Privacy groups, the Netherlands' largest trade union federation and several Dutch citizens sued the government after SyRI was introduced in 2014... They argued the system violates human rights because it [...] created a "surveillance regime" that disproportionately targeted poorer citizens.
I'd agree with @jabberati here that ChatGPT is not (yet?) a threat to software engineers. Although these tools are impressive, they appear to produce inefficient (though not necessarily incorrect) code. This means that you still need human coders when you want to build something really complex. Having that said, I'm wondering whether this tech has the potential to make a programmer's work a bit easier.
Register an account and click "Make a contribution" (although you don't). You should receive an email confirming that you successfully booked a ticket. (The only thing I don't understand is that a site like opencollective.com is using Cloudflare if I may say so.)
There is not (yet) a program for tge event unfortunately.
It's time for open-source users to open their wallets (zdnet.com)
"I'm not that hip and trendy": New Zealand PM doesn't use TikTok, but the country bans the app from government-issued phones (techxplore.com)
Venezuela, China, Biden and extraterrestrials: the disinformation of AI becomes widespread (techxplore.com)
'Suspicion Machines': When Artificial Intelligence Can Ruin Your Life (lighthousereports.com)
Chimera is a new Linux distro using musl libc, Dinit, and a FreeBSD userland (theregister.com)
The Breadth of the Fediverse (eff.org)
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Big European telecom operators seek EU antitrust clearance for online advertising bid (euractiv.com)
Work carried on as usual in Amazon facility even though a colleague's dead body laid on the floor (theguardian.com)
DecentSocial, the online unconference for the builders of the decentralized social web, takes place on Feb 11th (decentsocial.net)
Do you guys think these Concentration Camps in XinJiang are a good or bad thing? (youtube.com)