Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org

Section 230 bars lawsuits from treating "interactive computer service" providers from being treated as the "publisher" of content from "another information content provider."

I tried to succinctly explain why the plaintiffs argue those 26 famous words don't protect YouTube's algorithmic recommendations: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/21/gonzalez-v-google-section-230-supreme-court/#link-T7Q3UZN5C5ENRKKGOFCJJHDCMM

I gave a lecture the other day focused on the implications of #ChatGpt for faculty. Our faculty said they benefitted from learning how exactly it worked, and I spent the whole time on word2vec, which underlies much of these systems. The audience mentioned this calmed their nerves way more than anything else they had seen.

#edutooters #ai #openai #edtech #edchat

How to Manage Packages with APT on Ubuntu

https://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-manage-packages-with-apt-on-ubuntu/

#ubuntu

A Microsoft forum post from November 23, 2022 describes AI chatbot Sydney "misbehaving" and being "so rude", suggesting the company knew about its quirks (Gary Marcus/The Road to AI We Can Trust)

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/what-did-they-know-and-when-did-they
http://www.techmeme.com/230221/p16#a230221p16

"Hi, I am #Ubuntu #Snap ... I first harrassed you by suddenly changing your mouse pointer scheme after an update."

"Because you managed to find out that #Gnome Tweaks wasn't enough, and a sudo reboot from command line was needed, for this update we made things a little bit more annoying for you and previous solution will no longer work."

"At your service, and enjoy the weird hand pointers while you figure this one out!"

Proposing terminology for a pattern I've seen for at least ten years.

"De-inventing": when an entity (usually a large corporation) brings about the abandonment of a significant common (often lightweight) interoperable technology, protocol, or framework, replacing it with something proprietary, isolated, and often heavyweight. Often done as a means of enclosing the commons.

First example that comes to mind is Google killing XMPP.

#OpenSource #OSS #OpenTechnology

"Ultimately, #OpenAI believes it might be able to train AI models to represent different perspectives and worldviews. So instead of a one-size-fits-all #ChatGPT, people might be able to use it to generate answers that align with their own politics".

There we go: I just mentioned it in my article a few days ago, and now OpenAI confirms that this is indeed their strategy.

What can possibly go wrong with a chatbot that exposes you again and again to the same beliefs that you already hold? Reinforced confirmation bias? Ideological echo chambers? Increasing polarization and radicalization? Am I missing anything?

And, of course, I get why they're doing it: a chatbot that tells people what they like to hear is more likely to be adopted, and adoption is eventually the metric that investors use to pick winners. But do we really need anything like this in a world that is becoming more and more polarized, and where people have to be exposed to more diverse points of view and less self-reinforced echo chambers?

https://links.fabiomanganiello.com/share/63f4b32d804027.97691394

@8petros My daily tool for notes and markdown text writing is #Joplin. I use the #desktop application on #Linux. It has integrations with #Nextcloud and browsers (via a plug-in, you can annotate content from websites). It catalogs notes and texts in a folder tree very well. Can also be used as a #ToDo list.
Its #OpenSource software #foss
https://joplinapp.org

Canonical have published an FAQ for #Ubuntu Pro. Something that should have done before launch, but hey ho, we have it now. https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-pro-faq/34042?u=popey

"Mastodon is a decentralized and open-source alternative to Twitter. That said, the user experience may take some getting used to. But even with some of its faults, Mastodon is among the best social apps on Android.

"In other words, there are ways to make your transition to the platform more pleasant, and we've shortlisted the best clients Mastodon apps to use in 2023."
https://www.androidpolice.com/best-mastodon-apps/#andstatus
#Mastodon #Apps #Decentralized #OpenSource #TwitterMigration

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Now Powered by Linux 5.19 HWE https://www.linuxtoday.com/developer/ubuntu-22-04-lts-linux-5-19-hwe/

Recently, Olivier Poitrey reported unexpected behaviour with Unbound's `client-subnet-always-forward` and `serve-expired` options. This now been identified, fixed and merged into the main branch. #DNS #OpenSource https://github.com/NLnetLabs/unbound/issues/825

Always wanted to test out #hackintosh and since a lot of people always told me how good HP ENVY Notebooks are for installing macOS on it, I thought why not? 🤷‍♀️

I realise it's not #caturday but I feel it's important to remind you to keep your kittens fully charged.

A January 2023 survey of 300 HR leaders at US companies revealed that 98% of them say software and algorithms will help them make layoff decisions this year (Pranshu Verma/Washington Post)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/20/layoff-algorithms/
http://www.techmeme.com/230221/p3#a230221p3

「 Haiku takes a refreshingly new approach to package management: Despite the user experience “feeling” like a traditional package manager - say, something like apt or dnf - it has seamless support for:

Immutable system directories

Rollback to previous states

User-managed packages separated from system packages 」

—Mark Dastmalchi-Round
#HaikuOS #BeOS #Opensource
https://www.markround.com/blog/2023/02/13/haiku-package-management/

@elk @mmasnick @feditips @ivory @icecubesapp @tootapp Some instance admin will do something stupid or nuanced or controversial and someone in one of the other places will use it to make a big fcking huballoooooo about how Mastodon is terrible, and look, it's just like the Bad Place™️ "oh my god" you are subject to the whims of a person, but it's just some person in another country, it's not even Elon Musk! Ok, true, perhaps, but guess what's crazy awesome? You can stay here but move. 🤯

"Some of Twitter’s famed ecosystem is migrating over to the fediverse, and the number of third-party apps is growing fast. For example, Tusker promises to customize your timeline and supports both Pixelfed and Mastodon. For some power users, the app Tweetbot “was Twitter,” but after Twitter killed third-party apps the Tweetbot developers launched an app called Ivory for Mastodon... If those are not to your liking you can turn to Ice Cubes, Woolly, Mona, or Mammoth."

#twittermigration #fediverse