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      Patreon: Blocking platforms from sharing user video data is unconstitutional

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Tuesday, 23 January - 22:53

    Patreon: Blocking platforms from sharing user video data is unconstitutional

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    Patreon, a monetization platform for content creators, has asked a federal judge to deem unconstitutional a rarely invoked law that some privacy advocates consider one of the nation's "strongest protections of consumer privacy against a specific form of data collection." Such a ruling would end decades that the US spent carefully shielding the privacy of millions of Americans' personal video viewing habits.

    The Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) blocks businesses from sharing data with third parties on customers' video purchases and rentals. At a minimum, the VPPA requires written consent each time a business wants to share this sensitive video data—including the title, description, and, in most cases, the subject matter.

    The VPPA was passed in 1988 in response to backlash over a reporter sharing the video store rental history of a judge, Robert Bork, who had been nominated to the Supreme Court by Ronald Reagan. The report revealed that Bork apparently liked spy thrillers and British costume dramas and suggested that maybe the judge had a family member who dug John Hughes movies.

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      SmartGPT – Exploitez le plein potentiel des LLM

      news.movim.eu / Korben · Monday, 14 August, 2023 - 07:00 · 2 minutes

    SmartGPT est une application expérimentale plutôt intéressante qui vise à exploiter le potentiel maximum des LLM telles que GPT-3.5 et GPT-4. L’idée c’est de fournir aux LLM (en particulier GPT-3.5 et GPT-4) la capacité d’accomplir des tâches complexes sans intervention de l’utilisateur en les décomposant en problèmes plus petits et en collectant des informations à l’aide d’Internet et d’autres sources externes.

    Comme vous êtes des passionnés de technologie, je suis certain que ça va vous plaire.

    Alors comment installer et exécuter SmartGPT ?

    Avant tout, installez cargo, de préférence la dernière version stable. Puis clonez le dépôt avec

    git clone https://github.com/Cormanz/smartgpt.git && cd smartgpt

    Enfin, exécutez-le en mode release avec

    cargo run --release

    Cela créera un config.yml que vous n’aurez alors plus qu’à modifier pour y mettre votre clé API. Ajustez évidemment la configuration à votre goût, puis relancez la commande cargo run.

    Vous serez vous aussi prêt à explorer les merveilles du monde des LLM !

    SmartGPT fonctionne avec des Autos et des Agents . Ce concept peut être comparé à une entreprise où les managers (Autos) supervisent des équipes d’employés, appelés ici « agents », en répartissant les tâches pour accomplir un projet complexe. Chaque agent a sa propre mémoire à long terme et sauvegarde les informations dedans. L’agent du SmartGPT apprend et retient ainsi constamment de nouvelles choses pour accomplir ses missions.

    Pour citer Isaac Newton: « Si j’ai vu plus loin que les autres, c’est en me tenant sur les épaules de géants « . SmartGPT, c’est un peu la même chose : en utilisant les connaissances et les compétences acquises grâce aux recherches précédentes, il étend l’horizon de ce qui est possible de faire avec les LLM.

    En plus des Autos et des Agents, SmartGPT utilise également un mécanisme de plugins pour ajouter des fonctionnalités supplémentaires telles que la recherche sur Google et la navigation sur le Web.

    Mais même les projets les plus prometteurs ont leurs défis à relever. Les deux obstacles majeurs pour SmartGPT sont un écosystème moins développé que celui d’AutoGPT et une gestion de la mémoire encore un peu limitée.

    SmartGPT est disponible sous la licence MIT.

    Et n’hésitez pas à partager vos découvertes et vos idées avec la communauté du projet (y’a un Discord).

    À découvrir ici

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      Patreon denies child sex trafficking claims in viral TikTok “conspiracy” theory

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Thursday, 15 September, 2022 - 20:32 · 1 minute

    Patreon denies child sex trafficking claims in viral TikTok “conspiracy” theory

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    After a TikTok accusing Patreon of ignoring reports and knowingly profiting off accounts posting child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) attracted hundreds of thousands of views, more TikTokers piled on, generating more interest . Patreon immediately responded by branding the TikToks as disinformation. In a blog , Patreon denied allegations, accusing TikTokers of spreading a “conspiracy that Patreon knowingly hosts illegal and child-exploitative material.”

    According to Patreon, the conspiracy theory sprang from a fake post on a job-posting site; Vice later reported that site was Glassdoor. The Glassdoor review was posted in August and claimed that Patreon refused to respond to reports of accounts suspected of “selling lewd photographs” of children. As TikTokers described their failed attempts to report these accounts, Patreon laid off members of its security team and, Patreon said, “onlookers inaccurately linked" the "small-scale staffing changes we made last week to our security organization." The TikTokers claimed that Patreon laid off its staff specifically for not complying with orders to allow CSAM to stay on the platform.

    “Dangerous and conspiratorial disinformation began circulating on social media recently,” Patreon said. “We want to let all of our creators and patrons know that these claims are unequivocally false and set the record straight.”

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      I’m leaving Patreon.

      RandoWis · comics.movim.eu / RandoWis · Monday, 27 July, 2020 - 06:36

    Hey everyone!

    In short; It came to my attention that Patreon practices some really shady policies (in my opinion), and upon educating myself on the matter, I concluded that Patreon’s behaviour is not something I’d like RandoWis and this community to be a part of, hence my decision to leave.

    I’m currently looking for an alternative, but it the meantime, I’ll work on RandoWis at my own pace. Once I’ve settled down on a new place, I’ll make another update to this situation via a YouTube video (maybe). For now, I kindly ask for your patience once more.

    It took a little time and research, but I explain my findings, explanations, and opinions in this post here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/my-decision-39695763

    Be warned that it’s a REALLY long post, but if you choose to read it, then I thank you for sparing the time.

    Love you much much, and I’ll see you again in the next post. ♥

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      Hi, everyone! Please come check out Cat’s Cafe on Patreon....

      comics.movim.eu / CatsCafe · Saturday, 25 July, 2020 - 22:13

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    Hi, everyone! Please come check out Cat’s Cafe on Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/catscafe

    With a variety of tiers available, you can get cool rewards such as a 20% discount on my shops, monthly stickers, and monthly 4x6 prints of illustrations not available anywhere else. Your support goes a long way towards making more comics for everyone to enjoy and helps create new ways to experience Cat’s Cafe.

    Thanks for checking it out and hope to see you there!

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      Some news about Movim

      Timothée Jaussoin · pubsub.movim.eu / Movim · Tuesday, 11 June, 2019 - 16:29 edit

    You may have noticed that there was less updates about Movim the past few weeks. I was indeed a bit busy with other things (jobs, other projects…) but don't worry I'm still working on the upcoming release and maintaining things up.

    Our #ejabberd instance (for movim.eu and jappix.com) was updated to ejabberd 19.05 a few days ago (we also found a little issue in the release related to the #Pubsub module, which was kindly fixed upstream by the ejabberd team).

    A new "share posts to chat contacts" feature was also introduced recently. This will need a bit of polishing but will be part of the upcoming release.

    Posts in the chat, Movim, first XMPP client to do that, it

    I am also renewing our call to help the #Movim project on #Patreon, we lost a few bakers and went again bellow the 50€/month that allows us to cover the servers + domains and few other expenses for the project.

    So if you want to help us, do not hesitate to join our Patreon as well as participating to our little community by doing translations, bug reports (or better, fixes!).

    edhelas

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      I am now a proud patron of Movim on Patreon

      Roelof Pieter · Saturday, 25 November, 2017 - 10:42

    Movim is creating a kickass distributed social networking platform | Patreon

    Yessss! I am now a proud patron of #Movim on #Patreon, and you should be too.

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      Help us to covering our monthly costs on our official Patreon!

      Timothée Jaussoin · pubsub.movim.eu / Movim · Tuesday, 12 September, 2017 - 15:35

    For a couple of years already, we are #hosting Movim for free on different servers accross Europe (and soon on the other continents!). The Movim team is also hosting two XMPP servers (movim.eu and jappix.com) and their related services (file hosting, chatrooms, PubSub service…).

    Those #servers and domains are directly financed personally by the administrators but still have a cost.

    Today we are launching an official #Patreon page to allow our community to help us fund those servers and related services. Our overall monthly costs are around 50$ and we would like to see if the #Movim #community could cover them by doing small monthly donations.

    There are actually 400 connected users on the XMPP servers, 100 of them are connected on the different pods that we are hosting. A small donation of 1$ monthly could easily allow us cover those cost and help the team to improve and extend the services in return :)

    If you prefer to do a one time donation, you can also send it on our PayPal account.

    Thanks again for your support!