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GM will be banned from selling driver behavioral data and geolocation. Good, but all automakers need privacy regulation. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/ftcs-ban-gm-and-onstar-selling-driver-behavior-good-first-step

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My new opinion piece at Scientific American has just been published.

"Our refusal to aggressively cut greenhouse-gas emissions isn’t a problem for some distant uncertain future; it has become our present-day reality. It is time to disavow climate denial and accelerate building disaster resilience in our cities and homes.'

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/los-angeles-fires-force-us-to-confront-our-dystopian-present/

After his executive order on sex, is #Trump legally the first female president? - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/25/trump-executive-order-sex so let's call her "Mrs President" now...

This week's comic: Your New Order Has Arrived

#cartoon #comic #politics #media #authoritarianism

Now is the time to know our antifascist history. Get a FREE e-Book copy of It Did Happen Here: An Antifascist People’s History with code ANTIFA at checkout. Get your free e-Book and check out the @itdidhappenherepodcast at the link in our bio.

@kims short version: an eccentric Chinese billionaire set out to try to make something better than ChatGPT, apparently accomplished it with way fewer resources than the U.S. companies are throwing at things, made some breakthroughs, published a paper revealing all the secrets, and showed that you can do what they do for a fraction of the price and resources, which is going to mean that the U.S. companies are going to struggle to raise as much money or will be expected to do much more with less, which means an AI winter might be coming, or that we really can’t compete as well as we think. But also frankly a lot of weird ‘I can’t believe the Chinese can actually do anything’ in this narrative.

While VPNs may be able to disguise the source of your internet activity, they are not foolproof—nor should they be necessary to access legally protected speech.https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/vpns-are-not-solution-age-verification-laws

Someone I know is learning to program. I looked at the resulting code, and, unsurprisingly, it was bad :D

What did stand out was the inconsistent indentation.

I only fail to indent when I copy-paste the worst dreck, to throw away with disgust 5 min later. I spend maybe 30min per year with badly indented code.

(And I consider it consistently-indented code even if it's a style I don't like.)

And you, experienced coders? Do you worry about indentation as much as I?

#askfedi #programming

This is why the media wants to keep you angry about immigrants and trans people and all the other culture war bullshit.

"Off-the-shelf governance models for small FOSS projects?" by @pintoch (2024-12-20)

https://antonin.delpeuch.eu/posts/off-the-shelf-governance-models-for-small-foss-projects/

Sigh, another writer I otherwise respect is all in with Substack, thereby limiting the links -- and foregoing the money -- I'd otherwise send his way.

New post: The Points Between Podcast, Episode Five https://www.eviscerati.org/podcasts/the-points-between/2025/01/the-points-between-podcast-episode-five/

sorry, this is... this is a pet peeve, but it's more than that, it's a serious movement strategy concern

how fucking hard it is to say "deliberate cruelty"?

it's short, it's to the point, it is the thing that's actually in evidence

the moment people start using medical diagnostic terms instead of just saying "deliberate cruelty", it invites the forces of hatred to use exaggerated versions of our positions to get us all fighting each other instead of them

Check it out we just made @cyd open source!!! https://cyd.social/cyd-is-now-open-source/

I can't keep track of every freak-of-the-week, so here's a DIY solution. https://brianmcfadden.org/2025/01/17/evergreen-trump-ii-cartoons/

As long as it makes them money, Elon Musk and co. will support a fascist president, embolden the far-right, and censor anyone who criticizes the ruling class.

While we figure out new ways to share information (and avoid censorship), we encourage everyone to spend less time on these parasitic platforms. Through the end of the month, we are offering all of our physical media (DVDs & CDs) at 70% off with coupon code: 404.

This is the only test you will need to run to determine whether AI has progressed to the point that machines have achieved true sentience.

Want to have look into our kitchen?

You can!

Our code repository (thanks Forgejo!) is publicly accessible, so feel free to have a look into our kitchen.

https://git.fediversity.eu/

Keep in mind though, that this project is very much under construction.

There is nothing to install or run yet, but you can already have a look at what our chefs are preparing…

just don’t tell Gordon Ramsay yet 😉

#Fediverse #WorkInProgress #OpenSource #Tech