The Sick World of Prison Tycoon Games
The Sick World of Prison Tycoon Games
Only a deeply broken society would create a mobile game like “Lands of Jail.”Stephen Prager (Current Affairs Inc)
The Social Media Trend Machine Is Spitting Out Weirder and Weirder Results
TikTok Trends Are Driving Random Consumer Spending Spikes
Trends always have an element of randomness, but our algorithmic feeds have made them unintelligible.Amanda Mull (Bloomberg)
Reddit will block the Internet Archive
Reddit will block the Internet Archive
Reddit caught AI companies scraping its data from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, so it’s going to limit the Internet Archive from indexing some data.Jay Peters (The Verge)
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Gate keeping the API thinking it'll help with making some bigshot LLM some day lol
We are sliding rapidly into Idiocracy.
Buddy, we are already there. “Ow, my balls!” Would be high-brow tv these days.
Not to mention so many projects putting their support in walled garden chat services like Discord that you can’t even search via search engine. Even if you can figure out who asked the right question and when, you have to trawl through a sea of inane garbled chat to get to the developer/expert response.
Specialised topic forums really need to make a resurgence but I doubt they will.
Not to mention so many projects putting their support in walled garden chat services like Discord that you can’t even search via search engine.
Seeing this happen has been one of the saddest most desperate parts about watching the internet dying.
It was obvious what was going to happen years ago, that didn't stop people from acting like I was a reactionary foolish cynic when I voiced concern about this though.
Seriously FUCK Discord (and Reddit).
Weren't Reddit complaining a couple of years ago that too many AI bots crawls were stressing their servers.
Doesn't the internet archive relieve that stress?
Doesn't the internet archive relieve that stress?
I think that was probably the real reason for the block, the Internet Archive is too functional, scalable and accessible of a service for reddit's lame excuses about needing to gatekeep access to the community created content on their website to not make reddit look totally stupid unless they came up with an excuse to block the Internet Archive.
Reddit warned my account ( first warn in 10 years ) and deleted the comment when I told a American he can strike peacefully to show the government they are against it.
I got a warn for recommending violence by an ai , the human that checked it agreed and didn't remove the warn haha.
Reddit is just feared that their censorship goes public.
Not that reddit isn't hot garbage right now, and has been for a while actually, but there's a lot of people here who have glazed over the reason why reddit instituted this policy.
AI companies are scraping the Wayback Machine. This is something that should concern all of us.
And what do I care about Reddit getting paid?
If the IA doesn't complain about being used, then it's fine for me. The ideal outcome would be, if the archive can make some arrangement where they scrape the data and provide it to everyone. That way, sites only get scraped once and not constantly hammered.
Lenovo Webcams Can Be Turned into Persistent Attack Platforms
Lenovo Webcams Can Be Turned into Persistent Attack Platforms
Linux USB webcams from Lenovo can be turned into persistent “BadUSB” devices to inject keystrokes, drop payloads, and surve system reinstallsBill Mann (CyberInsider)
First Nations Warn Carney’s Push to Build Canada Could Tear It Apart
First Nations Warn Carney’s Push to Build Canada Could Tear It Apart | The Walrus
The prime minister’s fast-track law has already set off a wave of Indigenous protestJoy SpearChief-Morris (The Walrus)
Vuoto a perdere 06: o mio o di nessun altro!
MONDO REALE: Freddie Mercury non ha mai avuto dei figli ma Mary Austin, la donna che lui ha amato, sì.
Il frontman dei Queen però era appassionato di gatti e per questo ha scritto una canzone per la sua preferita. Delilah.
FANTASIA: Mark Wilson scopre un segreto molto personale su Freddie intercettando alcune lettere a lui indirizzate, e la decisione è presa: Freddie, di quella corrispondenza, non saprà mai; è un’arma troppo potente nelle mani di Mark!
Racconto aggiornato dopo la pubblicazione iniziale (2021)
Vuoto a perdere: o mio, o di nessun altro!
Per giorni il mio defunto compagno Andrew continuò a ripetermelo nel sogno: “Dissangua il mio gifter, porta la sua anima da me!”
Dalla sera in cui Freddie si era tagliato un dito durante una cena, l’idea di ottenere il suo sangue diventò un’ossessione e più passava il tempo, più la determinazione si tramutò in rabbia.
“Se Freddie non sarà mio, nessun altro lo avrà!” dicevo tra me, ogni volta che mi alzavo dal letto e mi guardavo nello specchio.
Non riuscii mai però ad avvicinarlo davvero: lo vedevo girare insieme al suo staff, sorridere, parlare con l’assistente Melania ma era impossibile avere un’occasione per stare da solo con lui.
Non restò altro che studiare un piano per tendergli una trappola che l’avrebbe potuto dissanguare ma sfortunatamente, documentandomi grazie ai pochi mezzi di informazione disponibili, capii quanto il virus HIV fosse debole: la trasmissione non avviene senza contatto diretto col sangue del malato!
Il piano del dissanguatore
La sola speranza per me era stare lì mentre accadeva, e raccogliere il prezioso fluido in velocità: Ogni qual volta pulivo la sua stanza, cercavo di escogitare un sistema per sabotare un lampadario, una finestra, qualsiasi altro oggetto di vetro che potesse infrangersi su di lui mentre dormiva e io sarei corso ad aiutarlo, guarda caso mi sarei tagliato e poi…
No, alla fine decisi che non valeva la pena; troppo rischioso per la mia reputazione, mi avrebbero accusato di omicidio facendomi finire come Mark David Chapman, l’uomo che nel 1980 sparò a John Lennon. Povero idiota, quando John venne portato via rimase lì a leggersi Il Giovane Holden aspettando gli eventi, ma non ebbe alcun legame col proprio mito.
Io invece, facendo le cose per bene, potevo essere unito a Freddie per sempre e, soprattutto, diffondere il virus consentendo al mio idolo di vivere per l’eternità. E pazienza se per il mondo sarei stato l’ennesimo criminale! Mi sentivo coperto, nella mia falsa identità di William Karson.
Buone notizie?
Assorto nei miei pensieri non mi accorsi immediatamente di qualcuno che bussava alla porta della mia stanza; “Karson, c’è bisogno di te!” Mi disse Jim, il compagno di Freddie, quando aprii.
Stringeva in mano una busta. “Questa l’hanno mandata un paio di giorni fa destinata a Freddie, e appena ho letto da dove arriva mi sei venuto in mente subito.”
Allora era vero, hanno letto il mio curriculum prima di assumermi! Presi la lettera fra le dita e mi lasciai andare a un sospiro di malinconia, quando lessi la provenienza del mittente: Bugliano, culla e tomba per i miei sogni di scienziato.
Ricordai immediatamente il mio passato da studente di medicina, quando la speranza di sconfiggere l’AIDS con le mie sole forze, mi aveva indotto persino a fare pace con chi mi aveva sempre bullizzato. Raymond Still, che quando mi bocciarono, diede un colpo di spugna alla nostra inaspettata amicizia e mi umiliò il doppio.
Promozioni e fallimenti
“Mark Wilson, Lei può solo pulire i gabinetti”, mi disse impietoso l’insegnante quando provai a contestare il risultato finale; e Ray Still non mosse un dito per difendermi, anzi mi voltò le spalle per godersi la sua promozione con tutti gli onori!
Soltanto pochi mesi dopo aver accettato il lavoro a casa di Freddie Mercury, scoprii che mentre io facevo le pulizie Raymond Still aveva fatto carriera e avviato un’importante ricerca su HIV, con tanto di annuncio: “Sto cercando una celebrità risultata positiva al virus per sperimentare il mio nuovo studio. L’HIV, opportunamente modificato, può trasmettere emozioni e talento da una persona all’altra!”
Quale occasione migliore per fargli sapere di Freddie?
Stringendo ancora fra le mani la busta consegnatami da Jim, ripensai alla mia lettera appena spedita a Raymond in risposta al suo annuncio; gli avevo raccontato per filo e per segno la positività di Freddie ma anche dopo giorni dall’invio della missiva, non ricevetti alcun riscontro.
E se la busta in mano mia contenesse proprio la risposta di Ray, che da Bugliano voleva parlare direttamente con Freddie?
Non mi feci alcuno scrupolo e me la misi in tasca: “Mai paura, Jim! La porto io al capo, il messaggio è in buone mani.”
Inizio di un inganno
Alla svelta, chiusi la porta della mia stanza e tirata fuori la lettera, iniziai a leggere quel foglio scritto a penna:
Sono incinta, amore della mia vita. Aspettiamo una bambina, il nostro miracolo ma anche la mia più grande paura.Il mondo è un posto crudele e sento di non essere capace di proteggerla abbastanza perché sono in Russia, sposata con un violento.
“Che cosa? Freddie ha una figlia in Russia, o a Bugliano? Dove? Poco importa”, pensai. Se è vero non lo saprà mai! Richiusi la busta come nulla fosse e la nascosi nella mia borsa. Sarei stato l’unico a conoscere il segreto, avrei girato il mondo per trovare quella presunta bambina, dopodiché Freddie sarebbe stato mio, e solo mio!
China reports 5% industrial robot installation growth as US, EU fall
China reports 5% industrial robot installation growth as US, EU fall
As global robot sales fell to 520,000 units, China surged to 290,000, widening its lead over the US and EU in manufacturing automation.Kaif Shaikh (Interesting Engineering)
Starmer’s team seen as ‘tired, same-again politicians’, says Labour peer
Starmer’s team seen as ‘tired, same-again politicians’, says Labour peer
Charlie Falconer calls on party colleagues to rediscover energy and not risk losing credit for big achievementsJessica Elgot (The Guardian)
Program alternative SCRU
Before I fully make the switch to Linux I'm looking for options to replace an old Windows program called SCRU. You set a folder to watch, and an output folder and it automatically copies specified extensions or extracts rar into the output folder.
I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to do this in terminal and haven't dug into scripts yet, just want to know of it's possible.
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.How to monitor a complete directory tree for changes in Linux?
How can I monitor a whole directory tree for changes in Linux (ext3 file system)? Currently the directory contains about half a million files in about 3,000 subdirectories, organized in three dire...Stack Overflow
ShellCheck – shell script analysis tool
ShellCheck finds bugs in your shell scriptswww.shellcheck.net
You can throw stuff like that into perplexity.ai as a starting point (it's free):
perplexity.ai/search/before-i-…
You can then continue to ask about stuff you want to understand. It's a great learning tool.
While I know extracting files is not difficult in Linux, there are a lot of different compressed file types. Most have some Linux alternative.
Linux is different from windows, in that most things that require a separate program to be installed, are usually default operations. Most file managers offer to compress or extract in the right click menu.
Try a live distro for a few days. It will blow your mind.
Its a command called crontab. Unix is all about doing things automatically. Takes a bit of time to set up, but then it does what you want, when you want it.
Your going to love it once you use it.
Edit: spelling
The Linux way:
- write a script: you can use the find command to find for example rars in a folder. find ~/thatfolder -iname '*.rar' -exec uncompresscommand. Read 'man find' for specifics. Script's first line is #!/bin/bash. Say 'chmod u+x script' to make it executable.
- set up a systemd timer unit that calls a service unit that runs your script at intervals.
- you can use something like for file in ~/thatfolder/* ; do sed trick that extracts the file extension and puts it in a variable ; case $variable in ; bunch of cases for different extensions. Variable $file will hold the source file name. Read up on bash scripting to figure it out.
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Is it possible to use plugins if I have Illustrator from M0nkrus or Genp?
Note: I am not requesting a link, source, nor a how-to, but rather I am curious if it is possible to use plugins if I have Illustrator from M0nkrus or Genp, because then I will know that continuing to search for one won’t be in vain, and that I am not just being foolishly optimistic.
Thank you.
Yes.
I assume so because PS, Pr, Ae all do.
Reddit will block the Internet Archive
Reddit will block the Internet Archive
Reddit caught AI companies scraping its data from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, so it’s going to limit the Internet Archive from indexing some data.Jay Peters (The Verge)
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Mi riferisco al decreto che modifica il codice della strada, in relazione all'abbandono di rifiuti oppure oggetti lanciati dal finestrino dell'auto.
Era ora!
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Dal 9 agosto chi getta rifiuti dal veicolo rischia multe record e arresto. Le telecamere ora sono prova: ecco cosa cambiaRiccardo Liguori (GreenMe.it)
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Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act verification rules
Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act verification rules
The Wikimedia Foundation says the new rules could threaten user privacy and safety.Chris Vallance (BBC News)
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Google Using Generic & Undocumented Google Crawler
Google May Be Using Generic & Undocumented Google Crawler
There are numerous reports that Google may be using a more generic and undocumented Googlebot, Google crawler. The crawler user agent is just named "Google," and it is not listed in any of the documenBarry Schwartz (Search Engine Roundtable)
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A Plea From Gaza: You’re My Only Hope
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/5783600
My name is Soliman — a young man and student from Gaza, carrying a burden far heavier than my age. Between my studies and the hardships of life, I try to be the backbone of my family in the most difficult of times.We once had a small farm — olive and citrus trees, and a greenhouse where we planted not just crops, but dreams.
That farm was our only source of income, and more than that, it was a place full of memories, of hope, and of the laughter that once made life a little easier.But in a single moment, everything was gone.
A fire reduced our years of effort to ashes.
We lost our source of living, our stability — and with it, a part of our souls.Now, despite the pain, I’m trying to start over. I’m doing everything I can to keep my family standing, to find even the smallest light of hope that might restore our strength, dignity, and sense of humanity.
I share these words with honesty and hope, hoping they reach a kind heart — someone who can help, or even simply share my story with others who might be able to.
If you’re able to support us in any way, here is the link to our GoFundMe campaign:
👉 gofund.me/da782c66
Every share, every kind word, every small donation could be a lifeline for us.From the bottom of my heart, thank you for taking a moment to read my story.
AOL will stop offering dial-up internet service after more than 30 years in business
AOL will stop offering dial-up internet service after more than 30 years in business
AOL, an internet pioneer that brought millions of Americans online for the first time, is discontinuing its dial-up service next month.Gabriel Sama (The Mercury News)
This conversation is being recorded — and so is everything else you do in San Francisco
This conversation is being recorded — and so is everything else you do in San Francisco
AI wearables are quietly recording everything. Is it legal? And do you consent?Zara Stone (The San Francisco Standard)
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And I'm saying that in many states your lack of consent doesn't matter (legally speaking). Your consent is not required if someone else decides to record with their device.
I don't like it. Just stating that you declining to consent does nothing if someone else records you and gives the recordings to the police. That's not a search of you or your possessions, that's a search of someone else's recording that did not require your consent to be made.
None of this is new, just increasingly insidious and ubiquitous.
BRB. Building a wearable that sends out an ultrasonic screech to blow out nearby microphones.
Going to call it "Blow Me."
Edit: looks like they already exist: newscientist.com/article/23286…
Also, paper with more detail: arxiv.org/pdf/1904.08490v1
Voice jammer stops anyone from recording you speak
An artificial intelligence voice jammer can unobtrusively block microphones recording a single voice in an area, avoiding causing wider disruption that might tip people offMatthew Sparkes (New Scientist)
github.com/mcore1976/antispy-j…
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github.com/buildidealis/audio-…
GitHub - mcore1976/antispy-jammer: Simplest ultrasonic ANTISPY voice recording jammer based on ATTINY13 / ATTINY85/45/25 / ARDUINO with PAM8403 / TPA3116D2 module driving piezo ultrasonic transducers (and optionally AD8933 signal generator)
Simplest ultrasonic ANTISPY voice recording jammer based on ATTINY13 / ATTINY85/45/25 / ARDUINO with PAM8403 / TPA3116D2 module driving piezo ultrasonic transducers (and optionally AD8933 signal g...GitHub
Come rinunciare a calendario e contatti Google ed avere tutti i dati sul proprio server Linux usando come client delle APP open source
Questo articolo non vuol essere la guida unica possibile allo scopo, così è come ho fatto io, sicuramente vi sono altri modi, ma questa è una soluzione testata e funzionante. Se vi fossero omissioni o errori, non esitate a rispondere a questo post o contattarmi.
Installare sul proprio server Linux il programma server chiamato NextCloud con YunoHost è semplicissimo. Nelle impostazioni di installazione, lasciare aperta l'applicazione ai "visitatori" (ovvero agli utenti non autenticati che potranno autenticarsi) dall'apposito menu a tendina.
Da nextCloud -> Applicazioni -> ufficio e testo -> cercare "Calendar", installarla e abilitarla se già non è stato fatto. Ora in alto nella barra aparirà un'icona Calendario.
Da nextCloud -> Applicazioni -> ufficio e testo -> cercare "Contacts", installarla e abilitarla se già non è stato fatto. Ora in alto nella barra apparirà un'icona Contatti.
Da smartphone android installare l'APP DAVX5 ( davx5.com/ ) che si trova disponibile gratuitamente sullo store F-Droid ( f-droid.org/it/ ), mentre sul PlayStore costa € 5 circa. Piccola nota: le applicazioni android scaricate da F-Droid sono open source e ricevono aggiornamenti.
Installare l'APP DAVX5 dando i permessi richiesti. Cliccare sul tasto + presente nella pagina principale dell'APP ed inserire l'url di NextCloud e negli appositi campi anche l'user e la password con cui accedete (di default l'unico utente presente è l'amministratore di YunoHost).
Per avere un calendario open source e visualizzare gli eventi di NextCloud senza usare Google calendar: installare dallo store F-Droid l'APP gratuita "Etar" ( f-droid.org/it/packages/ws.xso… ) che di default mostrerà tutti i calendari che ha trovato tra cui quello configurato da noi. Da impostazioni sarà possibile disattivare il calendario Google e verificare che l'account NextCloud sia attivo. Etar dispone anche di un bel widget.
Per visualizzare i contatti si può utilizzare l'APP contatti di google. Qualora si desideri un'alternativa open source, Fossify mette a disposizione l'APP telefono, messaggi, contatti e molte altre ( search.f-droid.org/?q=fossify&… ) che potremo sincronizzare col nostro server grazie a DAVX5 senza che nessuno metta il naso nei nostri contatti, telefonate ed SMS.
Come configurare i contatti NextCloud su thunderbird da PC: dall'APP DAVX5 su android cliccare sull'account creato nella pagina principale, spostarsi in cardDAV e cliccare sulla rubrica NextCloud. Copiare "indirizzo URL", spostarsi in thunderbird sul proprio PC, cliccare su rubrica e poi su nuova rubrica che è l'icona in alto a sinistra e scegliere "Aggiungi rubrica cardDAV", scrivere il nome utente ed incollare l'url copiato da android, successivamente verrà chiesta la password.
Come configurare il calendario NextCloud su thunderbird da PC:dall'APP DAVX5 su android cliccare sull'account creato nella pagina principale, spostarsi in calDAV e cliccare sul calendario. Copiare "indirizzo URL", spostarsi in thunderbird sul proprio PC, nella barra di destra cliccare l'icona "Calendario" e poi in basso o sui tre puntini, cliccare su "Nuovo Calendario". Selezionare l'opzione "sulla rete", immettere lo stesso username della rubrica ed incollare l'url copiato da android su DAVX5, successivamente immettere la password e confermare.
Una nota: da NextCloud web, che è visualizzabile da qualunque browser, si possono leggere e modificare sia i contatti che gli eventi del calendario.
F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
F-Droid è un catalogo di applicazioni FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) per la piattaforma Android. Il client offre un modo semplice per navigare il catalogo, installare le app e aggiornarle direttamente sul tuo dispositivo.f-droid.org
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Io veramente faccio quello che posso, in questo caso ho remato un giorno provando tante soluzioni. Questa era abbastanza pulita e si ricollegava all'articolo di YunoHost già pubblicato! Spero di essere utile!
Does a cracked version of Astute Graphics plugins exist?
Note: I am not requesting for a link nor a source, but rather I am just curious if this actually does exist, because then I will know that continuing to search for it won't be in vain, and that I am not just being foolishly optimistic.
Thank you.
There is no such thing as perfect security. There's always the possibility that something malicious is there. The real point it to take every caution that is reasonable and mitigate any possible damages.
If you're truly paranoid, you could choose to only ever run it in a VM that doesn't have any personal information and make backups of anything you don't want to loose.
GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation
GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation
Microsoft is bringing GitHub into its AI engineering team. It’s part of an AI shakeup, following the GitHub CEO resigning.Tom Warren (The Verge)
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These comment make me curious. How many of you have read Microserfs by Douglas Coupland?
I'm sure most of you haven't, but just curious if anyone has
I'm finding this kind of Pikachu surprised face meme worthy, really.
We all know and knew that GitHub is Microsoft's. We all know that Microsoft is fucking evil, yet everyone and their mother have their main repo management with GitHub.
W.T.F.
what did you expect would happen, sooner rather than later?
Well technically nothing has happened yet, but you can imagine the fun that is coming
I honestly don't understand why Github hasn't been abandoned by users at this point. If I were a company, I'd either go to the competition, who is just as good if not better, or host in-house if the means are there.
I'm just a freelancer and I gave up on github 3 years ago
Our company runs everything on Azure. We use windows PCs, Visual Studio Professional, C# .Net, outlook, teams, etc.
We make enterprise software and I am happy really. I wasn’t at the start but as time goes on I don’t care, I do my job and go home.
The company I worked at got acquired by a big tech company. We're switching from Google suite to Microsoft, Mac to Windows, Slack to Teams, etc. It's pretty painful as transitions go, and if not for golden handcuffs I'd be gone.
I'm not sure if I'll ever be happy with Visual Studio though, so I use Jetbrains Rider.
So your company either works with Microsoft or has a weird idea of security. Teams does not work without taking home to Microsoft. My company tried everything but couldn’t make it work, so they extended their Skype for business service for some years.
I hope they switch to Linux when this is over.
Been in business 20 years with regular pen testing and had no complaints and have some pretty large clients.
.Net is popular in the UK for enterprise.
Might do you well to make less assumptions.
don't use the equality (==) operator, use strict equality instead (===)
crypto bros === AI bros
Can VSCode GUI
So, you're going to ditch GitHub because of Microsoft, but you're trying to keep using VSCode, which is also Microsoft?
It's not just GitHub. People are also using VSCode, despite it slowly suffocating the non-MS dev ecosystem.
Microsoft switched from the really aggressive "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" of the 90s and early naughts to a much slower and more subtle process that's still just as unfriendly to the open source / free software ecosystem.
I hate VSCode. So. Much. I honestly can't see how anyone gets anything done wiþ it.
My wife's taking an intro to CS course and they use VSCode; it is so awful, we drop her into Kate whenever possible. Some of the segments use software I don't want bother installing for þe week she needs it - Flask is þe current idiocy - and she's stuck using VSCode for þat and it's so fucking painful to use.
Honestly, how are people using VSCode for work? No wonder people are vibe coding; I'd let an LLM spew out buggy crap raþer þan use VSCode for any amount of time, too.
Pretty sure I had Embrace Extend Extinguish as my 'status' when microsoft inevitably introduced that linkedin style social media bullshit to a git server.
Plenty of good alternatives out there, or roll your own!
I stopped sending updates to it and host my own gitlab now.
won't ever look back.
yes. I have a rack in my basement and host gitlab out of one of my servers.
it's available over LAN or VPN.
nightly backups to a nas and weekly syncs to S3.
S3 seems like a really expensive way to backup personal data. Are you doing it to achieve the offsite backup?
I currently dont have an offsite and im weighing up having a NAS at my parents place.
S3 is within my budget, but it can get expensive. and yes it's my off site.
if I had someplace else I could trust like you mentioned I might do that but it's just too much data to send.
my gitlab backups are around 80gb.
It is laughably easy to fake those green squares that for a while, ages ago, I had some commit counts like 14000 or so... every single day.
There are so many tools to also fake human like commit counts for those pretty green squares that if I came to know of my senior engineers hiring on that basis, their estimation as interviewers in my eyes would take a nosedive.
There's plenty alternatives.
- Sourcehut sr.ht (possibly other instances)
- Various gitlab instances, e.g. framagit.org
- not to mention git's own web ui which runs under so many domains; some of them might even be open to signups.
AI wearables are quietly listening to everyone in Silicon Valley
TLDR: Techbros in SF are wearing AI pins that record everything everyone says around them.
“My general sense is that we should assume we are being recorded at all times,” said Clara Brenner, a partner at venture capital firm Urban Innovation Fund. “Of course, this is a horrible way to live your life.”
Damn right it is. Every day one step closer to dystopia. Fuck this shit.
This conversation is being recorded — and so is everything else you do in San Francisco
AI wearables are quietly recording everything. Is it legal? And do you consent?Zara Stone (The San Francisco Standard)
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This being illegal will prevent people from showing the recordings publicly, but if they record for private use, no one would prevent them, or even know...
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In a techno utopia, it would be nice to use something like this to have perfect memory. Assuming it was private, self-hosted and open source.
In reality, these are likely vendor locked hardware attached to cloud services awaiting their first massive security breach. A privacy nightmare that will just become more e-waste
Would it?
A chatlog of what everyone has ever said to you? Every misspeak, miscommunication, he-said-she-said, emotional comment? What problem would it solve?
It might solve some problems, and introduce a shit ton of new ones. As technology always does.
Given that a lot of people communicate via social media, that record already exists but we don't have access to it most of it.
I communicate with a lot of my friends via IMs and so there's a perfect history of our conversations in the chat logs. It is useful to be able to search to find a previous conversation. I'm not a masochist so I don't go back and dwell on arguments or things said in anger.
There are people with medical conditions that would benefit from having an augmented memory. People with early Alzheimer's, or Traumatic Brain Injury could recall previous conversations confidently.
People with high functioning autism could use the record to handle social confusion. Often they'll have difficulty in social situations without understanding what went wrong, so their memory of the encounter will be incomplete/unreliable. Having an objective record could let a trusted third party help them learn/understand what happened.
I could imagine people wouldn't mind leaving their memories to their children after they die. Or victims/witnesses of crime using their augmented memory to accurately identify the perpetrator.
Sure, I can easily think of downsides as well. But, it does seem likely that these kinds of devices that are always recording will become more common as prices for storage and hardware keep dropping.
Seems we are talking about different things here. By "perfect" I assumed you meant "complete", as opposed to an IM-log, e-mail, letters or other async communications.
For people with medical conditions such as dementia, of course, this could solve real problems. I'm not saying we should pull the brakes in every case. My only point is that more data doesn't equal "better" in every case.
Forgetting things are an underappreciated part of being human. Of course accumulating knowledge with science etc is what drives humanity forward. But when living our day to day lives, forgetting stuff is not just a bug, it's a feature. It enables us to move on, letting go, and revisit memories more organically and qualitatively.
For example the rush of nostalgia that hits you when you randomly hear a song from your childhood. Compare this to prompting your local AI with "give me a perfect list of songs from my childhood".
For example it's interesting to listen to accounts from savants with near perfect memories who talk about the struggles of remembering everything.
I'm not saying use technology to extend a person's biological memory. I'm saying use technology to keep a record of a person's life (obviously I know the privacy implications of doing this in actual practice in the year 2025, which is why I prefaced my comment with "In a techno utopia").
You, personally, will still forget things and be capable of nostalgia.
I think it's pretty uncontroversial to say that people like to have pictures. They collect pictures of vacations that they enjoyed, pictures of their children when they were X age, pictures of dead relatives and pictures of themselves with friends. Because people enjoy revisiting memories. When video cameras became more ubiquitous, people took videos of vacations they enjoyed, videos of their children's first steps, videos of themselves. There are entire markets for services which let you store and retrieve every picture that you've ever taken.
At the same time everyone has a story where they wish they had recorded some event. For example, a baby's first steps that a spouse missed because they were at work or some unexpected spectacular event. Or even mundane things like 'Where did I leave my phone?'. Having the ability to keep a record of memories, in video or in some hypothetical full-sensory recording, of every moment is something that people would be interested in.
Compare this to prompting your local AI with “give me a perfect list of songs from my childhood”.
Perhaps this is just a matter of taste, because I would absolutely do this.
People with high functioning autism could use the record to handle social confusion. Often they’ll have difficulty in social situations without understanding what went wrong, so their memory of the encounter will be incomplete/unreliable. Having an objective record could let a trusted third party help them learn/understand what happened.
As one of those people, I have to be clear: this is not how things would shake out. The vast majority of the time, the misunderstanding comes from tone, not from the words used. Providing a transcript showing that one’s words are inoffensive has done little to improve the situations where I’ve been able to provide them - NTs often double-down that their emotional interpretation of your tone still matters more than the specific words you chose.
Even in a tech utopia something like this existing would make it not a utopia to me, since I don't see a similarity between regular voluntary posted texts and social media submissions and a persistent recording device.
Like the social situation automatically means people who come in contact with them are being recorded against their will. When it comes to IMs in your example people can choose to participate or not, but this tech is not the case.
Unless there is some Black Mirror type built in privacy block of people showing up as glitched out avatars if they haven't opted in.
Unless there is some Black Mirror type built in privacy block of people showing up as glitched out avatars if they haven’t opted in.
It looks like you've thought of an idea to solve the problem that you stated.
In my tech utopia there wouldn't be Orwellian surveillance to begin with. Anyone entering with those type of devices would find it not working.
It would be a haven from the other districts where big brother is always watching and citizens are always watching each other.
I think of it like a memory. I can remember seeing people, they don't have to consent to my having a memory of them.
I think it is the same if the memory is stored on electronic storage. Though, I would not trust something so private to a cloud service. It would have to be a secure storage that only I physically control and have the ability to decrypt.
Black Mirror did an episode about this, if you haven't seen it. It's called "The Entire History of You". Obviously, since it is Black Mirror, they present a dystopian take.
Humans have been extending and improving on our biological capabilities using technology since before recorded history. Improving our memory seems like it will eventually happen also.
I do completely understand why this would be a nightmare in practice. Governments would claim that they had the right to search it and it could still be stolen or accessed by unauthorized bad people.
Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) Tought these fuckers nothing
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Corporations and c-staff lie cheat and steal, They come up with a legal ideas and tell people to act on them. The last thing they need is something storing information about what they're actually saying and is set around them. These spy pins and the VR boardroom note takers are just generating documentation to get these assholes hold off to prison, when we start caring about that start again
You don't keep those emails, you don't keep those records, you don't keep audio or video past a predetermined period of time someone discovery comes for you , You're not caught shredding evidence.
Sauce for pic on the right. NOW!
Never mind, it says right there it's from an official artwork. I'm stupid.
Heydey ho folks, anybody I know a decent search engine with a lite interface?
I've been a DDG Stan for years but after doing some research on freeBSD kernel modification I've realized just how bad the AI SLOP articles have become, and they're doing nothing to filter them out. Lately it seems every result is either a nuked reddit thread, or an LLM produced static page that almost is convincing enough to be a real person (if it weren't confidently producing advice for Linux on a page claiming to be for freeBSD).
I do most of my browsing in Links and Offpunk, so HTML only is highly preferred, no JavaScript, as it is non-functional in my browsers of choice.
The engines don't necessarily need to be clearweb, I'm down to clown with Gemini, Gopher, i2p... I'd prefer against TOR but if its the only place to find a decent web browser I'll use it.
programmiamo in Python
Diceva di essere Mengoni, ma non era vero. Scopriamo insieme perchè.
Come di consueto mi trattengo un po’ su Facebook per postare, commentare, ecc.
Decido improvvisamente di seguire qualche cantante famoso come Povia, Cocciante, Marco Mengoni e altri. Chiaramente fin qui nulla di strano.
Quando seguite questi cantanti su messanger si può stabilire un contatto col cantante ed io l’ho fatto. Convinta che fosse veramente Marco Mengoni gli ho dato il mio numero di telefono per continuare le nostre conversazioni su telegram, fino a quando una sera Marco ha detto di amarmi e mi ha chiesto dei soldi. Chiaramente non poteva essere ed ho iniziato ad insospettirmi fino a quando il mio sguardo è caduto sul numero di telefono di Marco.
E’ stato allora che ho capito che non era il vero Marco Mengoni, ma
Faceva credere di essere Mengoni: sgamato! - sgamiamoli
Come di consueto mi trattengo un po’ su Facebook per postare, commentare, ecc. Decido improvvisamente di seguire qualche cantante famoso come Povia, Cocciante, Marco Mengoni e altri. Chiaramente fin qui nulla di strano.raffaella papaccioli (sgamiamoli)
After using ChatGPT, man swaps his salt for sodium bromide—and suffers psychosis
Honestly not sure what to say except INSANITY!!!!
Three months later, the man showed up at his local emergency room. His neighbor, he said, was trying to poison him. Though extremely thirsty, the man was paranoid about accepting the water that the hospital offered him, telling doctors that he had begun distilling his own water at home and that he was on an extremely restrictive vegetarian diet. He did not mention the sodium bromide or the ChatGPT discussions.
After using ChatGPT, man swaps his salt for sodium bromide—and suffers psychosis
Literal “hallucinations” were the result.Nate Anderson (Ars Technica)
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India: Opposition Leader detained by police in protests against suspected voting fraud
Thirty members of the Indian parliament, including Opposition Leader Rahul Gandhi, were detained by police following a protest against suspected voter fraud in recent state elections. Rahul Gandhi's Indian National Congress party had found fake and duplicate voters in the electoral rolls, and accused the election commission of colluding with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. The Election Commission rejected his claims, following which digital rolls were briefly unavailable from the EC website.
The protest also focused on a 'special revision' of voter rolls in the state of Bihar, where elections are scheduled later this year. The requirements for inclusion were criticised as being unreasonably complicated, and likely to disproportionately affect the poor, illiterate, and migrant labourers.
Hm I wish there was some more info or research into the credibility of the opposition leaders' claim. This article reads a little bit like he said she said without telling us any of the facts.
Thanks for posting, News from this part of the world is so important we don't read enough of it
The opposition leader showed examples of duplicate votes, as well as obviously fake votes (one had parent's name as 'asdfg' or something like that). The question is how common these are, and whether they are being used to swing elections a certain way.
Honestly, if the Election Commission had been more transparent and admitted the mistake instead of trying to hide the rolls, this might have been a non-event.
[Resolved] How to cross post?
Hi all, I just posted in one community and now I want to cross post that into another.
Is there a right way to do that? I'm not seeing any ui elements for this.
I'm on the default piefed.social web mobile UI, if that helps. Thanks!
Any way to remove voice-over?
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Depends on how its done.
First check the audio tracks and see if there is one with a voice over and one with regular audio - if so, easy! Reencode and drop the unneeded track.
If not.... Youre going to have a rough time, you'd be better off trying to find just the audio and aligning it.
Edit: or another copy of the show obviously.
The handy bit would be if you could find a crappy quality version, you can still pull the audio from there and align it with your copy. It may not be great audio and still require some degree of effort to sync properly with the video, but it would be a much more realistic effort than trying to remove speech from the same track.
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Oh. You just want to turn off the polish part of the audio!
Okay that's a much bigger task.
Mandatory age verification online in the EU - Amendment 186
EU parliament accepted a last minute amendment, mandating age verification for pornographic (whatever that is) content online, punishable with up to one year prison sentence.
This was rolled into a directive concerning CSAM. Because adults accessing porn need to be de-anonymised to avoid child exploitation?
Some press releases: (1), (2), (3)
PRESS RELEASE I European Parliament votes to force pornographic websites to use effective age-verification tools to protect minors - FAFCE
Strasbourg, 18 June 2025 The Federation of Catholic Family Association in Europe (FAFCE) welcomes the decision of the European Parliament to force pornographic websites to put in place "robust and effective age verification tools to effectively prev…admin (FAFCE)
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In 2023 I was thinking how stupid puritan the Texan politician were. The EU commission and parliament had different ideas.
Turns out the incumbents in EU are very scared as politicians from outside the traditional political families are getting popular votes. And instead of looking into to mirror as to why that is happening, they blame "the internet" and go authoritarian.
Thus joining in the creation of the machinery for mass surveillance and supression.
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That's just how power works. It is up to the working people to keep the regime in check but it seems boomers abdicated their duty and we are now facing consequences of it.
We don't have any infrastructure to fight back in any meaningful pay. The best tool left is direct action but the normie is too docile to change his consumption habits. God forbid he has to do something
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I think the overarching theme is that the EU wants more and more power and control.
In the case you describe: it's by taking away freedom from software providers. In the case of this law, it's by taking away freedom from their citizens.
Less agency and freedom for others, more control for and subjugation to them, is what motivates both - Fun when they do it to others, less fun now they're doing it to you too.
Especially considering the backhanded way this amendmend was last-minute shoehorned onto unrelated legislation. They know it's against general will and good.
"Do you want children to be exploited? No? Then do as I say"
I think the joining theme is that the EU wants more and more power and control.
Ofc. People who push this are in composition 10% moral crusaders and 90% those afraid for their own power and status quo in the coming years. With these pushes toward age verification and message scanning; It's not just they want to scan everything and watch everybody, they want to test the waters and people to to think they are always being watched and self censor and not do anything against powers that be. They know better than anybody how shaky things have gotten in Europe and how unpopular they really are. It's pure attempt at population control.
The only problem is that with current people in power they really can't help themselves, but to make things worse for the average people. So the fire will rise anyway.
Are there any issues with a system where the website in question (let's say, a porn site) doesn't get your ID, but just a confirmation from your government that yes, you are of age?
~~It has a name but I can't find it right now.~~ But it would protect your privacy from their website you're visiting, and the website can uphold the rules.
It's called double blind: biometricupdate.com/202504/dou…
Double blind age assurance requirement for porn sites takes effect in France
Double-blind age assurance is a discreet engagement indeed, and VerifyMy and IDxLAB have launched a strategic partnership to address the need.Joel R. McConvey (BiometricUpdate.com)
Yes. Anyone that can request both the logs of this third party and the website fully deanonymises the users.
Who could have this access? The same people that last minute added this amendment to unrelated legislation. It's even easier this way: they have to strongarm only a few "age verification providers", then follow the tokens.
Additionally, the amendment is a stepping stone to outlaw other privacy techniques such as VPNs.
Foreign websites still don't comply? We have no choice but to build the great firewall of EU. For the children.
the problem is that people are being verifiably linked to their 'adult' preferences. this is data that is being generated, in bad faith, and handled by multiple parties. your legal identity should not need to be tied to this information. this information can be used against you both now and in the future.
we've already seen in the US where there is a push for information about gender and basic sexual education being labelled as 'adult'. when i was in school, information about countries like Cuba, Afghanistan or China was considered 'too mature' (or marked as 'terrorism-related' by the school firewall) for children; i could see this thus extending to require age verification before you can access 'subversive' information, on the basis of 'protecting children' from 'political extremism'.
Double blind means that the age provider doesn't know why your age is requested, and the service (website) doesn't know you, they only know that the age provider says "yes" or "no".
How does one "follow the tokens" then?
the provider knows who's asking because of the IP address and API key of the requester. if it uses a form with a redirect, they even know your IP and what page you were on, tied to your legal identity. if the provider makes any API requests to a government registry, now that knows the when, the how, and (categorically) the what. short of a statement of 'no logs' and an audit to confirm as such, there is definitely logs. hackers love this information. data brokers love this information.
the problem is not the service knowing. it's anyone knowing. the provider deänonymised you the moment you gave your id. the precise implementation details are important here.
How does one "follow the tokens" then?
We don't know what they do with the information, as it's closed source.
Assuming it's based on this EU prototype:
They don't know why it was requested, but do know who, where and when.
So they gather the logs of A, the token provider. Is the target present? They have his token. They also see where and when the token was used. Did you have a fun time yesterday evening, on your phone at home, on websites B, C and D?
Next up, if they want even more detail, gather the logs of B, look for the token. That way they can pinpoint the exact search terms, categories, watch time, etc
In summary: centralizing the de-anonymisation this way makes mass surveillance easier than if it were decentralized, in sometimes foreign jurisdictions.
It also shifts the conversation away from the best solution: don't deanonymise in the first place.
av-doc-technical-specification/docs/architecture-and-technical-specifications.md at main · eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-doc-technical-specification
European Age Verification solution documentation. Contribute to eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-doc-technical-specification development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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Either the site gets your ID or the government issues a confirmation, which puts you on the porn viewer list.
I believe the idea (in an ideal world) is that Website A requests data from Service B, which then asks about you to government C. So Government C doesn't know what you're asking about, and the Website A doesn't know who you are. That does mean Service B would have to be trusted / vetted, which might relocate the problem but it would be easier to verify (FOSS for example) than trusting your government to not put you on a list.
There's no need for the middleman in this scheme. Instead, a much simpler solution would be:
- Website A gives you a randomly generated
$TOKEN
- You go to Government and ask it to sign something like
The person with $TOKEN is of legal age
. You have to provide your ID or whatever here, but the government doesn't know who made the token. - You go back to website A, it checks the signature of the message and lets you through
This can be automated in some way; maybe with a browser extension or some referrer-less redirect sort of thing.
It's still fundamentally shitty though, because now the government pretty much knows that you want to watch adult stuff, it just doesn't know which adult stuff exactly.
A better (but almost impossible to implement) solution would be for the government to issue everyone a smartcard as an identity document (many countries already do, but without the following features). On that smartcard is a private key, with the corresponding public key signed by the government. The smartcard can then sign any $TOKEN
with true statements about you, e.g. The person with $TOKEN is of legal age
, or The person with $TOKEN is called $NAME
, or The person with $TOKEN has a driving license
, etc. You have to connect it to your computer in some way so the website can talk to it, but it should be trivially doable with almost any modern smartphone. This way, everyone has the ability to attest stuff about them without the government being directly involved.
The reason this won't work is because it would be quite expensive to do and would take a long while to implement.
a digital wallet with ZKP could resolve 'are you old enough?' without the query ever needing to leave your device.
without a digital wallet, it could be done with fully homomorphic encryption.
both of these would be innovations which i feel require guided development. innovation counter to the goal of the legislation, which is surveillance. innovation driven by the self-proclaimed purpose of 'protecting children'; innovation driven by the impetus to make it harder for people to masturbate.
since the general attitude right now has been 'require agegates and just leave it up to The Market™', then the solution in practise will probably be a private third party that brokers this information, probably with a natural monopoly, that will charge exorbitantly for their API, have Google Analytics running on every page, leaks like a sieve, leaves logs everywhere, and will probably get caught selling data, which will incur a one-time fee equal to 80% the size of the company's rainy day fund, and maybe the CEO will be asked to step down, shielding the rest of the C-suite from consequences (and allowing them to just do it again). they'll work closely with law enforcement, they'll be breached in the first year, and probably have a huge leak 4 years later.
in that time, due to real changes in the law or jurisprudence, or companies just 'playing it safe', age verification will come to encompass queer identity, sexual education and health, war coverage, counterculture and even history. more online regulation just means more barriers to entry which means a larger monopoly for multinational corporations.
i think there are better uses for this technology than controlling pornography.
Americans, Be Warned: Lessons From Reddit’s Chaotic UK Age Verification Rollout
Now that the Online Safety Act has gone into effect, countless problems have begun to reveal themselves, and the absurd, disastrous outcome illustrates why we must work to avoid this age-verified future at all costs.Electronic Frontier Foundation
France is getting harder on online porn.
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So basically a Swiss (PrivadoVPN, ProtonVPN), American (Hotspot Shield, IPVanish), Canadian (Tunnelbear, Windscribe), British (PureVPN), Israeli (ExpressVPN, PIA) one.
Not a lot of great options outside the EU. Canada and Britain have age verification laws, America and Israel cannot be trusted, and the Swiss government is constantly threatening to take steps against privacy.
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"The Federation of Catholic Family Association in Europe (FAFCE) welcomes the decision of the European Parliament"
Of course, it's the Catholics, protecting the children from sexual exploitation. HM
They are mocking us.
Catholic churcu is the largest and most well known pedophile organization in history. They got caught and they got away. They raped children and likely still doinngit.
Now they can make these snide comments to adults trying to jerk off and feel morally superior about it.
I guess peasants accept it, why shouldn't elites rape children and reduce your freedoms and privacy.
Reading the attached article, this seems to be a directive, rather than a law. We don't know what shape the law will take, or whether it will actually be implemented... No?
Please correct me if I'm wrong. Not too familiar with this stuff.
There's still time to push back, I would guess.
Yes it's a directive. Currently it passed the EU commission (it's their proposal) and parliament. It still needs to pass council.
After that, each member country of the EU must implement it in their respective country laws.
It's already questionable if it becomes a law, due to several security and privacy concerns. It will be a search of tecnical solutions which respect the EU privacy law, which isn't so easy, wil say, it will not be in near dates until it is generally implrmented, depending also on each country. We'll see. I asked Andi:
The European Commission is developing an age verification app, set to launch in July 2025, that will allow EU users to prove they are old enough to access age-restricted online content without revealing personal information12. The app, known as the "mini-wallet," is built on the same technical specifications as the European Digital Identity Wallets planned for 20263.
Key features of the age verification solution include:
- Privacy-preserving verification using Zero Knowledge Proofs (though implementation remains optional)1
- Four verification methods: national eID schemes, physical ID cards, institutional verification (banks/notaries), and third-party apps1
- Open-source implementation with customization options for Member States4
- Integration with the EU Digital Identity Wallet framework3
However, critics highlight potential accessibility issues, noting that marginalized groups like refugees, unhoused people, and those without government IDs may be excluded1. The Electronic Frontier Foundation also warns about privacy risks and the need for stronger regulations on which services can request age verification1.
The initiative supports compliance with the Digital Services Act, which requires online platforms to implement robust age verification policies2. The Commission has already begun enforcement, launching investigations into four adult content websites in May 2025 over inadequate age verification measures5.
- EFF - Age Verification in the European Union: The Commission's Age Verification App ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎
- European Commission - Call for tenders: Development, consultancy and support for an age verification solution ↩︎ ↩︎
- European Commission - The EU approach to age verification ↩︎ ↩︎
- EU Age Verification Solution ↩︎
- PYMNTS - EU to Launch Age Verification App for Online Use in July ↩︎
EU to Launch Age Verification App for Online Use in July
The European Union plans to introduce an age verification app in July and may introduce rules requiring online platforms to protect minors.PYMNTS (PYMNTS.com)
This is misleading. It will keep your information private from the website you’re accessing (supposedly), but the EU authorities will know full well which websites you’re visiting and surveilling.
And of course, they will apply the non-compliance claims to absolutely anything they want to censor.
I know very well that it is known which pages I visit, when authorities pretend it.
I'm normally not a friend of AI, but despite of this I use Andisearch as my main search engine since almost 3 years, because with it, I don't have even the need to access most of the pages, I can read these in the own reader mode in the search results and summarize the content, sandboxed and with random proxie. The search concepts don't even appears in the browser history only that I searched with Andi, but not what, I can watch YT videos also direct in the search results. It's one of the most private search engine which I know, and I know almost all also thanks to an user. Free, no limits, no logs, no ads, no cookies, anonymous, own independent LLM.
Andi - AI Search for the Next Generation
Andi is AI search for the next generation. Instead of just links, Andi gives you answers - like chatting with a smart friend.andisearch.com
What Does Palantir Actually Do?
Palantir is often called a data broker, a data miner, or a giant database of personal information. In reality, it’s none of these—but even former employees struggle to explain it.Palantir sends its employees to work inside client organizations essentially as consultants, helping to customize their data pipelines, troubleshoot problems, and fix bugs. It calls these workers “forward deployed software engineers,” a term that appears to be inspired by the concept of forward-deployed troops, who are stationed in adversarial regions to deter nearby enemies from attacking.
Crucially, Palantir doesn’t reorganize a company's bins and pipes, so to speak, meaning it doesn’t change how data is collected or how it moves through the guts of an organization. Instead, its software sits on top of a customer’s messy systems and allows them to integrate and analyze data without needing to fix the underlying architecture. In some ways, it’s a technical band-aid. In theory, this makes Palantir particularly well suited for government agencies that may use state-of-the-art software cobbled together with programming languages dating back to the 1960s.
Palantir’s software is designed with nontechnical users in mind. Rather than relying on specialized technical teams to parse and analyze data, Palantir allows people across an organization to get insights, sometimes without writing a single line of code. All they need to do is log into one of Palantir’s two primary platforms: Foundry, for commercial users, or Gotham, for law enforcement and government users.
Foundry focuses on helping businesses use data to do things like manage inventory, monitor factory lines, and track orders. Gotham, meanwhile, is an investigative tool specifically for police and government clients, designed to connect people, places, and events of interest to law enforcement. There’s also Apollo, which is like a control panel for shipping automatic software updates to Foundry or Gotham, and the Artificial Intelligence Platform, a suite of AI-powered tools that can be integrated into Gotham or Foundry.
Foundry and Gotham are similar: Both ingest data and give people a neat platform to work with it. The main difference between them is what data they’re ingesting. Gotham takes any data that government or law enforcement customers may have, including things like crime reports, booking logs, or information they collected by subpoenaing a social media company. Gotham then extracts every person, place, and detail that might be relevant. Customers need to already have the data they want to work with—Palantir itself does not provide any.
Foundry and Gotham are similar: Both ingest data and give people a neat platform to work with it. The main difference between them is what data they’re ingesting. Gotham takes any data that government or law enforcement customers may have, including things like crime reports, booking logs, or information they collected by subpoenaing a social media company. Gotham then extracts every person, place, and detail that might be relevant. Customers need to already have the data they want to work with—Palantir itself does not provide any.
Since leaving Palantir, Pinto says he’s spent a lot of time reflecting on the company’s ability to parse and connect vast amounts of data. He’s now deeply worried that an authoritarian state could use this power to “tell any narrative they want” about, say, immigrants or dissidents it may be seeking to arrest or deport. He says that software like Palantir’s doesn’t eliminate human bias.
People are the ones that choose how to work with data, what questions to ask about it, and what conclusions to draw. Their choices could have positive outcomes, like ensuring enough Covid-19 vaccines are delivered to vulnerable areas. They could also have devastating ones, like launching a deadly airstrike, or deporting someone.
In some ways, Palantir can be seen as an amplifier of people’s intentions and biases. It helps them make evermore precise and intentional decisions, for better or for worse. But this may not always be obvious to Palantir’s users. They may only experience a sophisticated platform, sold to them using the vocabulary of warfare and hegemony. It may feel as if objective conclusions are flowing naturally from the data. When Gotham users connect disparate pieces of information about a person, it could seem like they are reading their whole life story, rather than just a slice of it.
"amplifying human bias" seems like a very soft way to put it. One should enquire whether if Palantir itself has any form of temporary access to the data from the companies they consult and whether or not they are allowed to analyse it themselves, even if not store it.
If, yes then we are looking at government enabled Cambridge analytica (in many fields not just politics though) all over again. If they can for instance analyse the data from NHS, insurance companies will be drooling millions over that analysis so that they can maximise their profits by getting a very precise understanding of healthcare need trends.
Fear Peter Thiel and his gangbuster crew of excel homies and consultants 😂
Don't get me wrong, they're enablers of authoritarianists, but let's not give them too much credit. Magic? 🫧🧐🪠
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recensione alberghiaca con sorprese megapazzurde e stasi ottimalizzata!
A grandissimissima richiesta (…di ben 1 persona), quasi urgeva una recensione dell’albergo dove sono stata per poco più di metà della settimana scorsa… utile a non si sa chi o cosa, data la solita mia necessaria precauzionale omissione di dettagli altrimenti fondamentali, ma il piacere della storiella (o, come dice il caro Piero Angela, il piacere della scop..ta) è sempre altamente importante e necessario a non sprofondare ogni giorno sempre di più in quello stato dell’essere che ci (mi) vede... vabbè, scusate, basta cazzate. 🙁Vediamo prima le cose strane, così togliamo il dente bizzarro e via il dolore causato dalla morbosa curiosità. A parte il non proprio spassoso incidente dell’ultima sera, che fa testo a sé, di cose curiose ce n’erano un bel po’ in questo hotel; queste altre, per fortuna, non avvilenti. La cosa che forse più colpiva, complessivamente e continuamente, è che… proprio all’ingresso, affianco alla reception, aveva un bar… che operava da normale bar, essendo in centro. In 4 giorni non ho visto nessuno andarci, però oh: per chi ha interesse, ci sta il bar. Anzi, ci sono due bar: c’era una sala interrata, che fungeva da sala colazione (e solo colazione, il resto del tempo era chiusa), e aveva un altro bancone/postazione bar. Addirittura, le pareti di questa erano affrescate con un tema apposta per l’hotel… ma non ho fotine mie ora, quindi ops. 👻
Passando alla camera… Altre cose strane sono che il rubinetto del lavandino si chiamava Cristina(e si, le marche delle robe idrauliche sono sempre stranamente assurde, maCristina non l’avevo mai vista)… mentre, la marca dell’area lavandino proprio, è un altro nome mai sentito, TECHNOVA, ma la cosa che mi ha lasciata confusa è che il font sembra uscito tipo da un anime… queste lettere un po’ rotonde con la O che è una stellina, insomma… E poi ancora, nell’armadio appendiabiti (non in bagno ovviamente), c’era il quadro elettrico della stanza, con un cartello che diceva tipo di non aprire se non autorizzati… ma la porticina di plastica era di suo mezza aperta, quindi il cartello nel contesto sembra una presa in giro. Boh, roba proprio strana si trova, mi sa, andando in giro con l’occhio clinico ben aperto. 👁️
Temo di non essere proprio bbona a fare le recensioni dei posti, però, perché i tratti positivi di forte impatto che riesco a dire solo solo 2… però oh, son roba tosta. Come già detto, con la stanza solo per me le faville sono state sensibili: anzitutto perché il letto era a due posti, ma c’ero appunto soltanto io, quindi ho dormito alla grande, senza sentire i rumori molesti dei miei genitori — altrimenti succede puntualmente che loro fanno il roleplay della Russia (russano e invadono il mio sonno) e io quindi dell’Ucraina (sigh) — e perdendomi ampiamente in questo letto, gigante per i miei standard (0.5 posti più grande del mio solito, wow), stabilendo insomma per bene anche in trasferta il mio stato da principessa femcel marcia… ma poi, perché avevo il bagno solo per me… 😈E il bagno, anche se era più piccolo di quello dei miei genitori — che, al contrario, avevano la parte principale della stanza più piccola di me, ops — era stellare… da gaming, oserei dire. E il gaming è infatti avvenuto alla grande, la sera che avevo un po’ di tempo (si, proprio quella dell’incidente) e ho quindi deciso di provare la doccia che c’era. Il design era molto strano a prima vista, e certamente mi aspettavo qualcosa di insolito nel suo uso… ma non immaginavo che avesse letteralmente i LED blu (primo colore del gaming!!!) e dei display numerici per indicare la temperatura corrente dell’acqua e il tempo trascorso con essa accesa!!! In confronto alla roba normalissima che posso permettermi io a casa, questa doccia è stata super premium… tanto che, trasportata dal gaming, ho deciso di farmi anche lo shampoo, nonostante inizialmente volessi solo sciacquarmi. (Poi vabbè, lo shampoo ha causato altri problemi, ma quella è una condanna mia personale.) 😻
Ecco, del bagno in realtà non mi è assolutamente piaciuto che il sapone per le mani fosse in un dispenser automatico (non solo da me, anche dai miei era così)… A parte che si mimetizzava col muro, quindi inizialmente non lo notavo e mi chiedevo dove straminchia fosse il sapone per le mani, non essendoci saponette in giro, ma solo il flaconcino per la doccia… è semplicemente terribile il fatto che si attivi con un sensore di prossimità: se si appoggia qualcosa lì sotto per sbaglio, ecco che questa verrà sburrata immediatamente dal macchinario, senza se e senza ma… e anche banalmente per prendere il sapone, è scomodo, non si capisce mai come bisogna mettere e togliere la mano, e quindi ogni tanto va a cadere, sporcando la superficie attorno al lavandino. 😭Però… in un certo senso, questo contrasto tra elementi di lusso e oggetti che vanno bene solo in un bagno pubblico ha una sua personalità… E quindi, comunque, tutto sommato, nice albergo da 3 stelle in provincia di Roma; non costato troppissimissimo, considerato che il totale con le due stanze è stato 800€ per 4 notti. Ci sarebbero ora foto da salvare riguardo il viaggio, ma, tra questo blog, il sito delle foto, Pixelfed, la BBS, ora anche Sharkey, oltre pure al semplice Pignio, non so manco dove mettere cosa, e allora zzz, circolare, non c’è null’altro da vedere qui… 🥴
#albergo #curiosità #hotel #recensione #stranezze #vacanza
Disproven
[old scientist, pointing at some data]
After decades of research, thousands of experiments, a massive amount of peer reviewing, we can finally confidently conclude...
[smug dude with a ridiculous hairstyle]
Uh yeah, but this TikTok by PatriotEagle1776 says your research is wrong
I feel like a large reason for the distrust is because Governments have given every incentive to the population to distrust Big Pharma.
For example the recent Pfizergate corruption scandal with EU head Ursula Von Der Leyen
politico.eu/article/commission…
EU executive reviewed von der Leyen’s Pfizergate texts — then let them disappear
Document sheds new light on controversies over a multibillion deal to obtain Covid-19 vaccines.Mari Eccles (POLITICO)
Of course not.
I remember when I first moved to the US and saw the broadband and cell phone prices. Corruption american style.
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somebody dm me if there’s a way to add a description to the image for the visually impaired, I’m on Sync for Lemmy
You can add it between the square brackets.

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GitHub - winapps-org/winapps: Run Windows apps such as Microsoft Office/Adobe in Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora) and GNOME/KDE as if they were a part of the native OS, including Nautilus integration.
GitHub - winapps-org/winapps: Run Windows apps such as Microsoft Office/Adobe in Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora) and GNOME/KDE as if they were a part of the native OS, including Nautilus integration. Hard fork of github.com/Fmstrat/winapps/
Run Windows apps such as Microsoft Office/Adobe in Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora) and GNOME/KDE as if they were a part of the native OS, including Nautilus integration. Hard fork of https://github.com/Fmst...GitHub
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Wait, Docker and Podman can create Windows VMs?
I had winapps setup using QEMU quite a while ago but this seems like a much tidier setup.
GitHub - dockur/windows: Windows inside a Docker container.
Windows inside a Docker container. Contribute to dockur/windows development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Yeah, had to dive in myself.
The answer is no, they can’t. You need to pass /dev/kvm
and /dev/net/tun
in a composefile for a reason.
There’s no „windows in docker”, but rather „handy windows vm orchestrator with nice UI in a container”. A bit of a mouthful.
github.com/Gictorbit/photoshop…
iirc I used this one
GitHub - Gictorbit/photoshopCClinux: Photoshop CC v19 installer for Gnu/Linux
Photoshop CC v19 installer for Gnu/Linux. Contribute to Gictorbit/photoshopCClinux development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
ESRI sucks horribly, getting away from that trash is a good idea.
There is no good use case for that crap.
That company is just a cult more than anything else. It irks me to no end that they require a license to do anything. Edit? More money. Spatial Analysis? Even more money. Oh you want to share that thing you made? Lets get you started on the cloud/portal/server plan. Oh you want that server to have any kind of uptime? Better buy the monitor tool!
Everywhere you turn with those ass hats it is another license, more bugs, and slower.
I move almost all GIS functions into SQL. Postgis is a miracle worker and foreign data wrappers in postgres are just awesome. If I need a viewer/editor than Qgis is fanstastic too.
ESRI has the nerve to come up with a way to make web pages and call them "Story Maps". Get the hell out, that is just a web page!
But their cult loves to belong, and think that GIS means ESRI. They are like addicts.
If you don't know SQL at all, that is where you will need to start.
If you know enough to get the idea and are ready to go further than this might help postgis.net/documentation/trai…
and this is the best book on the subject: PostGIS In Action postgis.us/
Postgresql is the database, Postgis is an extension. All modern databases are spatial, but postgis adds so much more. For example, maybe you reproject something with ArcGIS. In Postgis you simply select with the new projection on the fly.
You can clip, linear reference, compare, etc, all the spatial functions you do in a gis tool. Raster, vector, point data, etc.
Running Windows in a Docker, Podman or libvirt virtual machine
Seems to me like GPU acceleration should be supported. Libvirt probably requires dedicated passthrough or sophisticated methods like SR-IOV.
I'm positive it has the same issues as any other Windows VM setup. If you've got two GPUs, you can probably pass one of them through to the VM and get good graphical performance.
I wish the virtio-gpu stuff hadn't died on Windows...
EDIT: It might not be dead? That's cool if so.
You'd just have normal Windows latency + pipewire latency.
Pipewire can adjust for latency on the source, so if you're running a monitor of an instrument directly on Linux it won't be out of sync.
You may need to edit a config file or two once you know exactly how much latency comes from Windows/the vm software.
A DND character sheet is enough to use adobe? I wonder how we ever got by before it.
In any case let's see it.
Curious if I could change it to something else, or is it custom by you?
flapkan.com/
It is so convenient that I still deal with the inconvenience of dual booting. I really hope you can convince me to use something else.
As much as I want to move from them, Excel and Photoshop are too advance compared to any alternative, including both FOSS and commercial one.
Even Excel Online is not as advance as Excel desktop.
Casual users can get away from them, not advance user that needs unique feature only available in the software.
I actually run a VM for just a few apps, excel being one of them.
Yah, I dinked with this for far too long on several docker-based windows installs I have around the network including localhost on a non-standard port. Fails to set up and gives no messages to follow up when it does. I can connect to them fine with a normal xfreerdp command.
2/7
office in wine in docker and somehow exporting display to wayland ?
How does that work ?
I've been using the same windows/dockur setup for a couple years that they outline in the Winapp docs. It uses KVM via a docker cap you give it permission for in the docker compose.
It should work with this Winapp thing, but I haven't gotten much success so far trying to connect it. I've just been RDPing into them but I'd have liked to just pull the relevant windows alone, more like Terminal Service Applications.
GitHub - dockur/windows: Windows inside a Docker container.
Windows inside a Docker container. Contribute to dockur/windows development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Thanks !
I've never heard of that one
I had investigated distrobuilder in repack-windows mode
This sounds like a similar version of that with docker instead of lxc ?
I'm really curious to find some way to have just an application being streamed from one of those, instead of a whole desktop. Like just the application window, resizable like a regular window and using the decorations of the receiving OS
GitHub - lxc/distrobuilder: System container image builder for LXC and Incus
System container image builder for LXC and Incus. Contribute to lxc/distrobuilder development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
No, it's not a thing, it's literally what I described earlier - QEMU in a Docker container. That's why the Dockerfile imports files from QEMU, and why the entrypoint starts the VM using QEMU. The project this whole thread is about uses dockur/windows
as the base.
It will never be a thing.
windows/Dockerfile at master · dockur/windows
Windows inside a Docker container. Contribute to dockur/windows development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Audacious is your friend. It accepts old Winamp skins!
I've been rocking the Windows XP skin on Linux Mint
If this can run Clip Studio Paint, I'll take it.
Krita and GIMP lacks too many advance features for comic creation.
tldr: VM->RDP seamless render
WinApps works by:
Running Windows in a Docker, Podman or libvirt virtual machine.
Querying Windows for all installed applications.
Creating shortcuts to selected Windows applications on the host GNU/Linux OS.
Using FreeRDP as a backend to seamlessly render Windows applications alongside GNU/Linux applications.
Would be awesome so i could switch to Linux for my Job
Additional Features
- The GNU/Linux
/home
directory is accessible within Windows via the\\tsclient\home
mount
Well I for one won't be touching this with a ten foot pole.
I used to use this, but I always found it really janky - window boundaries not updating, weird graphical glitches, etcetera.
It was especially annoying to use with Photoshop and GPU acceleration (I do GPU passthrough to my VM).
In the end, I just abandoned it and just used the monitor the VM’s GPU is plugged into.
What’s actually the best one? I used to use PlayOnLinux and it worked so well. But then it started to have problems and I read it was abandoned.
So, for example, if I wanted to play Guild Wars with multilaunch, what integrator would be smoothest and least complicated?
Yeah I don’t play it on Steam, I use the old launcher because I run multilaunch. I was playing it back in ‘06 and am stuck in my ways.
I’ll take a look in Lutris, though, thanks.
I’m just gonna run it solo either with multilaunch, or I’ll do separate vm instances for the different game instances. I don’t need Steam for anything as of yet.
Thanks for the info about the front-ends.
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in reply to silence7 • • •This reads like "old man yells at clouds"
Like on one hand, sure, tiktok has accelerated the amount of info/media kids are latching onto. But also, remember street sharks? Remember pogs? Or floam? Like.. shits always been like this.