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ChatGPT gets treated like technological magic, but that ignores the humans behind the curtain that make it function.
OpenAI paid Sama to hire Kenyan workers at $1.32 to $2 an hour to review “child sexual abuse, bestiality, murder, suicide, torture, self harm, and incest” content. Their work made the tool less toxic, but left them mentally scarred. The company ended the contract when they found out TIME was digging into their practices.
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Exclusive: OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour to Make ChatGPT Less Toxic
OpenAI used outsourced workers in Kenya earning less than $2 per hour to scrub toxicity from ChatGPT. Here's what to know.Billy Perrigo (Time)
Website Carbon Calculator v3 | How is your website impacting the planet?
The internet consumes a lot of electricity. 416.2TWh per year to be precise. To give you some perspective, that’s more than the entire United Kingdom.Website Carbon Calculator
Elon Musk suspended Linette Lopez from Twitter after years of critical reporting on his companies.
In a new piece, she lays out Elon Musk’s playbook of exploiting workers while building a cult following. These tactics aren’t new. Musk has always been this way, regardless of what former boosters like Kara Swisher want you to believe. They were just happy to ignore it for access while journalists like Lopez did the work.
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#elonmusk #tech #tesla #twitter #spacex
Elon Musk was always a visionary jerk, bad boss at SpaceX, Tesla. But it won't work at Twitter.
Elon Musk has used the same playbook at all of his companies from Tesla to SpaceX. Sadly for him, his model will cause Twitter to go down in flames.Linette Lopez (Insider)
4. Sophie Koonin / This Talk is Under Construction / ffconf 2022
This is a nostalgic look back at the evolution of personal websites, and a look forward to how we can recreate this magic today. It's a manifesto for buildin...YouTube
Molly White
Ep. 232 Software engineer, computer scientist, and creator of Web3 Is Going Just Great Molly White helps us determine whether Web3 is really going just great for humanity — and helps us figure out how much skepticism to have about the blockchain.Team Human
Hypocrisy and Fear All the Way Down at Twitter
After you’ve drawn such a strong distinction on speech and human freedom, you can’t make any mistake about the side on which you belong.isaac-schorr (Mediaite)
I have never once violated Twitters rules or terms of service. I’ve never had a single tweet flagged, my account was permanently banned with no warning and with no reason, after I reached out to Musk for comment.
#twittermigration #twitterexodus #twitter #tech #news #technews
#tech #technology #Disability #twitter #postnews #twittermigration
STUDY: Privacy Violations Occurred At Least 50% Of The Time When Taking Devices For Repair
#News #Study #tech #privacy #computer #phone #data
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Thinking about taking your computer to the repair shop? Be very afraid
Not surprisingly, female customers bear the brunt of the privacy violations.Ars Technica
4 years using and championing the #fediverse full time and I've never written a #introductions toot. Well, or I have and can't find it.
I'm a #blind guy from 🇬🇧 with a passion for #technology and #programming, particularly #lowLevel #systemsProgramming in #C, #C++, #Rust, etc.
I've been a huge #freeSoftware / #openSource advocate for the majority of my life. I run #Linux and I love open, #decentralised technologies like #ActivityPub, #Matrix, #bitTorrent etc.
In my view, technology is built to make our lives easier, and in many ways, it isn't these days. It is truly my opinion that the only way #tech can be sustainable is if it's built using #FOSS, and does not give ultimate control to any 1 entity, individual or corporate. If technology is to help the people, it must be built *for* the people.
Currently working on odilia.app, various projects with the rest of the Lower Elements gang at lowerelements.club, and a Computing Science BSC at the #University of #stirling
Home | Odilia Screen Reader
Welcome to Odilia! Odilia is a new screen reader for the Linux desktop. It’s written in Rust, for maximum performance and stability.odilia.app
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#tech #technology #programming #advent #christmas #christmas2022
Google says Google should do a better job of patching Android phones
Project Zero calls out Android and Pixel for not fixing a GPU vulnerability.Ars Technica
WhatsApp data breach sees nearly 500 million user records up for sale
If you use WhatsApp, your details could well be up for sale
#news #tech #technology @WhatsApp #security #privacy #databreach
I'm going to #boost this a bit, to at least broaden its reach. Likes/favorites don't play into an algorithm here (thank goodness) and don't help visibility, and not all servers are federated (and some federated feeds are firehoses anyway).
@bookstodon, if you're tired of having to throw out still perfectly working #tech that suffers #PlannedObsolescence only because the closed-system software bricks them, check out this #petition.
Same to artists everywhere, @Curator.
I can't sign this as I am not a constituent of the EU, but I hope this comes to pass and the EU forces some responsibility into the #tech corporations. Goodness knows the US isn't going to lead the way.
#OpenSource #ConsumerRights #Computers #PlannedObsolescence #FOSS #ElectronicWaste #environmentalism #RightToRepair
Testuji infoek.cz účet i na alternativním Instagramu #Pixelfed. 😊
👉 Účet: pixelfed.cz/i/web/profile/4990…
👉 Článek o Pixelfedu: infoek.cz/socialni-sit-pixelfe…
👉Možnost registrace na Pixelfed.cz
👉 Aktuálně dostupná appka pro Android: f-droid.org/en/packages/org.pi…
#tech
Sociální síť Pixelfed připomíná Instagram, ale je mnohem svobodnější
Společnost Meta si je moc dobře vědoma, že Facebook dnes mladé netáhne. Není však schopna vymyslet nic nového,Adolf Pupík (Infoek.cz)
Oh great, looks like Fedora has lost hardware-accelerated video support BECAUSE PATENTS… ffs!
Small is Beautiful #23: What is the Small Web and why do we need it?
You can now watch the recording of yesterday’s live stream at:
small-tech.org/videos/small-is…
#SmallIsBeautiful #SmallWeb #SmallTech #web #dev #humanRights #decentralisation #tech #kitten #domain
Use PRIVACYFIRST coupon code to order now!
We build products to respect your rights to privacy, security, and freedom.
💻Librem 14 is the 14-inch laptop designed for those who value secure and respectful #tech.
➡️Librem Mini computer is highly requested by the community.
Both Librem 14 and Mini can be fortified with PureOS, PureBoot (coreboot +Heads) and Librem Key support.
If detecting tampering of #laptops or #phones on the go, is of concern to you, do consider adding Anti-Interdiction.
“A protest planned by hundreds of bank depositors in central China seeking access to their frozen funds has been thwarted because the authorities have turned their health code apps red, several depositors told Reuters.”
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Isn’t “smart tech” just wonderful? :)
Via @didek
🤔 ICYMI from April, a good (long-form!) essay about how #addiction to #tech (in general, but also #smartphones and #socialMedia in particular) is affecting human #attention spans in a negative way.
💡 Raises an interesting idea about it causing or reinforcing cultural "learned helplessness" that crosses over into many other areas of modern tech-facilitated life. (Something @lightweight has long discussed.)
🔖 Take a read this weekend and tell us what you think?
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My awakening moment about how smartphones fragment our attention span
I recently realized that absorbing the constant inflow of information from my smartphone, always readily available in my pocket to capture any free moment of attention, had fragmented my attention span.Tom Johnson
Avoiding USB-C on iPhones may get harder for Apple as Brazil considers mandate
#smartphones #Policy #Brazil #iphone #apple #USB-C #Tech #USB
Avoiding USB-C on iPhones may get harder for Apple as Brazil considers mandate
Brazil joins EU and efforts from US politicians in universal charger push.Ars Technica
Podcast release - Adrian Cochrane [Audio Interview]
DRM Media + Browsers + WWW Redesign + Other Technology...
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#Podcast #Tech #Audio #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS #Decentralised #Software #FSF #Design #DefectiveByDesign
#LibrePlanet #2022 #Talk #Artificial #Scarcity
Good support is key to expand access to free software. It builds a community, a fertile ground for exploration, experimentation, and education. This is why we invest in empowering you with professional support so you can explore and tinker, and if you get lost, guide you back to safety.
#tech #freesoftware #free #software
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Free Software Support Is Critical to Its Success – 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
Hah, when I wrote that six years ago, it was meant to be a warning, not an instruction manual 🤷♂️
#cpdp2022 #privacyWashing #institutionalCorruption #privacy #tech #humanRights
Well it’s always good to know what the privacy-washers are saying. Know your enemy and all that.
Also good to know who doesn’t mind having their legitimacy in privacy and human rights used to launder the likes of Google and Meta.
All very enlightening.
#privacyWashing #cpdp2022 #privacy #humanRights #institutionalCorruption #google #meta #tech
Sponsored by Google and Meta. Go on, pull the other one!
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#cpdp2022 #privacy #tech #humanRights #institutionalCorruption #privacyWashing
CPDP2021 Computers, Privacy and Data Protection conference • Platinum Sponsors
Platinum Sponsors are the top-level financial supporters of the CPDP Conference and its related side events. CPDP is an annual three-day conference devoted to privacy and data protection.www.cpdpconferences.org
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#tech #security #privacy #linux
I'd like to find a community of other people in #tech, maybe people who are interested in talking about things like #cloud alternatives, #cryptography, or #softwaredev processes (like #agile, I guess), #programming. I haven't found too much of that on here. Point me at the good discussions and knowledge sharing, if you know where it is!
Look, software isn't everything, and I'm sure I'll get into some other stuff on here, but the above is what I haven't found yet.
#introductions #introduction
Excuse the mess. Configuring new hardware. Soon to be hosting pixelfed.nz & mastodon.nz 😁
#tech #technology #server
I'm a software developer in the AEC industry, typically working to automate engineering workflows in CAD software (revit etc.). I studied Mathematics, so naturally I love functional programming (and luckily get to use F# for most of my work!).
In my free time I enjoy walking, photography, custom keyboards, and any other hobbies my ADHD brain latches onto.
My #introduction:
I did two years of engineering school and two years of journalism. I'm a geek who loves to tell a story.
I make #comics, #illustrations & #paintings. I do a lot of #memoir work, kids books (#kidlit), and speculative #fantasy.
I've spent about 15 years in the world of #infosec (thank you, day job!) and I do a lot of writing and podcasting in this field. I'm not an expert but I am a nerd for #tech and #privacy.
Links are all in my profile if you want to learn more. I'm not gonna spam you.
This is not my first time on Mastodon but I'm trying to consolidate a bunch of my older profiles right here.