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I’m skipping Indiana Jones and The Great Circle, Forza Horizon 5, and everything else that Microsoft Games releases for PS5 this year until further notice.

Free Palestine! Shame on Microsoft. Stop renting out cloud computing to Israel, the so-called “country” that’s actively committing a genocide!

Mittwoch: Soziales Netzwerk von OpenAI, Lizenzpflicht für Nvidias KI-Chips

Social Web für ChatGPT + Milliardenkosten für Nvidia + Ende von ActiveX + CVE-Liste vor dem Aus + KDE für Fedora Linux 42 + Apple Ads jenseits der Suche

heise.de/news/Mittwoch-Soziale

heise online · Mittwoch: Soziales Netzwerk von OpenAI, Lizenzpflicht für Nvidias KI-ChipsBy Frank Schräer
#Apple#Fedora#hoDaily

I saw today that my CoCalc (cocalc.com/) license was about to renew. I've been meaning to move to a more #SelfHosting or #P2P paradigm, so this was good timing for me to cancel. I left this message when doing so:

"I want to support Sage, and I like using CoCalc, but I don't want to put money towards a service that supports Microsoft, Amazon, or OpenAI in any way. I didn't care so much about this before, and I even log in to CoCalc with a GitHub account, but I'm tired of having my work scraped for profit by people who donate to fascists who are destroying my nation. I would consider returning if all ties to these corporations were cut and cloud computing services came from responsible companies, perhaps in the EU."

I'm pretty sure I already have backups of everything I want from GitHub, so I can be done with them too. I should have quit when Microsoft first arrived. My plan is to switch to Radicle (radicle.xyz/) rather than another centralized service. I'll be sure to post about how that goes.

cocalc.comCollaborative Calculation and Data ScienceCoCalc landing pages and documentation
#Sage#math#SageMath

I’ve been getting scam emails pretending to be Microsoft for 20+ years now, e.g.:

* Bill Gate [sic] giving away 5M
* The Grand Windows Tombola
* Use Bing 3 times to win 1M

Just got that last one now. But it’s run by #Microsoft themselves!
(for real it took me a while to assert its authenticity, even with all the links working, it’s so silly!)

🙏 Dear Big Tech, Stop Shoving AI Into Operating Systems

「 These updates could just be self-contained apps, either on web services or on local machines. It would still be bloatware, but at the very least it wouldn’t be littering the entire OS. That’s without mentioning the resources these AI assistants hog, which would otherwise go towards making your device performant 」

howtogeek.com/dear-big-tech-st

@jon Because from their standpoint it makes perfect sense: Gather all data they can get away with about their users and sell it for nice profits ON TOP OF the license fees they are already paying, which their investors love.

And in one fell swoop finally creating the access all the acronym services have been having wet dreams about for years.

And oh so many people just sleepwalk into it...