Notices by Michael Downey 🇺🇳 (downey@floss.social)

@onepict The only thing that makes OSI de facto stewards of anything is the community legitimacy they used to have.

@onepict Somewhere (LWN?) I saw that there's a group forming of those willing to build something better than OSI:

https://opensourcedeclaration.org/index-en-us.html

Software Freedom @conservancy: "Open Source AI Definition Erodes the Meaning of 'Open Source'"

"With this announcement, we have reached the moment that software freedom advocates have feared for decades: the definition of “open source” — with which OSI was entrusted — now differs in significant ways from the views of most software freedom advocates."

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2024/oct/31/open-source-ai-definition-osaid-erodes-foss/

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware #OpenSourceAI #AI #OSI #OSAID

For a moment, imagining if #Mastodon had released literally ANY new & useful admin/moderation tools whatsoever in the past several years....

#MastoAdmin #FediAdmin

"No one should be at the mercy of an algorithm they don’t control, which was not designed to safeguard their interests."

— António Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General

Read more in the UN's brand-new "Global Principles for Information Integrity", announced today: https://www.un.org/en/information-integrity

#UN #Fediverse #disinformation #misinformation #TrustAndSafety

@joeo10 Why not viable? Both my Blu-Ray 4K UHD player and Kodi server can output HDMI without problem...

Yes, you can still buy 4K TV's that are not "Smart" (surveillance). They're called "commercial displays" and as a bonus, they're more durable, too.

Prices start at $550 US for a 55-inch Samsung model.

#SurveillanceCapitalism #SmartTV #TV

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/products/Flat-Panel-Displays/ci/16073/N/4205668456?sort=PRICE_LOW_TO_HIGH&filters=fct_display-size_4953%3A55in%7C65in

@tokyo_0 https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=jUCu5e_fyeg

@tokyo_0 Reminds me also of Google+.

@tokyo_0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SixDegrees.com

@tokyo_0 It really blows my mind that the Mastodon project has not documented these types of critical knowledge by now.

:microsoft: ➡️ :matrix: It's a Big Freaking Deal when we can move any #UnitedNations organization away from #Microsoft.

The system-wide IT shop UNICC has announced its move to #Matrix:

https://www.techradar.com/pro/the-united-nations-ditches-big-tech-in-a-bid-for-security

@tokyo_0 It's arguable that most unauthorized "relay bots" are actually copyright infringing.

@darnell @hosting

#Meta going hard with "do as we say, not as we do" federation policy

#Threads

"You have to understand, we’re responsible for taxpayer money here. We can’t just make a donation to your open source project."

— a national government who relies on #Matrix when being asked to support it financially

Read more about the problem and some initiatives that are responding to it:

https://matrix.org/blog/2024/04/open-source-publicly-funded-service/

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS #funding #xz #sustainability

:fists_raised: 👁️ Mass protests used to offer a degree of safety in numbers. Facial recognition technology changes the equation.

📰 Read "The changing face of protest":

https://restofworld.org/2024/facial-recognition-government-protest-surveillance/

#privacy #facialRecognition #surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism #protest

@makdaam

That (trademarks are protected without registration) is also the case in the US, too.

@drewdevault

https://www.rocketlawyer.com/business-and-contracts/intellectual-property/trademarks/legal-guide/registered-vs-unregistered-trademark

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware

@jik I don't know of any studies, but the problem with their "invisible" product is that it's only invisible if it has n inference (true or false) that the user is human. So it reverts to the same accessibility challenges as the others in a portion of visits.

Can we have any improved #MastoAdmin moderation tools now please?

We've been asking (and ignored) for years.

@sheogorath BDFL