The metric we killed is back, and AI made it worseAllan MacGregor 🇨🇦 (The Pragmatic CTO)
I've been running this in #Firefox for 3 years since I listened to a talk by its original developer, Serene, at the World Ethical Data Forum in 2022.
It is completely unobtrusive. Here is a good explainer from @eff
eff.org/deeplinks/2022/10/snow…
Serene also has an interesting story
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serene_(…
Austria’s Ministry of Economy kicks out Microsoft, moving 1,200 staff to Nextcloud in 4 months 🕒
EU-based cloud ensures GDPR & NIS2 compliance 🇪🇺
Hybrid setup keeps Teams only for external use; all internal collaboration now on Nextcloud 🔒
Smooth rollout earns positive employee feedback 👍
🔗 news.itsfoss.com/austrian-mini…
#TechNews #OpenSource #Privacy #Cloud #DataSovereignty #Nextcloud #EU #FOSS #CyberSecurity #IT #Government #Software #Innovation #Digital #Security #Linux
The BMWET migrates 1,200 employees to sovereign cloud in just four months.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)
Congrats to The Guardian on hiring Doctorow to explain enshittification to the non-tech masses.
theguardian.com/technology/202… #enshittification #CoryDoctorow #software
Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and what we can do about itCory Doctorow (The Guardian)
“Is Firefox on the right path? Maybe.”
Really don't think so! #Mozilla rather cares about the #AITrend more than its users.
Ah, and also, killing good #software for the sake of this #trend. And when you think that it's little probable for it to succeed in it, when there are much bigger players on the table! 🙁
#browser #Firefox #ArtificialIntelligence #artificial_intelligence #MozillaPocket #MozillaAI #privacy #privacyMatters #dataPrivacy #security
Physical Audio® exists to push the boundaries of real-time physical modelling synthesis. We create audio plugins using pure numerical modelling of acoustic systems such as bars, strings, plates and connecting elements.Physical Audio
A Case for Feminism in Programming Language Design (2024)
Felienne Hermans, Ari Schlesinger
"Two critical and interrelated questions regarding the design and study of programming languages are: 1) What does it mean to design a programming language? and 2) Why does minimal demographic diversity persist in the programming language community? In this paper, we present feminism as a philosophical lens for analyzing the programming languages field in order to help us understand and answer the motivating questions above. By using a feminist lens, we are able to explore how the dominant intellectual and cultural norms have both shaped and constrained programming languages."
James Howison and Julia Bullard listed the following examples in descending reputations in their 2016 article Software in the scientific literature: citing publications that describe the respective...Jupyter Tutorial
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Research software are vital outputs of the research endeavour. They are often integral to the generation of research data, and rely on the same technical and social infrastructure to disseminate, cultivate, and coordinate activities.Zoom
Buffer’s popular social media management software can now schedule and post to @Mastodon servers. Coywolf has a first look at what it's like to connect and publish posts from Buffer to Mastodon.
🚀 #Nasa has greatly expanded its #software package, which is #free for users to download and use. Over 800 programs are now available for free.
In case you're not aware, the Affinity suite of applications (Photo, Designer, Publisher) are now at version 2.0 and they're having a 40% launch discount.
These are solid apps, for Windows and Mac and are very reasonably priced, with NO SUBSCRIPTION unlike another popular suite of apps in this space.
#photography #design #software
From the smoothest photo editing and design software to next-gen page layout, Affinity is pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with creative technology.Affinity
Isolate vocals, drums, bass, and other instrumental stems from any song - GitHub - stemrollerapp/stemroller: Isolate vocals, drums, bass, and other instrumental stems from any songGitHub
List of tools for generation and stylization of character portraits:
thispersondoesnotexist.com/
artbreeder.com/
github.com/NVlabs/stylegan2
portraitai.com/
ai-art.tokyo/en/
github.com/sedthh/pyxelate
github.com/vijishmadhavan/ArtL…
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#art #gamedev #gameart #oc #originalcharacter #software #dnd #ttrpg #charactercreation #charactergeneration #characterportrait
StyleGAN2 - Official TensorFlow Implementation. Contribute to NVlabs/stylegan2 development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
