@stux @EUCommission Like Adobe trying to retroactively stop me using CS6 despite swearing they'd 'always support it.' These companies are self entitled, psychopathic, megalomaniacs and should be avoided like the cancer they are.

@patrickleavy Sadly Komoot has been sold to Bending Spoons. I'm very excited to try https://wanderer.to/ though!

@unattributed Are you familiar with [Quarto](https://quarto.org/)? It's kind of a fascinating project.

Did you miss today’s #MediaEdClub webinar, “Privacy, Power, and Platforms?” Check out the archived / recorded video and all related links:
https://mediaeducationlab.com/events/privacy-power-and-platforms

#MediaLit #MediaLiteracy #AI #privacy #surveillance

Are the Americans OK?

@FediTips This is fantastic news!!

In case you missed it, there is now a Fediverse alternative to Strava called Wanderer:

➡️ https://wanderer.to

There is a public server list at:

➡️ https://wanderer.to/servers

To sign up on a server, click on "Create Account", then "Login", then "Make One".

If you're running your own public Wanderer server you can add it to the list at https://github.com/Flomp/wanderer/discussions/361

Techy people can self-host using instructions at https://wanderer.to/run/installation

#FediTips #Fediverse #Strava #Komoot #Outdoors #Hiking

Hey, this tech is cool! Anubis: Web AI Firewall Utility https://anubis.techaro.lol/ #cogdogcooltech

From my stuff tagged "cooltech" bookmarked in pinboard https://pinboard.in/u:cogdog/t:cooltech

@atomicpoet …so does this mean you *don’t* know how late the corner quickie mart in Fort Langley village is open ‘til?!

@unattributed But, yes for PDFs it’s amazing. The emails conversion I mentioned, first formats the meta data into a beautiful header, then it cleans and formats the html and finally renders a perfect PDF that is then piped out to a markdown file for my notes! It’s brilliant!

@unattributed Yeah, most of the younger folks I know that regularly use LaTeX are in academia. There are a few documentation sites out there; think legal docs, forms, etc., that use it on the backend to render finished pages. Again because of variables. So there are in fact a lot of people who are using it despite never having heard of it.

@unattributed I do! Though it’s been a while since I have fired it up in earnest. I still use it for proposals, because *variables* beat ‘find and replace’ any day. Nothing worse than missing one instance because of a some small variation! Oh and I use it to convert my emails to markdown and place them in my CRM. Latex is super magic voodoo ninja stuff and everyone should use it! Especially if you are writing your maths dissertation!!

Great talk by @malteengeler & @tante bringing together both the dynamics and the ideology linking AI and fascism.

Also watch the Q&A for some thoughts on Luddism (not to be confused with techno-pessimism!) and anti-fascist strategies (unsurprisingly citing @danmcquillan). Great AI - asbestos analogy!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMl-yZMD-wA

(Strong focus on the US - where developments are more obvious for now. And yes, Altman is being treated like a head of state in the EU, just like the other tech bros.)

If you know anyone in the European Union who is seriously considering buying Meta's spyglasses, please remind them that using those privacy nightmares would make them a controller according to the GDPR. They'd be responsible for ensuring full compliance with our privacy laws, which - surprise, surprise - will be impossible.

Please tell them to save themselves and everyone around them the trouble and give the money to any NGO instead.
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#privacy #DataProtection #GDPR #Meta #BanRayBan

by Aïda Amer

@visuals_by_aida on insta

“Liberal Democracies live when we make the better offer.”

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/5fLIb8KXmDw

@appassionato @photography What the… Wow!!

@snap30Pix Amazing! That is a perfect crop for that composition! Nice work!!

@GrapheneOS Came through.

@interesting but it’s not too late. Fight *now* while you can. Get involved, vote with your ballad and your money. Let your congress reps know that they are on the wrong side of history. If you wait until they come for you and the people you love, you’ll have waited too long.