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tokyo_0, 23 hours ago to ai

JFC now you need to use a browser Microsoft approves of in your operating system to be able to disable its on-by-default continual surveillance of your every action while using it 👀

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/client-management/manage-recall

(Unsurprisingly, only the browsers that are part of the "surveil everything" club are mentioned)

#AI #artificialIntelligence #consent #CoPilot #makeItStop #Microsoft #Recall

tokyo_0, 23 hours ago to random

I don't understand why the tech brotherhood is pushing AI so hard. I get that investors want to hear about it. But it's so resource hungry, and they have to know that. They also have to be smart enough to know it's a fad. Is it a desperate ploy to establish a sustainable revenue model for it before the music stops? Surely they have to know the music is going to stop. They have to know no one is going to keep paying for this.

It doesn't make sense. Something else has to be behind this.

tokyo_0, 12 days ago to random

Feeling overwhelmed by life. I really feel like there's a gap in the market for some kind of life concierge service that you can query and get good, reliable guidance on various things that need to be taken care of to live well... particularly for people living in foreign countries, but actually not just that. I think even if I was living in my own country it'd be useful. Like having some kind of advocate who helps you to live well by saving you the hours of research it takes to get answers.

tokyo_0, 15 days ago to fediverse

Coincidentally, this seems to expose a gap in #Fediverse security—since right now there's no way for me to continue posting to a hashtag I use frequently and avoid this user, who openly admits that they use .social to browse hashtags and then quote posts.

https://makai.chaotic.ninja/notes/9szvrst4m6

The only way I can use a hashtag on this federated network is to make my post publicly visible. Doesn't that make all hashtag-based communities here vulnerable to surveillance and potential abuse?

#Mastodon #safety

tokyo_0, 15 days ago to random

Reading the ActivityPub spec at 2am.

(Why am I like this?)

tokyo_0, 19 days ago to meta

A lot of people have insisted #Meta isn't getting involved with the #Fediverse to embrace, extend and extinguish it...

... but even before fully implementing Fediverse interoperability in #Threads they're already talking openly about changing its protocols to add features like monetization. 🤔

https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/25/why-meta-is-looking-to-the-fediverse-as-the-future-for-social-media/

#fedipact

Text in a screenshot reads as follows: McCue riffed on the idea that fediverse users could become creators where some of their content became available to subscribers only, similar to how Patreon works. For instance, fediverse advocate and co-editor of ActivityPub Evan Prodromou created a paid Mastodon account (@evanplus) that users could subscribe to for $5 per month to gain access. If he’s on board with paid content, surely others would follow. Cottle agreed that the model could work with the fediverse, too. He additionally suggested there are ways the fediverse could monetize beyond donations, which is what often powers various efforts today, like Mastodon. Cottle said someone might even make a fediverse experience that consumers would pay for, the way some fediverse client apps are paid today.

tokyo_0, 19 days ago to random

"Even in recent days, the Biden administration has taken steps to contain the fallout from the assassination plot. White House officials warned the Modi government this month that The Post was close to publishing an investigation that would reveal new details about the case. It did so without notifying The Post."

https://archive.md/6Z1WY

tokyo_0, 19 days ago to india

I thought #VanessaDougnac had a piece published somewhere in English that did the rounds here and elsewhere when she was forced to leave #India a few months ago, but I can't find it at all now. Does anyone else remember it?

(I can find lots of other stories talking about her departure, some with quotes from a statement she released, but what I thought I saw was a story, rather than a statement—though links to the statement also gratefully received!)🙏🧡

#journalism @mastodonindians #pressFreedom

tokyo_0, 23 days ago to random

And the internet is redeemed :laptop_parrot:

source: https://www.instagram.com/p/C6QmOc7u9sE/ (thank you @sporksmith), found via: https://twitter.com/TheFigen_/status/1784612215649075609

On the left half of the screen, a woman in green performs modern dance to some smooth jazz. On the right half of the screen, a parrot also performs the same moves along with the music.

tokyo_0, 23 days ago to random

And the internet is redeemed :laptop_parrot:

(source: https://twitter.com/TheFigen_/status/1784612215649075609)

On the left half of the screen, a woman in green performs modern dance to some smooth jazz. On the right half of the screen, a parrot also performs the same moves along with the music.

tokyo_0, 24 days ago to random

@mike Hi there! I just started trying to watch/listen to your podcast on flipboard.video and the only resolution options it gives me are 720p or "auto". A lot of people are on metered data — I always have to turn down video resolution on my phone to 480p or 360p. Is there any way one of these lower resolution options could be added? An hour long video at 720p is a big chunk of data.

tokyo_0, 28 days ago to fediverse

Can you imagine what the #Fediverse would look like now if the response to Gab had been "Admins don't need to block these instances, individual users can just choose whether or not to apply a user-level block (mute) themselves"?

And #Meta is even more corrosive than Gab. Gab users just posted a barrage of hate and unpleasantness. Meta is commercially incentivised to destroy what some people are inviting it to into.

#Fedipact

tokyo_0, 1 month ago to twitter

Now #Twitter locks you out of your account for 12 hours if you forget your password, try to log in more than about three times, successfully reset your password on the Android app, logging in with two factor authentication, but then want to log in on any other device. You can't. You're screwed. Everywhere else will tell you your login attempt is "suspicious". Yeah it's f***ing suspicious I have both a phone and a computer, Elon, no one has that.

Absolute trash.

tokyo_0, 1 month ago to random

Now the U.S. has the excuse it's wanted to go after Iran, which is why Israel's belligerence and crimes against humanity have been tolerated for the past six months.

https://mastodon.social/@VOANews/112269355674283808

tokyo_0, 1 month ago to fediverse

How do we make sure #ActivityPub develops responsibly, in ways that accommodate its growing use for social media and related applications without being coopted by #Meta and their friends?

tokyo_0, 1 month ago to random

@fediverseobserver Hi there. Was wondering if you had any thoughts on this since you're pinging a lot of instances all over the place and must be familiar with the data you're able to get from them 👉 https://mas.to/

Is there a good and/or trivial way something like this could be added and/or made standard?

tokyo_0, 2 months ago to fediverse

So, knowing many of my #Fediverse friends are using services other than #Mastodon, what will happen to those followers if I move Mastodon instance and initiate the migration and redirect?

Will they follow my new account? I suspect not. But why? Everyone has known for years the ideal is to build in portability — that beyond being a nice-to-have, it's actually more of a necessity to make this big project a success. Other ideas are rigorously implemented and fiercely defended. Why not this one?

tokyo_0, 2 months ago to random

When I come on Mastodon I see a lot of news that isn't being reported by a lot of mainstream outlets. While often it's shared with a link to an article, those articles are all from different places. If you read any one of them, you might see one of those articles every six months or so — when a good outlet would be full of all of them every week.

tokyo_0, 2 months ago to random

By now we could have had air quality indicators displayed outside shops. Instead of pointless handouts intended to "stimulate" people into disregarding their health, that people instead just put into savings accounts, we could've had internal air quality regulations that reduced all airborne illnesses, now and in the future. What a missed opportunity. Our generation is missing so many opportunities, destroying life for all unfortunate enough to follow.

tokyo_0, 3 months ago to random

*closes several incompletely read tabs.... reflects on the "people were disagreeing about something contentious so I wrote 2,000 words and posted it" school of driving engagement.... *

tokyo_0, 3 months ago to Meditation

"Let us ... try to find out not how to meditate, but the quality of a mind that is awake, aware, intense, that has no trauma, no suppression, nor indulgence, that is not controlling itself all the time or at any time, that is free and therefore never lives in the shadow of yesterday." — J. Krishnamurti, Switzerland, Aug. 8, 1965

#JidduKrishnamurti #Krishnamurti #meditation

tokyo_0, 3 months ago to random

@trumpet Hi there. Are you aware of this? https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/111921365604965429

tokyo_0, 3 months ago to random

Starting to wonder if I need a quiet, real name Mastodon account to finally move and consolidate contacts from other places (like Facebook, for example) that I don't use any more but still keep alive to retain those contacts 🤔 The recent Meta "oh yeah we'll just use everything you ever wrote to train AI" thing may be the final push I need.

Would probably need to use another client on my phone, though... not logging in and out all the time with 2FA.

tokyo_0, 3 months ago to browsers

More "Are you absolutely sure you want to do that thing you chose to do, that I think you shouldn't be doing?" bullshit.

So now anything we choose to download is scanned and shared and compared against an index somewhere of downloads that are considered "safe" and "acceptable"? And anything not "acceptable" to the machine must be characterised with suspicion, as a dangerous threat?

Another pointless extra two clicks.

#bigBrother #browsers #Firefox #Orwellian #overreach #security

tokyo_0, 3 months ago to random

The ability to remain mindful that what other people do is about them, irrespective of what it means for you, is a superpower 🪷