If people have to hack your privacy-respecting browser to make it respect their privacy, maybe your privacy-respecting browser isn’t really privacy respecting.
#mozilla #firefox #privacy #privacyWashing #AI
Aral Balkan
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Social oncologist.
I make small things.
Unapologetically anti-genocide.
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#SmallWeb #SmallTech #web #tech #privacy #humanRights #personhood #democracy #aral #fedi22 #searchable
Funny that AI folks are working to prevent folks from revealing AI bots instead of, you know, jumping off a bridge and taking their environment-destroying technology with them or something.
#AI #LLM #ventureCapital #capitalism #habitatEmergency
The Verge
OpenAI’s latest model will block the ‘ignore all previous instructions’ loophole
OpenAI’s newest model, GPT-4o Mini, includes a new safety mechanism to prevent hackers from overriding chatbots.
#AI #LLM
No working screen reader for nine years* but, hey, you folks want some AI with that?
Let Fedora know what you think in their survey to add generative AI to the operating system:
#AI #LLM #GenerativeAI #Fedora #a11y #priorities
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Aral Balkan
Fedora has been shipping with a broken screen reader for nine years but the real problem is me
Fedora has an ableism problem but woe to you if you point it out.
Linux: We have no idea why folks think we’re hard to use.
Also Linux: Would you like to use useradd or adduser to add a user to your system?
🤔
#linux #userAdd #addUser #decisionDecisions
“[Blair] asked DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis, ‘If you were a government today why would you not want to have all of your data in a cloud-based infrastructure so you can analyse it with an LLM?’”
✅ Clueless
✅ Corrupt (son owns AI firm)
❌ Muppet (insult to muppets)
#AI #LLM #DeepMind #Blair #UKPol #Multiverse
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Tony Blair at yesterday’s Future of Britain Conference On Monday morning, along with a couple of thousand other people, I received an email with ...
I used to think Google were evil but smart.
I no longer think they’re smart.
#Google #search #surveillance #capitalism #PeopleFarming #AI #LLM #evil #notSmart
Oh, this is good: Microsoft waives its copyright on anything it publishes on the web.
#microsoft #copyright #AI #BigTech #bullshit
The Verge
Microsoft’s AI boss thinks it’s perfectly okay to steal content if it’s on the open web
That is not how fair use works.
If your justification for the genocide of the Palestinian people is that what Israel’s doing is legal, may I remind you the Holocaust was legal too. Hitler was acting entirely within the laws of Nazi Germany while committing the genocide of the Jewish (and Roma, and gay, and disabled, …) people.
Legal does not mean moral, just, or right.
If something is legal but unjust, it is your moral duty to break the law.
No social progress has ever come about without moral people breaking unjust laws.
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ordered Israel to halt its Rafah military offensive.
#israel #palestine #gaza #settlerColonialism #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide #rafah #ICJ #InternationalCourtOfJustice #UN
the Guardian
Israel-Gaza war: Netanyahu rejects genocide claims as ‘false and outrageous’; Palestinian Authority welcomes ICJ ruling – as it happened
UN’s top court orders halt to Rafah offensive, saying it is ‘not convinced’ evacuation and other measures are alleviating Palestinians’ suf...
International law is whatever the Unites States says it is, you fucking communists. Don’t make us nuke you again!
Duck Duck Go is down because Bing is down.
(Also, you saw the recent AI stuff, right?)
Folks, I know… I use Duck Duck Go also but remember they have venture capital. Enjoy it while it lasts (or let’s fund and build alternatives differently that aren’t temporary businesses with profit motives and exits but commons-owned institutions working for the common good).
#DuckDuckGo #bing #microsoft #ventureCapital #DDG
Hint: Microsoft doesn’t have climate ambitions, it has profit ambitions. Ditto any other corporation.
Noc.Social
Norobiik @Norobiik@noc.social (@Norobiik@noc.social)
After pledging to slash its #GreenhouseGas emissions, #Microsoft’s climate pollution has grown by 30 percent as the company prioritizes #AI.
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“The true con artist doesn’t force us to do anything; he makes us complicit in our own undoing. He doesn’t steal. We give. He doesn’t have to threaten us. We supply the story ourselves. We believe because we want to, not because anyone made us. And so we offer up whatever they want—money, reputation, trust, fame, legitimacy, support—and we don’t realize what is happening until it is too late.”
– Maria Konnikova, The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It…Every Time
#SiliconValley #BigTech
In case you needed another reason to not trust Telegram… https://geeknews.chat/@theregister/112082937657990816
I am now finally the owner of a Henry. This makes me far giddier than owning a vacuum cleaner should.
PS. While in the store, had a little kid come up to the line of Henries (and one Hetty) on display, address each of them in turn, give them hugs, and tell them he loved them.
What really guts me is knowing just how wonderful we could make this damn world if most of us weren’t in the employ of a relative handful of fucking psychopaths…
#design
Your daily reminder that an immigrant shouldn’t have to carry out heroic acts to justify their existence or to be deserving of the same rights, privileges, and dignity that you enjoy as someone who just happened to be born where you live.
Your daily reminder that condemning genocide does not make you a ‘terror supporter.’”
(And yes, fuck Hamas. They’re barbarians. The very low bar for any state that purports to be a democracy is to be better than barbarians.)
#israel #hamas #gaza #terrorism #apartheid #genocide
Israeli official slams Greta Thunberg after she backs Palestinians in Gaza – POLITICO
Your choice: a handful of psychopath billionaires or the survival of the species.
Capitalists: Hmm, now this is a difficult one… I feel like saying we keep the billionaires? 🤔
War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Privacy Sandbox
#google #chrome #adtech #surveillanceCapitalism #PeopleFarming #surveillance #capitalism #privacy #web #BigTech #SiliconValley
Ars Technica
Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome
Chrome now directly tracks users, generates a "topic" list it shares with advertisers.