AfroScribble

@AfroScribble@mastodon.social

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eff, to random
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Convicting a Tornado Cash builder chills development of privacy and security tools, EFF’s @aaronmackey told DL News. “Holding a developer of beneficial tools responsible for the wrongdoing of others is short-sighted and harms everyone’s privacy online.” https://www.dlnews.com/articles/regulation/why-the-tornado-cash-alexey-pertsev-case-harms-everyone/

AfroScribble,

@eff @aaronmackey maybe this is your SPLC moment, but this person in question is very hard to sympathize or convincingly advocate for

PCMag, to random
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In an impressive demo, a Google employee points a smartphone camera at various objects and scenes, including computer code, and the Project Astra AI identifies and explains them. But some users may yawn after OpenAI debuted GPT-4o performing similar tasks a day earlier. https://www.pcmag.com/news/google-project-astra-aims-to-level-up-the-ai-assistant-experience

AfroScribble,

@PCMag ....I'm sorry isn't this just Google Lens hooked up to an LLM?

thelinuxEXP, to linux
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I tried to imagine what an enshittified distro would look like, and made a video about it, because it’s fun:

https://youtu.be/XG7Dy41yJ34

AfroScribble,

@thelinuxEXP thanks, I hate it ❤️

MattBinder, to random
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AfroScribble,

@MattBinder sometimes online it's literally just children 🧍🏿‍♂️

RadicalGraffiti, to random
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"Israel is destroying:
Hospitals
Universities
Churches and mosques
Schools
Farming fields
Residencies
And us"

Seen in a bathroom in the university of Haifa

AfroScribble,

@RadicalGraffiti waving black flag but being pro Israel is crazy

GovTrack, to random
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H.R. 1023 by Rep. Gary Palmer [R-AL6] passed the House yesterday (→Senate). To repeal section 134 of the Clean Air Act, relating to the greenhouse gas reduction fund. https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/118/hr1023 🏛️

AfroScribble,

@GovTrack I hope this dies in Senate...

MissingThePt, to random
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Democrat Thomas Suozzi wins special House election to replace disgraced Republican George Santos. Here’s why that’s bad news for Joe Biden.

AfroScribble,

@MissingThePt stealing Pitchbot's thunder, huh? 😜

eff, to random
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Using AI to create a face from crime-scene DNA & then running it through face recognition tech isn’t only “junk science,” EFF’s Jennifer Lynch told @WIRED - “It’s very dangerous, because it puts people at risk of being a suspect for a crime they didn’t commit.”
https://www.wired.com/story/parabon-nanolabs-dna-face-models-police-facial-recognition/

AfroScribble,

@eff @WIRED this is actually several orders of magnitude worse than polygraphs, because polygraphs actually measure some physical stimuli. This is on the level of asking a psychic to divinate a changeling from a scrap of DNA except people pretend it's scientific because it's attached to a hallucinating computer.

!

thelinuxEXP, to linux
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In this week's and news video, we have:

  • leap looking to push the immutable distro space forward
  • 's Steam snap becoming a problem for Valve, to the point they recommend you don't use it
  • pretty much giving up on their Fuchsia OS

And a lot more stuff!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH5ghaSLVUc

AfroScribble,

@thelinuxEXP noooooo, not Fuchsia :AAAAAA:

I was hoping that layoff didn't kill them dead, fuck

AfroScribble,

@thelinuxEXP from various user reviews, most people getting an in place upgrade from whatever-they-call-their-Google-Home-OS felt performance degredations and not much upside. And considering the tech climate in SV, it doesn't make too much sense — building a brand new kernel ready for 2023 is not remotely trivial, after all.
I still wanted to see them try though. Android's implementation of Linux has been nearly a decade of pain 😮‍💨

...I guess will have to pick up the slack 🥴

TodayInTwitter, to random
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Musk is juicing MrBeast’s video on X. It’s an old video that did numbers on YouTube a couple years ago. (MrBeast posted it recently on X to test out ad revenue sharing.)

The video is appearing in people’s X timelines as an undisclosed ad. https://mashable.com/article/x-twitter-elon-musk-mrbeast-video-unlabaled-ads-creator-monetization

AfroScribble,

@TodayInTwitter Ryan really is getting around 👀
Love Garbage Day.

TodayInTwitter, to random
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AfroScribble,

@TodayInTwitter Maybe their linking system doesn't actually care about the handle, so that it will properly redirect if people change their @? I guess that makes sense, but it leaves exploits like this wide open

cosmicvoid, to random
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Faun's music isn't winning Leo over. 🔊

If Faun sounds familiar, it might be because you heard him as Boybrush Threepwood in Return to Monkey Island. ☺️

Yep! Faun's voiced by Ava Hauser. 💚

And Leo by Ellis Knight. 🧡

video/mp4

AfroScribble,

@cosmicvoid I didn't realize Cosmic Void would be fully voiced!

protonmail, to macos
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📣 Only two weeks after the Proton Drive app launch, we're happy to announce automatic photo backup for the Drive app! 📸

Securely back up your precious photo and video memories to Proton's end-to-end encrypted cloud.

Watch here: https://youtu.be/6kMoCnOcTSY.

Learn more: https://proton.me/blog/proton-drive-photo-backup-android.

AfroScribble,

@protonmail absolutely love to see it.

Unrelated, but I'd love if you could make act as a default handler for calendars in Android.

maruki, to random
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working with excellent company today

AfroScribble,

@maruki @jarf What a Thrill...

AfroScribble,

@Damaskox amusingly, kbin does not seem to have a spoiler system nor understand Lemmy's own.

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, to auscovid19
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🇺🇸 US: A winter surge of COVID-19 is underway in the US.

Currently, according to modeling by Dr. Michael Hoerger, levels of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater correspond to more than 650,000 daily infections and a cumulative figure of 1.38 percent of the population infected at any one time, or 1 in 73 people.

@auscovid19

Source: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/11/11/hkvk-n11.html

AfroScribble,

@DenisCOVIDinfoguy @auscovid19 a summer surge, a fall surge, a winter surge, a spring surge...are we sure it's not just one continuous surge? :gnome: :hurb:

cabel, to random
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which photo of this ghostly empty bank do you prefer

image/jpeg

AfroScribble,

@cabel the first expresses closure, decline, a depression

The latter invokes mystery, openness, possibility, maybe even danger. A liminal space.

Door # 2 please!

timnitGebru, to random
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What a painful article to read my god.

"Shults & Lane...were on the ground as part of a contract they signed with the UN in August to develop a first-of-its-kind AI model that they hope will help analyze solutions to the Israel-Palestinian conflict."

"The digital twin Lane is speaking of is CulturePulse’s multi-agent AI model that they are currently building for the UN."

The UN needs a spine not a "multi-agent AI model."

https://www.wired.com/story/culturepulse-ai-israeli-palestinian-crisis/

AfroScribble,

@timnitGebru a breathtakingly awful concept, all in service of pushing AI as a knowledge super-agent that transcends petty things like 'bias,' 'propaganda,' and 'racism.'

The cravenness feels unprecedented.

w7voa, to random
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Graphic pro-Israel ads make their way into children’s video games. https://www.reuters.com/world/graphic-pro-israel-ads-make-their-way-into-childrens-video-games-2023-10-30/

AfroScribble,

@w7voa Israel's ad campaigns are beyond the pale at this point.

georgetakei, to random

You can’t delete your past, MAGA Mike Johnson. The internet is forever, and so is your vile hate.

AfroScribble,
gwynnion, to random
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Tech companies greatly underestimate my willingness to not use their services at all.

AfroScribble,

@catsalad @gwynnion Thanks, I hate it

LibrarianRA, to music
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AfroScribble,

@LibrarianRA 🎵 Get your back up off the wall! 🎶

EposVox, to random
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Our next Backing Track project begins today! ChipRock Expansion Pack is the first of FOUR albums we have coming soon, and it just dropped today! Go stream at https://backingtrack.gg ASAP!

AfroScribble,

@EposVox awesome album art

eniko, (edited ) to random
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over on bsky they're having a problem with an influx of nazis and im just like "wow that sucks. over on mastodon any place that nazis congregate just gets yeeted into the sun. also we can post gifs"

AfroScribble,

@eniko despite having a BSKY and the app installed, the link opens in my browser which asks me to login

I love the cloud app this is definitely a serious contender to Birdsite :)))))))))

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