Armchair intellectual, sometimes philosopher, all-around learning junkie, cybersecurity and sysadmin, parent, and gamer. Everything is political.
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Last Notes npub1mlyas6rutmlt0nt8jkpclwrr0udfszplptlanqchmaujkl64fuzswwknch smeg I think I'm going to stop backing crowdfunded books and other physical items that don't indicate that they ship out of the EU/EEA. I'm tired of them shipping from the UK and having to pay an additional €15-25 on top of what I've already paid. npub1mlyas6rutmlt0nt8jkpclwrr0udfszplptlanqchmaujkl64fuzswwknch smeg Educators know. Education administrators are being told to shove this into classrooms because it makes business processes more efficient or because politicians want kickbacks from setting up the sales. npub1mlyas6rutmlt0nt8jkpclwrr0udfszplptlanqchmaujkl64fuzswwknch smeg @nprofile…t80x I use a Fairphone 6 with /e/OS. It's the least tinkery option, has a locked bootloader that passes security checks, and is easily self-repairable. npub1mlyas6rutmlt0nt8jkpclwrr0udfszplptlanqchmaujkl64fuzswwknch smeg Modern Artists: the Old Masters and their styles are tainted by histories of colonialism and capitalism. We want to create art free of this corruption, absent exploitation and social class. npub1mlyas6rutmlt0nt8jkpclwrr0udfszplptlanqchmaujkl64fuzswwknch smeg Het fascisme stijgt in Nederland npub1mlyas6rutmlt0nt8jkpclwrr0udfszplptlanqchmaujkl64fuzswwknch smeg Contemplating gravity npub1mlyas6rutmlt0nt8jkpclwrr0udfszplptlanqchmaujkl64fuzswwknch smeg Windows encryption has a universal backdoor. npub1mlyas6rutmlt0nt8jkpclwrr0udfszplptlanqchmaujkl64fuzswwknch smeg I'm constantly disappointed in the number of #Dutch websites that don't completely work in #Firefox, and only work fully in Chrome-based browsers. npub1mlyas6rutmlt0nt8jkpclwrr0udfszplptlanqchmaujkl64fuzswwknch smeg "We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." -- Louis Brandeis npub1mlyas6rutmlt0nt8jkpclwrr0udfszplptlanqchmaujkl64fuzswwknch smeg ‘The cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees’: Nvidia exec says right now AI is more expensive than paying human workers npub1mlyas6rutmlt0nt8jkpclwrr0udfszplptlanqchmaujkl64fuzswwknch smeg @nprofile…65q8 What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. npub1mlyas6rutmlt0nt8jkpclwrr0udfszplptlanqchmaujkl64fuzswwknch smeg Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop npub1mlyas6rutmlt0nt8jkpclwrr0udfszplptlanqchmaujkl64fuzswwknch smeg Elephants are born weighing 250 Ibs. They are the biggest babies on earth except for Motorists when one bike lane is added in their city. npub1mlyas6rutmlt0nt8jkpclwrr0udfszplptlanqchmaujkl64fuzswwknch smeg French people really like to speak French and get miffed if you ask them to speak English. But we learned a hack! If you accidentally respond to them in Dutch, they'll quickly ask you to speak English instead! npub1mlyas6rutmlt0nt8jkpclwrr0udfszplptlanqchmaujkl64fuzswwknch smeg Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native npub1mlyas6rutmlt0nt8jkpclwrr0udfszplptlanqchmaujkl64fuzswwknch smeg @nprofile…pkdd no worries, just wanted to make sure you knew. If the trade off is between 99.999% uptime and a site not run by an evil corpo, I'll take the site not run by an evil corpo npub1mlyas6rutmlt0nt8jkpclwrr0udfszplptlanqchmaujkl64fuzswwknch smeg @nprofile…pkdd infosec.pub is on the struggle npub1mlyas6rutmlt0nt8jkpclwrr0udfszplptlanqchmaujkl64fuzswwknch smeg I used to want to go to a Comic Con, even a local one, but it seems like they're now dominated by cosplayers and people collecting extremely expensive editions of things. More or less, looks and money/fomo, which is not exactly my focus in life. npub1mlyas6rutmlt0nt8jkpclwrr0udfszplptlanqchmaujkl64fuzswwknch smeg Why won't Trump release the Epstein client list? What purpose could keeping it secret serve? Are the pedophiles being protected? Why is Ghislaine Maxwell suddenly being given positive treatment by the DOJ? npub1mlyas6rutmlt0nt8jkpclwrr0udfszplptlanqchmaujkl64fuzswwknch smeg @nprofile…5xd5 my guess: General Motors npub1mlyas6rutmlt0nt8jkpclwrr0udfszplptlanqchmaujkl64fuzswwknch smeg @nprofile…5cma Catbus npub1mlyas6rutmlt0nt8jkpclwrr0udfszplptlanqchmaujkl64fuzswwknch smeg Pretty cool. My current Oral B electric toothbrush has a broken battery cap, and luckily I found a replacement design on Thingiverse instead of needing to but a new toothbrush. This should be normalized. npub1mlyas6rutmlt0nt8jkpclwrr0udfszplptlanqchmaujkl64fuzswwknch smeg @nprofile…uv9k delete it. You won't miss it. Start a group chat on Signal with the people that matter. npub1mlyas6rutmlt0nt8jkpclwrr0udfszplptlanqchmaujkl64fuzswwknch smeg The second a platform becomes a viable avenue for advertisement is when it stops being viable for any kind of quality. npub1mlyas6rutmlt0nt8jkpclwrr0udfszplptlanqchmaujkl64fuzswwknch smeg So a fetus is a person when trying to deny women rights, but not when the hospital's wallet is on the line? It's obvious the true ideology here is about controlling women and nothing more. npub1mlyas6rutmlt0nt8jkpclwrr0udfszplptlanqchmaujkl64fuzswwknch smeg @nprofile…wjfe when they did the last round of tariffs in the previous Trump administration, they had to do this same thing - offer bailouts to the farmers. Unfortunately, because obtaining the bailout funds is a paperwork-heavy process, only the biggest farms were able to benefit. It caused a massive closure of small and medium American farms, leading to more farm consolidation and higher consumer farm prices. npub1mlyas6rutmlt0nt8jkpclwrr0udfszplptlanqchmaujkl64fuzswwknch smeg Driving cars in London is a totally pointless activity and I hate it, says Top Gear presenter James May | The Standard npub1mlyas6rutmlt0nt8jkpclwrr0udfszplptlanqchmaujkl64fuzswwknch smeg @nprofile…jewr how can I, as a single server self-hosting admin, determine if I'm impacted? npub1mlyas6rutmlt0nt8jkpclwrr0udfszplptlanqchmaujkl64fuzswwknch smeg Study Finds That AI Search Engines Are Wrong an Astounding Proportion of the Time npub1mlyas6rutmlt0nt8jkpclwrr0udfszplptlanqchmaujkl64fuzswwknch smeg The Entire Internet Is Being Polluted by AI Slop npub1mlyas6rutmlt0nt8jkpclwrr0udfszplptlanqchmaujkl64fuzswwknch smeg All this bad AI is wrecking a whole generation of gadgets | We were promised multimodal, natural language, AI-powered everything. We got nothing of the sort. npub1mlyas6rutmlt0nt8jkpclwrr0udfszplptlanqchmaujkl64fuzswwknch smeg A big problem problem I'm having planning a trip to the Netherlands is that bike shares, and to an extent public transit, assume that every rider has a smartphone and is adult sized - and I'm traveling with a child. npub1mlyas6rutmlt0nt8jkpclwrr0udfszplptlanqchmaujkl64fuzswwknch smeg Dodge Chargers Now Have Pop-Up Ads at Every Stoplight... Just What Nobody Asked For npub1mlyas6rutmlt0nt8jkpclwrr0udfszplptlanqchmaujkl64fuzswwknch smeg Immigration accounted for all U.S. population growth in 2022-23, first time since 1850 npub1mlyas6rutmlt0nt8jkpclwrr0udfszplptlanqchmaujkl64fuzswwknch smeg I guess we won't be growing food in this country in the near future npub1mlyas6rutmlt0nt8jkpclwrr0udfszplptlanqchmaujkl64fuzswwknch smeg Privatize roads, then. Not a single road makes a profit. There should be a feedback loop that if roads aren't profitable, then we shouldn't be subsidizing the roads on behalf of the automotive industry. /s npub1mlyas6rutmlt0nt8jkpclwrr0udfszplptlanqchmaujkl64fuzswwknch smeg @nprofile…npxa and when you move to Tulsa, or Bentonville, or these other 1-company towns, you have no options for switching jobs within your field. You become a captive workforce, which means your pay can be reduced, your benefits axed, etc. npub1mlyas6rutmlt0nt8jkpclwrr0udfszplptlanqchmaujkl64fuzswwknch smeg @nprofile…npxa they keep trying to make this happen, and it hasn't happened. npub1mlyas6rutmlt0nt8jkpclwrr0udfszplptlanqchmaujkl64fuzswwknch smeg Eating lots of meat, as most Americans do in excess, gives you diseases that pharmaceuticals can treat. If you eat less, they can't sell you medicines. npub1mlyas6rutmlt0nt8jkpclwrr0udfszplptlanqchmaujkl64fuzswwknch smeg This bike rack in Tulsa, OK npub1mlyas6rutmlt0nt8jkpclwrr0udfszplptlanqchmaujkl64fuzswwknch smeg Nothing is possible? npub1mlyas6rutmlt0nt8jkpclwrr0udfszplptlanqchmaujkl64fuzswwknch smeg OpenAI Researchers Find That Even the Best AI Is "Unable To Solve the Majority" of Coding Problems npub1mlyas6rutmlt0nt8jkpclwrr0udfszplptlanqchmaujkl64fuzswwknch smeg We know. npub1mlyas6rutmlt0nt8jkpclwrr0udfszplptlanqchmaujkl64fuzswwknch smeg I deactivated my Facebook account in 2017 and never logged back in, but never fully deleted it. I had Instagram but never logged in or used it. Today, I've fully deleted Instagram and once my archive is downloaded, I'm fully deleting the Facebook account, too. No Facebook, No Messenger, No Instagram, No WhatsApp. No Meta. npub1mlyas6rutmlt0nt8jkpclwrr0udfszplptlanqchmaujkl64fuzswwknch smeg Study Finds That People Who Entrust Tasks to AI Are Losing Critical Thinking Skills npub1mlyas6rutmlt0nt8jkpclwrr0udfszplptlanqchmaujkl64fuzswwknch smeg Meta torrented over 81.7TB of pirated books to train AI, authors say npub1mlyas6rutmlt0nt8jkpclwrr0udfszplptlanqchmaujkl64fuzswwknch smeg My employer told us to use Claude AI before searching for info on the interwebs. The failure rate and hallucinations for what I search is about 75%. Really really bad. npub1mlyas6rutmlt0nt8jkpclwrr0udfszplptlanqchmaujkl64fuzswwknch smeg You’re being lied to about “ultra-processed” foods. npub1mlyas6rutmlt0nt8jkpclwrr0udfszplptlanqchmaujkl64fuzswwknch smeg *screeeeeeech* npub1mlyas6rutmlt0nt8jkpclwrr0udfszplptlanqchmaujkl64fuzswwknch smeg Bluesky's open API means anyone can scrape your data for AI training | TechCrunch npub1mlyas6rutmlt0nt8jkpclwrr0udfszplptlanqchmaujkl64fuzswwknch smeg @nprofile…taps my child moved the solo person with the others, so they all get hit together npub1mlyas6rutmlt0nt8jkpclwrr0udfszplptlanqchmaujkl64fuzswwknch smeg Study Finds 77% of Employees Report AI Has Increased Their Workload npub1mlyas6rutmlt0nt8jkpclwrr0udfszplptlanqchmaujkl64fuzswwknch smeg What is everyone's opinion about #Gitlab? npub1mlyas6rutmlt0nt8jkpclwrr0udfszplptlanqchmaujkl64fuzswwknch smeg I just realized tomorrow Daylight Saving Time begins :blobfoxannoyed: :neofox_sob: 🤮😡🤬😤😾 npub1mlyas6rutmlt0nt8jkpclwrr0udfszplptlanqchmaujkl64fuzswwknch smeg Not Invisible Anymore: Satellites reveal sources of atmospheric methane npub1mlyas6rutmlt0nt8jkpclwrr0udfszplptlanqchmaujkl64fuzswwknch smeg I wouldn't be mad. #rush #tomsawyer #books #bookstodon #music #english #literature #humor #jokes npub1mlyas6rutmlt0nt8jkpclwrr0udfszplptlanqchmaujkl64fuzswwknch smeg @npub1psa…xhme @npub1d4x…9pra @npub1n2w…uy35 @npub1fn5…99ze @npub135v…mgls @npub1mzt…uwz2 @npub16at…s9qw @npub1tm2…4e8h @npub1j4v…z8hn npub1mlyas6rutmlt0nt8jkpclwrr0udfszplptlanqchmaujkl64fuzswwknch smeg We've decided we have to give up one of our dogs to the animal shelter. He keeps attacking our other dog, gets snappy with us. He's half pitbull and we knew this day was coming but we tried every behavioral modification strategy to avoid it. npub1mlyas6rutmlt0nt8jkpclwrr0udfszplptlanqchmaujkl64fuzswwknch smeg Sadly, not surprising. We live in a dystopian hellscape. Most people live in despair and/or poverty.
