Have you ever wondered how your personal data is being used to power AI models?
The European Union is shining a light on this very question with its investigation into Google's PaLM2 model.
#dataprivacy #ethicalAI #WhoOwnsYourAI
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Ever wondered how focus stealing prevention works in GNOME Shell? Or why you see "<App> is ready" notification?
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The Access Text Network (a US platform where some publishers share accessible PDFs of their books on demand to authorized users) has gradually been coming back online after it collapsed this spring as a result of some kind of disagreement between Georgia Tech and the Association of American Publishers.🤔
My work was only granted access to the new AccessText today, and the collection has to be built back up over time book by book.
accesstext.org/about-us
A week ago, in spite of all her campaign promises to defend the rights of Mexico's sexual diversities, President-Elect Claudia Sheinbaum announced that the terf Renata Turrent will be the new director of the public television station Canal Once. In response, over 100 queer, antiracist and abortion rights organizations and nearly 400 individuals have signed this statement calling for her dismissal. @reclaimingtrans and @thatweirdolee have been kind enough to host the English translation
For public television and radio and free media that truly represent the diversity and dignity of all people!
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I guess there weren't enough users? In any case, this seems like a weird thing to do, given that X is a mess and we need open alternatives supported by companies…
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Mozilla.social will shut down on Dec 17, 2024. Download your data and migrate before then.support.mozilla.org
TFW the mouse cursor freezes and my first thought "it's my regular AMDGPU crash happening" and then realise it's just the mouse battery....
That's how much unreliable shit mess with your brain.
We have two AMD GPUs here without any problems, both are in machines running Fedora 40 (although one is 41 now).
I do know someone else who has been struggling with GPU crashes on AMD (happens to be embedded) and it's been consistently crashing with trying to view VP9 videos on YouTube (specifically shorts loading, not even playing).
There are a few workarounds, but the best seems to be the H264ify browser extension. addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef…
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Ihr könnt hier einen Opt-Out machen (nur über Mobilfunkverbindung):
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Daniel's weekly report September 20, 2024
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curl, trurl, top-40, talks, SEO by threat, panelist, Polhem Prize
Just applied to the @sovtechfund fellowship program. Happy that this intiaitive exists, should I be selected or not. I do not envy them the task of selecting the initial five people.
Well, it's Friday and Kyle's parents are flying from Vancouver today. They're spending a couple of days with us in Ottawa, and then we'll go to Montréal with them before they head to Québec City for their... cruise...
Now to stress about everything that could go wrong. And the fact that they don't mask.
@jcolp I'm torn between getting drunk to buff off the passenger contempt from airlines (and Air Canada in particular) and being too drunk and becoming a real nuisance.
Life balance is hard.
Turning Everyday Gadgets into Bombs is a Bad Idea
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How realistic is the hollywood plot of a terrorist attack through exploding devices that we have seen unravel? It all looks easier than you think.
Ah yes, it was a terrorist attack.
Hmmm, DHL qui dit que je suis pas chez moi 🤔
Alors qu'étant chez moi, je peux garantir que je n'ai pas entendu la sonnette, ni frapper à la porte. Même pas entendu de camionnette se garer 🤔🤔
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I just read a Hacker News comment with a pretty gloomy take on the future of FOSS: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
He says all the 25-year-old hackers are writing JavaScript frameworks that only work on AWS these days. At least the things I'm seeing from the (relatively few) 25-year-old (and younger) hackers that I know, particularly here on the fediverse, give me hope that he's wrong.
@nick Or PRS2, where the 2 could be interpreted as "squared".
For anyone else watching the thread, PRS stood for Personal Radio Station and was a broadcast automation thing that a friend (Marc Mulcahy) and I worked on mainly in 2002-2003, that was used by a group of Internet audio streams for blind people.
@BrailleScreen Are you saying you wouldn't be able to use music you actually listen to because it's all on streaming services? Building up an MP3 collection is still an option.
@nick
@BrailleScreen I think the Pi 2 came out right after I finished the project.
The whole thing was super-custom, with a stripped-down kernel and a minimal buildroot-based userspace image actually embedded in the kernel as an initial RAM disk. The payoff was that it booted in like 5 seconds, and I think I later learned that a big chunk of that was the Pi boot loader.
I think that sounds like an optimistic old C fart hoping he'll get called out of retirement by banks in 20 years.
The 16-25 year range is hot for Rust, Zig and other non-boomer languages. If anything, the young hackers that come from these frameworks are driving a lot of overdue stack modernization.
Well gosh, I'm glad we required masks 😂 If we use this venue again (and we definitely will when we return to Berlin), I've got some ideas about how to manage airflow differently.
#introduction heya!! I recently joined this side of the internet, as I got invited by a good friend of mine, mostly to move away from other platforms.
I'm Naomi Belle, but I prefer Belle (I think it sounds cute!) I'm 23y old transfem living in the Netherlands. Currently I'm 4.5 years on hormones. I'm excited to meet you all.
A fair warning as this is my first time joining such spaces. Please let me know of any specific thing that doesn't sit well or if I do something against the rules! I love to learn and I'm more than happy to receive feedback 💜
Amongst other, interesting discussions about GTK's new renderers and phones, performance, regressions, collaboration, and testing. And the general “wouldn't it be nice if”s … language support, upstreaming things … and maybe, someday, some of them … 🤞
And if you happen to be in the Hamburg area and want to join, shoot us a message.
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I guess collecting samples would be hard... "please smell extra strong right now" (waves a test tube around the person and caps it quickly).
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