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

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.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/19/24201414/openai-chatgpt-gpt-4o-prompt-injection-instruction-hierarchy

#AI #LLM #ventureCapital #capitalism #habitatEmergency

#AI #LLM

Hey, maybe the AI can fix the screen reader…

#fedora #AI #a11y #accessibility #screenReader #wayland

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:

https://fedoraproject.limequery.com/142117?lang=en

#AI #LLM #GenerativeAI #Fedora #a11y #priorities

* https://ar.al/2024/06/23/fedora-has-been-shipping-with-a-broken-screen-reader-for-nine-years-but-the-real-problem-is-me/

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)

https://buttondown.email/justenoughinternet/archive/im-looking-for-a-man-in-ai-think-tank-trust-fund/

#AI #LLM #DeepMind #Blair #UKPol #Multiverse

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.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/28/24188391/microsoft-ai-suleyman-social-contract-freeware

#microsoft #copyright #AI #BigTech #bullshit

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.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/may/24/israel-gaza-war-live-icj-rafah-benjamin-netanyahu-latest-live-news-updates

#israel #palestine #gaza #settlerColonialism #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide #rafah #ICJ #InternationalCourtOfJustice #UN

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. https://noc.social/@Norobiik/112460447324706332

“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

nostr:npub1na9vrqljs4v8ucmrvhc9ffx8zp8jsham7hkduw095m4cv3kmsx0q3fcy4w Alt text: photo of what appears to be an ad on an underground train:

“All my beloved ones are gone"

- Mother from Gaza 2024

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.)

https://www.politico.eu/article/greta-thunberg-calls-global-pro-palestinian-strike-gaza-genocide-israel-slam/

#israel #hamas #gaza #terrorism #apartheid #genocide