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No #internet, no #phone: #Canada #wildfires expose fragility of rural #infrastructure
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/15/internet-access-rural-canada-wildfires
Northwestel, which provides telecommunications for the #Yukon, Northwest Territories, #Nunavut and northern #BritishColumbia announced on Friday that a wildfire had damaged a critical fibre optic cable near the town of #FortNelson. The company said it had also lost its redundancy cable due to a separate wildfire burning near Jean Marie River and #Kakisa in the Northwest Territories.
#news #disaster #climate #environment
No internet, no phone: Canada wildfires expose fragility of rural infrastructure
Remote communities suffer total loss of communications after fires damage critical fibre optic cablesLeyland Cecco (The Guardian)
Why is #Mozilla collecting our #search data?
source: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-search-update/
Sensitive topics, like searching for particular health care services, are categorized only under broad terms like health or society. Your search activities are handled with the same level of confidentiality as all other data regardless of any local laws surrounding certain health services.
Hello Mozilla, I use Firefox because my privacy is important to me. The best security is still achieved if you don't collect the data. That is why I will use a fork that does not collect search data. It would be nice if Mozilla took user privacy more seriously.
#privacy #news #browser #web #internet #firefox #security #cybersecurity #surveillance #statistics #bigdata #bigbrother
See what’s changing in Firefox: Better insights, same privacy
We’re ramping up our efforts to enhance search experience by developing new features like Firefox Suggestions.Mozilla (The Mozilla Blog)
@pjakobs
#Geschichte des #Internet|s
Der Titel des 1. #mp3-Songs der Geschichte, #TomsDiner von #SusanneVega sagte mir zunächst nichts. Das Lied kannte ich dann allerdings schon. Die #ACapella-Version kannte ich noch nicht, ist jedoch cool 😎.
Truly an assault on the internet we've all helped build.
- "Dear Stack Overflow denizens, thanks for helping train OpenAI's billion-dollar LLMs" https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/07/stack_overflow_openai/
- "Reddit has reportedly signed over its content to train AI models": https://mashable.com/article/reddit-signs-ai-content-licensing-deal
- "WordPress and Tumblr will sell user data to train AI models: https://readwrite.com/tumblr-and-wordpress-to-sell-user-data-to-train-ai-models/
#IndieWeb #internet #TheWeb #ai #llms #capitalism #enshittificaton
Dear Stack Overflow denizens, thanks for helping train OpenAI's billion-dollar LLMs
Microsoft-backed super-lab gets direct access to answers – and code forum gets its own AIThomas Claburn (The Register)
I’m going to say something I know you all are thinking:
I miss my friend, Tom.
#MySpace #Nostalgia #Internet #SocialMedia
What I don't understand about the #TikTok problem is what makes TikTok worse than #Instagram, #Facebook, #Google or #Twitter?
Either you ban algorithmic timelines or you ban government spying. But if you only ban TikTok, the #propaganda will still reach us via the other networks ...
TikTok ban in the United States: https://www.wpsdlocal6.com/news/explaining-why-officials-want-to-ban-tiktok-in-the-united-states/article_2f1c3092-0baa-11ef-8c02-df0aeedefee3.html
#news #censorship #politics #China #USA #algorithm #software #socialNetwork #internet #problem #law #surveillance #economy
Explaining why officials want to ban TikTok in the United States
The bill states that TikTok has nine months to divest itself from China and that TikTok’s owner, ByteDance, sells the platform to another company. If a sale is agreed to,WPSD Local 6
To follow through on my pledge to do more of my #internet reading on the #indieweb, I've been visiting random blogs using this site and adding any interesting ones to an #RSS feed.
My intention is to browse this feed much the same way I would the news -call it a self-care practice. I want to spend more time in reflection and less in panic. I also want to get ideas for, perhaps, my own blog someday.
#tech #smallweb #smolweb #blogging #bloggingcommunity
Discover the IndieWeb, one blog post at a time.
A website to randomly explore the IndieWeb. Simply click a button and you will be redirected to a random post from a personal blog.indieblog.page
Image created by @Recap of Fediverse Webinar for Creators and Curators
We recently announced that we federated 400 of Flipboard’s top creators and curators, meaning that their Flipboard activity is now syndicated out to fediverse platforms like Mastodon and eventually…Flipboard (Fedi Curious)
Pikapods makes hosting anything, from Nextcloud, to WordPress, to Audiobookshelf, a total breeze!
https://odinhalvorson.com/pikapods/
#OpenSource #Pikapods #OpenSourceSoftware #WebHosting #Hosting #HostingProvider #Internet #Technology #Host #WordPress #Ghost #Audiobookshelf
Pikapods!
Pikapods makes hosting anything, from Nextcloud, to Wordpress, to Audiobookshelf, a total breeze!Odin Halvorson (Halvorson Times)
#Google #Search results polluted by buggy AI-written code frustrate coders
#source: https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/01/pulumi_ai_pollution_of_search/
Google has indexed inaccurate infrastructure-as-code samples produced by Pulumi AI – a developer that uses an #AI #chatbot to generate infrastructure – and the rotten recipes are already appearing at the top of search results.
#news #internet #SearchEngine #problem #result #fail #software #technology
Google Search results polluted by buggy AI-written code frustrate coders
Pulumi claims it has culled bad infrastructure-as-code samplesThomas Claburn (The Register)
What Happens When a #Romance #Writer Gets Locked Out of #Google Docs
In March, an aspiring author got a troubling message: All of her works in progress were no longer accessible. What happened next is every writer’s worst fear.
Google never specified which of her 222,000 words was inappropriate.
...
Generally speaking, files containing #violence, #abuse, child sexual abuse material, and gore violate the terms of service for Google Drive and its associated products, like Docs and Sheets.
Now many of you will be thinking, who is stupid enough to store everything in the Google #cloud? The problem is we know that, but many people out there don't. We urgently need to do more educational work and warn people about companies like Google and their practices. Tell all your friends and acquaintances and don't use the clouds of the big corporations.
#news #problem #fail #warning #danger #service #customer #internet #economy #security #wtf #omg #disaster
This is pretty amazing! People are taking my WordPress plugin that lets you warn site visitors if they don't have an ad-blocking browser plugin installed, and making versions of the project for non-WordPress sites.
https://stefanbohacek.com/project/detect-missing-adblocker-wordpress-plugin/#other-implementations
This dataset does not exist
Provide a more secure experience to your website’s visitors.Stefan Bohacek (stefanbohacek.com)
#TIL about Internet Underground Music Archive, "the internet's first free hi-fi music archive", which "existed as FTP and Gopher sites, before the World Wide Web was widely used."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Underground_Music_Archive
Pro-meat and climate crisis misinformation rife on social media, says report
"Misinformation on social media doesn't happen in a vacuum,” said Haughton-Boakes. “It seeps into the real world. And it does have real-world implications for policy debates.”
#News #ClimateCrisis #Internet #SocialMedia #Misinformation
Pro-meat misinformation rife on social media, says report
Almost a million posts have been found to spread false or misleading information about meat, dairy and alternative dietsHajar Meddah (The Bureau of Investigative Journalism)
Do NOT, under any circumstances, link to any of the websites listed here!
"You may not provide a link to this website from any other website without first obtaining Associated’s prior written consent."
"You may only link to our Web site or mobile application with Our express written permission."
"Users may not link any other website to the Website without obtaining the prior written consent of Office of His Majesty’s Coroner for the City of Sunderland."
https://malcolmcoles.com/no-linking/
Bill Gates, Man United and 20 other sites that ban linking to them
10+ years ago I created an annual list of websites that FORBADE you from linking to them, DEMANDED you write to ask for permission or LIMITED links to only their home page. Royal Mail even promised…Malcolm Coles
We Need To Rewild The Internet
The #internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.
https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet
We Need To Rewild The Internet
The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.NOEMA
Edward #Snowden just tweeted:
The NSA is just 𝗗𝗔𝗬𝗦 from taking over the internet, and it's not on the front page of any newspaper--because no one has noticed.
source: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1779920066840055847
#omg #wtf #law #nsa #problem #usa #privacy #internet #government #politics #fail #media
Thread by @Snowden on Thread Reader App
@Snowden: The NSA is just 𝗗𝗔𝗬𝗦 from taking over the internet, and it's not on the front page of any newspaper--because no one has noticed.threadreaderapp.com
#YouTube: Enforcement on Third Party Apps
source: https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/269521462/enforcement-on-third-party-apps?hl=de
We’re strengthening our enforcement on third-party apps that violate YouTube’s Terms of Service, specifically ad-blocking apps.
#Economy #capitalism #advertisement #Google #adblocker #news #internet
