The "New Outlook" demands that when adding your #Gmail account, you also give Microsoft a copy of all your Gmail email, contacts, and calendar data.
The "Learn More" link confirms:
"Syncing your account to the Microsoft Cloud means that a copy of your email, calendar, and contacts will be synchronized between your email provider and Microsoft data centers."
Getting people accustomed to working for a pittance or working for free is very important to the 1% who own Spotify and other exploitive media platforms
Sometimes it's REALLY tough to keep a secret. But now that the secret's out...
Our new logo is designed by @jonhicks, the creator of the original Firefox and Thunderbird logos. It will make its way to you when Thunderbird 115 launches this summer!
My debut EP is FINALLY ready for your ears! It's an emotional, melodic journey through love, loss, and personal demons, but wrapped in a catchy, cathartic rock & roll package.
I think you're gonna love it!
It's available at #Bandcamp 10 days ahead of streaming platforms, and each $4 purchase also bundles in the original demos of each song. Turn it up, sing along, and rock out!
"On June 24, 1993, Severe Tire Damage became the first band to livestream a concert on the internet.
The band subsequently began live streaming every Wednesday night. Viewers of the weekly streams could change the camera angle, adjust the audio mix, and even control a fog machine in the band’s basement."
Also, some interesting @thunderbird trivia: In 2004, blazing fast internet access wasn't nearly as widespread as it is now, so Mozilla offered to send installation CD-ROMs to users for $5.95.
I don’t know how to feel about the #Bandcamp situation. It certainly doesn’t decrease my disdain for Epic Games, and I’m disgusted by Songtradr’s stance of “supporting the band camp community is our top priority but let’s fire half the staff.”
But what’s the alternative? Isn’t it the only well-known music platform that doesn’t screw over musicians? Are there other places where I can launch a vinyl release for no upfront cost? Control my pricing?
@mrcompletely@smallcircles@killyourfm@RyunoKi@daswickerman@ahoneybun@funkwhale@freebliss Really, discovery is the main problem for most of us. If there was a Fedi client that had a music player, able to extract streaming audio with something like NewPipeExtractor … then we could follow artists, friends with good music taste, genre hashtags, and stick things in a playlist to discover new music 💜
Existing Masto functionality like bookmarking would be perfect for a “Wishlist”
Today, both Mailchimp and Hootsuite (very popular tools which I happen to use for @thunderbird newsletters and social media) invited me to use #AI to compose Facebook posts, tweets, and emails, respectively.
I won't be using AI tools for writing. But you should know that it's starting to get exponentially more difficult knowing if the content you're absorbing is from a human or from something like #ChatGPT.
@killyourfm@thunderbird it's even a bit irresponsible as the copyright status of AI output is unclear. What if months worth of your social media posts turn out to be plagiarism?
In the entire history of computing, there has never been a more important time to teach people about #Linux than right now.
(And never a worse time for me not to be doing @Linux4Everyone -- so I hope my fellow YouTube and content creators will double down and show people the light!)
@killyourfm@Linux4Everyone@kevinctofel All the teaching in the world can’t make the average person understand Linux. If you don’t want Recall come to macOS, there’s a store nearby where they’ll answer all your questions 🙂
@PenguinToot@Linux4Everyone@kevinctofel macOS is certainly a good alternative to Windows, but I have to disagree with you. Many Linux distributions have made dramatic improvements towards usability and intuitive UI. (Many have not). Of course, neither of us can speak for every “average person” on the planet, but I know non-technical people from pre-teens all the way to elderly folk who use and understand Linux just fine.
The coolest #scale21x booth award -- and most genius donation method -- goes to NUCC (National Upcycled Computing Collective).
They took this soda machine and transformed it into a massive server from reclaimed and refurbished server racks. They even wrote a whole thing to do the transactions.
You stick dollar bills in, select which "flavor" you want, and it pops out a shell for you to access all weekend from the show.
@killyourfm@tedium@taylorlorenz great article. I wish the author didn’t refer to blog posts as data. They are works. When someone pirates a movie they aren’t accused to stealing data, they are held accountable for the value taken which can represent hours, years or decades of effort. Reselling blog posts for training LLMs is stealing lifetimes of people’s work.
@electranyx@killyourfm@tedium@taylorlorenz While I understand your concern, data is more inclusive of information you may be sharing that may not neatly fit into the “creative work” realm. Think, for example, the comments you make, or the metadata you produce from your usage habits.
I think in this case, a broader term is necessary to capture what LLMs actually take.