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thinkbergMar 24, 2023
BlnBDIMar 21, 2023

„Die nächste Regierung muss das Transparenzgesetz einfach umsetzen“, sagt die Informationsfreiheitsbeauftragte Meike Kamp. Im Interview mit @netzpolitik_feed spricht die Juristin über die Reform des Berliner #IFG und wie sie mit der Digitalisierung der Verwaltung zusammenhängt.

Das ganze Interview: https://netzpolitik.org/2023/koalitionsverhandlungen-in-berlin-die-naechste-regierung-muss-das-transparenzgesetz-einfach-umsetzen/

Koalitionsverhandlungen in Berlin: „Die nächste Regierung muss das Transparenzgesetz einfach umsetzen“

Berlin braucht endlich ein Transparenzgesetz, findet Meike Kamp. Dabei dürfe die neue Regierung nicht hinter heutigen Standards zurückbleiben, warnt die Berliner Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit im Interview. Auch die Verwaltung sollte das Vorhaben als Chance sehen.

netzpolitik.org
thinkbergMar 24, 2023

“If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail".

This applies to many startups and the first question to ask is: "What problem do you solve for the customer?” Often the answer is technology X solves Y, but I find that simpler solutions or other, more stable technology would be much more appropriate while avoiding scaling and privacy issues. This especially holds true for many #blockchain based ideas. It is not a database.

Why? See first line and repeat … 🔁

thinkbergMar 24, 2023

It is sad that #technology is blamed all the time. It is not the #AI / #ML or the #blockchain or non fungible #tokens. The rage against it is a bit like rage against a loom.

Rage is appropriate towards the hype and the scams and people giving false promises.

This is how science and technology is devalued. Who wants to be associated with things that instantly lead to personalized hate. Blame those who misuse technology.

thinkbergMar 23, 2023
Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)Mar 23, 2023

For those who are still willing to access the birdsite, this promises to be very entertaining:

https://twitter.com/DV2559106965076/status/1638769434763608064

Basically, someone discovered that the latex source "sparks of AGI" paper from MSFT includes a lot of commented out stuff and they're going through it.

[I just downloaded the source too and can confirm that the first thing they point out, at least, checks out.]

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Show threadthinkbergMar 23, 2023
I tested it now with my wife's and daughter's accounts and it works like a charm. Not pretty, like in terms of "It's an App". But it nicely re-creates the folder structures.
thinkbergMar 23, 2023
Robert McNeesMar 23, 2023

Mathematician Emmy Noether was born #OTD in 1882. She made groundbreaking advances in abstract algebra, and her eponymous theorems articulated the deep connection between symmetries and conserved quantities in physics.

Image: Public domain, photographer unknown

thinkbergMar 23, 2023
Fiona KrakenbürgerMar 23, 2023

Good news in #FOSS anyone?

Our application platform is now open! 🚀

We welcome subsmissions from projects that seek support for Open Source Infrastructure in the public interest.

Would you like to see support for a specific library, developer tool or any other critical open source component? Please let us know!

https://sovereigntechfund.de/de/applications/

Anträge beim Sovereign Tech Fund

#

thinkbergMar 21, 2023
Felix RedaMar 21, 2023
Wenn ich Teil der #CUII wäre, wäre mir das jetzt echt peinlich. https://www.heise.de/news/DNS-Panne-heise-de-landet-bei-1-1-im-Copyright-Filter-7561803.html #netzsperren
DNS-Panne: heise.de landet bei 1&1 im Copyright-Filter

Diese Webseite ist aus urheberrechtlichen Gründen nicht verfügbar – diesen Hinweis sahen einzelne 1&1-Kunden statt heise.de. Ein Fehler im 1&1-DNS-Server.

heise online
thinkbergMar 21, 2023
Naomi SaphraMar 20, 2023
If you work in AI you should have an idea of what you would like the future to look like. Otherwise you are just haphazardly creating power multipliers for surveillance capabilities and destroying the economic viability of human labor.
thinkbergMar 21, 2023
Show threadDoomsdaysCWMar 14, 2023

Below is a link to a PDF of the #InternetArchive's final brief.

Arguments include:

- Internet Archive’s Digital Lending Is a Lawful Fair Use.

- The Internet Archive’s digital lending program is noncommercial.

- The Internet Archive’s digital lending program is transformative.

- Digital lending would still be fair use even if it were not transformative.

- Plaintiffs [book publishers] present no evidence of market harm beyond the unquantified suppositions of their executives and high-level observations about economic theory.

#Censorship #FairUse #Libraries #Archives #WaybackMachine #Archiving #DigitalWorld #OpenContent #Capitalism #EmpoweringLibraries

https://www.publishersweekly.com/binary-data/ARTICLE_ATTACHMENT/file/000/006/6074-1.pdf