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cyberlyra

@cyberlyra@hachyderm.io

Sociology Prof @PrincetonU; Science, Technology & Society; NASA teams; critical HCI; remote work. Longtime data economy resistor. Co-editor MIT Infrastructures. www.optoutproject.net
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valthonis, to random
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Oh gods... someone called running a computer homelab "suffering-as-a-service," and I may never recover from that body blow... 🤣

cyberlyra,
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@valthonis oh that hits a little too close to home lol

aram, to random
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Imagine there's no countries

https://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth

cyberlyra,
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@aram this is awesome!

grimalkina, to random
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"Each assemblage gains emergent properties produced from interactions between its components and relies on those interactions to continue existing. For instance, a tight- knit neighbourhood can build a collective memory about the reputation of all of its members and develop norms to promote prosocial behaviour. "

(still reading this paper https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/112440065311802043 )

cyberlyra,
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@grimalkina next you should read Latour!

evacide, to random
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When I talk about digital privacy, there is always some smug genius who shrugs and tells me, "Who cares? We all know we don't have any privacy anyway." Nothing could be more wrong. Convincing you that the fight is already over to the way people in power get you to stop resisting.

cyberlyra,
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@evacide @cyberlyra when I talk about how we can change a few habits to improve privacy and minimize digital harms to others people shrug and say, it’s too inconvenient. Aghh!

This is how they got us, people! They know we won’t break their looms this time because we are addicted to them.

Waxingtonknee, to opensource
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My test bed Mycroft / OpenVoiceOS installation is coming alongnicely. It's frustrating that MycroftAI's excellent online portal for managing skills and settings disappeared with the demise of the company. But I'm encouraged by the onscreen developments OVOS has inherited from Mycroft II.


cyberlyra,
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@Waxingtonknee I’m also so disappointed that the online portal is gone. And I also want to resurrect my Mycroft hardware. What are you using and which instructions are you following?

cyberlyra,
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@Waxingtonknee
i tried the stock NeonAI that came with the hardware on USB stick, it eventually started up but kept crashing. I downloaded a fresh version and put it on the USB stick instead, fatal errors on startup. Clearly I am doing something wrong but I only get a few minutes to work on it at a time...

MichaelCrider, to random
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Google search has a new, but somewhat hidden "Web" tab that clears out all the junk and just gives you a list of text-based results. You know, like how Search was before it started sucking.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2334403/google-now-has-a-web-search-button-for-text-only-results-without-the-junk.html

I'm begging, screaming out into the ether: someone give me a Chrome extension that forces this as the default search in the URL bar.

cyberlyra,
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@MichaelCrider why don’t you just change your search engine to DuckDuckGo from the url bar?

verge, to random
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At a Beverly Hills mansion, where an electric truck is your only source of power https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/16/24157611/gm-energy-chevy-silverado-ev-v2h-microgrid-battery

cyberlyra,
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@verge this is especially amazing because the early rural automobile users were shut down when they tried to use it as a household generator. (They didn’t want people modding their Model-T’s into tractors, either). This is one of the famous stories in the history of technology about how companies shut down the freedom to tinker. I wouldn’t be surprised if GM sets this service up as a subscription to ensure they get the double payout and force lucrative competition with the grid providers.

hrefna, to random
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It's something to look at an author's work and find that it has grown richer, deeper, and more meaningful to you as you get older despite the age you were introduced to it.

I need to reread The Last Unicorn.

cyberlyra,
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@hrefna Yes, that book is amazing. I watched the cartoon countless times as a child but once I read the book I realized it is not a children’s story at all, even if the adaptation is fairly faithful. It is rich and deep and gets richer as I get older and return to it.

The lines stick with you. Like “There are no happy endings, because nothing ends.”

(Peter S Beagle is incredible for this. Not Wanted on the Voyage, a disturbing retelling of Noah’s Ark, is still powerful twenty years on).

futurebird, to random
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If we have so much good AI tech why can't anyone make a spell check that I can't stump?

A few times a week I must go to the dictionary (like a cavewoman!) or search the web since I've mangled some word in such a way that there are no suggestions. It's just "wrong" what's wrong with it? Who knows!

Could it be a scientific name and just not in the dictionary? Maybe! Could it be an obscure word with a pretentious UK spelling? Probably! Could it be wrong? Also probably.

Do this first AI lords.

cyberlyra,
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@futurebird As I see it, the competitive walls between these companies is an opportunity for ensuring my data doesn’t move between them. I am happy these apps don’t “work” across their boundaries, as I can use that Balkanization strategically.

Data brokerage has highly consolidated and shifted since it started in the early ‘teens—it’s just meta and Google now. The stuff at the seams, they know, but those biggest companies have a stranglehold on their own data.

cyberlyra,
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@johnefrancis @stormcauldron @futurebird Yep I know and love the people who built AdNauseum. I don’t use it or an ad blocker myself, because ads are my primary source of realtime feedback as to what various companies think they know about me. It’s then easy to guess how they think they know it, and to quickly identify and plug leaks.

FYI I block as much data as possible going 𝒐𝒖𝒕- just not ads coming 𝒊𝒏. I recognize this is anathema to a lot of people but it’s worked for me for over a decade.

verge, to random
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Google Sheets’ new formatting feature has Excel switchers excited https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/15/24157659/google-sheets-tables-formatting

cyberlyra,
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@verge Who cares? It’s just a pretty front end to steal your data. Away from Microsoft who also wants your data.

Features are a lure, a decoy. Go independent.

cyberlyra,
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@Sablebadger @verge Hardly! These alternatives aren’t sucking up your data into their servers to feed surveillance capitalism:

Zoho
LibreOffice Calc
OpenOffice Calc
Nextcloud Tables
CryptPad.fr Sheet
Gnumeric
Equals
Numbers
Airtable
Grist

akshatrathi, to random
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2020: Microsoft sets goal to be carbon negative by end of the decade.

2023: Microsoft's emissions are 30% higher than in 2020.

Main cause? The relentless push to meet AI demand, which requires new data centers built out of carbon-intensive steel, cement, chips.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-15/microsoft-s-ai-investment-imperils-climate-goal-as-emissions-jump-30

cyberlyra,
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@akshatrathi ooh wait lemme guess, we are not supposed to pay attention to the rapacious use of limited resources to fuel AI now—the materials sunk into the ocean for “cooling” that are bleaching corals and melting ice caps so that grade schoolers can cheat on their homework— we are supposed to think about how all this sets us up for more efficient solutions in the future when the technology inevitably improves, amirite?

The real , make no mistake.

cyberlyra,
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@nini @akshatrathi or distracting us from their contribution to an ongoing apocalypse with stories of an impossible future yet to come.

Jorvon_Moss, to Futurology
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Got the voice recognition system up and running controlling the crawling mechanics.

Crawling, voice control test

cyberlyra,
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@Jorvon_Moss wow this is amazing! Great work!！

gregorni, to linuxphones
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After a few pmbootstrap issues and some help from the @postmarketOS Matrix room, I am now the proud owner of two Linux phones!

cyberlyra,
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@gregorni @postmarketOS @linmob Cool! Keep us posted on functionality.

cyberlyra, to random
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It's only May and my home province is already burning. :( <3 to Fort Nelson residents

NunavutBirder, to worldwithoutus
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If you saw my post with the stamp of the rock form known as “The Pants”, here is a photo of a Polar Bear dwarfed by it, seen through its legs. I had the wrong lens on and couldn’t get a photo of the entire formation and bear.

cyberlyra,
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@NunavutBirder
wow, that is actually just stunning!! Bravo!

inquiline, to random
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Something terrible happened (saw a Cybertruck)

cyberlyra,
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@inquiline I still can’t get over that people own them, unironically.

rbreich, to random
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73% of mothers with kids under 18 are in the workforce. More than flowers or brunch, working moms need:

  • Paid family leave
  • Equal pay
  • Universal childcare

(But get your mom flowers, too)

cyberlyra,
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@rbreich

flowers meh. yes please to all bullet points above.

cyberlyra, to space
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As someone who keeps her children (born and unborn) away from data detection, I know how catastrophic the bill’s national database is.

But I am also a scholar who studies , so I know a government handout bill when I see one.

Look past the website to Title II, section 1a, eligibility for government grants for maternal support.

This is a for pro-life nonprofits, with restrictions against funding for orgs like , dressed up as maternal support.

cyberlyra,
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@failedLyndonLaRouchite I’m not a expert, but the novel enmeshing of a privacy-violating technical system with anti-abortion politics might mean there is an opportunity for new bedfellows when it comes to lobbying on the Hill. Pro-choice and pro-privacy advocates must join forces to guard against the dual dystopias inherent to this Attwoodesque proposal. As in, @eff meet

cyberlyra, to canucks
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Go !! 🏒 🥅 🍁

arstechnica, to random
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NASA wants a cheaper Mars Sample Return—Boeing proposes most expensive rocket

"To reduce mission complexity, this new concept is doing one launch."

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/05/nasa-wants-a-cheaper-mars-sample-return-boeing-proposes-most-expensive-rocket/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

cyberlyra,
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@arstechnica as Green well knows, the cost of mission does not include the launch vehicle.

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