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fleg, 2 days ago to ChatGPT

They are completely missing the point of their product.
#ChatGPT and other #ai #chatbots are not our friend, and we don’t want them to be!

(If you spend a lot of time „talking to“ chatbots, please go outside where people are. Seriously!)

It is a tool we use for super annoying tasks —write an ALT-tag for an image, fix my shell script, translate something. And we still have to double check everything it does. We can’t and we won’t trust it. (1/2)

jon, 1 month ago to random

I’ve been working on this on and off for months now, but I think my research listing the world's #EiffelTowers is for the moment complete

467 towers in my list (of which status unknown 31, and destroyed or never built 42)

Of the rest, 268 are to be found in Google Street View, 126 are not

And of the towers still likely standing today, 358 are replicas, 25 resemblances, 11 derivatives

Many but not all mapped here https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/eiffel-towers-derivatives-and-replicas_1006050#4/52.11/16.13

Next: complete the map 🙂

fleg, 1 month ago to videos

My partner told me she published a trailer online.
She didn’t have to tell me where she published it:
Of course, it’s on #Vimeo, the video sharing site for #artists.
And that’s where i would find, it. Right?
So i went to Vimeo.
There is no search box. There is no community. There is marketing speak to upgrade my influence.

#Vimeo was great. It was a place for #artists to publish #videos and follow each other. It felt good to have a new follower on VImeo. (1/2)

matt, 1 month ago to random

A simple explainer on federation, and what it means for Threads users https://birchtree.me/blog/a-simple-explainer-on-federation-and-threads/

fleg, 3 months ago to random German

Freu mich dieses Wochenende wieder sehr auf unser jährliches Netzwerktreffen der Freies #Lastenrad-#Initiativen, dieses mal in #Marburg.

#FreiesLastenrad: Das sind Grasswurzel-Initiativen, die mehr als 600 #Lastenräder der Gesellschaft #kostenfrei zur Verfügung stellen, um die Städte #autofrei und damit lebenswerter zu machen. #Verkehrswende selber machen!

nileane, 3 months ago to random

“Bluesky could be the future of content moderation”.

I 100% disagree.

Yes, the protocol offers a plethora of ways to filter content and ensure you never come across, say, Nazis.

But that’s not what content moderation is. Content moderation is making decisions. It is either welcoming or refusing certain types of content on your platform.

If you’re letting everyone in, and telling your users "but you have control!", you’re not moderating anything. You’re just quitting.

https://mastodon.social/@caseynewton/111887524210529466

matt, 4 months ago to movies

Movie #1: Dream Scenario

This is a thread I’ve done 2 times before, sharing short reviews of every movie I watch in a year. My goal is to watch about 100 movies this year.

All reviews are created with https://quickreviews.app

You can follow me on Letterboxd as well https://letterboxd.com/mattbirchler/

#movies #film

fleg, 7 months ago to random German

Ich leb vielleicht in einer Bubble, aber wie kann das ernsthaft eine Frage sein?
Aktuell kann ein sicherer Mindestabstand #Auto/#Rad auf der Kalker Hauptstraße ja gar nicht eingehalten werden — Sicherheit für alle Verkehrsteilnehmer:innen ist doch keine Frage persönlicher Präferenz?

#Verkehr #Mobilität #Köln #Kalk #Katastrophe

https://meinungfuer.koeln/kalker-hauptstrasse

DrPen, 7 months ago to ukteachers

In case folks aren't aware, the Internet Archive now has a scholar version with a huge collection of academic work available.

https://scholar.archive.org/

#academicchatter #academicmastodon #academic #education #open

tagesschau, 7 months ago to random German

Fast jeder zehnte Schüler besucht Privatschule

In Deutschland wird mehr privat gelernt: Sowohl die Zahl von Schülern an Privatschulen hat binnen 20 Jahren zugenommen als auch die von privat Studierenden. Die Zahl öffentlicher allgemeinbildender Schulen ging hingegen zurück.

➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/bildung-privatschulen-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

#Bildung #Schule

baldur, 7 months ago to random

“Ian Betteridge - GitHub Copilot costs more per user than it charges”

People generally don’t realise just how expensive this shit is. https://technovia.co.uk/2023/10/10/github-copilot-costs.html

matt, 7 months ago to random

Wow, little has made me less confident about the state of X/Twitter than this interview with CEO Linda Yaccarino. It's an astonishingly bad performance from someone who comes across as a delusional Musk suck up.

Also the ending is incredible. She's so anxious to get off stage 🫣

https://youtu.be/hYymRU-bfpQ?si=6ogwxBDA4pF4-sSJ

tagesschau, 8 months ago to random German

Scholz für stärkere Kontrolle der irregulären Migration

Der Druck auf die Bundesregierung, Maßnahmen gegen die steigenden Zahlen von Migranten zu ergreifen, steigt. Nun äußerte sich auch Kanzler Scholz und stellte weitere Maßnahmen in Aussicht. Die FDP fordert eine Wende in der Migrationspolitik.

➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/migrationspolitik-108.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

#Migration #Grenzkontrollen

tazgetroete, 8 months ago to random German

Die neue wochentaz ist da!

toxi, 8 months ago to opensource

This Casey Muratori quote below is spot on for most other "creative software", incl. generative art/design tools/frameworks... In this context, it also doesn't matter if these are #OpenSource or not, since 99% of people are engaging with these offerings purely as consumers and will be left stranded/struggling once the day of reckoning will arrive (nothing lasts forever, regardless of enshittification)...

Many subfields of digital art/design/engineering currently have one (or a couple) incumbent monopolistic tools/frameworks consuming/sucking the attention of most practicioners in those fields. Each time, the main issue (for users) should be learning, developing, extracting, abstracting reusable skills, underlying metaphors/terminologies, techniques and thought patterns which are more general and independent from those tools, actively exercising the breaking of mental (and practical) dependencies to free & shape one's own creative practice/process.

Artists too (rather: them especially) should own and keep control of their means of production, or at the very least understand them (in some detail)!

Yet, in the bigger picture, the appetite for exactly these things seems to be continuously waning and the "AI" hype theatre is just accelerating & strengthening production dependencies and the strict separation between infrastructure owners & practioners... These are choices each one of us has to and does make, but how many of us are doing so consciously/intently and how many are even just willing and/or able to support others working towards such goals (e.g. by embracing anti-framework and anti-monopolistic design philosophies)...

Another related quote here by Gualter Barbas Babtista (already shared previously):

“If you don’t develop your own technology, you will need to adapt to the language and patterns of the technology someone else developed – maybe in contradiction to your cultural values.”

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@bvisness/111099859675042595

#Frameworks #Monopoly #Dependencies #MeansOfProduction

matthiasott, 8 months ago to UX

Great overview by the Height team:

Building like it's 1984: A comprehensive guide to creating intuitive context menus

#ux #ui #menus
https://height.app/blog/guide-to-build-context-menus

fleg, 8 months ago to random

If you thought #Ryanair was the pinnacle of obvious disgust for your own customers, try #Temu.

It’s basically „nobody needs this shit, but you are going to buy it anyway because it’s super cheap and you are stupid“