per_sonne

per_sonne, 3 days ago to random Portuguese

My Mastodon is on fire with the Slack stuff today. Which begs the question: is money and the pursuit of insane amounts of money the ONLY thing that matters to us as a civilization? I'm pessimistic and becoming more so as time goes by. Humanity sucks. Levi-Strauss is waiting for me in Hell, so we can rant about it when I die with a sigh of relief.

paulasimoes, 3 days ago to random Portuguese

Dirigentes demitidos por falhas “críticas à operação da AMA”

https://www.dn.pt/1996263505/dirigentes-demitidos-por-falhas-criticas-a-operacao-da-ama/

paulasimoes, 10 days ago to random Portuguese

2024 e ainda se lêem coisas como a da imagem.

Câmara apresenta queixa contra comerciante do Bolhão por ofensas

https://www.jn.pt/683801333/camara-apresenta-queixa-contra-comerciante-do-bolhao-por-ofensas/

ben, 13 days ago to random

Stack Overflow announced that they are partnering with OpenAI, so I tried to delete my highest-rated answers.

Stack Overflow does not let you delete questions that have accepted answers and many upvotes because it would remove knowledge from the community.

So instead I changed my highest-rated answers to a protest message.

Within an hour mods had changed the questions back and suspended my account for 7 days.

Diff view of a stack overflow question showing it being changed from the original text to a protest message, then being changed back again by a mod. Protest text reads: Why does OpenAI get to profit from our work? I have removed this question in protest of Stack Overflow's decision to partner with OpenAI. This move steals the labour of everyone who contributed to Stack Overflow with no way to opt-out. OpenAI has a history of flooding the web with inaccurate information and have explicitly stated that they will never pay creators for their work.

DrALJONES, 15 days ago (edited 15 days ago) to Israel

Report

Israeli government bans Al Jazeera

The Israeli government has ordered the closure of Al Jazeera in Israel (Arabic & English) & the confiscation of its equipment.

The website is now inaccessible in Israel.

In response, Al Jazeera – which has been producing on the ground reporting of Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza – vowed to continue its coverage.

Reportedly, the ban does not affect the Occupied Territories.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-41388757.html

#Israel #AlJazeeraBan #Censorship ..

per_sonne, 16 days ago to random Portuguese

Quando eu estava desempregado era muito mais fácil preencher a porcaria do IRS. Agora é uma confusão de vários contratos, recibos verdes, segurança social, anexos A, B, H, deduções à colecta... É preciso um doutoramento para perceber as alíneas todas. Não admira que os mais ricos sejam peritos em evasão fiscal, com contabilistas dedicados pagos a peso de ouro.

popey, 24 days ago (edited 23 days ago) to random

Tomorrow, I'll be up early to take number one Son to photograph cars. I'll take the laptop. 💻

Which of these activities should I do while I wait with my coffee for him to finish? 🤔

popey, 24 days ago to linux

Hey @itsfoss - This you?
What a difference a year makes, huh?

Bit weird. Maybe have a lie down.

#linux #ubuntu

Also It's FOSS, sorry, IT'S FOSS, GETTING IRRATIONALLY ANGRY ABOUT THE SAME SOFTWARE.

per_sonne, 24 days ago to random Portuguese

https://blog.nuneshiggs.com/codigo-aberto-e-liberdade/
"Assim como os portugueses celebram o 25 de abril como O marco da Libertação, os utilizadores do opensource celebram cada linha de código como um pequeno ato de resistência contra a opressão digital. Porque, no final das contas, a verdadeira revolução não é aquela que acontece nas ruas, mas sim aquela que acontece nas mentes e nos corações das pessoas.

Enquanto os cravos continuarem a florescer, o espírito de liberdade que os inspirou continuará a arder vivo. E enquanto o opensource continuar a prosperar, a chama da liberdade digital continuará a queimar brilhantemente, iluminando o caminho para um futuro onde a tecnologia serve à humanidade, e não o contrário."

per_sonne, 24 days ago to random Portuguese

50th anniversary of the 25th April ("The Carnation Revolution") lots and lots of pictures, videos and testimonies of friends who attended the parades all over the country, but most especially Lisbon, which was absolutely massive by all accounts. They all report perhaps one of the largest demonstrations yet, with lots of young people and an overwhelming feeling of absolute, stubborn pure defiant JOY.
I don't think I can convey this as eloquently as I would like to, to my foreign friends over here...it's just...heartwarming. Despite all the obstacles, despite the massive funding of the far right, despite the cosy support they seem to enjoy in the media and social networks, despite all the loud noise they make seeding hatred and flaming cultural wars for the benefit of a few; today a wide river of red carnations rumbled powerfully through the country, like a dormant volcano of equality, fraternity and Freedom, roaring beneath our feet.
There is yet Hope.

per_sonne, 25 days ago to random Portuguese

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/corporate-open-source-dead

"But it's totally different when you build your product under an open source license, foster a community of users who then build their own businesses on top of that software, then yoink the license when your revenue is affected.
That's called a bait-and-switch."

per_sonne, 25 days ago to random Portuguese

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/24/naming-names/

"Zitron tells the story of a boardroom struggle over search quality, in which Ben Gomes – a long-tenured googler who helped define the company during its best years – lost a fight with Prabhakar Raghavan, a computer scientist turned manager whose tactic for increasing the number of search queries (and thus the number of ads the company could show to searchers) was to decrease the quality of search. That way, searchers would have to spend more time on Google before they found what they were looking for.

Zitron contrasts the background of these two figures. Gomes, the hero, worked at Google for 19 years, solving fantastically hard technical scaling problems and eventually becoming the company's "search czar." Raghavan, the villain, "failed upwards" through his career, including a stint as Yahoo's head of search from 2005-12, a presiding over the collapse of Yahoo's search business. Under Raghavan's leadership, Yahoo's search market-share fell from 30.4% to 14%, and in the end, Yahoo jettisoned its search altogether and replaced it with Bing."

per_sonne, 1 month ago to random Portuguese

12 de Abril de 1961: subiu aos céus o filho de um humilde carpinteiro, aos ombros da ciência e tecnologia e graças ao esforço colectivo de gerações de professores, engenheiros, pilotos, cientistas, operários, artesãos, físicos e matemáticos: Yuri Gagarine - primeiro ser humano no Espaço.

per_sonne, 1 month ago to random Portuguese

Cool stuff.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/11/fairphone-fairbuds-review-ethically-made-earbuds-with-replaceable-batteries

gerrymcgovern, 1 month ago to random

In a city called The Dalles, in Oregon, USA, local people were worried that Google’s water use was soaring. As is so often the case, the city officials, who had given Google hundreds of millions in tax breaks, had no intention of letting anyone know how much water Google was using. It was up to a local paper, The Oregonian, to try and find out. They were forced to bring a case to court. City officials were ordered by Google to claim that Google’s use of scarce pubic water was a “trade secret”.

per_sonne, 1 month ago to random Portuguese

Quick reminder that the XZ backdoor discovery and patching would take a lot longer and make many more victims along the way, if the code was proprietary and closed-source.

• slapping the laptop with an open hand *

villares, 1 month ago to random Portuguese

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/28/sam-bankman-fried-sentenced-prison-ftx-fraud 25 anos foi é pouco...

remixtures, 1 month ago to privacy Portuguese

#Privacy #DigitalRights #Surveillance #FacialRecognition: "Over the past decade, there has been a steep rise globally in law enforcement using facial recognition technology. Data gathered by Steven Feldstein, a researcher with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, found that government agencies in 78 countries now use public facial recognition systems.

ByteDance shuts down its WhatsApp clone in Africa
The public is often supportive of the use of such tech: 59% of U.K. adults told a survey they “somewhat” or “strongly” support police use of facial recognition technology in public spaces, and a Pew Research study found 46% of U.S. adults said they thought it was a good idea for society. In China, one study found that 51% of respondents approved of facial recognition tech in the public sphere, while in India, 69% of people said in a 2023 report that they supported its use by the police.

But while authorities generally pitch facial recognition as a tool to capture terrorists or wanted murderers, the technology has also emerged as a critical instrument in a very particular context: punishing protesters."

https://restofworld.org/2024/facial-recognition-government-protest-surveillance/

d3, 1 month ago to random Portuguese

O novo Cartão de Cidadão vem “tornar mais leves as complexidades do mundo actual".

Em breve, a tua identidade pode ficar associada aos transportes públicos em que andaste e aos espectáculos e eventos a que foste.

Diz-nos, que mais coisas queremos associadas ao CC? 🙄 (apenas respostas erradas)

https://youtu.be/S3mVFa-s8xc?si=8DC8jfh1Pxteikot

per_sonne, 2 months ago to random Portuguese

"This "AI debate" is pretty stupid, proceeding as it does from the foregone conclusion that adding compute power and data to the next-word-predictor program will eventually create a conscious being, which will then inevitably become a superbeing. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding faster and faster horses, we'll get a locomotive"

https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/27/10-types-of-people/

per_sonne, 4 months ago to random Portuguese

WOW. Worth a read! https://www.404media.co/polish-hackers-explain-exactly-how-they-fixed-trains-that-the-manufacturer-bricked/

per_sonne, 6 months ago to random Portuguese

A assistir à Angola Open Source Fest; questões MUITO interessantes do público relativamente à legislação Angolana sobre software e direitos autorais no universo do Software Livre, com Elisabete Sá Cardoso. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xIj5SZRPe8

per_sonne, 6 months ago to random

The European Commission refuses to attend sessions to debate their ChatControl proposal. How very democratic. Are we heading towards a Chinese-style internet in the EU? What will happen when environmental activists have their communications monitored under the guise of these laws, for example? What will happen to LGBTQA+ people and opposition parties when Viktor Orban's Fidesz party in Hungary will be able to monitor and target their private communications? Is anyone even considering the implications? https://www.europarl.europa.eu/streaming/?event=20231023-1230-SPECIAL-OTHER