@sintrenton
I've tried BigBlueButton a couple of times but found it a bit cumbersome and bloated for my needs.
Tagged: Akkoma
What are you all using for online meetings and teaching in terms of video service? In line with avoiding big tech I mean?
I've been using Whereby (Norwegian) for years but have found it becoming less and less reliable.
Aware of Jitsi and BigBlueButton but I thought this would be a perfect space for asking around as I will definitely have missed some interesting players. I also run my own @owncast server for specific live events.
#Indieweb #SmallTech
Thinking of some ways digitalisation has been causing problems in the workplace over the past decades.
1. Doing things in the same ways and in the same timeframe, just now with computers. Computers that require passwords and power and where data sometimes gets lost, or stolen by bad actors half-way across the planet.
2. Making things in one workarea easier with computers â leading to layoffs. People who fail to learn the new system in a given time are laid off. The people left have to work just as hard as before, just now with twice the output and fewer colleagues. So they quit in the end as well. Better to hire someone who can't remember any better. Firing and hiring comes with costs, but it's another budget post so the connection is invisible, or vague at best.
3. Making things easier in one workarea that simultaneously increases the workload for someone else, because increasing the output capacity in one location doesn't automatically increase the input capacity somewhere else.
4. Doing things in more timeconsuming ways, because computers manifest new opportunities for collecting data and adding strict rules of access and operations that remove any flexibility that was there before.
The good news is that by making bad systems we have now created new problems that we can spend time solving tomorrow.
In the latest episode of Carefully â about voice clones â I had a clone for my voice do a part of the audio. Itâs similar but not perfect. And it would be interesting to hear how easily listeners can catch what part it is. The episode is 11 minutes long.
When you do a lot of podcast recording you know that the sound of your voice varies across the day. I donât want to start a recording in the morning and finish it off in the evening. In that sense the difference to me between my voice and the clone is significant. But Iâm not certain everyone picks up on these nuances.
More to the point: had I only used the cloned voice for all of it, itâs very hard to make out that itâs not a human speaking.
At the end of the episode is where I reveal the voice clone part, and play that part again.
https://carefully.axbom.com/episodes/when-your-voice-runs-away-from-home
#DigitalEthics #VoiceClone
@drgroftehauge
Wow, I had no idea!
@folfdk
@drgroftehauge @folfdk
Fair and valid point. The tool truesize.com only allows me to drag one country at a time so this was the fastest way I could get this type of image. But I will definitely consider this for the future.
@tb
Thanks, yes there are so many aspect to this to explore further. Had I been back at university I would likely have taken time to dive deeper in the whole subject area.
I wrote this post a while back using map projections as an example of how we often can draw the wrong conclusions because we insist on using outdated maps, or maps that were designed for a completely different purpose.
https://axbom.com/world-map/
@nusher Very true.
There is a missed opportunity for many media outlets when an African country is in the news. That opportunity has to do with size.
To understand the challenge of air lifting people spread out in a country that is as big as Sudan, size references help.
Iâve attached an image showing how Sudan overlaps the Scandinavian Peninsula and Finland. Its western border aligns with Norwayâs westernmost border (and a bit into the Norwegian Sea), and its eastern border aligns with Finlandâs eastern border, and then also stretches further into Russia in the northeast. The height of Sudan aligns with Swedenâs height.
From a land mass perspective you could easily throw in Denmark, Iceland and the UK inside the perimeter as well (to cover parts of the Baltic, North, and Norwegian Sea).
For perhaps obvious reasons most densely populated areas are along the Nile river, but size matters in providing the complete picture of the conflict. Many world maps in the news to a really poor job of communicating size, and I see this as a failure in reporting. Instead they often reinforce biases about country size.
@abebab Yes! I already find myself thinking I notice auto-generated posts on LinkedIn. That concern wasn't there before.
@kamrathobbit
Thanks, it's one of my most popular blog post through all-time (25 years).
@owl
@kamrathobbit @owl
Don't know if you've seen my post on this đ
https://axbom.com/world-map/
@hannesbajohr
Love this.
Image description: "A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore a computer must never make a management decision."
Feel free to add it to the image if you want. đ
@warandpeas
Proofreading the landing page, there's one too many "in" in this sentence:
> a robot in hopelessly in love with his scientist creator
@dinkompismia
Oerhörd igenkÀnning pÄ detta. Har Àven vÀldigt svÄrt för telefonsamtal som avbryter. Skrev vÀldigt mycket pÄ nÀtterna förr men orkar inte riktigt det lÀngre.
Good long-read in The Guardian on the history, hype, dangers and promises of AI, by James Bridle. Itâs from March 16 but I hadnât read it yet.
âThe belief in this kind of AI as actually knowledgeable or meaningful is actively dangerous. It risks poisoning the well of collective thought, and of our ability to think at all. If, as is being proposed by technology companies, the results of ChatGPT queries will be provided as answers to those seeking knowledge online, and if, as has been proposed by some commentators, ChatGPT is used in the classroom as a teaching aide, then its hallucinations will enter the permanent record, effectively coming between us and more legitimate, testable sources of information, until the line between the two is so blurred as to be invisible. Moreover, there has never been a time when our ability as individuals to research and critically evaluate knowledge on our own behalf has been more necessary, not least because of the damage that technology companies have already done to the ways in which information is disseminated. To place all of our trust in the dreams of badly programmed machines would be to abandon such critical thinking altogether.â
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/16/the-stupidity-of-ai-artificial-intelligence-dall-e-chatgpt
You can also listen to this long read as a podcast, and Iâve added the episode to my AIHype playlist:
https://axbom.com/aihype-playlist/
#AIHype #DigitalEthics
@wtwagg
Okay, then I likely misunderstood â I thought this was about importing the accounts that follow you. In case we are talking about importing the accounts you yourself are following, Akkoma for example has an upload field for that in settings (upload follows from a csv file).
https://share.cleanshot.com/jfsxlR7s
@atomicpoet
NÄgra anledningar till att jag Àlskar Akkoma:
âą Betydligt mindre resurskrĂ€vande Ă€n Mastodon om man har mĂ„nga följare och/eller följer mĂ„nga (tycks gĂ€lla sĂ„vĂ€l minne, processorkraft som lagring). Jag körde tidigare Mastodon och den segade ner min server vĂ€sentligt. Behöver inte sidekiq till exempel och lagrar inte âexternâ media lokalt. FĂ€rre beroenden.
⹠Mer community-driven utveckling (Mastodon Àr mycket mer en one-man show)
⹠Större flexibilitet (fler filformat, lÀnkning av text, formattering av text)
⹠BÀttre hantering av trÄdar (man ser svaren i hierarki och man ser - oftast - alla som svarat i en trÄd)
⹠Har en inbyggd fritext-sökmotor⊠som ocksÄ kan utökas med Meilisearch eller Elasticsearch - men blir dÄ förstÄs mer minneskrÀvande
⹠Mer frihet (t.ex antal tecken i inlÀgg/profil, och styrning av frontend-utseende, kan göra listor Àven med personer man inte följer, m.m.)
âą Har haft âquote-boostâ hela tiden (inte för att jag anvĂ€nder det sĂ„ mycket)
âą Ăr en fork av Pleroma som slĂ€pptes lite innan Mastodon. Filosofin (mer som ett forum och med ett tĂ€nk kring lokala meddelanden) Ă€r lite annorlunda Ă€n Mastodon kĂ€nner jag, som tycks hĂ€mta mycket inspiration frĂ„n nuvarande Twitter.
SÀkert kan @m lÀgga till nÄgra saker, som var den som först uppmuntrade mig att prova.
@wtwagg
Sounds like you're asking if you can export followers and import them to a completely different account without migrating? As a security measure no software on the Fediverse supports this (not available in ActivityPub and hence also not in Mastodon). It would be rather unfortunate if people could be forced to follow new accounts simply through an import.
@atomicpoet
@LeoR1010
Det hÀr mÄste vara Grand Master i vuxenpoÀng!!