keverets @keverets@librem.one

Move carefully and fix things.

Seven swans to rule them all
Six geese to find them
Five gold rings to bring them all
And in the pear tree bind them

As Hyperloop One shuts down, we need to remember that the Hyperloop was never meant to be built.

Elon Musk’s goal was never to transform transportation for the masses, but to stop or delay high-speed rail reaching North America. Sadly, he succeeded. While the rest of the world moved forward, the US remains stuck in the past, only able to hand out EV subsidies instead of freeing people from car dependence.

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/the-hyperloop-was-always-a-scam

#tech #transport #transportation #train #hyperloop #elonmusk

"Violating the GPL and using proprietary software is not, as Tesla claims, the only way to keep drivers safe, instead it's downright dangerous."

https://social.sfconservancy.org/objects/767aee84-afa2-4333-8498-a531c521e71c

Is Tesla open source? Roadster certainly isn't...
Read more about our Director of Compliance's thoughts on how the Tesla efforts don't meet compliance standards and how that's harming consumers and endangering people. GPL compliance is not just a theoretical issue!

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/dec/21/tesla-no-source-code-no-safety/

Standard Ebooks: new, lovingly formatted, open source editions of public domain ebooks. https://standardebooks.org

Big #ReBoot news!

The master tapes have been found by the ReBoot Rewind documentary crew and they need our help with finding a working D1 tape deck to digitize them.

Crossposting this from Facebook:

🚨THE MASTER TAPES EXIST AND WE NEED YOUR HELP🚨 THIS IS NOT A DRILL🚨

Hey you, YES YOU! We have some good news to share!

For years, there have been rumours circulating about the status of the original PAL D1 masters of ReBoot and whether they still exist. After visiting Mainframe Studios yesterday to take a look through their ReBoot archives, we’re happy to confirm that the masters are all here, for every episode of the show!

Getting a proper digital transfer of the D1 masters is high priority item for us. It would mean having the entire series in the best possible picture and sound quality, presented as accurately as the day it was rendered. There’s also a library of additional ReBoot content (animation tests, toy commercials, Electronic Arts video game footage, IMAX content) that is currently stuck on the D1 format and we need to preserve it for the future. This would obviously benefit the documentary but ultimately, it would benefit the fans the most!

Here’s where we need help. We need a working D1 tape deck to capture all these tapes. Mainframe hasn’t had one for years. We haven’t been able to find anyone in Vancouver, British Columbia, or even all of Canada that has one of these tape decks. We’d greatly prefer buying or renting one of these decks so that the tapes can be captured locally, without needing to ship them.

If anyone has a lead on where we might be able to get one of these decks, please contact us!

Contact info:
📧 Email: rebootrewinddoc@gmail.com
🔗 Facebook post: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=122132598986070529
🔗 Instagram: https://instagram.com/rebootrewinddoc

#tv #video #retrocomputing #retrotechnology #retro #tech

The untold history of web development:

1990: HTML invented
1994: CSS invented to fix HTML
1995: JS invented to fix HTML/CSS
2006: jQuery invented to fix JS
2010: AngularJS invented to fix jQuery
2013: React invented to fix AngularJS
2014: Vue invented to fix React & Angular
2016: Angular 2 invented to fix AngularJS & React
2019: Svelte 3 invented to fix React, Angular, Vue
2019: React hooks invented to fix React
2020: Vue 3 invented to fix React hooks
2020: Solid invented to fix React, Angular, Svelte, Vue
2020: HTMX 1.0 invented to fix React, Angular, Svelte, Vue, Solid
2021: React suspense invented to fix React, again
2023: Svelte Runes invented to fix Svelte
2024: jQuery still used on 75% of websites

(by @fireship_dev on Birdsite)

OpenStreetMap supports mapping surveillance cameras.

Cameras can be identified by location and type, the area being observed can be disclosed.

Surveillance under Surveillance/https://sunders.uber.space is an OpenStreetMap instance focused on surveillance cameras, it uses data that is not visualized on the OpenStreetMap.org instance.

Website: https://www.openstreetmap.org
Mastodon: @openstreetmap

#OpenStreetMap #Surveillance #CCTV #Privacy #FacialRecognition #Tracking #BiometricData #VoicePrint #Gait

Fun fact: the MP3 file format is as old today as 8-track tapes were when MP3 was invented.

Helpful tips #MeanwhileInCanada @MeanwhileinCanada

NEW: A marketing firm owned by telecom giant Cox is advertising a service to companies that claims to *actually* listen to embedded microphones in users' phones, smart TVs, and smart devices:

https://www.404media.co/cmg-cox-media-actually-listening-to-phones-smartspeakers-for-ads-marketing/

Why are TVs so inexpensive these days? Because the TV companies make billions by recording what you watch and sell that data to advertisers. “These TVs can capture and identify 7,200 images per hour”. This article tells you how to turn it off:

https://themarkup.org/privacy/2023/12/12/your-smart-tv-knows-what-youre-watching

No new fossil fuel projects. None. Period.

That's what both the United Nations and the International Energy Agency have told us is 100% necessary at this point.

But apparently someone didn't get the message. Because climate-wrecking fossil fuel projects continue to be approved.
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The massive Willow oil project on Alaska’s North Slope is all but certain to be built now that a federal judge has ruled against environmental groups hoping to halt the development.

While it’s set to be Alaska’s biggest new oil field in decades, it very well may not be the last: Willow could give ConocoPhillips and other oil companies cheaper access to vast, untapped reserves beneath the tundra.

U.S. District Judge Sharon Gleason denied a challenge last week to the $7.5 billion project which the Biden administration controversially approved in March. The judge’s ruling paves the way for Conoco to drill through permafrost and slurp up 600 million barrels of oil in the northeastern corner of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska.

But that’s not all. As the company moves ahead with construction of the new oil field, it’s looking to gain access to millions, perhaps billions, more barrels farther west and southwest in the reserve.

“It’s not only itself a huge project,” said Erik Grafe, an attorney at Earthjustice, which represents the environmental groups that sued to stop the project. “It’s designed to be a hub for future development and that’s an even bigger problem.”

Conoco told investors two years ago that Willow could be “the next great Alaska hub” for Arctic oil. The company leases a total of 1.1 million acres in the federal petroleum reserve, sitting on an estimated 3 billion barrels of oil. Other companies lease another 1.4 million acres combined.

Just last month Conoco proposed seismic surveys on about 272,000 acres of frozen earth, including an area west of the Willow site, deeper into the national oil reserve. The company initially said the surveys were intended to “determine the most efficient development” at Willow and “to identify potential future development areas” on Conoco’s leases.

Conoco has drilled two exploratory wells in an area named “West Willow.” The several miles of new roads and pipelines that the company plans to build at Willow could significantly lower the cost of tapping into the estimated 75 million barrels of crude beneath West Willow.

That oil “seems like the obvious next target,” Grafe said. “Willow puts in processing facilities, central operating facilities, pipelines, roads. Once that’s in place, it’s a lot cheaper for Conoco and maybe others to develop their leases and tie into that infrastructure.”
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FULL STORY -- https://grist.org/article/willow-project-arctic-oil-north-slope-conoco/

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual

It was a big surprise to see an American file sync & share company go on a buying spree, buying several of our smaller European competitors like ownCloud and Dracoon.

If you rather not switch to Kiteware, you can move to Nextcloud and stay in control over your data!

We even have a migration tool! 🚀

https://nextcloud.com/blog/kiteworks-acquires-owncloud-dracoon/

Fighting words, I know, but look, here's my elder take:

If you think an LLM is a better partner for you than a junior programmer, you have both identified a very serious problem in your org, and signaled clearly that you're a significant part of that problem.

With the OpenAI clownshow, there's been renewed media attention on the xrisk/"AI safety"/doomer nonsense. Personally, I've had a fresh wave of reporters asking me naive questions (as well as some contacts from old hands who are on top of how to handle ultra-rich man-children with god complexes). 🧵1/

STRONG SOLAR FLARE: A sunspot directly facing Earth erupted today, Nov. 28, producing an M9.8-class solar flare only percentage points below category X. The explosion almost certainly hurled a CME toward Earth, joining 2 to 3 more CMEs already en route. These events set the stage for geomagnetic storms later this week. Developing story @ http://Spaceweather.com #cme #solar #spaceweather

Ring customers can enable encryption so only they can view their camera’s videos, EFF’s Matthew Guariglia told News Nation—an option made available in part because people "did not feel comfortable having all that footage sitting on Amazon’s servers unprotected.” https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/holidays/doorbell-cameras-solution-porch-piracy/