The future of social media is built together! Day 2 at the @republica. Great panels, discussions and more. Thanks to @markus_netzpolitik, @mervelous, @remrow, @pikarl, @Hermannfrank and more for the nice talks! #Fediway #Mastodon #rp26 #rp26fedi #ActivityPub
Speech-to-text has many positive applications, but in an age of surveillance capitalism I am most worried about a multitude of apps that have access to the microphone, to be silently listening and sending streams of encrypted plain text conversation transcripts to home base.
Speech-to-text has many positive applications, but in an age of surveillance capitalism I am most worried about a multitude of apps that have access to the microphone, to be silently listening and sending streams of encrypted plain text conversation transcripts to home base.
@smallcircles Yes, that worry is understandable.
However, I'd be much more worried about the phone in your pocket or behavior-mining when surfing the web.
Metadata is the actual oil of surveillance capitalism!
Also, as long as a Speech-To-Text system is open source it can be audited, so in this specific case, I wouldn't worry too much.
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When I were a lad, there weren't any training in assembly language.
I taught myself machine code from the Zilog manuals.
You tell the kids of today that...
[Monty Python, Four Yorkshiremen sketch.]
@Walrus Perhaps there was a window of time back then when basic (no pun intended) Assembly training was offered at higher education institutions.
#matrix Community Summit #mcs2026 live from @cbase
Start 16:30 CEST
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I think this would be a useful approach.
There are a lot of people in the retrocomputing community which are fluent in assembly (and much lower "decks" 😄 of the systems, which recreate old systems/processors on FPGAs or rebuild CPUs with discrete elements for fun. You can do such things only with a deeper knowledge how the hardware is working.
But the number of very young people is somewhat limited.
@echopapa Right, many retrocomputing enthusiasts work on similarly complex projects if not more.
Okay, es kam wieder und jetzt hab ich doch ein Foto 😁
Call for Contributions: #LOCO2026
2nd Low Carbon Computing workshop (10-11 Sept, Lancaster University).
https://lancaster-university.github.io/loco2026/
DEADLINE: 29 May 2026 AoE.
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The workshop adheres to the LOCO Charter:
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> [A hamper containing] Chocolates, Biscuits, Tea, Lemonade, Olives, nuts, breakfast bar and Vicks first defence nasal spray.
The joys of the Met Police's gifts and hospitality register:
@neil I'm curious about the "knife" accepted from "unrecorded" provider to "avoid causing embarrassment".
(Didn't expect a spreadsheet when I clicked btw, might want to add a heads-up.)
Wohin ich gucke, werden #Chatbots entwickelt.
In völlig unterschiedlichen Politikfeldern, durch NGOs, in Hilfesystemen.
Es erinnert an die Kassierer*innen, die Menschen zu den Check-Out-Kassen schicken, die ihre Jobs ersetzen.
So viel Fördergelder für KI. Glitzert so schön.
There's a weird incentive in the Fediverse where there are a bunch of people I don't follow because they post 90% things I'm interested in, and other people I follow boost those posts, so I see the interesting posts multiple times without following them. Occasionally I follow them and then realise I'm just getting more copies of the same posts and unfollow them again. Which doesn't mean I'm not interested in them, it just means following them doesn't actually show me more of their posts.
@david_chisnall I found the feature 'hide boosts' on Mastodon super useful for this for people I follow who boost a lot, but I really only care about their updates. I don't know if you use that at all?
Except what I think what we really want is a "hide boosts of mutual follows" setting.
@amoroso Capture The Flag teams. The ones doing "hacking challenges".
Like e.g. Hack The Box, TryHackMe, ...
@agowa338 Got it, thanks.
Selbstverständlich wird es auch heuer wieder eine #Fediverse-Feierlichkeit bei der #rp26 geben:
„Fediverse-Meetup: Lasst uns das offene Netz feiern“
https://re-publica.com/de/session/fediverse-meetup-lasst-uns-das-offene-netz-feiern
@samvie und ich freuen uns auf euch, bis gleich um 17:30 Uhr in Meet up 1
@creating
#tdc5242 #ds106 #dailycreate
This, from my files. I don't remember what it is from.
@mariosiniscalchi nella tua mente ottenebrata dal peniero bellico, dove si bruciano le vite e i soldi degli altri mentre tu applaudi dal divano, non ti accorgi che tu fai lo stesso ragionamento per i palestinesi (riconoscere i loro diritti senza armarli) e non ti accorgi che l'ipocrisia è fare differenza tra l vittime. Io invece quello che dico per gli ucraini lo dico anche per i palestinesi: si rispetti la legge e quanto previsto dal capitolo VII della carta ONU in caso di aggressioni mlitari.
@gubi hai rotto il cazzo con sta storia del divano.
Non usare l'auto, l'auto inquina, l'auto non è comoda per viaggiare, meglio il treno. Poi vai a vedere quanto costa per andare da Padova a Napoli in 3 e scopri che servono 800€ per andare e tornare e quindi ti senti preso tantissimo per il c*lo.
Female chemist makes an amazing discovery.
Nobel committee: “We’re awarding the Nobel Prize for Chemistry to the test tube”.
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