000 to represent the Year 3000.
Of all the arguments to stop humans from pursuing immortality, the fact that Coke in the Year 3000 is going to taste like a cyborg's ass is the most solid.
