Neben der "Pseudosouveränität" ist das hier vor allem auch ein Beispiel, dass eigentlich ja immer Geld da ist. Für Bundeswehr oder so IT Gedönse. Nur halt nicht für Soziales, Bildung, Infrastruktur. Hauptsache bei SAP stimmen die Zahlen.

Heise Medien on Mastodon

c't Magazin (@ct_Magazin@social.heise.de)

Delos: "Souveräne" Cloud 10 bis 20 Prozent teurer als Microsofts Public Cloud Im Sommer warb Bundeskanzler Scholz für eine spezielle Behörden-C...

"According to the FT, multiple media executives admitted that brands would be returning as advertisers on Twitter/X not because it’s a great place to reach people, but because they know it’s something Musk cares about and he’ll have influence with Trump." (Original title: Advertisers are returning to Twitter/X to keep Elon Musk happy)

Disconnect

Advertisers are returning to Twitter/X to keep Elon Musk happy

Brands know Musk has influence with Donald Trump and want to make sure he doesn’t use it against them

"Justine's views in unrelated areas are not relevant to this article." And that is a problem Tech (corporate and Open Source/Free Software!) needs to fix: It absolutely matters that Justine Tunney uses antisemitic and racist dogwhistles as project names, that she publicly argued for fascist government by tech CEOs. I don't care about her technology at all if her existence is about destroying democracy. (It's still a stain on Mozilla to pay for for her llamafile shit). And Tunney isn't the only character that this logic is applied to. We don't want tech build by racists, fascists, LGBTQ*IA-phobes and whatever shitlord we can find in some basement dungeon.

GSV Sleeper Service

David Gerard (@davidgerard@circumstances.run)

The mask comes off at LWN, as *two* editors (jake and *corbet*) dive in to frantically defend the honour of Justine fucking Tunney against multiple...

The reason OpenAI is starting to release "How to use ChatGPT in schools" material is not because they care about the damage they do. It's about pretending their tool can be responsibly used in schools to get access to large, public subscriber bases. Silicon Valley hates government regulation and paying taxes. But government contracts? It _loves_ them.

"We constrain our imaginations when we subordinate our creations to names owned by fascist tycoons. Imagine the author of a book telling people to "read my Amazon". A great director trying to promote their film by saying "click on my Max". That's how much they've pickled your brain when you refer to your own work and your own voice within the context of their walled garden. There is no such thing as "my Substack", there is only your writing, and a forever fight against the world of pure enshittification." (Original title: Don't call it a Substack. - Anil Dash)

Don't call it a Substack. - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

So if you use Matrix I just opened a small "Luddites Unite" Channel on my Matrix Server. Dunno what it will become yet but setting up a "Luddite Slack" felt like it was the dumbest thing on the planet.

You're invited to talk on Matrix

You're invited to talk on Matrix

(all runs on my dedicated server, no 3rd party cloud stuff)

"Remember that nobody has yet worked out how to make an actual profit from AI. So what if — God forbid — number stops going up? There’s a plan for that: large data center holders will go public as soon as possible and dump on retail investors, who will be left holding the bag when the bubble deflates." (Original title: Pumping the AI bubble: a data center funding craze with ‘novel types of debt structures’)

Pivot to AI

Pumping the AI bubble: a data center funding craze with ‘novel types of debt structures’

The AI bubble demands infrastructure. The big techs can’t build data centers fast enough. These also need power plants and networking. Where does...

It's time for the myth that #AI can summarize things to die. "Apple Intelligence notification summaries are honestly pretty bad Summaries are often wrong, usually odd, sometimes funny, rarely helpful." (Original title: Apple Intelligence notification summaries are honestly pretty bad)

Ars Technica

Apple Intelligence notification summaries are honestly pretty bad

Summaries are often wrong, usually odd, sometimes funny, rarely helpful.

As things currently look, I think Mastodon as a piece of software is holding back the Fediverse more than it's helping. It is an impressive piece of software and I totally understand the limitations the project works under (very small budget, very high responsibility for stability given it's market dominance and number of users) but I think it's use right now should probably just to keep this level of functionality intact while something new comes along. And this isn't just about Ruby (even though IMO Ruby is kind of a dying language and that severely limits the amount of people who can and will contribute). It is more about being able to test new ideas and approaches quickly for smaller populations to see how they feel. Basically I think an ActivityPub Base Platform that comes with the fundamental structures and protocols implemented (that also accepts the Mastodon API to be as compatible as possible with clients and such) that can easily extended by Plugins would serve us better not only right now but for the long term. Fediverse is to stale - which is always a potential when trying to only use open standards etc. - but I think it would be important to get out of that rut. Enable communities to actually add things to the service and play around with it without having to fully fork the original code base.

You can also just read it like a normal blog in your feed reader using

Left✊ to Our Own Devices

Indieweb.Social

emilygorcenski (@emilygorcenski@indieweb.social)

Hi Mastodon, I've launched a new project called Left✊ to Our Own Devices. It's a blog and newsletter about preparedness and survival in times of...