Koro @koro@qoto.org

Let the billionaires go to Mars, we go to Venus.

How To Terraform Venus (Quickly)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-WO-z-QuWI

If you want to go fast, go alone and sit in your underground Mars bunker with servants who hate you. If you want to go far and enjoy the landscape, go together.

Sneak-peek of our upcoming #Flockingbird Job Search Bot hunter2.

We're now finalizing these pages, stabilizing the bot and improving security.

Biggest challenge, before release, is a predictable&solid exclusion of people who indicated they don't want to be indexed (a must-have!)

After that we'll start adding more features and continue our core project.

What do you think is essential when searching for job openings, candidates or presenting yourself as candidate?

Nice (and welcome) talk of Steve WOZNIAK about #RightToRepair and #OpenSource model … even if #Apple is not exactly a reference on these two topics 😬 https://youtu.be/CN1djPMooVY

« The SAND Lab at University of Chicago has developed #Fawkes, an algorithm and software tool that gives individuals the ability to limit how unknown third parties can track them by building #FacialRecognition models out of their publicly available photos. At a high level, Fawkes "poisons" models that try to learn what you look like, by putting hidden changes into your photos, and using them as Trojan horses to deliver that poison to any facial recognition models of you » http://sandlab.cs.uchicago.edu/fawkes/

@a20camp Und dazu noch dieses Bild

#Surveillance #Pegasus : « The maker of powerful spy software allegedly used to hack the phones of innocent people says blaming the company is like "criticising a car manufacturer when a drunk driver crashes" »

No, it's more like « Yes we make guns but it's not our fault if people use them » 🤦‍♂️ https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57922664

In a fascinating blog post, Cook enumerates all of the FLICC subtechniques, describing their relationship to the Big Five FLICC tactics, along with great, vector-based icons licensed CC BY-SA.

https://crankyuncle.com/a-history-of-flicc-the-5-techniques-of-science-denial/

Here's the full taxonomy:

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“Every day, consumers are exposed to extensive commercial surveillance online. This leads to manipulation, fraud, discrimination and privacy violations. Information about what we like, our purchases, mental and physical health, sexual orientation, location and political views are collected, combined and used under the guise of targeting advertising.”

https://www.forbrukerradet.no/side/new-report-details-threats-to-consumers-from-surveillance-based-advertising/

#Intel is using #MachineLearning to make #GTA V look incredibly realistic

https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/12/22432945/intel-gta-v-realistic-machine-learning-cityscapes-dataset

Someone brought an AC car to the local dog park

"What Is Right To Repair?"

https://youtu.be/RTbrXiIzUt4

Big right-to-repair win: FTC blasts tech giants for making it so difficult to mend devices

https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/07/ftc_repair_report/

#Privacy / #SurveillanceCapitalism : « The Instagram ads Facebook won't show you » by Jun Harada (Signal)

« We wanted to use those same tools to directly highlight how most technology works. We wanted to buy some #Instagram #ads »

#Bees creating a defense wave called “shimmering “ to ward off #wasps

Planned #obsolescence : #Repair Manifesto ✊

@stux By the way this video you shared about how chemical reactions convert mass to energy... its really bad and you need to forget it.. care for me to explain?

https://youtu.be/t-O-Qdh7VvQ

@nyetoots Hello Friend, and welcome to Qoto.

Enjoy the network and all it has to offer. If you are new to using Mastodon, there's a good guide here: https://lifehacker.com/a-beginner-s-guide-to-mastodon-1828503235

We also have another new users guide, posted here : https://write.tedomum.net/rgx/suggestions-and-guidelines-for-new-users-written-by-mastodon-art-administrator

You are right in that this mastodon interface is very unlike FB; it resembles Twitter more. But it is also different from that.

After having a Twitter account for many years and NOT using it much at all, I joined here, first time in, just like you.

6 months and 5,500 Toots later, I am happy and a member of this instances Staff, a moderator and above all a community supporter and Builder. You will see a lot of my posts, hope you like Cats, which are one of my big interests; there are a lot of cat photos I bring in; and I daily see many people who Boost and Favourite those.

Also, many new people who discover and Follow my humble account here.

The Fediverse is a lot more than what you see here, there are many wonders to be found; some ugly corners, which we best steer clear from. Ask for any help if you need, we are all in this together.

Have a great Sunday, take the time to read the first guide at least - I think it was the one I first found in a Bing search and used to orient myself here.

There's no GPS, you are in control, and set your course as you see fit. The Guides are our road maps.

Many bright, sensitive and decent people here; many who made this jump years ago. Give it time.

Happy you ventured out of the corporate networks.

#Qoto #QotoJournal #KoyuJournal #NewUsers #Fediverse #Friendship #Culture #International #WeAreOne

An Excellent article at The Atlantic, which I find myself frequently referring friends to.

Might be useful for someone here possibly? We are all affected by this.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/306868/

#Fediverse #NewUsers #QotoJournal #dxp #xp #Tech #Writers

If you never watched the clip about Dr. Feynman explaining the nature of a "why" question please watch this. It is probably one of the most important things a critical thinker could ever know if they dont already:

https://youtu.be/36GT2zI8lVA

#Science #Physics #Feynman #QOTOJournal