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You steal from one person and you’re a thief. You steal from everyone and you’re an AI company.
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@aral Case in point, see this: Which also links to my own thread about using linux GUI for years and just giving up. @aral If you haven't seen ;) but given this is your own thread... Damn hearing loss got me. I hadn't realized your nick!  @aral accessibility on Linux sucks, that’s no news. On the other hand the mailing list for orca is active. Just today there was a call for more testing before beta release  @aral Thanks for the reminder, I wanted to do something about that .af e-mail address I have... Folks promoting Bluesky on the fediverse is like the three little pigs doing public relations for the big bad wolf. But, hey, clearly some folks still haven’t gotten the message that VC and billionaires are bad and that non-corporate spaces have to be protected from corporate ones. I guess something has to keep the folks who write “what went wrong/if only we’d known” articles in business. 🤷♂️
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 @aral I signed up there today to hold my username, and added to my profile there to 'let me know if you want an invite code to the rest of the fediverse' :-D Hmm, here’s an idea: what if tools like Glaze and Nightshade were integrated into fediverse servers and/or clients and automatically applied whenever any images are posted… 🤔 Thoughts @dansup? https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu #ai #selfDefense #glaze #nightshade #fediverse #pixelfed #mastodon
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@aral it took ~12 hrs for 1 images to process on the medium scale & close 7hrs for the default settings. it is awesome & i want to see more use… @aral I wouldn't count on it being intergrated into official releases of Fedi servers, as it doesn't seem to be an open source project. Maybe clients could if they choose to but then you won't find them for download in F-Droid. Individual instances could maybe integrate as well. I think it makes more sense for the user to process images themselves before upload if they wish.  There is a special circle of hell for lackeys who legitimise surveillance capitalists like Facebook and aid their efforts to take over (or at least sabotage) emergent non-corporate spaces like the fediverse when they should be protected from them at all costs. Those who give them every benefit of the doubt and temper all historic evidence of wrongdoing with anecdotes of the very good people they know who work there in good faith. You know who you are and exactly what you’re doing. Shame on you.  @aral Watching Facebook vs Fediverse is like watching a teen slasher film, where the protagonists _know_ who the killer is and they still invite him in the house because he hasn't killed any of them yet. And you're just standing there, yelling at the screen, because you saw them watching him murder everyone else in the neighborhood. @aral If the Dante's Inferno game was published these days this (circle 10. Surveillance) would be a nice DLC :P  @aral See, now I'm mad that gitea/forgejo don't use it for the short forms of the commit hashes...  “We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings.” – Ursula K. Le Guin
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  It's so insane. If platform and instance owners start working with Meta it will go badly wrong for the Fediverse, and what will they say? I'm guessing they'll either deny anything is wrong, or say "We had no way of predicting this", or say "We had no other options". Anything but admit they were going into this willingly, and knowing how terrible Meta is.  I've had a couple of exchanges the last few days which were very much like conversations I've had about cryptofascist politicians with well-meaning people. What Elon says: “I just don’t like anything which creates a lords and peasants kind of thing.” What Elon means: “I want all the workers to be peasants. By the way, I am king.”
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 1. Read this: “Just as GitHub was founded on Git, today we are re-founded on Copilot.” 2. Go here: #git #gitHub #codeberg #enshittification #BigTech #cooperative #dev
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@aral github is just a git remote and free bandwidth to host binaries. We're not migrating to some other service that would probably not offer massive amounts of storage while disrupting years of issue tracking just because MS is running out of ideas to implement. That would be shooting ourselves in the foot. @aral Observation from a non-developer: just reading that blog it seems whoever writes it insists on mixing up "GitHub" the platform and "Developers" the profession with headlines like "Developers adapt AI" etc. @aral As another alternative, I started using #sourcehut and the git email workflow, and I really like it.  @aral@mastodon.ar.al mandating putting a specific key in trust stores?  @aral interesting how all of a sudden cryptography is not the enemy anymore. Looking at you, #chatcontrol How is it I’m only just learning about Feedle – @feedle – by @preslavrachev? Search for a topic – e.g., JavaScript or ethics or whatnot – and the returned result is available as an RSS feed. This might just get me back into using an RSS reader again because the thing I struggle with the most is curating feeds.
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@aral @feedle @preslavrachev This is great, thanks for this! I love #RSS and still use it very much 🙌  @aral @feedle Thank you so much 🙏 Feedle is a side project I help a small team from Germany develop, maintain, and spread the word about. #RSS has been our passion since its very inception in the early 2000s, and we have taken it as our mission to help promote it and the #OpenWeb with every means possible. As you'll see, Feedle is not perfect - there are a few rought edges we are still working around. Not every blog post is as easy to find there as we want it to be, but are working on it! 💪  Imagine having just one life to live and spending it being an apologist for asshat corporations.
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The only legitimate use of privilege is to help bring about the kind of world where you would not have had it to begin with.
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 @aral Keep dreaming. You are dealing with selfish humans who only interested in telling others what to do or having power. Even those who push their agenda. They always right and the rest not. Bella the cat told me so and she is right. @aral I found out yesterday about the Jewish concept of 'tzedakah', which is exactly what you describe here: it's usually translated as 'charity' but, in its highest form, should result in the recipient becoming self-sufficient War is Peace #google #chrome #adtech #surveillanceCapitalism #PeopleFarming #surveillance #capitalism #privacy #web #BigTech #SiliconValley
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  @aral Ditch Chrome, like, yesterday. @aral This is really neat, great job! I've been thinking of making a @pixelfed profile QR code generator website, and also want to document/blog about how I did it htmx is something I've wanted to try out, and I think kitten would be the perfect fit for this! Kudos for making web dev more easy and accessible, long live the #smallWeb ❤️ So FairPhone are launching the 5th version of their phone and right there on the page (which I won’t link to): “All of your favorite Google Apps will be right there with you.” Nothing like a good bit of fair trade, environmentally-friendly surveillance capitalism, eh? (I spoke with them when they were just starting out. They fully know and understand what #Google’s business model is. They fully understand what #SurveillanceCapitalism is. This is not an oversight; it’s strategy.)
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 Sorry Aral, .... But the general public expects an Android phone to act like an "Android phone". There is a version with e/os being sold somewhere else. Because Fairphone did work with e/os for the fp4 at some point iirc. So there are options. But the average consumer just wants regular Android
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Apart from them both being evil, I'm struggling to see the connection between fascists and neoliberals. Facism is authoritarian, forcing people (except possibly a select group or two) into government controlled misery while neoliberalism lets the market freely allocate misery. Facisists want to close borders to prevent others from taking their shiny toys while neoliberalists want to open borders so companies can exploit everyone at lower costs. They result in different dystopias. |
@aral love it! nice one!
@aral I agree 👍
@aral The law locks up the man or woman,
That steals the goose from off the common,
But lets the greater felon loose,
That steals the common from the goose.