Parienve @Parienve@social.cleverlibre.org

Every time I hear "AI" I've been learning from @jonny and @Mer__edith to replace it with "surveillance technology."

This morning, listening to Maxine Doogan and Tara Burns talk to Doug Henwood about their recent report on the use of surveillance technology (marketed as a weapon against sex slavery, but generally ineffective against that) to control, track and harass sex workers (and nonwhite trans and genderfluid women, even if they're not doing sex work):

https://esplerp.org/how-the-war-on-sex-work-is-stripping-your-privacy-rights-report/

Mushroom pickers urged: Avoid Amazon foraging books, appear to be written by AI

Link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/01/mushroom-pickers-urged-to-avoid-foraging-books-on-amazon-that-appear-to-be-written-by-ai
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37354577

#amazon

@indrora Use Codeberg, give them money if you have it.

If feasible: Host your own Forgejo.

In-between solution: Have www.gna.org/ manage a Forgejo+#Woodpecker for you. It's money, but it's the same level as a managed Mastodon setup.

Loads of projects with actual money could do this but are still on Github. CPython *moved* there from independent hosting.

I was going to say "recently", but apparently I'm An Old and the "recent" event was 6 years ago.

An iOS app is being tested with #SkyBridge that allows the use of Mastodon apps with #BlueSky

What do you think if we contribute so #Fedilab can also benefit from this bridge?

https://github.com/videah/SkyBridge

So who wants to help the @Codeberg folks implement code search?

https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Community/issues/904

#git #codeberg #search #scm #versionControl #foss #openSource #dev

This is really cool: About ten years ago, a few friends and I built the first #Matelight, a very large display made from crates of glass bottles stacked up sideways, with adressable LEDs stuck into the bottles from the back. Now Hito Steyerl, a renowned artist, used a Matelight inspired by the actual one we hacked together back then at c-base as a part of one of her installations, called "Green Screen". Here's an article on the exhibition, and a photo:
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/jun/13/post-internet-artist-hito-steyerl-refusing-honours-big-tech
#electronics #art

Github Open Space Toolkit
In C and Python

https://github.com/open-space-collective/open-space-toolkit

Back in April 15th of 1998, a fan site known as "VX Half-Life" (later known as HalfLife Dot Org) released a video of their trip to Valve Software during Half-Life's development.

This video is LOST! Only bits and pieces of the video have survived throughout the years.

So I'm asking YOU data hoarders and folk who had the hindsight to make backups of your data, do you possibly have this video? Does anyone know anyone who may have kept this video? Does anyone know the people involved in the creation of this video? Does anyone know people who may have worked at GameStats who would of kept a server backup with the file present?

Attached is the only surviving minute of the video and some screen caps of the video from the archived site.

Known Filenames:
HalfLife.rm
valve2.avi
valvevisit.avi (46625 kb)
valve2.zip (7085 kb)
mvc-006f.jpg (screen cap of the video from preview.html)

Written Preview:
https://web.archive.org/web/19990221011950/http://half-life.gamestats.com:80/preview.html

preview2.html through preview5.html were not archived.

Non-controversial opinion:

Data brokers put people's lives at risk.

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/mozilla-applauds-cfpb-for-taking-on-data-broker-ecosystem/

Can a worker-owned restaurant work?

https://southseattleemerald.com/2023/08/26/can-a-worker-owned-restaurant-work/

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://southseattleemerald.com/2023/08/26/can-a-worker-owned-restaurant-work/

could you imagine explaining this to anyone

Reaching the Unix Philosophy's Logical Extreme with Webassembly

https://xeiaso.net/talks/unix-philosophy-logical-extreme-wasm

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://xeiaso.net/talks/unix-philosophy-logical-extreme-wasm

#programming #unix #webassembly

jank development update - Object model results

https://jank-lang.org/blog/2023-08-26-object-model/

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://jank-lang.org/blog/2023-08-26-object-model/

#clojure #programming

"No serious scholar or scientist in their right mind would want LLMs to produce their texts; and hence, also no student pursuing an academic education would want to do so." - Iris van Rooij

A short, but very good blog post by @Iris - https://irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2022/12/29/against-automated-plagiarism/

I very much agree with Professor van Rooij's argument in her blog. How can we, at the same time, teach 1) that manual plagiarism is wrong but 2) automated plagiarism is okay?

I have been testing @organicmaps in hiking this week besides the paper map. It is working smoothly. At least for me, it found existing hiking routes and wickets. Advantage is it is showing estimated time and distance to destination and for route planning also the elevation profile.

Recommendation systems are useful, but sometimes we just want to discover new things by ourselves. In this article I present 6 alternatives to "the algorithm".

https://blog.ddavo.me/posts/death-to-the-algorithm

#algorithm #youtube #radio #ethics #blog #recommendersystems #AI #datagovernance

The #Forgejo summer update was published ✨ It is a high level overview of the project activities.

Forgejo v1.20, was published and was 100% built with Forgejo Actions. Codeberg was upgraded 10 August and hit an unexpected issue. It was quickly resolved and the fix will be integrated in the next release. Meanwhile development continued on the code, the website, the documentaion etc. All signs of a healthy project that needs your help to keep going in the long run. 🙏

https://forgejo.org/2023-08-monthly-update/

@reginagrogan
Me: Bank, do you support 2FA?
Bank: no, what is that?
Me: Two-factor authentication. Like using an app or a yubikey.
Bank: ah, no, we just added SMS auth
Me: but it's well-documented that SMS is not as secure, aren't you a bank?
Bank: ...

It occurred to me today that the social value of the open-source work I do in my free time has probably been an order of magnitude more useful to the world than everything I've ever done as a paid employee. Needing to seek a wage almost certainly makes me a less productive member of society than I would otherwise be.