James Dreben

A Website To End All Websites | Henry From Online How to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.

A website to destroy all websites.
How to win the war for the soul of the internet and build the Web We Want.

A tiny website by Henry (from Online)~3100 words; about a 15 minute read

https://henry.codes/writing/a-website-to-destroy-all-websites/

Loops is in the iOS App Store now

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/loops-by-pixelfed/id6499375182

#loops

On Apple M3, a Linux KDE plasma desktop under Fedora Asahi Remix is now WORKING! Super excited to share this update and happy to answer any questions! Co-credits to noopwafel and Shiz. :)

View outside my balcony of Santurce, San Juan. A rainbow comes down from a cloud.

Lovely rainbow outside my apartment today

AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots

AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow

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This is a really fascinating read. I strongly recommend.

…history, metaphysical essay-the text furnishing the hints, the clue, the start or framework. Not the book needs so much to be the complete thing, but the reader of the book does.“

- Walt Whitman, Democratic Vistas

“Books are to be call'd for, and supplied, on the assumption that the process of reading is not a half-sleep, but, in highest sense, an exercise, a gymnast's struggle; that the reader is to do something for himself, must be on the alert, must himself or herself construct indeed the poem, argument…”

Yess. That is very cool. Thank you for sharing conjured ink!

The Decentralized Resistance: How Mississippi's Digital ID Law Met Its Match with Mastodon When Mississippi's sweeping age verification law went into effect in August 2025, it exposed a fundamental tension between government surveillance and the decentralized web. While Bluesky chose to blo...

The fundamental difference between Mastodon and Bluesky, at least for now, is Mastodon is truly decentralized.

www.compliancehub.wiki/the-decentra...

Keep Android Open
keepandroidopen.org/

This is important. We already have a basic duopoly in mobile operating systems, now Google is trying to lock down their platform even more. Nobody benefits from this other than Google's shareholders.

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Direct link to LinkedIn settings to disable being trained on. www.linkedin.com/mypreference...

Can Linkedin and its affiliates use your personal data and content you create on Linkedin to train generative Al models that create content? I marked off.

Can #Linkedin and its affiliates use your personal data and content you create on Linkedin to train generative #Al models that create content?

I’d prefer not.

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My first thought was that this might be an over-reaction. Of course, bsky uses automatic labeling as part of their moderation of images and videos. It is impossible not to.

But looking at Hive's ToS and other documentation, there is no limitation on Hive using submitted content to train their genAI

Very interesting. Yeah in general I assume companies can and are incentivized to train on their customer data unless they explicitly cannot through license or agreement.

The main thing I don’t like is the lack of choice. I want artists to be able to opt out of a 3rd party training

Definitely can all be scraped. And probably are by multiple sources.

The only question I was raising was whether The Hive specifically who they’re feeding all images to is doing it.

Yeah I’m sorry. This definitely escalated beyond my control.

Exactly. Honestly this was a really old post of mine, I think at the time the privacy policy did say they retained that right but I don’t see it any more.

I apologize if I have spread misinformation. I do NOT know whether or not they are using it for training gen ai. I just was worried 2 years ago

important note is that while hive does have genai image stuff, it's limited to stock stable diffusion and flux. they are not making new models and are not using bsky images to train them, they're doing software as a service for open source image generators.

seeing this screenshot and a lot of ₊˚⊹♡ discourse ♡⊹˚₊

1) this is from 2 years ago, privacy policies change
2) pretty sure hive deletes customer data after like 2 weeks

hive is NOT generative AI, they use AI models and traditional ML for spam and abuse and safety purposes

I would still like to see something in their policy that says they will not train on customer data. Has anyone seen anything about that?

That is really good. I feel terrible if this old post of mine is spreading incorrect information 😥 I will keep looking into this and I guess delete so as to not spread misinformation if so.

You’re right I can’t either any more. I would note I originally posted this 2 years ago, and the privacy policy was last updated in May of this year.

I don’t disagree per se. The issue I have is primarily if the labeling service they use also trains on those images.