Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

More evidence that our society is run by morons who are so stupid they think that they're geniuses. This appears to be the case in tech, journalism, finance, academia, etc. The tech moron says some stupid shit; the journalist moron reports the stupid shit uncritically; the finance moron funds the stupid shit; and the academic moron waxes poetic about how the stupid shit will save and/or doom humanity. It's morons and stupid shit all the way down. 🤦‍♂️

https://www.wheresyoured.at/sam-altman-is-full-of-shit/

The really big changes---working toward mutual care, dismantling capitalism, learning to work in partnership with the more-than-human world rather than treating it as something to exploit---these will never be delivered by governments that are responsive to business interests or the desires of the hyperwealthy. And yet, that's what governments do, with the U.S. government more guilty than most.

@GossiTheDog #Windows and #Microsoft products are thus not suitable for use in #school. Our #education system should be free of #surveillance tech.

We should not be normalising this kind of dangerous #spyware by teaching kids that this is normal.
#SpywareByDesign #Recall

Modest proposal.

Bring back the corporate death penalty. Use it for things like ecocide, gross pollution, and wage theft.

Liquidate and give the proceeds to those who were wronged.

It suddenly occurred to me to wonder how much of the reason that coming-of-age rituals often involve time away from community or venturing out on one's own (whether to go on walkabout, to attend college, travel) might be just as much for the parents and elders as for the young people in question.

Much of what you need to know to understand the current dysfunction in the US (and other parts of the world too, I'm sure).

https://www.okdoomer.io/all-about-the-dissonance/

These bricks conduct electricity and combine to create a powerful thermal battery | Backed by federal funding, MIT spin-off Electrified Thermal Solutions says its bricks can replace fossil fuels. https://slrpnk.net/post/9821276

Our corrupt Supreme Court is an arm of the Republican Party, and democracy is the victim. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/23/supreme-court-ruling-south-carolina-voting-map-gerrymander/

@lightweight it’s bullshit. https://mastodon.social/@ThePlant/112486469559854730

I say "you can't be both a 'progressive' and comfortable with the multinational corporate model." Change my mind.

With all the Microsoft Recall stuff saturating the Fediverse right now (my feed at least)... It seems a good time to remember that Microsoft has always had form as an unethical organisation... I commemd to you this detailed (and enjoyable) account of their first decade or so: https://web.archive.org/web/20051013072349/http://www.vanwensveen.nl/rants/microsoft/IhateMS_1.html

Yes, you can host Git bombs on Codeberg.

No, we are not fond of this idea.

We are currently looking into countermeasures to get Codeberg back on track.

I got ahold of the Copilot+ software.

Recall uses a bunch of services themed CAP - Core AI Platform. Enabled by default.

It spits constant screenshots (the product brands then “snapshots”, but they’re hooked screenshots) into the current user’s AppData as part of image storage.

The NPU processes them and extracts text, into a database file.

The database is SQLite, and you can access it as the user including programmatically. It 100% does not need physical access and can be stolen.

“Most people are not aware of the resource usage underlying ChatGPT,” Ren said. “If you’re not aware of the resource usage, then there’s no way that we can help conserve the resources.”

In July 2022, the month before OpenAI says it completed its training of GPT-4, Microsoft pumped in about 11.5 million gallons of water to its cluster of Iowa data centers, according to the West Des Moines Water Works. That amounted to about 6% of all the water used in the district, which also supplies drinking water to the city’s residents.

#tech #technology #AI #generativeAI #ChatGPT #microsoft #ClimateCrisis

https://apnews.com/article/chatgpt-gpt4-iowa-ai-water-consumption-microsoft-f551fde98083d17a7e8d904f8be822c4?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3RSpm6xHK11bscxSH0LOYa_u0NzVqm82Q6rYJ6wY9I3CEHNJjy3AGXkYs_aem_AZajQUCRmv2g52SCEwjpSTEV1O3wZE25xpNndxjJRG0H3JKJBG-abCQJA12X_owD3rmSmRXu4wOOfUmjLs5KJzKf

@CedarTea kicked off a mega conversation thread about labor, productivity, and all kinds of other issues here:
https://social.coop/@CedarTea/112479784376602038

Here we see the unhinged liberals in their natural habitat...

To be upfront: my own first reaction was critical. I am very privacy-conscious, and the idea that 'someone' captures my screen every few minutes is disturbing. Sure, it's voluntary, local, might be encrypted, etc, but that doesn't change the fact. These things might change. The feature might be turned on with the next update. HR might turn it on. My boss might look at it. Someone's lawyer might. The police or government might. Some hacker might. The potential that they could is alarming enough.

@lightweight @Firesphere @virtuous_sloth @keoni Not sure how much effort would be required. That is why I thought a 'Translation Academy' would be a good place to start planting seeds.

Although I very much want to see both updated dictionary and language packs/translations for #TeReoMāori in Linux/Ubuntu. I do think it is a taonga that needs to an iwi or similar group to be kaitiaki for it.

If someone is like "huh, we don't know where to start", I'd leap in to help and be part of what they do.

@Firesphere @virtuous_sloth @keoni Adding the Māori keyboard is the easiest.
Adding a dictionary can be done, but it needs someone to give it some love as it is quite out of date.
Using the Te Reo Māori interface to the GUI .. a truely sad state of affairs there. With it currently unsupported in all(?) distros. Ubuntu had it for a while but there was a lack of support to keep it updated.

More info here .. https://figjam.nz/geekery/māori_ubuntu.html