The new Tony Blair Institute report on public sector automation savings classifies the potential to automate a task based on… how much GPT-4 classifies a task as automatable.
Is this the worst method ever? It’s absurd, unserious, and any outlet reporting on this uncritically should be humiliated and ridiculed. (seen via @halcyene)
#Firefox has a new hidden setting auto-rejecting #cookie banners (not just hiding them eg Brave). Piloting in 🇩🇪 in Private Browsing but anyone can enable: Go to the URL about:config Set cookiebanners.ui.desktop.enabled ->True Go to Settings->Privacy, turn on Cookie Banner Blocker.
Meta's #Llama 2 license has an unusual clause whereby they withdraw your right to use the model if you allege #Meta has breached your own IP rights by training their stuff on your intellectual property. #copyright#genai#LLama2
note for all, Rallly is an open source and modern alternative to Doodle without illegal tracking... https://rallly.co (others include Nextcloud polls, which is great if you have it, and Framadate which is cool but a bit clunky, and dudle which is old school German web code)
New 📄: Rights for Those Who Unwillingly, Unknowingly and Unidentifiably Compute!
People's devices are silently co-opted for collective computation which promises data confidentiality. But what happens when ppl don't agree with the computation's ends? https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/4ugxd 🧵
@Kerosene@ceo_of_monoeye_dating@lanodan you mean that the activitypub update activity might not federate to reposted versions, or that it creates traffic to servers? not sure either of these is a reason not to do it, especially when it’s low stakes and the alternative is slightly misleading people.
#Apple have enabled "#AdvancedDataProtection" (encrypting users' #iCloud server-side) in the UK. Update your device(s) to the latest version, and enable it.
The UK have significant powers under the #InvestigatoryPowersAct (& future #OnlineSafetyBill) to halt this rollout (or attempt to undo it, but that's harder) — so it's really worth enabling ASAP.
Twitter closing API access will drive the (questionable) study of social media posts to places like Mastodon. Classes that were teaching people social media scraping will likely turn to ActivityPub services. However, university #researchEthics committees should be wary of approving research as before. Unlike Twitter, instances and users can (and do) have much clearer views on being scraped. People can be contacted more easily for ethical consent in open protocols. Not a free for all any more.
The seasonal news that #WhatsApp will stop working on #iPhone 5 and below #Android 4.3 highlights how the lack of Web apps is a significant environmental problem. Phones become obsolete in part because they don’t get OS updates, and they become incompatible with compiled apps. A lightweight OS for old phones would be more feasible if it mainly had to have a solid Web browser that facilitated a proper selection of #ProgressiveWebApps (& if manufacturers made open drivers/docs). #PWA#PWAs
Associate Professor in Digital Rights & Regulation at University College London (#UCL), Faculty of Laws.Not resigned to today's technological power structures (yet). Researching at the intersection of emerging technologies, law and policy; data protection; machine learning; PETs and cryptographic infrastructures; platform and infrastructural regulation. 🏳️🌈administrating a small exoplanet in the fediverse :loading:.