keverets @keverets@librem.one

Amazon is removing the ability to download purchased Kindle content, which is the only way to read it on my Kobo or elsewhere. What this means is I will no longer be purchasing (“a license to”–ick) any books by the mostly independent authors who exclusively publish there; just cancelled preorders.

But I know what code costs. I know what it costs to create, to maintain, to test and deploy. Whatever the combination of commodification and the cult of agility have told you, none of this is free.

If you're shipping people megabytes of compressed javascript, and I can turn it all off and _not notice anything missing or broken_, then what you're doing is waste. It is pure waste. You've paid for it, and you're making me pay for it, and it's waste.

The BBC studied the use of its content in LLM output. It found that 91% of the output had mistakes. 51% of the mistakes were "significant."

I will not give up this fight. This technology is detrimental to human knowledge.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/documents/bbc-research-into-ai-assistants.pdf

from https://www.reddit.com/user/Pizzacakecomic/

Getting requests from the Nazi overlords to strip "DEI" words from documents?

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion now known as

Pluralism, Fairness, Belonging

Nazis change the rules again? Research more synonyms and find/replace.

PFB y'all. PFB.

#dei #diversity #equity #inclusion

The U.K. government's secret order demanding that Apple allows access to the cloud-stored encrypted data of any of its customers anywhere the world is an "emergency," according to critics, and would set a dangerous global precedent that would embolden authoritarian regimes to demand the same.

From @carlypage: https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/10/uks-secret-apple-icloud-backdoor-order-is-a-global-emergency-say-critics/

Nailed it.

https://theshovel.com.au/2020/06/04/nra-accidentally-forgets-to-rise-up-against-tyrannical-government/

H/T: @auscandoc

Developer applies at @ubuntu, goes through extensive hiring filters and many interviews, gets an offer in hand, accepts the offer, quits their job, only for Canonical to retract the offer.

Don't work for Canonical.

#Ubuntu #Linux

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1ij4itg/canonical_what_a_shame/

In addition to formal government institutions, Musk is also trying to tear apart Wikipedia

That is almost certainly, as this analysis notes, because Wikipedia is "a last bastion of shared reality" ...

... and Musk, in contrast, only wants online sources that repeat his sort of conspiratorial blather

The piece: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/02/elon-musk-wikipedia/681577/

Unpaywalled: https://archive.is/1mjMq

💬"Not so sweet: Consumer goods giants in putin’s service

Mars, Mondelez International, Nestle Pepsi Procter and Gamble bolster the kremlin's budget and normalize business-as-usual for russian consumers & investors.

This sends a dangerous message: that global brands are undeterred by russia's illegal war.

But Unilever has shattered the myth that leaving russia is impossible. Their exit proves that even large, complex businesses can leave russia if they prioritize responsibility over excuses."

Reality Tech

Did Snopes really create an account here?

Fact Check: True

Source: https://www.snopes.com/faqs/#faqs_question-285676

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After a lot of work, we're happy to announce the #PeerTube Android application is available on #fdroid 🎉

https://f-droid.org/packages/org.framasoft.peertube/

Major internet freedom, censorship circumvention, and encryption tools made by groups like Tor Project, Guardian Project, and OONI have been severely impacted by Trump’s State Department executive order freezing foreign aid https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/executive-order-state-department-sideswipes-freedom-tools-threatens-censorship

That rarest of gems - an orange site comment worth recirculating - seems to be making the rounds again. From 2017:

The Debian Publicity Team will no longer post on X/Twitter. We took this decision since we feel X doesn't reflect Debian shared values as stated in our social contract, code of conduct and diversity statement. X evolved into a place where people we care about don't feel safe. You are very much invited to follow us on https://bits.debian.org , on https://micronews.debian.org/ , or any media as listed on https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Publicity/otherSN #debian