I see these AI generated summaries are going great.
BTW, I mean this non-ironically. This is generating a huge amount of engagement and juicing user numbers, which generally companies care more about than accuracy of news.
For people not familiar with basketball, a bad shot that misses is called a "brick" and Klay Thompson put up a lot of bricks against the Sacramento Kings. People talking about this resulted in Twitter creating this AI generated trend.
Prohibiting systemic failures is a form of #MagicalThinking
http://inaniludibrio.com/2024/04/17/prohibiting-systemic-failures-is-a-form-of-magical-thinking/
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"But capitalism is also a self-devouring beast. One function of the capitalist state seldom mentioned, even by Marxists, is to protect capitalism from the capitalists.
If the 1% become too successful in their frenzied pursuit of profits and their furious determination to roll back all regulations and restraints, they may well destroy their own system.
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The plutocrats will plunder everything and everyone in
sight, including other capitalists. Toss the global ecological crisis into this witch’s brew and we may well be headed toward monumental disaster."
-Michael Parenti
From:
Boggs, C. (2012). Reflections on Politics and Academia: An Interview with Michael Parenti. New Political Science, 34(2), 228–236.
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Any Internet exchange:
Me: The sky is blue
Responses:
* Oh that's okay for YOU, but ours is GREY
* How insensitive can you be, when multiple nations have fog or rain today!
* Well, maybe blue from YOUR angle but what makes you the expert?
* Blue is jus a consep!! Your biassed.
* There IS no sky dumbo, it's a dome!! Do the research!
* Don't you realise some unfortunates cannot see any sky?
* Selfish comment from the usual ignoramus
* Message me to receive a special gift TODAY, not a scam.
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Today my cat litter tray sent me updated terms and conditions to agree to.
This is not the future I was promised.
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and if you said "No" what would happen?
Would they remotely brick that thing??
Cuz to me that seems like extortion....
Man, I'm glad I live in a #StupidHome where shit can't tell me it won't do stuff when I explicitly tell it to do sth.
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#KUOW #News #Environment #Water
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TBH, a product really has to suck when even #MKBHD can't fanboy it or say nice things about it...
Like he even fanboys the #CyberTruck ffs...
But yeah, #TechBros don't like #HonestReviews...
I just read that a single Bitcoin transaction requires upwards of 1,000 kW-hr of electricity.
That’s like running a small air conditioner 24/7 for a month and a half.
Edit: This got way more attention than I expected from an offhand remark; I guess it hit a nerve on here! But I’m going to have to mute this, as it’s taken over my notifications...
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Boycott bitcoin.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/881541/bitcoin-energy-consumption-transaction-comparison-visa/
Bitcoin energy consumption 2023 | Statista
The average energy consumption for one single Bitcoin transaction in 2023 could equal several hundreds of thousands of VISA card transactions.Statista
TIL "The Game" is a mind game in which the objective is to avoid thinking about The Game itself. Thinking about The Game constitutes a loss, which must be announced each time it occurs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_(mind_game)
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1c5p5m1/til_the_game_is_a_mind_game_in_which_the/
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Worked for a very traditional, engineering focused old school energy company during the dotcom bubble.
Message from above "We need to confirm we're an E business company". So we demonstrated that our web ordering/inventory control system created $20B in (B2B) orders.
Next quarterly report comes out, highlighting how "E-bizzy" the company was. Total garbage, nothing changed strategically or transactionally - just the language around it
I swear, in the long term the most useful part of my tech education—which includes a master's degree in computer science from 1990—has turned out to be reading comp.risks religiously since the late 80s and watching every new grift and scam and dark design pattern and type of malware on the internet emerge in realtime.
I hate that in this century everyone needs the paranoia and skill set of a 90s network security administrator.
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Risks Digest 34.16 appeared in my emailbox Wednesday.
Choices email, RDF, RSS (1.0 or 2.0), ATOM, JSON, and "Simplified (latest issue)" ?IDK?.
see www.risks.org for the archives (1985-present).
♲ @waynerad@diasp.org:The XZ attack has taken the world of cybersecurity by storm. This video provides a concise overview. (If you prefer text, there is a link to a text-based FAQ below.)
It begins with a clever "social engineering" attack, where two people play "good cop bad cop" to guilt-trip the maintainer of XZ. First I should probably mention that XZ Utils is a compression system used by Linux, in lots of places including package managers, build (code compilation) systems, and ssh, the "secure shell" system that enables people to log in to remote servers and run commands. (I myself use ssh dozens of times every day -- if you don't work with servers you wouldn't know, but this is how servers are managed all over the internet.) Getting back to the "social engineering" attack, the attackers successfully demoralized the project maintainer, who was an open source developer working in his spare time and not paid. He eventually gave up and made the "good cop" co-maintainer of the project.The attack itself is pretty interesting, too. The attacker did not touch ssh, or at least not the code for ssh itself. He changed test code. And not in an obvious way -- he changed a "binary blob" that is opaque to people examining changes to the code to decide whether to accept the changes on their systems or not. The binary blog would get decompressed at build time, and it turned out inside it was a bash script (bash is another one of those Linux shells), and the bash script would get executed. The bash script would modify the ssh system in such a way that a certain public key would be replaced by a different one. The purpose of the original public key was to make sure only trusted people with the corresponding private key could update a running ssh system. With the attacker's key in place, the attacker can now change running ssh systems. Not only that, but because an ssh installation on a server runs with root privileges, because it has to because it has to be able to authenticate any user and then launch a command-line shell for that user with that user's privileges, the attacker becomes able to log in as root on any Linux server infected with the attack -- which could have eventually become more or less all of them had the attack not been discovered.
To me, this attack is interesting on so many levels:
1) It comes through the "supply chain" -- attacking open source at the point where contributors (often unpaid) submit their contributions.
2) It involves a "social engineering" attack on the supply chain, something it had never occurred to me was even possible before.
3) There was a long delay between the social engineering attack and the technical attack -- about 2 years. The attackers spent 2 years building trust to exploit later.
4) It attacks one piece of software (ssh) by attacking a completely different and apparently unrelated piece of software (XZ Utils).
5) It attacks the software not by attacking the code to the software directly, but to its test code.
6) It carries out the attack by running malicious code at build time instead of runtime. (The build of XZ Utils is part of the build of ssh.)
7) It attacks a cryptosystem by replacing a legitimate key with the attacker's key and getting the attacker's key "officially" distributed.
8) Had it been successful, the implications would have been huge -- it would have given the attacker access to practically every Linux server everywhere. (Well, every Linux server, pretty much, uses ssh but the attack initially targeted RedHat & Debian, so maybe it wouldn't have spread to everywhere.)
9) The attack was discovered accidentally, because it modified its target's performance, not any other aspect of its behavior.
I hadn't mentioned that last one yet, but yeah, the attack was discovered by a person who was doing performance benchmarks on a completely unrelated project (to do with the Postgres database), which just happened to include automated ssh logins as part of the testing system, and the ssh logins suddenly slowed down for no apparent reason. In trying to figure out what had gone wrong, he discovered the attack.
This has huge implications for the future for open source software and trust in all the projects and maintainers and regular software updates that are done on a daily basis all over the world. Some are predicting wholesale abandonment of the package distribution systems used currently throughout the Linux world. At the very least, everyone contributing to projects that become standard parts of Linux distributions is going to come under much greater scrutiny.
And in case you're wondering, no, nobody knows who the attackers were, at least as far as I know. And no, no one knows how many other attacks might exist "out there" in the Linux software supply chain.
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Every vendor booth at RSA this year:
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One of my larger complaints about Linux Foundation events is that they are very much targeted at corporations with large budgets to send people to conferences.
For example, as someone who has mostly been an indie OSS maintainer over their career, I would love to go to Open Source Summit and meet up with people to discuss what problems they are having with the software I maintain and how we can collaborate on resolving those problems.
But my choices are to register as a "hobbyist" (a frankly demeaning thing to call an indie maintainer) at $249, which requires me to go ask them for a discount code (also frankly demeaning), or register at the full $949 rate, or maybe I could get the "small business" discount code which brings it down to *only* $500. Man, what a favor, huh?
I understand that putting on these events is very costly, but when indie OSS maintainers are given the option of paying nearly $1000 or having to go ask someone for a "hobbyist" discount code, it seems very disrespectful to the maintainers who are building the actual software that this summit is about.
Do you really think the guy in Nebraska who is holding up all modern digital infrastructure in his spare time has the money to spend $949 to go to a conference? For all the talking we do about building inclusive conferences, this has to include *access* for indie maintainers.
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after the LF was framed as a hero for hosting valkey, instead of just legitimately looking out for the financial interests of its controlling entities.
Descent 3 has been made open source https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/descent-3-has-been-made-open-source/
Descent 3 has been made open source
Another classic has been given the open source treatment, with Descent 3 from Outrage Entertainment now available under the MIT license.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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Be careful out there if you’re a T-Mobile customer. Their employee database was breached and now hackers are texting employees offering them $300 each to help them perform SIM swapping attacks.
Time to switch to authenticator apps for two factor auth.
T-Mobile Employees Across The Country Receive Cash Offers To Illegally Swap SIMs
T-Mobile employees, both third-party and corporate, are receiving cash offers via text to complete SIM swaps for criminals.Jman100 (The Mobile Report)
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"Notice also how there are dedicated transit lanes in the middle but despite all of the space, there's only one lane for cars in each direction. And the only time it gets wider is when turning lanes are necessary. That's how you do it, people." @notjustbikes
https://youtube.com/watch?v=g0F_hTGYa0Y&t=260
Amsterdam Closed This Bridge to Cars (but not bikes ofc)
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City Council Grants Tourists Stuck Driving Through Pike Place Landmark Status
In a final blow to thousands of advocates for turning Pike Place Market into a car-free zone, today the Seattle City Council granted Historic Landmark Status to a long line of tourists stuck drivin…The Needling
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Okay, Boomers, make it make sense
http://inaniludibrio.com/2024/04/15/okay-boomers-make-it-make-sense/
Okay, Boomers, make it make sense
The hot political topic…30 years ago with man who cheated on his wife with a subordinate vs now… weather man cheat on his pregnant wife with a porn star and later paid her to keep quiet is fit to b…Inani Ludibrio
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Vincarsi (@Vincarsi@mastodon.social)
Rewatching this video today, I found myself reflecting on how my least productive and most inflammatory convos on the fedi and other social media has been with older adults.Mastodon
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The application for stay presented to JUSTICE KAGAN and by her referred to the Court is granted. The December 26, 2023 order of the United States District Court for the Dis- trict of Idaho, case No. 1:23-cv-269, is stayed, except as to the provision to the plaintiffs of the treatments they sought below, pending the disposition of the appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and disposi- tion of a petition for a writ of certiorari, if such a writ is timely sought. Should certiorari be denied, this stay shall terminate automatically. In the event certiorari is granted, the stay shall terminate upon the sending down of the judg- ment of this Court.")
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Supreme Court allows Idaho ban on trans minors' medical care to go into effect
Although the opinions focused on the ongoing debate over "universal injunctions," it's trans kids who will face the consequences of Monday's high court order.Chris Geidner (Law Dork)
Limitless AI: a new wearable gadget, and app, for remembering your meetings
Limitless has apps for Mac, Windows, and the web and aims to be a way to prep for and remember the stuff you talk about at work. Plus ChatGPT and much more.David Pierce (The Verge)
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#tech #tesla #elonmusk #cybertruck
Cybertruck Deliveries Halted Due To Car Being A Big Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Work | Defector
Tesla, a future case study for securities law classes across America, had to stop delivering Cybertrucks this past weekend.defector.com
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Making Money Flow: The MONIAC
Introducing Bill Phillips' amazing hydro-mechanical economic computer. A live demonstration of the only working MONIAC in the Southern Hemisphere. This is lo...YouTube
What I learned from watching TERFs descend into right wing fuckery as the decades passed, is this:
If your opposition to oppression remains limited to the one particular oppression that effects you personally, and you see the efforts of other oppressed people as offensive, nonsensical, and/or inconvenient to you...
Chances are, you're going to go full fascist at some point further down the road.
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That transformation isn't limited to the subculture/movement itself. It takes place on an individual level too.
Hatred corrupts people. The more obsessive and targeted that hate becomes, the more likely it will transform the bearer into someone who is, well, kind of evil.
And so, when I see a person who, say, might be fully against one form of oppression, such as apartheid states and their racist genocidal targeting of Palestinians, but the same person thinks feminism and addressing sexism/misogyny are sort of overblown and stupid, I wonder where that person is going to be in a decade or two.
I wouldn't be surprised to see them waving a banner for some variant of fascism.
I hope not.
But it wouldn't be surprising.
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We are finally beginning to see mainstream outlets tell the truth:
Very little plastic is recyclable, or recycled.
The "chasing arrows" were put on the packaging and the lie that plastic is recyclable was pushed so municipalities in the 80's wouldn't ban plastic.
"In 1994 an Exxon executive told the staff of the plastics council that when it comes to recycling, "We are committed to the activities but not committed to the results.""
I agree with the statement in this article: plastic will never be recyclable, not in the traditional sense, unless it is broken down into constituent atoms and those are used in other things. The material is just not amenable to it.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/critics-call-out-plastics-industry-over-fraud-of-plastic-recycling/
Critics call out plastics industry over "fraud of plastic recycling"
Only 5 to 6% of plastic waste produced in the U.S. is actually recycled. A new report accuses the plastics industry of a decades-long campaign to "mislead" the public about the viability of recycling.Ben Tracy (CBS News)
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Yeah, the whole "recycling" campaign is propaganda. Companies get to produce more toxic waste, by guilt-tripping us for not recycling enough. Go ahead take all your plastic bottles and burn them in your front yard, and I could care less as long as companies aren't allowed to make me pay for their pollution.
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/5/28/18629833/climate-change-2019-green-new-deal
Climate change: I work in the environmental movement. I don’t care if you recycle.
Stop obsessing over your environmental “sins.” Fight the oil and gas industry instead.Mary Annaise Heglar (Vox)
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It's so much worse. Check out all the new data being revealed including how the marketing campaigns to brainwash the public
https://climateintegrity.org/uploads/media/Fraud-of-Plastic-Recycling-2024.pdf
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That's an amazing article, and yeah I don't think there are words for how cooking these people alive would be too merciful to them. It brings up an excellent example in the 50's where 80 children suffocated in plastic dry cleaner bags, and the industry said the parents were to blame for trying to reuse the dryer bags. So like:
Parent: You sold me a new dryer bag and my child just died horribly suffocating on it while I struggled to save them.
The Society of the Plastics Industry: Well, you should have known to throw away the bag. Really we're the victims here.
Here in Australia, the major grocery store partnered with soft plastic recycling company REDcycle, and collected soft plastics on their behalf.
REDcycle seems to have been successful for most of its lifetime. However, it recently emerged that REDcycle began stockpiling the soft plastics in warehouses - a massive fire hazard - after recycling them became unprofitable.
Sadly, recycling plastic isn't very economical.
REDcycle’s collapse and the hard truths on recycling soft plastics in Australia
Shoppers are still being incorrectly told they can return food packaging to supermarkets a year after the program ended. So is any soft plastic being recycled?Daisy Dumas (The Guardian)
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Democracy Dies Behind Paywalls
The case for making journalism free—at least during the 2024 electionRichard Stengel (The Atlantic)
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Utah school board member who questioned a student's gender loses party nomination for reelection
A conservative Utah State Board of Education member who faced calls to resign after lawmakers said she bullied a student on social media has lost her nomination for reelection.AP News
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"It's not a death wish, it's an addiction to feeling alive." (Source)
I know that exact feeling and that's a pretty good way to put it. :)
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