Ars TechnicaProcreate defies AI trend, pledges “no generative AI” in its illustration app
Procreate CEO: "I really f—ing hate generative AI."
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Jeff MartinYup, it's true. Firefox 128 includes new adtech features that are turned on by default and announced with very little fanfare, so most people might not even know they're there. 
Well, this is me telling you they're there. You might want to go ahead and take a minute to opt out.
Here's the little helpful explainer from Mozilla about how it all works:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/privacy-preserving-attribution
My read seems to be: Mozilla says website surveillance is generally bad and should be defended against. Cool. No notes. Firefox actually has a lot of nice anti-tracking and privacy features there and that's the main reason why I like Firefox.
But, and I swear I'm not even joking a little bit here, Mozilla goes on to say that advertisers might be happier if Firefox itself just tracked you directly and sent activity reports back to them.
Doesn't that sound great?
Now, to Mozilla's credit, they claim to anonymize the activity reports. And you can still meaningfully opt out of the whole system.
But WTF, mate?! I use Firefox *because* it fights against adtech. Or at least it used to. Now, Mozilla just lets adtech right in the front door and hopes you won't notice? 
Well, we noticed. Mozilla is damage and we need to route around it.
UPDATE: The about:config setting for this is `dom.private-attribution.submission.enabled`. It's a bool. Set it to false to turn it off.
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Steve Troughton-SmithOne thing @altstore does that should really get you thinking about alternative payment systems that Apple never would have considered: it has Patreon integration, and can tie access to apps to your Patreon pledge — which gives you an entirely different, personal relationship with your users, and lets you use the same reward system you use for videos, blog posts, merch etc. Alternative app stores don’t just have to recreate Apple’s model. And this provides a CTF-friendly avenue (and 1M user cap)
J. Martinhold on, let me find my shocked face first
“ChatGPT is full of sensitive private information and spits out verbatim text from CNN, Goodreads, WordPress blogs, fandom wikis, Terms of Service agreements, Stack Overflow source code, Wikipedia pages, news blogs, random internet comments, and much more.”
https://www.404media.co/google-researchers-attack-convinces-chatgpt-to-reveal-its-training-data/
“Google Researchers’ Attack Prompts ChatGPT to Reveal Its Training Data”
Google Researchers’ Attack Prompts ChatGPT to Reveal Its Training Data
ChatGPT is full of sensitive private information and spits out verbatim text from CNN, Goodreads, WordPress blogs, fandom wikis, Terms of Service agreements, Stack Overflow source code, Wikipedia pages, news blogs, random internet comments, and much more.
BevyBevy 0.12.1 is out! This is a patch release that resolves issues discovered in 0.12. New projects will automatically pick it up. Existing apps can run "cargo update".
For a list of changes, see the 0.12.1 milestone:
Godot Engine 
We did it! 🎉 Our third feature release of the year, Godot 4.2, is out now 🤖
Over 350 contributors helped to build this release, submitting more than 1800 improvements to the engine.
Learn how #GodotEngine makes your gamedev journey more fun:
Patrick LaForgeThis Wikipedia entry is at the pinnacle of Wikipedia excellence. “they have flexible facial expressions, self-awareness, and a theory of mind” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human
IyesGamesQuick Bevy Cheatbook update!
The "General Graphics Features" chapter has been updated to #bevyengine 0.12.
It teaches you how to use cameras in Bevy to configure your rendering, regardless of 2D or 3D, and covers some optional features and effects you can configure, such as Bloom and Tonemapping (for HDR rendering).
Some Bevy features are not yet covered in the book, most notably: antialiasing (MSAA, FXAA, TAA), fog, postprocessing effects. Coming soon (maybe)!
Dan GillmorYou should stop using Google Chrome. The company is following through on its threat to ban the ad/tracker blockers that a) help protect your privacy and b) make your web experience much more pleasant.
