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Your principles aren't just to be stated, they must also be embodied and integrated in your work.
This!!
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mastodon 4.7.3Stitching together the best #openSource technologies to help #campaigns, #charities and not-for-profits communicate beautifully.
#CiviCRM #php #javascript #webDev #alpinejs #developer #nfp #Oxford #uk #fullStack #floss #smallWeb #noAI #ProcessWire #Backdrop
Avatar is my logo, a minimal illustration of a bobbin with stylised blue thread and a needle.
Background image some pretty orange flowers on dark green bush with small leaves.
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I just spent an hour doing the UK Govt consultation on #digitalID
I highly suggest you do too if you're a UK subject.
The consultation seems as naive as to be expected re dangers.
Massive overreach/over sharing of data. Fraud/Id theft/coercion risks. State wants biometric face scan - state surveillance will be inevitable. Zero references to trusting US companies (apple&google) to provide secure devices....
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The things that make you a great open source contributor (hyperfocus, intensity, pattern recognition, the ability to hold entire systems in your head) overlap significantly with the things that make certain psychiatric conditions both more likely and harder to detect. The community will celebrate your output without ever asking what it costs you to produce it. That's not malice. It's just a system that optimizes for code, not for the person writing it.
Truth there.
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Wow @frameworkcomputer@fosstodon.org just wow. Do you have any idea who buys (ahem, bought) from you?
So disappointing. I've loved my #framework and have encouraged others to buy. I was encouraged by someone myself. People were saying good things because you were being POLITICAL in taking about sustainability, repair-ability.
Please come to your senses, fast.
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...and I should not have to submit ID to my operating system, or to access my own computer!
Oooh.
#Debian upgrade to #trixie was a PITA due to several #firewalld related issues.
I ended up having to uninstall cloud-init.
Next up: docker. Very annoying, wouldn't start with firewalld up. Fought it a while, installed it the docker way (not debians repos), still same problem.
In a surprise move, I've ended up just switching to #podman which ... seems to have worked, and I can't quite believe it was that easy...
Like the #openSource #CiviCRM? Wanna come have some fun in #Paris in the autumn?
Then you're in luck because the early bird rate has been extended by a FEW DAYS, get your ticket booked now!
There's a conference (for everybody) on day 1, and/or join for the sprint/admin/dev/training Tues-Fri.
I love seeing the civi community together. I go to as many as I can reach without flying.
I've just tried 6(?) music player apps for #android
Wow Material 3/you/android is awful. it's like android's version of liquid glass - hard to look at and who decided we needed UIs to be made of jelly on a bucking bronco machine?
I want to see what's a button and what's not.
I don't need weird wiggly lines everywhere, like a kids' soft play area.
I need backgrounds to be different to eachother to be distinguishable!
I don't need the thing I want to tap to move!
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@casraf interesting! Thanks for sharing.
Choosing BB code though targets a niche demographic (tech people of certain age). I can't imagine getting my NC clients on board with this, they are still unsure about markdown, but _just about_ get it.
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@hughsie Nextcloud. Super cheap service (hetzner) or self host. Works just like Dropbox used to, plus lots of nice extra features.
Syncthing kinda works. I've had loads of issues.
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@alineblankertz I guess more abstractly: take their money to do something good but minimize the AI part, and ensure it can be replaced should it prove not that useful.
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@smallcircles we're like Nobel thinking his dynamite would prevent wars. And we, like many others, ignore where our pay comes from.
I'd pay monthly for a reasonable #searchEngine that either has no AI or lets me definitely permanently turn it all off, and ideally which has features like #startPage which lets you tell it to ignore certain domains (e.g. amazon.com). Also that's not US-based for obvious reasons.
Instead I get "oh please disable your ad blocker" and if I do, then the ads get in the way, slow down the results loading and generally annoy me.
There's a campaign by #foxGlove: Get #palantir our of the #NHS
The Financial Times reported that "UK ministers have sought advice on triggering a break clause in Palantir's contract as they come under mounting pressure to eject the controversial American company from NHS England data systems."
You might like to sign if you'd like to add to that pressure!
Anyone recommend an #android launcher if you can't use #lawnChair because of https://github.com/LawnchairLauncher/lawnchair/issues/2379 ?
Ditched Nova because of #AI feeding
Boosts welcome!
I made a binary chopper for integers and dates.
There have been several times when I've needed this while manually sifting data for differences or such.
e.g. you can get to a number up to 1,000,000 in 20 tries.
I added dates because that's what I needed today and date maths is hard.
Anyway, have a play. It's just a single page JS app. No data goes anywhere.
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@geekysteven@beige.party yes, just like neoliberalism, authoritarianism, injustice, inequality. But there's many of us fighting against this shit because being human is worth more than that.
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@boramalper@mastodon.social @tante@tldr.nettime.org "not ALL AIs", eh?
ML models may be tiny and if created, owned, trained on legal data and used locally, sure maybe there's low social cost. Though still if your purpose is to get millions of people running it constantly, those costs rise.
But "AI" more generally has massive social, environmental costs and its benefits are often questionable and politically/ideologically driven