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#literally me #hacking #reprise

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Hi, Tumblr. It’s Tumblr. We’re working on some things that we want to share with you. 

AI companies are acquiring content across the internet for a variety of purposes in all sorts of ways. There are currently very few regulations giving individuals control over how their content is used by AI platforms. Proposed regulations around the world, like the European Union’s AI Act, would give individuals more control over whether and how their content is utilized by this emerging technology. We support this right regardless of geographic location, so we’re releasing a toggle to opt out of sharing content from your public blogs with third parties, including AI platforms that use this content for model training. We’re also working with partners to ensure you have as much control as possible regarding what content is used.

Here are the important details:

We already discourage AI crawlers from gathering content from Tumblr and will continue to do so, save for those with which we partner. 

We want to represent all of you on Tumblr and ensure that protections are in place for how your content is used. We are committed to making sure our partners respect those decisions.

To opt out of sharing your public blogs’ content with third parties, visit each of your public blogs’ blog settings via the web interface and toggle on the “Prevent third-party sharing” option. 

For instructions on how to opt out using the latest version of the app, please visit this Help Center doc. 

Please note: If you’ve already chosen to discourage search crawling of your blog in your settings, we’ve automatically enabled the “Prevent third-party sharing” option.

If you have concerns, please read through the Help Center doc linked above and contact us via Support if you still have questions.

#fuck ai everything #reprise

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I'm still thinking about how ashamed I was (and am) with being open about my pain because I am so young. It's so hard to feel worthy of having your pain taken seriously when the people around you insist that young bodies are always in pristine, untouched condition and that you must earn your pain through aging. Never is it considered that young people aren't lying or being a hypochondriac for expressing their pain.

Young people can be in life-altering pain. Young people can have debilitating pain. It doesn't matter what age it happens because pain doesn't discriminate. Complaining about pain and doing things to prevent needless pain aren't something you have to "earn" through aging.

If you want young people to be in less or lesser pain, then encourage them to do whatever they can to minimize it. Don't downplay what they're experiencing. Not everything is a lie, not every experience that is different than yours is exaggeration or deceit.

#i quit dance at 15 bc i'd lay in bed every night and my back would just *hurt* #and it got to the point where my feet and hips ached *constantly* #the knots in my shoulders have never gone away #i inherited a truly fucked skeletal system that is stiffer than wood #i'm built like a cross between an old lady and a tank #lately i've had to get compression gloves for chronic hand pain #and i deal with crippling endometriosis and migraines #there isn't a single part of my body that doesn't hurt at some point or another and iam sick of it #reprise

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You know what, fuck it, I don't *want* some frivolous, artisanal, lighter-than-air computer with no customizability, no upgradeability, no reparability, no ports, and a lifetime of *maybe* 3 years if you're lucky. I want a fucking great BEAST of a computer that's designed to last a minimum of 50 years, with ports up the wazoo and optional drives for every kind of media! I want modular components that you can drop in a bog for a year, dry them off, and have them still work fine! I want them to make a noise like "ker-chunk!" when you slide them into place! I want a switch that you pull to turn it on! And I don't want software that constantly forces you to get a pointless, cosmetic "upgrade" every few months either! I want durability! I want longevity! I want satisfying haptics! I want Silicon Valley to go fuck itself!

#reprise #my current computer is ancient and clocks in at about five pounds #but dammit if it hasn’t survived everything life’s thrown at it so far #including an international trip #would like more than 4 gigs of RAM and an HDMI port but other than that it’s great

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welp!

#reprise

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S.686 - RESTRICT Act

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#reprise #thank queue five

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Glaze is out!

Tired of having your artwork used for AI training but find watermarks dismaying and ineffective?

Well check this out! Software that makes your Art look messed up to training AIs and unusable in a data set but nearly unchanged to human eyes.

I just learned about this. It's in Beta. Please read all the information before using.

#reprise

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you’re hearing it more and more

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#hell yeah #firefox is the best #reprise

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I haven't seen it get mentioned on Tumblr yet but Samsung has just gotten caught in a hilarious scam: they apparently advertised how their latest phones can take great picture of the moon, compared to other phones!

But it turns out they aren't using machine-learning to clear up blurry pictures, they're using machine-learning to detect when you're taking a picture of the moon, and then they swap in a saved PNG file of the moon.

A reddit user figured this out by taking a photo of the moon from Wikipedia, blurring it in photoshop, then trying to photograph it from across the room with all the lights turned out.

Their Samsung phone somehow managed to "clear up" the blurriness and recover details that weren't there in the first place. Because it's just cheating.

#that's *hysterical* #but also coming from the company whose phones exploded in peoples pockets it's not out of the question #big tech companies are shit #but this is a whole new level of shittiness #hope they lose millions of dollars over false advertising #reprise

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?????? NATIONAL HERO???

#this hacker deserves a medal #several of them in fact

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What makes us human is the Nintendo 3DS

#oh god good to know #i still have my old 3ds from about 2010 #i don't want it to become unusuable #tech tips

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Me: oh yeah, if you think school photography is hard now, try imagining doing this with film.

The new girl: what’s film?

Me: … film. Like… film that goes in a film camera.

New girl: what’s that mean?

Me: … before cameras were digital.

New girl: how did you do it before digital?

Me:… with film? I haven’t had enough coffee for this conversation

#digital literacy #my parents made me learn touch typing and i get so many comments on 'how do you type so fast' that it scares me #i did not learn how to remove my parents spyware from my computer to allow companies to spy on me in exactly the same ways #also i can remember using cassette tapes when i was younger and i'm kinda right in the middle of the gen z age range #haven't actually *used* film cameras but i know what they are and i know about the process of developing negatives #same goes for floppy disks - i know what they *are* and what they look like (my dad still has *9-inch* floppy disks) but haven't used them

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Holy shit you guys.

Wanna know how bad Tesla is? Like, in a way that almost trumps all their engineering fails?

I work at a place that buys returns and remainders and auctions them off, and I just pulled an item in a Tesla box. (It is not a Tesla item, sorry.)

LOOK

SHOP TELSA.

TELSA. NOT TESLA.

How bad does your graphic design and proofing team have to be TO MISSPELL THE COMPANY NAME???

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i do not care one way or the other about tumblrmart as a feature but how do i make it stop yelling at me

edit for people in the tag/search who wont see my reblog but might be looking for an answer, to fix this get adblock plus, open it, click “block element” and then click on the NEW sign

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f(x) tribute band called f'(x). you'd think the point would be to be derivative but it's actually quite easy to differentiate the two.