Mastodawn

llanciawn 5h ago

Merry Christmas 5h ago

llanciawn 16h ago

Sean Boots 21h ago

“To opt out, GitHub users should visit /settings/copilot/features and disable "Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training" under the Privacy heading.” https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/26/github_ai_training_policy_changes/

GitHub hits CTRL-Z, decides it will train its AI with user data after all

: As of April 24 you'll be feeding the Octocat unless you opt out

The Register

llanciawn 4d ago

Josiah 4d ago

Murdoch-owned Talk is the subject of multiple new Ofcom investigations.

No new ones opened for GB News, despite a barrage of bias and misinformation in this period. Bonkers.

llanciawn 4d ago

Ciarán Ferrie 4d ago

Remember that time Dermot Desmond told us we didn't need the metro because self-driving cars would solve congestion?

This is why we shouldn't let billionaires decide public policy.

https://www.planetizen.com/news/2026/03/137132-study-self-driving-cars-could-raise-vmt-6-increasing-congestion

llanciawn 5d ago

Green Party of England & Wales 5d ago

Water is a human right — yet in the UK it’s being run for profit, while rivers are polluted and bills rise.

This World Water Day, the answer is clear: bring water into public ownership and make it work for people and planet.

llanciawn 5d ago

Nation.Cymru 5d ago

AI and social media today: The fear of missing out
#Opinion

https://nation.cymru/opinion/ai-and-social-media-today-the-fear-of-missing-out/

AI and social media today: The fear of missing out

Ben Isaac-Evans Social media is a want not a need. These were the words of my wife as we discussed the current state of social media. She has a point. It’s easy to forget that, however, when you’ve got a device in your hand that can connect you to people and places on the other […]

Nation.Cymru

llanciawn 5d ago

Emeritus Prof Christopher May 5d ago

The problem those arguing for a 'revival' of Centerism have (this morning Phillip Collins/Observer) is that they draw centrism wide enough to draw in Blairs' Labour & Cameron's Tories.

If that's the liberal centre then its been in power for decades & got us to the stagnating, unequal, failing juncture we have reached.... why would anyone think they now have the answers (other than their feeling of entitlement to govern?) as the are worried less by Reform than the Greens?

#politics #democracy

llanciawn 5d ago

Sara Mar 15

seeing another round of "don't favorite posts on fedi"

folks it is a kind and lovely thing to favorite someone's post and anyone who tells you not to be kind and lovely has told you something about themself

it's true that it doesn't particulary increase the distribution of your post but the idea that we're all here to get things distributed as far as possible is pretty weird

llanciawn 6d ago

Billy Smith 6d ago

I just emailed my MP asking them to attend Monday's briefing on Palantir and the NHS contracts.

If you are in the UK, please ask your MP to attend.

More details heree:

https://www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/ask-your-mp-to-attend-the-past-present-and-future-of-our-nhss-330m-contract-with-us-spy-tech-firm-palantir/

#Palantir #NHS #TheyWorkForUs

Email your MP about Mandelson, Palantir, and the dangerous influence of US Big Tech

The Mandelson scandal has lifted the lid on something Foxglove has been warning about for years: the UK government's dangerously cosy relationship with US Big Tech.

Foxglove

llanciawn 6d ago

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🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)Mar 20

The goal is to make corporate data less profitable.

Even stuff as simple as setting your birthdate to 1970-01-01 everywhere, adding [TEST] or [DELETED] as your name or account notes anywhere you don't need them to know your name.

Using plugins like AdNauseam to poison ad trackers (and cost them marketing dollars).

Using VPNs set to different locations.

Signing into data broker sites to "correct" outdated info (they'll often let you do that with little-to-no proof of identity, but will require your passport or state ID in order to delete your info). Bonus points if you correct it to someone else's info on their site that's similar to yours.

Only fill in required fields when you sign up for anything, but only provide correct info if it matters for you to use the service, otherwise provide plausible, but incorrect, data.

If you use LLMs anywhere, use the free tier and always vote thumbs up for bad answers and down for good ones. It wastes their resources and drives up their costs while making their training data worse.

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