#WhatsApp is launching #AI features with a new "Private Processing" system designed to maintain #privacy while enabling #cloud access for message summarization and #composition #tools.
Users can opt in and control AI usage in #chats, including blocking others from using AI features.
The integration of AI raises potential privacy risks, and I suggest staying away from AI on WhatsApp and #Meta AI in general.
https://www.wired.com/story/whatsapp-private-processing-generative-ai-security-risks/
Obsessed with this art btw
Artist: https://blueskittlesart.tumblr.com/post/752055187244482560/as-is-tradition-happy-pride-from-everyones
fosstodon, far-right radicalisation, the alt-right playbook
apparently fosstodon has some kind of a "no politics" policy in place? that's a very big warning sign!
to see why, i suggest watching "How to Radicalize a Normie" from The Alt-Right Playbook.
if you're super pressed for time, begin watching at 8:35 and stay until 12:30.
that part of the video explains very clearly how having a "contained" fascist on the mod team is still part of an effective recruitment strategy, and why the way mike (the instance owner) is acting now is a sign that the strategy is working.
but i REALLY think you should watch the whole video, because it explains not just what communities with "no politics"-style policies does for the alt-right (the "no controversy" kind that gets you a warning for saying trans lives matters), but also the rest of the alt-right radicalisation pipeline that those communities are part of.
Just as "web log" became the even more awkward "blog", I suggest we change "newsletter" into "slet"
Then we can talk about the sletosphere, have startups like sletspot and sletlines, etc. It'll be terrible, as nature intended
Thinking of documenting my near-daily #OpenStreetMap edits in the Mandawali area.
If you like my contributions, perhaps you'd like to help me pay my bills too? 👉👈 😇
https://liberapay.com/contrapunctus/
I began editing in this area in 2023. I wasn't nearly as active an editor in this region back then.
19th of May, 2023
> Mandawali - add 5 POIs, 3 addresses
https://osmlab.github.io/changeset-map/#136301765
2nd of June, 2023
> Mandawali - add 2 shops, 4 cameras, 2 addresses, 2 buildings, street name
https://osmlab.github.io/changeset-map/#136864694
DINUM is a proud sponsor of the #Debian 2025 conference, which will take place in Brest in July.
👉 https://debconf25.debconf.org/sponsors
Not only because Debian is a GNU/Linux distribution that many French administrations use, not only because many civil servants contribute to it, and not only because the Debian project is such an amazing social achievement: it's also because we still have so much to learn from it!
📅 Btw, the CFP is still open: https://debconf25.debconf.org/cfp/
re: Nice things
World's fastest and most digit calculator watch? Also found an app that tells me if hackspaces are open and that shows directions for travelling :3
sensitive media
AI shit, YT Link, fandom link, proprietary game
the tree specifically I think got to my brain from darkwood https://darkwood.fandom.com/wiki/Talking_Tree
Today Melissa Lewis over on BlueSky pointed out that the font used in the infamous "You wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy campaign was actually designed by Just van Rossum, whose brother, Guido, created the Python programming language (bsky.app/profile/melissa.news/post/3ln7hx5rhcj2v)
She also pointed out that the font had been cloned and released illegally for free under the name "XBAND Rough". Naturally, it would be hilarious if the anti-piracy campaign actually turned out to have used this pirated font, so I went sleuthing and quickly found a PDF from the campaign site with the font embedded (web.archive.org/web/20051223202935/http://www.piracyisacrime.com:80/press/pdfs/150605_8PP_brochure.pdf).
So I chucked it into FontForge and yep, turns out the campaign used a pirated font the entire time!
Time for another community poll!
In this one, I ask all of you how important Open Source / Free Software is to you, and how much of your daily system is made of open source software.
I ditched Google Forms for Cryptpad, hopefully this works well enough! Poll will close next Wednesday, the 30th. Don't hesitate to share it widely so we have a solid amount of answers :)
https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/BvT5W22dNNspD405dLGF+TbJhAJD-FtRFLswi-uizWQ/