Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org
Joined Dec 2022
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Conservatives twist DirecTV's fee dispute with #newsmax into #censorship battle
#conservative politicians continue to complain about #DirecTV dropping #newsmax and accuse the company of media censorship. The accusations ignore DirecTV's efforts to replace the channel with another conservative opinion and commentary TV network.
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What was done to @BostonJoan is frightening. We're in a race to study how and why social media is so vulnerable to misinformation so we can make these systems safer. We need her research, and we need HER. What a black mark for academic freedom.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/2/2/donovan-forced-leave-hks/
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Florida could end unanimous jury requirement for executions. Fascism part 22? https://apnews.com/article/e86c7e9e7ff92fbaa025677fbf96d8fe
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How we fell out of love with voice assistants
Worries over #privacy and the cost of living have curbed interest in voice assistants like #Alexa
> Never got one.
#voiceassistants
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64371426?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
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Spoiler: None of the linked essay was written by ChapGPT. https://slate.com/technology/2023/02/chat-gpt-cheating-college-ai-detection.html
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It's 2023. "Gosh, we didn't realize how people would misuse this" just isn't believable anymore.
Bare minimum, with any new tech:
1) How would a stalker use this?
2) What will 4chan do with this?
And don't release, not even as alpha or beta, before mitigating those risks.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/31/23579289/ai-voice-clone-deepfake-abuse-4chan-elevenlabs
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Apple’s new algorithm to detect whether someone has been in a car accident is wreaking havoc for 911 call centers this ski season. Yet another example of a good idea from a technology company in theory that has problems in practice. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/health/apple-watch-911-emergency-call.html
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Charter’s $7 Billion Penalty For Murdering An Elderly Customer Reduced To $262 Million https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/03/charters-7-billion-penalty-for-murdering-an-elderly-customer-reduced-to-262-million/
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So you may have noticed that the Twitter login of https://movetodon.org/ is not working at the moment.
According to twitter, the app “has violated Twitter Rules and policies”. I can’t tell much more at the moment since the email they mention never arrived in my inbox.
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"#Amazon has long wanted to become not indispensable, but unavoidable. The key difference there is that a company is indispensable through quality of service and affordability; a company is unavoidable simply by being in the way"
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Google likes to claim it loves the web. Google fucking broke the web.
Cookie notices on every fucking website? They need those because they use Google Analytics or Google Ads.
Recipe sites that go on for fucking days? That’s because Google penalises websites when you leave too quickly, and they can’t show as many ads.
Obviously-bullshit machine-generated “content” designed to entice you to click ads? That’s because Google Search is a monopoly.
I’m so tired of Google.
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The proposed EU law Chat Control will not only create a centralized mass surveillance system and violate people's privacy. It will also ban open source operating systems as an unintended consequence.
If and when this law goes into effect it would make illegal the open source software services underpinning the majority of services and infrastructure on the internet.
Learn more here: https://mullvad.net/blog/2023/2/1/eu-chat-control-law-will-ban-open-source-operating-systems/
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Twitter's new policy will likely shut down thousands of #EMGTwitter emergency alerting and emergency management accounts.
Every time you reduce the methods of communication in an emergency you risk human lives and property damage.
RT @apukwa
Will Environment Canada pay to maintain its 840 weather warning bots?
Will Natural Resources Canada pay to maintain its automated Earthquake bots?
Will NOAA pay to distribute it's Tsunami warning…
https://twitter.com/apukwa/status/1621192299459018752
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Microsoft Bing testing the new ChatGPT search feature in the wild? https://www.seroundtable.com/microsoft-bing-chatgpt-search-interface-34847.html spotted by @Owen_Yin
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ChatGPT is the fastest-growing web app in history claim analysts https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/03/chatgpt_most_popular_apps/
#bot
Original tweet : https://nitter.1d4.us/TheRegister/status/1621395898038161409
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#OpenSource #AI #SpeechRecognition #Whisper #OpenAI: "Whisper transcribes speech in more than ninety languages. In some of them, the software is capable of superhuman performance—that is, it can actually parse what somebody’s saying better than a human can.
What’s so unusual about Whisper is that OpenAI open-sourced it, releasing not just the code but a detailed description of its architecture. They also included the all-important “model weights”: a giant file of numbers specifying the synaptic strength of every connection in the software’s neural network. In so doing, OpenAI made it possible for anyone, including an amateur like Gerganov, to modify the program. Gerganov converted Whisper to C++, a widely supported programming language, to make it easier to download and run on practically any device. This sounds like a logistical detail, but it’s actually the mark of a wider sea change. Until recently, world-beating A.I.s like Whisper were the exclusive province of the big tech firms that developed them. They existed behind the scenes, subtly powering search results, recommendations, chat assistants, and the like. If outsiders have been allowed to use them directly, their usage has been metered and controlled."
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/whispers-of-ais-modular-future
For years I used a #Twitter app but it stopped working when the #MuskRat decided that such apps should no longer be perrmitted access, so I just stopped reading #Twitter - I have plenty to read on #Mastodon. But now that he's pulling the plug on API's I decided to just delete all my previous tweets. There are several tools that will do this for you but some only delete a few tweets and then force you to pay to delete the rest. But there is one called TweetEraser at https://www.tweeteraser.com/ that has a free eraser that will let you delete all your past tweets for free. Their interface isn't the most intuitive and you might have to click a few things to find the screen that lets you view and delete your tweets, and at first it will show a page of only 10 tweets. But if you check the box(es) to delete one or more tweets, it will asks you if you just want to delete the ones you have checked or all those it has found. If there is a limit on the number of tweets it will delete, I must not have hit it (then again I was not a profific tweeter).
TweetEraser also has paid options but unless they have found a way to get around the API removal, none of their options will work in a few days. So if you want to get rid of your past tweets en masse while you still can, maybe check out the free eraser at TweetEraser and see if it will do the job for you.
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@mmasnick We have one of those "Recent Tweets" widgets on our website (which depends on the Twitter API). We've been wondering lately whether that was worth keeping. Elon has decided for us that it will go. We haven't looked yet, but We're 100 percent sure we can replace that with a "Recent Toots" widget. We can think of one or two other Twitter integrations that will probably stop working. No great loss.
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"Twitter has thousands of outside developers who have built useful tools, games, and analytics on the platform that will now all have to be scrapped"
This is one of the risks that you take when building something on top of a proprietary system like Twitter. #FreeSoftware advocates have been warning about this for decades. Lesson learned this time?
https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/02/twitter_eliminating_all_free_api/
