this "betanet" thing just looks like a massive grift

the internet itself is inherently decentralized, the problem is that the ecosystem has largely centralized over time to a few big players

not only does this not address that in any way, it introduces more problems by introducing a blockchain-style governance system vulnerable to 51% attacks

betanet does not have me too convinced rn.

there needs to be a slightly more abstracted and simplified explanation of the protocol, hard to see the interest in this when it's either a vague manifesto or overly technical jargon.

like what are the actual principles behind the way it's written and structured? there needs to be some actual comparison between this and other protocols (http, tor, i2p, fucking gemini or gopher or whatever the fuck)

also i'm getting that gut feeling that i get from any massive ambitious project that aims to fix everything forever.

not putting too much faith into it at the moment.

@mynameistillian@plush.city

#Meta has scraped content from tldr.nettime.org for their AI. It’s one of ~100,000 top websites reportedly used to train Meta’s proprietary AI models.

👉🏻 https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/meta-facebook-tech-copyright-privacy-whistleblower

LEAKED: A New List Reveals Top Websites Meta Is Scraping of Copyrighted Content to Train Its AI (Including Many Fediverse Instances!!!)

"The tech giant is sidestepping guardrails that websites use to prevent being scraped, data show, in a move whistleblowers say is unethical and potentially illegal."

ARTICLE: https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/meta-facebook-tech-copyright-privacy-whistleblower

FULL PDF: https://www.dropsitenews.com/api/v1/file/b3555944-e204-4f5e-9a64-e44281b19a82.pdf

#FediPact #meta #threads #AI

Confirmed, Meta has scraped my content for their AI. I have not given them permission to do this, at the same time, I did not explicitly prevent them from doing this. So I am sure by some stupid lawyer’s definition, they can use my content for whatever purpose they want.

F that.

If they want to do that, then the whole notion of “pirating video” or music, or software, or anything else that ends up in the public domain is right out the window.

On the bright side, #socialbc does not appear on the list.

I found the list here: https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/meta-facebook-tech-copyright-privacy-whistleblower

#meta #copyright #personalproperty

Reddit will block the Internet Archive https://www.theverge.com/news/757538/reddit-internet-archive-wayback-machine-block-limit

"GitHub’s leadership team will now report more directly to Microsoft’s CoreAI team."

Another step seemingly in the wrong direction as the AI-happy CEO jumps ship.

https://www.theverge.com/news/757461/microsoft-github-thomas-dohmke-resignation-coreai-team-transition

I think this shows how @linuxfoundation@social.lfx.dev is not necessarily on our side.

https://social.lfx.dev/@linuxfoundation/114993371357953940

It's not just decentralization, it's also software freedom, open hardware, identity self-sovereignty, and right to own/repair. They are all connected, and require diligence to achieve and maintain. 99% of people don't care. That's an irrelevant fact. Most people don't care about anything until it's too late.

absolutely amazing stuff happening in the claude code issue tracker

🚨 Stop Chat Control! 🚨

The EU Council wants all your messages to be read by ominous AI. But government and military accounts will be exempt. Why? For security. 😤

Vote: October 14.

Key meeting: September 12.

📢 Act now! We've got two months to stop Chat Control: https://tuta.com/blog/chat-control-criticism

@Tutanota@mastodon.social https://fightchatcontrol.eu

PinePhone Pro Linux smartphone has been discontinued, but the original PinePhone is still available

The PinePhone Pro is a Linux-friendly smartphone that launched in early 2022 as a higher-performance alternative to the original PinePhone. With a faster processor, more memory and storage, and a better camera, among other things, it was a significant upgrade… on paper, at least.

But with a $400 price tag, it was also twice as expensive as the original PinePhone and never generated as much […]

#linuxsmartphones #mobileLinux #pine64 #pinephone #pinephonePro

Read more: https://liliputing.com/pinephone-pro-linux-smartphone-has-been-discontinued-but-the-original-pinephone-is-still-available/

warm take



copying/sharing files is not stealing



it's not like a physical item where you deprive someone else of the thing to get it, the only scarcity in the digital world is artificial

@Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com @lain@lain.com @PurpCat@clubcyberia.co @nyanide@lab.nyanide.com Even as a preteen and long before I knew what free software was I was already to copying CDROMs with video games and music and I shared them with friends at school.



Unfortunately most children today grow up having only known DRM-ridden media. It's very sad.

It seems like the AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges. Anubis is a tool hosted on our infrastructure that requires browsers to do some heavy computation before accessing Codeberg again. It really saved us tons of nerves over the past months, because it saved us from manually maintaining blocklists to having a working detection for "real browsers" and "AI crawlers".