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remixtures, 19 days ago to random Portuguese

RT @wbm312
Read Satya Nadella’s Microsoft memo on putting security first.

Security is now Microsoft’s “top priority.”

https://www.theverge.com/24148033/satya-nadella-microsoft-security-memo

gvlx, 1 month ago to Portugal Portuguese

Dia internacional das Raparigas nas Tecnologias da Informação e Comunicação – GIRLSTEAM 2024

Campus Taguspark, Oeiras

https://tecnico.ulisboa.pt/pt/eventos/dia-internacional-das-raparigas-nas-tecnologias-da-informacao-e-comunicacao-girlsteam-2024/

#Portugal #Oeiras #event #STEAM #WomenSTEM #WomenInEngineering #WomenInTechnology #WomenInMaths

gvlx, 1 month ago to opensource Portuguese

Foundations and Fiscal Hosting for Open Source Communities

Join Shane Curcuru (fossfoundation.info) and Lauren Gardner (Open Source Collective) to talk about the state of fiscal hosting for FOSS!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sustainoss-foundations-and-fiscal-hosting-for-open-source-communities-tickets-866704676017

(video replay to be available soon)

@sustainoss

@richlitt

#OpenSource #Sustainability #Academia

gvlx, 2 months ago to art Portuguese

IEEE WIE Manga Stories

Manga Comics Series of Riko-Chan, Riko-chan, the girl who solved everyday issues through STEM.

from
IEEE Women-in-Engineering (WIE)

These Manga comics are available for free download.

https://wie.ieee.org/category/manga-story-contest/

The 2024 Manga Contest is now open:

https://wie.ieee.org/publications/manga-story-contest/

#IEEE #WIE #WomenInEngineering #STEM #DiversityEquityInclusion #Art #Comics

gvlx, 2 months ago to ai Portuguese

P3396: Framework for Defining and Evaluating AI Risk, Safety, Trustworthiness and Responsibility

https://standards.ieee.org/ieee/3396/11379/

Get involved!

IEEE Computer Society/ Artificial Intelligence Standards Committee (C/AISC)

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Ethics #standards #ieee

pfefferle, 2 months ago to random

The #Gravatar Manifesto ❤️

https://blog.gravatar.com/2024/02/27/gravatar-manifesto-one-profile-everywhere/

vwbusguy, 3 months ago to opensource

If I had money-money, I might create a VC that funded #opensource start-ups with contingency pressure to remain 100% open source. Not open core. Not Source-available. All these short-sighted VCs keep ruining good things in search for a quick buck that they themselves might never get out of it.

ajsadauskas, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to tech

My real worry with Google's voyage into enshittification (thanks to Cory Doctorow @pluralistic the term) is YouTube.

Through YT, for the past 15 years, the world has basically entrusted Google to be the custodian of pretty much our entire global video archive.

There's countless hours of archived footage — news reports, political speeches, historical events, documentaries, indie films, academic lectures, conference presentations, rare recordings, concert footage, obscure music — where the best or only copy is now held by Google through YouTube.

So what happens if maintaining that archival footage becomes unprofitable?

#tech #technology #Google #enshittification #youtube #video @technology #capitalism #film #television #cinema #art #arts #SocialMedia #business #economics

sustainoss, 3 months ago to random

Karthik Ram (https://www.linkedin.com/in/karthik-ram-93334954/) & James Howison (https://twitter.com/jameshowison) share 8 vital tips for long-term open-source support, covering software recognition, web analytics, and easy researcher software linking.

Listen at 🎙️ https://podcast.sustainoss.org/218

nblr, 3 months ago to random

TIL: 0,6 to 2,3% of US electricity usage is evaporated into cryptocoin stuff. That's about the same ballpark as electricity used to run the rail networks in Switzerland (2,8%) or Germany (~1%). Couldn't find figures for the US as just one percent of their rail network is electricified.
We all make choices, I guess.

gvlx, 5 months ago to Portugal Portuguese

Manifestação contra a extinção do Centro de Filosofia das Ciências da UL

https://diferencial.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/noticia/hacs-manifestacao-contra-a-extincao-do-centro-de-filosofia-das-ciencias-da-ul/

#Portugal #University

hamishcampbell, 6 months ago to foss

#NGIForum23 The is no way to edit or remove questions. The is no way to talk to anyone... A normal #NGI "trust" #4opens fail, except this time it is a hardcoded due to the use of this CMS for the event. Before this we used #FOSS with #BBB which worked well, then #dotcons silos that worked after a fight each time to get chat turned on, now we are here #blocking, every #EU tech event has pushed this "control" mess over the public. What are you guys in "control" going to do to stop this.

aral, 6 months ago to github

1. Read this:

“Just as GitHub was founded on Git, today we are re-founded on Copilot.”

https://github.blog/2023-11-08-universe-2023-copilot-transforms-github-into-the-ai-powered-developer-platform/

2. Go here:

https://codeberg.org/

#git #gitHub #codeberg #enshittification #BigTech #cooperative #dev

rysiek, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to microsoft

🤡

> Just as GitHub was founded on Git, today we are re-founded on Copilot. 🤖 See how GitHub’s AI-powered platform vision evolved into a new reality for the world’s developers, and find out everything we announced at this year’s #GitHubUniverse.
https://nitter.net/github/status/1722309261680607674?s=20

For years I've been saying that using Microsoft GitHub to host #FLOSS code is dangerous and would backfire. :blobcatcoffee:

"But it's so convenient!" 🤣

#Copilot #CopilotHub #Microsoft #GitHub

jwildeboer, 6 months ago to fediverse

A bit more than 5 years ago, I decided to really dive into the #fediverse and booked my own #Mastodon instance at @mastohost on 2018-10-10. I had a few accounts spread around some other instances before that. So here I am. 5 years later. A lot has changed. And mostly for the better! What was a geeky experiment for some time has become a vibrant world of knowledge, fun and respectful conversations. On to the next 5 years!

The confirmation mail from masto.host that my new instance has been created.

cstross, 6 months ago to random

REMINDER: ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, and other large trained neural models are NOT "artificial intelligence", they're just stochastic parrots, remixing and regurgitating what they've been fed. There's no theory-of-mind involved, so no understanding: there's no "there" there. (A real live parrot exhibits more intelligence than this.)

Don't call it AI; call it parrot-tech. That way you'll have a better perspective on what it can (and can't) do.

timbray, 6 months ago to random

Interesting: Leica ships the first commercial-off-the-shelf camera that comes with C2PA which (in theory, infrastructure not quite here yet) should allow publications to prove provenance and processing steps from camera to Web server for anything they publish, and allow viewers to be confident they’re not looking at a deepfake.

https://petapixel.com/2023/10/26/leica-m11-p-review-as-authenticated-as-they-come/

fsf, 7 months ago to random

Protect developer freedom. Abolish software patents. Learn why software patents are unjust by checking out the new design of our #endsoftwarepatents initiative. https://u.fsf.org/3f-

gvlx, 7 months ago to Portugal Portuguese

Pintora Teresa Magalhães morre aos 79 anos

https://www.publico.pt/2023/10/20/culturaipsilon/noticia/pintora-teresa-magalhaes-morre-79-anos-2067408

#Portugal #rip #arts

wchr, 7 months ago to random

Bazze, a US data broker that purchases smartphone location data from mobile apps and advertising firms, and sells to the US Dept of Defense, according to the WSJ (https://wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/how-ads-on-your-phone-can-aid-government-surveillance-943bde04), openly promotes a commercial location mass surveillance system for 'government customers':
https://bazze.io/cdi

bazze.io explains that it does not "collect or sell data from individuals within the United States, Canada, and European Economic Area countries", but from individuals in 200+ other countries.

donwatkins, 7 months ago to opensource

I am going to be listening to #TwentyFiveYears of #OpenSource by #NickVidal 25 years of Open Source https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickvidal/ #AllThingsOpen2023

tante, 7 months ago to github

A thing I keep wondering about as a non-lawyer.

So we know that #GitHub #Copilot was absolutely trained on GPLed code.

My naive understanding is that therefore any code Copilot generates could be (at least partially) derivative and would need to be GPLed. Where am I wrong?

@hook maybe?

geerlingguy, 10 months ago to RedHat

Red Hat's response: https://redhat.com/en/blog/red-hats-commitment-open-source-response-gitcentosorg-changes

So... it was all about the "freeloaders". Can people stop telling me that this whole thing wasn't about freeloaders now? #redhat #opensource

feditips, 1 year ago to fediverse

Takahē is a new kind of Fediverse server which is aimed at small to medium size servers. It's unusual as it allows the same server to host multiple domains, and allows each user to have multiple identities. You can find out more from the project's official website at:

➡️ https://jointakahe.org

You can follow the project's account at:

➡️ @takahe

Takahe accounts can be followed from Mastodon, and it works with Mastodon API apps.

#Takahe #Fediverse #ActivityPub

mhoye, 1 year ago to random

One tool we have at work to ablate harassment is a set of tags for our public issue tracker - “abuse” and “admin” that summon a mod within the hour; what we tell people is, if it’s obviously abusive, tag it as such, but if it’s on the line, or you’re not sure, or you’re just uncomfortable and thinking “I want somebody who isn’t me to deal with … whatever this is”, use the admin flag.

Under the hood both tags do exactly the same thing, but: