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Yep, let's celebrate Microsoft 50th anniversary: "Microsoft employee disrupts 50th anniversary and calls AI boss ‘war profiteer’"

https://www.theverge.com/news/643670/microsoft-employee-protest-50th-annivesary-ai

#Microsoft #MS #50thAnniversary #AI

"Microsoft tempted to hit the gas as renewables can't keep up with AI"

The not so hidden costs of the so-called AI. This is your contribution every single time you use Copilot, ChatGPT and all that crap, and if you do really believe the "...with carbon capture technology..." part, at best, you're naive.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/13/microsoft_natural_gas_ai/

#LLMs #Microsoft #AI #datacenters
#environment #energy #sustainability

OpenA proposes that the US government "take steps to ensure that our copyright system continues to support American AI leadership," and that it shapes international policy discussions around copyright and AI, "to prevent less innovative countries from imposing their legal regimes on American AI firms and slowing our rate of progress."

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https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/13/openai_data_copyright/

#AI #OpenAI #USA #Copyright #DigitalRights #Imperialism

In summary: We Americans are the best and everybody should bow to our desires. What a crazy idea protecting your own culture and creations! You are just a resource to be exploited by us. That's your only purpose.

This guys are a piece of crap. With each passing day, this world resembles more and more the one of William Gibson's books.

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Of course! #Google agrees with #OpenAI

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https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/03/google-agrees-with-openai-that-copyright-has-no-place-in-ai-development/

The execs at #Mozilla are something else. First they put up a TOS that, according to them, we all had misinterpreted, then they add a notice stating that the TOS doesn't gave them ownership of people's data, and finally they remove from everywhere the parts that said " #FireFox doesn’t sell your personal data" Alright, folks, what’s next?

https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/02/mozilla_introduces_terms_of_use/

#FreeSoftware #EthicalTech #Privacy

I use 3 browsers for different purposes: TorBrowser, LibreWolf, #FireFox After the latest events now I use #TorBrowser #LibreWolf and #Vivaldi

In my case for my #Devuan system I downloaded Vivaldi from the official site
https://vivaldi.com/ and then on a terminal I used the following command:

sudo apt install ./vivaldi-stable_7.1.3570.58-1_amd64.deb

Pretty simple uh? 😉

Today I was victim of proprietary software crap by car manufacturers. My
auto electrician has only fixed a problem with a malfunctioning window switch panel partially because part of the configuration is software blocked and I have to go to the manufacturer's dealership. With each passing day I'm happier about my decision of not buying a new car because this problem must have become a nightmare in modern cars

#RightToRepair #Proprietary #Software #Car

"Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone" - RMS

Sadly, I have to admit that I'm one of those who thought they could ignore politics for a long time, until I realized that it's wrong and even unethical to do it. Stallman was right

#FreeSoftware #Freedom #RMS #Geeks #Politics #FOSS

The article talks about authors suing meta but I'm curious to see if the same book publishing companies that went after the #InternetArchive (Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins Publishers, Penguin Random House and John Wiley and Sons) will go now after #Meta and Zuck (of course as always he doesn't know anything about this)

https://cybernews.com/tech/meta-leeched-82-terabytes-of-pirated-books-to-train-its-llama-ai-documents-reveal/

#metaAI #AI #ia #copyright

@admin Prosody https://prosody.im/

@surabax That's a sure thing

@admin I use Jabber/XMPP. I've set up a server for family & close friends and we're happy with it

@Recherchebuero_Schaumburg Today I was really in need to see something like this. Thank you very much!

The banning of #TikTok fits perfectly with the US double standards mindset and way of doing things. They're afraid of TikTok spying on them while they're perfectly ok having Meta, Google, Microsoft, Twitter,... spying on the rest of the world. Go figure

disclaimer: I don't use TikTok, I never used it, and I'm against it, the very same I'm against all the #unethical businesses, software & hardware products that spy and squeeze people, no matter where they come from.

#privacy #PrivacyMatters

GDB 16.1 Released!
https://www.sourceware.org/gdb/download/ANNOUNCEMENT

#gnu #gdb #debug

@me You're welcome 😉

@me It works

That's the beauty of not having crappy #algorithms that "show us what we are interested in...", #shadowban posts, etc.

I remember using #Twitter and people was flooding all the time with the same tweets over and over again because of visibility. Here on #Mastodon it happened to me already two times an interesting thing: old toots that suddenly starts to look like new because people starts to comment and boost it again without me doing anything at all.

What I value most of #fediverse is that for me is a place to engage with people in the good sense: sharing knowledge, exchange opinions and having conversations.