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«Se vende el mito de una tecnología milagrosa e increíblemente poderosa, pero esta tecnología está basada en el trabajo en negro, precarizado y explotador de millones de trabajadores manuales sin los que la IA no funcionaría».

Entrevista a @milamiceli socióloga, doctora en Ciencias de la Computación, experta en IA en el Weizenbaum Institute, investigadora en el Dair Institute, y una de las principales expertas en un campo poco conocido: el de los trabajadores de datos.

elpais.com/tecnologia/2024-12-…

Entrevista a Milagros Miceli https://elpais.com/tecnologia/2024-12-27/milagros-miceli-investigadora-es-mentira-que-la-ia-va-a-automatizarlo-todo-necesita-el-trabajo-manual-y-precarizado-de-millones-de-personas.html

Milagros Miceli, investigadora: “Es mentira que la IA va a automatizarlo todo. Necesita el trabajo manual y precarizado de millones de personas”

La experta del Instituto Alemán de Internet advierte de que el auge de herramientas como ChatGPT aumentará la demanda de gente que genere contenidos por poco dinero para enriquecer las bases de datos
Manuel G. Pascual (Ediciones EL PAÍS S.L.)
@Milagros Miceli
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La stupidité du monde… Les consignes incendie c'est un truc que tu dois pouvoir lire dans l'urgence, tu dois pas avoir à sortir ton smartphone et scanner un QR code pour les avoir.

Oh et si vous pensiez que ça vous donne un PDF avec les infos pour sortir du bâtiment, non ça ouvre une vidéo de 2 minutes avec des généralités… Totalement inutile.

Panneau affiché au mur avec marqué "Consignes incendie" et un gros QR code. Quand on scanne le QR code, ça ouvre une vidéo de 2 minutes dans un site web.

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Big Tech at work: LG, Samsung sue Indian government over electronic-waste pricing policy
reuters.com/sustainability/cli…

E-Waste is the fastest growing waste stream in the world. Most of it is not recycled and what is is often done in the Global South with terrible conditions and awful pay. Big Tech wants to keep the truly dirty secret of e-waste as hidden as possible, and keep paying poor workers as little as possible.

If you want to truly understand modern technology, start with e-waste.

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Apparently the arXiv* is relocating from servers at Cornell University to Google Cloud. Putting all our eggs into Google's basket seems unwise, especially at this point in history.

This jobs listing gives a number of reasons for moving to the cloud, but to my inexpert eye it looks like they could do everything they want to do while remaining self-hosted. At the relatively modest scale of the arXiv the cloud really is just someone else's computer.

info.arxiv.org/hiring/index.ht…

It's worth noting that the arXiv used to have a network of mirrors, but they decided to shut down the last of those in September of last year. The explanation was that they were no longer worthwhile as the Cornell servers + CDN delivered better performance than the regional mirrors: info.arxiv.org/help/mirrors.ht…

The multi-site (and multi-country) backup provided by those mirrors does not appear to have been a consideration, because of course nothing bad would ever happen to an American university.

*The arXiv is a repository providing free access to pre-prints of academic papers in a range of fields across physics, maths, biology, computer science, etc. In some fields, including astronomy, it is the main way that researchers keep up to date with new publications in their area of research.

#Astrodon #Astronomy

Mirrors - arXiv info

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#astronomy #Astrodon
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Mihugo

I have forgotten more than I ever knew about C. Nevertheless I have two ?
1) why is namelen on line 104 not being set to null if it is null on the input? Perhaps malloc initializes memory but I don't recall that or perhaps there is something else of why it isn't used. I get the ptrs here confused especially since I have no clue how c-ares works.

2) really a style question. line 11. Any reason why it's own dot.h isn't last? It shouldn't matter. Perhaps one could argue it should be first

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After the Code of Conduct and the Mediation process, the Core Governance document is now ready for wider feedback.

This document describes what JoinJabber does and what we aim to achieve. It also describes what our values are and a way to make proposals to the entire community.

Feel free to share and read/respond to the document.
codeberg.org/joinjabber/collec…

#xmpp #permacomputing #consent #jabber


collective/Governance/Governance.md at governance

collective - Resources and meta issue tracker
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#xmpp #Jabber #permacomputing #consent
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Nicoco

I think completely ruling out "LLMs and other probabilistic tools" (which rules out almost any autocompletion) is ill-informed.
LLMs are way overhyped, the environmental concerns are real, but it's about the same as with any other program, it is possible to use them wisely, ie, not take their output at face value.
That consent part feels very weird to me. I remember Napster and singing "copying is not theft". (1/2)
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Nicoco

Fuck OpenAI and the others, sure. Also, I understand where this stance comes from, as the current LLM bubble and the ridiculous associated claims are insufferable. But this feels like a case of throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

You asked for feedback, this was mine, I hope that does not get me excluded as I am grateful for joinjabber's existence. (2/2)

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The DOJ’s Withdrawal of 11 ADA Guidance Documents: What It Means for Website and Mobile Accessibility accessibility.com/blog/the-doj…

The DOJ’s Withdrawal of 11 ADA Guidance Documents: What It Means for Website and Mobile Accessibility

DOJ withdrew 11 ADA guides, but website and mobile accessibility rules remain. Here's what it means for digital compliance in 2025.
www.accessibility.com

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I compared #curl today vs curl 8 years ago on malloc count + memory use to download a single 512MB file over cleartext HTTP:

129 mallocs, which is exactly the same.

Maximum allocated now: 135566. 17,681 bytes *less* than eight years ago.

Not everything has to go bloat over time I suppose.

And here's the old blog post: daniel.haxx.se/blog/2017/04/22…


Fewer mallocs in curl

Today I landed yet another small change to libcurl internals that further reduces the number of small mallocs we do.
daniel.haxx.se
#curl

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Welcome Max Eliaser as #curl commit author 1367: github.com/curl/curl/pull/1710…

Clarify that CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER buffer is read only after curl gains ownership of it by MaxEliaserAWS · Pull Request #17105 · curl/curl

Here is a documentation patch clarifying libcurl's guarantees with regards to the CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER buffer. See #17100. Tested make -C docs.
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#curl

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NVDA 2025.1 Beta 2 is now available for testing. As well as all the amazing updates in NVDA 2025.1 (from Beta 1), this new beta includes updates to some translations, as well as a minor bug fix for SAPI 5 voices using rate boost. Read the full release notes (including all the 2025.1 features & fixes) and download from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2025-1b…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #Update #Beta #FLOSS #FOSS #PreRelease #News #Testing #Test #FreeSoftware #ScreenReader


NVDA 2025.1beta2 available for testing

Beta2 of NVDA 2025.1 is now available for download and testing. For anyone who is interested in trying out what the next version of NVDA has to offer before it is officially released, we welcome yo…
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#FreeSoftware #foss #floss #test #screenreader #nvdasr #News #testing #update #nvda #beta #prerelease

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@fireborn @kellylford @JeffBishop Aaron, we do get asked about ARM support regularly and I was thinking it would be a great opportunity to write up an article on someone using a newer surface - would you be interested in sharing your experience? I'd like to write up something like nvaccess.org/category/nvda-sto… - if so, please email me, quentin@nvaccess.org

NVDA Stories – NV Access

Good news stories about NVDA, our users, supporters, staff, volunteers, community or anything else related.
NV Access
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How the TAD Foundation Is Redefining Career Pathways for Blind Students in Corporate America: Applications Now Open: Deadline To Apply: April 30, 2025 drkirkadams.com/tad-fellowship…

How the TAD Foundation Is Redefining Career Pathways for Blind Students in Corporate America: Applications Now Open: Deadline To Apply: April 30, 2025 - Dr. Kirk Adams

Discover how the 2025 TAD Fellowship is transforming career pathways for blind and low-vision students through elite mentorship, technical training, and private-sector job placement. Applications open through April 30, 2025.
Dr. Kirk Adams

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From the Maryland State Library for the Blind and Print Disabled: TUG Meeting Announcement; Resources for Tech News, Live Assistance; Saturday, May 10, 10:00 AM Eastern Time groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/91…

From the Marylad State Library for the Blind and Print Disabled: TUG Meeting Announcement; Resources for Tech News, Live Assistance; Saturday, May 10, 10:00 AM Eastern Time

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How does this read to you? No comment! :) At the White House Easter Egg Roll, the first lady has risen - The Washington Post apple.news/AzRsE7-9QR8ugFGwi6S…

At the White House Easter Egg Roll, the first lady has risen — The Washington Post

Melania Trump greeted children and rebooted her “Be Best” campaign in one of her first official appearances since the inauguration.
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Finally have my Prosody server all compliant!

I had an epiphany last night about something in the nginx config and after sorting that, all the optional XEP listed also pass!

Now to convince wife and kids to use it for our group chat... they really don't want to install any more apps, because I'm "being difficult" because they already use whatsapp 😑

The main reason I'm impressed with it over matrix, is reliable notifications. It just works. So far, anyway.

Thank you to the people that replied to my post last week suggesting I try xmpp after the matrix server we used shut down. I had written it off as an old platform for nerds, but it's... actually really good ❤️

#prosody #xmpp #chat #nginx #matrix

#xmpp #matrix #chat #prosody #nginx
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lmao @matrix STILL has the "Matrix 2.0 is here" (mastodon.matrix.org/@matrix/11…) post pinned to the profile even though "here" is STILL a very long stretch

The Matrix.org Foundation

2024-10-29 17:24:44

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It's official - Matrix 2.0 implementations are here and ready for mainstream use! 🎉🥳🎊 Come watch the keynote from The Matrix Conference and learn about the joy of instant sync ⚡️, next-gen auth 🔐, native VoIP 🎦 and Invisible Crypto 👻: matrix.org/blog/2024/10/29/mat…


Matrix 2.0 Is Here!

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
Matthew Hodgson (matrix.org)
@The Matrix.org Foundation
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The Matrix.org Foundation

well, synapse shipped matrix 2.0 sync back in Sept: github.com/element-hq/synapse/… which addresses all known issues which could cause client sync to drift apart. if you’re still having bugs let us know.

Release v1.114.0 · element-hq/synapse

Synapse 1.114.0 (2024-09-02) This release enables support for MSC4186 — Simplified Sliding Sync. This allows using the upcoming releases of the Element X mobile apps without having to run a Sliding...
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famfo

first of all, that's great, but, there are no clients which are usable for me which implement this.

Looking at the proposal there seem to be some major questions still unaddressed so I don't entirely understand the energy in implementing and the big announcement for something that is in an unfinished state with a lot of ambiguity in it's specification.

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Keepass-Tool (Format 4) "Secrets". Einfacher und weniger Möglichkeiten im Vergleich zu KeepassXC & Co., dafür hübsch und übersichtlich.
Vielleicht eine Möglichkeit, Familienmitgliedern einen Passwortmanager schmackhaft zu machen ... :-)

Schlagwörter, Anhänge, Notizfelder usw.

apps.gnome.org/de/Secrets/

#keepass #passwort #tool

Secrets – Apps für GNOME

Verwalten Sie Ihre Passwörter – Secrets ist eine Passwortverwaltung, die das KeePass-Format in Version 4 nutzt. Die Anwendung integriert sich perfekt in die GNOME-Arbeitsumgebung und stellt eine einfache und übersichtliche Schnitts...
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#tool #keepass #passwort
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If someone's profile looks blank on here, don't assume it is actually blank. Some accounts, especially newer ones or ones with few followers, may look blank even if they aren't.

There's more info about this, why it happens and how to check what the profile really looks like in the guide:

➡️ fedi.tips/why-does-someones-ac…

You can prevent your own account ever looking blank to anyone by pinning up to five posts or five threads on your profile:

➡️ fedi.tips/how-do-i-pin-my-post…

#FediTips #Mastodon


How do I pin posts on my Mastodon profile? | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse
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