remixtures

lauren, 4 days ago to random

I've been asked if I can name another aspect of contemporary tech that has been as badly handled as the deployment of AI ... (not including cryptocurrencies). That's a toughie. AI is probably the winner, even if we included cryptocurrencies. AI will probably end up wasting even more electricity than cryptocurrencies, and is being stuffed down everyone's throats in a way that cryptocurrencies haven't been. And while cryptocurrencies impact financial markets in various creepy ways, AI is pretty much polluting EVERYTHING now. Yeah, there's no beating AI for evil in these respects.

realhackhistory, 5 days ago to random

Hmmm.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/07/4chan_nyt_code/

alberto_cottica, 8 days ago to random

"If Europe has nothing more to offer than market relations, it is by no means certain that it will hold together permanently."

Glad to be reading Piketty's"Capital and ideology" on the eve of an European election.

noybeu, 9 days ago to microsoft

🚨 noyb has filed two complaints against #Microsoft (365 Education) for violating children's data protection rights!

👉 The company shifts responsibility for #GDPR compliance to local schools...

👉 ...and places tracking cookies without consent

Read all about it here:

https://noyb.eu/en/microsoft-violates-childrens-privacy-blames-your-local-school

ElleGray, 9 days ago to random

ai has entered its roast era. large scale mockery signals the beginning of the end. good. 🙂

GossiTheDog, 9 days ago to random

If you want to explain to yourself why companies keep launching all these dumbass AI products and hurting their sentiments and bottom line, keep this @Quinnypig banger in mind.

Lylamehta, 10 days ago to Mexico

Excellent news. Well done Mexico for electing your first woman Jewish president who’s also left-wing & a climate scientist. And probably a compliment that US mainstream media & politicians don’t like her. #Mexico Mexico elects Claudia Sheinbaum as first woman president https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp4475gwny1o

tissagelibertaire, 10 days ago to random French

J'ai oublié d'en parler ici, mais il y a quelques jours j'ai mis en ligne le travail d'une année de recherche.

Lorsque j'ai commencé à demander des retours sur mon affiche anarchiste, on m'a fait remarquer que tous les termes n'étaient pas accessibles et que des définitions seraient d'une grande aide.

Alors j'ai commencé à bûcher sur une page internet. D'une simple liste de définitions je suis passé à une immense page de ressources qui m'a pris des mois .

Ce n'est qu'un premier jet. Je n'ai pas encore eu le temps de demander du fact checking. C'est donc probablement maladroit, incomplet, voir erroné par moment.

Mais voila :

https://tissagelibertaire.fr/index.php/lexique/

sarahjamielewis, 10 days ago to random

The thing about chat control / upload filters / client side scanning, whatever it's being called now; They are responses to an old generation of technology - one of an internet governed by centralized corporations.

Anonymous, peer to peer, file sharing exists. No centralized place to subvert - except the software running locally. Imperfect now, but intrinsically extant.

What proponents of these laws really want is to roll back the clock; something that is, fundamentally, not possible.

dangillmor, 10 days ago to random

“Old-fashioned shoe-leather reporting has been replaced by fake people who’ve never set foot in any of the neighborhoods they write about — because they don’t have feet,” says a former employee of a site that purports to do local journalism. Hoodline is a contemptible operation.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/article/ai-journalism-news-job-19449571.php

echo_pbreyer, 10 days ago to random German

🇩🇪 Vom EU-Rat letzte Woche mit Zustimmung der rot-grün-gelben Bundesregierung beschlossen:

🆔 Verbot anonymer #Barzahlungen über 3.000 €
🚫 komplettes Verbot von Barzahlungen über 10.000 €
₿ Verbot anonymer gehosteter Kryptowallets selbst bei Kleinstbeträgen

Auch im EU-Parlament stimmten fast alle Parteien dafür (s. Grafik).

Das bedeutet Krieg gegen das Bargeld, das unsere finanzielle Freiheit sichert – nicht mit uns #Piraten!

Mehr: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/piraten-mit-eu-barzahlungsobergrenze-und-verbot-anonymer-kryptowallets-droht-schleichende-finanzielle-entmuendigung/

fulelo, 10 days ago to random

V Guardian:
Revealed: #Russian legal foundation linked to #Kremlin activities in Europe

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/02/revealed-russian-legal-defence-foundation-pravfond-europe?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#pravfond

BrianJopek, 15 days ago to random

These need to be in place all over the country.

GossiTheDog, 22 days ago to random

For those who aren’t aware, Microsoft have decided to bake essentially an infostealer into base Windows OS and enable by default.

From the Microsoft FAQ: “Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers."

Info is stored locally - but rather than something like Redline stealing your local browser password vault, now they can just steal the last 3 months of everything you’ve typed and viewed in one database.

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remixtures, 25 days ago to China Portuguese

#China #BYD #EVs #USA: "“The Western markets did not democratize EVs. They gentrified EVs,” said Bill Russo, the founder of the Automobility Ltd. consultancy in Shanghai. “And when you gentrify, you limit the size of the market. China is all about democratizing EVs, and that’s what will ultimately lead Chinese companies to be successful as they go global.”

Inside a huge garage in an industrial area west of Detroit, a company called Caresoft Global tore apart a Seagull that its China office purchased and shipped to the U.S.

Company President Terry Woychowski, a former chief engineer on General Motors’ big pickup trucks, said the car is a “clarion call” for the U.S. auto industry, which is years behind China in designing low-cost EVs.

After the teardown, Woychowski, who has been in the auto business for 45 years, said he was left wondering if U.S. automakers can adjust. “Things will have to change in some radical ways in order to be able to compete,” he said."

https://apnews.com/article/china-byd-auto-seagull-auto-ev-cae20c92432b74e95c234d93ec1df400

asrg, 2 months ago to random

The MANIFESTO ON “ALGORITHMIC SABOTAGE” has been written by the Algorithmic Sabotage Research Group (ASRG) and presents a preliminary version of 10 statements on the principles and practice of “algorithmic sabotage” ..

The Manifesto on “Algorithmic Sabotage” is designed to be developed and will be regularly updated at https://tldr.nettime.org/@asrg, please consider it under the GNU Free Documentation License v1.3 ..

The struggle for “algorithmic sabotage” is everywhere in the algorithmic factory. Full frontal resistance against digital oppression and authoritarianism … Internationalist solidarity and confidence in popular self-determination, in the only force that can lead the struggle to the end ..

Download the Manifesto as a printable PDF ⟶ https://cryptpad.fr/file/#/2/file/8Zpmi02NeyrG57p1oz-gdpmf/

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remixtures, 3 months ago to ai Portuguese

#AI #GenerativeAI #UMichigan #LLMs #DataProtection #Privacy #AITraining #HigherEd #Universities #USA: "The University of Michigan is selling hours of audio recordings of study groups, office hours, lectures, and more to outside third-parties for tens of thousands of dollars for the purpose of training large language models (LLMs). 404 Media has downloaded a sample of the data, which includes a one hour and 20 minute long audio recording of what appears to be a lecture.

The news highlights how some LLMs may ultimately be trained on data with an unclear level of consent from the source subjects. The University of Michigan did not immediately respond to a request for comment, and neither did Catalyst Research Alliance, which is part of the sale process.

“The University of Michigan has recorded 65 speech events from a wide range of academic settings, including lectures, discussion sections, interviews, office hours, study groups, seminars and student presentations,” a page on Catalyst’s website about the University of Michigan data reads. “Speakers represent broad demographics, including male and female and native and non-native English speakers from a wide variety of academic disciplines.”"

https://www.404media.co/university-of-michigan-sells-recordings-of-study-groups-and-office-hours-to-train-ai/

tante, 4 months ago to random

Study finds that Github Copilot lowers code quality and maintainability:

"We find disconcerting trends for maintainability. Code churn -- the percentage of lines that are reverted or updated less than two weeks after being authored -- is projected to double in 2024 compared to its 2021, pre-AI baseline. We further find that the percentage of 'added code' and 'copy/pasted code' is increasing in proportion to 'updated,' 'deleted,' and 'moved 'code. In this regard, AI-generated code resembles an itinerant contributor, prone to violate the DRY-ness [don't repeat yourself] of the repos visited."

The paper concludes: "How will Copilot transform what it means to be a developer? There's no question that, as AI has surged in popularity, we have entered an era where code lines are being added faster than ever before. The better question for 2024: who's on the hook to clean up the mess afterward?"

https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2024/01/25/copilot-research.aspx

remixtures, 4 months ago to random Portuguese

#Paris #Cities #Urbanism #SUVs #AirPollution #Parking: "Green activists in Paris are making a final push to win a landmark vote tripling parking charges for SUVs in a move aimed at tackling air pollution that is being closely watched by other cities such as London.

Paris residents will be asked to vote on Sunday for or against a special parking tariff for heavy, large and polluting SUVs parked by non-residents, as the French capital aims to target rich, out-of-town drivers entering the city in order to tackle climate breakdown and air pollution.

In final campaigning before Sunday’s vote, the socialist mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, canvassed parents outside a primary school in the 10th arrondissement near the Gare du Nord, where pollution from large boulevards, traffic on small backstreets and a lack of green space had led many residents to call for fewer cars."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/02/paris-residents-set-to-vote-on-plan-to-triple-parking-charges-for-suvs

d3, 4 months ago to random Portuguese

Comunicado:

O Presidente da República anunciou a promulgação da nova lei dos metadados.

Esta lei viola flagrantemente o princípio da reserva de lei em contexto de restrição de direitos, liberdades e garantias.

Assim sendo, e tal como fizemos em 2017, a D3 irá apresentar uma queixa à Provedora de Justiça, para requerer a fiscalização da lei junto do Tribunal Constitucional, bem como à Comissão Europeia, por infracção do direito europeu.

glynmoody, 7 months ago to ai

Wherein The Copia Institute Tells The Copyright Office There’s No Place For #Copyright Law In #AI Training - https://www.techdirt.com/2023/11/03/wherein-the-copia-institute-tells-the-copyright-office-theres-no-place-for-copyright-law-in-ai-training/ indeedy

patrickbrosset, 8 months ago to random

This is your periodic reminder that Open Web Docs is awesome, and if you do web dev, you should consider supporting it!

📰 What is Open Web Docs > https://patrickbrosset.com/articles/2023-06-24-open-web-docs/

renchap, 10 months ago to mastodon

After 8 months working on Mastodon, in particular on infrastructure for mastodon.social and mastodon.online, I have been able to articulate my vision for the future of Trust & Safery for Mastodon : https://renchap.com/blog/post/evolving_mastodon_trust_and_safety/

We need better tools to go along the growth of the Fediverse, and they need to enable multiple instances to work together on those topics and keep our loved network safe for everyone!

#mastoadmin #mastodon #Moderation #TrustAndSafety

gsderp, 10 months ago to random

This is a credible proposal for DRM for websites in general. It would enable unbeatable adblock-blocking. It would prevent user customization for not just convenience but also accessibility.

I do not say this lightly: Enabling the forfeiture of control over the browsing experience is a fundamentally evil idea that must be rejected now, as it has been in the past, and we must remain vigilant against its reemergence in the future.

https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/blob/main/explainer.md

remixtures, 10 months ago to uk Portuguese

#UK #Surveillance #DataProtection #Privacy #SocialMedia #Facebook: "Britain’s biggest police force gathered sensitive data about people using its website to report sexual offences, domestic abuse and other crimes and shared it with Facebook for targeted advertising, the Observer has found.

The data was collected by a tracking tool embedded in the website of the Metropolitan police and included records of browsing activity about people using a “secure” online form for victims and witnesses to report offences.

In one case, Facebook received a parcel of data when someone clicked a link to “securely and confidentially report rape or sexual assault” to the Met online. This included the sexual nature of the offence being reported, the time the page was viewed and a code denoting the person’s Facebook account ID.

The tracking tool, known as Meta Pixel, also sent details to Facebook about content viewed and buttons clicked on webpages linked to contacting police, accessing victim services, and advice pages for crimes including rape, assaults, stalking and fraud."

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jul/15/revealed-metropolitan-police-shared-sensitive-data-about-victims-with-facebook