Elias @eliasr@librem.one

It's not just that I think LLMs and so-called "generative" AI produce unreliable, erroneous, or even dangerous output. It's not just that it uses energy at rates that are screwing with decarbonization efforts and could ruin any chance we have at fighting climate change. It's not just that it is always based on uncompensated appropriation (i.e. "theft") of human creativity and is basically a plagiarism laundering machine.

It's that when someone uses AI, I assume they know these things, but don't care.

I understand that there are valid use cases for AI, but I don't believe the current LLM tech is good enough even without the big downsides. But there's a new Gold Rush and all the tech investors want to make some fortunes, so they will push this crap on everyone until we are all lost in a fog of bullshit explanations and creepy, homogenized art.

If I see a post that uses AI generated art, I won't read the post. If someone posts something "from ChatGPT" I will ignore it entirely. If it wasn't worth your time to write it, it's not worth my time to read it, and I won't willingly participate in the rise of such a dangerous, wasteful, and unethical technology.

Hello @EUCommission,

Can we get a #Mastodon share button at the ECI site?

I mean, the page you get after signing an European Citizens' Initiative (ECI), e.g. this one:
https://eci.ec.europa.eu/038/public/#/screen/home

#DigitalSovereignty #EU #ECI

Over 33,000 sounds are available for free download from the BBC’s sound effects library. “Among the plethora of sounds covered are reindeer grunts, common frog calls and crowds at the 1989 FA Cup Final.” https://djmag.com/news/you-can-now-download-over-33000-sound-effects-bbc-archive

Registration for #InternyetParty closes at 23:59 today! https://internyet.party/invite

What is it? "An offline computer fiesta! Celebration/Experiment focusing on DIY, local gaming and cosiness."

#offline #LAN #DIY #Internet #Cyberpunk #Uppsala

Registrering för #InternyetParty stänger vid 23:59 idag! https://internyet.party/invite

Vad är det? "En dator-fest utan Internet! Firande och experimenterande med fokus på gör-det-själv, lokalt LAN-spelande och trevlig stämning."

#offline #LAN #Uppsala #Cyberpunk #DIY

Hey #IT and #Linux crowd,

what's the correct way to install @signalapp on a #Fedora machine?

https://signal.org/download/# only provides an official way for #Debian based.

Is this #FlatPak repo official enough?
https://flathub.org/apps/org.signal.Signal

Idag tillträder Eric Leijonram som GD för IMY.

https://www.regeringen.se/pressmeddelanden/2024/07/regeringen-utser-eric-leijonram-till-ny-generaldirektor-for-integritetsskyddsmyndigheten/

Han var särskild utredare i Biometriutredningen och presenterade betänkandet "Biometri – för en effektivare brottsbekämpning" i juni 2023:

https://www.regeringen.se/pressmeddelanden/2023/06/overlamning-av-betankandet-biometri--for-en-effektivare-brottsbekampning1/

IMY skrev då ett skarpt yttrande med anledning av att de såg flera förslag vara i strid med grundlag och EU-rätt:

https://www.imy.se/globalassets/dokument/remissvar/2023/yttrande-biometri-for-en-effektivare-brottsbekampning.pdf

Utredningen från Leijonram föreslog att förslagen ska träda i kraft den 1 januari 2025.

Och idag är alltså Leijonram generaldirektör för IMY. 🤷‍♂️

Hårdare straff ger inte minskad brottslighet

Hårdare straff ger inte minskad brottslighet. Under lång tid har kriminalpolitiken dominerats av upprepade krav på hårdare straff för alla möjliga brott. Lagstiftningen har stadig skärpst hela tiden. Men nån större betydelse för nivån på brottsligheten har det inet haft. I själva verket har det inte haft någon betydelse förutom att det lett till att det blivit allt fler unga mördare och fulla fängelser.

https://blog.zaramis.se/2024/10/01/hardare-straff-ger-inte-minskad-brottslighet/

Årets #CTF från #cert_se är släppt:
https://cert.se/2024/09/cert-se-ctf2024.html

I helgen ansluter Ulug till The Internyet Party som är ett internetfrånkopplat LAN-party. Där håller vi lördagens hackträff.

https://www.ulug.se/post/2024-10-05-hacktraff-under-internyet-party/

“We should ban surveillance advertising. Period. Companies should not be allowed to collect our data without our meaningful opt-in consent, and if that was the standard, there would be no data-collection:”
— @pluralistic

Everything advertised on social media is overpriced junk :

https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/08/late-stage-sea-monkeys/#jeremys-razors

More about healthy #iSpaces - BBC's Rethink: Is the internet getting worse?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0022z9r

#iHealth #HealthyInternet #Health

Once again remind people about my new #photography related @pixelfed instance https://pixel.kushaldas.photography/kushal I hope you will enjoy the photos there.

Please boost this post so that more people can see the photos. As I post a lot of #demonstration and #protest photos, the traditional applications don't like the hashtags :)

#photo #climate #dance #music

phosh 0.42.0 is out 🚀📱:

There's 🐛 fixes and improvements, check out the full release notes at https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.42.0/ for details or see below short 🧵

🙏 to everyone who contributed to this release.

#phosh #librem5 #pinephone #gtk #wlroots #gnome #linux #mobile #LinuxMobile

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Det här är vansinne och måste stoppas. Skamligt att #Sverige är en del av det.

Om du inte är insatt, läs på och agera. Om du är insatt och aktiv i motståndet: keep up the good work!

https://chatcontrol.se/

#chatcontrol #StopChatcontrol

Over 300 scientists from 33 countries have signed yet another open letter criticising Hungary's proposal for EU #ChatControl:

Client-side scanning of ALL end-to-end encrypted private communication (messages, email..)

In other words: mass surveillance!

https://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~preneel/Open_letter_CSAR_aug24_still_unacceptable.pdf

Apple bows down to another authoritative regime to stop citizens from downloading VPN apps https://www.phonearena.com/news/Apple-bows-down-to-another-authoritative-regime-to-stop-citizens-from-downloading-VPN-apps_id163159

@libreoffice is 14 years old.

What a triumph it is: a Free (and free) office suite, available for multiple operating systems.

#FOSS