Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I believe in trying to detect "AI"-generated content.

I vehemently do NOT believe in using the products people are peddling to universities to purportedly do this for professors in grading students.

Even if these things worked at a 99% correct-detection rate -- and they aren't even close -- that would mean potentially ruining the life of an innocent student based on a black-box algorithm.

I won't do that. Period.

Censorship of the Internet is the norm in the emerging dictatorship that we call a staunch ally, India: https://scroll.in/article/1054725/the-blocking-of-the-kashmir-walla-underscores-draconian-censorship-on-the-internet-in-india

Open-source headphones!
https://ploopy.co/headphones/
And studio-grade at that as well :)

You can buy them fully assembled or build from a kit, or make everything yourself. From reviews they seem to be relatively very cheap compared to how good they sound.
They run off of a USB connection.
These are open-back over-ear. I wonder if there's designs for a closed-back version...
#OpenSource #FOSS #FOSSaudio #LibreAudio #OpenHardware #PloopyHeadphones #Headphones #MusicProduction #MusicEnjoyer

We're less than a month away from #SoftwareFreedomDay2023. We've had some requests for speakers at planned #SFD events. If you'd like to help, let people know on the SFD discussion mailing list: https://www.softwarefreedomday.org/mailing-lists If there's no #SoftwareFreedomDay event in your area yet, help us create one either in person or virtually. #FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

so I'm looking for some assistance setting up a plex media server on my main networked computer for use with other devices in my home that have the plex app on them. My issue is that most of my movies and/or tv shows are audio only, so they are mp3 and/or ogg formats. Adding the folder that contains my media to libraries yields no content within those libraries. If anyone who is blind has successfully set up plex with audio only movie/tv show content, I'd like to pick your brain. 🤯🙃😕

Mutual Aid 101: History, Politics, and Organizational Structures of Community Care

"The relief network Indigenous Mutual Aid writes “Indigenous Peoples have long-established practices of caring for each other for our survival, particularly in times of crisis. Mutual Aid is nothing new to Indigenous communities.”...During the COVID-19 outbreak their organization, K’é Infoshop, took relief efforts into their own hands rather than rely on the Navajo government"

https://cunyurbanfoodpolicy.org/news/2023/08/22/mutual-aid-101-history-politics-and-organizational-structures-of-community-care/

In the United States, when you buy a house or a car, you become a target of scammers. They will send mail to your house, pretending to be your mortgage company or your auto maker or your auto lender, insisting that you must give more money for some other thing. I received these three—two postcards, one "URGENT" letter—just today.

The U.S. is a scam culture. We are beset at all times by people trying to trick us out of our money, and it’s all functionally legal.

D.C. Attorney General is probing Leonard Leo’s network

The Federalist Society co-chair and ex-Trump judicial adviser has utilized nonprofit groups to collect more than $1 billion for conservative causes.

in March that one of Leo’s nonprofits — registered as a charity — paid his for-profit company tens of millions of dollars in the two years since he joined the company.

#LeonardLeo #Leo #FederalSociety

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/22/d-c-attorney-general-is-probing-leonard-leos-network-00112331

Fellow educators:

1) Don't do cop shit.
2) Don't pay for a service that does cop shit.
3) Don't trust claims of system performance without documentation.
4) DO educate your students about what ChatGPT is and why they wouldn't want to use it.

Screen caps from some spam I received just now:

Code sharing increases citations but remains uncommon

https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-3222221/v1

'We examine temporal trends in code sharing in ecology and evolution publications since 2010.

We find that scientists are overwhelmingly (95%) failing to publish their code.

We also find code sharing can considerably improve citations.'

#openscience #code #ecopubs

Wow. 8 hours in, #Microsoft is still sending the vaguest possible descriptions of the maybe-problem with #Azure #DNS and what they’e tried to resolve it. Still not fixed.
I’m betting this is another #InfoSec blunder.

So glad this customer is still in pre-prod mode so the problem(?) isn’t breaking anything that anyone notices...

#MS #ShoddySecurity #Sysadminnery

Linux users: What's the best clipboard manager, and why?

I just mentioned the new 404Media journalism outlet. This @josephcox story, on of its first, is a harrowing reminder that America's credit bureaus are a security and privacy nightmare -- and that, short of Congress giving a damn (It doesn't) you can be a target of criminals with just a few clicks.

https://www.404media.co/the-secret-weapon-hackers-can-use-to-dox-nearly-anyone-in-america-for-15-tlo-usinfosearch-transunion/

Four excellent (former) Motherboard journalists have created their own subscription outlet. It already shows great promise.

https://www.404media.co

I wish they had a lower-cost subscription tier -- and I don't see them here on Mastodon (a major omission).

But it's great to see that they're using open-source Ghost as their platform.

Recommended!

This sure did unravel quickly for the Philly police
https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/eddie-irizarry-philadelphia-police-shooting-mark-dial-family-lawyer-20230822.html

from reddit /TIL: #TIL a family in Georgia claimed to have passed down a song in an unknown language from the time of their enslavement; scientists identified the song as a genuine West African funeral song in the Mende language that had survived multiple transmissions from mother to daughter over multiple centuries

https://www.harrisnecklandtrust.org/amelia-s-song

Calling Reddit moderators: we are studying how Reddit moderators are dealing with AI-generated content. If you are a moderator (or know someone who is) and willing to do a (compensated) 60-minute interview (over chat/voice/video), please fill out this brief recruitment form or email tgl33@cornell.edu for more information: https://forms.gle/VbSUkmLPx6PSN65C7.

Feel free to/please share!

The so-called "Constitutional Sheriffs" are among the most dangerous people in America -- and their malign influence is growing. Here's some great student reporting from ASU's Cronkite School (I work there) and the Arizona Center for Investigative Journalism. https://azcir.org/cspoa/

This trom one of my favourite economists - not that that list is very long.
“It is a patrician fantasy to create a global economic system whereby the poor perpetually pay real compound interest to the rich.”
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO2308/S00213/financial-literacy-compound-interest-and-the-veneration-of-money.htm

Police officers in Ohio and Wisconsin are the latest to exploit a victims’ rights law to shield their names from the public when they wound or even kill people in the line of duty, making it harder for the public and press to hold them to account. https://freedom.press/news/police-use-victims-rights-law-to-hide-from-scrutiny/