1. German crime reporter asks MS Copilot what it knows about him.
2. Copilot falsely accuses him of child abuse, fraud, theft.
3. Copilot asserts “it is unfortunate that someone with such a criminal past has a family” and provides his (correct!) address and phone number.
4. Reporter files a libel complaint, but prosecutors refuse to take on the case: it’s not a criminal offense because no person committed it.
Must be great to be a big tech company. swr.de/swraktuell/baden-wuertt…
Du bist ein Kinderschänder - sagt ein KI-Chat einem unbescholtenen Mann. Ein wahrer Fall.
Der Tübinger Journalist Martin Bernklau traut seinen Augen nicht. Im KI-Chat Copilot von MIcrosoft ist er verurteilter Kinderschänder, Ausbrecher aus der Psychiatrie und Betrüger. Die KI spinnt rum - und das kann jedem passieren, sagen Experten.swr.online
As COVID rates skyrocket, health officials warn Canadians to wear plenty of sunscreen - The Beaverton
“COVID is over, you all need to accept that, and also maybe that it never even happened. But we can’t pretend the sun doesn’t exist, so don’t forget your SPF.”Mary Gillis (The Beaverton)
The arrest of #Telegram's founder Pavel #Durov sets a dangerous precedent for what kind of action can be taken against supporters of #privacy & #cryptography.
Don't settle for anything less than E2E #encryption! We've created a list of the top encrypted messaging apps to help!
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Best WhatsApp Alternatives For 2024 | Time To Go Private! | Tuta
There are lots of messaging apps similar to WhatsApp. Here's a review of the best secure alternatives: Signal, Threema, Telegram, Element, Wire, SimpleX, Session, and more.Tuta
Telegram is not E2EE. Telegram is terrible for privacy because it misleads people into thinking it is private.
Messages and group chats on Telegram are by default visible to Telegram's staff and whoever they choose to share the messages with:
mstdn.social/@rysiek/113027895…
There is also some very disturbing behaviour by Telegram detailed in the article linked above.
Keep up! Durov's arrest was NOT POLITICALLY MOTIVATED, nor (as everybody else pointed out) does Telegram *claim* to do to e2ee by default unlike Signal and Threema.
If you're gonna fight fascism and general snoopiness, fight ALL OF IT, or people (including me!) will vote with our feet and our wallets. Durov had it coming, as do his ruble-paying bosses.
@stonebear We are not defending the founder of Telegram, it is far too early to make an statements in that regard because we do not know the full extent of the charges.
Telegram is not considered a secure messaging app because it does not guarantee end-to-end encryption by default.
We apologize if this message was less than clear in the post.
SimpleX relies on a network of relays (SMP servers): these ones can be joined directly or you can connect to their onion equivalent through Tor. This will give you an overlay to hide your IP. It uses Orbot on android for that.
And you can install your own SMP server(s) if you want if you don't trust the native ones, connected of course to Tor.
Celebrating 29 years of Windows 95 — How Microsoft's operating system evolved since the iconic Start menu was introduced
Windows 95 introduced the iconic Start menu to the revolutionary taskbar, and Microsoft's OS influence is still felt 29 years later.Ben Wilson (Windows Central)
I posted a Canary token link on Mastodon a long time ago, on an instance with a no scraping policy, and it's still occasionally getting hit by Google and sometimes other random crawlers.
It's time to finally admit that being anti-scraping and being federated are just two positions that can't be reconciled with eachother.
SOLD Pluto TV & Paramount+ Have Been Sold to Skydance As All Other Bidders Drop Out | Cord Cutters News
Late last night, Paramount and Skydance officially announced a deal to merge. With this deal, Skydance will buy the Redstone family’s majority control of Paramount. This comes as the final bidder, Edgar Bronfman Jr.Luke Bouma (Cord Cutters News)
The REAL Reason the Book of Giants was REMOVED from the Bible | Medium
The Book of Giants is fascinating and controversial. Dead Sea Scrolls, we. have the opportunity to examine the writings since it's apparent suppression.qqPinkHatHacker (Medium)
If us users don't contribute to #foss software - using it, reporting bugs, providing feedback, donating whatever amount, choosing it over a closed source & more - at the end, it will be big corps & monopolies running our digital lives.
Last week, I used @organicmaps and @openstreetmap for my navigation. Added over 7 new spots (hotels, parks, POI's & more), making these maps & the app, a little more useful for us all. Also, quite happy to see that most places I visited where already there!
@lukasweidinger @MapAmore @normplum as far as @everydoor goes, should I be concerned that it connects to Microsoft's Bing Maps VirtualEarth API? Don't mean to sound paranoid here over FOSS VS Big Corps. I just want to make sure my effort goes to the community and not - yet again - to another private company to which I will offer free labour.
@lukasweidinger @MapAmore @normplum Hi! I'm the @MapComplete dev, and yes, you are touching upon a very interesting topic. There has always been tensions between (big) corps and volunteers in #OpenStreetMap , which makes it a really interesting topic.
First of all, the data you contribute goes into the OSM-database, which _everyone_ is allowed to reuse, including for commercial use. And yes, Bing Maps partially uses OSM!
@lukasweidinger @MapAmore @normplum
However, our license (osm.org/copyright) clearly states that anyone using the data must:
1. Give attribution
2. Keep the data (including improvements) open.
Rule 2 shifts the incentives, and makes that, for many companies, it is easier to directly update OSM then to grab a copy and start updating this. And this often happens: wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Or…
So, yes, by editing OSM, you are helping everyone, and not just big corpos. However...
Copyright and License
OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.OpenStreetMap
Having those external satelite imagery, is a _privacy_ concern, as bing can see which tiles you downloaded and thus what areas are interesting to you. However, the data isn't _that_ interesting to do personal profiling.
And about your original concern about helping big corpos? Microsoft also has Bing Maps, which I tested and did think of as problematic, exactly for community reasons: see my blog post openstreetmap.org/user/Pieter%… for all details
Pieter Vander Vennet's Diary | OpenStreetMap is in trouble
Edit: A small update happened after publishing this article - you can read it here: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Pieter%20Vander%20Vennet/diary/400992OpenStreetMap
well, I spoke with the team on SOTM - they were a friendly bunch and were actually happy withbmy blog posts - they thought it was respectfully written and said it effectively moved things within management.
I should do anoyher followup though, but in any case, the Bing Map Editor doesn't have a lot of usage.
@pietervdvn @lukasweidinger @MapAmore @normplum @MapComplete
There is an option to add pictures. Where are these stored ?
At the moment, @MapComplete uses #Imgur, and associates this photo via image tags. You may already know that @osm database doesn't store photos directly.
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Also a home button would be nice as I don't see a way going back to the main page
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Cities: Skylines on Steam
Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city buil…store.steampowered.com
if you ever want to trigger a scared and exhausted look in a protocol developer's eyes, ask how trailing dots in hostnames work in their stack
But don't stick around for the answer. It will not be pretty.
LOL.
used to love trying to explain this when teaching DNS basics. ;)
"well X will do suffix add if you don't fully qualify but Y will assume it but Z..."
"think of the root label to the right of the terminal dot as your invisible friend..."
share: don't reinitialize conncache by ericnorris · Pull Request #14696 · curl/curl
Recently I was messing around with the idea of enabling persistent Curl_share structs in PHP, i.e. to be able to reuse the same instance of the struct across multiple requests in a single mod_php w...GitHub
#Verkehrswende #BuildItAndTheyWillCome
📷 @dwnews
"Happy Eyeballs v3, new mailing list and charter proposal"
Hosted by the #IETF of course
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Want to see a Grace Hopper lecture? NSA just released a historic recording and it is 🔥
The lecture is “Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People”
Hear from a legend in her own words.
nsa.gov/Press-Room/Press-Relea…
NSA releases copy of internal lecture delivered by computing giant Rear Adm. Grace Hopper
FORT MEADE, Md. — In one of the more unique public proactive transparency record releases for the National Security Agency (NSA) to date, NSA has released a digital copy of a lecture that then-Capt.National Security Agency/Central Security Service
#GeschichteStattMythen
#InteractiveSite hilft, regionale & überregionale #Lügengeschichten der #Rechtsextreme|n auf ihren Wahrheitsgehalt zu prüfen.
#Geschichtsrevisionismus in #Thüringen kann anhand interaktiver Karten enttarnt werden.
Geschichte Statt Mythen
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So, have you ever thought your devices were listening to what you were saying, and then ads for that thing would show up...and all the pundits kept telling us it was coincidence and we were just seeing patterns because people seek patterns?
Yeah...naw. @404mediaco in their tradition of breaking all kinds of news, would like to tell you that you're not insane, and the pundits were wrong.
404 brings receipts: Cox Media Group (CMG) says it can target adverts based on what potential customers said out loud near device microphones, and explicitly points to Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Bing as CMG partners.
MindSift boasted about targeting advertisements by listening to peoples’ everyday conversations through microphones in their smart speakers.
Here's the deck, read it for yourself: 404media.co/heres-the-pitch-de…
(free signup may be required, iirc, but if you've got spare change, consider subscribing too. They're doing yeoman's work out here on the data front.)
#Enshittification
Here’s the Pitch Deck for ‘Active Listening’ Ad Targeting
404 Media previously reported Cox Media Group (CMG) was advertising a service that claimed to target ads based on what potential customers said near device microphones. Now, here is the pitch deck CMG sent to prospective companies.Joseph Cox (404 Media)
to the type and quality of services we receive.
Vision Australia's Board has decided to make an internal appointment for its vacant CEO role, rather than conduct a thorough international search to find
the best person for the job. This means that capable blind people external to the organisation are denied the right to apply.
I am a proud signatory to an open letter written by blind leaders, which has been sent to the Vision Australia Board.
There is a version of this letter available for all who wish to express solidarity to sign.
In the spirit of self determination/nothing aboutus without us, it is time for Vision Australia to appoint its first blind CEO.
If you feel the same, please sign.
change.org/unitedblindleaders
reshared this
Me: “aha, yeah, and what?” What can / should I do with that?.
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