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SERVER NOTICE

We have defederated from X.com.

X.com has served multitudes over the years. However, it is time to move on from an unmaintained, insecure server.

Veteran maintainers of X.com have already moved to Wayland.social, and we encourage you to, too.

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I love how so much of the AI debate is on things like:

* Will AI take people's jobs?
* Will AI destroy creativity?
* Will AI take over the world?
* Will AI be used to make people poorer?

And not:

* Will corporations that use AI get rid of people's jobs?
* Will corporations that use AI destroy creativity?
* Will corporations that use AI try to take over the world?
* Will corporations that use AI make people poorer?

Because these LLMs and machine learning systems and so forth aren't just wandering around randomly out there - they're owned by corporations. The corporations are the ones putting them to use. The executives that run those corporations are the ones making the decisions to pay people less, to increase their profits, to make creative people act as subeditors for LLMs.

It's the corporations, and the ethics-free systems that govern them, that cause these things. They're the ones pushing to have more AI.

The rest of us would be happy just having a bit more humanity in the world.

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Happy Pride to all those who are unable to celebrate openly and safely. You are loved and seen!

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Holy shit: Causal evidence that the Shingles vaccine prevents a significant fraction of Alzheimer's cases. So 1, get vaccinated, and 2 the implication that Alzheimer's disease is a preventable byproduct of viral infection is tectonic.

metafilter.com/199451/Dont-mis

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We just joined Mastodon, please follow us. Still more posts to come soon.

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If you force me to join a discord to file an issue or look for documentation for your software

don't. fucking. do. that. ever.

I will write my own replacement out of pure spite and vitriol

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De-Adobeing picks of the day:

(All of these are free open source software)

➡️ @kdenlive - Video editing

➡️ @tenacity - Audio editing, forked from Audacity

➡️ @Krita & @krita_artists & @kritafoundation - Painting software, also suitable for drawing, illustration and 2D animation

➡️ @darktable - Photo organising, processing and development

➡️ @inkscape - Vector drawing

➡️ @blender@video.blender.org & @Blender@mastodon.social - 3D animation, 2D animation, special effects for live action and editing

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Today we are announcing the release of our first Audit Report conducted by an independent security consultant: keepassxc.org/blog/2023-04-15-

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Docker Inc would like to thank the open source community for making registry successful.

As a token of appreciation open source organizations are invited to subscribe to the paid version in the next month, or their data will be deleted.

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