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Has anybody tried those bits of clothing with the patterns on them that supposedly make you invisible to AI?
Unfortunately, people tend to carry around identification devices, also known as cell phones
@GhostOnTheHalfShell @happyborg the tracking problem within a store is substantially easier than you could defeat with the kind of visual chaff for avoiding facial recognition - if you are wearing a really freaky t-shirt, that is itself a very good feature to be able to track you as you walk around a store.
"LibreOffice does not reject artificial intelligence out of hand, but an office suite used by tens of millions of people – in schools, hospitals, public bodies, law firms and thousands of other organisations – will not add a feature to its default configuration until that feature can be delivered under the conditions defined by the project in accordance with its principles.
User-controlled execution. The user must be able to choose where inference takes place: on the local computer, on an infrastructure directly controlled by the user, or on a service chosen independently by the user. A default setting that silently redirects to a single provider is not a choice.
No content may leave the computer without authorisation. The content of documents is a user’s asset and, in many implementations, is also legally protected material: medical records, case files, tender documents and student data. Transmission must be the result of a user’s decision and not behaviour carried out in the background by the application.
No telemetry of any kind. LibreOffice does not collect usage data, and this must also apply to AI features.
No dependence on a single provider. An integration that only works with a single company’s API is a lock-in mechanism, regardless of how it is described in the release notes. Interfaces should be open and implementable by multiple backends.
No compromises on format. Generated content must be in ODF format, just like any other content, and must retain its structure, styles and semantics. An assistant that generates documents in a proprietary format perpetuates content lock-in.
Entirely optional. It must be installable, removable, and absent from the user interface for those who do not wish to use it, including administrators deploying the software across thousands of workstations who, due to company policy, do not authorise its use."
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09/03/yes-no-ai-is-now-a-feature/
#AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #LibreOffice #OpenSource #OpenStandards #ODF
This is the way. If only the Debian Project could have been as principled as the Document Foundation in the way they assessed generative models.
I’m doing well on cloning my US SAS app into open source so I can store my data outside of the US.
Any Canadian recommendations for a VPS for a Django site for maybe 6 total users?
@andymckay I’ll be curious what you hear!
Reports: RFK Jr. ordered measles deaths deletion; CDC still secretly counts them
CDC staff had already accepted the measles death reports when RFK Jr. meddled.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/09/reports-rfk-jr-ordered-measles-deaths-deletion-cdc-still-secretly-counts-them/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
@arstechnica if we don’t tell people about the preventable deaths, they don’t exist. Typical republican logic.
David Gerard
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modal popup on the duckduckgo settings page after i disabled their AI shit on a new browser
![Your settings are saved, but clearing cookies will reset them.
Install the DuckDuckGo No AI extension to make it permanent. [Learn More] (hyperlink)
[Concludes with a big inviting blue button saying "Install Now"]](https://asset.circumstances.run/media_attachments/files/117/207/586/159/734/394/original/2e151ae957029f72.png)
@roytoo you're welcome 😄 Do check out more of his work, it often gives food for thought & sometimes makes you laugh out loud, see his poem about mail.
Anarchist Library: **Deleuze & Guattari - Anti-Oedipus**
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/gilles-deleuze-felix-guattari-anti-oedipus?v=1788412420
Author: Deleuze & GuattariTitle: Anti-OedipusSubtitle: Capitalism and SchizophreniaDate: 1972
#pubdate 2021-07-31T14:41:32
#source Retrieved on July 31, 2021 from https://libcom.org/files/Anti-Oedipus.pdf
Contents
Preface by Michel Foucault
Introduction by Mark Seem
1. The Desiring-Machines
1. Desiring-Production
@abraham oh ok
hypebot
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'if you force muslims to register, we will all register as muslims.' - gloria steinem in 2017 at the women's march, showing us all how feminism must be intersectional.
#gloriaSteinem #feminism
@abraham Why Lucked Out? Not in service anymore?
The Fulcrum 🏴☠️ ⛓️💥 🛠️
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Nice considerations from the LibreOffice folks on parameters which would have to be satisfied before it had LLMs built in.
I feel relieved! That's _one_ bit of software I don't have to worry about!
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09/03/yes-no-ai-is-now-a-feature/
@phs … how much smoke though?
@jpm I don't care if it's 9/11 volumes of smoke. If it's in the chimney, there's where it's supposed to be.
it actually genuinely pisses me off when people write posts with "WARNING: SUPER DUPER LONG" in the title and it's like 6 paragraphs. fix yourself
for me it depends on context.
here on fedi, sure, that's long.
as a tumblr or blog post? that's a sticky note lol
