cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1415456/ai-might-be-making-women-sound-bad-at-work

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Sorry if it’s already been shared, I found this website doing a good job listing alternatives to big tech services.

I’m not affiliated, they also have a bluesky account (it’s how I found them). bsky.app/profile/euroalternative.eu

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/52289547

Hey Lemmy, longtime open source developer here. After about a year of work on a side-project I dropped the first release candidate of Plume, a self-hosted, Markdown-powered, flat-file publishing platform and I’d love this community’s feedback. Read the release announcement or check out the demo and let me know what you think.

What is Plume?

Plume is a publishing (i.e. blogging) platform. It’s designed to make writing and publishing frictionless. Your content is just files, plain Markdown in a flat-file structure without a database. You can write locally and upload via SFTP or keep everything in Git and sync automatically. It’s Dockerized out of the box for easy set up. Full-text search (powered by YetiSearch) is built in so there’s no external service to wire up. Plume also includes details you’d expect like Shiki syntax highlighting, automatic light and dark modes and an auto-generated RSS feed.

The stack

Plume is written in PHP using Slim Framework + PHP-DI, tested with PHPUnit, statically analyzed with PHPStan, styled with PHP-CS-Fixer. The front end utilizes Alpine.js bundled with Vite. The architecture leans on Directory Lister, a project I’ve maintained for years.

But why?

I primarily developed Plume for my own use. I occasionally like writing short-form on Bluesky (or previously Twitter) but have been growing tired of handing my content to someone else’s platform. And long-form writing came with too much friction, killing my motivation before ever actually getting published. With Plume, publishing is as simple as creating a file and writing.

The AI caveat

Most software ships with heavy AI involvement these days. However, Plume was developed in my spare time over the past year, initially without any AI assistance. I’ve only recently adopted AI, and only sparingly, mainly for debugging, tests and help with documentation. However, every line committed exists because I put it there with intention. I’m not claiming perfection but I know how and why everything works, which matters for the long-term maintenance of the project.

Feedback wanted

Despite being designed for my own use, Plume was intentionally built so it could be shared. So try it, break it and tell me what’s missing. Ideas and questions can be posted on GitHub Discussions or Bluesky. For bugs open a GitHub Issue.

Resources

Plume is fully open sourced on GitHub with full documentation is available at docs.plume.pub.

I’ll be hanging out in the comments, so ask me anything.

CBH]

Update: store.steampowered.com/news/…/706658093186942203

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Executives working on AI at Microsoft and OpenAI admitted what its critics have been saying all along: Large language models are predatory pieces of technology that have been built on what a Microsoft executive called “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said generative AI products have created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.”

Those statements and a series of other mask-off moments feature heavily in an unredacted court filing that was unsealed Thursday in the behemoth New York Times vs OpenAI copyright lawsuit that has been winding its way through the court system for years. In a filing asking for summary judgment (basically, a filing with the court asking it to rule), lawyers for the New York Times laid out a series of admissions made by Microsoft and OpenAI executives in documents and depositions that until now had remained either sealed or redacted at the request of Microsoft and OpenAI.

It’s easy to see why the AI companies wanted to hide this from the public. The statements, taken together, are some of the most damning indictments of the ways LLMs were trained, how they worked, and the immediate threat they pose to human labor. It is a reminder that even as AI becomes more powerful and companies try to shift the narrative to the supposed existential risk of “superintelligent” AI, the tools they have already built were created by stealing from human creativity and labor and are by definition existential threats to the human labor market.

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cross-posted from : lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/75822925

In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and SpaceX to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental right to data protection. Use of personal data “in the context of AI” should automatically be lawful. There seems to be wide informal agreement by many Member States. In particular, Big Tech would be able to use all personal data collected over the past decades with virtually no restrictions, as long as this happens “in the context” of AI. Schrems: “Under these proposals, the profits of AI companies would trump European’s fundamental right to privacy. This is nothing but a digital expropriation of Europeans.” All this is happening despite the key figures of AI corporations actively warn about the enormous risks associated with their own products.

#EuropeanUnion #AI #BigTech #privacy #digitalRights

Reworking Marathon and restoring “vaulted” content to Destiny are the highlights.

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Halo is officially dead. It’s been dying for a while, this seals it.

For long time halo fans in the aughts, this is literally the last thing any of us ever wanted. Halo was always a completely different game than Call of Duty, but business never understood that and so today officially marks the end, where the Halo we knew is gone, and anything new will be a CoD clone more than anything else.

Meta: “There’s no problem.” Also Meta after getting sued: “Here are the safety changes everyone should adopt.” 😆

First post, so go easy on me, but I’m wondering if there is any call in this community for a Glock compensator that doesn’t suck. By that, I mean on that isn’t overly huge, but still will work with PLA plus. If so, I could probably offer up a design Iade for myself so I could put something on the end of my invader V2.

Sorry for the bad pic, lighting isn’t too great.

[Computer companies] are convinced that scaling up computation is the path to improving [computation], and they’ve put their money where their mouths are, to the tune of trillions of dollars of planned data center projects.

The rest of us? Surveys of public opinion say that more than 60% of Americans favor limiting new data centers, particularly in their communities. And the longest-running surveys show that sentiment is growing fast. Data center projects worth $68 billion were disrupted by local opponents in the second quarter of 2026, according to the trackers at Data Center Watch.

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In spite of the boosterism, resistance has grown, and in unlikely ways. The researchers said they were surprised by the diversity of the opposition to these projects, calling it not bipartisan but post-partisan.

“We don’t want to romanticize that everyone is having this kumbaya moment, [but data centers are] forcing people to be in conversation together about futures that they want and presents that they want … these fights are incredibly organic,” Woluchem said, pointing to a variety of sources of opposition: Sometimes it is simply folks who are against development — classic NIMBYs — but the coalition grows from there. There are people who dislike “AI” as a technology and the corporate interests behind it, environmental groups concerned about water usage and energy-related emissions, and those with more nebulous concerns about public health.

What’s striking, though, is how often material interests are top of mind. People are concerned that data center electrical usage will affect their own power bills, worried that data centers will drive down property values, or are upset by the playbook that data center builders use to get their way — tactics such as asking local officials to sign non-disclosure agreements.

“There is a significant group of people who are just really clued into their town hall meetings and might notice that wow, a representative from Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, showed up here, or a data center developer showed up at my community meeting… that’s a little odd,” Woluchem notes. “And my council person, who I have previously had a relationship with, now won’t talk to me about this sort of thing.”

Ninja Theory - developer of the Hellblade series - is shutting down as part of today’s Xbox cuts. Its proposed buyers pulled out, resulting in the closure.

TLDR, the drop in renewable energy generation is caused by the drought, because less water means less hydropower, but drought usually means more light, which could be compensated by additional solar panels.

NRCGRAY

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/52056086

Oh yeah? Well I got a 4 dimensions waifu! (Don’t get her mad or she’ll flip you… And the world will be mirrored)

www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/149784246

cross-posted from: ani.social/post/37285826

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Sourced from Pixiv. Absolutely adore how good she looks but upon closer inspection you can see nips so I didn’t think it would fly over on sh.itjust.works/c/rwby (but please come join for more RWBY fanart & discussion <3 )

Artist: Roha | pixiv | twitter | danbooru