dbread @dbread@qoto.org

@Daojoan just remember kids, alphas can't penetrate paper, let alone women. 🤣

Me: Please don't use Chromium-based browsers, use Firefox instead. Google has way too much control over the web because of Chromium and they'll be sure to leverage that in order to benefit themselves.

Chromium: Hey all, we're getting rid of ad-blockers because it's cutting into our record-breaking revenue! I mean, uh, we're deprecating Manifest V2 for, uh, security. Yeah.

Me: See? Please use Firefox. ​

Mozilla: Hey friends, AI is really cool! *steps on rake* Hey friends, we're making an ads business! *steps on rake* Hey friends, we have a ToS with either the most nefarious or the most incompetent language ever! *steps on rake* Also AI is cool!!!

Me: ... ​ I hate it here.

#Mozilla #Firefox #Google #Chrome #Chromium #FOSS

Google is so powerful that it "hides" other search systems from us. We just don't know the existence of most of them.
Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information.

Keep a list of these sites for reference:

https://refseek.com

https://worldcat.org

https://link.springer.com

https://bioline.org.br

https://repec.org

https://science.gov

https://base-search.net

Eigentlich sollten alle 195 Staaten, die dem Pariser #Klimaabkommen beigetreten sind, in dieser Woche ihre neuen #Klimapläne („Nationale Klimabeiträge“) vorlegen. Darin müssen die Maßnahmen festgehalten werden, wie die Länder bis 2035 ihre Emissionen senken wollen. Und die Maßnahmen sollten ehrgeiziger ausfallen als im jeweils vorherigen Plan. Abgegeben haben aber bislang nur dreizehn Staaten – unter anderem die USA, noch unter Joe Biden. #klimawandel
https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/pariser-klimaabkommen-nur-zehn-von-195-staaten-liefern-rechtzeitig-neue-plaene-a-e208f1ed-3577-41d7-aae4-b584aaaa0eb9

It just came out that Meta downloaded via Torrent over 80 terabytes of books taken from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-Library to train their AI models, and nobody is guilty. In contrast, in 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded just 70 GB of academic articles from JSTOR (only 0.0854% of what Meta took) and faced $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison. Unable to bear the situation, he took his own life in 2013.

#FreeKnowledge #JusticeForAaronSwartz #OpenAccess #AIandEthics #FairCompensation