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Strava is enshittifying. Is there any alternative on the fediverse?
  • I deleted my 12 year old account over the latest privacy policy update which auto opted-in to using your data for unspecified AI purposes. There was some discussion here, and while a strava rep did give specific examples in their response, the privacy policy was not updated and continues to be both broad and auto opted-in with no way to opt out.

    Regardless of the current use of AI, the broad privacy policy creates the potential to allow them to do many things with your data without telling you about it in the future. And that thread discusses some potential problematic uses that you could be opted into without ever knowing it.

    The privacy policy needs to be more specific, and allow opting out (or better yet, make opt out the default).

    And yeah, API change is pretty crap too.

  • Recommend me a Python book for absolute beginners
  • Second the Automate The Boring Stuff recommendation, especially if you're looking for a physical gift (or free online as mentioned)

    Id also just in general recommend CS50-python as a free course for python. Engaging lectures, problem sets you can check your solutions, and you finish with a project of your own choosing. No programming background is needed. Don't buy a verified certificate, the whole course is free along with a free certificate

  • OSS Read-it-Later service Omnivore sells out to AI startup ElevenLabs
  • So are they somehow able to relicense by buying off the contributors? Or does Eleven Labs intend to host/use something under AGPLv3? Just trying to figure out what their plan is and how they're dealing with it being open source

  • The Open Source Initiative Announces the Release of the Industry’s First Open Source AI Definition
  • Right, the other thing i considered is that you could just create a company and "buy" the data from them for a ridiculous amount of money and then you have less requirement to detail the data. Similarly you could deem the data unsharable and fudge the provenance.

    Like locks, it will only keep honest people honest.

  • The Open Source Initiative Announces the Release of the Industry’s First Open Source AI Definition
  • the actual license text part being questioned .

    Data Information: Sufficiently detailed information about the data used to train the system so that a skilled person can build a substantially equivalent system. Data Information shall be made available under OSI-approved terms.

    In particular, this must include: (1) the complete description of all data used for training, including (if used) of unshareable data, disclosing the provenance of the data, its scope and characteristics, how the data was obtained and selected, the labeling procedures, and data processing and filtering methodologies; (2) a listing of all publicly available training data and where to obtain it; and (3) a listing of all training data obtainable from third parties and where to obtain it, including for fee.

    (The rest of the license goes on to talk about weights, etc).

    I agree with you somewhat. I'm glad that each source does need to be listed and described. I'm less thrilled to see "unshareable" data and data that cost $ in there since i think these have potential to effectively make a model not able to be retrained by a "skilled person".

    It's a cheap way to make an AI license without making all the training data open source (and dodging the legalities of that).

  • Looking for a python friendly cloud-based notes app.
  • +1 for gitlab. You can programmatically generate a csv file that can be used to generate issue(s) which support markdown format. Then your checklists could be issues and marked as completed when done.

    You could also for instance set up a weekly pipeline schedule to generate issue(s) from the csv if some of the issues are needed on an interval.

    If gitlab isn't an option then id still look into generating the .md files this way and finding a home for the .md files that works for your user(s)

  • WinAmp's Open Source Story Is Over
  • And it makes no mention that they were modifying and using GPL code prior to making their code "open source".

    Id argue that this story is not over until the GPL code can be confirmed removed by a third party

  • Judge razes restrictive Play Store polices as Epic suit finally gets some results
  • Reading the sidebars, this is android news for developers, and the one you linked is more generalized.

    Beyond that, servers have different compositions so discussions can vary, and funneling everyone into single communities just leads to risk of reddit-style mod/admin abuse.

  • I want to share my recent terrible experience with NJALLA
  • Wait, if they suspended your domain, can you even transfer it away? if not, that's really fucking scary.

    Njalla takes ownership of every domain purchased on their platform. They do let you transfer domains to another registrar where you could be the owner if your account is in good standing but seems like that may not be the case here (since account suspended)

    That may be great for some domain use cases but for most stuff it would be better to have your name on the domain registration

  • Oracle urged again to surrender JavaScript trademark
  • The article mentions that the letter indicated intent to petition with the USPTO to cancel the Javascript trademark due to abandonment. Hopefully that is successful since that seems to be the best outcome short of Oracle willingly forfeiting it.

  • Do You Still Use Git in the Terminal?
  • I use my IDE for basic things, but anything more involved i use git directly. It's really not as intimidating as it's made out to be. I'm no expert by any means but i know enough to get around and read the docs when i need help

  • Programming.dev instance: Sponsors needed

    Hi all, I'm relatively new to this instance but reading through the instance docs I found: >Donations are currently made using snowe’s github sponsors page. If you get another place to donate that is not this it is fake and should be reported to us.

    Going to the sponsor page we see the following goal: > @snowe2010's goal is to earn $200 per month > > pay for our 📫 SendGrid Account: $20 a month 💻 Vultr VPS for prod and beta sites: Prod is $115-130 a month, beta is $6-10 a month 👩🏼 Paying our admins and devops any amount ◀️ Upgrade tailscale membership: $6-? dollars a month (depends on number of users) Add in better server infrastructure including paid account for Pulsetic and Graphana. Add in better server backups, and be able to expand the team so that it's not so small.

    Currently only 30% of the goal to break-even is being met. Please consider setting up a sponsorship, even if it just $1. Decentralized platforms are great but they still have real costs behind the scenes.

    Note: I'm not affiliated with the admin team, just sharing something I noticed.

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