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Joined Nov 2022
It has been 68 days since my last purchase on #Amazon
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This week in #FDroid was published again 
In short:
- Mumla was updated, but also the developer seeks helping hands
- Nekogram X was updated after some hiatus
- Plexus can now be built reproducible. This also means that you need to re-install it to get future updates
- SimpleX Chat got an update
- and also Termux got an update again after 2 years
- Just Craigslist and Syphon were removed
Read more at:
https://f-droid.org/2024/06/27/twif.html
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As #Mozilla is busy adding AI crap to #Firefox, I would like to point out that it's about 13 years since they removed the #RSS button from default Firefox GUI, and six years since RSS support was completely dropped from Firefox.
Thus making feeds invisible and impossible to discover for most web users.
RSS/Atom/JSON feeds are an immensely useful and important tech that can help solve the content discovery problem *without* going through gatekeepers. 👀
But obviously not a priority for Mozilla.
https://backprop.co/environments/open-sora
Generate videos in #python #ai without #cloud
Via #hackernews
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@atthenius When I bought my first monitor since 15yrs, a middle class Asus. It was a bummer.
The #luddites are back. Yesterday in #qualityland as fiction, today as critical thinkers of the technofuturistic mind.
There is a *Local First* movement I did not hear about until now:
"The local-first movement wants to bring the data back to the user while retaining the advantages of the internet."
Finally “Julian Assange is free. He left Belmarsh maximum security prison on the morning of 24 June, after having spent 1901 days there. He was granted bail by the High Court in London and was released at Stansted airport during the afternoon, where he boarded a plane and departed the UK,” WikiLeaks said
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"I’m no longer interested in encouraging the design of more human-centered versions of these murderous technologies, or to inform the more humane administration of complex algorithmic systems [...] I think we must forcefully put on the table the possibility that we will destroy systems that fail to make a compelling affirmative case for their existence. That threat must be credible. We should actively undermine and sabotage systems, and recognize that labor as a moral project that we engage in, the way luddites sabotaged machinery that tore people apart."
I think it's very encouraging to also see academics to start joining camp hashtag#luddite. For a long time even critical academic voices were too focused on salvaging the hashtag#AI space. To "get rid of the bad actors" or "introduce ethics" instead of allowing themselves to just say: "NO." And we need to start saying "NO" a _lot_ more.
Changing lanes in merica. According to that subreddit.
Though that is not what I experienced when driving there.
"You understand code a lot better if you write it than if you read it."
"But if an AI takes away the writing of a code, .... people will understand it much moor poorly".
"Axiomatically a bad thing."
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Systems Thinking and Systemics by John Gall
https://docdrop.org/download_annotation_doc/John-Gall---Systemantics_-How-Systems-Work-and-Especially-Ho-8qhgx.pdf
Just created a veed video by using #chatgpt.
The creation phase felt exciting, but the outcome was really shitty 😂
The worst waste of time of that day. Until now....
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