🎉🎉🎉 it's the 34th birthday of the world wide #web so it's a great day to share the upcoming deadline for #writing submissions to GOOD INTERNET! two and a half weeks away!!!

📖 in case you're unaware, GOOD INTERNET is an #indie print AND digital magazine that is run & contributed to by volunteers!

#goodinternet covers a lot of different aspects of the #SmallWeb: unplugging from the corporate web, fighting #enshittification, migrating from data-harvesting corpo social media, creating your own personal website, using code and website-building as an #art form, federation, and creating websites for fun. the aim is to be approachable for beginners and enjoyable for seasoned #indieweb travelers!

🙅 you don't have to be a pro #webdev or a #coding whiz to write about all the good things happening on "this side" of the web.

📣 we want to spread the word about and share thoughts, independent web projects, services, methods, sites, meet-ups, and celebrate the non-corporate web together while making it easier for us to partake and unplug from #bigtech and unhealthy #socialmedia habits.

🔍 we're looking for 1,000- to 4,000-word articles aimed at website owners and hobbyists, any digital (and traditional) artists, #internet culture enthusiasts, #technology nerds, social media expatriates, & anyone who wants to unplug from the corporate-owned web.

⌛ the deadline is August 22, 2025 ⌛

🙏 please boost and help get the word out!

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#tech #html #css #opensource #foss #artist #artists #mastodon #fediverse #socialweb #cozyweb #slowweb#humanweb#noAI #writer #writers #neocities #nekoweb #openweb

🎉🎉🎉 it's the 34th birthday of the world wide #web so it's a great day to share the upcoming deadline for #writing submissions to GOOD INTERNET! two and a half weeks away!!!

📖 in case you're unaware, GOOD INTERNET is an #indie print AND digital magazine that is run & contributed to by volunteers!

#goodinternet covers a lot of different aspects of the #SmallWeb: unplugging from the corporate web, fighting #enshittification, migrating from data-harvesting corpo social media, creating your own personal website, using code and website-building as an #art form, federation, and creating websites for fun. the aim is to be approachable for beginners and enjoyable for seasoned #indieweb travelers!

🙅 you don't have to be a pro #webdev or a #coding whiz to write about all the good things happening on "this side" of the web.

📣 we want to spread the word about and share thoughts, independent web projects, services, methods, sites, meet-ups, and celebrate the non-corporate web together while making it easier for us to partake and unplug from #bigtech and unhealthy #socialmedia habits.

🔍 we're looking for 1,000- to 4,000-word articles aimed at website owners and hobbyists, any digital (and traditional) artists, #internet culture enthusiasts, #technology nerds, social media expatriates, & anyone who wants to unplug from the corporate-owned web.

⌛ the deadline is August 22, 2025 ⌛

🙏 please boost and help get the word out!

https://goodinternetmagazine.com/contact/

#tech #html #css #opensource #foss #artist #artists #mastodon #fediverse #socialweb #cozyweb #slowweb#humanweb#noAI #writer #writers #neocities #nekoweb #openweb

Petite pause hebdomadaire dans les dessins pour Bertha pour prendre le temps de dessiner ce look incroyable de Moon. <3 #DragRaceFrance#DragRaceFranceAllStars#NoAI #MastoArt#FediArt#Illustration#Drag#Art#QueerArt

Petite pause hebdomadaire dans les dessins pour Bertha pour prendre le temps de dessiner ce look incroyable de Moon. <3 #DragRaceFrance#DragRaceFranceAllStars#NoAI #MastoArt#FediArt#Illustration#Drag#Art#QueerArt

Allez, en plus de la collab avec Bertha, j'essaye de reprendre la tradition annuelle des dessins des candidates de #DragRaceFrance ! On commence avec Soa de Muse, évidemment. #NoAI #MastoArt#FediArt#Queer#Gay#QueerArt#GayArt#Drag

I published it on #BandCamp as well: https://darwinne.bandcamp.com/album/r-minescence #music#MastoArt#MastoMusic#NoAI

I wrote another piece of original #music, inspired by #minimalism and exploring some orchestral as well as electronic soundscapes. It is called Réminescence and I find it quite atmospheric and #intense, I hope you'll enjoy! #orchestral#IndieMusic#MastoArt#MastoMusic#NoAI #compositionhttps://soundcloud.com/user-375194295/re-miniscence

Had to repost 😅 #noai

Allez, en plus de la collab avec Bertha, j'essaye de reprendre la tradition annuelle des dessins des candidates de #DragRaceFrance ! On commence avec Soa de Muse, évidemment. #NoAI #MastoArt#FediArt#Queer#Gay#QueerArt#GayArt#Drag

Had to repost 😅 #noai

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Made a "No AI" emoji, Admins please feel free to clone it to your server:

Admins can do this on Mastodon servers:

1. Go to Preferences > Administration > Custom Emojis
2. Search for "no_AI_logo" in the Shortcode box
3. Tick the box next to the emoji you want to clone
4. Click "Copy" and confirm it

The custom emoji will then be available to your server's members.

If you can't find the emoji in searches you can upload it directly, I've attached the artwork below.

#NoAI#AI

Made a "No AI" emoji, Admins please feel free to clone it to your server:

Admins can do this on Mastodon servers:

1. Go to Preferences > Administration > Custom Emojis
2. Search for "no_AI_logo" in the Shortcode box
3. Tick the box next to the emoji you want to clone
4. Click "Copy" and confirm it

The custom emoji will then be available to your server's members.

If you can't find the emoji in searches you can upload it directly, I've attached the artwork below.

#NoAI#AI

Je découvre que DuckDuckGo a un domaine https://noai.duckduckgo.com/ qui permet de faire des recherches sans les outils IA du site et en plus avec un filtre anti-IA dans la recherche (c'est une curation humaine donc y'a des trous dans la raquette, mais c'est déjà ça) par défaut (tout ceci est configurable sur https://duckduckgo.com, mais ça ne reste pas en navigation privée, par exemple).

Dans firefox, vous pouvez aller dans les préférences de recherche (about:preferences#search) et ajouter un "raccourcis de recherche" (tout en bas) comme ça :
Nom du moteur de recherche: DuckDuckGo (no AI)
URL avec %s à la place de l’expression recherchée: https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%s

#AI#NoAI#DuckDuckGo

I sometime see a line at the bottom of blog posts to say they were made without AI.

Doesn’t it make life easier for AI crawlers that struggle to find fresh human-made content in the ocean of garbage they created?

#ai #noai #blog

I decided to do a bit of malicious compliance at work recently.

We’re under the gun to get a demo finalized and shipped. So I said “well, this is boring CRUD operations, I’ll let #copilot try.”

I laid out exactly what to do, and even created the files and left comments in them to give clues about where to put stuff.

And it did that! Great!

I’ve been fixing it since Tuesday. It would have been faster for me to have spent those two days doing it myself, and here I am on the weekend still fixing it.

Don’t worry, I made sure to document the process for internal consumption by decision makers.

Also I made sure I’d already done the original work myself by the end of the day Friday so I can just delete the copilot branch.

#NoAI

The real funny part here is: the thing I’m building is an application of an LLM for natural language commands and analysis.

What I meant is this: they still have to learn, or re-learn, the need to engage with a given text, take notes, get confused, get back to it ... produce their own understanding from this struggle. Reading is active construction of knowledge by the reader. They want to buy knowledge. I don't blame them as individuals, it is the poisened air we all breathe.

#noAI

Met my MSc dissertation students this week. All good natured people. But the genAI rot is spreading.

About half of them do their work, and ask me questions about the problems they encounter. I advise on possible next steps. We meet again next week. All good.

But.

The other half, each of them perfectly well meaning, came back to me with questions that had nothing to do with their projects, and proposed solutions that are alien to the framework we are using. After some serious conversations, I found that in each case they had relied on chatGTP answers to their prompts. They had not read the actual papers I had given them.

Some had implemented equations that are patently false, not by error (this would be good for learning), but because chatGPT told them so.

A significant part our students can't read anymore. They need to interact with genAI, and they think this is research.

We are heading for trouble. In higher education, and in society at large.

#noAI#AcademicChatter