@fanf@mendeddrum.org2025-07-17 14:42:03
from my link log —
Forbidden secrets of ancient X11 scaling technology revealed!
https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/forbidden-secrets-of-ancient-X11-scaling-technology-revealed
saved 2025-06-24
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org2025-08-17 20:51:59
Interesting observation by Langdon Winner regarding technological transformation: “by the time the issue of ‘use’ comes up for consideration at all, many of the most interesting questions involved in how technologies are constituted and how they affect what we do are settled or sub-merged.”
This is happening right now with #GenAI .
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2025-06-18 03:04:00
Milwaukee Peeps, please consider signing this…
“Say NO to Facial Recognition Technology in Milwaukee”
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/say-no-to-facial-recognition-technology-in-milwaukee
@elduvelle@neuromatch.social2025-07-18 06:58:10
Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
Yes Please!! This seems to be only for Dutch universities but every country should write the same letter!
Edit: I think this one is more general (quoting @…
@johl@mastodon.xyz2025-08-18 11:09:43
An excellent read on how Google is killing the Open Web through attacks on XML and other technical standards.
https://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/google-killing-open-web/
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-08-17 14:26:00
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-06-18 12:20:47
Deezer says AI-made music accounts for just 0.5% of streams on the music streaming platform, but up to 70% of those streams are fraudulent (Dan Milmo/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-08-18 05:39:00
Krisensicher auch bei Blackout: Funknetz wird ausgebaut
Wie das 450-MHz-Netz kritische Infrastrukturen schützt. Und warum gerade abgelegene Regionen von der neuen Technologie profitieren könnten.
https://www.
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org2025-07-17 21:34:03
This increasingly reminds me of the 19th-century “we can solve all problems by building bigger guns” proto-bros that appear in several of Jules Vernes’s stories.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/16/zuckerberg-meta-data-center-ai-manh…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-07-17 20:24:00