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your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 @blogdiva.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 9h

re-normalize direct download and manual installation (aka side-loading) of software on our mobile microcomputers.

mobile phones are microcomputers with telephony.

we should have a right to the root directory of our microcomputers and install any software we want; just as with our laptop and […]

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🌈 Lascapi ⁂ @lascapi.social.tchncs.de.ap.brid.gy · 5h

Pour la protection des consommateurs, NON à la suppression de l’Institut National de la Consommation

https://www.unaf.fr/protection-des-consommateurs-non-a-la-suppression-de-institut-national-de-la-consommation/
https://app.flus.fr/links/1845493552785813601

#protection des #consommateurs en […]

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🌈 Lascapi ⁂ @lascapi.social.tchncs.de.ap.brid.gy · 5h

Nextcloud decided to withdraw complaint against Microsoft

https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-decided-to-withdraw-complaint-against-microsoft/
https://app.flus.fr/links/1845493552597568003

#nextcloud vs #microsoft

// sad but I understand 😟

Nextcloud decided to withdraw complaint against Microsoft

We have decided to withdraw the complaint against Microsoft with the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition, given the lack of interest from the European Commission, lengthy process and costs on our side. The post Nextcloud decided to withdraw complaint against Microsoft appeared first on Nextcloud.

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Mme Zabet @mmezabet.craftgoblin.club.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Hello Masto-peeps who use screen readers!

I just learned that I need to put alt text on URLs for more accessible PDFs, but -- what should it say?

I am formatting academic citations that include a URL, so all the information about where that link will take you is in the text. I don't want it to […]

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Patrick Breyer @echo-pbreyer.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

🇫🇷VOUS ÊTES INCROYABLES ! ❤️ Votre mobilisation a stoppé le #chatcontrol ! L'Allemagne ne cède pas, il n'y a pas de majorité au Conseil de l'UE. Le secret de la correspondance est sauvé pour l'instant ! Célébrons cette immense victoire ENSEMBLE ! 🎉 […]

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Une carte de l'Europe intitulée « Help Stop #ChatControl! » montre les pays colorés selon la position de leur gouvernement sur le #ChatControl en 2025. La légende explique : Vert pour « Contre », Bleu pour « Indécis » et Rouge pour « Pour ».

Les pays suivants sont pour (rouge) : Bulgarie, Chypre, Croatie, Danemark, Espagne, France, Hongrie, Irlande, Italie, Lituanie, Malte, Portugal et Suède.

Les pays suivants sont contre (vert) : Allemagne, Autriche, Estonie, Finlande, Luxembourg, Pays-Bas, Pologne, Slovaquie, Slovénie et Tchéquie.

Les pays suivants sont indécis (bleu) : Belgique, Grèce, Lettonie, Roumanie.

En bas de la carte se trouve l'appel à l'action : « Act now! www.chatcontrol.eu ».

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

«Lessons in humility & simplicity for 'data science': Garmin's health status»

I blogged about how another #wearable manufacturer went down the road of leaving up data interpretation to humans instead of automating it – and how that relates to "AI" or "automated decision making"

(Responses to […]

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🌈 Lascapi ⁂ @lascapi.social.tchncs.de.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Le New York Times remporte une victoire, mais à quel prix ? Un tribunal oblige OpenAI à sauvegarder indéfiniment toutes les conversations avec ChatGPT, même celles qui ont été supprimées […]

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🌈 Lascapi ⁂ @lascapi.social.tchncs.de.ap.brid.gy · 4d

L’impact psychosocial de l’IA sur nos métiers du numérique

https://blocnotes.iergo.fr/articles/limpact-psychosocial-de-lia-sur-nos-metiers-du-numerique/
https://app.flus.fr/links/1845056356918485475

#ia #graphisme #critique

//les #llm sont assez forts pour classer (réduire la complexité) […]

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🌈 Lascapi ⁂ @lascapi.social.tchncs.de.ap.brid.gy · 4d

États-Unis : Apple retire de son store ICEBlock qui signale la présence des services d’immigration

https://next.ink/202884/etats-unis-apple-retire-de-son-store-iceblock-qui-signale-la-presence-des-services-dimmigration/
https://app.flus.fr/links/1845056356854392772

#gafam #usa #centralisation […]

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🌈 Lascapi ⁂ @lascapi.social.tchncs.de.ap.brid.gy · 6d

Salut la team #clavier 😊

J'aimerai bien essayer un petit clavier ergonomique / mécanique / séparé comme le #soflekeyboard

Mais avant d'en acheter un je voudrais trouver un moyen d'en tester un quelques semaines.

Est ce que quelqu'un pourrait m'en prêter un ? Où louer ?
Où est ce que vous avez […]

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daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18d

Joshua Rogers sent us a *massive* list of potential issues in #curl that he found using his set of AI assisted tools. Code analyzer style nits all over. Mostly smaller bugs, but still bugs and there could be one or two actual security flaws in there. Actually truly awesome findings.

I have […]

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🌈 Lascapi ⁂ @lascapi.social.tchncs.de.ap.brid.gy · 6d

Pour le contexte, j'ai un laptop avec clavier #AzertyPlus , un clavier USB #bepo ( le #typematrix2030 ^^ ) j'ai appris l' #ergol et j'aimerai bien essayer #arsenik mais sur un clavier different parce que ma mémoire musculaire est très perturbé par toutes ces combinaisons !! 😅

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Richard MacManus @ricmac.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 7d

Old articles and blog posts too often get removed from the web or neglected, left to rot on broken pages. Replanting lets you migrate legacy content to your current site so it can thrive again. Here's how I'm doing it... https://cybercultural.com/p/replanting/ #replanting #savetheweb

Replanting Articles: Bring Legacy Posts to Your Website

Old articles and blog posts too often get removed from the web or neglected, left to rot on broken pages. Replanting lets you migrate legacy content to your current site so it can thrive again.

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🌈 Lascapi ⁂ @lascapi.social.tchncs.de.ap.brid.gy · 6d

Salut la team #clavier 😊

J'aimerai bien essayer un petit clavier ergonomique / mécanique / séparé comme le #soflekeyboard

Mais avant d'en acheter un je voudrais trouver un moyen d'en tester un quelques semaines.

Est ce que quelqu'un pourrait m'en prêter un ? Où louer ?
Où est ce que vous avez […]

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Delta Chat @delta.chat · 7d

While classic cleartext email providers, also Thunderbird with its Thundermail efforts, are aiming to be a more trustworthy alternative to Gmail/calendar/drive etc ...

#deltachat and #chatmail efforts go all-in on end-to-end encryption and metadata minimization, with decentralized transport […]

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🍋 Superball ☀️ @superball.norcal.social.ap.brid.gy · 9d

A new, independent source of news launches tomorrow.

“We are a group of former Guardian and Observer journalists who think our turbulent times call for a different kind of media title: courageous, independent, diverse and built around a community of readers and journalists.

“Our beat will be […]

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Jiří Eischmann @sesivany.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 10d

One of my posts here gained popularity in the #flathub vs. traditional #linux distributions debate and I still stand by my claim that @flathub enforces its rules more strictly than Linux distributions and checks maintainers more thoroughly. None of my […]

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A screenshot of a message from Flathub saying: Build #215117 of Datovka (org.cznic.Datovka) has been held for review because the app's metadata has changed. Check the status of the review in the app developer settings.

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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10d

One emerging challenge today is that our algorithmic knowledge filters are becoming dominated by the output of generative pre-trained transformers based on large language models. And more and more, these are generating #ai slop. Which means that machine […]

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Doodle image by Hugh MacLeod: The network is more powerful than the node.

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 10d

Things I had not expected to see today: Deutsche Bank making a numbers based argument that "AI" is a bubble and won't last https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/deutsche-bank-grim-warning-ai-industry

Deutsche Bank Issues Grim Warning for AI Industry

"AI machines — in quite a literal sense — appear to be saving the US economy right now." The post Deutsche Bank Issues Grim Warning for AI Industry appeared first on Futurism.

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 10d

The answer to "the AI systems that corporate overlords push everywhere are shit" is not "so we need open source AI".

These systems are shit cause they structurally are. They are just being shoved everywhere to reduce labor power. "Open source AI" (if that even existed) is not changing that.

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 14d

With the Free Knowledge Institute we just set up a collective account at the Fediverse, at @fkinstitute.

We chose to be hosted at the @SocialCoop server, as it is in line with our strategic work for the cooperative-commons economy.

We want to support the creation and maturing of more such […]

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Free Software Foundation Europe @fsfe.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15d

🎉 The Digital Markets Act (#dma) turns 1! Since its approval, #google, #apple & all gatekeepers must:

Allow competing app stores
Not discriminate against browsers & search engines
Allow uninstallation of pre-installed apps
Provide free-of-charge interoperability
👀 But we’re not done […]

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15d

This satirical blog post really illustrates the problem with a lot of technical writing. Amazing technical writing is so good and then everything else reads like this

https://anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-a-non-developer-read-the-tutorial-you-a-developer-wrote-for-me-a-beginner

我，一个初学开发的人，是如何阅读你，一个开发者，为我编写的教程的

How I, a beginner developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me (anniemueller.com) 09:27 ↑ 106 HN Points

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Privacy Guides @privacyguides.mastodon.neat.computer.ap.brid.gy · 17d

Are you planning on attending a protest soon? Your smartphone can be an essential tool, but it's also a huge risk to your privacy, security, and safety. If you decide to bring one along, you need to keep yourself protected:

(🔥 hot tip: this advice is still great even if you aren't hitting the […]

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🌈 Lascapi ⁂ @lascapi.social.tchncs.de.ap.brid.gy · 18d

@briansmith-photos.bsky.social I love the composition ! 🤩

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