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angdraug

@angdraug@mastodon.social

Technologist, activist, poet, community organizer. Debian, Semantic Web, Indymedia, OpenStack, big tech sellout, barley.cloud, circle.lt, жыве Беларусь, he/him.

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angdraug, to random
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For me, the main lesson from OpenAI trying so hard and failing so badly to buy Scarlett Johansson's voice isn't tech industry's arrogance or dishonesty, it's their insecurity.

When your entire business model is a con, of course exploiting a famous work of fiction to shape the public perception of your product is going to take precedence over law, ethics, safety, and technical excellence.

shoq, to random
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Cliche to say, but you just can’t make this stuff up. If I find one, I’ll switch to another cliche that captures the absurdness any better.

angdraug,
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@shoq I am mostly angry at how this circus cheapens the dire situation of human rights lawyers like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxim_Znak and laureate Ales Bialacki.

shoq, to random
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I’m going to repost this every few days until the election. People need to memorize some basic differences so they can recall them on demand when talking to anyone who still doesn’t understand the stakes of the 2024 election. Please share this post, the image, or both.

angdraug,
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@shoq Please make a higher resolution version, and include alt text. This is the way.

arstechnica, to random
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Microsoft’s new “Recall” feature will record everything you do on your PC

Recall uses Copilot+ PC features "to take images of your active screen every few seconds."

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/microsofts-new-recall-feature-will-record-everything-you-do-on-your-pc/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

angdraug,
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@arstechnica "At first glance, the Recall feature seems like it may set the stage for potential gross violations of user privacy. Despite reassurances from Microsoft, that impression persists for second and third glances as well." You don't say. The only thing I want to know about this feature is how to disable it.

caseynewton, to random
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When social justice protests swept the country in 2020, tech companies mostly welcomed employee activism. The Gaza demonstrations are getting a much different reception. @zoeschiffer talked to folks at Apple, Google Amazon, and Coinbase about it: https://www.platformer.news/tech-protests-gaza-israel-workplace-activism/

angdraug,
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@caseynewton @zoeschiffer My physics professor taught us to watch for words like "obviously follows" and "of course." He said this is how a lecturer elides the part of the proof they don't understand.

Up to this point, I was wondering why you didn't find anyone from Facebook to talk to—even though FB, much more than Amazon, Apple, and Google, was roiled by employee dissent in 2020, and before that in 2018 in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal and the Kavanaugh hearings. Now I see why.

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