Parienve @Parienve@qoto.org

This chatbot could’ve been a form

George RR Martin and John Grisham among group of authors suing OpenAI | Books | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/sep/20/authors-lawsuit-openai-george-rr-martin-john-grisham

Good for them!

#OpenAI #AI

This is still my favorite "two wolves" meme.

#StarTrek

The UK safety bill just passed. It is outrageous what governments are doing to control everything that happens on the internet.

It is very simple to understand. "Encryption protects everyone or no one." There is no such thing as a backdoor just for good guys.

Learn more here from the EFF: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/09/today-uk-parliament-undermined-privacy-security-and-freedom-all-internet-users

#uk #safetybill #technology #privacy #security

One other thing is that developers are rightly mad at Unity.

However, all gamers should also be *extremely* mad at Unity because the only way they can enforce their proposed license is carefully tracking user behavior in a deeply invasive way.

More thoughts on data presentation.

Dear Fediverse:

I'm wanting to reach out to #gaming fans who have personal challenges that make some - or many - games difficult to access for them.

Visual acuity issues. Hearing loss. Dyslexia, or missing limbs or anything else.

I'm planning an article on accessibility features in video games, and would love to hear stories from people for whom those features aren't merely a convenience, but necessary for them to be able to participate in the hobby.

I'd appreciate help reaching out on this.

@pancake it's called medium because the content is neither rare nor well done

about a year ago, unity merged with ironsource

today they claim: "we can efficiently track installs of your project, trust us"

this isn't worrying at all, not even a tiny little bit

Unity introduces new fees for game devs based on revenue and game installs - article updated based on responses from Unity (it's not looking great) https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/unity-introduces-new-fees-for-game-devs-based-on-revenue-and-game-installs/

#Unity #GameDev

@Ruhrnalist It's on the settings tab itself (about:preferences#search) but always good to remember

Chrome now tracks users and shares a “topic” list with advertisers

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/googles-widely-opposed-ad-platform-the-privacy-sandbox-launches-in-chrome/

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/googles-widely-opposed-ad-platform-the-privacy-sandbox-launches-in-chrome/

#privacy #technology

Every time I hear "AI" I've been learning from @jonny and @Mer__edith to replace it with "surveillance technology."

This morning, listening to Maxine Doogan and Tara Burns talk to Doug Henwood about their recent report on the use of surveillance technology (marketed as a weapon against sex slavery, but generally ineffective against that) to control, track and harass sex workers (and nonwhite trans and genderfluid women, even if they're not doing sex work):

https://esplerp.org/how-the-war-on-sex-work-is-stripping-your-privacy-rights-report/

Mushroom pickers urged: Avoid Amazon foraging books, appear to be written by AI

Link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/01/mushroom-pickers-urged-to-avoid-foraging-books-on-amazon-that-appear-to-be-written-by-ai
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37354577

#amazon

@indrora Use Codeberg, give them money if you have it.

If feasible: Host your own Forgejo.

In-between solution: Have www.gna.org/ manage a Forgejo+#Woodpecker for you. It's money, but it's the same level as a managed Mastodon setup.

Loads of projects with actual money could do this but are still on Github. CPython *moved* there from independent hosting.

I was going to say "recently", but apparently I'm An Old and the "recent" event was 6 years ago.

An iOS app is being tested with #SkyBridge that allows the use of Mastodon apps with #BlueSky

What do you think if we contribute so #Fedilab can also benefit from this bridge?

https://github.com/videah/SkyBridge

So who wants to help the @Codeberg folks implement code search?

https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Community/issues/904

#git #codeberg #search #scm #versionControl #foss #openSource #dev

This is really cool: About ten years ago, a few friends and I built the first #Matelight, a very large display made from crates of glass bottles stacked up sideways, with adressable LEDs stuck into the bottles from the back. Now Hito Steyerl, a renowned artist, used a Matelight inspired by the actual one we hacked together back then at c-base as a part of one of her installations, called "Green Screen". Here's an article on the exhibition, and a photo:
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/jun/13/post-internet-artist-hito-steyerl-refusing-honours-big-tech
#electronics #art