> Fast forward to 2018. OpenAI releases GPT-1, and suddenly, the future of content creation becomes crystal clear. AI-generated content, indistinguishable from human-written text, is on the horizon.

> (…)

> I'm sure that a vast amount of valuable content is being overlooked. Information that you might search for may never appear in Google's results. Not because it doesn't exist, but because Google has chosen not to include it.

vincentschmalbach.com/google-n…

Big Tech eating itself.

Google Now Defaults to Not Indexing Your Content - Vincent Schmalbach

Picture this: It’s ten years ago, and you’ve just launched a new WordPress blog. Within hours, sometimes even minutes, your content is indexed by Google.

^{Vincent Schmalbach}

"The Biden administration has quietly pushed more than a half-dozen countries to weaken, delay or rethink baby formula regulations aimed at protecting the public’s health — sometimes after manufacturers complained, a ProPublica investigation has found."

propublica.org/article/baby-fo…

#PublicHealth #breastfeeding #BabyFriendly #formula #marketing #advertising #business #trade

Under Biden, U.S. Officials Fought Baby Formula Regulations Around the World

U.S. officials have challenged baby formula regulations in more than half a dozen countries, sometimes after manufacturers complained. Critics say the efforts are undermining public health.

^ProPublica

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They had the signs printed in advanced. Hired a graphic designer. (Wow he did a good job.) Handed them out. Waved them proudly on television. Like they say "Lower Taxes" or something.

There is no neutral way to read this sign. It's about getting rid of people because of who they are. There is no gray area. No fig leaf. Just eliminationism.

It doesn't even say WHO or WHY.

From Ad Identifiers to Global Privacy Control: The Status Quo and Future of Opting Out of Ad Tracking on Android

Sebastian Zimmeck, Nishant Aggarwal, Zachary Liu, Konrad Kollnig
arxiv.org/abs/2407.14938 arxiv.org/pdf/2407.14938

arXiv:2407.14938v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Apps and their integrated third party libraries often collect a variety of data from people to show them personalized ads. This practice is often privacy-invasive. Since 2013, Google has therefore allowed users to limit ad tracking on Android via system settings. Further, under the 2018 California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), apps must honor opt-outs from ad tracking under the Global Privacy Control (GPC). The efficacy of these two methods to limit ad tracking has not been studied in prior work. Our legal and technical analysis details how the GPC applies to mobile apps and how it could be integrated directly into Android, thereby developing a reference design for GPC on Android. Our empirical analysis of 1,896 top-ranked Android apps shows that both the Android system-level opt-out and the GPC signal rarely restrict ad tracking. In our view, deleting the AdID and opting out under the CCPA has the same meaning. Thus, the current AdID setting and APIs should be evolved towards GPC and integrated into Android's Privacy Sandbox.

From Ad Identifiers to Global Privacy Control: The Status Quo and Future of Opting Out of Ad Tracking on Android

^arXiv.org

WOW! Something just let loose on the far side of the sun and Earth (as well as the entire solar system) are getting peppered with hard protons. Debris from the blast emerged in the form of a full halo CME. Hard protons are good at charging spacecraft bodies, fogging their cameras, and causing reboots of onboard computers. Indeed, you can see a hint of the "fog" in the movie above. Each speckle is a hard proton striking the spacecraft's digital camera. spaceweather.com has the latest on this big, BIG boom.

#CME #Boom #protons #SOHO #Spaceweather #FullHaloCME

It's amazing to see how many buses a single subway rail line needs to be temporarily replaced for track construction.

#mbta rail replacement buses for the red line. Full buses every 2-3 minutes, bus berth full of buses. And that's only one line!

Don't underestimate the capacity of a subway train system!

A statement that does not inspire confidence:

"Our [Honeywell] Level-6 [Minicomputer from the 1970s] has been deassessioned and shipped to EDF Energy who own and run eight nuclear power stations in the United Kingdom." — ricomputermuseum.org/collectio…

Honeywell/Ultimate Level-6

Our Level-6 has been deassessioned and shipped to EDF Energy who own and run eight nuclear power stations in the United Kingdom.

^{www.ricomputermuseum.org}

There's now an implementation of the reading-flow property behind a runtime flag in Canary! As part of the work to implement this we need to make some decisions about how to handle elements with display: contents, and I've written a post to ask for your feedback and use cases.

developer.chrome.com/blog/read…

Request for developer feedback on reading-flow and elements with display: contents  |  Blog  |  Chrome for Developers

Help us to make sure reading-flow meets your needs.

^{Chrome for Developers}

Switzerland now requires all government software to be open source zdnet.com/article/switzerland-… by @sjvn

Switzerland is one of the world's leading #opensource countries; now, if only the United States could follow its lead!

Switzerland now requires all government software to be open source

The United States remains reluctant to work with open source, but European countries are bolder.

^{Steven Vaughan-Nichols (ZDNET)}

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Big model release today: Meta AI's Llama 3.1 series, including Llama 3.1 405B which appears to be the first openly licensed model that genuinely competes with current top proprietary models GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet

My notes here: simonwillison.net/2024/Jul/23/…

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today today with 10 updated and 1 added apps:

* FluxTube: Ad-free YouTube client using piped API

Oh, and the #Magisk repo had some updates as well as 1 added module:

* AshLooper: Boot Loop Protection

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo

IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).

^{IzzyOnDroid App Repo}

Immer öfter muss ich von #m4a zu #mp3 convertieren.

Da hab ich meiner Kollektion von #Nautilus#Scripts für #Ubuntu doch mal wieder eines hinzugefügt:

codeberg.org/cExplorer/nautilu…
Ein Rechtsklick genügt 🎉
Die Scripte kann man sicher professioneller machen 🤔
#Audio#Workflow#OpenSource

nautilus-scripts-audio-video

^Codeberg.org

Practical SVG is Now Free to Read Online

Back in 2016 I wrote a book called Practical SVG. Recently, the publisher, A Book Apart, closed shop. Now you can Read Practical SVG on the web, here on this site, for free. I always like how Mat's book was online so now mine can join that cool club. I'll echo what I say on the site: Thanks to Jeff Eaton for…

chriscoyier.net/2024/07/22/pra…

Practical SVG is Now Free to Read Online

Back in 2016 I wrote a book called Practical SVG. Recently, the publisher, A Book Apart, closed shop. Now you can Read Practical SVG on the web, here on this site, for free. I always like how Mat&#…

^{Chris Coyier}

So thanks to @rmader@mastodon.social we managed to get the front camera in the Pixel 3a working with a libcamera/pipewire stack 🥳 Thanks to @flamingradian for the work on the whole port!

EDIT: The driver does not properly release the camera when closing the app, so it only works once per boot. It would be lovely if anybody with the skills would like to contribute to improve it!

gitlab.com/sdm670-mainline/lin…

#postmarketOS #LinuxMobile #Pixel3a #Snapshot #GNOME #GUADEC

Wir sind heute Abend mit unserer kritischen Position zum Thema #Behindertenwerkstätten bei ZDF frontal.
ZDF, 23.07.2024, 21:00 - 21:45 Uhr
zdf.de/politik/frontal/frontal…

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Arbeit

Menschen mit Behinderungen haben immer noch einen auffallend schlechteren Zugang zum Arbeitsmarkt als nichtbehinderte Menschen.

^{Institut für Menschenrechte}

Just read an interesting post: Software engineers are not (and should not be) technicians haskellforall.com/2024/07/soft…

The ending summarizes the key point well:

> Or to put it another way: I actually view it as a red flag if an engineer or team gets into a predictable “flow” because it means that there is a promising opportunity for automation they’re ignoring.

Purism can produce made-in-USA, tailored GFE devices to gov specs. From wearable COP screens to field & office solutions. #GovTech #MadeInUSA #Purism

puri.sm/posts/purpose-built-sm…

Purpose-Built Smartphones for Government vs. Commercial Off-The-Shelf Devices – Purism

Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.

^{Purism SPC}

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🚨Jami is your free communication software, end-to-end encrypted and private. Ensuring non-commercial use of your data.😍

Here is the link to dowload it: jami.net/download/

#Jami #opensource #P2P #App #PrivacyMatters

Seltene Perspektive in der deutschen Medienlandschaft:

deutschlandfunk.de/podium-stim…

Misstrauen und Angst in der palästinensischen Community

Vorverurteilt und missverstanden – so fühlen sich viele Palästinenser, die ihre Stimme im Nahost-Konflikt erheben. Die Angst vor Konsequenzen ist groß.

^{Deutschlandfunk}