Big Tech, AI, and Health Data – Not a Good Mix

https://medi-nerd.com/2026/01/21/big-tech-ai-and-health-data-not-a-good-mix/

Hey my post on #Neowin earned a shoutout in one of their articles.

Headline: #Mastodon updates terms of service to ban AI model training on user data

Source: https://www.neowin.net/news/mastodon-updates-terms-of-service-to-ban-ai-model-training-on-user-data/

#AI

xpost - Federated forums with a single login system across the web for interacting with multiple forums

draft - why doesn't neowin.net have an edit button

#neowin

I thought neowin could sorta be my way to post stuff instead of on reddit, on a more traditional forum. Without having to worry about karma.

But without an edit button, I'm a little bit weary.

#redditalternatives
#karma
#karmaworry

The problem with making a comment on reddit to a thread is that your comment, when good intentioned, can get downvotes. Now, maybe if subreddit admins could limit downvotes to like zero or minus 1, or even remove downvoting altogether, that'd be interesting.

But like, today I made a comment on a thread of chrome extensions. And it was a good extension. I also made a post somewhere. While the post was upvoted a few upvotes, the comment was at zero. Not negative luckily, but it still felt so like "why would this affect my karma in a negative way".

#forums
#fediverse
#fediverseforums

Is there such a thing as federated forums?

#federatedforum

A forum which is like a traditional forum without negative downvotes to affect ones karma. But more of a single login system. Kinda like openID or similar things were supposed to do.

#openID

draft - why doesn't neowin.net have an edit button

#neowin

I thought neowin could sorta be my way to post stuff instead of on reddit, on a more traditional forum. Without having to worry about karma.

But without an edit button, I'm a little bit weary.

#redditalternatives
#karma
#karmaworry

The problem with making a comment on reddit to a thread is that your comment, when good intentioned, can get downvotes. Now, maybe if subreddit admins could limit downvotes to like zero or minus 1, or even remove downvoting altogether, that'd be interesting.

But like, today I made a comment on a thread of chrome extensions. And it was a good extension. I also made a post somewhere. While the post was upvoted a few upvotes, the comment was at zero. Not negative luckily, but it still felt so like "why would this affect my karma in a negative way".

#forums
#fediverse
#fediverseforums

Is there such a thing as federated forums?

#federatedforum

draft - neowin and the inability to edit comments

eh. i thought neowin was a good forum for like, yaknow, to be my antithesis of like, reddit in terms of how everytime on you make a comment on reddit, you kinda have to be thinking, "will this be able to not go into negative territory" in terms of karma. and so, i thought that it was good. and its ok. the issue is that, we can't edit our comments. so that's sort of ... sad. i searched the forums for the word edit and found this:

https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1238196-can-only-edit-comments-once/#comment-596667206

"There is a time limit for edits, after which they can no longer be edited."

so then, neowin would not really be something i'd want to be using as, i prefer the ability to have forever editing for my digital footprint.

#neowin
#forums
#forum
#alternativestoreddit - although i hesitate to put this hashtag, as, due to the inability to edit one's comments, this is sort of *not* exactly an alternative to reddit. macrumors seems to be more of the alternative for now maybe

「 #Windows11 は、 #許可 を求めずに #OneDrive フォルダーの #バックアップ を #自動 的に #有効 にするようになりました 」： Neowin

「Microsoft は 、Windows 11 ユーザーにとって OneDrive を少し煩わしいものにしました。 同社はひっそりと何の発表もなく、Windows 11の初期設定を変更し、ユーザーに尋ねることなく自動フォルダーバックアップを有効にできるようにした。」

人様のデータを勝手に自分のクラウドに上げるのは、やりすぎ。オン/オフは使用者の権利。

#prattohome #Neowin

「40 年前の今日、#Microsoft #Windows 1.0 の公式発表を簡単に振り返ってみましょう 」： Neowin

「40 年前の今日、1983 年 11 月 10 日、ニューヨーク市のプレス イベントで、 マイクロソフトは まったく新しいグラフィカル ユーザー インターフェイス ベースの PC オペレーティング システムを発売する計画を初めて明らかにしました。 同社はそのOSをWindowsと呼んだ。」

https://www.neowin.net/news/a-quick-look-back-at-the-official-announcement-of-microsoft-windows-10-40-years-ago-today/

#prattohome #Neowin