Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

There’s a lot to chew on in this short article (ht @ajsadauskas):
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20240214-ai-recruiting-hiring-software-bias-discrimination

“An AI resume screener…trained on CVs of employees already at the firm” gave candidates extra marks if they listed male-associated sports, and downgraded female-associated sports.

Bias like this is enraging, but completely unsurprising to anybody who knows half a thing about how machine learning works. Which apparently doesn’t include a lot of execs and HR folks.

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How to #donate to #Codeberg? We have updated our summary page.

https://docs.codeberg.org/improving-codeberg/donate/

Thank you for your contribution to the freedom of Free Software projects. Together, we allow them to do their work with Free Software only, and make dependencies on proprietary platforms unnecessary.

Mark your calendars for the first annual Upstate Anarchist Book Fair on May 4 and 5, 2024 in Binghamton, NY co-hosted by PM Press and Riot Act Books at the PM Press warehouse.

Learn more, spread the word, apply for a table, propose a workshop, and join us!

http://UpstateAnarchistBookFair.com

#anarchism #books

The logical explanation for Trump's endless silence on Navalny is by far the most likely one: He's fine with Putin persecuting opponents and having them killed.

This is what Trump plainly plans here, and he's made no secret of it.

The spammy toots and new accounts we've been seeing here over the last 24h or so all seem to be in service of a "Joe Job," i.e. spamming everyone promoting a handle or person that you want everyone to get mad at or think more poorly of.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_job

I made the mistake of deleting my Reddit account before deleting the (relatively few) posts I'd made there. If you're planning to depart, make sure you delete posts first, account second.

If you've ever posted anything on Reddit, your words are going to be sucked up into an "AI" database. The people who profit from this are Reddit and the "AI" company.

What do you get? Screwed, again, by a tech company that has pure contempt for your privacy and rights.

https://www.engadget.com/reddit-reportedly-signed-a-multi-million-content-licensing-deal-with-an-ai-company-124516009.html

With the advent of text-parsing software in every smartphone, can we finally get rid of the idiotic QR code for sharing information with humans?

Humans can read text. Computers can read text.

Humans cannot read QR codes.

Having one is intentionally saying "I hate and exclude you, and/or am trying to exploit your phone's weak security".

The spammers have discovered Mastodon. Report and block. It will take more than that to slow this stuff, but that is an essential first step.

Some thoughts on spam:

1. Right now it's a single idiot running a scripted Joe Job. But we know how spam ecosystems develop. The next steps are inevitable.

2. Next, someone will release an activitypub spamming script. It will hammer on servers to create throwaway accounts then use them to post.

3. This will drive a bunch of small servers off the fediverse and cause acrimonious defederation squabbles.

4. Surviving servers will limit sign-ups, requiring proof of humanity (or identity).

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There is an ongoing spam attack on the fediverse for the last couple of days. It's more widespread than before, as attackers are targeting smaller servers to create accounts. Before, usually only mastodon.social was targeted and our team could take care of it. For server administrators out there: If you don't need open registrations, switch over to approval mode. If you do, blocking disposable e-mail providers is a massive stopgap to the problem. Mastodon also supports hCaptcha.

- University: We care about accessibility
- University website: here is an accessibility statement
- University community: We can't find anything on this website
- University: no no no, we were required to make it accessible, not usable.

"I began to read. What I discovered in books led me to think to question, to explore, and finally redirect my life." –Huey P. Newton, cofounder of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, born on February 17, 1942 in Monroe, Louisiana

China: figures out a process to farm Caviar thus saving wild sturgeon from extinction and make a delicacy widely affordable to the masses

American Press:

@Free_Press

These are the donors who own & operate the GOP, and Republican foreign policy.

Walmart
AT&T
Meta
Microsoft
Boeing
Capital One
Charter
Chevron
Cox Enterprises
Koch Enterprises
National Association of Realtors
Verizon
American Ethane

https://theintercept.com/2023/11/01/mike-johnson-donor-aipac-israel/

https://popular.info/p/speaker-mike-johnsons-corporate-backers

https://www.newsweek.com/house-speaker-mike-johnson-donations-russia-butina-1838501

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/03/charles-koch-keeping-business-russia

I just backed up my entire phones eMMC storage using https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Jumpdrive no propertairy weird apps with limitations no nothing.

Just a bootloader that makes the internal storage appear as removable drive.

I never have to fear about reconfiguring my phone, losing app data or configuration again.

Brick the phone, just reflash the last complete image backup and we are back.

I can't understate how mindblowingly powerful this is

#librem5 #linux #Mobile #backup

Hey, Fedi admins, go right now and check to make sure that you have caps/limits set on your Object Storage provider so they just stop serving you images instead of charging you $3,000 because some random person in Europe decided to scrape your instance.

Re: https://cloudisland.nz/@aurynn/111937646419975910

This is a really tragic tale (I hope they can get the charge reversed) but right at this moment I want to make sure this doesn't happen to anyone else.

We are excited about @forgejo becoming a hard fork, and trust the maintainers to double down on their commitment to a secure and reliable software forge. It was a pleasure to work with #Forgejo in the past year, and we thank everyone involved for turning the fork into a successful project.

#WorkingFromHome can bring big #health benefits, study finds | Working from home | The Guardian

So, obviously everyone should be forced to get back into the office. [Sarc.]

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/feb/17/working-from-home-can-bring-big-health-benefits-study-finds

All this talk about how the US treats its political prisoners has really...oh wait