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rysiek

@rysiek@mstdn.social

Hacker, activist, free-softie ◈ techie luddite ◈ formerly information security and infrastructure at https://isnic.is/ and https://occrp.org/ ◈ my opinions are my own etc.

(he/him)

profile image: drawing of a head and shoulders of a cat-person, in a space suit.

banner image: long-exposure photo of a large tent, brightly illuminated from inside, looking as if it is made of lava

#foss #libre #privacy #infosec #fedi22

(public toots CC By-SA 4.0 if applicable)

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rysiek, to random
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Seriously though, fedi was built by furries, trans and queer folk, disabled neurodivergent people.

This is the reason the culture here is what it is. Why CWs are a thing. Why image descriptions are a thing. Why privacy matters here. Why moderation tools not only exist, but are usable — and used.

If you had joined and asked yourself "wow, how come this place is so chill and kinda… nice?" — that's thanks to all the nice people from communities some people call "weird".

So .

rysiek, (edited )
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Can't spell "fediverse" without "diverse", is all I'm saying.

Edit:

I posted this and the parent toot at the start of Nov'22 wave of new people and communities joining fedi, bringing their specific needs and expectations.

Fedi learned a lot about itself since then, including that it needs to dramatically improve on the front.

We need to recognize that fedi failed / folks, and do better.

Context:
https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/109456287145465168

simon, to random
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Several of the major social media platforms - Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, Twitter - have effectively declared war on linking to things and I absolutely hate it

"Link in my bio" / "Link in thread" / "Link in first comment"... or increasingly no link at all, just an unsourced screenshot of a page

rysiek,
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@simon referencing sources is a revolutionary act.

rysiek,
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@jimfl @simon I am the original source.

(in Walter White's voice)

rysiek, (edited ) to random
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Whenever a manager at a company (especially a large one) says:

> I'm sorry, we cannot afford a raise for you at this time

…ask yourself if what they really mean is:

> I'm sorry, we cannot afford a raise for you and a huge payout (dividends, bonuses, etc) for the management and stockholders simultaneously, and our priorities are obvious.

You'd be surprised how often that's the case.

Oh, and get into the habit of reading any available financial disclosures before having that talk! Just sayin…

rysiek,
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@jay_chi I definitely do not agree here.

This smells of the naïve "we can all become billionaires and exploit everyone else" mindset that is holding back any serious labor-supporting regulations.

I am so done with this kind of capitalist bull.

szakib, to climate
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Perspective: the biggest carbon capture plant in the world sequesters 1 millionth of our annual emissions. We would have to build a million of these plants to not_increase the CO2 level. And we need to decrease the CO2 level.

Carbon capture is a scam.


https://www.fastcompany.com/91120071/climeworks-carbon-removal-factory-iceland

rysiek,
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@szakib not to mention the CO2 emitted while building these.

I would love to hear if the plant has sequestered enough CO2 to balance out the CO2 emitted while building it, including transport etc.

rysiek,
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@maltimore yes, that was a huge scandal here last year. I believe that is now fixed though, at least partially.

@szakib

MichaelPorter, to random
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I’m seeing this graphic making the rounds withouth attribution - many versions have the info at the bottom cut off. The creator is alienyrox2 on reddit (https://www.reddit.com/user/alienyrox2/).

https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/ic1g5o/colors_of_aurora_oc/

rysiek,
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@MichaelPorter thank you for setting the record straight!

rysiek, to random
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I cannot wait for the next hype cycle. The AI one is so dank and tired.

rysiek,
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@rail_ one can dream, but I think hype cycles are unlikely to be ethical.

rysiek,
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@datarama oh, even the owning class might slowly be noticing that the hype is, well, hype.

And this is an opportunity for everyone else, too!

Plenty of suddenly unemployed talent, up until recently working for Big Tech, is available and probably pretty angry at their old employers.

Plenty of incumbent products that got enshittified beyond the point of usefulness — can't wait for new search engines, for example!

Might be easier to build them now, with that talent on the market… :ablobwink:

rysiek,
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@datarama oh certainly.

rysiek, (edited ) to random
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Hey @nextcloud I see you made "AI" the "centerpiece" of #Nextcloud Hub 8?
https://news.itsfoss.com/nextcloud-hub-8/

What model are you using?
What data has it been trained on, and by whom?
Can I recreate your model from scratch?

Edit: the "centerpiece" part might have come from It's FOSS News, although Nextcloud messaging around AI is similarly excited.

rysiek,
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@tfiebig wait so the "centerpiece" of @nextcloud is actually missing from the product?

I'm confused, that does not sound right.

rysiek,
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@tfiebig thanks, I do appreciate it!

But I'd really like @nextcloud to respond, too.

rysiek,
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@tadzik well first of all:

> Note: This app is deprecated and no longer being maintained. Its successor is https://github.com/nextcloud/llm2

Secondly, it mentions it can use Llama, but also mentions that "the training data is freely available". I doubt both of these can be true. Unless I missed something major, Llama training data have not been released by Meta.

rysiek,
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@tadzik the "llm2" Readme sends me to the Admin docs:
https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/admin_manual/ai/overview.html

There they mention models like "text2image_stablediffusion2". So this applies:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable_Diffusion#Training_data
> An investigation by Bayerischer Rundfunk showed that LAION's datasets, hosted on Hugging Face, contain large amounts of private and sensitive data.

rysiek,
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@viktor right, thank you for responding!

The thing I am confused about, I guess, is the messaging around the "AI" assistant being the "centerpiece" of Nc Hub 8. What I understand from what you said and what I found in the docs, the Assistant requires some model to be available. Is there a model distributed with Nextcloud for that purpose?

@tfiebig @nextcloud

rysiek,
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@vt52 also, there are multiple lawsuits currently that focus on the copyright question. If they go a particular way, it might potentially mean that:

  1. AI models are derivative works of the training data they are trained on.

  2. Anything done with the input from these AI models are in turn derivative works of these models.

IOW, if works licensed under CC By-SA (Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons) are in the training corpus, suddenly anything created with these models might be CC By-SA.

@nextcloud

rysiek,
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@vt52 so, while CC By-SA works are free to use, the licensing terms are crucially important. This is in no way captured by the "Ethical AI Rating".

It also does not capture at all the labor issues around training of LLMs. Who tagged and categorized the data? We know how that works in the BIg Tech space:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/16/techscape-ai-gadgest-humane-ai-pin-chatgpt

@nextcloud

rysiek,
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@vt52 and finally: does "Red" mean "unethical" and "Green" – "ethical"?

If yes, that would mean that @nextcloud is facilitating use of tech they themselves consider unethical.

If not, then why is this called "Ethical AI rating" in the first place?..

rysiek,
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@vt52 I would disagree on the transparency there. One of the points of the ethical assessment is:

> Is the training data available and free to use?

Consider how StackOverflow is basically arguing that the stuff people wrote on the site is "free to use" (as it is on a CC By-SA license), but the community outcry seems to suggest that they are not exactly on board with that interpretation.

LocalAI gets a Green rating, for example. But I cannot find info on the training data… 👀

@nextcloud

piotrsikora, to random Polish
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Mamy dziś dzień sukcesów wege!

Mizeria wyszła mega! Ale co najważniejsze… kotlety schabowe poezja. Wersja w panierce bez użycia jajek, ani mleka.

Zdjęcie kotleta w środku. Jest soczysty

rysiek,
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@piotrsikora przepis plox

thephd, to random
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One day, things'll calm down and people will be normal.

One day.

rysiek,
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@thephd jesus fsck… 🤦‍♀️

alldragonsaredead, to mastodon Polish
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Istnieje jakaś sieć społecznościowa, albo frontend Mastodona, który działa bardziej jak RSS i pozwala mi wyświetlać nieprzeczytane wpisy i oznaczać je jako przeczytane?

rysiek,
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@alldragonsaredead Mastodon i niektóre inne rodzaje instancji na fedi dają udostępniają kanały RSS kont i hasztagów dla publicznych wpisów.

Na przykład:
https://mstdn.social/@rysiek.rss
https://mstdn.social/tags/polska.rss

To nie jest dokładnie odpowiedź na Twoje pytanie, ale może pomoże?

rysiek,
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@alldragonsaredead to prawda.

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