Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

As the brilliant Matt Levine shows, the ownership structure of "Open"AI is an absolute sham. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-12-11/openai-s-investors-don-t-own-it?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTcwMjM0NjQyOCwiZXhwIjoxNzAyOTUxMjI4LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTNUlOTlZUMEcxS1cwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJBQjUxRjdCOUYxODk0NjBCOEE2RDU3NUM5QUQzOUUzQyJ9.h0QchEUERk-PdyYZ5ScB61foGB-75rZfLATa0h8wjog

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But I thought they had to raise prices to combat revenue loss due to inflation and wage increases. Does this mean—wait, no, but maybe corporations are lying to us?

The popular evidence that homeschooling is effective is largely premised on the research of one man. His research turns out to be garbage. One notable group asserts that homeschooling can be regressive, harmful, and enable abuse: his children. https://wapo.st/41dMz3T

"Belabor"

Indigenous advisory council for CN resigns, says railway won't accept responsibility #Reconciliation https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7055553

When the president of the UN climate summit runs an oil company, this is the unsurprising result. What a farce. #COP28

https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/11/climate/cop-28-draft-agreement-fossil-fuel-monday/index.html

#ifstate has moved from github to @Codeberg !

The project website https://ifstate.net has been moved from github pages to #codeberg pages, too.

The migration of the repository, issues and releases worked without any problems. Only when switching to codeberg pages a few adjustments were necessary.

Unfortunately, it would appear that the .coop tld doesn't actually mean much. I've found a number of sites with .coop that were obvious scams, and reporting them to domains.coop resulted in nada. Apparently it's pretty easy to fool the admins over there.

Remember, just because it says "co-op" on the tin, doesn't mean that's what's inside.

When a "co-op" claims that you become a member just by signing up for their service...🚩

When a "co-op" you've never heard of is talking about having a billion users...🚩

When a "co-op" has three members that are all corporations but you can't know who they are...🚩

This looks scammy as hell to me.

https://www.hello.coop/

I think I see the problem.

You would NEVER give a security-incompetent company your data if you could avoid it, right? Triple that sentiment when the data is granular genetic information -- yes, I'm talking about 23andMe, which has had a catastrophic hack.

Guess what? If a close relative gave them the DNA, you're screwed, too.

You didn't invite a breach of your most personal information, but your well-meaning relative inadvertently did.

We need laws that require your consent, not just theirs.

https://gizmodo.com/what-23andme-data-breach-means-for-users-victims-1851080672

Huh. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/504421/fujitsu-told-to-pay-corrections-3-point-9m-after-lengthy-legal-battle Turns out that sometimes "out of the box" (OOTB) software... is farcical. An easy way for proprietary software corporations to dupe gov't procurement officers who think that label somehow reduces their risk. Note, OOTB is more commonly referred to as COTS in the software context, i.e. 'Commercial-Off-The-Shelf' software. We need to stop falling for this. It's embarrassing.

New research: Getting infected with covid is bad news for future health. Getting re-infected is really bad news. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-02051-3

The need for meaningful inheritance taxes -- steep ones above some heirs-are-still-absurdly-rich threshold -- has never been more clear.

Banker-for-the-rich UBS data shows that family dynasties are becoming the primary system by which the ultra-rich come about their money.

It is completely unearned income but they pay minuscule relative taxes.

https://www.ubs.com/global/en/media/display-page-ndp/en-20231130-the-great-wealth-transfer.html

When cities run gun buyback programs, they pay a vendor to run the program and destroy the guns. Despite their marketing to the contrary, those vendors turn out to have been reselling the guns, as a matter of course, minus the receiver. 98% are resold. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10/us/guns-disposal-recycling.html?unlocked_article_code=1.E00.JnYH.TqkHjf6uP1oW&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Last week's comic on Kissinger

#politics #cartoon #humanrights #war

Long-lasting digital data storage with ceramic and glass based substrate.

https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/cerabyte-aims-to-revolutionize-data-storage-with-nanodots-ceramic/

If this is confirmed, it would be quite nice to finally have reliable data storage that would last thousands of year in archives.

My first bachelor internship, roughly a decade ago was on that topic (working with glass-based materials).

#storage #archival #dataStorage #ceramic #nanodots #laser

Tusky is looking for contributors!

The #Tusky team has lost a few contributors this year for various reasons, and we need your help building a kick-ass Mastodon app!

While we would also appreciate more technical contributors, we are specifically looking for:
- a person who can manage or help with our social account
- a project manager who can help us draft a Code of Conduct

Please help us spread the word 😊