"After quizzing these companies about data practices, I learned that most are sharing what’s happening in my home with Amazon, too. Our data is the price of entry for devices that want to integrate with Alexa. Amazon’s not only eavesdropping — it’s tracking everything happening in your home."
#GeoffreyAFowler, 'Alexa has been eavesdropping on you this whole time'
@strypey@pluralistic@PC_Fluesterer@phlogiston
Speaking of #copyright, and how it might be used for good, over the past 3 years (to the month) we've been working on a fediverse icon in collaboartion with random fedizens. We always added on the #copyleft license how the design is AGPLv3 for AGPLv3 softwares that comprise the fediverse. Meaning it cannot be used to link to FalseBook Threa(t)s and their proprietary garbage.
If fedizens use it, it'll nip FBook's #extinguish op in the bud..
This is interesting: Nightshade is a tool artists can use that will poison image-generating machine learning models. I lean far toward the copyleft / open culture side of intellectual property--I want people to steal my stuff!--but, I guess, because I have other issues with machine learning models in the art space I tend to like this guerrilla hack artists can use to poison the machine learning training data well. Thoughts? https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/23/1082189/data-poisoning-artists-fight-generative-ai/@nina love to know your thoughts? #Art#CopyLeft
Diese Initiative von #BrucePerens, Mitbegründer der Open-Source-Bewegung, hat durchaus explosives Potential.
Haben die üblichen #FOSS-Lizenzen ausgedient? Wurde FOSS von Konzernen anders verwendet als von der FOSS-Idee her ursprünglich gedacht? Wie würde eine korrigierte Lizenz aussehen? 🤔
It'll very ironic for FOSS advocates to start supporting big corporate copyrights just because they have a beef with #AI. Very ironic indeed. For me at least, anything that undermines copyright law as it exists today is good because in its current form it only serves to consolidate the power of the likes of Disney while stifling the power and rights of creators. #copyright#copyleft
From 2015 to 2022, I spent hundreds of hours on Duolingo, translating articles, answering language questions on the forums, and helping to improve the smaller courses by reporting mistakes.
There are thousands of volunteers who donated their labour to Duo: the course creators who wrote their courses, the volunteers who created grammar guides (some smaller languages had an entire second course in the forums), the wiki contributors, the native speakers who answered questions in the sentence discussions.
All of their work made Duolingo the powerhouse it is today. Duo was built by a community who believed in its original mission: language learning should be free and accessible.
Bit by bit all of our work was hidden from us as Duolingo became a publicly-traded company. And now that work is being fed into their AI as training data.
Well, I've learned the true lesson of Duolingo: never give a corporation your labour for free. Don't ever trust them, no matter what they say. Eventually greed will consume any good intentions.
I would suggest that what you really learned was to ALWAYS "License" your contributions to any crowd-sourced project under CC-BY-SA, the #FSF#GPL or #AGPL, or some other #Creative_Commons or strong #Copyleft license.
Again: "License" your contributions - do not "ASSIGN" your copyright to any project. It's a common technique used by tricksters to steal your intellectual property for their own diabolical, ulterior motives like you just described
#BOOX uses a big number of #FOSS stuff in their #epaper tablets. I first thought it's just the #Linux#kernel which they don't release the source code. But I've realized they are using many more FOSS stuff. Like the #Android apps from #SimpleMobile which are not #copyleft but if they were, legally, BOOX had to free their source code, too. One might argue what is the difference when they don't release the source codes. The differences come up when BOOX is in a court. #GPL#free_software
Appena approdati nel #fediverso e su #mastodon , iniziamo con una #presentazione . SubTerra è un'etichetta italiana di musica indipendente in ambito indie, pop, rock, prog, post e affini. Dal 2006 diffondiamo la musica dei nostri artisti con licenze #copyleft e uno spirito assolutamente anarchico. Crediamo infatti nel valore assoluto dell'autoproduzione e dell'autodistribuzione. Tra tutte le istanze esplorate finora #stereodon ci sembrava quella più in linea con la nostra filosofia. Eccoci qui!
While we are pleased when people use GNU licenses to distribute and license software, we condemn the use of unauthorized, confusing derivatives of the licenses. In this article, we explain how users are protected against restrictive terms introduced by people using GNU licenses' terms in drafting their own, new licenses: https://u.fsf.org/41g#GPL#AGPL#Copyleft#GNU
:matrix: So the dev teams of two major #Matrix homeservers, #Synapse and #Dendrite, have announced that they will fork their work to change from the non-reciprocal #Apache license to the reciprocal #AGPLv3. That is a good step in the right direction. #Copyleft is the only effective way to ensure software public goods remain open.
However the effect is not much change yet, because they will require a #CLA for contributions to be merged. Revert to a #DCO would ensure future protection.
The #Matrix project is re-licensing its servers (synapse, dendrite, ..) from #Apache to #AGPL, following the spate of similar measures by many other projects. Good that they didn't choose a non-FOSS license.
But they're also changing the sign-off from #DCO to #CLA. That is very disappointing.
PS: If you are starting a FOSS project, consider adopting a #copyleft license. It should be abundantly clear by now that the push for permissive licenses is an attempt to extract free labour.
Well it's come to that point. Sadly, it is now time to see what happens when your #FOSS assets at #GitHub were unwisely licensed under a license other than a #Copyleft license...
Because some as of yet unnamed (for profit) creditor now owns the code you're using to publish your videos.
looking around for an example of a #relm4 app in action, I found this video on youtube[1] from a couple weeks ago, where the vlogger asks #github#copilot to generate a #GTK4 file manager in #rust, and the result works (image left), but just so happens to look exactly like eucl.io's "fm" relm4 file manager[2], replicating all of the design decisions except for the color theme.
A lot of newer #solarpunk art is made with AI. I wonder if this is a useful practice. A lot of this art is randomly green stuff on lots of circular modern style buildings and lots of solar panels.
One thing that living systems have is a functional purpose. We see a lot of that in vernacular architecture too. I wonder if it's good to imagine a future that is based on random probabilities and not on context.
It's fast and good looking results, but the lack of thought behind it concerns me.
@ubi I absolutely agree. We need the visuals for #solarpunk as much as the narratives.
Recently we've had a discussion about that on Fedi and my (pretty controversial) take is that we need more intentional #copyleft / #creativeCommons Solarpunk art, so that people will feel free to use it instead of the Public Domain #AI - generated images.
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The 'Anyone But Richard M Stallman' license serves a minor but important role in the rapidly changing story of complex, specific and potentially invalid or unenforceable #SoftwareLicenses. #copyleft