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Elizabeth Tai | ζˆ΄η§€ι“ƒ πŸ‡²πŸ‡Ύ

Playing with my neighbour's kitty in her catio

#cats #cat #caturday
27 June at 0:50 | Open on hachyderm.io
Elizabeth Tai | ζˆ΄η§€ι“ƒ πŸ‡²πŸ‡Ύ

Thought I would be spending the morning quietly reading at the cafe. Ended up chasing my neighbour's #cat who escaped from her catio. She was too fast and she got out and is now in the jungle at the back of the apartment. I have no way to get her.
She's in heat. πŸ™ƒ

Update: Cat is now back at home eating tuna and oblivious to the chaos she caused. A very orange thing to do
23 June at 3:32 | Open on hachyderm.io
Elizabeth Tai | ζˆ΄η§€ι“ƒ πŸ‡²πŸ‡Ύ

Those with black cats please do this and post this on #Caturday pretty pls?? πŸ˜†

#Cats #CatsOfMastodon
20 April at 1:23 | Open on hachyderm.io
Elizabeth Tai | ζˆ΄η§€ι“ƒ πŸ‡²πŸ‡Ύ

Meanwhile, at my coworking space today.

A tale in three pictures 🀣

Abang bomba to the rescue!

#cat #Cats #CatsOfMastodon #Malaysia
20 March at 8:16 | Open on hachyderm.io
Elizabeth Tai | ζˆ΄η§€ι“ƒ πŸ‡²πŸ‡Ύ
Elizabeth Tai | ζˆ΄η§€ι“ƒ πŸ‡²πŸ‡Ύ

"When an app is cloud-based, its performance is limited by the speed of its connection to the central server and how quickly that server can reply. With a local-first app, the user’s device runs all the code. The better your laptop or smartphone gets, the more the app can do."

I now prefer to have local-first software, mostly because I want freedom from unexpected changes & more control over my data.

#Tech #Software #Cloud

wired.com/story/the-cloud-is-a

"When an app is cloud-based, its performance is limited by the speed of its connection to the central server and how quickly that server can reply. With a local-first app, the user’s device runs all the code. The better your laptop or smartphone gets, the more the app can do."

I now prefer to have local-first software, mostly because I want freedom from unexpected changes & more control over my data.

3 Sep 2023 at 12:07 | Open on hachyderm.io
Bob Irving
Shepherd

@liztai Cloud-based also uses more electricity over all because all the data has to be pinged back and forth.
Maybe not a lot for a single user, but it's one of the many things which adds up at scale.

3 Sep 2023 at 14:25 | Open on zirk.us
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@liztai

I might be mistaken, but I feel like it adds another layer of lock-in as well. Now, not only can the file format be proprietary, but the use is linked entirely to the web site as well.

Google Drive is good about making downloads in several *usable* formats.

Canva (for example) much less so. PressBooks (for "open content" books) even less so, imo.

Local software and local data.

If only #k12 educators would understand this.

3 Sep 2023 at 15:03 | Open on twit.social
Elizabeth Tai | ζˆ΄η§€ι“ƒ πŸ‡²πŸ‡Ύ

Hello #WritingCommunity
Apparently #Google has changed their privacy policy and now says that they'll scrape everything you post online to train their AI tools.
I even post my #Fiction online on #Substack & my #Wordpress blog and now wonder if this is a bad idea.
They say paywalls could deter the scraping.
What do you think writers can do to protect their content? Or should we just roll over and accept that this is the way things will be from now on?

gizmodo.com/google-says-itll-s

Hello #WritingCommunity
Apparently #Google has changed their privacy policy and now says that they'll scrape everything you post online to train their AI tools.
I even post my #Fiction online on #Substack & my #Wordpress blog and now wonder if this is a bad idea.
They say paywalls could deter the scraping.
What do you think writers can do to protect their content? Or should we just roll over and accept that this is the way things will be from now on?

4 Jul 2023 at 3:05 | Open on hachyderm.io
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Eduardo SΓ‘nchez

@liztai Perhaps, in your blog, limitingit via robots.txt ?

4 Jul 2023 at 3:43 | Open on mastodon.faithtree.social
Dendan Setia (Nins)

@liztai
Idk about paywalls but srsly considering making my blog pw-protected. Haih.

4 Jul 2023 at 3:54 | Open on mefi.social
Techviator

@liztai
Maybe something like the PDA access restriction plugin could be implemented to add a Paywall but only for Google IPs, that should allow their indexers to find tour website and titles, but limit how much content they can access... maybe a new plugin will have to be created, but technically it is possible.

4 Jul 2023 at 4:08 | Open on noc.social
Elizabeth Tai | ζˆ΄η§€ι“ƒ πŸ‡²πŸ‡Ύ

Yesterday, I discussed the future of the #Internet ecosystem with @atomicpoet. If things continue the way they are, with #AI running rampant and corporations continuing to push the attention economy, there will come a time where there will be two Internets - one where AI produces content for AI, and another where humans talk to humans.
Humans will become so suspicious of the AI-run Internet that they will aggressively create walls against corporate owned spaces.
It is already happening now.

23 Mar 2023 at 1:03 | Open on hachyderm.io
Elizabeth Tai | ζˆ΄η§€ι“ƒ πŸ‡²πŸ‡Ύ

@atomicpoet Is this division good for civilization? Prob not. There will always be some humans left behind, lost in an AI-driven Internet, unaware of this separate human space. While the ones in the human space are more tech capable, have privilege and resources.
Of course I have no idea if this will happen, but it makes a good premise for a sci fi novel nevertheless 😁

23 Mar 2023 at 1:06 | Open on hachyderm.io
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