@kde I know this isn't much, but KDE Plasma is the only software I've ever allowed anonymous usage reporting on. I can't wait to see all the improvements coming up once this reaches Garuda :)
@kde Genuinely gorgeous! You devs should be proud!!
Being a software developer myself, I know what good, clean code should look like, I know of security vulnerabilities to look out for, I know how to keep a codebase maintainable, and I know how to NOT vibe code my way into a shitstorm. I love the new opportunities I feel like I have now, I just wish it didn't come with the baggage of guilt I have knowing how the systems were built and trained.(5)
Even thinking about having AI help automate the grind and help me quickly write classes and methods - in a language that I can read, understand, and critique before I accept changes - elates me beyond expression. I want to make a game for my wife to play, I want to help open source software progress, I want to invite more people off monopolistic platforms and into the Fediverse without fear of being unable to support them before I get distracted. (4)
I develop software for a living and as a passion, but I've been struggling with ADHD my entire adult life. I have ideas that I want to bring to life and inconveniences that I want to fix with my skills, but the monotony of writing the whole codebase line by line can strain my attention to breaking point. Godot is an incredible game development software but going through the documentation is the bane of my existence. (3)
Adding to that, the unfeeling construction of data centres that are destroying the wellbeing of anyone unfortunate enough to live nearby and the audacity for them to not pay for power or land usage unless forced by new laws baffles me. I cannot, in good conscious, condone usage of AI for anything at all.
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**HOWEVER** (2)
I don't think anyone is following me, so nobody will see this, but I do have a dilemma.
Most people on the Fediverse probably share an opinion on AI, myself included; it's an incredibly cool technology in concept but it is built on theft and with the intention of harm, the data sets are blatantly stolen and the big money behind it is going into replacing artists and employees with machines, and that's not even mentioning the environmental impacts! (1)
@spla @EUCommission Honestly, yeah. We now have good alternatives and Meta is CONSTANTLY skirting the law at best and destroying democracy at worst.
I would say if they do a 3-month period without any scandal we consider allowing their services back in the EU, but until then just fucking drop their asses
@EUCommission just ban Meta.
@EUCommission as
@luca points out (
https://mastodon.luca-alloatti.eu/@luca/116430825897641638), most people - adults included - don't understand the depths of the invasive tracking that goes on behind the screen. Breaking privacy of individuals further simply doesn't feel like the right solution, more education does. Understanding that the entirety of the internet rests on 3 massive American companies: Amazon, Microsoft, and Google (
https://parameter.io/amazon-aws-crash-proves-the-internet-runs-on-three-main-companies/) would be a good start. Teaching parents about OS parental controls too.
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Seriously?
Your website commission.europa.eu is an Amazon CloudFront distribution. The TLS certificate is issued by Amazon.
Every visitor clicking the URL in this post (including the young Europeans you claim to protect!) delivers personal data to a US server, under US law.
You cannot legislate what you cannot practice.
Enough with empty rhetoric. It is time for a "#RegimeChange" at the #EuropeanCommission.
spla