Daniel Prindii

AI: created to “optimise” workers.
Used to transcribe Instagram screenshots.

#internet #ai #technology

Design in motion: Canva expands professional creative ecosystem with Cavalry Cavalry joins Canva, bringing professional motion design into a connected creative ecosystem alongside Affinity and scalable team workflows.

Canva acquired Cavalry, a motion design app.

Someone wants to be the next Adobe.

#canva #design

www.canva.com/newsroom/new...

Soon Ai agents for the AI.

Image of a stone pathway into a botanical garden. The pathway has trees on the right side and a patch of grass on the left.

Kodak Color experiment with a Zenith camera

#analogue #filmphotography #silentSunday #kodak #zenith

The image is a painting by the French artist Sébastien Bourdon called “A Classical Landscape”

The next edition of the Miscellanea newsletter is out shortly.

I’ve written about walled gardens, digital gardens, indie web and the POSSE concept: Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere.

Goes out in an hour.
danielprindii.com/newsletter

The vibes for this women's free skate could not be more different than they were in 2022. Just joy, no Anna Shcherbakova staring vacantly after winning gold or Sasha Trusova cursing Eteri out after getting silver.

Wow Shaidorov. #MilanoCortina #Olympics

Hello from the @eurosky.social side.

Smooth migration, even with my custom domain.

Miscellanea no 2: About Creativity | Daniel Prindii Welcome to Miscellanea- a bi-weekly newsletter at the intersection of art, tech, and culture and how they influence each other.

From my Miscellanea newsletter:
- a short podcast about Heidegger's "readiness to hand"
- the chat experiment from Chile to show AI's water consumption
- the BBC trailer for the Olympics.

All on the blog: danielprindii.com/blog/miscell...

Help, Bluesky Historians! I'm working on a short article for my local historical society on a shipwreck from 1815. It carried a cargo of 'otto of roses'. How would this be used in that time period? I want to stay away from AI articles, so any help will be appreciated! 🗃️

Nextcloud can be a solution. You can self host, and with their High Performance Backend you should have quality meetings.

How I unshittified my digital life. Big Tech alternatives | Daniel Prindii My journey in finding more ethical, European, and open-source solutions to Big Tech apps.

My selection of alternatives to Big Tech apps.
A journey started four years ago for a less enshittified digital life.

#Bigtech #tech #europe

“Every time a politician casts doubt on the legitimacy of Parliament, because it does not represent ‘the voice of the people’ we can smell the whiff of eternal fascism...”
Umberto Eco, Italian philosopher, author of The Name of the Rose, born #OTD 1932.
Photo by Leonardo Cendamo

A Seminar to a Kill

15 min city means you can go to buy milk when you want pancakes at 9 pm on a Wednesday.

Photo of the installation Museum of the Moon by Luke Jerram.

#MonochromeMonday Museum of the Moon by Luke Jerram.
#Cluj #Transylvania

That's the 120 milion fine for X under the DSA, talking.

Proton made a good guide on how to deactivate Copilot. Hope it helps. proton.me/blog/turn-of...

- optimise your workday by having information easily accessible
- strengthen internal team cohesion by working on a visible common project
- optimise costs (with software tools but also with employees)

So, November 18th, 6 PM EET (4 PM GMT), online.
Register here: 👇
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It’s happening!🚀

My first live webinar about Knowledge Bases will be on November 18th.

The Introduction to Knowledge Bases webinar can help you:
- structure information and documents
- offer clarity and eliminate duplicates and outdated versions

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Same problems as Wework.

Today’s AWS outage is a reminder that we need a more resilient digital infrastructure.
This can be achieved by:
having more local first apps;
building self-hosting solutions;
using open formats in what we build;
designing more modularity in our infrastructure;
and having a diversity of providers.

LibreOffice all the way.

'Knǫrr' is a common word for 'ship' in skaldic poetry, sometimes generically, sometimes specifically for a particular type of ship. It also occurs in place-names, as likely in #Knarston in #Orkney, as discussed in this blogpost from @ragnasislands.bsky.social uonenglish.substack.com/p/knarston-a...

Even the Inventor of 'Vibe Coding' Says Vibe Coding Can't Cut It Humans keep hanging on.

This is something like "Vibe coding is dead, long live coding".
#ai #coding #internet
gizmodo.com/even-the-inv...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face” – Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

We’ve met with Greta Thunberg and others in the flotilla. They describe hours-long scenes of torture and sexual harassment in Israeli captivity. Experts conclude that they have been subjected to serious crimes – Sweden’s foreign minister believes they have themselves to blame.

tinyurl.se/crR

Large Language Models: A Survey Large Language Models (LLMs) have drawn a lot of attention due to their strong performance on a wide range of natural language tasks, since the release of ChatGPT in November 2022. LLMs' ability of…

Finally, WebGPT is refined to optimize the reward function via reinforcement learning and rejection sampling.”

Understanding how the models are trained will help us use them critically and set realistic expectations.
via Large Language Models: A Survey." ArXiv, (2024)
Link arxiv.org/abs/2402.06196

Large Language Models: A Survey Large Language Models (LLMs) have drawn a lot of attention due to their strong performance on a wide range of natural language tasks, since the release of ChatGPT in November 2022. LLMs' ability of…

"Specifically, WebGPT is trained in three steps. The first is for WebGPT to learn to mimic human browsing behaviors using human demonstration data. Then, a reward function is learned to predict human preferences. 1/2

I added a few RSS feeds from Bluesky and Fedi in my Miniflux app.