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A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#156 Happy Hacking
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2024/07/twig-156/

#GNOME #TWIG

"What this means in plain English is that one of the largest financial institutions in the world is seeing what people who are paying attention are seeing with their eyes: Companies are acting like generative AI is going to change the world and are acting as such, while the reality is that this is a technology that is currently deeply unreliable and may not change much of anything at all."

(Original title: Goldman Sachs: AI Is Overhyped, Wildly Expensive, and Unreliable)

https://www.404media.co/goldman-sachs-ai-is-overhyped-wildly-expensive-and-unreliable/

Court after court has recognized that no one can own the text of the law. But the Pro Codes Act is a deceptive power grab that will help giant industry associations ration access to huge swaths of U.S. laws. https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-don-t-let-anyone-own-the-law

🐦🔗: https://nitter.oksocial.net/EFF/status/1814808003847332263#m

[2024/07/20 23:42]

CrowdStrike debacle provides road map of American vulnerabilities to adversaries

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New Additive Manufacturing Contenders: HIP and Centrifugal Printing - Additive Manufacturing (AM) is a field of ever-growing importance, with many start... - https://hackaday.com/2024/07/20/new-additive-manufacturing-contenders-hip-and-centrifugal-printing/ #additivemanufacturing #3dprinterhacks #techhacks #sintering

Travelling by sleeper train beats travelling by plane. Hands down.

I’m travelling in a small hotel room with a view. It almost feels as soothing as sleeping in a boat. I got to the train by foot and I’ll arrive in the city centre.

Compare that to a cramped seat in a crowded plane and traffic jam before and after the trip.

Trains are the future of transportation.

Are people too flawed, ignorant, and tribal for open societies? https://www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/are-people-too-flawed-ignorant-and

I deactivated my #Facebook account. I had been using it to try and spread #cybersecurity and #privacy tips to friends and family; to make myself available. After 3 years of trying to spread awareness and inform people, it slowly became obvious that they didn't "want" to know when #Meta abused their access to information, or what things they could do to be safe. If it meant any amount of slight inconvenience or action on their part, they didn't care, so I left and probably won't be back.

Typst: An easy to learn alternative for LaTex

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Trump shooter used Android phone from Samsung; cracked by Cellebrite in 40 min https://9to5mac.com/2024/07/18/trump-shooter-android-phone-cellebrite/

So my brother-in-law lost his job because of the #Crowdstrike issue. He works on ships that sail out of New Orleans and when he gets to come in he flies home. He went to Nashville like normal to catch his flight back down to New Orleans but all flights had been cancelled. He tried to rent a car but couldn't rent a car either and the ship had a schedule to keep so he lost his position on the boat.

The breadth of the impact of one bad update from one vendor should tell us something.

Firefox 128 Criticized for Including Small Test of 'Privacy-Preserving' Ad Tech by Default - "Many people over the past few days have been lashing out at Mozilla," writes the... - https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/07/20/0510233/firefox-128-criticized-for-including-small-test-of-privacy-preserving-ad-tech-by-default?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #firefox

Azure US Central is down https://azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status?date=18july2024

Bangladesh is in the midst of a near-total internet shutdown

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UK teen arrested in connection to MGM hack - Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

Police in ... - https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/19/24202142/uk-teen-mgm-hack-arrested-fbi

Make a simple watch for @m5stack M5StickC with clock and date!

Instructions: https://bit.ly/4bRr6Bs

#Arduino #wifi #BLE

Moderation is always the least exciting part and can also be the most time-consuming. To help you manage this, PeerTube v6.2 not only adds a new page listing all the comments made on your videos, which you can now approve manually, but also the ability to create word lists that will automatically put comments containing them in the moderation queue!

#peertube #moderation

The main thing that #Mastodon needs to fix for me now is the broken #mute function.

For some reason they removed the short-mute option, which was one of the main things I liked about the mute-a-person capability.

You can't mute someone for less than 24hrs now. :(

#MastodonUX #shortMute @Mastodon

What is CrowdStrike, and what happened? - Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge

On Fri... - https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/19/24201864/crowdstrike-outage-explained-microsoft-windows-bsod

This Week in Security: Snowflake, The CVD Tension, and Kaspersky’s Exit — And Breaking BSOD - In the past week, AT&T has announced an absolutely massive data breach. This i... - https://hackaday.com/2024/07/19/this-week-in-security-snowflake-the-cvd-tension-and-kasperskys-exit-and-breaking-bsod/ #thisweekinsecurity #hackadaycolumns #securityhacks #breakingbsod #snowflake #news