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lauren, 15 days ago to random

BREAKING: It appears that AT&T's attempt to end landlines in California will be rejected!

The administrative law judge issued a scathing preliminary decision which is likely to be followed when the CPUC meets to vote in June. He ruled that the application should be dismissed with prejudice. More details as I understand them. A decision was previously expected in September, so this came down very fast.

Here is an article:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/california-rebuffs-att-says-it-must-
keep-offering-landline-phone-service/

Here is the CPUC judge's decision PDF:

https://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Efile/G000/M531/K085/531085885.PDF

timrichards, 1 month ago to random

I don't know if Crikey was trying to be clever with its front page today - I think it's an accident - but it does look cool:

(see https://www.crikey.com.au/)

Drbruced, 1 month ago to random

This is a great read from @GottaLaff on moving to Canada to get some distance away from the destruction of democracy in the US. I went through a similar thought process in 2016 that led me to exit the US after 28 years of permanent residency. Zero regrets.

http://thepoliticalcarnival.blogspot.com/2024/01/im-moving-to-canada.html

Drbruced, 1 month ago to random

Another tough day in the socialist hellscape of San Francisco #trailrunning

A scenic coastline with blue ocean waters, lush green hills, and a clear sky with scattered clouds. A road is visible at the bottom of the image.
City skyline viewed from a hill with green space in the foreground, a tree to the right, and a partly cloudy sky above.

Drbruced, 3 months ago to random

Given the rather sloppy headlines about what “Wordpress” is planning to do with allowing AI systems to collect user data, I will point out:

• All the references to Wordpress refer to Wordpress.com, the hosting company whose parent company is Automattic. They do not refer to Wordpress the open source software project.
• Wordpress.com has published a blog post outlining their policies so that you don’t need to rely on speculative and vaguely alarming news articles

https://wordpress.com/blog/2024/02/27/more-control-over-the-content-you-share/

• The relevant settings for preventing your site from being scraped by AI models are described here https://wordpress.com/support/privacy-settings/

• wherever your content is hosted you might want to look at using a robots.txt file to try to limit AI scraping (it’s unclear how well this works) https://medium.com/@nuaveu/how-to-block-ai-from-scraping-your-content-ba03098ba199#:~:text=Using%20robots.,other%20accommodations%20in%20the%20future.

I’m not trying to carry water for Wordpress.com but I’m frustrated by the sloppy journalism in this situation.

Drbruced, 3 months ago to random

I know there is a lot of interest in how to get your newsletter off Substack, so I wrote up the process I used to get mine over to a Wordpress installation. h/t @mastodonmigration and @hildabast whose posts got me over the hump to try Wordpress as the migration target. https://systemsapproach.org/2024/02/19/decentralize-this/

pluralistic, 3 months ago to random

I was on a book tour the day my editor called me and told me, "From now on, your middle name is 'Cory.'"

"That's weird. Why?"

"Because from now on, your first name is 'New York Times Bestselling Author.'"

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/15/your-new-first-name/#that-dagger-tho

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ktempestbradford, 4 months ago to random

There are several folks who want to leave Substack (if you don't know why, tell me) but are having a hard time finding a replacement. Mostly they're people who have free newsletters they have no desire to monetize.

What are the Newsletter options for people like this? Which services won't charge you based on the number of subscribers or emails you send? Are there any?

Tagging @pluralistic

Drbruced, 4 months ago to random

More good analysis of the Substack situation from @mmasnick
As a fan of decentralised systems, I like this part:
"Running a private website is all about tradeoffs. You have to make lots of choices, and those choices are difficult and are guaranteed to piss off many, many people (no matter what you do). For what it’s worth, this is still why I think a protocol-based solution should beat a centralized solution every time, because with protocols you can setup a variety of approaches and let people figure out what works best, rather than relying on one centralized system."

Feeling good about moving my newsletter off Substack this week.

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/01/10/substack-realizes-maybe-it-doesnt-want-to-help-literal-nazis-make-money-after-all/

Drbruced, 4 months ago to random

Wise words about when to leave your job (at a big company) from @adrianco https://adrianco.medium.com/signs-that-its-time-to-leave-a-company-5f8759ad018e

Drbruced, 4 months ago to random

Hey #mothstodon can anyone ID this moth? Spotted on the ground at Falls Creek, Victoria - so in the same territory as Bogong moths but clearly not one of them. #moths

Drbruced, 6 months ago to fediverse

Do I know anyone here who is willing to share their experience deploying an institutional Mastodon server? A contact of mine is looking for someone to discuss the experience as he works on getting a government agency to deploy their own instance. Boosts appreciated #fediverse #mastodon

Drbruced, 6 months ago to random

Australian discovery of 120m-year-old footprints provides earliest evidence for birds in southern hemisphere https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/nov/16/australia-discovery-ancient-bird-footprints-tracks-victorian-beach?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

brianklaas, 6 months ago to random

What are the best TV theme songs of all time? Not the best shows — but the opening songs that immediately get you pumped when you hear the first few notes?

My top 5 (not in order)

Game of Thrones
The Office (US)
Poirot
Narcos
Law & Order

What did I miss?

jonoabroad, 7 months ago to random

Seemed, if you had your automatic weaponry, you'd not have to worry about feral hogs

https://aus.social/@Power/111277655309520150

dangoodin, 7 months ago to random

Are any network engineer types available to help me dissect the HTTP/2 rapid reset 0day? Please DM me on Signal (+650-440-4479) or here on Mastodon if you must.

Drbruced, 8 months ago to animals

Getting in the swing of #bleptember #catsofmastodon

ACM, 9 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to opensource

More than 170,000 titles, the majority of them published within the last two decades, were fed into models run by companies including Meta and Bloomberg, according to an analysis of "Books3" - the dataset harnessed by the firms to build their AI tools.

Should copyrighted work be used by #opensource platforms to train #AI models?

Source: The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/aug/22/zadie-smith-stephen-king-and-rachel-cusks-pirated-works-used-to-train-ai)

#generativeai #largelanguagemodels #polloftheweek #ACM