falktx @falktx@mastodon.falktx.com

Our 'What is #FreeSoftware' video is now in Portuguese 🇵🇹 ! Thanks for making it happen! 👏

https://media.fsfe.org/w/1ERZG1KCiQaimLpjcJGh1f

And this weekend, @llas goes to Portugal! He will be in Aveiro participating at @FestaSoftwareLivre ! If you are around, give him a call!
#SoftwareFreedom

Hello #fediblockmeta, many people are discussing #thebadspace #blocklist after they blocked tech.lgbt, but few people went through all 355 pages to look at it the #badspace contents. I did that and want to share my findings.

I don't want attention or followers, but I want this post shared, so I am posting from an alt.

https://thegoodspace.neocities.org/

Cool and nuanced post by a friend about trying out the state of the art of AI generative tech for music

(contains obligatory ads for her company, that's how startup blogs work, but the article is worth a read)

https://blog.tonicaudio.com/ai-and-songwriting/

Since I’m new to JavaScript, I wrote:

𝚒𝚏 (𝚌𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚋𝚊𝚌𝚔) { 𝚌𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚋𝚊𝚌𝚔(); }

…like an idiot. Then, I realized I should be adapting to JavaScript culture and make it inscrutable, so I re-wrote the line to:

𝚌𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚋𝚊𝚌𝚔 && 𝚌𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚋𝚊𝚌𝚔();

But I suspected there was something even more nightmarish, and sure enough, of course. This is how _real_ JavaScript developers do it:

𝚌𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚋𝚊𝚌𝚔?.();

And by “real JavaScript developers,” I mean “monsters”.

Google’s widely opposed ad platform, the “Privacy Sandbox,” launches in Chrome

Chrome now directly tracks users, generates a "topic" list it shares with advertisers.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/googles-widely-opposed-ad-platform-the-privacy-sandbox-launches-in-chrome/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Mozilla: It’s Official: Cars Are the Worst Product Category We Have Ever Reviewed for Privacy https://lwn.net/Articles/943699/ #LWN

Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, Microsoft

These are the first 6 companies designated as ‘gatekeepers' under the Digital Markets Act.

They have 6 months to ensure their core platform services comply with our rules, including:

✔ Allowing users to unsubscribe and remove pre-installed services
✔ Allowing the download of alternative app stores

❌ Banning tracking outside of their services without consent
❌ Stopping ranking their products more favourably

➡ https://europa.eu/!NbfBbn

#DMA

Secret Panel HERE 🐸 http://tapas.io/episode/2943645

“Oh wow, your scam email was really impressively well done!” - “Thanks, I actually was just phishing for compliments”

all #cccamp23 videos are master_me processed for smooth and consistent audio

https://media.ccc.de/c/camp2023

master_me is a #foss #audio #plugin, #crossplatform and available as #clap #vst #vst3 #lv2 #ladspa #au

https://github.com/trummerschlunk/master_me

#c3voc #opensource #prototypefund

MuseScore is an awesome program (https://musescore.org). But avoid the sinking sands of the service set up on musescore.com domain, made by the company that acquired both MuseScore and Audacity in recent years.

This stuff is a racket. I'd advise to install MuseScore from your Linux distribution's repository and never visit any websites associated with it.

MuseGroup's monetization schemes are vile.

Read more here:
https://gadanidis.ca/posts/2021-11-09-musescore.html

#MuseScore #MuseGroup #OpenSource #FOSS #DarkPatterns

I can't overstate how much I am not on Fedi to hear what a single celebrity thinks

@brewsterkahle The Dream Was Universal Access To Knowledge. The

Introducing Incus https://lwn.net/Articles/940684/ #LWN

Effective 31 March [Corrected date] #Zoom changed their terms of service (T&C) whereby **without opt-out** YOU give them consent to perpetually use your “Customer Content” [Corrected wording] also for #AI #ML “training and tuning of algorithms and models”.
https://stackdiary.com/zoom-terms-now-allow-training-ai-on-user-content-with-no-opt-out/

Check for yourself:
https://explore.zoom.us/en/terms/
Introduced with 31 March update:
https://web.archive.org/web/20230725013414/https://explore.zoom.us/en/terms/
Compare with previous version from 1 February (archived by #WaybackMachine):
https://web.archive.org/web/20230301000542/https://explore.zoom.us/en/terms/

Call me old fashioned, but a pair of well placed googly eyes is still one of my favorite acts of vandalism. Used here to improve local real estate ads.

This week, I went over to Bluesky and asked people who'd left Mastodon why they left, and lots of people told me. I grabbed the replies and crunched them and wrote up a summary. I think it's really interesting and often kind of wrenching.

https://erinkissane.com/mastodon-is-easy-and-fun-except-when-it-isnt

#meta

@apophis It should be common knowledge by now that mastodon.art blocks pretty much every single trans fem fediverse instance that runs alternative software but somehow it isn't yet. They blocked mine like two months after I started self-hosting.

A lot of people follow me for my work with softsynths (and now hardware synths) and are totally unaware of that, you should passs on the message to your friends on this instance: they should move. You can post about art anywhere on the network, being on this instance limit your reach and enables the worst kind of petty power abuses. Explain to your friends they can leave mastodon.art without losing their followers.

RE: https://mycrowd.ca/objects/cf2d2052-5727-46b8-b93b-d2c1d42eaeea