Notices by tante (tante@tldr.nettime.org), page 5

I want smaller tech companies that focus on a thing they care about, pay a bunch of people and everyone goes home on time.

@kraftner personally I don't think that "privacy" is _the_ selling point some people here make it out to be. For a few people, sure. But not to the degree that mainstream people actually change their behavior.

To me Firefox's USP should have been: "We are a great browser for you that gets rid of the things that make browsing worse. Like Ads."

A few years ago I would have loved to work for Mozilla. It felt like one of the places where one might be able to actually work towards a better web for everyone. It no longer feels like that.

This is Mozilla speaking very loudly. And given that we hear them, what can we do?
https://mamot.fr/@ploum/113157578720371648

"Prominent digital rights groups defended the scam-laden crypto industry several years ago, even taking money from crypto and Web3 groups to fund their efforts, and now claim that when OpenAI, Google, or Meta steal any content they can get their hands on — from artists, writers, news organizations, or social media users (which is basically all of us) — those actions should be considered fair use. In short, some of the most powerful companies in the world should have no obligation to compensate or get permission from the people who made the posts or created the works because that would threaten the cyberlibertarian ideals they’ve built their worldview on."

(Original title: Reclaiming sovereignty in the digital age)

https://disconnect.blog/reclaiming-sovereignty-in-the-digital-age/

@mozilla with this being an experiment and all, will you write sort of what you learned? What questions you wanted to answer with the experiment and what those answers were?

@dm @papaquatscht ich habe gerade auch nix besseres als Firefox. Aber dessen Zukunft sieht unter der Führung nicht gerade rosig aus.

Luckily Mozilla has still lots of money to burn on AI experiments or on buying advertising companies. Priorities and stuff.

Mozilla is so, so lost.

https://mozilla.social/@mozilla/113153943609185249

@Marrekoo was just released for Windows (depending on what Update channel you are on)

@luis_in_brief framing WordPress and other infrastructures as "National Parks of the Web" is a good metaphor. Thanks for that

I gotta say ... having access to Python directly within Excel would make quite a few annoying work things a lot easier

@SheDrivesMobility @tante @dborch lol

@dborch wahrscheinlich auch denselben Preisträger*innen. So muss man nicht immer neue Reden schreiben

Good point

@SheDrivesMobility fucking clown ey.

(@pluralistic repost. There go my mentions)

"Far from liberating creativity from the strictures of conventional mediums, technology like AI is only serving to constrain the artist’s vision. There are exceptions—like Albert Oehlen and Richard Prince, both of whom subvert tech optimism by prankishly misusing their computer programs to create scrappy, consciously juvenile collages—but in general, neo-modernist painters are indeed not using their new tools; the new tools are using them."

(I love that I am not the only one hating Refik Anadol's empty works that in German I tend to call "Pixel wichsen" (Pixel jerkoff))

(Original title: Gimmicks of Future Past)

https://thebaffler.com/latest/gimmicks-of-future-past-tatol?utm_source%3Drss-feed%26utm_medium%3Drss%26utm_campaign%3Dfeed

@gedankenstuecke Well that person knows how to position himself for lucarive board seats and book contracts and all that ;)

EU tech policy is gonna get worse (and it wasn't in a good shape to begin with)
https://someone.elses.computer/@mikarv/113152062780308156

@hagen 100%. The antropomorphization does basically only PR work for big tech