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This artist who quit the MM fandom 8 years ago and deleted her whole online presence is back and redrawing some of her most wonderful pieces.
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@707Kat@mastodon.art
mastodon 4.7.3A full-stack Dev here to enjoy beautiful art and upload my own creations occasionally.
#Datarights #PrivacyMatters #FOSS #MysticMessenger #ActuallyAuDHD #ActuallyAutistic
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@_elena@mastodon.social Honestly I get it. I have been considering taking up German again too being on here.
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@david@social.piconet.work @chrisoliver@indieweb.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr It's been happening a lot. Amazon did it with Kindle books etc.
Your purchase should not be linked or stuck in an account, make sure to keep a copy of it offline if you want to keep it.
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@jpoesen as it turns out. On Mastodon. After using mastodon more actively for the past couple of days I tripped over what I've been unable to find for years on the other social media platforms.
A local volunteer group effort to help people get away from big tech.
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@_elena@mastodon.social And this is how I find out that he's on their board. 😅
Even if Bsky themselves and some of their staff actions didn't raise alarms from the get go for me. The fact that they are located in the US under current administration and the lack of autonomy does.
I'm happy I finally took the plunge and made them my back up social media and Mastodon my primary. I like some of the utility over there, but it's already doing the spiral I watched Twitter doing before leaving there.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota/116277691327823258
@EUCommission It's funny how this appeared right below this @Tutanota post about how there's people in the EU who are trying to force mass surveillance. Not very open at all.
#privacy #surveillance #FOSS
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@thirstybear@agilodon.social Ah, thanks for sharing it. I found the quote on Bsky and shared it over there.
https://bsky.app/profile/scalzi.com/post/3mj6q3pdblc2y
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@glyph@mastodon.social So many of us feel like this. I want to spend my time on the things I enjoy. What makes me happy, instead of constantly having something that frustrates me to no end by it's obnoxious backwards application and lack of accountability shoved in my face and into every facet of the process.
I have so many passions and things I want to do and talk about, but instead my mind is constantly interrupted by this unwelcome all encompassing hype-version of a technology poisoning those wells of joy.
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@EUCommission Then please don't hollow out the GDPR for US big tech. Focus on energy sovereignty aka green energy and please dial down the AI hype and implementations that hasn't been vigorously tested and passed trusted human review.
Also, stop trying to make mass surveillance a thing. Make preventive measures, not invasive ones.
#Privacy #Security #GreenEnergy #DigitalSovereingty
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@tante@tldr.nettime.org You don't even really have to replace it with child labour as it's literally trained on things made by children and the children themselves images, drawings, voices, habits etc.
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@elebertus@eigenmagic.net the people he is referring to is his techoligarch bros. Read up on his relationship with Toby Lutke (Shopify) and how he feels about Musk.
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@tpfto@mathstodon.xyz @baldur@toot.cafe I wish I was, but honestly I'm not. Nothing surprises me after watching parts of the press often just acting as microphone holders so CEOs who have repeatedly been wrong and said incredibly stupid things can broadcast another opinion or weird idea without further context or holding them accountable.
Also knowing that said press news outlets are invested in by the tech companies, their investors or their CEOs themselves.
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@onepunchmango@radikal.social I'm aware of what the EFF do. I'm not saying they don't do a lot of good. However, they are not against LLMs and up until recently they were positive about its usage. Even though the technology inherently relies on voiding people's privacy. For the longest time they cheered on it as a way to beat Copyright and boost free information, ignoring people who tried to explain why it would be damaging.
Try taking a look at how this page has changed this month:
https://web.archive.org/web/20260000000000*/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/effs-policy-llm-assisted-contributions-our-open-source-projects
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@maiathecyberwitch@helvede.net Jeg skrev tidligere da jeg delte din post omkring Jordskreds kandidaterne at jeg havde en kandidat jeg ville stemme på og det var Noah Sturis fra Å, som er deres IT-Ordfører.
https://www.alternativet.dk/personer/ordfoerere/noah-reinert-sturis
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@johnnyvibrant@mastodonapp.uk I was thinking this exact thing.
"Remember when the program/compiler/shell just actually did what your file told it to? What a trip that was!"
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@bob_zim@infosec.exchange Did you see Jensen Huang from Nvidia now suggesting to pay people “bonuses” in tokens. 🥲
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@liw@toot.liw.fi @corbet@social.kernel.org @baldur@toot.cafe
Lars if you need more blogs and tech news that are worth checking out I can recommend following the tech journalists directly rather than the outlets and the same for researchers as well such as @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io etc.
Many tech journalists have to work freelance as jobs are drying up, so their contributions will often be one off stories they sell to whomever will take the story.
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@baldur@toot.cafe I'd like them to look at the actual papers that usually is behind "Anthropics findings" which often actually isn't made by Anthropic, but security researchers etc. but they take their 'narrated press briefings' rather than look at what the papers say.
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@danielbierstedt@norden.social You don't have to wait. The prices are already starting to rise. Have you seen the recent price-hikes for Copilot?
Tim Corey, educator and .NET developer did this video yesterday to check out if the obscene prices people have been posting on r/GithubCopilot are true. He made an estimate that a mid-tier model (Sonnet 4.6) would cost with a conservative daily usage around 75$ a day = 18000$ a year and this is still with subsidizing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNF9tGKBfhA
Testing GitHub Copilot's Pricing After June 1st
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@danielbierstedt@norden.social It's not even built for that. It's really expensive and any stupid task is not worth what it will actually cost once the subsidizing ends.
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- Simpler words.
- more relatable context windows
- Easier steps/guides to make a difference
- Better storytelling
Make it easy to understand and accessible to the masses.
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@iamkonstantin Don't worry, your cat food provider will soon gain access as a third-party vendor.
We'll be waiting.
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@adhdeanasl The “I should be allowed to openly and obnoxiously disrespect and call for your rights to be removed, but your reasonable ask to be called the name you identify as is minorly inconveniencing me and that’s why the world is terrible”-crowd is quite the low point of human decency circling the drain.
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@alex@dair-community.social @emilymbender@dair-community.social @404media@flipboard.com @samleecole@journa.host seriously can’t wait to listen to this one in a moment of leisure time. Amazing clip!
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@maiathecyberwitch@helvede.net Jeg har mødt og kort arbejdet sammen med Noah for en del år tilbage (nok omkring et årti) da jeg var midlertidigt frivillig hos dem og husker allerede dengang at han var engageret, empatisk, pålidelig og hårdtarbejdende med deres online profil.
Jeg havde ellers svoret at jeg ville stemme længere til venstre denne her gang, men da jeg så han var på listen vidste jeg det måtte blive ham, når det nu ikke kunne blive Torsten Gejl.
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@jschauma@mstdn.social @prietschka@mastodon.social I'm sure you have some insight on this.
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@_elena@mastodon.social And @Gargron@mastodon.social has been very outspoken about LLMs too. https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/116207239929253738
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Technology is not inevitable. We've decided not to have asbestos in our walls, lead in our pipes, or carginogenic chemicals in our food. (If you're going to argue that it's not everywhere, where would you rather live?) We could just not do LLMs. It's allowed.
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@seraf@radikal.social Some really good habits there.
I recently found my physical journals from my teenage years and honestly I want to start that up again.
I've been keeping a physical Bullet Journal for a while, but not quite the same.
Going back to physical media myself, although digitising them for when I'm on the go.
My phone has replaced my habit of reading books when on the go and I really want to curb that habit this year and go back to reading more books.
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@maxschrems It’s close to being the same situation in England. I wonder how many more places it might be. EU is not immune to corporate capture and people need to start waking up realising that our protections and rights are being chipped away at.
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@skysong@floss.social Increasingly more people are looking for help with it, they just don't know where to go and start. With what Microsoft is promising for Windows 12 (modular with even more AI and cloud services), I'm almost certain that demand will continue to rise.
Try checking out https://endof10.org/ for local activities near you.
Points of convincing:
- Their laptop not being able to upgrade to Win 11-12
- Everything is turning into subscription services
- Microsoft forcing cloud/online
- Etc.
It's the spooky season :blobcat_pumpkin: and I've hooked up an external Discreader to my computer so I can enjoy my Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVDs while programming.
Did you know that the later higher resolution and widescreen remaster f***d up the theme and cut of the show?
Also, yes Joss Whedon 👎
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@onepunchmango@radikal.social Definitely they do. I follow them myself on other platforms than this one. (haven't gotten around to it here)
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@MartyFouts@mastodon.online @thirstybear@agilodon.social they want to ban their houses being used for fueling the fire. The people roasting marshmallows and baking bread on their burning houses are not entitled to their houses as fuel and the arsonists have convinced them it’s necessary and okay.
So no, that’s not a problem. You just forgot that part of the metaphor.
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@Printdevil@dice.camp @HauntedOwlbear@eldritch.cafe Thanks for giving me a hearty chuckle.
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@MartyFouts@mastodon.online @thirstybear@agilodon.social I don't think people should go after the marshmallow toasters. The marshmallow toasters are the ones coming up to the homeowners and going "look how crispy the fire is making my marshmallow, isn't it nice? I hope the arsonists continue to burn houses so I can keep a roast going."
The bread bakers are talking about another kind of fire = AI.
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@peter It's also kind of interesting that they are doing this so much now when the AI business is shifting to pay-per-token model. 🤔
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@ketan by solve they mean accelerating it. They always mean accelerating. 🙃
I’m only half-joking.
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@plantarum@ottawa.place @parismarx@mastodon.online it was always the plan. Atrophy learning and skill building, replace teachers and educational institutions.
Become the SaaS middleman.
It’s not the only part of the plan, but it is central.
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@mttaggart it’s the same with Google Gemini and people’s website ranking in Google search.
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@mattkenworthy It's really an undervalued technique.
It works with so many other things too.
Tried to learn the piano a while ago and I'd end sessions frustrated because I couldn't get my fingerwork right. Cue next day where I can play the same piece without a hitch. The brain needs some downtime to rearrange stuff so you can go to a task with what it's processed during downtime.
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@quinn because it turns out the techbros who are pushing it aren’t the visionaries hyped to be.
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@joschi@hachyderm.io Nothing out of that man's writing is interesting. He's an Effective Altruist on big techs payroll.
Literally a speaker at "Data Center World" conference. https://schedule.datacenterworld.com/speaker/masley-andy/82093
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@TechTangents@dialup.space You should absolutely imply that's what's happening at least, because that is happening. The intenet has more bots than humans and the people pushing genAI will definitely sort to those kinds of tactics.
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@TimWardCam@c.im @ScriptFanix@maly.io @resuna@ohai.social @yugthebug@mastodon.social @jmax@mastodon.social @thirstybear@agilodon.social people know that. That’s why “AI” is in quotations.