Notices by Floppy 💾 (floppy@fosstodon.org)

My posting and interaction frequency will be lower on this account until at least Christmas due to planned, non-technical reasons and commitments. (Also retroactively for some weeks.) To be returned!

@phranck In case you're interested, I did a similar (much smaller) poll in 2020 on the number of used accounts.

https://fosstodon.org/@floppy/105275932107020757

Such polls shouldn't be compared uncritically, but I believe comparison over time will show a trend towards additional accounts for special interests (possibly on themed instances).

I think that is a natural process that might reflect how humans take different roles (identities?) in different social groups. I'm curious how this plays out on the #fediverse.

"Google Says It'll Scrape Everything You Post Online for AI"

https://gizmodo.com/google-says-itll-scrape-everything-you-post-online-for-1850601486

"An update to Google's privacy policy suggests that the entire public internet is fair game for it's AI projects."

@freemo

Thank you for this write-up. Being around for a while, I head the rumours around QOTO and without knowing the other side of the story, rumours were all I had. Your article clears up a lot and I wish for you and QOTO that your call is being heard.

Before reading, I struggled a bit with the title of the article, but now I get what you were going for of course.

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@freemo

I find the write-up contains (at least) two important points: The history of QOTO (with valuable background info) and Eugen's early and impactful recent reactions.

Since the title lists only one, it might be a bit misleading ("clickbait title", as you put it). Wave you considered splitting it into two articles or use title that captures both aspects? I wonder if that might help the circulation of the article.

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@Graycot Regarding FLOSS smartwatches, what do you think of the PineTime from @PINE64? You might be interested in having a look at the wiki.

https://www.pine64.org/pinetime/

https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PineTime#Datasheets,_Schematics_and_Certifications

BangleJS seems to be a similar project.

https://banglejs.com/

A more DIY approach might be Open SmartWatch (as in print your PCB and case).

https://open-smartwatch.github.io/

https://www.makerfabs.com/open-smartwatch.html

Related is AsteroidOS, which runs on proprietary hardware.

https://asteroidos.org/wiki/porting-status/