josemurilo

josemurilo, 4 days ago to ai

"This idea that there’s a kind of unquantifiable #magicsauce in #AI that will allow us to forgive its tenuous relationship with reality is brought up a lot by the people eager to hand-wave away accuracy concerns. Google,OpenAI,Microsoft dismissed hallucination as a small annoyance that should be forgiven…
But apologies to Sam and everyone else financially incentivized to get me excited about AI. I don’t come to computers for the inaccurate magic of human #consciousness."
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/15/24154808/ai-chatgpt-google-gemini-microsoft-copilot-hallucination-wrong

josemurilo, 7 days ago to mastodon

"Its structure makes it unlikely to replace Twitter for a user base in the billions…But #Mastodon is also unlikely to go away.
Despite its genuine #decentralisation, it has also implemented a #covenant that does a pretty good job of excluding the far-right extremists by a purely social process — if you keep horrible arseholes on your server, you’re liable to be shunned."
https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2024/05/10/jack-dorsey-bluesky-decentralised-social-networks-and-the-very-common-crowd/

josemurilo, 8 days ago to bluesky Portuguese

"#Jack recently deleted his account on #Bluesky, once pitched—by him—as #socialmedia’s decentralized solution to censorship, and left the company’s board. I reached out and asked him why, which is where our call began…what follows is a missing chapter of internet history that sheds light not only on Bluesky, but #Twitter, X, and the past 5 years of censorship & backlash. The future will be decentralized, or it won’t be free."
https://www.piratewires.com/p/interview-with-jack-dorsey-mike-solana

josemurilo, 10 days ago to random Portuguese

"When the web – and its browsers – were a big, contented, diverse, competitive space, it was harder for tech companies to collude to capture standards bodies like the #W3C to secure even more dominance. As the web turned into Tom Eastman's "five giant websites filled with screenshots of text from the other four," that kind of collusion became much easier."

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/07/treacherous-computing/

josemurilo, 12 days ago to climate Portuguese

"At least 749 journalists or news media reporting on environmental issues have been attacked in the last 15 years, and online #disinformation has surged dramatically in this period. #UNESCO is calling for stronger support for environmental #journalists and better governance of digital platforms."
#climatechange
https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/unesco-report-reveals-70-environmental-journalists-have-been-attacked-their-work

josemurilo, 14 days ago to random

"The #consciousness of the majority has to enlarge or that discord will be #TheEnd of us. You can’t have only personal and up close morality on a planet that now has technological capabilities to murder so many from afar…if you don’t care about others far away, eventually this will come to your doorstep.
This is why the #young who are protesting give off such #hope."

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/05/03/its-more-than-just-protests-for-palestine-it-is-existential-hope-for-the-world/

josemurilo, 16 days ago to random Portuguese

#Capitalism rules:

"The long-term popularity of any given tool for software development is proportional to how much labour arbitrage it enables."

RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/112372048639508743

josemurilo, 20 days ago to opensource

"#Tangara is a portable #musicplayer. It outputs high-quality sound through a 3.5 mm headphone jack or Bluetooth, has great battery life, and includes a processor that’s powerful enough to support any audio format you can throw at it. It’s also 100% #openhardware running #opensource software, which makes it easy to customize, #repair, and upgrade. Tangara plays what you want to hear, however you want to hear it."
https://www.crowdsupply.com/cool-tech-zone/tangara

josemurilo, 20 days ago to usenet

"Today, many folks look back with fondness on the early days of computer-based messaging. Depending on age, they may wax nostalgic for #bbses #Usenet, or #webforums. All these technologies still exist, although either barely used or are full of spam. It’s hard not to think that something may have been lost.
Perhaps the future isn’t one of endless growth for all-powerful corporations but a return to smaller, more personal “third spaces” where we can feel comfortable."
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/first-post-a-history-of-online-public-messaging/

josemurilo, 22 days ago to random Portuguese

"Recent #protests have not yet reached the scale of the major #studentprotests of the late 1960s against the Vietnam War or the 1980s against South African apartheid. But on campus, they may be “the largest student movement so far” of the 21st century"

https://www.vox.com/politics/24141636/campus-protest-columbia-israel-kent-state-history

josemurilo, 23 days ago to Columbia

"In the middle of the quad, students had set up a snack table—complete with a “nut zone” to accommodate their peers with allergies—that also had sunscreen, water bottles, and ibuprofen available.

“It’s basically just a bunch of #nerds, and then I go home, check Twitter, and I hear like, ‘#ProHamas mob has taken over #Columbia.’ There’s a huge disparity between what’s going on here and how it’s been portrayed by the #media."
https://www.theverge.com/24141073/columbia-doxxing-truck-student-encampment-palestine-israel

josemurilo, 25 days ago to ai

"#AI has the capacity to conjure convincing human simulacra from trillions of bytes of data; and, by doing so, to upend centuries of assumptions around truth, identity and our shared experiences of reality."

"We should make it a mark of shame, not pride, when you make your AI more #human."
#DanielDennett

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240422-philosopher-daniel-dennett-artificial-intelligence-consciousness-counterfeit-people

josemurilo, 27 days ago to ghost Portuguese

"#Ghost is also making #ActivityPub a first-class citizen in the subscription flow. When clicking on the Subscribe button on a Ghost #newsletter, you will now be able to subscribe through email or through ActivityPub. This is exciting for several reasons, one being the fact that your email inbox no longer has to be inundated with content that you eventually want to discuss on #socialmedia anyway."

https://wedistribute.org/2024/04/ghost-implements-activitypub/

josemurilo, 27 days ago to fediverse Portuguese

"#ActivityPods is a combination of two #W3C standards: #ActivityPub, and the #Solid specification. The first standard is for data federation and networks, the second is for data storage and access. The ideals of both projects put together create a compelling vision: data control, across user applications, in service to communication across the web."

https://wedistribute.org/2024/04/activitypods-federated-solid-pods/

josemurilo, 28 days ago to Bulgaria

"I wonder what happened to turn John’s [#Gruber] attitude…
The #EU… does not allow big companies to “own” markets because #freemarkets (in the EU’s eyes) are good, and privately owned ones that allow big companies to stop being capitalists and act like #feudal lords are bad. Facebook, Apple, and the rest have been doing this in digital for a long time, and the EU has decided it’s going to stop."
https://ianbetteridge.com/2024/04/19/what-a-difference-four-years-makes/

josemurilo, 29 days ago to random

#AIvsCopyright
"The USCO’s does not recognize her as author of the whole text as is conventional for written works. Instead she is considered the author of the “selection, coordination, and arrangement of text generated by artificial intelligence.” This means no one can copy the book without permission, but the actual sentences & paragraphs are not copyrighted and could theoretically be rearranged and republished…"
https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-copyright-office-loosens-up-a-little-on-ai/

josemurilo, 29 days ago to random

"The gap between those with and without fast, secure and neutral #internetaccess has profound implications for their ability to participate in and contribute to society.

Our interpretation of internet access must be as a universal, equitable, and non-discriminatory right, intrinsic to societal participation and personal development, not a commodity to be bought and sold for profit."
#UniversalRight

https://joanwestenberg.com/blog/b1yrhi9kgm2ov15djytwh14xnvfzjl

josemurilo, 1 month ago to browsers Portuguese

#DMA: Good #regulation works.

"The early results come after the EU's sweeping Digital Markets Act, which aims to remove unfair competition, took effect on March 7, forcing #bigtech companies to offer mobile users the ability to select from a list of available web #browsers from a #choicescreen."

https://www.reuters.com/technology/eus-new-tech-laws-are-working-small-browsers-gain-market-share-2024-04-10/

josemurilo, 1 month ago to Wikipedia

Abolishing #Section230 Would Abolish #Wikipedia
"…to make sure that your #Section230Reform proposal will address the harms you're seeking to address, without negatively impacting multiple #publicgoods, things that we want to protect and preserve on the internet, like for example, #Wikipedia — aply #TheWikipediaTest."
#RebeccaMackinnon, the legend, interviewed by @mmasnick
https://pca.st/bamex9e1

josemurilo, 1 month ago to mastodon Portuguese

"There’s nothing technically exceptional about #TruthSocial; in fact, it’s simply a modified social-media-site tool kit called #Mastodon.

The only thing that makes it different from anything else is that Donald #Trump owns it and posts on it and has pointed his huge base of support at it as a venue.

What’s happened since the stock went public at the end of last month is not normal."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/16/tech-stock-bubble-burst-all-within-three-weeks/

josemurilo, 1 month ago to fediverse

Brazilian Museums Rock the #Fediverse: by stitching two #WordPressPlugins, #Tainacan & #ActivityPub, #Brasiliana has managed to provide a framework for "digitally sharing #museum cultural heritage collections with indigenous communities."
“In its new role as a facilitator of dialogue on memory, heritage, and collections, the #museum creates a conducive environment for open, transparent, and well-documented discussions.”
@daltonmartins
https://brasiliana.museus.gov.br/digital-decolonization-of-collections-innovation-broadens-the-scope-of-museums/

josemurilo, 1 month ago to random

“In a dream world, every national library would have enough funds to bring on an amazing team of people. Governments often don't have that” says professor Ian Milligan, who is writing a book on the #InternetArchive’s origins.
The Internet Archive has not previously acted as custodian of a country’s whole collection, although it has worked with a number of national and regional #libraries around the world."
#digitalmemory
https://www.wired.com/story/internet-archive-backed-up-aruba-caribbean-island/

josemurilo, 1 month ago to brazil

“We have a very strong support outside #Brazil,” said #JairBolsonaro as he was asked about Elon #Musk claiming he would no longer comply with the orders of the Supreme Court, calling it “censorship.”

Elon Musk’s challenge to #AlexandreDeMoraes, the judge, is Eduardo Bolsonaro’s achievement.

Since March, Bolsonaro's son has been trying to increase the international profile of the former president in the face of imminent arrest threat."

https://apublica.org/2024/04/desafio-de-elon-musk-a-moraes-e-conquista-de-eduardo-bolsonaro/

josemurilo, 1 month ago to TeslaMotors

"#Musk will be investigated for alleged intentional criminal instrumentalization of X as part of an investigation into a network of people known as digital militias who allegedly spread defamatory fake news and threats against Supreme Court justices in #Brazil, according to the text of the decision. The new investigation will look into whether Musk engaged in obstruction, criminal organization and incitement."

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/08/1243382430/elon-musk-brazil-supreme-court-investigation

josemurilo, 1 month ago to random

"In an age where technology can easily mislead or overwhelm, trusting in #humancuration becomes not a preference but a necessity for preserving the quality of the information that shapes our understanding of the world.

Across the Fediverse and beyond, respected voices are leveraging platforms like Mastodon and their websites to share personally vetted links, analysis, and creations."

https://joanwestenberg.com/blog/curation-is-the-last-best-hope-of-intelligent-discourse