In a surprising turn of events, Koo, the homegrown micro-blogging platform that was once touted as India's answer to Twitter, announced its decision to discontinue its services
How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse)
• How #Google joined the #XMPP federation
• How Google killed XMPP
• It was not the first: the #Microsoft Playbook
• #Meta and the #Fediverse
https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
Can #ActivityPub save the #internet ?
The #tech industry is abuzz about a new #standard for social networking that is more open, more user-centric, and potentially more powerful than #Twitter and #Facebook.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/20/23689570/activitypub-protocol-standard-social-network
@Neferast @facundo @wwwilfredo
Debe haber #Hashtags de idiomas, para que las personas puedan fijar columnas escritas en idiomas específicos.
O uso de inteligência artificial vem borrando as fronteiras entre realidade e ficção, tornando cada vez mais difícil verificar a legitimidade de fotos e vídeos. Enquanto ainda se debate a ética da manipulação digital, programas inventam imagens verossímeis, com consequências políticas e sociais imprevisíveis.
Estamos além da era do “homem sem a câmera” e do mundo pós-Photoshop. O nosso agora é o da imagem sem o humano.
https://revistazum.com.br/colunistas/inteligencia-artificial-e-as-novas-politicas-das-imagens/
Here is how Internet platforms die:
- first, they are good to their users;
- then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers;
- finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves.
Bitcoin is no longer a legal tender in the Central African Republic
The Central African National Assembly passed the bill amending and supplementing the law governing cryptocurrency in the country on March 23. The new text grants Bitcoin the status of a reference cryptocurrency and not a legal tender.
Meanwhile, El Salvador continues its romance with Bitcoin
A internet não é mais a mesma
E nunca mais será
https://www.mobiletime.com.br/colunistas/28/03/2023/a-internet-nao-e-mais-a-mesma-e-nunca-mais-sera/
Norway ammunitions firm blames 'cat videos' and a TikTok data centre for blocking company's expansion plans
A Norwegian-Finnish ammunitions company is blaming a data centre used by TikTok for taking up all the region's energy
https://www.buzz.ie/news/world-news/ammunitions-firm-tiktok-data-centres-29561257
#norway #weapon #ammunition #tiktok #videos #cat #energy #datacenter
observations about emergencies:
1-people panic about the oddest things
2- Most people are so NOT prepared
3-People expect to have the same lifestyle during an emergency
4-sacrifices are not easily embraced--particularly around meals and food
5-people define "essential" very differently
6-fear is contagious
7-people underestimate how privileged they are
8-people use their privilege
9-There are some really good people
Este problema dos carros elétricos poderá estar a encarecer-lhes o seguro
As baterias custam até metade do preço do veículo, e quando sofrem alguma ranhura num acidente não se sabe se estão realmente danificadas. Nos carros da Tesla, a bateria fica presa à carroceria.
A journalist believes he was banned from Midjourney after his AI images of Donald Trump getting arrested went viral
“I suspect it was pushing my luck when I did the [Twitter] thread,” Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins said
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisstokelwalker/midjourney-ai-donald-trump-arrest-images-ban
The guy who created the viral AI image of the Pope that fooled the World
“I just thought it was funny to see the Pope in a funny jacket,” he told BuzzFeed News
Links de textos em português, espanhol e inglês sobre notícias em geral #ptbr #pt_br #noticias #curiosidades