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GossiTheDog, 20 days ago to random

For those who aren’t aware, Microsoft have decided to bake essentially an infostealer into base Windows OS and enable by default.

From the Microsoft FAQ: “Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers."

Info is stored locally - but rather than something like Redline stealing your local browser password vault, now they can just steal the last 3 months of everything you’ve typed and viewed in one database.

video/mp4

grishka, 19 days ago to fediverse

So, #Smithereen no longer requires a username when signing up. You instead get assigned one automatically, of the form "idXXX" where XXX is the ID for your user record. You can change it later in settings if you wish. Current Mastodon versions handle this change no problem.

The username is only visible in two places:

• The URL of your profile
• When someone mentions you
  So it's not very important. Definitely not important enough to be a required field when you register.

#activitypub #mastodev

tristanls, 20 days ago to random

I'm starting to think there will be business opportunities that are branded as "AI-free" much like food is branded Organic.

I'm already starting to look for products like that.

It's the same rationale for why my refrigerator doesn't need to be connected to the internet. Or why my hammer doesn't need to ask me about my day when I take ot out of the toolbox.

Only Machine Inside™️

smallcircles, 20 days ago to random

TIL about #CopyFarLeft licensing..

https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Copyfarleft

Like the Peer Production license:

> "The peer production license is an example of the Copyfair type of license, in which only other commoners, cooperatives and nonprofits can share and re-use the material, but not commercial entities intent on making profit through the commons without explicit reciprocity."

https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Peer_Production_License

ivan_herman, 20 days ago to random

A long overdue standard has now been published at W3C: "RDF Dataset Canonicalization". Essential for security related operations with RDF Datasets...

Note that the standard is published alongside 8 full implementations, which is great.

https://www.w3.org/news/2024/rdf-dataset-canonicalization-is-a-w3c-recommendation/

#rdf

fabio, 20 days ago to random

I’ve just had to debunk some more pseudoscience garbage shared by my mother on Facebook. The only reason why I still use that platform every now and then is just to make sure that my family doesn’t go completely off the basket case tangent with conspiracy bullshit.

This time, after chemtrails, vaccines that cause autism, Covid intentionally spread by the government, climate change that doesn’t exist, new world order secretely decided in Davos, freemasons and Jews ruling the world, gender theory pushed by a cult of paedophiles, and Putin and Trump as the only saviours, it was the time for the landing on the moon that didn’t happen.

The arguments used by the guy (“there are no signs of the source code that was used by the Apollo missions and the lunar module didn’t have enough thrust to take off”) could be dismantled with a simple Github link and a quick round of the Tsiokovsky rocket equation.

But the original post had hundreds of reshares, while my response didn’t get a single reaction. And my mother, who quit school at the age of 12 and has no clue of what either specific impulse nor escape velocity are, didn’t understand anything of my explanation anyway, and tomorrow she’ll probably just reshare some more bullshit that she wants to believe in.

Does anyone have family members or close friends who are also stuck in this vicious conspiracy cycle that apparently can’t be broken with any efforts of reasoning? How do you cope with that? It is becoming utterly depressing from my side. The conspiracy-inclined side of social media has features that resemble too much those of a cult. I’ve fought to take my family out of a cult years ago, just to see them plunge into another one. The time required to debunk bullshit is high, while the time to reshare it basically zero, and I feel like it’s a war I can’t win. Wondering if there’s a way out that doesn’t end up affecting our own mental health even more.

how, 20 days ago to fediverse

#EmpoderaLIVE is the hashtag to discuss the ongoing conference in Málaga. It mostly happens on closed suveillance networks, but we may as well start somewhere and free the conversation here on the decentralized, open network #Fediverse.

https://empodera.org/

echo_pbreyer, 20 days ago to random German

🇬🇧After NGO letters, my MEP letter, an EDPB opinion and a complaint by NOYB, this second complaint by the North Rhine Westphalia Consumer Association is the final nail in the coffin of Meta's business model of pervasive tracking.
https://www.verbraucherzentrale.nrw/aktuelle-meldungen/digitale-welt/abo-fuer-facebook-und-instagram-neue-klage-gegen-meta-89410
https://www.patrick-breyer.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/MEPs-Letter-to-Meta-on-Pay-or-Okay.pdf

Natanox, 20 days ago to fediverse

Thinking about attempting to code an #ActivityPub service as a learning project, and to perhaps solve the social lock-in issue of gaming platform profiles that really pisses me off. 🤔

I really really don't like #DRM, however I'm way too attached to my almost 20 year old #Steam profile and like to do video game achievements. Having a unified, federated profile that pulls its data from all the different sources (Steam, PSN, Xbox, RetroAchievements.org and especially GOG) would be neat. #gaming

OSPOAlliance, 20 days ago to random

Hey folks, remember to be here online this Friday to learn more about the French #OSPO with @bzg from @codegouvfr

You don't want to miss it!

https://mastodon.opencloud.lu/@OSPOAlliance/112394076246718948

smallcircles, 20 days ago to OpenAI

OMG the thugs at #OpenAI decided they better steal Scarlett Johannson's voice after she declined a contract to get #ChatGPT voiced by her.

Two days before launch of #ChatGPT4o she was approached again by Sam Altman, Head of Crooks. And refused again.

To then find her overly uplifting, encouraging, positive sounding voice creating the uncanny valley in these #AI demo's.

When approaching OpenAI by her legal councilors the voice was suddenly pulled.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40421225

#CrooksOfAI #AIScam

ElBeeToots, 20 days ago to DuckDuckGo

🇳🇱 Ook zoekmachine DuckDuckGo heeft nu AI standaard aan staan. Om het uit te schakelen klik je op de zoekresultatenpagina op de twee "tennisrackets" aan de rechterkant. Vervolgens kies je in het menuutje 'AI-functies > Beheren' en daar kun je alles uitzetten.

🇬🇧 DuckDuckGo has turned on AI as a standard setting. To turn it off, click on the two 'tennis rackets' on the search results page, on the right side. Then click on 'AI functions > Manage' to turn everything off.

#DuckDuckGo #AI #optout

wjmaggos, 21 days ago to mastodon

I'm less interested in getting #Mastodon to connect seamlessly with #BlueSky than with #Element. Anybody working on this? #SocialWeb #matrix #ATprotocol #ActivityPub

echo_pbreyer, 21 days ago (edited 21 days ago) to random German

🇩🇪 Meilenstein für Transparenz und Pressefreiheit: Britischer High Court lässt die Berufung von Wikileaks-Gründer Julian #Assange gegen seine Auslieferung an die USA zu, weil zweifelhaft ist, ob seine Meinungsfreiheit in den USA überhaupt geschützt ist.

Die heutige Gerichtsentscheidung gibt Hoffnung, dass europäische Menschenrechte und Gerichte die Aufdeckung von Unrecht, Machtmissbrauch, Korruption und Kriegsverbrechen schützen, ohne Freund und Feind mit zweierlei Maßstäben zu messen. Ich wünsche mir, dass aus der von den USA gewollten Abschreckung von Whistleblowern und Journalisten weltweit ihre Ermutigung durch ein Grundsatzurteil wird.

Gleich um 15 Uhr veranstalte ich ein Webinar mit Rechtsanwalt Sören Schomburg aus Assanges Verteidigungsteam und Marie Wasilewski als Sprecherin des Aktivistenbündnisses FreeAssange.EU, um über die Gerichtsentscheidung und die nächsten Schritte zu sprechen - schaut zu! https://peertube.european-pirates.eu/w/qJosg7swHC3qRTvtJX1U2s

EUCommission, 21 days ago to random Spanish

🌿 Nature is beautiful but fragile – so we need to protect it.

The Environmental Crime Directive coming into force today is good news for nature, and for us!

This landmark law is the first of its kind, ensuring:

🟩 the most severe breaches of environmental rules are considered as crimes
🟩 law enforcement authorities and the judiciary have the tools to act effectively
🟩 support and assistance to environmental defenders in criminal proceedings

#EUGreenDeal #EUdelivers

evanw, 21 days ago to random

I've been studying algorithms for collaborative text editing recently. The best way for me to understand something complex is to implement it myself, so I made my own simple text editing CRDT. It comes with an interactive demo to show what goes on "under the hood":

https://madebyevan.com/algos/crdt-text-buffer/

The code is small enough to understand (only 500 lines including comments). But the internals use optimized block-based storage similar to Yjs (a popular CRDT text library), so it should be pretty realistic.

nluug, 21 days ago to opensource Dutch

In less than 24 hours NLUUG Voorjaarsconferentie 2024 (hashtags #NLUUG #VJ2024) will start. An open source conference you don't want to miss!
Join the already 210 people that will be at the conference tomorrow and register yourself at our website. Our interesting program, venue and other information also to be found at our website https://nluug.nl/evenementen/nluug/voorjaarsconferentie-2024/

See you tomorrow 💪

#NLUUG #VJ2024 #conference #OpenSource

ntnsndr, 21 days ago to random

Ooh I just noticed that the PolicyKit website is much improved—nice work @axz and team! https://policykit.org/

daviwil, 21 days ago to scheme

Streaming Day 3 of my Spring Lisp Game Jam project right now!

Today I'll start building the interactive script editor that will enable you to edit the logic scripts for the game's monsters. This will be my first attempt at writing DOM-manipulating UI code in Hoot so it should be fun!

Check out the game here:

https://fluxharmonic.itch.io/lambda-dungeon
https://codeberg.org/daviwil/lambda-dungeon

Join us on YouTube or Twitch:

• https://youtube.com/live/nqxOeuEXdYo
• https://twitch.tv/SystemCrafters

#guile #scheme #hoot #gamedev #gamejam

GuerillaGrue, 22 days ago to random

I know this is going to be an opinion that a lot of people disagree with, but hear me out:

If you're going to "game-ify" your service... make it optional.

I'm not talking "you can just ignore it" optional. I'm not talking "just don't take it seriously" optional.

No. Let me disable it.

I want to use DuoLingo and NOT know what my ranking is or who my stuff is being compared to or what my score is? Let me.

I want to disable achievements on my Xbox or Steam? Let me.

It's not that hard.

1/2

whitequark, 22 days ago to random

me: "i like it how the entire LLVM project is one monorepo"
her: "when are you going to compile the entirety of LLVM to WebAssembly?"
me: "yes."
her: "... I said that as a joke"

tekknolagi, 22 days ago to random

compilers! compilers! free compilers for sale!
https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/weval/

1dalm, 22 days ago to random

A village generally functions as a large family.

A town or neighborhood generally functions as a large village.

But a city does not function like a large town or a large neighborhood. It functions like a collection of competing and cooperating towns and neighborhoods.

I think this is a big reason why capitalism and our car dependent zoning has broken the way cities function. Urban and civil planners and franchise planners, etc. plan out development to optimize cities, not to optimize towns/neighborhoods.

For example, when Walmart plans a new store, they plan to optimize their sales based on service to the larger city, not in service of the town/neighborhood they are opening up in. When city planners plan a new highway, they plan it to optimize transportation in the whole city, not to optimize transportation in the town/neighborhood. Everything is planned to optimize on the city level and the village/town/neighborhood level is sacrificed as a result.

That's why people have to drive 30 minutes to go to a grocery store and 40 minutes to go to church, etc. this is what has killed our communities.

catppuccin, 1 month ago to random

We're looking for some new maintainers to join the org 👀

Our GTK port is currently minimally maintained, due mostly to our reliance on the Colloid theme as our base.

We'd ideally use a more flexible base, or write the theme from scratch. This means we'd welcome maintainers who have pre-existing knowledge with GTK theming.

More details can be found @ https://github.com/catppuccin/gtk/issues/164, or you can join the Discord for real time communication (https://discord.gg/catppuccin)

Boosts appreciated for visibility!

smallcircles, 2 months ago to web

The new general #enshittification trend on the #Web:

> Please verify you are a human without any Ad Blockers turned on.

#Captcha dialogs that don't work unless you turn off your #adblocker .. of course you might allow the specific #tracker that makes the captcha functional, but not always clear which one to pick.