Curioso 🍉 🇺🇦 (jgg) @jgg@qoto.org

We at @Vivaldi continue to be the only browser company all in on Mastodon and the Fediverse.

We have made our own instance, Vivaldi Social. Any user that has a Vivaldi account for sync or other services, can easily enable a presence on Vivaldi Social.

We have integrated Mastodon as a Web panel into Vivaldi.

We include links to Vivaldi Social into Vivaldi.

We also work on integrating our blogs and forums into the Fediverse.

We hope others will follow. Mozilla has talked a lot and we hope they will join us fully soon.

#Vivaldi #browser #Mozilla #Linux #Windows #Android #iOS #Macos #fediverse #Mastodon

Google balks at $270M fine after training AI on French news sites’ content - Enlarge (credit: ALAIN JOCARD / Contributor | AFP)

Google has ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2011621 #artificialintelligence #copyrightlaw #generativeai #copyright #chatbot #policy #france #gemini #google #bard

Wait, it's even worse. The dataset is based on @swheritage's archive, containing way more than just GitHub (e.g. @Codeberg is archived, too).

I assumed they were somewhat neutral, but they're praising the LLM usage of this unlicensed code:

https://www.softwareheritage.org/2024/02/28/responsible-ai-with-starcoder2/

Also, they're refusing to remove deadnames, even outright ignoring GDPR demands for it:

https://cohost.org/arborelia/post/5169338-the-software-heritag

I can only conclude that they're a bad actor and should be considered harmful by the #OpenSource community.

"La gente que piensa que podemos mantener el calentamiento a 1,5 Celsius y seguir abriendo nuevos yacimientos de gas y petróleo podría también afirmar que la tierra es plana y creer en Bigfoot."

The Real Prof. Katharine Hayhoe
@KHayhoe

Hot Streak: Why February 2024 Was The 9th Consecutive Hottest Month On Record
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidrvetter/2024/03/07/hot-streak-why-february-2024-was-the-9th-consecutive-hottest-month-on-record/?sh=54365aa66c87

Otro hachazo más a la cultura. Ahora le toca al salón Hispanofrancés del Cómic de Jaca.
Acabar con la Cultura en Aragón se ha convertido en el eje de las políticas de la derecha rancia que tenemos…

https://www.eldiario.es/aragon/cultura/ayuntamiento-jaca-elimina-presupuesto-salon-hispano-frances-comic_1_10977787.html

Yelp Says Remote-First Policy Boosted Job Apps By 43%, Led To a More Satisfied Workforce - Since implementing a remote-first policy in 2021, Yelp says it's experienced a sur... - https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/03/01/2312238/yelp-says-remote-first-policy-boosted-job-apps-by-43-led-to-a-more-satisfied-workforce?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #business

Canadian political cartoonist, Michael deAdder has requested that his Washington Post cartoons be widely circulated after his recent dismissal.

This is what I see in the Tesla logo, and cannot unsee:

Hace unos días fue @ClaraGrima la que nos contaba que la habían estafado. Hoy es @pluralistic —¡DOCTOROW, NENOS!— el que nos cuenta cómo le han robado a él. No os creáis tan listos como para que no os pueda pasar. Estad siempre atentos.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111879255100026834

Don't believe the doomers claiming RSS is dead.

RSS lives.

@jrconlin Why would you do that to Mexico?

Good!
Fewer satellites to make astronomers work difficult!

SpaceX scrubs launch of Starlink satellites from California

#Satellite #space #Astronomy #SpaceX #News

https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-launch-group-7-11

March 6th is an important date for the Digital Markets Act (DMA). By that time Big Tech has to comply with the regulation.

One part of the regulation is the choice screen. The choice screen shows user a choice of browsers when setting up the device and allows them to select which one they want to use.

We attended a meeting where we gave feedback on how the choice screen should work for it to be effective. We said it was important that the order of choice screen browsers would be random and that there should be a full visible description. Google´s mockups gave priority to Big Tech, by always having them in the top 5 positions and only shows logo and name, meaning brand recognition is everything.

We also made the point that the default browser should have its icon on the front screen in the prime position, so it is easily found.

My question to you is this: Do you think Google will implement an effective or ineffective choice screen?

#DMA #browser #Android #Regulation
@EU_Commission

From 2015 to 2022, I spent hundreds of hours on Duolingo, translating articles, answering language questions on the forums, and helping to improve the smaller courses by reporting mistakes.

There are thousands of volunteers who donated their labour to Duo: the course creators who wrote their courses, the volunteers who created grammar guides (some smaller languages had an entire second course in the forums), the wiki contributors, the native speakers who answered questions in the sentence discussions.

All of their work made Duolingo the powerhouse it is today. Duo was built by a community who believed in its original mission: language learning should be free and accessible.

Bit by bit all of our work was hidden from us as Duolingo became a publicly-traded company. And now that work is being fed into their AI as training data.

Well, I've learned the true lesson of Duolingo: never give a corporation your labour for free. Don't ever trust them, no matter what they say. Eventually greed will consume any good intentions.

#duolingo #languagelearning #enshittification #capitalism