keverets @keverets@librem.one

It's funny that they told me not to trust wikipedia in high school when at this point it's the only link in the first page of google results that was written by humans intending to convey information

Google Drive users are reporting that recent files stored in the cloud have suddenly disappeared, with the cloud service reverting to a storage snapshot as it was around April-May 2023.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-drive-users-angry-over-losing-months-of-stored-data/

We have reports from people for whom delta chat works while signal shows "no internet" ... Various states are throttling traffic all across the planet and you need to have a robust networking layer to provide service. Delta Chat is offline-first, ignores DNS outages, can be combined with Tor or Tails. It is trying to make live easier for people who are already in stress and need a reliable messenging experience. It is project practise to keep the least wealthily connected in focus.

I wrote a piece on a #Coop alternative to Etsy that just launched, one that puts power back into the hands of artists & makers:
@coopartisans (glad they're on Mastodon!)

I didn't realize the extent to which #Etsy had become toxic to sellers until starting interviews for this piece. It's clear that artisans are being drawn to this because an alternative is long overdue.

(there's a tech issue with the authorship at the top; it names me as the author at the bottom)

https://www.shareable.net/artisans-cooperative-an-etsy-alternative-owned-and-run-by-artists-and-makers/

Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024

The "Manifest V3" rollout is back after letting tensions cool for a year.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/google-chrome-will-limit-ad-blockers-starting-june-2024/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

It honestly is truly wild to me that after Twitter imploded under the tutelage of a billionaire megalomaniac so many people - instead of going to decentralized, community-run Mastodon - chose to grasp desperately onto other platforms started by millionaire or billionaire megalomaniacs, alternatively the one by the guy directly involved in the downfall of democracy (Meta) or the one by the guy who started Twitter (which was always a shit show!) to begin with.

Like, what???

“The push for clean water is considered one of the 10 biggest public health advances of the last century, and air should be no different." https://ca.news.yahoo.com/why-still-breathing-dirty-indoor-124422556.html

Annual meeting of the Summer Tires Club

I manage a ful week of #commute on a cargo electric #bicycle. That is five trips of 5km one way. With 500Wh battery that gives 10Wh/km. An electric car does around 200Wh/km.

For the same commute distance that is 20× less #battery capacity needed. We should not focus on replacing all ICE cars with #electric cars. We should replace them with as many bikes as humanly possible.

@cstross see also the snippet when you search for countries in Africa beginning with “k” (there are none, but Kenya is closest which starts with a k sound but is spelt differently) it’s also from the defunct emergent mind project. And/or Reddit as that version of GPT was heavily trained on Reddit and Google obviously….

all you need to do is be a $170B international corporation and you too can have AI companies respect your copyrights:

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2023/11/fake-movie-posters-with-disney-logos-force-microsoft-to-alter-bing-image-creator/

Reason why /e/OS blocks applications' trackers and web trackers (ads) by default and this is really serious actually 🧌

"Web Browsing Data Is ‘Serious Security Threat’ To U.S. And EU, New Reports Show" 👇👇👇

https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2023/11/14/web-browsing-data-is-serious-security-threat-to-eu-and-us/

41 American and Canadian companies trialed a 4 day work week in 2022. None has reported going back to working 40 hours a week.

Requirements: a tolerance for risk, and trust, creativity, and open-mindedness. https://www.npr.org/2023/11/11/1207991399/4-four-day-work-week-manufacturing-work-life-balance

Well well well... Andreessen Horowitz admits, in no uncertain terms, that if they had to compensate artists for using their art to train their #aiart ripoff models, that their investments wouldn't be worth it.

Absolutely damning admission which spells out in no uncertain terms that these firms *KNOW* they are ripping artists off.

Fuck #StableDiffusion, #MidJourney, and techbros everywhere.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/andreessen-horowitz-not-techno-optimistic-100002519.html

#ElonMusk

Former Amazon VP Ben Smith on admitting he was wrong to push for workers to return to the office several days a week: “As someone once asked me, ‘Have you ever noticed the only people in favor of RTO are people with large admin staffs and grown children?’ I had not, because that was me. Touche.”

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7127027218362335232/

Mozilla is ringing the alarm bell on a dangerous EU regulation.

https://last-chance-for-eidas.org

I don't (ever) post Tumblr screenshots I found on other websites, but this is, the correct shit

Privacy Badger 2023.10.31 has been released for all supported browsers.

The new version blocks embedded Tweets by default, replacing them with click-to-activate placeholders.

This opt-in approach to loading external but potentially desirable widgets protects privacy while giving you control over when the widgets get to load.

To install Privacy Badger, visit https://privacybadger.org/.