Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

When the second assassination attempt drops

Larry Ellison, who was a terrible person long before the current generation of Silicon Valley terrible people emerged, is promoting a total surveillance society -- which is the linchpin to tomorrow's fascism.

The fact that his company stands to profit immensely from such a thing is probably not his top motivation.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/omnipresent-ai-cameras-will-ensure-good-behavior-says-larry-ellison/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Data center emissions probably 662% higher than big tech claims. Can it keep up the ruse?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/sep/15/data-center-gas-emissions-tech

Seems like everyone is having a grand old time dunking on bad LLM answers, but I can't bring myself to join in. Why? Because this is what's required to provide fodder for the jokes 👇 and I don't find it at all funny.

https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-ai-fumes

https://gizmodo.com/the-new-plan-to-power-data-hungry-ai-sink-server-farms-into-the-san-francisco-bay-2000497769

"LOL, lookit this dumb thing the LLM said! Totally worth poisoning poor people and fucking up an ecosystem for!"

The jokes just help normalize it. Don't laugh at it, demand its abolition. wtaf?

Wow, we're still not over @fediforum

It's truly amazing to bring some of the most exciting developments on the Fediverse together for a few days and see what everyone is up to. No other network has such a vibrant, committed, and supportive community.

If you attended (or even if you didn't) and you want to know a little more about what we're doing and about Patchwork - please get in touch!

#FediForum #PostConference #Unconference #Fediverse #Mastodon #Developers #Admins

Decisions concerning people’s freedom, mobility, and ability to seek safety in the United States should not be made by computers. That's why EFF and over 100 other organizations are calling on the U.S. government to stop this practice. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/09/eff-140-other-organizations-call-end-ai-use-immigration-decisions

The European mind cannot comprehend this:

“The University of California just announced a list of military weaponry it wants in order to escalate its warfare on its students:
3000 rounds of pepper munitions
500 rounds of 40mm impact munitions
12 drones
9 grenade launchers

Read the full list here: https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/sept24/c1.pdf “

I think the people of the US need to come to terms with the fact that we live in a "failed state." The entire state of Oregon, along with large sections of Washington and Idaho are currently ablaze, and we can't even pay firefighters enough to keep them around.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/12/us-firefighters-forest-service-labor-disputes
My current political stance is that ALL POLITICIANS at national level (and probably state and local levels too) need to be replaced, via sortition. Draw names out of a hat - we certainly couldn't do any worse.

I released #GNOME #Calls 47.0 yesterday 🚀 \o/

This is the first release running #gtk4 and #libadwaita

Thanks a lot to everyone who contributed code, translations and bug reports!

Find the release notes at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/calls/-/releases/v47.0

And of course, it has already been uploaded to 🎉

#LinuxMobile #phosh #Debian #Mobian #Librem5

NextNav's bid to privatize the 900 MHz band threatens a vital commons used by millions of devices and grassroots innovators. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/09/nextnavs-callous-band-grab-privatize-900-mhz

Study cited in cartoon https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/07/240730134759.htm

Latest comic: AI gone MAD
#tech #technology #internet #ai #cartoon #comic #cows

Introducing Casilda - A Wayland compositor widget!

A simple Wayland compositor widget for Gtk 4 which can be used to embed other processes windows in your Gtk 4 application.
It was originally created for Cambalache's workspace using wlroots, a modular library to create Wayland compositors.
Following Wayland tradition, this library is named after my hometown in Santa Fe, Argentina

Read more about it at https://blogs.gnome.org/xjuan/2024/09/13/introducing-casilda-wayland-compositor-widget/

@GTK #wayland #gtk

San Francisco: On Monday, you have the chance to ask the police your questions about drone surveillance in our city.

Extremists are so desperately hoping someone will find an actual immigrant eating a cat that I wouldn't be surprised if they stage something like this...

If you did NOT purchase your Deniz Camp comics with Justice Warriors, it's okay, every day is a new opportunity to make better choices to improve your life

To what degree is the Republican Party a cult?

A reporter went looking for Republican lawmakers willing to push back on the epic "eating pets" lie. You won't be a bit surprised that she couldn't find a single one.

https://www.notus.org/congress/raining-cats-and-dogs-gop-lawmakers-embrace-trumps-baseless-claims-about-immigrants-eating-pets

If you think LLMs and GenAI are cool, or even just inevitable, please read this 👇

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/09/why-must-humans-compete-for-electric-power-with-bullshit-generators-programmed-by-ritual-incantations.html

The myth of a secretly rational Republican Party is probably the most dangerous belief on the center-left.

While there are Republican voters who aren't aware of the party's extreme agenda, the people who control the party want what Trump wants. There's no "rescuing" them.

This was one of our centerpiece topics in the latest "Theory of Change" featuring OG blogger Driftglass: https://plus.flux.community/p/despite-the-rights-complaints-there

“In 11 months, Connecting Humanity has managed to send four-hundred thousand donated eSIMs from all around the world to Gaza, which is equivalent to 10 million US dollars. And we are still connecting people, and we are still asking for eSim donations every day.”