Notices by Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social), page 51

Alan F. Westin's Privacy and Freedom --- ridiculously rich acknowledgements

So ... I'd turned up Westin's 1963 classic by way of Groklaw[1], and was reading the Acknowledgements in depth As One Does, and ... just had to boggle for a while.

https://archive.org/details/privacyfreedom00west/page/n19/mode/2up

The first name I clearly recognised was J. Robert Oppenheimer (lead the Manhattan Project). Then Paul Baran (co-inventer of packet-based switching, a/k/a The Internet), Ben H. Bagdikian (journalist and media commentator), Paul Schrade (union leader), and Robert K. Merton (sociologist), Harold D. Lasswell (communications).

I'm sure there are numerous others whose names and rields I'm not familiar with. But it's a remarkable collection of collaborators and contributors.

Notes:

1. The work is named in Groklaw's final post on forced disclosure (the explanation and rationale for Groklaw itself shutting down, ten years ago this coming August): http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20130818120421175

#Privacy #AlanFWestin #Books #PrivacyAndFreedom

@Shachihoko @kat I'll keep doing what I'm doing: Endorsing quality audioshows!

(Though I am noticing that walls are being erected in this space...)

From my experience as reviewer I'd advise to learn to recognize the difference feats of talent vs feats of budget. I'm always more impressed by feats of talent!

#ChatGPT and its ilk are effectively a large-scale DDoS attack on not only specific tasks (such as teaching, software maintenance and fiction editing) but on human creative inspiration, sense of self and ability to make meaning of the universe.

notice how they are
- creating work for us rather than saving us work
- automating inherently energizing and rewarding tasks such as making art rather than tiring and tedious tasks such as filing taxes
- flooding social networks with generated content that makes it harder to connect with real humans and build community
- distracting us with questions like “what if this machine is sentient?” which keep us from noticing and acting to prevent the suffering of actual humans

that thing where all search engines have become basically unusable because they’re stuffed full of AI garbage? i fear that’s about to happen to everything.

i don’t believe this is necessarily intentional, but no machine that learns under capitalism can imagine another world.

@Craigp That said, I am running my own mailserver for argonaut-constellation.org ! Quite easy with Maddy, though it can't automate your DNS configuration.

And they do warn that they don't know what GMail is doing regarding spam...

@lispi314 @chjara Agreed.

These steps sounds like pretty much what I was going to write anyways...

https://www.w3.org/TR/css-grid-1/#algo-overview

@chjara Might this be me? I have bluetooth speakers which do sound much better than my laptop speakers, that's one place I'm not keen on running cords, & most my music is FLAC for the sake of it...

I'm currently studying up on CSS3 Grid to implement it!

Would want a preprocessing stage to normalize/consolidate the layout properties. But it looks like I'm ending up with one anyways!

This same logic will be used to implement <table>.

https://www.w3.org/TR/css-grid-1/

I've just agreed to give a LibrePlanet talk! Hopefully I'll have something demoable of Haphaestus then...

As far as I can tell my SeaGL talk isn't online yet.

I enjoy these conferences, attending remote!

I've been messing around with #QGIS :qgis: graphical modeler for the last two days and it really is the #modular #synth of open source geospatial!

@namenlos @klardotsh people who work on software for the public good shouldn't need to be good at making financial decisions. failing to accrue money in a capitalist society is not a moral failing, no matter how loudly that society insists otherwise

@millihertz worst part, someone who is the caliber of dev it takes to build and maintain core-js as amazingly well as he has for all these years, is the exact caliber of dev who *should* be raking in the big bucks with corporate sponsorship, and instead the bonkers salaries go to folks figuring out how to extract a couple extra bucks of ad revenue in AdWords or whatever

(this isn't to say both can't exist in, say for example Google's, org chart: the AdWords team could pay for core-js. sigh.)

@benjaminhollon @g @jollyrogue @RL_Dane @cobra So, so, so many people lack the exposure to make a profit. Not saying you should accept exposure in place of money, certainly not from those who can easily afford to pay you. But exposure does have its role to play.

(there's a tangent about requiring money to live being an injustice I'm not wanting to dig into)

I've just uploaded my threads on FreeType's signed-distance-fields support (lightly reworded) to: https://adrian.geek.nz/graphics_docs/text#signed-distance-fields

Tomorrow: DejaGNU
Next: FreeType MS sfnt support
Then: Solr plugins system
Later: FreeType smoothing

I'm making my way through FreeType 8 subsystems left! Then I'll cover LibICU.

More such writing at: https://adrian.geek.nz/docs

@aurisc4 How about Vulkan?

@HerraBRE Good luck!

A guide to troublesome UI components - Martin Lexelius @ The A11y Project: https://www.a11yproject.com/posts/a-guide-to-troublesome-ui-components/

Automation is not the enemy - Karl Groves: https://karlgroves.com/automation-is-not-the-enemy/
I still reserve my cynicism, but that framing aside...

Accessibility and the product person - Eli "Oatmeal": https://eli.li/2023/02/16/accessibility-and-the-product-person

Having an AI dialog - Scott O'Hara: https://www.scottohara.me//blog/2023/02/17/an-ai-dialog.html

The voice control challenge - Xe: https://xeiaso.net/blog/voice-control-challenge

A Concerning Trend - Neil Clarke @ Clarkesworld: http://neil-clarke.com/a-concerning-trend/
Simon Willison's summary: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/20/a-concerning-trend/
Fediverse: https://wandering.shop/@troublewithwords/109898223808446250

The Troublesome Life and Lamentable Death of Success Criterion 4.1.1 - Christophe Strobbe: https://scribe.rip/@christophe.strobbe/the-troublesome-life-and-lamentable-death-of-success-criterion-4-1-1-ebc57ce31191 (Medium via Scribe)

Buttons, links, and focus - tempertemper: https://www.tempertemper.net/blog/buttons-links-and-focus

Should inclusive design be a UX concern? - Trina Moore Pervall @ UX Design: https://scribe.rip/should-inclusive-design-be-ux-concern-139f2d2ae35e (Medium via Scribe)