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Been barred from giving blood because my blood is too sticky 🤷🏾‍♀️ I'm free to get all the piercings I'd like now I guess haha

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One of my teammates has a physical crossword book and I'm genuinely tempted to get one because going on my phone feels so stale and looks bad at work.

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call me zac because idk what the efron with me

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Mozilla, in its finite wisdom, embedded LLM bots into recent versions of Firefox for the vitally-important purpose of… naming tab groups. Now, some users are noticing CPU and power usage spikes caused by a background process called Inference.

Ugh. Reminder again for Firefox users to visit your about:config page, search for the browser.ml.chat.enabled key, and set that to false:

If yours says true then double-click it until it reads false.

Doing that turns off the AI chatbot features in Firefox, but also the stupid new LLM tab-naming feature that's rolling out.

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It's me 💕

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Btw, the fact that no international journalists are allowed into Gaza - unless they're embedded with the IOF, who is allowed to censure any sensitive information you get - should be enough for you to accept that Zionists aren't trustworthy.

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Looks like I'm staying home all weekend because Ive just been pulled over for having a brake light out and can't get it fixed until Monday.

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Loooool have I read a single shift report since?

Declared myself a shift report amnesty: I've been so behind with reading the shift reports that I couldn't catch up. So I am starting fresh today and I will read them every day. I guess what's happened in the past is none of my business 🤷🏾‍♀️

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@colorschanging You're gonna love this. (x)

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I have been learning to crochet

When people ask me how it’s going, I tell them, “Fortunately, I already did cross-stitch, so I’ve already come to terms with the fact that I can’t count”

This hits big in fiber arts circles

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Don't know why I never considered this before, but as someone who has to sit like Bugs Bunny for 10 minutes every morning after my alarm goes off,

instead of fighting it and trying to force myself to not do this, I should factor it into my morning routine. As much as I don't want to get up earlier maybe doing so and sitting for a bit will mean I'm not leaving late for work everyday despite getting up early enough to leave on time.

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In Prince's funky name, amen.

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Declared myself a shift report amnesty: I've been so behind with reading the shift reports that I couldn't catch up. So I am starting fresh today and I will read them every day. I guess what's happened in the past is none of my business 🤷🏾‍♀️

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A serious (and seemingly obvious) problem with the implementation of the Online Safety Act is that it requires malicious actors to not exist.

Since the UK govenment in any form hates paying for things, especially things required for their goals, the current situation is that websites have to work out to do age verification themselves. There is no government-approved or provided service for this - it's a free-for-all of third-party verification providers.

Now, some people are pointing out that depending on how these companies handle the data given to them to perform verification, it's possible this data could be stolen or leaked. This is a worrying possibility. This danger is primarily one of passive incompetence, although if your driver's licence gets leaked, you won't be happy either way.

But passive incompetence probably isn't going to hurt anyone before active malice does.

Normalising showing your face or identity documents to random websites is an incredibly stupid thing to do. You know who benefits from this? Actual criminals! Phishing attacks continue to be successful because people will put their banking details into websites that are very much not their banks. And while random websites asking for your banking details is suspicious, the OSA makes it so that random websites asking for your driver's license or passport or other such things will now be expected.

Meaning an enterprising criminal can set up a website, stick a fake age verification pop-up on it, and harvest a whole bunch of things that come in useful for committing identity theft. Or blackmail perhaps.

The overall point here is that in this respect, the Online Safety Act is going to make the internet more dangerous, in a way that should be obvious if you actually think about the potential negative consequences.

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