Just a reminder, from 2016:

"We, the undersigned, are employees of tech organizations and companies based in the United States. We are engineers, designers, business executives, and others whose jobs include managing or processing data about people. We are choosing to stand in solidarity with Muslim Americans, immigrants, and all people whose lives and livelihoods are threatened by the incoming administration’s proposed data collection policies."

https://neveragain.tech/

#Election2024 #USPol

@be https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=aXiebKZmllI&local=true

@clive cf. The collectivistic reaction to COVID before the power grabs and misinformation campaigns began.

@onepict Somewhere (LWN?) I saw that there's a group forming of those willing to build something better than OSI:

https://opensourcedeclaration.org/index-en-us.html

@onepict The only thing that makes OSI de facto stewards of anything is the community legitimacy they used to have.

@LinuxAndYarn I agree it's not particularly surprising, but it is still disappointing. I resigned as "individual (non-voting) member #3" some years ago as it had become evident to me the corporate capture prevailing over the stated values and mission.

Software Freedom @conservancy: "Open Source AI Definition Erodes the Meaning of 'Open Source'"

"With this announcement, we have reached the moment that software freedom advocates have feared for decades: the definition of “open source” — with which OSI was entrusted — now differs in significant ways from the views of most software freedom advocates."

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2024/oct/31/open-source-ai-definition-osaid-erodes-foss/

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware #OpenSourceAI #AI #OSI #OSAID

@simo5 @jeroen Actually https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l5kUWZfXps is a bit better.

@simo5 @jeroen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaCe33uZUo4

@simo5 @jeroen I don't know about Washington, but in Portland the markings are only on the envelope, and not on the ballots inside. (They don't do inner envelopes anymore since 2022 in lieu of a state-approved alternative handling process.)

https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2022/04/multnomah-county-washington-county-doing-away-with-secrecy-sleeves-for-ballots.html?outputType=amp

Pleased to see that the #DigitalPublicGoods Alliance has found that the new OSI AI "definition" is not sufficient for its criteria, and that for #AI systems to be badged as a DPG, they will require all training data to be openly licensed.

#OpenSource #OpenSourceAI #OSAID

https://www.digitalpublicgoods.net/blog/the-role-of-open-data-in-ai-systems-as-digital-public-goods

"Fire suppressant inside the ballot box protected virtually all the ballots. Only three ballots suffered damage, and Elections will contact those three voters, via unique identifiers on their ballot envelopes, so they can receive replacement ballots. Voters should be assured that even if their ballots were in the affected box, their votes will be counted."

https://www.multco.us/multnomah-county/news/news-release-elections-director-tim-scott%E2%80%99s-statement-incendiary-device-county

#OR #WA #USpol #Vancouver #USElections

No, dear website, {task} is not "better using the app".

One thing people may be missing with the election terrorism happening in #OR and #WA is that at least in Oregon, we receive an automatic email/phone call/SMS when our ballots are received. (And again when they are counted on election day.)

So folks can know for sure if their ballot was counted.

#USpol #Vancouver #USElections

#iVoted ️

https://iwillvote.com/

@eejalab @KeithAmmann And for those who prefer audio, this recording from one of its key drafters:

@conservancy

"As such, we have avoided any process that effectively auto-endorses the problematic practices of companies whose proprietary products are already widely deployed . No system, particularly a proprietary one, should ever be 'too big to fail'."

(3/3)

@conservancy

"In the past, the FOSS community has responded to new challenges with a race-to-the-bottom document that defines the bare minimum of user rights and freedoms that the community of activists will accept. For-profit companies hope to legitimately claim whatever they produce is 'FOSS enough'."

(2/3)

News: @conservancy Announces Aspirational Statement on LLM-backed generative AI for Programming

"Rather than despair, we turned our minds to what FOSS does best: imagining the ideal if corporate interests were not the primary force defining society's relationship with software."

(1/3)

https://sfconservancy.org/news/2024/oct/25/aspirational-on-llm-generative-ai-programming/

#LLM #genAI #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS

@WebCoder49 Here's a good overview:

https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2024/10/22/from-open-source-to-ai/