@abbe98
I hear you and I’m not sure I mean the act itself is what makes things better, but rather that the awareness of costs makes you behave in a completely different way. Since actions in a self-hosting environment are felt more I believe more care is taken, which has potential domino effects for related behaviors.
It’s one thing to consider the difference between cloud-storing or self-hosting an image, another thing to choose not to store the image online at all.
Tagged: Akkoma
@abbe98 It’s definitely an interesting point. One primary reason I switched from Mastodon to Akkoma was how bloated I felt the software was.
When you’re running all your websites and apps on your own server, and traffic and space costs real money, you are way more careful with optimising images and files, and refrain from unnecessary uploads.
When people use “free" services, paying with their personal data and biometrics, they don’t seem to care.
This is one example of how free services are bad not just for privacy, but also for the environment – because all those costs are hidden.
I just realised that in two years time I will have been blogging on my own domain for 30 years… that’s a party I should start planning now.
Enkelt och bra av Emma Frans idag.
Jag älskar dock inte idén om att modellen ”bullshittar” heller, vilket också frammanar bilder av något med egen vilja.
ChatGPT är en köttkvarn för text och bild med en påkopplad sannolikhetsspridare – som inte kan sluta mala.
https://per.ax/efai
@datarama Cool, thanks for sharing! And for alerting me to Runbox. It looks like I should add it to my suggestions here
https://axbom.com/big-trek/
Meta’s AI copyright battle.
"The social media giant is not denying that it used the work or that it downloaded books from shadow libraries en masse, but insists that its behavior is shielded by the “fair use” doctrine, an exception in US copyright law that allows for permissionless use of copyrighted work in certain cases, including parody, teaching, and news reporting.”
US District Court Judge Vince Chhabria: “If you are dramatically changing, you might even say obliterating, the market for that person's work, and you're saying that you don't even have to pay a license to that person to use their work to create the product that's destroying the market for their work—I just don't understand how that can be fair use”.
Reporting by Kate Knibbs:
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-lawsuit-copyright-hearing-artificial-intelligence/
In June, to be finalised in July at the latest, I will be moving my email accounts from Google Workspace (prev. Google Apps) to Migadu.
Likely I should document all this along the way.
Here's the brutally honest and readworthy Pro/Cons list for Migadu:
https://www.migadu.com/procon/
Yes I'm embarrassed to still be dependent on Google for this, but that's also why I'm happy this is finally happening.
”I made this in no time at all!”
”Did you go through and validate the coherence, the messaging and the explanatory approach? Not to mention the accuracy?”
”Nah, man, the point is to save time.”
Thinking as little as possible is now a badge of honor.
Living in the upside-down.
I hope the people who always say "I have nothing to hide" in support of surveillance understand how it's people who had nothing to hide who are being detained and deported by the Trump administration.
But I won't hold my breath.
Älskar "pang boom"-uttrycket i det här avsnittet, @carl
«Tjänster som Microsoft Office och Google Drive kan bli olagliga att använda i EU – efter att Trump sparkat dataövervakare. ”Faller det, sker det direkt. Pang, boom”, säger experten Carl Heath.»
https://pca.st/episode/9c105f4e-92e6-48fd-b83d-cc13e0966c4e
@Mikal Yea, my jaw dropped many times during the reading of that book.
@primuslars Tack Lars.
Bris kampanj går precis tvärt emot det jag lärt mina barn om hur man undviker bedrägerier. Här är alla fel Bris gör, steg-för-steg. Bland annat ger Bris trovärdighet åt en tjänst som ofta används för problematiska länkar, vilket kan göra barn mer oförsiktiga.
Jag noterade att kampanjen från Bris (Barnens rätt i samhället) fortfarande är igång på Coops mjölkpaket. Så jag roade mig med att skissa på en förklaring av vad det är som händer när barn skannar den där QR-koden. Tidigare har jag fokuserat på datainsamling, men nu vill jag fokusera på flödet och hur kampanjens upplägg går stick i stäv med att skapa en trygg vägledning.
https://axbom.se/briscoop/
@rstein ❤️ I certainly am fond of coding literacy for being able to recognise the grift of tech. And completely agree with all you said :)
@ProgressiveLurker I personally don't believe teaching all kids "AI" (which I take to be a marketing term that is not attached to a coherent definition or technology) will be of obvious benefit to individual and/or society. It would likely benefit specific private companies more.
As a person who learnt to code at the age of 8 in 1982 I'm fond of teaching coding – but I would not necessarily argue this is imperative for societal wellbeing in the sense that it should be compulsory for primary school. It can help in recognising grift though.
Alan Blackwell does, to be fair, make a strong case for coding literacy:
https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5814/Moral-CodesDesigning-Alternatives-to-AI
@lax Haha I totally agree.
Apparently all kids now need to know "AI". It was not long ago that all kids needed to know how to code.
I believe this: all kids need to know they are loved.
That is both a challenge to achieve that we can work on, and makes actual sense. And will have way more impact than a tech fantasy.
It’s no secret that the hype train ticket salespeople are pushing the narrative that everyone is late and has to stress more than ever to have a chance at their ride to the golden future that is promised at least somewhere down the line, almost definitely.
The idea seems to be to make people feel as bad and behind as they possibly can right now, because then it’s easier to sell the promise of something more appealing, even when that promise in no way can be guaranteed – and should be trusted about as much as all other efficiency-boosting activities in the 20th century that have brought us into this utopia of 2-day work weeks and so much more time to spend on the things that matter to us. Oh… wait.
Also… ”34% more efficient in 2 years”? That’s weirdly specific at the same time as it is grossly unspecific(!). Not to mention utterly unappealing.
Just based on how the hype artists are making people feel with this shrouded scaremongering it should be quite obvious how much they really care about human wellbeing.
End of rant. Sorry not sorry.