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What is Linux and how hard is it really? How costly is it to run your own social media for friends and family? How hard is it to make a form without having the information hosted by Google or Microsoft? Find out all this and more on Sunday at Open Sourcerers! Tix thru humanitix

Call for a moratorium on data centres - let's stop building now - please sign: petitions.getup.org.au/petitions/de... @getup.org.au

The Victorian Ombudsman says they can't pursue my complaint about the City of Melbourne any further. Where to next ?

TOMORROW! Image reads WEAVING THE WEB session 3: community controlled networks, Sun 12 July @ 12:30pm, North and West Melbourne Neighbourhood Centre, free digital empowerment workshops for Trans + Gender Diverse community, FREE SNACKS! supported by Transgender Victoria

Do you want more choice about how you communicate with loved ones? Get back to having fun online at Weaving the Web: events.humanitix.com/host/snart-c...

vt.tiktok.com/ZS9G4sMah/ A video I made about RCS that didn't capture the insane reliance on Google infrastructure. You could think you're sending a text but it still passes through Google's hands

The problem with RCS replacing SMS is brands being able to do this directly in your phone. like sure delete all your apps they can still send you personalised ads to your actual phone number Every time I've tried to learn how the protocol works I find articles like this

do trans + genderqueer communities online pay more to see each other?

If he sees that I am stripping the ends of the power wires inside the severed cable, he may cut it further out to sea, but it will be too late. I have already telegrammed my coordinates using the giant battery I always strap to my back in case of sticky situations.

The evil king swings his sword high and slashes my fibre optic cable to the rest of the world. "You will die here on this island" I fall to my knees as he turns and leaves in a helicopter.

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Hey does anyone know about traffyk.ai ? are they saying they can filter out whistleblowers from recruitment?

A systematic review on hand gesture recognition techniques, challenges and applications. Mais Yasen, Shaidah Jusoh. Editor: Luciano Fadiga

Started a series on the big platforms where I lipsync as a different machine learning technique each day...I'm going crazy someone needs to employ me

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This flew under my radar because obviously there's so much weird news coming out of the other side of the Pacific. I want to know how you evaluate the accuracy of public consultation insights given by AI jigsaw-code.github.io/sensemaking-...

Would you call simple linear regression a neural network architecture?

in my defence your honour I was living in a country town at the time

I COULD believe everyone is rotten to the core and humanity has nothing worth saving OR I could believe that's what the Russians want me to think OR I could believe we were made by a drunk guy and simply doing our best

I don't love action films but every now and then I do need to see Dev Patel and an army of enlightened trans women violently overthrow the corrupt elite of their city

This is really cool, I think I could learn a lot about mesh networks through cyberpunk fiction

Great news! You can now make a submission on the City of Melbourne's expanded surveillance policy: www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/meeting/futu... They said there needs to be a new, separate consultation when they start introducing AI so this is just about increasing their enforcement powers

loved the latest Download This Show when @raejohnston.bsky.social asked if NVIDIA and OpenAI are just passing money back and forth to raise the stock price 💸 this is why @meredithmeredith.bsky.social called it a Potemkin village I guess

don't call me I'm at the gay bar starting a nuclear war

Switzerland just voted to create a new electronic ID card (the Swiss introduced physical ones in 1955). It's stored locally on your device, you personally approve requests for your data, and is designed to prevent profiling. Contrast to, for example, Britain's centralized proposal.

The number of times I've had to check whether it's West Australia or Western Australia is inversely proportionate to the number of times I've just said "WA"

some days it's a knowledge journey, others a wisdom journey, which is far more difficult and humbling.

Lockheed Martin makes WHAT SORRY!?

Someone was talking about granting personhood to all humans before assigning it to computer programs...cool concept actually

Been reading up on alternative networks...so cool

Tech news roundup for Australians! 🤠🏇

Sick of getting FRTed on by a million got dang cameras a day

Asked an old guy how he learned to restore fairground organs and got a 45min lecture on analog computing history (ideal outcome)

Does anyone have an independent case study of Matilda use ? I need to know if they've just put chatGPT in a Papero or if it has actual value

Whether US news interests you or not, any non-American must admit that none of us can compete with the level of spectacle generated since the greatest commercial entertainment culture the world has ever known decided to apply the aesthetics of B-movies to politics.

Trying to do a masters degree before the maggots finish eating my brain

BOSS: I told you to encrypt those files ME, ROLLING A LARGE STONE OVER THE ENTRANCE TO THE BURIAL VAULT: Let me assure you,

Great news from the hard working Treaty team

My biometric privacy jewellery workshop is TOMORROW! if you're in Melbourne and like talking shit about surveillance or making art with drag kings GET AMONGST IT!! events.humanitix.com/biometric-bl...

What I learned from Prince and Muhammad Ali was that it’s possible to love yourself so much that everybody else does, too.

Which country has the most beef between its north and south?

Loooooove watching with captions because I never would have noticed an audience member heckling with a dick joke about one of the ads

🤖⚡WATCH OUT!⚡ 🤖 the automation of killing undermines justice for old fashioned manual murder too

As a historian of computing, can confirm, this is exactly what happened

The problem is that the actual economic significance of LLMs is very small - $40bn this year? - compared to the economic activity required to sustain it ($400bn+ capex/vc). Will every government fund every data center buildout? What about their capex? Or will the illusion break?

I draw alot of space and night pictures, but I draw the daytime too! #pixelart