i can't seem to find much of any info about this, so i'm asking here
is apple now requiring to link a payment method to an apple account, in order to use it to download apps on the app store (including free ones)?
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Hey lovelies 🇪🇺
We saw a Reddit post here advertising a petition to ban conversion therapy within the EU.
At the time of making this post, it's sadly only at 756,756 signatories out of the 1,000,000 required by Saturday 17th May in order to proceed any further!!!
Please, please sign this if you're within the EU, or otherwise please share with friends and family within the EU, or please boost this post
This is a rare real opportunity to try to ban conversion therapy EU wide and fight back against bigotry and prejudice, so please take it while you can ✊
And please don't follow the UK down the right-wing rabbit hole 🥺😔
#BanConversionTherapy #ConversionTherapy #ConversionTherapyIsAbuse #LGBT+ #LGBTQ+ #LGBTQIA+ #agender #bigender #genderfluid #genderqueer #NonBinary #trans #transgender #gay #lesbian #bi #pan #asexual #aromantic #queer #EU #EuropeanUnion #petition #PleaseBoost
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Do you regularly add alt texts to your images?
Please be honest, I want to use this result in an essay.
Boosts appreciated!
- yes (90%, 110 votes)
- no because I forget to do so (6%, 8 votes)
- no because I'm lazy (3%, 4 votes)
- no because other reasons (comment!!!) (0%, 0 votes)
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We just released Mastodon 4.3.8 and 4.2.21. They contain a few minor bug fixes and a minor security fix.
If you are running nightly versions, an updated container image is available under the `nightly.2025-05-07-security` tag
Full release notes and update instructions are available on our GitHub release page: github.com/mastodon/mastodon/r…
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Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community - mastodon/mastodonGitHub
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Hundreds of thousands of Computers won't be able to upgrade to Windows 11, but that shouldn't make them eWaste.
Kudos to the @kde team for this amazing initiative!
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Same same. Good, innit?! I now have 3 perfectly usable laptops, all running various flavours of Linux, for basically bugger-all other than a little of my time.
I should start hawking them round some of the local community groups who provide IT kit to those without such.
@bytebro @hellomiakoda
That definitely works:
eu.providencejournal.com/story…
These computers almost went to a landfill. Teens are reviving them for free. Here's how.
A community group is offering kids the chance to gain essential computer skills – with devices that could have been trashed.Amy Russo (The Providence Journal)
Amazing work - I thought this was the case.
If anyone knows of such organisations in the locality of Bristol UK, I'd be delighted to have a chat with them.
Boost for reach, if you wouldn't mind, thanks!
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As an Linux user for more then 10yrs, I couldn't agree more ❤️❤️❤️
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- Antifascist (80%, 42 votes)
- AD(H)D (44%, 23 votes)
- Trans (11%, 6 votes)
- Cutie (13%, 7 votes)
- Autistic (38%, 20 votes)
- Chronically ill (40%, 21 votes)
- Furry (5%, 3 votes)
- Depressed (53%, 28 votes)
- Artist (30%, 16 votes)
- Veggie/vegan (11%, 6 votes)
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“Puppygirl Hacker Polycule” Leaks Over 8,500 Privatized Police Files and Training Manuals
"We took matters into our own paws.”Samantha Riedel (Them.)
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2. Don't care that I am. Get em/us, puppygirls
Wake up babe, @GIMP 3.0 was just tagged 👀
• gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/…
• gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/…
You can get GIMP 3.0 on Flathub: flathub.org/apps/org.gimp.GIMP
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⚠️ FEDIVERSE WARNING - FEDIBLOCK ⚠️
🇬🇧 English version below.
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🇪🇦 URGE #fediblock a freysa.ai / social.freysa.ai
Esta instancia cuenta 1500 usuarios, todos ellos generados por IA, enviando spam random al fediverso en forma de estados con #hashtags creando falsos trendings. Se han detectado 1787915 estados generados por IA con #hashtags mientras escribo esto. (ver imagenes)
Ejemplo, ver linea local:
- social.freysa.ai/api/v1/instan…
- social.freysa.ai/public/local
Esto además, puede causar que las bases de datos de las instancias con las que federe gasten recursos y espacio en disco innecesarios almacenando esta basura.
Estas cuentas generadas por IA y con estados podrian usarse para realizar ataques de SPAM a usuarios del fediverso con @mentions
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🇬🇧 URGENT #fediblock to freysa.ai / social.freysa.ai
This instance has 1500 users, all of them AI-generated, sending random spam to the fediverse in the form of posts with #hashtags that create fake trending topics. As I write this, 1,787,915 AI-generated posts with #hashtags have been detected (see images).
Example, see local endpoint:
- social.freysa.ai/api/v1/instan…
- social.freysa.ai/public/local
This can also cause the databases of federated instances to waste resources and disk space by unnecessarily storing this garbage.
These AI-generated accounts and posts could be used to carry out SPAM attacks on fediverse users using @mentions.
- Trankten
Freysa.ai | Digital Twin
The social network of the future: No ads, no corporate surveillance, ethical design, and decentralization! Own your data with Mastodon!Mastodon hosted on social.freysa.ai
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Phase Change Thermal Pad Kit Request form
As of November 2024 we have switched our ongoing production of Framework Laptop 16 to use Honeywell PTM7958 phase change thermal interface material instead oframework.kustomer.help
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Oh lookie here.
First, some background.
Speaking at the SXSW conference in Austin on Monday, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber said the social network has been working on a framework for user consent over how they want their data to be used for generative AI.
Now onto this.
Link below but #Bluesky will start selling your data to train AI. The fact this is a proposal and something the CEO is pushing for should tell you that this is a small step towards selling everyone's data, regardless of whatever you want to happen.
Many here are willing to actually trust CEO's for some reason.
A CEO wants to make money. Period. That is their primary function.
This proposal is opt out, not opt in. Otherwise, they wouldn't go on the record with this comment...
Speaking at SXSW, Graber explained that the company has engaged with partners to develop a framework for user consent over how they would want their data to be used — or not used — for generative AI.
The fact a CEO is considering something multiple times should tell you your wishes will be violated to make a profit. If not now, but eventually.
github.com/bluesky-social/prop… #AI #socialmedia
proposals/0008-user-intents at main · bluesky-social/proposals
Bluesky proposal discussions. Contribute to bluesky-social/proposals development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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Nonsense. You don't need to put a sign on your car saying you do not authorize people to break into your car. This is total baloney.
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Hi! I'm planning on escaping my current place to move to a safer location with friends, where I'd be able to actually live my life.
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Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:127.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/127.0
) and an ActivityPub content type (application/activity+json
). This will never be done by a legitimate instance, and is another way to reliably detect malicious requests.
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this is probably a dumb question, but, like, I don't understand why there isn't a good Firefox fork at this point ?
is it really that hard to fork Firefox and remove all of the monetization decisions made by mozilla over the past few years, while keeping the rest of the browser ?
like, I realize that if the open-source community is treating bad mozilla leadership like a problem we'll have to deal with, it's probably because there's a reason why it's difficult to just remove their bullshit from the browser and keep using the rest. but I'd like to understand what the reason is.
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mozilla have just removed their "we will never sell your personal data" statement from their ToS
github.com/mozilla/bedrock/com…
Tos copy updates (fix #16016) (#16018) · mozilla/bedrock@d459add
* ToS copy updates (fix #16016) * Apply suggestions from code review - copy change Co-authored-by: maureenlholland --------- Co-authored-by: maureenlholland <...GitHub
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Gwen, the Fops
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in reply to Finn • • •Gwen, the Fops
in reply to Ahri Enby • • •there are multiple problems with using a bot to generate alt text as your main option.
First, it's the technological reality that a bot might not recognize stuff in the picture (there was one a while ago that Jolene used to have fun with, where the bot went on a loop and blew itself up), or might miscategorize what it actually sees
Second, the bot doesn't know the intention. If it was made by whoever is posting, they can explain some parts of the image that could be misunderstood (just the other day the foxes in love alt text explained that one of them wanted to eat a pumpkin whole, while I thought it was just carrying it with its mouth)
Third, even if neither of the previous 2 apply, sometimes the order in which you describe the image can have the same effect of delaying the punchline like when you tell a joke, or how you'd see a visual pun. A sighted user can look back and forth in the image easily, a screen reader has to reread the entirety of the alt text every time, so if the joke was too early, it can be missed without a reread.
Fourth, it's not always obvious to a bot what context is well known and what needs to be explained. Heck even for a human, I don't always know when to describe a meme and when to use it's name, let alone if I feel like I need to explain that this is a callback to an in-joke in a circle that the reader might not be a part of.
I'm purposefully leaving out questions about morality and stuff (altbot is an LLM) because for one, there are people who will never be convinced and so having the option is still good because accessibility is a net good, and for another this will derail the conversation about why a bot backup is good, but it should remain a backup.
Chilly 🛡️
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