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What can go wrong when a company tries to police itself? A podcast discusses the case of Dr. Timnit Gebru, a well-known AI researcher whom Google fired after she revealed biases in the company's own AI research.

Discussing the legacy of splash screens, those annoying windows that appear when you’re trying to load up a giant program on your desktop machine.

I'll say up front that I don’t judge anyone who force-closes their apps. This experiment was fulfilling a personal curiosity and I'm generally not in the business of telling people who are using their computers in ways that make them happy that they're wrong. Context I've never, ever force

How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) écrit par Ploum, Lionel Dricot, ingénieur, écrivain de science-fiction, développeur de logiciels libres.

Posts about enshittification written by Mike Masnick

It seems that we’ve had a rash of formerly loved internet services going down the enshittification curve. As coined (brilliantly) by Cory Doctorow, enshittification is the process by which a compan…

In this post, we share why we believe a public commons is important for social media, as well as some proposals for moderation and safety tooling.

Link to: https://blog.bloonface.com/2023/06/12/why-did-the-twittermigration-fail/

A legendary blogger weighs in on reactions from a user-run social network towards a big corporation diving into the space.

I’ve been using fediverse stuff (Mastodon and, most recently, Calckey – I’m just going to use “Mastodon” as shorthand here, purists can bite me) for over a year now, a…

With the collaboration between the open telemetry and the Elastic Search, this is the case when standardization could not have come sooner.

In the world of AI and machine learning, the choice of a database can significantly affect the success of your project.

New features for composability, Generative AI, and reusability strengthen the platform, decreasing time-to-value.

There are a number of factors to consider when selecting the appropriate software deployment tools to guarantee a seamless release.

A look at 8 cloud computing trends — including AI, cloud-native architecture, and edge computing — that will impact the industry in 2023.

As the customer journey has become more complex, these systems have become an increasingly popular way to automate the merging of different identifiers.

What's the tech stack for kale?

Reddit seems to be crumbling under the weight of a big controversy. The reason? It didn’t account for its free-riders.

​ There has been a lot of chatter about the decision of some instances on Mastodon to pre-emptively block Meta’s purported new ActivityPub-compatible service: Dare Obasanjo: It’s a weird own …