K dnešnímu celostátnímu fóru Pirátů mám jednu myšlenku.
Poslouchal jsem zhruba 40 minut poté, co byl zvolen předsedou Zdeněk Hřib. Na pořadu bylo „snížení byrokratické zátěže a převedení pravomocí pod jiné subjekty ve straně, nejčastěji vedení“.
Korektně zaznívaly argumenty pro i proti. Zdeněk Hřib argumentoval, že centralizace moci je ve snaze urychlit procesy ve straně - že je to žádoucí i ze strany voličů, neboť příští volby prý projedou.
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👉 Open Educational Resources. Wie freie Materialien funktionieren und warum dir das hilft.
Download und weitere Infos in meinem Blog:
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@joeran und ich hatten beim Schreiben viel Freude bei der kreativen Weiternutzung von #OER 🙂
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Ich mag diese Reihe, weil sie sich ganz wunderbar dazu eignet, solch ein Büchlein einer anderen Person in die Hand zu drücken, wenn man sie beim Einstieg in ein Thema unterstützen oder sie auf etwas hinweisen will.eBildungslabor-Blog (eBildungslabor)
This account recently turned two years old. I'm one of the many emigrees from Twitter that started to dabble with Mastodon in November 2022 in the wake of the Musk take over.
My account on Twitter isn't *that* old either, only starting in early 2022. I had long thought to close my account there when reaching 1000 followers here (I have almost 3000 on Twitter), but this consideration changed recently after Mark Nelson convinced me during the Luxembourg pro-nuclear event two weeks ago.
I'll first observe that my followerbase has been growing much slower than I first anticipated and perhaps hoped. I just hit 650 and this has several causes. One is that people on Mastodon perhaps just don't care, following degrowth logics. Maybe my style of posting also doesn't 'connect', but most importantly, I think, is that the mass adoption of Mastodon and the wider fediverse hasn't happened yet.
Many that tried Mastodon in the November 2022 wave, weren't prepared that they needed to put in some work to get a filled timeline, due to a lack of algorithm serving as an onboarding mechanism. Most people just don't care and rejoined Twitter/X or, later, Threads.
This mass adoption can still happen, probably via the route of Threads fully implementing ActivityPub (still pending after 1.5 year...). Either way, Mastodon et al are still a very safe bet if we look further into the future. It can only grow on the long term, say a decade.
But for now, the 'Twitter bubble' regarding accounts posting on energy, politicians, journalists, even many people on the far left don't care about setting up shop on the fediverse... yet. As an activist aiming to influence to get nuclear energy wider adoption, this is a hindrance to my primary function of caring at all about social media.
For now, I'll remain on Twitter, be it that I'll post more 'strategically', in line with my goals. The fediverse is still my long term bet. We just started this journey, on towards a future of an open web!
Do you like psych in tech and want to see it more valued? Some suggestions for folks in tech that have helped me directly:
- if you have presence in org-legible places, post about our work in places our bosses see it, like linkedin (I know, I know 😭 ). It can be as simple as "loved this! [link]" boom!
- we're often judged on engagement numbers (I know 😭). Post things like our preprints (osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/qz43…) in community groups, or employee channels. Who knows maybe you'll find friends!
Celebrating the Life of Aaron Swartz: Aaron Swartz Day 2024
Aaron Swartz was a digital rights champion who believed deeply in keeping the internet open. His life was cut short in 2013, after federal prosecutors charged him under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) for systematically downloading academic j…Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Léonie Watson (@tink@w3c.social)
I've used #Firefox as my primary browser for as long as I can remember. I stuck with it when its performance was comparatively dreadful, and when its performance with my screen reader was worse, because I agreed with Mozilla's ethos.w3c.social
Yes, it’s true that 54% of US adults struggle with reading, although the grade level equivalence is a dubious inference. I study this, so I want to share a few insights: namely that this trend isn’t unique to the US and better understanding the data has more implications than you may realize. /1
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Alex Afouxenidis (@afouxenidis@mastodon.world)
Just leaving this here. 54% of adults in the USA have a literacy level below 6th grade. And 21% of adults are illiterate. https://www.crossrivertherapy.com/research/literacy-statisticsMastodon
I've published a new (currently untested) build of #hbsdfw (a #HardenedBSD based fork of #OPNsense):
#XMPP Specifications October 2024
Read the updates on XMPP #specifications (#XEP) last month:
xmpp.org/2024/11/the-xmpp-news…
#jabber #decentralization #federation #chat #rtc
#standards #rfc
Keyboard shortcuts in Windows - Microsoft Support
Learn how to navigate Windows using keyboard shortcuts. Explore a full list of taskbar, command prompt, and general Windows shortcuts.support.microsoft.com
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The #XMPP Newsletter for October 2024 is out!
Read about the latest XMPP universe updates and the latest updates on our #standards!
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Enjoy reading! 📰 ☕
#jabber #chat #interoperability #rtc
#opensource #decentralization
Ok, first off I do consider you a nerd, you're a research scientist, how much nerdier does it get? I was generalising and, perhaps, not using language precisely enough.
I do agree that there are values in conflict, hence my point that treating text like that has problems as well. I just get the feeling that there are a lot of people on the fedi with experiences like what I described, could be wrong about this and it could be something else; it would be interesting to know. I do hope that you are welcome here, and, as I said, I do try to adapt to my interlocutor's interaction style and I think we should all try to be mindful of this if possible.
And regarding whether the "social indifference" is omnidirectional, for myself, I can't see avatars (not a metaphor, I'm blind) and most of the time I have no real expectations of the gender or other physical characteristics of people. But I'm also convinced that you're right people get treated differently according to those sorts of factors. I hope the fedi becomes more welcoming in this regard.
XSF Announcement
We invite everyone to the 27th XMPP #Summit in #Brussels, #Belgium next year again. Get involved in development of the XMPP protocol in person and remote!
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#jabber #chat #interoperability
#rfc #opensource #decentralization
#standards
I recently finished reading "The Rule Book: The Building Blocks of Games" by Jaakko Stenros and Markus Montola (2024). You can find the open access version on the MIT Press website: mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547444…
It’s an altogether great introduction to what rules in games and play are and how they work. Just very good all around!
Here's a thread on some things that stuck with me. 1/XX
Book Details - MIT Press
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I want to enable comments on my blog again, but (I'm current possibly overthinking things in that) I'm worrying if I need a privacy policy, or how I should think about things like GDPR, and should users be able to delete their comments?
Never thought about this stuff for a second back in the 2000s!
Can anyone recommend a good file extractor for Windows? I don't just want to view the files and listen to them, I want to upload them.
Never mind, I now have 2 programs I like, along with 1 or 2 I don't, because I'm impatient, lol.
The use of LLM has far reaching consequences on "free thinking", free speach and humanities.
LLM being copycat machine controlled by for profit entities they have all the interest of make everything blend and implement mechanism to suppress what is being output.
We have seen it already. Can't fucking say fuck, but has not problem reproducing fascist, racist, mysoginistic rhetoric.
this is the ultimate propaganda machine and people are falling for it.
parallel: look at the great american (USA) book burning that is currently happening.
🇫🇷📅 Tal día como hoy, un 18 de brumario de 1799, se llevó a cabo un golpe de Estado contra el gobierno de la Primera República, el Directorio. Este golpe puso fin a la Revolución francesa y dio inicio al periodo napoleónico.
PD: ¡viva el calendario republicano!
But largely the similarity of Braille Screen Input rendered the hardware useless to me in the long term. It was just too much money for not enough gain.
I'm down the time on unlocking without biometrics, and unless you're wired in or using apple-specific airpods, Voiceover lags with bluetooth hardware so I can't go as fast as I'd like on device anyway.
Crazy graphic of the day.
Wage theft greatly eclipses all other forms of theft value: tcworkerscenter.org/2018/09/wa…
Wage Theft vs. Other Forms of Theft in the U.S.
We have way too many people who come to us @ the Tompkins County Workers’ Center have been the victim of Wage Theft.TCWC (Tompkins County Workers Center)
There is no "open source AI". Because the statistical models are mostly trained on non free material.
Also we don't even a stack it is libre to run it. We (the overal industry, include the FLOSS centric one) have made the mistake, again, to give it to a proprietary vendor.
History repeating.
@garrett so I can run them without installing the nvidia proprietary garbage ? Or a proprietary AMD equivalent ?
I mean if we burn the planet for stupidity, better do it with libre code.
Yep. I have it running on my AMD GPU using ROCm.
And, again, this is all lightweight (doesn't require much energy to use), and I had it running on my Intel laptop as well without a dedicated GPU and it still works.
Now his life is in ruins.
I worry that we are in a brief interregnum during which web browsers can provide good online translation of news stories in other languages, from foreign media.
Sooner rather than later, the big tech folks backing Trump will realize they can corrupt the online translation LLMs to bias foreign news stories in favour of their own political agenda. (After all, isn't propaganda the ideal application for AI slop?)
This keeps the walled garden clean.
And in the long run Learning languages will be forbidden.
I wonder how much Apple, Facebook, Google will sell to the fascist apparatus.
("we provide IA to automate selection for deportation")
And IBM.
(Red Hatters you know what to do)
Amazing how American Muslims weren’t a large enough voting bloc to speak at the DNC yet so large they single handedly cost Democrats the Presidency.🤔
I give you, Schrödinger's Muslim!
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