Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

Also, ChatGPT can generate valid Windows 95 keys, and some suspiciously good-looking Windows XP keys. Is it piracy if a text model created them and told you it's okay to use those? 🤔

@monkeyninja

David Graeber got an economist to admit that he was not aware of single case where a company was fined more than the profit it turned breaking the law. He summarized this as the government saying: "Do all the crime you want, but if we catch you, you have to give us a cut."

If you drag an emoji family with a string size of 11 into an input with maxlength=10, one of the children will disappear.

Putting money into personal or community-owned infrastructure is a better hedge against inflation than any kind of money investment.

Money can be subverted by numerous legalistic, bureaucratic, or financial tools and means.

Physical infrastructure is the means by which we can build the tools of self-determinatiom.

If you have a community, establish infrastructure.

If you have infrastructure, find or establish a community.

Together, we are strong.

What will you build, and with whom?

Also, I’m now referring to instances as “community servers”.

Admins and devs might prefer “instances”, but this is confusing to everyone else.

What people need to know is that they can run their own community on a “server” that they control.

@playdate @fediversenews @panic

Someone wrote in asking for technical support, asking for a very specific installer for a specific piece of software, apparently no longer available for download from our site.

Here's the weird part: Neither this software nor an installer for it have ever existed. (Was this software someone else wrote, that we're just hearing about for the first time?)

After several back and forth messages asking for detail and where they heard about this software, it turns out that it all came from ChatGPT.

oh, there’s also a part 3, I am apparently falling behind in cutting-edge fucking-with-GPT research https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/8viQEp8KBg2QSW4Yc/solidgoldmagikarp-iii-glitch-token-archaeology

Would you prefer a 4-day workweek?

Last year, 61 companies in UK tested a 4-day week with 20% fewer hours. Results:

65% fewer sick days taken & 57% drop in departures to competitors.

39% of employees had less #stress; 71% had less #burnout.

Revenues rose 1.4% on average.

“Many questioned whether we would see an increase in productivity to offset the reduction in working time – but this is exactly what we found,” a study team member said.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/979991

#jobs #workplace #health

@futurebird Paying for reach is so depressing. Like, what's the point of following someone if you're not necessarily even going to see their content in your feed? Are you supporting creators if they have to pay Meta for every post, just so you might see it? And it's not like creators are paying for access. No, they'd have access if feeds weren't full of stuff that nobody asked for. They're paying to offset the revenue Meta could have made from selling that slot to someone else.

If you're like me, then you were really happy to learn about Mastodon's enthusiastic support for image descriptions, and you were really eager to join in.

Then you went to actually write something and realized you have no idea how to present visual information in a way that is helpful/enjoyable to those who are #VisuallyImpaired or #Blind.

I found this guide really informative: https://uxdesign.cc/how-to-write-an-image-description-2f30d3bf5546

Of course, I'd also love to hear any additional tips y'all might have!

#Accessibility