I love a good rant, and this is one I totally endorse. A great examination of macho Linux horseshit. https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you-dont-own-the-word-freedom-a-full-burn-response-to-the-gnulinux-comment-that-tried-to-gatekeep-me-off-my-own-machine/
Für Hobby-Musiker:innen und #CreativeCommons vielleicht nicht uninteressant:
Am 28.03.2025 hat die #GEMA angekündigt, kollektive Lizenzen auch für Musik von Nicht-Mitgliedern vergeben zu wollen. Das betrifft z.B. auch die Aufführungsrechte (Cover) oder die Nutzungsrechte für das Training von KI-Modellen.
Es sind noch drei Tage Zeit, um vorab zu widersprechen (danach nur für die Zukunft). Die gesetzliche Grundlage gibt es seit 2021, hattet ihr das auf dem Schirm? 😮
I learned something today: Google's Gemini "AI" on phones accesses your data from "Phones, Messages, WhatsApp" and other stuff whether you have Gemini turned on or not. It just keeps the data longer if you turn it on. Oh, and lets it be reviewed by humans (!) for Google's advantage in training "AI" etc.
But this only came to my attention because of an upcoming change: it's going to start keeping your data long-term even if you turn it "off": "#Gemini will soon be able to help you use Phone, #Messages, #WhatsApp, and Utilities on your phone, whether your Gemini Apps Activity is on or off."
This is, of course, a #privacy and #security #nightmare.
If this is baked into Android, and therefore not removable, I'd have to say I'd recommend against using Android at all starting July 7th.
#spyware #AI #LLM #Google #spying #phone #Android #private #data
Kurze Erinnerung: Diese Petition braucht Zeichnung!
Bundestagspetitionen sind bei Erfolg bindend, insofern sich der Bundestag dann damit beschäftigen muss, und diese hier ist wirklich wichtig für eigentlich alle von uns, denn der Zugang zu Psychotherapie soll ziemlich erschwert werden: https://epetitionen.bundestag.de/content/petitionen/_2025/_04/_16/Petition_180389.html
Billionaires
"Bezos' Venice wedding party moved to isolated area on security concerns"
Good. Billionaires should never feel safe. They should be running, hiding, hunted. Always looking over their shoulder, unable to trust anyone or anything. Let them skulk in their underground bunkers and never party in our streets.
"“Masculinity and patriarchy are one in the same” is one of the ideological pillars of patriarchy. It frames masculinity as something that can only be affirmed via a dominance relation and renders all forms of counter-hegemonic masculinity invisible. Ceding that territory to patriarchy only serves to erase the butches, trans mascs, trans men, nonbinary people, etc. who explore and live out subversive forms of masculinity. We would be far better served by understanding masculinity as something that patriarchy attempts to capture, rather than something it inherently owns, therefore shifting our understanding of masculinity away from seeing it as a component of the enemy and towards understanding it as continuously contested territory."
– Lee Cicuta, "Masculinity: Contested Territory." https://butchanarchy.medium.com/masculinity-contested-territory-ad94621032b
I am looking for a political science/international relations researcher who might propose a project for a high-functioning high school student at the Institute for Computing in Research. The student has strong background in math and programming, and has expressed an interest in sci/tech-informed approaches to diplomacy and de-escalation, but any research direction would be great.
#politicalscience #mentorship #internships #education
joking based on other replies
Well.. apparently he is someone who either can't spell good or uses a Smartphone which autocorrects stuff in ways which are just slightly off.
Well I just drink a full glass of Walter. Bit by bit. After that my hiccup is gone in 100% of cases.
@Redfuchs this is so true and also reminds me of this wonderful comic, which I treasure very much.
feels appropriate to post this today for this #WIPWednesday .... not done though
Während Deutschland mit massiver Aufrüstung „wehrhaft“ und „kriegstüchtig“ gemacht werden soll, wird nun auch die Forderung nach einer #Wehrpflicht für Frauen als feministisch umgedeutet. Sehe ich anders. Unser Widerspruch bei #MissyMagazine.
https://missy-magazine.de/blog/2025/06/18/die-fahne-des-feminismus/
@MikeH Step by step, some creators are uploading their work also on Peertube (I do that).
https://sepiasearch.org/ helps to find more contents.
🎉 I'm happy for Peertube! The campaign has ended and they have reached their final goal: https://support.joinpeertube.org/en/
Always wanted to #selfhost your #Fediverse instance but were always worried about system administration trauma?
Do you ever have to run around your flat, picking up all the leftover parentheses from yesterday's party with your hosting coop coworkers?
Then you are probably the right person, check out this post about fearless #Bonfire hosting on a #Guix System. You'll learn that taking care of a community is much more manageable when you let computer do the boring work for you.
Set up HTTPS, automatic backups, automatic nightly upgrades and join the awesome Bonfire community without a single worry on losing data from your instance.
https://fishinthecalculator.me/blog/bonfire--guix-a-love-story.html
"@bonfire & #guix, a love story" - An #Elixir based framework to build federated applications with Guix as a general purpose provisioning tool, providing trustable, functional and reproducible packages; bundled together as the Guix System distro, which provides transactional, atomic upgrades
https://fishinthecalculator.me/blog/bonfire--guix-a-love-story.html
@noybeu verklagt Datenschutzbehörden wegen jahrelanger Untätigkeit bei illegalen „Pay or OK“-Modellen: https://noyb.eu/en/years-inactivity-pay-or-ok-cases-noyb-sues-german-dpas
„Bei Pay or OK geht es um die Frage, ob Beobachtung von Personen ein verkäufliches Gut sein kann – und ob Datenschutz als Grundrecht auf Dauer nur für Gutverdienende möglich und somit ein Luxusgut ist.
Freie Angebote ließen sich auch über kontextgebundene Werbung finanzieren. Es gäbe also Alternativen zu ‚Daten her! Oder es kostet!‘“