axwax, to random

Ok, that's it - I'm trying out this thing as well.

I used to make Hip Hop in the last millenium, now I mostly make stuff with synths, so here's my first go at combining both.

Turns out one can bitch about the state of and in 1999 and still be kind of relevant in 2023 (IMHO) :thinking:

https://axwax.bandcamp.com/track/delegates-of-culture-double-you-slash-hackers-axwax-2023-remix

Grab yourself this CC BY-NC-SA licensed track for nowt if you're so inclined.

kfort, to random French

For those who are interested in better understanding the evolution of the presence of the in , our paper accepted at is here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.02797

hobs, to opensource
@hobs@mstdn.social avatar

Smart people at Google and OpenAI are leaving to go work for open source companies because bigtech LLMs don't have a chance against : https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-neither

shakilmughal, to random

At a time when artificial intelligence technology is learning to mimic human behavior, there is growing concern around the world that this rapid development could lead to new challenges, including job losses and increased misinformation. Included.
For more Info--->
https://mughalnewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2023/05/fear-of-artificial-intelligence.html

HistoPol,
@HistoPol@mastodon.social avatar

@shakilmughal

(1/n

THE CALL FOR AI REGULATION

Worrying:
" Chief Executive Sam later told reporters that "all the heads are surprisingly on the same page about what needs to be done."
This probably mean that oversight and legislation will be less than had feared.

VP [...S]He said that the private sector has a moral and legal responsibility to ensure the safety and security of...

Jigsaw_You, to random Dutch
@Jigsaw_You@mastodon.nl avatar
TechDesk, to random
@TechDesk@flipboard.social avatar

As AI continues to advance and its tools become evermore integrated into the daily lives of tech consumers, the White House has unveiled executive actions to "mitigate" the risks it could have on the American public.

https://www.axios.com/2023/05/04/ai-executive-actions-white-house

Jigsaw_You, to internet Dutch
@Jigsaw_You@mastodon.nl avatar
ilumium, to random
@ilumium@eupolicy.social avatar

I'm following @beuc's online and I still fail to understand this:

Their representative polls found that "the further away from the GP, the less people are willing to share their " and yet BEUC concludes that while data use by medical profl's should require consent, for secondary use by and an option is enough. ❓❓❓

BEUC poll conclusions: 1. Respondents are very selective about the health data they are willing to share 2. |t depends on the entity and level of trust with whom they are ready to share health data 3. Respondents want to choose what happens to their health data and they prefer explicit consent 4. Different attitudes towards cross-border sharing of health data

dave, to random
@dave@social.masto.land avatar

I am on NOSTR now. Let's see if I can find anyone I know here.

https://iris.to/note18lguw55uyqymf0jwlekvl9rwjx37aswval0e7pzy56m5pk2cysuqh3h7l5

TryshHQ,

@davew @Gartenberg

Hilariously bang-on brilliant 👍 🙏
Health metaphor a good one.

re: "internet of social media apps"

Using lens of individuals, friends, families I've been bangin’ this drum since Dec22:

• everything in your podcast

• civilization decentralizes (Jack/Elmo) via a federated insurgency model

• simple easy web centric Apps that are both Clients & Servers across all platforms & devices (encrypted)

server set-up in 3-clicks (easy for any Aunt or Uncle :)

yuliyan, to random
@yuliyan@nahe.social avatar

Things that keep me from cancelling :

  • Illustrator tracing
  • Illustrator color changer
  • Acrobat form editing
  • This one AfterEffects Project that I spent a lot of time on
  • This one customer that needs .indd files

Things that keep me want to cancel:

  • performance especially, it should not lag on a computer mostly unimpressed by my 3d, video and audio workflows
  • buggyness
    -price

aral, to internet
@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

I mean, is it too early for yet another fucking I told you so? (Because, goodness, is it getting tiring.)

https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/110303972798576262

aral,
@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

Reminds me of the time when The Next Web, an adtech company, asked me and some other folks to say “I told you so” about Facebook, another adtech company.¹

I said I‘d only do it if I could call them out at the same time. They agreed.

You know why?

Because the fuckers knew they’d still make money from the article… via adtech!

Bill Hicks said it best… (irony: YouTube link)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHEOGrkhDp0

¹ https://thenextweb.com/news/forced-9-privacy-experts-say-told-facebook-hopefully-well-listen-next-time

aral, to SmallWeb
@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

In case you’re wondering how little old Kitten performs in the tests of the Big Boys…

(And that’s from a development build of a Domain page, not a deployment build so no compression, live reload script in page, etc.)

Turns out it’s pretty easy to ace such tests when you’re not spending cycles and code doing horrible things to people in your web pages (like tracking their every move and attempting to exploit their behaviour for profit). 🤔

:kitten:💕

aral,
@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

Big Web folks: Performance is the most important thing.

Also Big Web folks: let’s make every web page a real-time auction where you’re sold off to the highest bidder.

You wouldn’t have to be so obsessed with performance if you weren’t trying to hide all the shady shit you’re pulling in the background.

Jigsaw_You, to random Dutch
@Jigsaw_You@mastodon.nl avatar
AliceStollmeyer, to random
@AliceStollmeyer@eupolicy.social avatar

BREAKING: President calls to meeting at :

"Companies like yours must make sure their products are safe before making them available to the public."

Concerns include , , , & national .

https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-microsoft-openai-ceos-attend-white-house-ai-meeting-official-2023-05-02/

pilhofer, to random
@pilhofer@journa.host avatar

If you have no intention of reading "Traffic" by Ben Smith (my hand raised here), read this from @jeffjarvis instead.

"BuzzFeed, Gawker, The Huffington Post, etc. were not new media at all. They were the last gasp of old media, trying to keep the old ways alive with new tricks. What comes next — what is actually new — has yet to be invented."

https://medium.com/whither-news/trafficking-in-traffic-973a3ea0e1e8

TryshHQ,

@pilhofer @jeffjarvis

New Media ventures that were simply cogs in the ” Behavioural Surveillance Complex” and have outlived their harvesting function.

Their job () was to scrape needed fuel for what's now powering from same set of investors.

Viss, to random
@Viss@mastodon.social avatar
hobs,
@hobs@mstdn.social avatar

@Viss

"IBM To Pause Hiring In Plan To Replace 7,800 Jobs With AI"

TLDR; planning to eliminate 30% of non-customer facing jobs, mostly, wait for it .... HR

TryshHQ, to random

His post-Manhattan-Project Oppenheimer moment:

“AI 'godfather' Geoffrey Hinton warns of dangers as he quits Google” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65452940








paul, to random
@paul@tapbots.social avatar

This is just so stupid, basically just saying no to very low cost, good content. Makes absolutely no sense and does nothing but make Twitter even less valuable as a news source.
https://mashable.com/article/wordpress-drops-twitter-jetpack-social-sharing

TryshHQ,

@paul

is now (well, since walked in the HQ front door) – a personal, privately owned, global media chaos machine.

He didn't buy to fix
He bought it to wield it.

It's working.






Volpit, to internet
@Volpit@fosstodon.org avatar

Yay another Embrace, Extend, Extinguish by our favourite friends

Today I learned that a new fantastic project is on its way to be launched. It reguards maps (and ) and it's called "Overture Maps".

They want to create new maps, mainly based on OSM databases, but unlinked from the community

Read more here: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-announces-overture-maps-foundation-to-build-interoperable-open-map-data

tommi, to linux
@tommi@pan.rent avatar

I cannot stop repeating to myself that I LOVE , and I LOVE EVEN MORE ❤️

I am happily overlooking incompatibilities and , I care very little about any trade-off.

is awesome, no matter how itchy it becomes.

Screw , go to hell digital . Not only I am from oppression, but I actually immensely enjoy the I am using.

asahi95, to random

never cared about us in the first place. All they care about is money Money MONEY :ms_moneybag: :ms_fire:

I'll never trust a Big Tech company unless they truly care about us

2ndStar, to random German
@2ndStar@astronomy.social avatar

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  • HistoPol,
    @HistoPol@mastodon.social avatar

    @2ndStar

    Vor einigen Jahren noch hätte ich da einiges sehr kritisch gesehen.
    Heute stimme ich dir zu.
    Vermutlich war da Musks Twitter-Übername und die dann auch bei den anderen -Unternehmen eingeleiteten Massenentlassungen der letzte Anstoß für mich.

    Karlitschek, to random
    @Karlitschek@mastodon.social avatar

    Big Tech is trying to monopolize all communication and collaboration tools on the planet. This would be terrible for our future. The Open Source community needs to prevent this.

    islamicaudiobooks,
    @islamicaudiobooks@mastodon.social avatar

    @Karlitschek Agreed. Home based needs to be made easier to fight and . Nextcloud AIO is looking promising with major release.

    notesnook, to random
    @notesnook@fosstodon.org avatar

    Privacy is not an option, and it shouldn't be the price we accept for just getting on the Internet.

    — Gary Kovacs

    Prince Attention GIF by South Park

    islamicaudiobooks,
    @islamicaudiobooks@mastodon.social avatar
    atomicpoet, to random
    @atomicpoet@mastodon.social avatar

    Jack Dorsey explaining exactly why no single company should own a social media platform.

    aral,
    @aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

    @atomicpoet In the venture capital game, the sell out happens at the very start when you accept venture capital.

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