Happy to be a launch partner of the Social Web Foundation (@swf). Excited to see other organizations being built to push the fediverse forward!
Secret Panel HERE 🐸 https://tapas.io/episode/1592480
Our cat is still not back :(
I made a new web / wiki page about the search for him...
https://wiki.techinc.nl/User:Becha/GrapjeVermist
Please share & help us find him!
They stole my voice with AI
Elecrow—an electronics company that makes Pi and ESP accessories—used an AI voice for multiple tutorial series which sounds _almost exactly_ like me.
I never consented to have my voice used to promote Elecrow's products.
We have full 2-way interaction now happening between @index and Mastodon / Threads / pretty much anything else that has ActivityPub. This is so cool.
Peaches (the cat) for #Caturday.
📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Fuji Superia X-tra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Spieker Film Lab
#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #CatsOfMastodon
I don't think people fully grasp just how expensive this AI nonsense is. Each simple Chat-GPT inquiry uses on average a half liter of water and 0.14 kWh.
If one of ten Americans make a weekly inquiry, that's enough water to cover Rhode Island's consumption for a day and a half, and enough electricity to power DC for 20 days.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/09/18/energy-ai-use-electricity-water-data-centers/
I printed and framed two photographs on my parents’ request. Digitally printed from 35mm Fuji Superia X-tra 400 film on Hahnemühle Museum Etching paper.
all these software people obsessed with “shipping” and “deliverables” and “package managers” should consider the possibility that postal work might be their true calling
