This is my late bun, Fred, who passed away in 2021 at the age of 12, pretty old for a rabbit. He was a jolly little guy, and rather naughty, but he always improved my mood. I hope he can do the same for you.
It's bizarre watching people realize slowly, in real time, that tech companies do not, in fact, have their backs.
They never did. They only pretended to because it was fashionable.
They would kill you and your entire family if it made their growth in profits increase by 0.1% this quarter, and they'd do it with a song in their hearts.
And they would do so without fear of prosecution, because they've basically bought out the entire political system through lobbying and can blatantly bribe Supreme Court Justices without consequence.
Why would they be incentivized to actually protect your privacy? Especially when your data is so valuable for growing their profits?
To a lot of business types, encryption isn't a question about privacy. It's about access controls. And they implicitly believe they get access.
So, too, will their buddies in the government.
You cannot, and should not, expect billionaires to have your backs. They don't give a fuck about you. They never will. Don't believe them.
Now, despite all the things we call "oracles" in cryptography, none of us can see the future. This is just the totally foreseeable consequences of the system as it existed yesterday.
I'd like to share a few thoughts on this matter.
The people should absolutely learn to break AI systems. I feel that this will become crucial to online privacy in the coming years.
But I also implore you to keep AI 0days secret. Don't disclose them publicly--especially to AI companies!
Feel free to share them privately with your friends (over E2EE chats) and only use them if they can help people.
And, to be clear, this is coming from Mr. "I drop 0day on my furry blog" himself.
Recently I came across a fantastic new paper by a group of NYU and Cornell researchers entitled “How to think about end-to-end encryption and AI.” I’m extremely grateful to see th…
Stop shitting on the IT team when there's an incident because we didn't/couldn't do everything perfectly. How businesses operate in the real world is completely different than your isolated test rooms. We're only human and even with all the tools to monitor and protect our environments there is a lot of ground to cover. Many of us are a one person operation.
Do not belittle my employees because they fell for a nicely executed scam. They already feel like shit. I will call you out on this at every turn and then treat my coworker to ice cream or the treat of their choice and make sure they are okay.
We know we got fucked and we are asking for help while doing internal damage control and mitigating things to the best of our abilities. Do not talk to us like we are computer illiterate cave people. We already know you are good at what you do, that is why you are here. Do not waste billable hours on calls autofelating yourself over how brilliant you are.
The very fact that there are people prepared to excuse or explain away an 'apparent' nazi salute by Elon Musk is becoming a clear indication of the trouble that politics is in right now.
The Nazis think he made a Nazi salute;
The Left also think he did!
but nonetheless there are people who think its was only an 'apparent' Nazi salute, who think somehow Musk meant something else, or if you're Musk all the coverage is a dirty trick campaign against him.
Today the second volume arrived. Since I have a hardcover edition of the first volume, I also bought the second one in hardcover. I love well designed and produced books
Posts from my music account are missing some metadata when I view them from here. Also my profile picture there never shows up when I load it from this server.
Mastadoonioans, any guesses why?
I have refreshed my cache, and tried from various clients.
From the Financial Times: "Ministers have forced out the chair of the UK Competition and Markets Authority [CMA], as the government seeks to dial back regulation as part of Labour’s growth agenda.
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"He sparked an outcry in November, including from the White House, when he responded on X to a user who accused Jews of hating white people and professing indifference to antisemitism by posting, "You have said the actual truth." He later apologized for the comment, calling it the "dumbest" post that he's ever done."
The billionaire has said he sees 'almost no antisemitism' in his circles, while defending X as a place for freedom of speech and re-instating the accounts of controversial far-right figures on the platform.
“WE ARE FUCKING BACK” the administrator of a Nazi meme channel on Telegram wrote under a clip of Musk giving the salute. Members of the group responded with the lightning bolt emoji, a well-known neo-Nazi reference to the SS."
"Musk pays $5 a month for “bonus content and extra perks” on the account, “Boer” (@twatterbaas), which regularly disparages South Africa’s Black population while calling for power to be returned to whites. ...
"This recent tweet provides a good barometer of the account’s politics:
“Atrica (sic) has 54 countries, 1.487 billion people. On the Southern tip lays South Africa, with the largest Economy and best infrastructure. Guess what makes South Africa different from the rest of Africa? 4.6 million white people.” "
That was a Nazi salute, full of hate. He was jubilant Trump had won and couldn't help himself. 1. It's obvious. 2. His history supports it. 3. The recipients of the message understood it.
The only interesting thing about it was the little hamster in Elon's head never worked so hard in its life as it did to come up with "my heart goes out to you" in that moment.
"Earlier this week, multi-hyphenate billionaire Elon Musk endorsed a tweet suggesting Black students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have lower IQs and shouldn't become pilots. ...
... It will take an airplane crashing and killing hundreds of people for them to change this crazy policy of DIE," he tweeted, intentionally mixing up the letters of the acronym for "diversity, equity, and inclusion." "
Noch Kontext: Ich glaube, es handelte sich dabei explizit um die deutschen Occupy-Proteste, die von dieser Organisation, die auch als sektenartig bezeichnet wurde, heimgesucht wurde.
Kann sich noch jemand an diese komische Organisation erinnern, die im Zuge der 99% Proteste auftauchte und die alle Entscheidungen durch einen benevolenten Computer treffen lassen wollte? Wie hieß die nochmal?
I recall running legal triage at airports when Trump enacted his first Muslim ban. Now, as Trump returns to the White House, he enacts a Muslim Ban 2.0—just one of his 200+ Executive Orders. Most all of them are regressive and harm most all Americans. None of them bring down the price of eggs.
Robert Habeck sieht in #Davos in manchen Entscheidungen Trumps auch eine Chance für Europa: „Wenn man in Amerika nicht mehr die Techniken der Zukunft bauen will: We are ready!“
🎶When you’re alone and life is making you lonely you can always go to nap town.🎶 🎶When you’ve got worries , all the noise and the hurry Seems to help, I know Nap town 🎶
#ScaledAgile is a useful *concept*. There is indeed such thing as 'vibrant scaled agile' in good organization structure plus culture. Something unique and tailored necessarily. And optimized, chiseled in better shape, maintained well.
Then there is #ScaledAgile the name. Here a sad story to tell. Whole flocks of developers adore #bikeshedding names and play #ideology #flamewars. Blind for the *essence* and rationale of the underlying concept, they reject it based on the name.
over time i have utterly lost my agile religion. full apostate, now. you have to go along with the motions & jargon to get along in contemporary tech, but i just smile & laugh to myself at it the whole thing.
Kostenlose Produktidee für alle Supimärkte hier auf Mastodon:
1. Suppengrün ist je super Sache, weil ich nicht viele Sachen kaufen muss, dass dann evtl. verdirbt, wenn ich doch eigentlich nur nen "Starterpaket"/Basis brauche. 2. Warum gibt's keine Soffritto oder Mirepoix-"Startersets"? Wie konnte diese Marktlücke übersehen werden? Ich will doch für ein bisschen Geschmack nicht gleich nen Blumenstrauß Selleriestangen in der Küche stehen haben, ich brauch nur 2-3 Stangen.
#Introduction Hi! Complete social media newbie here, taking my first steps into the fediverse. 👋
Interests: 🌱 Growing my own food 🍊 Making jams and pickles (just made my first marmalade!) 🖥️ Self-hosted tech / servers 🏃 Hiking adventures in northern England 🛞 Following the Wheel of the Year
Learning to live more intentionally. Very new to this platform and excited to connect with like-minded types.
Growing your own food and making jams and pickles are very popular on here 😃
If you want help getting started there are lots of guides for beginners on the website at fedi.tips (especially in the Quick Start section). Feel free to ask if you want some help with anything specific!
I think the front one might also have one? The tail between the legs looks kinda like there’s something in front. That’s why it looks like it has six legs.
Honestly the drawing is not too bad, considering the artist probably has only seen and done art from the sides. The joke still works, of course!
Just when you think he can’t be worse, another damning account of Pete Hegseth drops. This one hits close to home, coming from his own former sister-in-law. But will the GOP even care? My write-up: open.substack.com/pub/statusku…
A shocking new set of allegations of spousal abuse, contained in a sworn affidavit from Hegseth’s former sister-in-law, once again imperils Hegseth’s nomination.
🚀 Heinlein Gruppe gründet OpenCloud GmbH zur Stärkung des Open Source-Ökosystems in Deutschland 🇩🇪. @OpenCloud bietet sicheres, DSGVO-konformes File-Management und -Sharing und stärkt damit Europas digitale Souveränität.
Peer Heinlein betont: „Das digitale Ökosystem ist kritische Infrastruktur.“
Sehe ich auch eher kritisch. Was nutzt schon gesetzeskonformität wenn die Falschen die Gesetze machen, oder für sich interpretieren. Der Trend geht klar zum Self-Hosting.
In Italy, questions arise with a stir, As Meloni faces the burden to confer, Libyan general freed, War crimes take the lead, A tale of justice, complex and a blur.
I'm noticing all the folks on here who are resisting by posting wholesome things. Not exactly ignoring the problems, just somehow managing to raise smiles whilst pointing to them. That's a real skill. It isn't easy to look at the world askance, and use humour as your weapon.
Basically, if you're on biege.party right now, you're providing a public service, perhaps without even realizing it.
The rest of us do need and appreciate those little timeline-cleansers.
Since my disconnect from fb I’m missing the good guys in some groups I was a member of, a small price to pay for making an important point (to me). In time I’ll find like minded fellow travellers, fb was not part of my digital world once upon a time 😉 Right, where are the bikers, marine engineers, offshore tigers, etc?
we are seriously asking for recommendations and we are prepared to lower our standards, but we specifically want one that is only a bug tracker and not a code review tool
It's one of those things that reminds me that you never know the impact small decisions may have. RT started as a project at Utopia, my web consulting firm back in the 90's. Jesse was a summer intern and asked if he could open source the work he was doing for us. And there it is, still supporting people 20+ years later.
So, we finally resolved our technical issue...and now have our account here up and running! Thanks to everyone who helped to make it happen. #TikTokRefugee Who else is over here? 😊
In the face of escalating climate chaos, we stand at a pivotal moment in history. The A22 Network is an international coalition fanning the flames of resistance. We have a clear vision.
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