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emoryr

@emoryr@techpolicy.social

Dad, privacy advocate, policy counsel at Privacy Rights Clearinghouse. Runner of RPGs, player of games, friend to all dogs.
Anti-advertising extremist. Fled from the bird app @emoryroane 🇺🇸 ➡️🇮🇹

Doing my best to push back against the walls of the cyberpunk dystopia being built up around us.

Hastagsalad of interests include but are not limited to: #privacy #caleg #techpolicy #advocacy #dungeonsanddragons #dnd #formula1 #f1 #aiart #copyright #foss #opensource #ttrpg #shadowdark

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emoryr, to azure
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Learning #Azure would be a lot easier if the documentation was up to date and things on the portal didn’t just hang or stop working at random intervals. Ffffuu

emoryr,
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Anyone with some kungfu want to help a teeny little nonprofit understand how this dang thing works?

emoryr, to fediverse
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Let's try this: , I've been surprised at the lack of (or at least my inability to find) quality / stories and for kids. What are the best free parenting resources you've found?

simon, to random
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The GPT-4 barrier has finally been smashed
https://simonwillison.net/2024/Mar/8/gpt-4-barrier/

emoryr,
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@simon apologies if this is mentioned somewhere, but do you know how many/can any of these can be run locally?

emoryr,
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@simon How *are * the open source models stacking up these days? When I was looking at them they didn’t seem to be usable for much at all (approaching maybe gpt 3 levels?)

dankennedy_nu, to random
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It’s unconscionable to keep using the SAT. New data show in stunning detail that it does little more than measure family wealth. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/10/23/upshot/sat-inequality.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

emoryr,
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@dankennedy_nu yes, now do the bar

emoryr, to random
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Reading @annaleen ’s “Terraformers” has me asking questions I didn’t know I need to ask before, like: “why didn’t I realize I want a flying moose that can text me?” You know, the kind of deep questions only great hard sci fi can surface.

emoryr,
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@annaleen no spoilers but HOW SOFT

neil, to linux

What was the first distribution you installed / attempted to install?

For me - a Debian user - it was gentoo, around 2003, which was a mistake.

emoryr,
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@neil I think puppy? I’ve been running Ubuntu off and on since 7.04 — it ain’t perfect but it’s familiar for sure.

davidlohner, to random German
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This. Is. Hilarious.

The PhD-Simulator

https://research.wmz.ninja/projects/phd/index.html

emoryr,
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@davidlohner Chekov’s cloud storage… I wasn’t told this was a horror game.

themarkup, to random
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NEW: Top drug store websites are sharing sensitive browsing and purchase data—from HIV tests to Plan B—with major advertising platforms. With KFF Health News: https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2023/06/30/need-to-get-plan-b-or-an-hiv-test-online-facebook-may-know-about-it

emoryr,
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@themarkup more incredible reporting, we are so much better for the work you do! In California as we are pushing to get a data broker deletion bill, SB 362, through the legislature, we’ve been citing to your work every chance we get. Adding this to the “parade of horribles”

glynmoody, to random
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Super-rich warned of ‘pitchforks and torches’ unless they tackle inequality - https://www.theguardian.com/news/2023/jun/30/uk-super-rich-beware-pitchforks-torches-unless-they-do-more you bet...

emoryr,
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ppatel, (edited ) to Toyota
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How Your New #Car Tracks You

Vehicles from #Toyota, #Honda, #Ford, and more can collect huge volumes of data. Here’s what the companies can access and sell.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/car-data-privacy-toyota-honda-ford

#privacy

emoryr,
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@ppatel cast it all into the sun. I so miss being optimistic and excited about technology. But this is how the cyberpunk dystopia is built up around us. It’s not worth it.

rmdes, to markdown
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This is actually really cool idea https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36446045

emoryr,
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@rmdes if Obsidian.Md was only open source…. It’s literally so close to being perfect.

nixCraft, (edited ) to random
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one day i will convince the world that ffmpeg is superior.

so far it only makes people stop reading my messages. https://twitter.com/meowkoteeq/status/1671188068529844228

emoryr,
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@nixCraft but seriously ffmpeg is the best.

emoryr, to random
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Im not one for buying generational generalizations (apparently, “but professor, this is all bullshit” wasn’t the right answer in my law school professionalism class on “how to work with boomers” day) - but is there a group of people that don’t suck with scheduling these days? I don’t hang with many 40+ year olds but judging by my multiple DND groups, organizing 20-30-something year olds is an exercise in herding cats.

video/mp4

emoryr, to random
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About thirty seconds from muting ActivityPub

emoryr, to random
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Once again incredible work by @mozilla demonstrating exactly why data broker deletion bills like SB 362, the CA Delete Act, are so necessary and so, so long overdue.

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/top-mental-health-and-prayer-apps-fail-spectacularly-at-privacy-security/

NPC Creation Complexity

Confession time: I am not overly enamored of "rules-lite" RPG systems. As long as the system is coherent and well-thought out, I prefer it when the system has rules for all sorts of things - from tactical combat to running chases to social encounters to falling damage and so forth. I like GURPS, I like D&D5E, I like Pathfinder...

emoryr,
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@juergen_hubert I hear you, but I would only add https://youtu.be/_szmwfkvqRk

emoryr, to random
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Follow recommendation: @RadicalGraffiti The best graffiti is radical graffiti. Here's my addition from a few months ago in Venezia. "GIGI, WHAT ARE THESE FACIAL RECOGNITION CAMERAS?
THIS IS VENICE
IT'S NOT MATRIX!"

emoryr, to random
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Some of the most harmful impacts from generative AI TODAY is the harm being done to students (disproportionately hurting non-native-english speakers) by "AI Detectors" that don't/can't/will never be able to do what it says on the tin. I'm much more concerned about instructors and educators hurting students with generative AI than I am about students "cheating".

emoryr, to fediverse
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q: I was surprised to learn that data portability isn’t a given on - something I assumed was intrinsic to the fediverse experience. Is any different? This makes migration in the a much harder question for folks who, at least on mastodon, are able to just jump in and not worry about tying themselves to any instance in particular.

emoryr,
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@devnull that is supremely disappointing. Data portability is a killer app for mastodon, I’d consider essential for a decentralized service imo. That… hm. Dang.

peterbutler, to ai
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The most lucrative use of AI right now seems to be multilevel marketing scheme

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/12/self-made-millionaire-shares-how-to-use-ai-to-make-thousands-of-dollars-a-month-in-passive-income.html

emoryr,
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@peterbutler What an intensely unlikable individual. Every single sentence in that piece is worse than the one preceding it.

emoryr, to random
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Ten years ago I was shaken to my core by the revelations. Started studying for the LSAT, applied to law school and set my sights westward to work with the tech advocates at @eff . Not everything went perfectly to plan, but today I’m policy counsel for a consumer privacy nonprofit , sponsoring a bill (S.B. 362) that will let you delete your information from hundreds of data brokers at once - and we’ve just made it through the CA Senate and are heading to the Assembly. Hell yeah.

emoryr,
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I am feeling fortunate beyond number to be able to come back to this thread to report that SB 362, The Ca Delete Act, has just been signed by the governor. By far the most rewarding most exciting most superlative anything I’ve experienced in my career. Absolutely buzzing.

We went up against some of the wealthiest tech cos out there. Literally dozens of full time and contract lobbyists. Multiple astroturfing and straight-up lie campaigns. Mobile billboards! But we beat them. Change is a’coming.

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