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[?]Allpoints » 🌐
@allpoints@mstdn.social

Google's getting downright surly that I'm not interested in sharing my information with them. Isn't "Say yes or I'll just keep asking you every three days until you do." Considered stalker level behavior?

Screenshot of a modal whining that I'd like Google to respect my privacy, even a little bit. It reads: You're not getting a more personalized search With Web and App activity off, you don't get - More relevant search results - More tailored discover stories - Shopping recommendations for you Followed by two options Ask me in 3 days Continue

Alt...Screenshot of a modal whining that I'd like Google to respect my privacy, even a little bit. It reads: You're not getting a more personalized search With Web and App activity off, you don't get - More relevant search results - More tailored discover stories - Shopping recommendations for you Followed by two options Ask me in 3 days Continue

    [?]#FreeSchool <---> Hashtag » 🌐
    @freeschool@qoto.org

    #Tech isn't progress any more... [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

    IT'S WORSE TODAY because of who owns / runs it and how they do things and what they do behind out backs and who else is in with them.

    TECH PROGRESS IS MORE OF A LIE TODAY because of WHO owns the tech and what they do behind our back...


    "Because the of human is a perpetuated by charlatans."

    (i.e.) TECH PROGRESS IS LESS USEFUL TODAY because of the behind it, who own the tech and do all sorts with it or the power gained by its success.

    🇺🇸 IS 🇺🇸
    🇺🇸 (a lot of it ) 🇺🇸

    IT'S NOT JUST "TECH" AS A TOOL
    LIKE (INSTEAD OF )

    - IT'S WHO'S BEHIND ZOOM AND OWNS IT AS A SPACE and WHAT THEY ARE DOING WITH THE DATA.! tools included and whatever you type into.

    clip 5.44 into redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=

      [?]𝚛𝚊𝚝 » 🌐
      @rat@social.sdf.org

      «Why I Hate The Term “Modern”»
      news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

        vga256 boosted

        [?]Metin Seven 🎨 » 🌐
        @metin@graphics.social

        Great article by @christopherdrum about the legendary Deluxe Paint (DPaint) Amiga pixel editor:

        stonetools.ghost.io/deluxepain

        I dearly miss a mention of @PyDPainter though, the most authentic DPaint recreation I know, available for Win, macOS, Linux…

        github.com/mriale/PyDPainter

          [?]Cliff [He/Him] » 🌐
          @cliffwade@infosec.exchange

          The situation with regards to Nova and Branch are mind blowing to me in a way.

          What I'm referring to here is the fact that it's been 13 months(yesterday) since I got laid off from Branch/Nova after having spent the previous 9 years working for them.

          When that huge layoff happening, and I was included with 220+ others who also lost their jobs, I was included in several news articles around the internet because of it. Mainly because I was the publicly facing person for Nova in a lot of ways for a lot of years, even though Kevin did all the work so to speak.

          Now, again, 13 months later, Kevin leaves Branch and Nova, and yet I'm the one who gets included in several different news articles around the internet and have various news reporters reaching out to me to get my comments on the situation.

          While it's cool and flattering, this is NOT about me in any way at all. This is about trying my hardest and my best to bring attention to the situation in hopes that Branch will do the right thing and open source Nova Launcher and give it back to the community, which is where it belongs!

            [?]Cliff [He/Him] » 🌐
            @cliffwade@infosec.exchange

            Great write up by Jay Peters of The Verge with regards to the Nova Launcher/Branch situation that I wrote about this morning.

            Dominic reached out to me via LinkedIn this morning and asked some questions to get some insight.

            You can read that here:

            theverge.com/news/773937/nova-

              Lord Caramac the Clueless, KSC boosted

              [?]Metin Seven 🎨 » 🌐
              @metin@graphics.social

              @vertexrage Aseprite is definitely a great editor. Personally, I love @PyDPainter , as it has faithfully recreated the Amiga's legendary Deluxe Paint (DPaint) pixel editor.

              github.com/mriale/PyDPainter

                [?]grobi » 🌐
                @grobi@defcon.social

                Saturn's B Ring, for Harp and Drums (Excerpt)

                SYSTEM Sounds converted the highest resolution color image of Saturn's rings into music. The brightness of each pixel is used to control the harp notes and drum sounds as well as their intensity. The notes correspond to the first 13 notes of the harmonic series. The image was taken on July 6, 2017 and shows a section within Saturn's dense B ring in natural color.

                CREDIT:
                SYSTEM Sounds

                Full Video:
                youtube.com/watch?v=VUZXl4tpabs

                FYI:
                youtu.be/DUdLRy8i9qI

                Alt...SYSTEM Sounds converted the highest resolution color image of Saturn's rings into music. The brightness of each pixel is used to control the harp notes and drum sounds as well as their intensity. The notes correspond to the first 13 notes of the harmonic series. The image was taken on July 6, 2017 and shows a section within Saturn's dense B ring in natural color.

                  [?]grobi » 🌐
                  @grobi@defcon.social

                  The Earth Always Hums: Infragravity waves and current-generated noise and the microseisms (acceleration x6000)

                  Left: The spectrogram of the infragravity waves and current-generated noise (the time-variable broad bright spots on the left) and the ocean microseisms (the continuous band at higher frequencies, on the right of the spectrogram). The spectrogram shows the signal strength—or how loud it is—over time and at different frequencies. Labels and scales appear periodically. One of the horizontal scales at bottom left shows the original period of the signal in seconds. This signal is inaudible to the human ear. The recording has been accelerated by a factor of 6000, bringing all the signals into the audible range. The frequency scale (bottom left) marks the frequency (Hz) of the transformed signal that we hear. Right: the 3D visualization of the sound.

                  This stereo track is a rendering of the 3 components of the motion of the seafloor at a 3.9 km depth, southwest of Ireland. The seismograms were recorded on 1-19 April, 2020, by the ocean-bottom seismic station Brian of the SEA-SEIS network.

                  soundsoftheearth.ie/the-earth-
                  youtube.com/channel/UC-50Ao7qp

                  Credit for Video and Article
                  David Stalling

                  Alt...The Earth Always Hums: Infragravity waves and current-generated noise and the microseisms (acceleration x6000) Left: The spectrogram of the infragravity waves and current-generated noise (the time-variable broad bright spots on the left) and the ocean microseisms (the continuous band at higher frequencies, on the right of the spectrogram). The spectrogram shows the signal strength—or how loud it is—over time and at different frequencies. Labels and scales appear periodically. One of the horizontal scales at bottom left shows the original period of the signal in seconds. This signal is inaudible to the human ear. The recording has been accelerated by a factor of 6000, bringing all the signals into the audible range. The frequency scale (bottom left) marks the frequency (Hz) of the transformed signal that we hear. Right: the 3D visualization of the sound. This stereo track is a rendering of the 3 components of the motion of the seafloor at a 3.9 km depth, southwest of Ireland. The seismograms were recorded on 1-19 April, 2020, by the ocean-bottom seismic station Brian of the SEA-SEIS network. Credit for Video and Article David Stalling

                    [?]#FreeSchool <---> Hashtag » 🌐
                    @freeschool@qoto.org

                    Building the people up, on top of Tech... [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                    @garyackerman This is a good post for Mastodon or Twitter because "Social presence isn’t community." is a good quote here by .

                    Any and people that aren't really building actively, with people daily, and personally, remains "just another platform" or "slightly better" version of and *never* quite a movement that way with people towards training to respect each other / learning what that means / dedicating themselves more than distracting themselves via and the same imported stuff elsewhere / .

                    The point is: rather than people making personal things and improve or work together / merge things, they would rather you are over there and they here... never to question themselves or be questioned by others towards or similar things which finger can be put on... if willing to .

                    So the is there but not the will of people building *each other up* (not waiting for or another magic way, just to do it themselves ).

                    Many DO NOT want to do much of this building personally or being responsible (even with what they and ) and that is almost the why we have or others doing for us exist because FRANKLY we can't make (with anyone!) and can't maintain anything more than an aesthetic on or offline (you would think it's easier online even to pretend since it's more distant). And job and colleagues are often not deep friends or can't be under contract, so even they can come and go as the work does! If you ever leave your work or made redundant you'll soon realise this and what "friend: can mean in modern day disposable life.

                    Basic for the way - but it's not on the agenda for most - to make the world less about strangers and more about work with them. Friends eventually and each at their own definition I think is possible.

                      [?]grobi » 🌐
                      @grobi@defcon.social

                      The 2012 Indian Ocean earthquakes

                      A magnitude 8.6 (Mw) undersea earthquake struck south of the Indonesian province Aceh on 11 April, 2012, at 15:38 local time, followed by a magnitude 8.2 aftershock 2 hours later. These large earthquakes were produced by horizontal slip on the undersea faults. Thanks to the lack of vertical movement of the seafloor, no tsunamis were generated.

                      The rich sound in this stereo track comes from a combination of 3-component seismograms recorded by all the stations of Ireland Array, recording across Ireland. The stronger main event is followed by a similarly structured sequence of waves of the main aftershock. The recording is accelerated by a factor of 9600, which increases the frequency of the signal by the same factor and brings it into the audible frequency range. The recording is then “stretched” by a factor of 80, so that the different waves can be distinguished in time and heard clearly.

                      Credit for Video and Article
                      David Stalling
                      soundsoftheearth.ie

                      soundsoftheearth.ie/indian-oce

                      Alt...The 2012 Indian Ocean earthquakes A magnitude 8.6 (Mw) undersea earthquake struck south of the Indonesian province Aceh on 11 April, 2012, at 15:38 local time, followed by a magnitude 8.2 aftershock 2 hours later. These large earthquakes were produced by horizontal slip on the undersea faults. Thanks to the lack of vertical movement of the seafloor, no tsunamis were generated. The rich sound in this stereo track comes from a combination of 3-component seismograms recorded by all the stations of Ireland Array, recording across Ireland. The stronger main event is followed by a similarly structured sequence of waves of the main aftershock. The recording is accelerated by a factor of 9600, which increases the frequency of the signal by the same factor and brings it into the audible frequency range. The recording is then “stretched” by a factor of 80, so that the different waves can be distinguished in time and heard clearly. Credit for Video and Article David Stalling

                        [?]#FreeSchool <---> Hashtag » 🌐
                        @freeschool@qoto.org

                        Modern "Progress" = tricking people... ? [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                        "Because the story of human progress is a deceit perpetuated by charlatans"

                        Source: Firefox Just Almost DIED at ⌚ 5.44mins

                        redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=

                          [?]#FreeSchool <---> Hashtag » 🔓
                          @freeschool@qoto.org

                          Bigger downloads, bigger pipes, bigger files = massive burn to planet... :nes_fire: ? 🌳 / :earth ? [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                          @jonny @ricci "~10GB movies with v1 only."

                          Just torrenting anything 10gb+ seems crazy in itself / little bit sick.

                          Can imagine some emergency things or exceptions but seems just getting out of hand with all this and everyone stepping up more and more storage (based on space btw - / etc)

                          You wouldn't notice the of speed (apart from initial digging of roads, upgrades etc) even if the speeds make it seem less damage it's still firing more bits, up and down stream - megs and Gb's now, often streaming repeatedly and for near nothing and over-quality. Temporary.

                          Bigger downloads, bigger pipes, bigger files = massive burn to planet... :nes_fire: ? 🌳 / :earth ?

                          What do you think of that? ⬆️

                            [?]#FreeSchool <---> Hashtag » 🌐
                            @freeschool@qoto.org

                            Social media is an "unhealthy online environment... [MP3 Version] [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                            @openrightsgroup MP3 Version

                            media is an "unhealthy online environment".

                            The problem is the which underpins these platforms to:

                            ➡️ promote :nes_fire: to rake in the money. 💰

                            Jim Killock told News what needs to be done around :

                            ✅ Competition
                            ✅ User empowerment
                            ✅ /

                            /

                            about
                            of is

                            My is building another "society" ON TOP OF ETC -

                            NOT JUST MORE TECH AND - develop people themselves!

                            We're mostly just developing tech and not developing people...

                            (and then complaining about and people falling for the same traps used by ).

                            Without organised or dedicated IN MASTODON (or any or ) people do not know how to be nice / what to consider / what to look out for (all normal in new relationships) / what do if this or that... / how to WORK WITH someone new / where and when to go regularly somewhere...

                            Some chat happens but is that it as a Mastodon ? ❓ (any groups with just a donate button and nobody to talk to)

                            Such a lack of depth... 📉

                            Without some training, we the society are lost / undirected online / offline. Sorry but best time to plant a tree / invest in a person is now!

                            Let's chat (as positive ending and action needed between reader and I - more if we can imagine it).

                              Lord Caramac the Clueless, KSC boosted

                              [?]Metin Seven 🎨 » 🌐
                              @metin@graphics.social

                              🧵 Printed computer game magazines used to sometimes compile level maps from screenshots. This partial level map of our 1992 Amiga game Hoi was published in Amiga Action. For coherence they changed the background color gradients to blue.

                              Magazine pages, showing a partial level map of the 1992 cute platform game Hoi.

                              Alt...Magazine pages, showing a partial level map of the 1992 cute platform game Hoi.

                                [?]Autonomie und Solidarität » 🌐
                                @autonomysolidarity@todon.eu

                                Das Überwachungsimperium

                                Wie sich die deutsche Polizei von Peter Thiels Palantir-Software abhängig macht

                                blaetter.de/ausgabe/2025/augus via @blaetter

                                Im Hintergrund verschwommene Menschen von der Seite. Darüber ein schwarzes Auge, mit grüner Pupille.

                                Alt...Im Hintergrund verschwommene Menschen von der Seite. Darüber ein schwarzes Auge, mit grüner Pupille.

                                Autonomie und Solidarität boosted

                                [?]Autonomie und Solidarität » 🌐
                                @autonomysolidarity@todon.eu

                                Watching you – Die Welt von Palantir und Alex Karp

                                "Erstmals schaut ein Dokumentarfilm auf den US-Milliardär Alex Karp und seine so mysteriöse wie abgeschottete Firma . Neben Elon Musk, seinem Mitgründer und Sam Altman gilt der CEO von Palantir als einer der bedeutendsten Digital Leader. Wie sie profitiert Alex Karp von der Wahl Donald Trumps zum Präsidenten der USA. Doch hierzulande ist er noch recht unbekannt – und das obwohl auch deutsche Polizeibehörden mit der Palantir-Software “Gotham” arbeiten: Das erfolgreiche und gleichzeitig umstrittene Datenanalyse-Programm ist darauf spezialisiert, große Mengen an Daten zu bündeln und zu visualisieren, mit dem Ziel der Informationsgewinnung und Überwachung. “Gotham” kann über digitale Datenanalysen weltweit Profile einzelner Menschen erstellen. Die Software unterstützt Geheimdienste, Militär und Polizeibehörden bei der Terrorbekämpfung."

                                ARD :
                                ardmediathek.de/film/watching-

                                [?]Autonomie und Solidarität » 🌐
                                @autonomysolidarity@todon.eu

                                German police expands use of Palantir surveillance software

                                Police and spy agencies are keen to combat criminality and terrorism with artificial intelligence. But critics say the CIA-funded Palantir surveillance software enables "predictive policing."

                                dw.com/en/german-police-expand

                                  [?]Ramin Honary » 🌐
                                  @ramin_hal9001@fe.disroot.org

                                  “Why rewriting Emacs is hard,” by @kana

                                  Yes it is, I can tell you from experience. Of course, I was never under any illusion that it would be easy.

                                  @kana , a.k.a. “Gudzpoz,” wrote a blog post which was shared on Lobste.rs, and they kindly mention my own Emacs clone Schemacs, though they refer to the old name of it “Gypsum” because they are citing my EmacsConf 2024 presentation done before the name changed.

                                  It is a pretty good post going over some of the odd details about how Emacs edits text, e.g. the character range is from 0x0 to 0x3FFFFFF rather than the Unicode standard range from 0x0 to 0x10FFFF, issues with using a gap buffer as opposed to a “rope” data structure, attaching metadata (text properties) to strings to render different colors and faces, and issues with Emacs’s own unique flavor of regular expressions in which the \= symbol indicates matching on the point in the buffer. (I did not know about that last one!)

                                  Apparently, they know these things because they are also working on their own clone of Emacs in Java for the JVM called Juicemacs (the name “Juice” upholding the theme of Java-based applications being named after drinks), and I deduce that their approach is to read through the Emacs C source code to ensure better compatibility. This is now the fourth modern Emacs+EmacsLisp clone that is still under active development that I know of, fascinating work!

                                  My approach is to clone Emacs well enough to get it to pass regression tests, and I don’t read the C source code, I do black-box testing (because those tests become regression tests for my own source code).

                                  Also, the goal with the Schemacs project is more to provide a Scheme-based Emacs that is backward-compatible with GNU Emacs. You use Schemacs because you want to program it in Scheme, not Emacs Lisp, but Emacs Lisp is there for you so you can still use your Emacs config. As a result, I will ignore a lot of these fussy details of the GNU Emacs implementation unless it is going to prevent regression tests from passing.

                                  #tech #software #Emacs #GNUEmacs #Schemacs #EmacsLisp #Lisp #Java #Scheme #R7RS #SchemeLang #LispLang #JavaLang

                                    [?]Flipboard Tech Desk » 🌐
                                    @TechDesk@flipboard.social

                                    A let-off or tougher than it looks? What the Google monopoly ruling means.

                                    "The emergence of GenAI changed the course of this case," Judge Mehta wrote in his ruling, noting how swiftly money has flowed into the emerging technology.

                                    @BBCNews reports: flip.it/5FBd0R

                                      [?]Assn for Computing Machinery » 🌐
                                      @ACM@mastodon.acm.org

                                      Join us in the upcoming , "More-than-Human Futures: Connected Urbanism and Cohabitation in the Smart City" with speaker Marcus Foth, Professor at Queensland University of Technology. The virtual event will take place between September 12, 2025. More info here: cde.nus.edu.sg/did/event-detai

                                        [?]RonSupportsYou » 🌐
                                        @RonSupportsYou@mastodon.social

                                        "How Elon Musk Is Remaking Grok in His Image." .
                                        "Musk said he wanted xAI’s chatbot to be 'politically neutral.' His actions say otherwise":
                                        nytimes.com/2025/09/02/technol
                                        Musk's team "tweaked the chatbot to make its answers more conservative on many issues."
                                        copy: @renewedresistance

                                          🗳

                                          [?]knoppix » 🌐
                                          @knoppix95@mastodon.social

                                          Poll: How many screens do you work with? 🖥️

                                          Vote + Boost 🔁 = ❤️

                                          (Feel free to reply with how this setup helps you 👇)

                                          🧍 Just 1 screen:9
                                          🧑‍💻 Dual setup (2):16
                                          🧠 Triple or more:5
                                            Coach Sankhavaram ® boosted

                                            [?]JWcph, Radicalized By Decency » 🌐
                                            @jwcph@helvede.net

                                            Interesting: At the startup day I'm attending, about half the startups presented so far have "We don't use " in their pitch...

                                              [?]Knut 🏳️‍🌈 🇳🇴🧸 » 🌐
                                              @praetor@mstdn.social

                                              What is this shit I'm upto? Could it be Yes Yes it is. I've finally sat down and setup a VM of my favorite hobby

                                                [?]Autonomie und Solidarität » 🌐
                                                @autonomysolidarity@todon.eu

                                                ‚In wird seit gestern eine KI mit den Bildern von Passant*innen trainiert. Sie stammen aus Überwachungskameras des chinesischen Herstellers . Diese Kameras können viel mehr als sie dürfen. Produkte des teilstaatlichen Unternehmens werden auch genutzt, um Uigur*innen und Palästinenser*innen zu überwachen…‘

                                                Hikvision: Hersteller der Hamburger KI-Überwachungskameras ist für Menschenrechtsverletzungen bekannt

                                                netzpolitik.org/2025/hikvision

                                                [?]Metin Seven 🎨 » 🌐
                                                @metin@graphics.social

                                                🧵 2/2

                                                Here's what Kling Video 2.1 generated, based on two photographs of my wife at the beach, observed by a seagull (see the photos in the previous thread post).

                                                I didn't add a prompt, just pressed the Generate button after uploading the images. The video starts with one photo, and ends with the other. There's audio too…

                                                Alt...Video of a woman at the beach, observed by a seagull.

                                                  [?]Metin Seven 🎨 » 🌐
                                                  @metin@graphics.social

                                                  🧵 1/2

                                                  The new 2.1 version of Kling Video allows you to generate a video from one image to another.

                                                  I entered these two photos I made of my wife with a seagull at the beach, and didn't add a prompt, just pressed the Generate button. The resulting video follows in the next post…

                                                  Photo of a woman at the beach, observed by a seagull.

                                                  Alt...Photo of a woman at the beach, observed by a seagull.

                                                  Photo of a woman at the beach, observed by a seagull.

                                                  Alt...Photo of a woman at the beach, observed by a seagull.

                                                    [?]Flipboard Tech Desk » 🌐
                                                    @TechDesk@flipboard.social

                                                    AI Apocalypse? Why language surrounding tech is sounding increasingly religious.

                                                    From @AssociatedPress: "At 77 years old, Geoffrey Hinton has a new calling in life. Like a modern-day prophet, the Nobel Prize winner is raising alarms about the dangers of uncontrolled and unregulated artificial intelligence."

                                                    flip.it/QNbIjp

                                                      Metin Seven 🎨 boosted

                                                      [?]Metin Seven 🎨 » 🌐
                                                      @metin@graphics.social

                                                      🧵 1/2

                                                      One of my first-ever commercial jobs, in 1990…

                                                      Pixel art of a Philips P3348 386 SX PC for a large screen at a former annual technology fair in the Netherlands called Firato.

                                                      I pixeled this in Deluxe Paint ("DPaint") on an Amiga, in 16-color high-resolution mode, 640 pixels wide. 🙂

                                                      Pixel art of a front view of a Philips PC-compatible from around 1990, with a monitor on top.

                                                      Alt...Pixel art of a front view of a Philips PC-compatible from around 1990, with a monitor on top.

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