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@nixCraft I hear that exhaustion. Most 'AI' today is just bloated corporate theft. But I spent my DCS years broke in Colab, hand-coding Bayesian sims and custom transformers because I wanted to solve real problems, not push buttons. At Shaolin Data Services, we don't use the 'Big Tech' scrapers. We build lean, efficient models on Cloud Run that actually respect the craft of engineering. Don't let the corporate haymakers convince you the art is dead—some of us are still forging our own steel.

Vleeuwe 6d ago

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nixCraft 🐧6d ago

My other biggest hate for AI and all these companies is how they are stealing others' work. Just because someone put their art, song, book, or forum post/wiki contribution online doesn't mean it is free to steal. Not to mention environmental issues. If you really want to train your shitty AI, pay up to all these people first. You have money in trillions. Instead, they are stealing, firing workers, and building massive data centers and surveillance networks to drag down everyone. So fuck off!

Vleeuwe Feb 16

Electronic Frontier Foundation Feb 15

Wikipedia receives hundreds of legal demands every year to remove user-written content. Almost all are rejected. We spoke with Wikimedia’s legal team about how Section 230 helps protect volunteer editors and public knowledge. https://www.eff.org/pages/internet-still-works-wikipedia-defends-its-editors

The Internet Still Works: Wikipedia Defends Its Editors

Section 230 helps make it possible for online communities to host user speech: from restaurant reviews, to fan fiction, to collaborative encyclopedias. But recent debates about the law often overlook how it works in practice. To mark its 30th anniversary, EFF is interviewing leaders of online...

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Vleeuwe Dec 27

nixCraft 🐧Dec 27

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/115787843539914208

With everyone making Chromium based clones these days, ublock origin might as well release a new browser and remove all the bad bits like forced LLM or tracking and stuff like that. I will even pay a yearly subscription to help cover the development costs.

Vleeuwe Dec 9

nixCraft 🐧Dec 9

AI batshit crazy Microsoft is increasing Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices again. And can you guess the reason? They want to bring you AI features that nobody asked for and they're making you pay for them. LOL. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2025/12/04/advancing-microsoft-365-new-capabilities-and-pricing-update/

Advancing Microsoft 365: New capabilities and pricing update | Microsoft 365 Blog

Explore 2026 Microsoft 365 updates, including new AI features and upcoming pricing changes organizations need to prepare for.

Microsoft 365 Blog

Vleeuwe Nov 28

Electronic Frontier Foundation Nov 27

We are thankful to students and faculty at the Reynolds School of Journalism who have helped us build https://www.atlasofsurveillance.org/, the biggest database of police surveillance in the United States.

Atlas of Surveillance

Documenting Police Tech in Our Communities with Open Source Research

Vleeuwe Nov 19

Electronic Frontier Foundation Nov 19

You know that police drone in the sky? Those license plate readers? Oh, and the worried feeling you get about your data being collected as you interact with your devices? Yeah, that shouldn't be the norm. That's why we're fighting back: https://takebackctrl.org/stop-surveillance

Vleeuwe Nov 19

Ars Technica Nov 19

Critics scoff after Microsoft warns AI feature can infect machines and pilfer data
Integration of Copilot Actions into Windows is off by default, but for how long?
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/11/critics-scoff-after-microsoft-warns-ai-feature-can-infect-machines-and-pilfer-data/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social