Notices by Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: (onepict@chaos.social)

The software we write and design can help or harm others. So it needs to be transparent, the code needs to be open and we try to design with those rights and freedoms from the beginning.

It's why I'm really concerned by the OSI diluting those ideas with the Open AI definition.

The training sets need to be accessible to everyone. You can't have an idea of why Open AI makes a decision, summarises a thing, recommends an action without those sets.

#OSI

@GishgallopGirl @aral Indeed, although France reached the threshold. It needs to be pan European, each EU country has a different threshold.

@lewiscowles1986 @aral Which would be fine except the things that the EU invests in like AI and Blockchain means there's less space in the budget for grassroots FOSS investment.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/17/foss_funding_vanishes_from_eus/

@lewiscowles1986 @aral

Aral has not had success from EU funding, other projects have. Much like Aral other Human Rights focused projects haven't achieved funding.

But there's a European FOSS ecosystem and we need help. We all need support.

I've written here about the NGI ecosystem
https://onepict.com/20240813-ecosystem.html

Here are some general thoughts about FOSS sustainability. It's more than the code, it's the support systems, the people and community.

https://onepict.com/20240409-sustain.html

@aral @NGIZero Perhaps they might listen with Draghi saying it.

😏

At a time when The EU is seeking to cut FOSS funding to funds like @NGIZero

Perhaps we need to ask the EU to fund smaller, more communal projects, rather than seeking to create Unicorns.

"The report highlighted how 30% of EU startup businesses that had grown to be valued at more than €1bn – known as unicorns – had moved abroad, and mostly to list on stock markets in the US."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/09/eu-mario-draghi-report-spending-boost

#FossSustainability #NGI

How is this toot in my timeline?

I don't follow this account and it's not the firehose.

For reference it's the much deliberation toot, not what Adrian boosted.

EDIT: My mistake it was the good news hashtag. Thanks @oliphant .

That's a relief, although some interface way of indicating a hashtag post would be great one day.

Last week @hackstub made many of the folks in #ngizero funded projects aware of the fact that there was no space in the 2025 budget for @EC_NGI funding.

This will be a threat to #fosssustainability for many of us working in Europe in #FOSS.

@nlnet and @NGIZero has funded many #fediverse apps and other awesome software for the commons.

@ow2 has published an English language version of the open letter that @ps published last week.

https://www.ow2.org/view/Events/The_European_Union_must_keep_funding_free_software_open_letter

Consider signing.

:BoostOK:

In this world of pandemics, questionable governments and questionable choices in computing when we need to embrace degrowth, I find comfort at the moment in helping other folk when I can.

A bit like the metaphor of a butterfly causing a small flap that turns into a hurricane.

You never know quite how far small deeds can go. Help others when you can, it can be just a message of support. Or helping folks on to here.

It's all I can do. Rebel with small acts of kindness.

#HopePunk

@trechnex @aral @kissane Yeah well status quo innit.

Perish the thought that we fund folks outside the Patriarchal Norm.

@mikedev Did you do this?

Please remove me.

https://macgirvin.com/directory/f=&keywords=PHPledge

For those who think we need an org to like merely give mental health support and when burn out happens to not give them any money at all. Just so long as the project is maintained.

We live in a capitalistic society that does not value everyone being paid something even if they aren't contributing right now.

Here's a thread on what one maintainer would have liked.

https://cloudisland.nz/@ehashman/112181868961681879

Again the answer is Universal Basic Income. Not yet another "support org".

Oh and ban billionaires.

@hello you know all @FediThing did was ask the folks on the instances list who were consensually on that list if they would defederate threads. In a DM, not demanding publically to shame them. In a DM.

Every listing service that fedithing provides is curated. There's a back and forth for the individual listings in the directory. The listings for instances is not different.

@aral it reminds me of the Poetic Generator game with the collaborative nature of drawing together. It's nice to see an example app like this for kitten.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poietic_Generator

On any online space, you should consider who you give power to. Who has the control over who you choose to associate with? Power doesn't corrupt. It reveals.

People in real life do choose to avoid dangerous or toxic places.

All that the instances who sign the fedipact are doing is signalling to some of us that somewhere is safe for folk who don't want to engage with Facebook at all.

This is a Freedom of Association issue, not a Freedom of Speech issue.

#threads #fedipact

Interesting doing a historical deep dive, all kinds of stuff gets linked together. I'd never even heard of infomorph (sockpuppet bot).

I totally get why Jon Ronson was upset. Like this was 9 years ago.

I'm just like 😱 . No wonder we have the issues with ethics and Computer Science departments. The desire to separate the web from real life people.

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=mPUjvP-4Xaw

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/21/internet-shaming-lindsey-stone-jon-ronson

@chargrille We found this travelling in Turkey, when France pushed for recognition of the Armenian Genocide, the general populis even now deny it was a genocide. The locals felt the French were stirring up the Armenians.

This has geopolitical ramifications right now in Armenia and Azerbaijan.

https://www.reuters.com/world/what-is-happening-between-armenia-azerbaijan-over-nagorno-karabakh-2023-09-19/

@anna I'm not sure that it's possible for an event like FOSDEM to change in it's essential form.

Not with it's history and not with the current organisers. FOSDEM resisted having a robust COC for years.

We're going to find this with established tech events, who have always catered for the audience they know rather than the wider community.

So perhaps the answer is to organise new ones, this is why events like FOSSY and North Bay Python are awesome.

Quite a large portion of humanity use the web.

News organisations use the web.

Businesses, Non profits, community groups use the web.

We've moved beyond our highly technical beginnings.

Having a standards body where the big players determine what gets standardised for their commercial gain means we have a less democratic web, a less Human rights focused web for humanity.

How will we understand the next generations needs if they have no seat at the table?

But perhaps that's the point.

@Revertron @aral I don't think it's possible to change those orgs from the inside.

Others have tried with places like Google and Facebook. The organisational cultures are ingrained into the foundations.

Companies pay thousands of dollars to W3C to help formulate policy and web standards. Look at who pays in and formulates these standards.

Yes there are community working groups. But very often those web standards are created to serve those big orgs needs.