leinir @leinir@computerfairi.es

📈 In 2024 Liberapay processed donations worth a total of 1 million US dollars for 1535 recipients in 56 countries.

Happy new year!

My mom, who is in her 70s, and not particularly tech savvy, just explained that she hates Google now, because the first results are always AI, which just pulls from other sources and is usually inaccurate.

So let’s stop assuming that non-techies, older people, and mothers and grandmothers are too naive to see through the hype. Mostly it’s the tech bros and finance douches who are too stupid to actually understand what they’re boosting.

Donor appreciation post: Thank you for all your generosity 💖!

We are close to reaching our first fundraiser stretch goal...

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2024/

... And we want to thank everybody who made this possible. You have guaranteed KDE's survival for yet another year.

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

#fundraiser #donations #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

We are at 95% of our first stretch goal!

With less than €3,000 to go, our fundraiser is about to cross the €50,000 mark, and we will be entering the final stretch of our campaign.

Will your donation push us over the line?

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2024/#adopt

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

#fundraiser #donations #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

UK people - the government is running a "Copyright and Artificial Intelligence" open consultation, https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/copyright-and-artificial-intelligence until 2025-02-25

Option 3, their "preferred option" is to allow AI to slurp everything, but require an opt-out (we all know how well those work!)

Option 1 (require abiding copyright law) is "not preferred" because it is "likely to make the UK a less attractive location for AI development".

If stealing shit is the basis of your business model, *perhaps this is a problem*?

As yet there are no applications for our Senior Software Dev role (£64-£75k: https://bfijobsandopportunities.bfi.org.uk/tlive_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC107GF.open?VACANCY_ID=1222165UlM&WVID=384536015T)

#PHP devs, come and work with us at the #BFI! It's a really nice low pressure environment and you get to watch a lot of films for free

New email footer (in green, bold):

"Please consider the environment before using AI functionality to reply to this email."

#work #email #ai

This was boosted into my feed without alt text. I’ve added alt text.

It sounds like great advice if your health insurance denies a claim.

It took less than a minute to add the alt text. Please do this.

Someone has created a petition for the UK government to legally recognise non-binary as a gender

We're certain that the UK government will refuse to act on it, but it'd be nice if such a large number of people voted for it that they couldn't ignore it

Boosts welcome

#UKGovernment #UK #petition #NonBinary #queer #LGBTQIA+ #LGBTQIA2S+ #TransRightsAreHumanRights #NonBinaryPeopleExist

UK petition: Apply for the UK to join the European Union as a full member as soon as possible

Petition: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700005

Graph tracking signatures: https://petition-track.uk/check-petition/700005

#UK #petition #brexit #UKPol #UKPolitics

This is an experiment. Please boost.

http://mastoddosnt.ddns.net/

Here's the idea: This post is going first to my followers, then, if they boost it, to other people. This domain has been registered for only this experiment. I should see in my web server's logs when mastodon instances start crawling the site for info. Then maybe also some curious humans.

I just want to play with my monitoring a bit :)

Oh look Disney pulled an episode of a TV show because it was about trans issues.
OH LOOK some genius leaked the episode!
OH they TRIED taking it down!!!
OH LOOOOOOK a bigger genius got it up on internet archive :D

The Streissand Effect is in full swing

https://archive.org/details/na-the-gatekeeper