HUMAN CHANGE = WORK TOGETHER ? @freeschool@qoto.org

Money is expensive no?

Think about the added fees and percentages which bring down the value of each unit of 'money' ;/ good gawd \:

...banks have it too easy...
Time to sort that out....

#FediFinance #fediverse #exchange #finance #money #currency #fedihire #Hiring #Job #Jobs

Would you be interested in using Fediverse / Mastodon currency?...

If it was much more logically honest and between us here and now...

YES... NO... MAYBE... DEPENDS?

#fediverse #exchange #finance #currency #money
#fedihire #Hiring #Job #Jobs #FediFinance
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COMMENT WHAT YOU LIKE FROM THESE:

█Yes - a Paypal-like clone please / U$ ideally!

█Maybe, electric-based Bitcoin or Monero, Piratecoin etc but NOT FOREVER !
(just as a bridge for few years to starve banks / get back justice)

█No, nothing even though I'm not ok with banks either - I'm stuck

█Other... (reply to this idea)

Do remember perfect answers are not necessarily the aim and can be 2-part unfolding or just bridge to another tactic and almost always is this way to achieve starving banks first and then get people ready for step 2...3...)

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Pictures described in text form below (useful to see why to change money":
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◘1◘ "In debt we trust." (God has been deprecated, had it's uses on bill like inventors are supposed to give dirty money respect)

◘2◘"Inflation is in effect a hidden tax. The money that people have save is robbed" (mathematically and by banks uneven charging / using our money while they are supposed to store it not re-lend it!) + not so hidden if you track prices as things go up, houses triple and salaries stay same for years]

◘3◘ Printed money dress

◘4◘ Muppet pic - Landlords exposed - if your landlord can't afford the property without your rent, then you're the one providing housing to THEM!

@wfryer Hi, I am just saying I've sent few messages and seems obvious I'm being ignored or something as you reply to others. Still time but saying things earlier on this side.

I can handle if you like using Google and AI etc but not replying about dangers in your using them in your work-flow / work with others / your practices which shouldn't involve disconnect after being ok to talk initially and with no obvious problem there. So.. Just say how it is!

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The rest below is extra and just writing practice.

The first parts above are the main thing so don't interpret mass below as anything much bigger than you ignoring things / not replying suddenly.
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I am also writing to say I making it clear in this way because frankly people doing this isn't good enough and though it's maybe not personal / direct to me, it is all kinda in the end in some way as so many impersonal things in the world accumulate and add up, so not all your fault at all but you could say *some* more.

Some quotes to make this a bit creative / interesting...

"History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
- Edmund Burke.

And maybe it's ok to be imperfect...

"There are no good people, only good actions" - Andrew Patricio

So this needs solving (in teaching, in tech etc, in many things) and just saying I never aimed to harass any teacher that doesn't answer(!)... but having a position or claiming to do things right naturally involves a bit of flack and like I suggested make a FAQ page to answer people who ask why you use non-FLOSS stuff... or if I have it wrong just say so (a bit).

I can't even accept 'too busy' at this point as you're too good replying / doing things elsewhere. Totally I can accept "I like Google because xyz and AI as it save me time regardless of danger down the line of giving my data to them" - in short - I'll accept that.

I hope you wouldn't expect anything less than someone trying to sort out why people disconnect in the world and what it's basically and deliberately being politically silent... which in the end does say things or leave others to their own conclusions or wondering why. Not that I'm not trying to make too fast a judgement but obviously you were happy to talk before and suddenly not now 🤔

So that's my respect given to you in saying directly "hey I'm waiting" and not behind your back complaining, as you see from those who don't get a bit of answer obviously in the world already. I wrote to you about BigTech and war without putting all on you but hey you tell me.

You have opportunity to say else you're free to ignore (and happy even to receive that as message).

I reserve re-drafting this especially if I review myself as wrong in some way or can better say it... but thought it better written earlier than never.

Thanks.

#AI #Teachers #Politics #Silence #Disconnects #Answers

Tetris Creator Claims Free and Open Source Software Destroys the Market.

Good for discussion / debate.
Reply welcome as it's from Russian Tetris creator so mixed worlds O_O

(money, capitalism, gaming, programming etc)

Clip in question:

'Free Software should have never existed,' since it 'destroys the market' by bringing down companies that create wealth and prosperity.

When asked about Red Hat or Oracle's support-oriented model, he called them 'a minority,' and also criticized Stallman's ideas as 'belonging to the past' where there were no software 'business possibilities.'"

(partial quote)

Posted by kdawson, 2008
alx5000 / alx5000@@@alx5000...net
from this page (which also has comments): http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/26/1859249

Podcast also about this to come, so any points appreciate and will discuss...

Alexey Pajitnov info on Wikipedia...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexey_Pajitnov

#Tetris #Music #Audio #FreeSchool #Podcast #8bit #Games #retro #retrogaming

Cold Machines and Cold People!?

(caring doesn't come as a cold machine, server or cold process)....

People are not going to work well inside templates of #economic and general #war mentality. Must be warmer!

Cold Machines and Solider-like people *AI*nt it.

#AI #Artificial #Intelligence #FreeSchool #Fediverse #Freedom
#Tech #Technology #Capitalism

If you start using AI and then AI starts using you, are you going to be shocked like Wizard of Oz characters?

The same people and Capitalistic template are behind Industrial Tech... Don't be shocked at the end even with the domestic supply.

It's efficient mainly to do what they want, more than Freedom and actually caring! Just another machine in #war.

#AI #Artificial #Intelligence #FreeSchool #Audio #Podcast #Fediverse #Freedom #Tech #Technology #Capitalism

Silence as violence and abuse:

Examples:

█ People who have power and chosen responsibility but misuse their position or don't fulfil it staying silent when they know of the wrong for waay too loong and don't help improve things also.

█ Those who represent / speak for others, but choose not to put themselves at risk and leave others waiting in vain.

█ People who avoiding answering the truth and further cover up things, not only by not being transparent (or even saying why not transparency) but even adding layers.

█ Self-denial or feeling of shame which becomes hidden violence, even after self fear, it becomes negligent over time and lying to themselves or others as abusive stakes only get higher. Negligence.

█ We all have power and I think we all abuse it when deliberately being non-players... like taking away each others voice in order for it not happen or effect us.

AI helps 'Artificially' increase prices and it's all to maximise profits for them more than us.

To force people to pay more using whatever Tech that will help them.

(Kind of like IBM helping track / count people in the genocide, though no proof my side and speculation probably that there could be such coldness of selling tech for whatever reason.)

I believe already this is arbitrary increase is already happening but with AI make doom quicker...

Basically as demand increases so does price but way deeper than that.

Will be worse IF domestic levels of people accept it into their homes and hand over their data and daily usage habits a bit like Facebook did / does... < = = all priceless survey type stuff for the AI suppliers allowed to see what you're using while you to use their 'services'.

AI = Another Invasion
or
AI = Arbitrary Increase

Arbitrary Increase is mankind's doom,..
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♦♦♦ PART 2 BELOW.... Optional ♦♦♦
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█▄ike your local supermarket when you buy lots of the same item ( 🔔 this tells them it's too cheap' 🔔 )

█▄ike when you're booking your flight tickers for airplanes 🛩️ and ticket prices creep up on the sister sites strangely, because they know what you're looking for now and prices go up as time passes and you search more
(They see what you need and push prices up everywhere so you have no choice on all sites which is why you do better to pay quicker than 'shopping around')

█ Clever AI... working behind the screen (for the the company people) to make targetting easier... while people think it's faster for them (maybe for a quick second but not long-term).

█ Sentiments here of 'sale' when it's not really a sale. Also I worked in supermarket and shocking how things increase (and seeing all the old tickets for same products even a month back... much cheaper and "sale" only after pushing up prices!)

https://tilde.zone/@gemlog/111874794177200425

#AI #Artificial #Intelligence #FreeSchool #Fediverse #Freedom #Tech #Technology #Capitalism

ℹ️ "Paying through the nose":

█ paying much more than it is really worth to a person (as example. people forced to give a % of all earnings to government)

I think it's a lot like physically (my variation in picture with slightly different meaning);
█ like an animal attached by the nose and lead / heavily taxed for others to live off... by those who are not interested in leading properly and more interested in owning people / treating them like #animals!)

#Phrases #Money #Usury #Capitalism #Slavery

"Some #JetBrains customers feel strongly about AI Assistant and really don't want the plugin to be present in their JetBrains applications at all"

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Full text here from site
No pics on page, so no need go elsewhere:

JetBrains' unremovable AI assistant meets irresistible outcry

Some devs just don't want anything to do with neural-network code serfs

Thomas Claburn, Thu 1 Feb 2024 // 20:24 UTC

JetBrains introduced an AI assistant in December to help programmers write code. Now the biz is trying to figure out how to allow its customers to get rid of it.

"JetBrains AI Assistant is similar to GitHub Copilot, but it’s deeply integrated into JetBrains development environments (IDEs), code editors, and other products," the software development tool maker, based in the Czech Republic, said at the time.

While neural-network-powered services have been widely hyped, they come with baggage – concerns about the security, legal risk, privacy, and ethics of large language models remain largely unresolved.

Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI have opted to offer indemnify customers under certain conditions to reassure those worried about potential legal claims arising from generative AI.

But not every outfit offering AI services can make this bet and in some cases there's a cost. For example, Zoom last August had to clarify that it would not use people's chats and calls for AI training despite a change to its terms of service that allowed that.

Some JetBrains customers feel strongly about AI Assistant and really don't want the plugin to be present in their JetBrains applications at all, whether that's due to corporate policies that are incompatible with AI Assistant or other concerns. But because the plugin code has been "deeply integrated," removal has proven complicated.

More than dozen threads on JetBrains' YouTrack issue board have been posted seeking a way to delete, uninstall, or otherwise excise the AI Assistant plugin since it debuted.

A thread titled "Provide the possibility to remove a plugin completely from the system" makes the case for why one might not wish to have this plugin baked into the company's developer tools, such as the PyCharm, IntelliJ IDEA, and other applications.

oftware developers posting to the support forum raise a number of concerns, calling the plugin "bloatware," a risk to corporate intellectual property, a security issue, an annoyance, and a breach of trust.

"I just want to make it clear that I cannot use this product at the company I work for because security will not allow for a by-default AI implementation to be a part of the product," wrote an individual posting under the name Rusty Deaton.

Another developer posting under the name Marcus Grenängen wrote, "This is unacceptable. It should not bundle something by default that can send off the entire code base to God knows where. It's a real bad move JetBrains and I will not renew any subscriptions after this. It's a breach of trust that can't be undone."
'Dubious'

Yet another developer posting under the name Alan Burlison opined, "The fact that this service is AI based and that you don't know the provenance of the code it provides to you is a huge issue on its own, due to the dubious licensing/IP/legal situation it creates. But the biggest issue is not because it's AI, it's because it is leaking the user's company's IP to who knows where, potentially to direct competitors."

In a statement to The Register, Matt Ellis, developer advocate at JetBrains, tried to address misapprehensions and to reassure to those alarmed by AI Assistant's persistence.

"Although the AI Assistant plugin is bundled, and the plugin itself is enabled, there is no AI functionality enabled by default, and no data is sent off-machine without your consent," said Ellis, echoing similar replies posted to some of the discussion threads. "You have to log in, accept the data policies and either purchase a subscription or start a trial."

Quotes:
- "There is no AI functionality enabled by default, and no data is sent off-machine without your consent"

- "Any data sent to the AI service is not used for training. We also have ML support for ranking and completion, and this is provided by on-device models and no data is sent off device."

Ellis said JetBrains has a lot of customers who are happy with the bundled plugin and so the biz is looking into how its AI helper can be both bundled and fully removable.

- "The problem with removing a bundled plugin is that it can break application signatures and cause problems with updates," explained Ellis.

Asked what portion of JetBrains' customers have objected to AI Assistant, a spokesperson said, "We can't say for sure how well these opinions represent the position of all of our customers. We understand the strength of feeling, and we're listening to feedback from all parts of our community, including the many happy individuals and enterprises that are using the AI Assistant." ®

Source (without spaces):
the register .com/2024/02/01/jetbrains_unremovable_ai_assistant/

Artificial Intelligence... is it me or doesn't 'Artificial' in it's name give away what it is?

Like:
artificial flavouring
artificial additives
artificial people
artificial flowers
artificial insemination
artificial info (from computer
and who knows who behind it)
artificial screen
artificial as in aesthetics of maybe info we could get some other way more direct

At least partly in each sense of these words
where "artificial" is not usually wanted and often faked
on top as another layer, manipulated by other people / BigBiz + Governments mostly

#AI #Artificial #Intelligence #GaryAckerman #FreeSchool
#Audio #Podcast #Fediverse #Freedom #Tech #Technology #Capitalism

We are losing culture when we use money, when we value things in such ways the culture becomes about money.
Much like tourism loses culture or over-focuses to exploit the culture, this process tries to feed money instead of living as culture as the priority.
People and nations lose culture from isn't considered valuable by the money culture.

#Putin -> #Russia <- #Ukraine #UkraineRussianWar #Everywhere #Bank -> #Finance(s) -> #War <- Taxes

This picture reflects culture of education. Almost being paid to read would be best!
If the culture is not reading, not in constant but not military-like education study of life, if it's not praying for goodwill to others, learning what respect is etc etc - then it's likely your culture will lean towards unhealthy things and eventually war...

@garyackerman Podcast Cover Art + ADD YOUR IMAGES / MEMES / DIAGRAMS that visually explain AI - will be handy for speakers in debate -

Attribution-free images welcome or your own drawings.

Example you can cut and paste... and even remix = Pixabay.com https://pixabay.com/images/search/artificial%20intelligence/

Or sketch yourself a pic and send!

#GaryAckerman #FreeSchool
#Audio #Podcast #Fediverse
#AI #Artificial #Intelligence
#Freedom #Tech #Technology #Capitalism

Gary Ackerman Podcast Show -
"Artificial Intelligence"

Audio Topic with @garyackerman / https://qoto.org/@garyackerman

Follow & click Bell 🔔 (after follow accepted) to get notified of similar.

#AI #Artificial #Intelligence #GaryAckerman #FreeSchool
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GOVERNMENT SCHEMES VS. DECENTRALISATION

GOVERNMENT SCHEMES
(PENSIONS + IOU'S)

VS.

DECENTRALISATION (MONEY, MEDICINE, HOME-SCHOOLING)

#decentralisation #p2p
#Fediverse #people #individual
#freeschool #music #power

#ASCII #ART #GAMES #8BIT #RETRO #RetroGaming

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Violence is hard to switch off when systems and people are basing from it and allow others to grow from that. ⚔️ 🔫 🔒

Tech needs resources ➡️
Resources need violence :/

Hard to switch off.

Tetris Music !.... 🎵 ⌨️ Audio Gaming related 💻 👾

10 songs in 10mins [No big intro]

Dedicated to Alexey Pajitnov...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexey_Pajitnov

and Willis for breaking Tetris (aka: "Blue Scuti")
https://invidious.fdn.fr/@bluescuti1771

...and to You on The Fediverse ! (whoever you are, say a quick hi!)

🎤 Record something if you like to share about what you ❤️ and send to FreeSchool 💾

boost! 🚀 + + 🔔 for #Tetris #Music #mixes #audio #FreeSchool #Games #Podcast #Update #Audio #retro #RetroGaming

#Tetris #documentary + #film download links...

█1.█ Tetris - From Russia With Love [175mb] OR STREAM
https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=m4hGYJdE54E

SRT Subtitles = https://subsaga.com/bbc/documentaries/factual/2012/tetris-from-russia-with-love.srt

█2.█ Tetris [2023] Torrent with Multi-Subtitles = ALL LANGUAGES!
https://thepiratebay.org/description.php?id=67355538

Subtitles = English, English, English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Chinese, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Spanish, Finnish, French, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian

#Tetris #Music #mixes #audio #FreeSchool #Games #Podcast #Audio #retro #RetroGaming

OTHER INFO (OPTIONAL / BONUS)

Tetris
release year
1984
developer
AcademySoft
publisher
Freeware
category
Logic
genre / theme
tile-matching, puzzle-solving, falling block puzzle
platform
Electronika 60 (1984), PC DOS (1986)

Tetris (Тетрис) is a tile-matching puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov in the Soviet Union on an Elektronika 60 while working for the Soviet Academy of Sciences at their Computer Center in Moscow with Dmitry Pavlovsky, and Vadim Gerasimov ported it to the IBM PC.

Tetriminos are game pieces shaped like tetrominoes, geometric shapes composed of four square blocks each. A random sequence of Tetriminos fall down the playing field. The objective of the game is to manipulate Tetriminos, by moving each one sideways and rotating it by 90 degree units, with the aim of creating a horizontal line of ten blocks without gaps...

https://www.oldgames.sk/en/game/tetris/download/8910/

Tetris: From Russia With Love

= Business, Economics, News & Politics, Technology / 14 Comments

Tetris is probably one of the most famous computer-games that have ever been developed. Alexei Pajitnov creater this simple, yet addictive game in 1984 as a student at the famous Soviet Union’s Academy of Science. It initially worked only on the Soviet Elektronika 60 Computer and got very popular among staff members and students at the Academy of Science in Moscow. It’s worldwide popularity became Tetris, after Nintendo published it on their video-game console and the gameboy. This resulted in millions of dollars of royalties – but not for the developer himself, but the Russian government. Poor Alexei.

AND Wiki:
https://docuwiki.net/index.php?title=Tetris:_From_Russia_with_Love

If you can use the bored people online, you have unlocked a big treasure.... Time.