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What do you mean with copilot?
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Now Cory talking about the GPT3 mergers with search engines , especially Google with their 'huge secretive apparatus', says @pluralistic ... It's an 'incredibly weird pathological decision' to put this 'habitual liar' into their search engine, when it's already struggling with so much shitty SEO spam - this is so true 😬
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Be aware that Plasma 5.27 totally breaks Bismuth
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The Swedish government advises against using Zoom in a recent report.
Read more about why they’re pushing instead for more open-source solutions like Nextcloud Hub! 👏
#Nextcloud #NextcloudHub #privacy
https://nextcloud.com/blog/swedish-government-advises-against-zoom/
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Dear retards: bitcoin can't fix anything if'n ya just hoard it. It only works for society if you spend it. Nobody believes anything you say about it fixing the world when we know you're just trying to hype the price of your stash in USD.
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I've been very quietly playing with #Logseq for a week or so and I have to say it's an amazing piece of software. Granted, the learning curve is steep and I miss #Obsidian and some of it's predictability but Logseq never fails to find little ways of delighting me. It’s difficult but I’m trusting it.
Logseq feels very natural in many ways and I'm excited to continue this journey.
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Thanks to #debian, #lineageOS, @fdroidorg , #mozilla, @k9mail, @thunderbird, #logseq and many more for all the awesome free software
FYI this is how a page from #Logseq documentation (it's a Logseq graph itself) looks like when rendered by GitHub:
https://github.com/logseq/docs/blob/master/pages/Knowledge%20Graph.md
It looks readable enough to me; also Logseq being FOSS means I will always be able to run it and even modify its source code for the years to come; the company just leads the development but the tool in itself and your ability to read your note are not tied to the company at all.
If you perform a t>o shortcut on a page you can expand all blocks, the collapsed:: true properties are removed from Markdown files.
The other metadata property I'm aware of is heading:: true for auto-heading but I use that only for pages serving as indexes.
The rest is properties the user adds intentionally.
Disinformation (or rather propaganda) is done by Western media like this one.
Even in this article they say:
"The IRA troll factory is held responsible for large-scale disinformation campaigns in the West."
But according to this study there is no evidence: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-35576-9
"Finally, we find no evidence of a meaningful relationship between exposure to the Russian foreign influence campaign and changes in attitudes, polarization, or voting behavior."
Der Spiegel is welcome to publish a peer-reviewed response to it by providing evidence for their claim.
I've seen small dogs jump 3 meters fences without a run. Some animals are capable of making crazy jumps.
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@msw I can only judge that advocacy based on what I can see and know about. I"m pleased to hear the assertion, though, and look forward to seeing it come to pass over time - will observe with interest.
That said, as a #FOSS advocate, I would not accept a role with AWS or any other of the #FrightfulFive corporations and those many who aspire to be among them (I have rejected offers from other anti-#FOSS mega-corporations in the past) @alcinnz @downey @skyfaller
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@alcinnz there are people for whose commitment to principles we shared I used to have a great deal of respect... but some recent have gone to work for Microsoft or Google or Facebook, among other rapacious tech mega-corporations. and I cannot maintain my admiration for their commitment. @msw @downey @skyfaller
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@alcinnz sorry, Adrian. We've got to call out those who have vested interests and remember, at some level of seniority (which I strongly suspect Matt meets or exceeds), who we choose to work for is an ethical decision, and we need to take responsibility (and hold others responsible) for that. @msw @downey @skyfaller
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@msw I think that accepting resources from corporations who are well known to actively undermine #Copyleft is unfortunately not a neutral act. It signals an implicit acceptance of those donors' actions, and an obligation from the OSI to give them the benefit of the doubt. We need to convince democratic gov'ts to fund #FOSS as digital critical infrastructure, and shun corporations and their donations entirely. A smart gov't would recognise that. Few, if any, are. @alcinnz @downey @skyfaller
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@downey yes, I haven't completely given up on them yet, as I have on the Linux Foundation, but I'm certainly very sceptical these days. I'm not an ally of 'open source' except to the extent that it's used by many when they mean Free Software, and I accept their passion if not correctness in terminology. @skyfaller @alcinnz
Same with being vegan, very few so called climate activists are vegan and this says it all.
"Open Source" including the domain opensource.org has always been a rebranding of #FreeSoftware in an attempt to let corporations take advantage of permissive #FOSS and make developers forget #Copyleft is a thing.
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Interesting.
#OpenSource Initiative #OSI using a proprietary issue tracker software for its new website.
Gotta appease those sweet sweet corporate sponsors, I guess. Even when said sponsors are selling proprietary software.
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this interview with the Mozilla CEO is really baffling to me
first off she talks about how Mozilla isn't really anti-microsoft or anti-big-tech, which ... uh, what? and then not very long after that she's talking about how Mozilla has always been anti-tracking... how do you reconcile that? how out of touch do you have to be to think you can be anti-tracking without being anti-big-tech
later it gets worse:
> Q: Do you think that you have to build generative AI products into Firefox to take advantage of that disruptive moment?
> A: Well, at some level the answer is yes, because that’s the new technology.
everything she says on this topic is a tremendous nothingburger of meaninglessness; we have to invest in this because it's new, even if we have no idea what it's for or why it would be helpful
the silicon valley brainworms really show no mercy
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