Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

once more for the peanut gallery

nvidia _choose_ to not support the wayland stack. or well more generally, the new linux kms+egl gpu stack, since there's a lot other cool things you can built on top of it that aren't wayland

nvidia _choose_ to implement crypto locked down fw in a way that blocks open drivers (even apple got this right!). and no one else can fix it, because it's actual real crypto

nvidia _choose_ to not fix any of this

don't buy nvidia if you don't like this

#kernel

"The earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses." –Utah Phillips, born May 15, 1935 in Cleveland, OH

Google says that Bard is “is intended to…not replicate existing content at length” and, that if it does quote at length, it'll cite the page. But I wrote most of this Wikipedia entry, and I immediately recognized that Bard is copying it, word-for-word, at length. Sure, there's a footnote, but this is a straight-up duplicate of a webpage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Mountains

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Eat the rich.

Or, just pitch them into the ocean.
I'm good with either.

#NotKidding #TheseFuckersShouldDie
#BoycottDollarama

Today, the Atlanta City Council will vote on the purchase of 46 acres for additional parkland in the South River Forest area. They are also expected to introduce legislation for $33.5M in taxpayer money to fund "Cop City".

These parcels only compensate for ~54% of the 85 continuous acres of trees cut down to build "Cop City", but most fall within Special Flood Hazard Areas identified by FEMA , which see a >1/4 chance of flooding in the next 30 years.

https://www.thexylom.com/post/as-cop-city-proceeds-atlanta-city-council-proposes-acquisition-of-parkland-in-south-river-forest
#environment #news

more about this history of digital copyright and its abuses available here (free ebook versions) - https://walledculture.org/the-book/

https://mastodon.social/@ajsadauskas@aus.social/110370328461263348

Do not buy anything from HP, which treats customers in defiantly shabby ways. Example: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/consumer-affairs/hp-printers-computers-ink-cartridges-rivals/

We published a new status report to our blog, read it here: https://blog.codeberg.org/letter-from-codeberg-may-2023.html

@kyle
I took a course on resume writing recently. The main takeaway is that 80% of employers now have software that scans the resume for keywords and tosses it if it doesn't find them.

And the average HR person spends 10 to 20 seconds looking at your resume and that's it.

Many folks are updating their resumes at the moment and I wanted to share a tip.

My own resume had served me well over the years, but I went to update it and realized that not only was the content outdated, the CV-style format was outdated, dull, and too long.

I found a great two-column LaTeX template based on a Marissa Mayer resume and wanted to share it here. It's attractive, modern, easy to read, and lets you fit a lot of detail.

https://github.com/liantze/AltaCV

#resume #jobs

Your morning outrage fuel (sorry), courtesy of the world's Central Banks.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/05/the-extraordinary-generosity-of-central-banks-towards-banks-some-reflexions-on-its-origin.html

Good. "Minnesota humanists take out billboards to spread the secular word: The group aims to fight what they see as a push to impose Christian beliefs in government" (no paywall): https://strib.gift/4si0fxh2m

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I have a sick feeling when I realize that, at least as of 10 years ago, I knew a fair number of liberal-leaning *academics* who thought that tenure was a bad idea.

I support the institution of tenure.

Professorship is pretty thankless as is. People should be able to look forward to some kind of stability in their lives.

I also think similar institutions should exist in other domains too. The enemies of progress benefit from people feeling precarious.

Am I misunderstanding something?

This appears to be a stunningly irresponsible story in Science, claiming that up to 30% of the scientific literature is fake.

https://www.science.org/content/article/fake-scientific-papers-are-alarmingly-common

Below, the first two paragraphs of the story.

h/t @Hoch

The way responsibility gets blurred behind "digital solutions" is yet another disease of the current neoliberal system.

We are moving. We are renters because we are poor. In Finland you have to give a months notice to leave the contract and this has to be given during the previous month with a whole month in between as notice, so often people end up paying for two apartments for a month and the other just sits empty.

Back in the day you could often negotiate this with the landlord. We for example only get the new place in the middle of the month so we could not let this one go sooner or we would have been without housing for the beginning of July. So we figured it would be reasonable to end the contract to the 15th of June as the landlord will need to renovate this place too.

But the answer is no. Because on their bullshit automated website you can only let the contract go in a way where it always ends at the end of a month and the only answer you get is "it is what it is". 1/2

It's increasingly common for left-activists and progressives to focus on the behavior of big corporations and corporate-government partnerships in making sense of things like climate change denial and divisions withing global warming politics.

A big part of this narrative is the idea that framing environmental issues as ones of "individual responsibility" and "individual sacrifice" has been promoted by individuals and institutions that are working hard to make sure there is no meaningful change.

I believe this narrative is generally correct, but I have some uncertainties about the way this formulation sometimes gets used, and would love to hear others' thoughts.

9 out of 10 travellers between Stuttgart & Paris now take the train not the plane. "Huge increase in cross-border traffic as Germany's national railway expands services". https://cleanenergywire.org/news/huge-increase-cross-border-traffic-germanys-national-railway-expands-services