In order to collect some feedback:
Any recommendations for a privacy friendly software for a poll that's self-hostable, simple enough to set up and uses only at most a few 100MB of RAM?

Thanks in advance :-) (Alternatively, I think I will just use beta.framaforms.org/)
#fedihelp #web #polls

Q: How do you convince people to use privacy respecting technologies for communication?

I am looking for real life use-cases to include into my #FOSDEM talk and beyond.

If you have encouraged someone to switch to say Signal, or Sessions, or XMPP or some other tool/protocol, please share here or via DM.

Anonymity is guaranteed. You can use also my Sessions messenger session: 0531634331f5b6be12375bf4229412eed3f2f3543cfe119df37e1b72c883143d4a

#fedihelp #foss #privacy #decentralization #p2p

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in reply to Bogomil Shopov - Бого

it's in french, but here was my answer

hachyderm.io/@dolanor/11556533…

TL;DR : Create a group which gives value to people, and tell them you need Signal for that.

My biggest success so far.

I must have around 400 contacts on Signal. But I use it for more than 10 years.

in reply to Bogomil Shopov - Бого

firstly I was not on other services, so my family downloaded Signal to have any messaging channel. But they used it only to text/call me and returning to Messenger for chatting with each other. Later I show my mother and aunt groups in Signal and after creating few group chats this somehow pulled my close family members here. If many conversations are here, the rest would follow.
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In Dublin, on Fenian Street, there's a factory that makes child sex abuse material.

You can pay it money, as a subscription, and that's one of the services it offers. This doesn't happen by mistake or because you've tricked or hacked the system.

It’s a feature.

thegist.ie/the-gist-the-abuse-…

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You know how in the early 1900s, radium was discovered and people started putting it into a bunch of random products that were marketed as having any number of magical or healing properties because "ooooo cool it glows" and because radioactivity was such a new concept that no one understood the danger? Or how asbestos was used in like, everything for a while?

This is what generative AI is like, but for the service economy. Future generations are going to treat this shit like toxic waste.

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Australia and Canada are considering joining the UK in a total ban on Twitter, over the Grok AI image generator being used to make non-consensual sexual images of women, as well as CSA images.

This would be huge if it happens. And could lead to further countries implementing bans.

Musk of course is claiming that he's the real victim.
He responded to the initial condemnation by Downing Street and news that Ofcom would be investigating, by posting a picture of Keir Starmer in a bikini.

[10. Januar - Neuigkeiten]

Die Optimierungen an Conexizan wurden adaptiert, die Wartungsarbeiten sind nun beendet. Die Übersetzung der Seite auf Englisch ist nun verfügbar und einige Verbesserungen sichtbar.

Ein #XMPP-Server durch Elan!
conexizan.de/

#xmpp
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A ten vzrůst efektivity! Osoba A prostrednictvím LLM vybleje dlouhý (jako skutečně desítky markdownů) text, což by ji jinak trvalo strasně dlouho, a osoba B prostřednictvím LLM text zkrátí (na jiný, než měla A, ale to zanedbejme), což by ji jinak trvalo také strašně dlouho.

A jak A, tak B jsou diky LLM výrazně efektivnější, zvládli více za méně.

Ale Horste!
Ne, to není vše.

Osoba B následně vyvajbuje na základě původního výblitku kód - a zase rychle!

To vše v prostředí, kdy psaní kódu nikdy nebylo skutečný bottleneck. Ale zrychlili jsme ho!

(Následně asi team C kód oignoruje a implementuje si to sám. Např. protože osoba A oignorovala jejich potřeby, ale jen vygenerovala desítky markdownů. Ale možná ne, tahle část příběhu je stále otevřená.)

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| To vše v prostředí, kdy psaní kódu nikdy nebylo skutečný bottleneck.

Jake prostredi to je? Ja jsem nikdy nezazil technologicke prostredi kde by prave "psani kodu" nebylo bottleneck. Spousta mid-level infrastruktury a komunikace vetsich organizaci vznika prave proto, ze psani kodu je bottleneck a je potreba ho nejak™ managovat.

Dokonce bych se nebal tvrdit, ze struktura vetsich organizaci vznika prave kolem bottlenecku psani kodu => bottleneck psani kodu je definuje.

The #blog post "Verify Arch Linux artifacts using VOA/OpenPGP" has been published:

devblog.archlinux.page/2026/ve…

#ArchLinux #SovereignTechFund #STF #devblog #OpenPGP #RustLang #DigitalSignature #Verification #VOA

#Music:
So a Developer/Coder figured out a way to not just save, but archive and preserve 90s #MTV, 33,000 #musicvideos and various #MTVnews articles in an algorithm free format.

They’re probably on fedi. Someone find them so I can hype them up for no reason.

wantmymtv.vercel.app/player.ht…

midnightrebels.com/mtv-rewind-…

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"Das generische Maskulinum fungiert als kognitiver „Flaschenhals“, der den Zugriff auf weibliche Informationen im Gehirn erschwert. Dass diese Studie über 12 Labore hinweg repliziert wurde, macht die Ergebnisse zu einem der robustesten Befunde der modernen Psycholinguistik."

Nachtrag: für Zweifel an den wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen bitte die Kommentarfunktion des Autor verwenden. Typen, die hier was von "Genderideologie" faseln, werden geblocked und gemeldet.

nullhypothese.substack.com/p/w…

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Good morning fellow Mastos and hello Sunday. Today sounds interesting, we have an amber warning for heavy snow; a yellow for ice and a yellow for wind. I might stay in bed today! I also have a funny feeling that our heating stopped working during the night, I'll have to check that out when the house wakes up.

Hopefully, you will have a better day than us. Have fun, laughs, optional strong drink. Take care.

Today's photo is from January 2023, taken at Yeadon Tarn. Fungus on a dead tree trunk.

Indonesia today became the first country to block Grok.

"The government views non-consensual deepfake practices as a serious violation of human rights, dignity, and the security of citizens in the digital space."

cbsnews.com/news/indonesia-sus…

The US right wing news coverage of the Canadian "trucker convoy" came with a lot of "liberate Canada" rhetoric and that was the first blip on my radar that the US could be more of a threat than an ally.

It actually concerned me to the point I mentioned it on a few shows at the time and just got weird looks. And yet...

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