Notices by Erik Jonker (erikjonker@mastodon.social), page 2

Incredible what a hail storm did to an Austrian Airlines plane (A320), it landed safely, the pilots didn't see the bad weather coming on their weather radar. OS434 Palma to Vienna
#AirbusA320 #hail #extremeweather #austrianairlines

@helma @EDPS ...seriously, with all the money going around in the EU it can't fund the servers for EDPS ? Besides the fact that this funding would directly contribute to explicit EU goals with regard to digital/digitisation ? How can this happen ? 🤔
#EDPS #EU #fediverse #funding

I hope the UN can make it work but the federated decentralised approach makes sense. The United Nations ditches Big Tech in a bid for security | TechRadar
https://www.techradar.com/pro/the-united-nations-ditches-big-tech-in-a-bid-for-security
#security #encryption #element #matrix #UN #IT #decentralized #federated

No news but Interesting how the CEO's of Nvidia (Jensen Huang) and AMD (Lisa Su) are actually related. TSMC is also from Taiwan which illustrates how important this country is in the chip industry.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/jensen-huang-and-lisa-su-family-tree-shows-how-closely-they-are-related
#Nvidia #AMD #TSMC #Taiwan #geopolitics

Let's not forget Trump delayed aid to Ukraine for half a year, assisting Putin, causing unnecessary deaths and destruction. Even now the majority of republicans voted against the aid, the US is still at risk, a Trump presidency is still possible after november.
#ukraine #russia #trump

@johnpettigrew ...the paradox is that AI as an assistant is very useful if(!) you are already a good coder and can quickly check outcomes.

@johnpettigrew ...true, but there also some tasks, like analysing code (on various aspects), which have quite a lowrisk, although you can still not rely on it ofcourse

@bear @aral ...but isn't the practical solution moving to another server that doesn't federate with threads, that's the nice part of the fediverse, you can make choices?

@Edent ...great idea which has been discussed before, you can imagine that a government provides every citizen with a digital presence, just like they provide them with a digital identity. It never happend until now however.

Radek Sikorski, minister of foreign affairs of Poland on X:
"Let’s be clear on this: when a commentator or a politician calls for ‚peace’ and simultaneously advocates denying the victim of aggression the means to defend herself they actually mean that the victim should capitulate.
Such Chamberlainism usually covers baser motives."
Harsh but true words. He is talking about Scholz for example.
#geopolitics @geopolitics #Ukraine #Sikorski

If you let the vice-chairman of the security council present this map, we can all agree Russia has an expansionist view with regard to Ukraine. So please ignore all people saying Russia wants peace etc.
#Medvedev #Russia #Ukraine #geopolitics @geopolitics

@thatprivacyguy ...is it really going live in the EU, i thought it's more like they just start only in the US? (like they did with Bard itself)

If the rumours are true and #Ukraine really downed an A-50U , an Arboirne Early Warning & Control plane, that is a big blow to Russia, it has a very limited number (less then 10) of those planes operational.
#ukraine #russia #A50

@phiofx @bjmendelson @SandraDeHaan
...the bottomline is generative AI is here to stay in one form or another, businesses will have a role , so in my view it will be just a financial negotiation with content producers/publishers, it's not more complicated then that. In the meanwhile the legal part will go slow and the development of generative AI goes fast.

@bjmendelson
That's a caricature , there are all kind of problems and risks with generative AI / LLMs but regardless it's an important and society changing technology , ofcourse OpenAI and others have business, it's just the matter of people getting compensated for use of their data/content
@SandraDeHaan

This sounds like an interesting idea, combining #Solid pods with #ActivityPub #fediverse #activitypods
https://activitypods.org/

@Gustodon why, just ordinary people, programmers etc. ?

The whole #OpenAI affair was probably just one large team building exercise it seems... 😉
#Brockman

No government or publicly funded organisation should advertise on X , formerly known as Twitter, in my view.
https://www.politico.eu/article/no-more-ads-elon-musk-x-twitter-european-commission-tell-staff/
#X #Twitter

Some people try to frame all demonstrations in western cities as supporting Islamic extremists and Hamas, while the overwhelming majority of protestors want to support the palestinian people is my impression.
#geopolitics #gaza #hamas #israel #palestinians