people just aren't reading as much anymore and this has noticeable consequences. it doesn't help that increasingly, people are less literate overall

back in may i watched a cute film from 1948 titled Build Your Vocabulary that's worth sharing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ea4CdQPWfc

We are getting more and more questions about using Vivaldi inside larger organizations.

There is an understanding that relying on Big Tech is a bad idea and Vivaldi has a lot of unique features, but also avoids adding certain functionality that is unwanted both by users and organizations. There is no AI built into Vivaldi, no profiling of users and no Crypto currencies.

We are adding functionality for managed deployment and updates, as well as policy management.

If you are interested, contact us on the address below.

#Enterprise #EU #Europa #Government #Technology #Browser #Vivaldi #Windows #Macos #Linux

https://vivaldi.com/enterprise/

Mon passage préféré :
" La dette publique a augmenté de 1000 milliards d'euros. Deux fois le revenu universel... sans le revenu universel."

Et aussi
"Vieillir en France est devenu une angoisse. Donner la vie parfois aussi."

Obscurity through Security

Vanadium version 151.0.7922.29.0 released:

https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Vanadium/releases/tag/151.0.7922.29.0

See the linked release notes for a summary of the improvements over the previous release and a link to the full changelog.

Forum discussion thread:

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/40463-vanadium-version-15107922290-released

#GrapheneOS #privacy #security #browser

Snagged a new set of paints today and painted this 😊 I think this is going to go well. 🎨

5 weeks into watercolour… I’m so proud of myself for trying to find my creativity again! #art #watercolor #painting #learning

@elettrona @jibsaram @Em0nM4stodon @index @zackwhittaker @StopdeGluurbril

I just watched a 20 minute video summarizing how Meta spoilt life-changing technology for the visually impaired, and is hell-bent to go deeper into creepy territory. It is from the channel "House of El". Here's the vid's description:

> Meta’s AI-powered Ray-Ban glasses could transform everyday life for blind and visually impaired people, translating text, recognising faces and describing the world in real time. Instead, covert filming, privacy scandals, courtroom bans and reports that Meta is testing glasses without a recording light have turned a potentially life-changing invention into a symbol of surveillance and distrust. This is how Meta took one of the most promising wearable AI products ever created and gave the world “pervert glasses.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BArC9Q39MI

Google is now buying access to source code repositories to train their LLMs. This puts the value of the code they previously stole from the open-source community into a whole new perspective.

🌍 We just got back from Dweb Camp, hosted by the Internet Archive in the German forest — and what a gathering.

Alongside @commonsnetwork @goteo_fund and friends across the Fediverse, we presented the Democratic Tech Fund prototype and ran sessions on governance, P2P financing, and community-owned social spaces.

Full report on our site 👇
https://freeknowledge.eu/notes_from_DwebCamp_building_the_DemocraticTech.Fund_with_a_wider_community

#DigitalCommons #Fediverse #DemocraticTech #DTF #DwebCamp #Dweb

Vecinos en el mar - Manu Chao (via VitoWar) https://youtu.be/ArppkWnYsH8

I was talking to @technostructures and @michael at #dwebcamp about the idea of having a bridge-a-thon, some sort of in person event where people who are working on bridging open protocols could explore the potential primitives together.

@otterX for me it was being on holiday in Spain where vegan options were easier to come by ( I was living in France). I'd wanted to go vegan for ages but in 2018 in Spain I did it and then continued when I went back to France (although with greater difficulty)

Great after #dwebcamp barbeque at @cbase tonight in Berlin.

Again so many nice talks about #decentralized networks and #open #protocols together with @berlinfediday & @matrix

1/ Don't read too much into Vučić's visit to Kyiv. "Vucic said he was the only summit participant who did not sign the joint declaration to continue political, military, financial, and security support to Ukraine and step up pressure on Russia." The EU expects the candidate countries to align themselves with EU foreign policy, and has repeatedly called on Serbia to do so.⬇️

https://n1info.rs/english/news/vucic-in-kyiv-for-summit-not-at-wreath-laying-ceremony/

Back in LA after #DwebCamp in Alte Hölle; migrating now to #Fediverse 👋 please welcome my #introduction

My middle name comes from 新 (new) 泳 (swimming); why? because my work is to bridge cultures and open ways of thinking; we've got to move some rocks to let the waters flow & just keep swimming~

Trained as a documentary filmmaker, now designing multimodal systems for interdisciplinary studies ( #obsidian and #knowledgegraphs ); & currently catching up with #examprep for my PhD #studywithme #undercommons #autofiction #storytime

SPOTTED: Did you know? Palantir's grounding ideologies actually derived from Frankfurt school pedagogy. How leftist cultural theory could become co-opted into a techno-fascist moral catastrophe signals toward the limits of interpretive method. You'll always find me gravitating toward #reparative approaches to education, arts, urban science, technology, etc. and in dialogue across sectors #letstalk

Initial stages of fun with Guix just acting like it's Homebrew. I can get fancy or maybe try understanding things later.

highlights from #Dweb camp (cont.)

learning to play Baduk (in English, Go) at @cbase tent, serviced w/ masala chai tea and @ligi's expertise; 바둑 derives from 밭 (cultivated field) and 돍 (from 돌, stone); late night brews & nice talks; i was reminded of my girlhood here . . . ⚪️⚫️

Photo by Anton Tal

highlights from #Dweb camp (cont.)

@brewsterkahle @matthew @pfrazee.com Primavera DeFilippi, Markus Sabadello in a #Dweb 10 Year retrospective (SF > Berlin) panel; hosted by Wendy Hanamura under a sunlit forest 🌱 had me feeling a renewed sense of possibility and #academicfreedom

Photo by Anton Tal

highlights from #Dweb camp (cont.)

Convos with Micah and TB Dinesh about offline-first #edtech tools like Kolibre and "re-narration" across contexts of lived experience #localknowledge #webannotation #datastorytelling bridging wip with @eirliani and the GRTL Alliance on #epistemicjustice #responsibleAI

Photo by Anton Tal

The resemblance is striking. #Duolingo

#bass #purple #bassGuitar