π What is the Interoperable Europe Act about?
π€ What does cross-border interoperability even mean?
πββοΈ Who will benefit from the Act?
πͺπΊ What kind of support the Commission provides?
Where can you find the answers to all these (and more!) questions?
Here π https://europa.eu/!NdBC9w
Programming in R: adjusting USD prices for inflation
Unfortunately, adjusting daily USD prices in R is not as straightforward as one might hope. It requires the download of the monthly Consumer Price Index statistics (CPI) from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) using the blscrapeR library. And then some fiddling with the dates before the inflation factors can be merged into the price table.
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New decentralised paradigms for online infrastructures [4.5.7.2]
The USA and China both have their own online platforms for mail/messaging, (social) media, business, commerce and cloud services. These services are run by Internet conglomerates such as Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft in the USA, and in China the Alibaba Group, Baidu and Tencent. Even Russia has its own conglomerates and platforms, e.g. the Mail.ru Group (which also owns ICQ, Odnoklassniki and VKontakte), Rambler and Yandex.
Despite their geo-economic differences, the underlying model for all of these services is similar: a highly centralised platform economy/ecosystem built as a walled garden, bringing together very large numbers of users, network effects,{footnote}Rufus Pollock, founder of the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF) calls these 'platform effects' in his 2018 book 'The Open Revolution' (as discussed in section <7.1.17>).{/footnote} and surveillance capitalism or (state) mass surveillance.
Even though Europe has many platform companies, it lacks this type of large, powerful Internet conglomerate. European citizens and organisations have traditionally piggybacked on US-based platforms.
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Configuring MAME on Fedora Linux
Finally sat down to properly configure MAME on my Fedora workstation.
Here is what I did and found out:
- MAME contains only emulators (machines), no games (ROMs), so the default ROMs directory /usr/share/mame/roms/ is empty
- as an ordinary user, you create your personal ini file ~/.mame/ini/mame.ini (start with a copy of /etc/mame/mame.ini) and add your directory $HOME/.mame/roms to the rompath, which allows MAME to find your ROM files
Adding NoAI and NoImageAI robots meta tags to your Joomla 4 website
As well as blocking CCBot and GPTBot using robots.txt
In reaction to robots freely crawling the web and incorporating every valuable asset they find into (closed) AI models, creatives (platforms) have introduced new robots meta tags to denote that they do not want their content to be worked into these models.
One reason is that creators consider "incorporating into an AI model" in itself as an infringement of their copyright. Another reason is that AI models are known to sometimes be able to produce (clearly) recognizable parts of the original works, which then become part of work produced by users of the AI model.
In this article we show how you can add the 'robots noai' and 'robots noimageai' meta tags (invented by DeviantArt) to your Joomla 4 website.
We also show you how to stop OpenAI's web crawler from processing (parts of) your site, using the robots.txt file.
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Installing the Stable Diffusion v1 model and Hugging Face's Diffusers library on a Fedora workstation
Diffusers is an open-source Python library provided by Hugging Face (a US company). The library allows you to easily use various pre-trained diffusion models.
In this article we describe how to install the Stable Diffusion model and the Diffusers library on a Fedora (36) Linux workstation.
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