⭐ Creativity Is Made, Not Generated procreate.com/ai

"Generative AI is ripping the humanity out of things. Built on a foundation of theft, the technology is steering us toward a barren future. We're here for the humans. We're not chasing a technology that is a moral threat to our greatest jewel: human creativity"

👏

📌 rknight.me/links/creativity-is…

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 6 updated and 2 added apps:

* kitshn: client for the self-hostable Tandoori recipe database – and a #reproducibleBuilds
* ByeDPI: bypass censorship (here: DPI, Deep Packet Inspection)

At apt.izzysoft.de/magisk 2 #Magisk #modules were updated.

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repos :awesome:

I won a contest @libreoffice held, and I got all this KILLER LibreOffice swag from them.

I've used LibreOffice for so many years, from back in the mid 2000s when it was OpenOffice. It's better than Microsoft Office. It's totally free and open source, and you don't have to be logged in like you do now with Office.

Try it out if you haven't, you won't regret it.

libreoffice.org

#LibreOffice #OpenSource #FOSS

"#Ableismus kann töten." "Das erste Mal wirkliche Angst bekam Sarah Baumgart im Jahr 2018 bei einer Kleinen Anfrage der #AfD im Bundestag. Darin ging es um die Zahl von behinderten Menschen in Deutschland und den vermeintlichen Zusammenhang von Behinderung mit Inzucht und Migration. „Da wurde mir klar, die hören beim Thema Migration nicht auf“, sagt Sarah Baumgart..." taz.de/Menschen-mit-Behinderun… #WirSindDieBrandmauer #noAfD #Afdverbot #Menschenfeindlichkeit #Demokratie

Scoop: New details are emerging about a breach at National Public Data (NPD), a consumer data broker that recently spilled hundreds of millions of Americans’ Social Security Numbers, addresses, and phone numbers online. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that another NPD data broker which shares access to the same consumer records inadvertently published the passwords to its back-end database in a file that was freely available for download from its homepage until today.

krebsonsecurity.com/2024/08/na…

in reply to BrianKrebs

Expecting data brokers to care about securing the data they so casually collect, buy, collate and otherwise acquire is pointless. None of them really do, and almost every breach involving a data broker shows this. By definition, their businesses largely rely on collecting records that they already view as public and that this entitles them to collect, resell, etc said data. If that is the fundamental organizing idea of your business model, how much are you going to care about protecting it from mass theft?
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I've been enjoying Mastadon but have missed the academic side of things--I used to find so many resources for students and faculty on Twitter. I realized that I need to start doing them myself and maybe we'll build a community. So, here I go:
New book for grad students found on JSTOR: Grad School Life: Surviving and Thriving Beyond Coursework and Research, Kory-Westlund, Columbia University Press, www-jstor-org.ezproxy.lib.vt.e…

#academicchatter #gradschool #gradstudents #academiclife

Me llamo José Manuel y soy de Mallorca. Como #presentación, así en general, puedo deciros que soy músico, compositor y aficionado al cine y a la fotografía. Mis mayores influencias musicales son Mike Oldfield, Vangelis y Jean-Michel Jarre. Mi música está disponible en Bandcamp. 🎧🎹🎸

josemanuelguerra.bandcamp.com/…

Recently, a Dutch hacker found a vulnerability allowing him to shut down 4 million solar power installations. A handful of mostly non-European places manage perhaps 100 GW of solar power in the EU. Any mishap there, or heaven forbid, a compromise, could easily shut down so much power that the European electricity grid would collapse. Shockingly, we regulate these massive control panels as if they are online birthday calendars. And that must change. berthub.eu/articles/posts/the-…

Топ бесплатных нейросетей на все случаи жизни

В наше время ИИ проникает во все сферы жизни, предлагая невероятные возможности для творчества, работы и развлечений. Нейросети уже не фантастика из будущего, а реальные инструменты, доступные каждому. В данной статье мы представляем вашему вниманию подборку лучших бесплатных нейросетей, способных удовлетворить самые разнообразные потребности: от генерации контента и обработки данных до оптимизации рабочих процессов и организации увлекательного досуга. Приятного прочтения!

habr.com/ru/companies/bothub/a…

#ии #ии_и_машинное_обучение #ии_помощник #бесплатные_инструменты #генерация_контента #обзор_сервисов #оптимизация_рабочего_времени #чатботы

#deltachat_desktop 1.46.5 release is rolling out:
- download and test it at: download.delta.chat/desktop/v1…
- check release status at: github.com/deltachat/deltachat…
in reply to Matt Campbell

@matt
from my understanding it's the 0x logo printed by a 3D Printed Tabletop Sand Art arduino project.

blog.adafruit.com/2023/04/15/3…

Remember when the politicians kept telling us that Climate Change was too expensive to fight?

They said that Oil Executives buying mega yachts was more important than the rest of us having food, or viable living conditions.

This is the second "once in a century" flood in the Toronto area this summer

#FossilFuels
#Degrowth
#ClimateChange

toronto.citynews.ca/2024/08/18…

"Proponents of degrowth also favour the democratisation of the economy and collectively managing key resources like housing – including through housing co-ops. The documentary features Sostre Civic, a housing co-op in Barcelona as a case study. Founded in 2004, Sostre Civic has 1,000 members and 17 ongoing projects, comprising 236 homes. It retains collective ownership of the property and members are granted the right to use the dwellings for 75 years."
thenews.coop/bbc-degrowth-docu…
in reply to Wulfy—Speaker to the machines

I have a very vivid memory of being confused about 3-5% annual growth. It was 5th grade and an introduction to economics class.

I put up my hand to ask what happens to car companies when people have enough cars and how many cars to people need? The teacher was completely confused about how to answer.

It was only a few weeks prior the same teacher had taught us about the ecological balance of nature... the wolves eat the deer, the deer eat the plants, and everything stays in balance.... then brings in this class about infinite growth and my little brain was trying to figure out the balance part.

It didn't seem weird to her that the laws of nature don't exist when it comes to exploiting nature.

Gemeente Amsterdam verbiedt Telegram op werktelefoons

Ambtenaren van de gemeente Amsterdam mogen de berichtenapp Telegram niet gebruiken op hun werktelefoon. Volgens de gemeente is het risico op cyberspionage te hoog, zegt een woordvoerder van ICT-wethouder Scholtes na berichtgeving van BNR.

nos.nl/l/2533835 #nieuws #nos