@TomasHelleberg Yes, I believe so, but I also appreciate the significance of passing with higher numbers on all counts. It’s not entirely unlikely that there are votes in there that may be discounted, or put into question by those objecting to a ban.
Today (May 17) is the last day to support this initiative, proposed by EU citizens, to ban conversion practices in the EU.
These countries still haven’t reached the threshold but are getting close:
Croatia is at 93%
Denmark is at 88%
Austria is at 81%
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...
Today (May 17) is the last day to support this initiative, proposed by European Union citizens, to ban conversion practices in the European Union.
These countries still haven’t reached the threshold but are getting close:
Croatia is at 93%
Denmark is at 88%
Austria is at 81%
https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home
Conversion practices (or so called “conversion therapies”) are acts which deliberately try to change or suppress a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity.
They are based on the belief that it is better to heterosexual and/or cisgender, and that other sexual orientations and gender identities are somehow flawed, wrong or “broken”.
@mralancooper Close but not quite I'd say. Perhaps each instance is a cooperative. But the bigger the instance the less of a voice you have in influencing its direction, relationships with other instances (like blocks), internal moderation and financing.
Mastodon isn't really a cooperative either as very few people are controlling what features are built and which are ignored. Participants have very little say.
I've chosen other software not because it gives me more influence over development but I like that it's smaller and it works better for my way of participating in the Fediverse. A 1-person instance does give me influence over the instance culture though, haha.😛
"Trained on" is doing a lot of work in many services.
Foundation models are "trained" on a huge amount of data. To imitate a person a service is then not "trained on" someone's text messages for example. The text messages are not enough to create a passable output from a computer.
The text messages are an input to an already trained model, where the original training material is just not disclosed.
I feel like "trained on" is often dangerously misleading when it refers to a tool built on top of a foundation model. It doesn't really acknowledge that any such service that will "imitate" a person also has thousands if not millions of other human voices as part of the computations it draws from.
And actually "trained on" is misleading in many other ways but I'm out of breath 😅
Anyway, I was listening to @404mediaco's episode on the "AI" avatar of a killed man that "testified" in court. Worth a listen.
https://pca.st/episode/8bc12731-f6db-47a9-a800-14916f1cce3d
Speaking of efficiency, imagine how much time could be shifted from tech grifts to actual caring and love.
Speaking of efficiency, imagine how much time could be shifted from tech grifts to actual caring and love.
@PavelASamsonov Truly makes it hard to find motivation for a lot of work.
@perb Tack, får så många bra tips här. Och jävlar vilken fantastisk recension… https://www.techradar.com/audio/portable-media-players/astell-and-kern-aandnorma-sr35-review
@JMMaok I remember trying a bone conduction headset many years ago. It kinda freaked me out. 😂
@renedario Nice. And they appear to have models with buetooth.
@JoWa galet snygg!!
I’m considering a music player so I can play music without being attached to my phone. Ideally something like the iPod nano. Are there any decent music players on the market today or is my best bet to actually try and find an old iPod nano?
I’m really nostalgic for the original Sony Walkman… Apparently there is a Sony Walkman player on the market today for almost 4,000 dollars. 🤪
It’s mindblowing to me how many support bots are being implemented to save time for support staff on “simpler issues”, instead of improving the interface and interactions in ways that remove the need to ask those simpler questions.
Perpetual bot investments versus fix the issues 🤷
It’s mindblowing to me how many support bots are being implemented to save time for support staff on “simpler issues”, instead of improving the interface and interactions in ways that remove the need to ask those simpler questions.
Perpetual bot investments versus fix the issues 🤷
@Thelie There are quite a few papers these days that look suspiciously like blog posts.
@clarablackink Agree all the way. I really appreciate Timnit Gebru’s work on TESCREAL, with regards to eugenics. I try to bring this point forward in conversations sometimes but am often met with skepticism. People don’t like to hear that the tools they are using enable racist thinking.