Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Oh yeah, the other glasses-related thing I did today was download the Brazilian voter registration app to check that my polling place for tomorrow hadn't changed, and it required a biometric face scan, which, fine, and asked me to take my glasses off, which...fine...and then gave further instructions on the screen.........???

DO YOU PEOPLE NOT UNDERSTAND THE PROBLEM HERE?!

Every fucking face recognition thing does this. WHY?! 😡🤦‍♀️💀 #a11y

Topics in the latest edition of my "Cornerstone of democracy" newsletter -- a compendium of the best of political reporting/commentary (and more) -- include:

-- A (legally) rigged system
-- Trump world sleaze, exhibit 11,330:
-- All lies, all the time
-- Optimism from Michael Moore

I curate to save you time. Please subscribe (it's free), and let other folks know about it.

https://cornerstone.ghost.io/essentials-october-4-2024/

The monsters of online. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2024/10/4/2274450/-Cartoon-Monster-influencers

@kotaro
Well, apparently the non-profit OpenAI has a for-profit subsidiary, which is what gets the investors. But if the for-profit is an asset of the OpenAI non-profit, then ownership of the for-profit entity would need to transfer to some other non-profit when the OpenAI non-profit "converts" to a for-profit, in order to keep with what I understand to be basic non-profit rules. The IRS has forseen this strategy and barred it, was my understanding.

Can someone please explain to me how a non-profit entity (like OpenAI) can convert to a for-profit company. Usually when a non-profit ceases to exist, its assets must be donated to another mission-aligned non-profit. So how are they getting around this fundamental aspect of (US) non-profit regulation? Anyone?

Copyrightus Infringio! Public library ends Harry Potter-themed child literacy program after legal threat from Warner Brothers - https://boingboing.net/2024/10/05/public-library-ends-harry-potter-themed-child-literacy-program-after-legal-threat-from-warner-brothers.html gotta get your priorities right... #copyrightmadness

May it die a speedy death.

https://www.wheresyoured.at/oai-business/

https://github.com/GraphiteEditor/Graphite

With Gimp 3.0 coming up I heard on Lemmy there is this Rust tools that tries to merge 2D vector and raster graphics into this tool. It is written in Rust and looks very promising, check it out!

https://graphite.rs/

For now it's in alpha but yet I have my fingers crossed.

Less than a week until the Translathon starts! Everyone is welcome!

If you are a project maintainer that accepts translations from community members on Codeberg Translate (https://translate.codeberg.org), you should totally check out what we have in store for you: https://codeberg.org/codeberg/translathon-2024#for-project-maintainers-and-developers

We’ve been warning about this for literally three decades, ever since CALEA mandated wiretap-ready telecom infrastructure. And this is merely the latest example of how these dangerous interfaces can be turned against us by our adversaries.
https://mastodon.social/@fj/113253726161428151

China successfully compromised for months the infrastructure used to do wiretaps on the AT&T and Verizon networks.

This is a huge "told you so" moment for the cryptographic community that has been saying that such infrastructure does present a huge risk to national security. China reportedly used this capability for intelligence collection, obviously without a warrant ...

https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/u-s-wiretap-systems-targeted-in-china-linked-hack-327fc63b?st=b0mqxi9zkweti11&reflink=article_copyURL_share

Excellently nuanced piece from one of my favorite journalist, Naomi Klein on the psy-ops of memorialising grief in the context of 7 October
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2024/oct/05/israel-gaza-october-7-memorials?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

"Were it happening just in one place, a compassionate world could figure out how to offer effective relief. But it’s happening in so many places. The same day that #Helene slammed into the Gulf, Hurricane John crashed into the Mexican state of Guerrero...In Nepal this afternoon at least 148 people are dead and many still missing in the Kathmandu Valley."

https://open.substack.com/pub/billmckibben/p/water?

#Flooding #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCollapse #BillMcKibben

"All of this is a way of saying something I’ve said too many times before: we’re out of margin. We’re now watching the climate crisis play out in real time, week by week, day by day. (117 Fahrenheit in Phoenix yesterday, the hottest September temperature ever recorded there, smashing the old daily mark by…eight degrees)." ~Bill McKibben

https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/water

Do you enjoy making music and sounds, but you just don't feel like relying on Bandcamp anymore?

In that case, @freebliss's Faircamp is an excellent static site generator made just for you!

Free software, translatable, written in Rust. Perfectly suitable for your experimental noise rock album, your videogame's original soundtrack or your fire mixtape. 💥 (It is also very customizable!)

Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/simonrepp/faircamp
Web: https://simonrepp.com/faircamp

#CommunitySpotlight #FOSS #musicproduction

The Turing test taught budding computer scientists that intelligence is measured by not by actually achieving a philosophical definition of intelligence, but simply by whether a machine can *trick us* into thinking it is intelligent. It’s no surprise that sophisticated AI models are more likely to lie, because AI is built on a foundation of deception. https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/10/the-more-sophisticated-ai-models-get-the-more-likely-they-are-to-lie/

Introducing Mirror Hall: Turn any Linux device into a wireless second monitor

- P2P screen sharing optimized for low latency
- Sender: Currently only for Mutter-based DEs
- Receiver: Works with all DEs

This is the first *beta* release, so please report all issues you encounter and give us feedback. This is especially for #ARM users, as we need your help testing the gstreamer pipeline on a few phones.

Full post here: https://notes.nokun.eu/post/2024-09-22-mirrorhall/

#linux #opensource #foss #gnome #apps #gstreamer

The current firefox/browser overall issue once again has me wishing for stand-alone clients for things. (I have been wanting one for DW and pretty much all "social media" since LJ...)

"A pattern emerges: subsequent repression draws only a fraction of the concern that the broad left had earlier put into interrogating the legitimacy of an action. This is one of the most insidious functions of badjacketing and disavowal – it aids the state project of disappearing people. Speculation about false flags, made exponentially worse by social media and algorithms that egg on endless engagement, steals away energy that could be spent preparing for the repression to come. It turns actions into abstractions ripe for every person to project their own arguments. That abstraction removes militants’ humanity from the picture, enjoining us to forget that real people, putting their lives on the line for the movement, must have lit the match or thrown the brick. The collective failure to adequately show up for each defendant and prisoner in this section – and many more not named – goes beyond a culture of disposability. It is a mass forgetting that makes each of us who partakes in it complicit in the work of the police, prisons, and the carceral state to not only extinguish our resistance but also erase our memory of its very possibility – and our memory and connection to the people who’ve sacrificed to keep that possibility alive."

https://north-shore.info/2024/10/04/not-liking-someone-doesnt-mean-theyre-a-cop-on-bad-jacketing/

if I can't violate labor laws and dump toxic heavy metal wastewater into coastal wildlife preserves all human progress will immediately end