futurebird

futurebird, 11 months ago to random

IDK if I’m getting old or just impatient but I when see a password box that does ⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️ with no option to see what you are typing I think the company is incredibly inconsiderate!

You want me to conform my password to 30 annoying rules “must have a special character but not at the beginning or end” I’m using a damn touchscreen and now I can’t see what I’m typing. (This is why everyone hates passwords. )

I’m not convinced ⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️ makes it more secure anyway— is there any evidence?

futurebird, 11 months ago to random

~one billion
~1,000,000,000

That's how many parking spaces there are in the USA. For every car? About 4 empty spaces... just sitting there, not absorbing the rain, making flooding worse, making cities hotter as they bake in the summer sun.

Our built environment and laws bend over backwards to make driving the only viable transportation option in nearly every imaginable context.

You need to pay for healthcare, but almost never parking.

(Pointing this out makes libertarian heads explode.)

futurebird, 11 months ago to random

On tumblr everyone was livid about this fake photo of a "baby peacock" -- it captured many of the things that worry people about AI art-- the tendency to fill in what people expect, not what is true. The stereotyping, and reversion to archetype. The lost nuance.

But, because of this photo I got to learn that real baby male peacocks "practice" with little tufts of display feathers. Look at these lil boys!

Real baby peacocks "practice" their struts. They have brown feathers and are very small and drab but also cute and doing their best.
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futurebird, 11 months ago to random

"so ahh- ha ha-- yeah. I know I have a bit of a bad reputation among you insect-folk but um... I kinda need a little help with pollination now? So. If some of you bees, or flies... or even ants could just stop by, help out..."

👉🏿 👈🏿 🥺

futurebird, 11 months ago to random

"'Merica!"

(we do have some things figured out around here...)

A smug happy face with a US flag on it is surrounded by arrows illustrating a cycle. --> invent a new sport --> no one else wants to play it --> you're the world champions --> [repeats]

futurebird, 11 months ago to random

In grade school I was taught that music is “an auditory art that has melody and rhythm.” this is a terrible definition.

My working (better)definition is: Music is an artwork made of vibrations, mostly in the range of human hearing or skin and bone sensations, that sets up expectations through repetition of patterns in magnitude, pause cadence, frequency and the interplay of frequencies. Then fulfills those expectations and/or defies them to delight and exasperate the subjects.

futurebird, 1 year ago to random

Data poisoning is a fascinating and exciting topic in this age of indiscriminate, consent-ignorant and often plain desperate data slurping from users of online services and survellience.

Poisoning attacks are crafted by inserting training data designed to degrade a model’s performance when deployed. Sophisticated attacks can induce unintended behaviors and even be activated by special triggers. One must have a extensive understanding of the model to do this-- but from there it's simple.