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Interesting to see the Netherlands banning the use of mobile devices in the classroom. I totally understand why. My kids' school has basically the same policy. I wonder if a nation-wide ban will make other things difficult though. In Vienna, the school decides the policy. theguardian.com/world/2023/jul

According to my tests with my single device ( 10), Play Protect does not put up the "Unsafe App" warning screen for F-Droid 1.17-alpha0. Can anyone else confirm this?

Google has found another way to monetize your data: The tech giants that earned ~225 billion U.S. dollars in 2022 with posting targeted ads, has updated its privacy policy. Google now says that it will scrape all information on the internet to train its AI systems Google Translate, Bard and Cloud AI. Whether Google is also using private Gmail data for training its AI, remains unknown.

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It seems to me that "modern" is the word that companies use to describe new features when they don't want to explain the actual reasoning behind why they made the change. "[X] offers a more modern way of storing local data".

It is simply astonishing that companies are embedding technology into search engines that makes them vastly, vastly worse at finding accurate information.

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One of the biggest sighs of relief I've had recently is hearing @doctorow say that podcasts are still resilient against . I had great fears that 's attempt to do so by paying Joe Rogan $100mil would be successful, but apparently, Cory Doctorow considers that attempt to be a failure. It is at least clear that Apple's efforts there have failed over the years. wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/s

It’s still a BIG problem that because of car manufacturing influence, most media & political energy goes to EVs, with not NEARLY enough going to fewer cars/less driving. But the priority HAS to be the latter, the part of the solution that will actually do much more public good. #EV #ElectricVehicles #cars #cities

"Microsoft wants to move Windows fully to the cloud"

Wow, this is a terrible, TERRIBLE idea! Time to consider regular donations to the Debian project...

Seriously folks, don't fall for this. This will effectively take our freedom to do anything on our computers without Microsoft's consent. We MUST NOT let this happen! I'd rather help half the fediverse to set up Linux than endure this.

#microsoft #windows #linux #cloud

theverge.com/2023/6/27/2377511

We can set up communities with hard requirements to respect the community. This is why is legally structured to put first and foremost, via legal structures set up by Commons Conservancy.

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What is happening with should not be surprising, it is a for-profit corporation. They are legally required to maximize profit. There are no requirements to respect the community that uses it. This is the danger of hoping that companies will do the right thing. Corp. officers will not take on personal liability to defend communities, because corp laws say shareholder profit comes first. showed this by selling out to . looks very ripe for the same.

For those who believe that the western liberal democracy is more effective than Chinese communism, consider that China is ahead of its goals while western liberal democracies are behind. "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark" (Shakespeare quote, not singling out). If we are to prevent authoritarians from expanding, we need hold our governments to account. We also must take personal responsibility and do what we can to reduce our own climate impact theguardian.com/world/2023/jun

Interesting to see that the has dropped below pre-invasion value when compared to the .

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By 2024, the USB-C port will be mandatory for all portable electronic devices in the EU.

This means that you will soon be able to recharge most of your devices with the same charger, making piling up bundles of cables a thing of the past.

Not only will this make your life easier, but it will also reduce greenhouse gas emissions and e-waste.

Learn more about the common charger here: europa.eu/!hwjj3G

#EUCommonCharger #DigitalEU #EuropeanUnion

I like and both for group communications, but there are still many things that does much better. For example, I often want to quickly preview a message to see if I want to deal with it now. If not, then I leave it marked unread. Not possible all the messenger apps I've tried. That leads to slower response times because I won't open messages until I'm fully ready to deal with something more complicated. Maybe is the best direction for the long term.

A decade ago, did some extensive UX work on buttons using the power button. They used 10 presses as their trigger, and still got far too many false positives. Their conclusion was power button triggers were not workable. reached a similar conclusion back then. I guess missed that research: they shipped with a 5-press trigger, and now emergency services numbers are receiving record numbers of false calls:

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/0

Gathering technical details of unpatched vulns is dangerous, no matter who is doing it. The Cyber Resilience Act should avoid making this a requirement, it will not make us safer.

More info in the blog post:
guardianproject.info/2023/06/1

way of dealing with work when it is hot: go from super hot subway platform to cold subway to frigid AC offices and keep working away.

way of dealing with work when it is hot: no AC anywhere, if it is too hot to work, go to the nearest body of water and spend the rest of the day swimming.

AI generated music is getting traction because they are basically exploiting a loophole in copyright laws, where AI systems can take human music and make it available in a way that looks like copyright laws do not apply 2/2

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I don't think I'll ever see a good reason for generated . Music taps directly into emotions and human connection. There is already so much human-composed music out there that could be used instead of AI music. The problem is broken laws e.g. long terms, massive penalties, and applying a commercial regulation to all uses. 1/2

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