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> I would probably make the crawlers work an little harder for their supper
I'm not sure this concerns me;
https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/17/how-to-think-about-scraping/
My main concern is making them available to the historical record.
> than Flickr which they will have a big old tap into already
True also of Wikipedia Commons, and why not? Like the works archived there, most of the images on Flickr are public domain or under copyright licenses that explicitly allow and indeed encourage re-use.
Side note: earlier in the interview Ongweso Jr mentions tech writers mistaking Uber (and AirBnB, etc) for a brave new "sharing economy", where apps facilitate peer-to-peer exchanges among citizens, to unlock the economic value of underused assets. Remember that old chestnut?
Called it. Back in 2015;
Intriguingly this article seems to have been removed from TDB. Maybe a good candidate for a repost on the new Ghost-based Disintermedia.net.nz?
#Crowdsourcing #Outsourcing
What I have in mind is an organised, mass-participation campaign. Where we;
* identify specific ways DataFarmers routinely violate our privacy
* carefully design a way to do the same thing to public agencies, officials and politicians, which is annoying and hopefully embarrassing, but not otherwise harmful (especially for individual targets)
* get dozens (or even better hundreds, and eventually thousands) of kiwis to join in.
(2/?)
"Meta’s surveillance isn’t limited to your online activity. The company also encourages businesses to send them data about your offline purchases and interactions. Even deleting your Facebook and Instagram accounts won’t stop Meta from harvesting your personal data. Meta in 2018 admitted to collecting information about non-users, including their contact details and browsing history."
#LenaCohen, 2025
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/mad-meta-dont-let-them-collect-and-monetize-your-personal-data
Isn't this illegal in NZ under the Privacy Act?
#privacy #PrivacyAct
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> This is why the sane fedi admins have all defederated bluesky. It is not a fediverse service. It is just another form of control
Defederating other AP-federated services over ideological differences is not a fediverse service, it's just another form of control.
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(6/?)
But I digress. My point is that a problem like CSAM cannot be solved by governments passing laws like the HDCA. Actual CSAM was already illegal, as it should be, because of the sexual violation involved in creating it.
To the degree that online services can help, it's by making CSAM a tickbox option when reporting media for moderation. Then passing on anything flagged that looks like actual CSAM to law enforcement, with full info about the account and server of origin.
Remember how the GE Free movement said that GM was mainly about expanding the power of "IP" laws to living things, including food crops? Remember we said this would concentrate power over food production, adding a new way for corporations to extract profit from other people's work?
Seems we were bang on about the agenda. But they've found a simpler way to do it, a monopoly over crop varieties called Plant Variety Rights;
#IP #PVR
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> I've tried to convince them of the general excellence of Mastodon, but without any success, so far.)
Mastodon is a Titter-a-like, and like Titter, is for old people (which is why we're here). But you might have a chance of convincing them to use something like a PixelFed service, or Loops.
You have an even better chance if you show them that they can create their *own* PixelFed or Loops service. Explaining that anyone with a browser can see what they post, as well as fedizens.
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> It runs on the client
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> Serving the client to the user's browser ... uses a negligible amount of server resources
This seem to be a common assumption. You got some numbers to back that up? Generated from a repeatable method?
> nothing's stopping you from just blocking the routes to serving the frontend files in the webserver
Nothing's stopping me from mowing my lawn with a pair of nail scissors either. But the purpose of automation and software packaging is the do jobs for us, not give us extra jobs.
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"Our people once were warriors. But unlike you, Jake, they were people with mana, pride; people with spirit. If my spirit can survive living with you for eighteen years, then I can survive anything."
Beth Heke, Once Were Warriors, 1994
More than 30 years after its release in cinemas, it still resonates with tremendous power. The first line of this quote just popped into my bead, and literally brought me to tears.
#movies #MovieQuotes
I've hit the final season of Parks and Rec, first broadcast in 2015. It features an unsubtle parody of DataFarming tech corporations, in the form of Gryzzl;
https://parksandrecreation.fandom.com/wiki/Gryzzl
Right now it's feeling like an artifact of a simpler time.
#TV #comedy #ParksAndRec #Gryzzl #DataFarming
But this interoperation between platforms is essential to what the fediverse is.
That doesn't mean a server running ActivityPub software has to federate with anyone. Server A can mute or block (exact terminology varies) Server B for hosting spam, or other posts the Server A community don't want to see. But these are case-by-case decisions, made by each server, according to its own standards. In general, we want a situation where any server can potentially interact with any other.
(5/5)
Whenever someone suggests letting an automated system run anything, the question to ask is;
Would I want it running an election?
Would you trust its vote count? Could it be audited, to check that it fallowed the election rules?
#AI #MOLE
#TIL that you can subscribe to a Mastodon feed using an RSS reader, or even a podcast listening app like AntennaPod. Although that only shows OPs to the feed, not replies or comments. I'm not up on RSS readers and whether they can display fediverse threads.
Anyway, this is just another demonstration of a) the value of open standards, and b) the way different standards can be combined, forming a unified social media space with many ways in.
#OpenStandards #RSS #PodcastApps #FediverseFeeds
"Do you welcome our new 'AI' overlords?"
#GuyonEspiner
"[Laughs] I do. I feel like 'AI' will inevitably reach a point where it can, maybe, solve some of these intractable cultural issues. And, make people feel seen and heard enough that they don't, you know, vote for Trump and storm the Capitol."
#MarkManson
#RNZ #30, 2024
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/30-with-guyon-espiner?share=619270c5-d346-45d4-9115-186e0ef42b5e
This is *comedy*! I am in critical danger of busting a gut laughing. Of course, when they say "AI" I'm hearing "#MOLE Training" 🤣
#podcasts #AI
Paris Marx makes pretty much this point in episode 3 of Data Vampires;
https://techwontsave.us/episode/245_data_vampires_sacrificing_for_ai_episode_3
#podcasts #TechWontSaveUs #DataVampires #AI #TrainedMOLE
Paris Marx makes pretty much this point in episode 3 of Data Vampires;
https://techwontsave.us/episode/245_data_vampires_sacrificing_for_ai_episode_3
#podcasts #TechWontSaveUs #DataVampires #AI #TrainedMOLE
"Do you welcome our new 'AI' overlords?"
#GuyonEspiner
"[Laughs] I do. I feel like 'AI' will inevitably reach a point where it can, maybe, solve some of these intractable cultural issues. And, make people feel seen and heard enough that they don't, you know, vote for Trump and storm the Capitol."
#MarkManson
#RNZ #30, 2024
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/30-with-guyon-espiner?share=619270c5-d346-45d4-9115-186e0ef42b5e
This is *comedy*! I am in critical danger of busting a gut laughing. Of course, when they say "AI" I'm hearing "#MOLE Training" 🤣
#podcasts #AI
Random question; would it be possible to create a private social network inside Nostr, that has no contact with (most of) the existing population?
#Nostr
"...Coqui operated primarily as an open-source project, focusing on developing and providing tools and resources for automatic speech recognition (ASR) and Text-to-Speech (TTS) technologies."
#KLKrithika, 2024
I wonder if that project will continue as a non-commercial community effort?
"...Coqui operated primarily as an open-source project, focusing on developing and providing tools and resources for automatic speech recognition (ASR) and Text-to-Speech (TTS) technologies."
#KLKrithika, 2024
"Coqui, a conversational AI startup, on Wednesday (January 3, 2023), announced that it is shutting down its operation ...
[It] specialises in building open source models and applications in the area of quick voice cloning, text-to-voice, etc. The former employees of Mozilla, left the company after it stopped developing their own Speech-to-text engine, DeepSpeech to begin Coqui.”
#KLKrithika, 2024
#translation #MachineTranslation #ASR #TTS #Coqui #Mozilla #DeepSpeech
"Now, there is some concern about the fact that, given we are in the middle of a desert, there is no actual water at the waterfront. And that is a definite drawback."
Welcome To Night Vale
#podcasts #fiction #comedy #NightVale