Mastodawn

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@0x0ddc0ffee@infosec.exchange

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Angry and depressed. Once and future IT person, probably healthcare IT. OpenBSD and Plan 9 fan. Likes Lisp and Scheme. Mainframe-curious.
Avi by Al Foreman of poisonedminds/SSDD

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Location	Duwamish Land
Instrument	4 String Electric Bass

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ilias

6d ago

Meta AI integrated in WhatsApp already started leaking private phone numbers to other users

ironically, I think it is the AI integration that can act as a really convincing argument for "average" users to ditch this app

perhaps this time people will wake up to the enshittification of WA and start moving to Signal. hopefully

#Privacy #Security #Meta #Facebook #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Surveillance

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Dave Rahardja 6d ago

OH MY GOD THERE IS MORE.

You have to excuse him: he has the benefit of heighten (sic) pattern recognition.

And yes, it’s real. Here’s the link to the last post in the thread (you have to be logged in to view it all): https://bsky.app/profile/meredithmeredith.bsky.social/post/3lrsry6wjis2m

#mansplaining #man #explaining

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉1d ago

For those unfamiliar with decibel (“dB”) measurements of loudness, decibels are logarithmic, not linear, so 80 decibels is “twice as loud” as 70 decibels (this is to account for the wide range of sounds we can perceive.)

“70 decibels is an arbitrary base of comparison. Upper 70s are annoyingly loud to some people. For example: Passenger car at 65 mph at 25 ft (77 dB); freeway at 50 ft from pavement edge 10 a.m. (76 dB). Living room music (76 dB); radio or TV-audio, vacuum cleaner (70 dB).”

https://www.chem.purdue.edu/chemsafety/Training/PPETrain/dblevels.htm

Noise Comparisons

Field Replaceable Unit 17h ago

If I were a power-mad dictator, I would at least do the country a few favors: make child labor illegal again, banning prison slavery, decriminalizing homelessness, legalizing gas cans that will actually let you put gas in things, rather than just spill all over yourself, and all non-embedded computing devices would be strictly banned, except a cycle-accurate reimplementation of the PDP-10 Model KS10, which a freshly nationalized HPE would be required to produce in high volume. A slightly modernized version of ITS would be the only permitted operating system. There would be strict limits on total disk storage, but there would be no limits on 9 track tape reels. No tape robots, though. Oh, and the WPA would be reinstated, tasked with fixing all the bridges they built, last time around.

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Fi 🏳️‍⚧️19h ago

so people who are already passing off their cognition to LLMs are just going to be flagrantly manipulated into buying shit?

fuck this whole technology.

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/openais-ceo-sam-altman-airs-his-thoughts-on-ads-in-chatgpt-im-not-totally-against-it-i-think-ads-on-instagram-kinda-cool/

OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman airs his thoughts on ads in ChatGPT: 'I'm not totally against it...I think ads on Instagram, kinda cool'

Since when have ads in anything been cool?

PC Gamer

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Bryan Steele

May 6

#MutualAid #MutualAidRequests

I could use some help, friends. I'd really appreciate sharing.

If you can help out with the occasional pizza, that would really mean a lot to me. Monthly gifts would take care of a lot of my financial stress/anxiety as well.

https://brynet.ca/wallofpizza.html

https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ZQJC48GUPB3UU&source=url

Progress: $290 / $2500 CAD (monthly goal)

If you aren't able help with PayPal, I have an Amazon .ca wishlist with some odds & ends, computer hardware: https://www.amazon.ca/hz/wishlist/ls/2E7N6O3GTI6JF

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brynet's something somewhat site - pizza wall of fame

Field Replaceable Unit 19h ago

Finished the 50 question final exam in just over 9 minutes, and scored 100%. I learned one very important thing from this class: I'd rather not be responsible for supporting Epic. Not sure yet if I'm going to finish the last 3 classes in the Fall, get my healthcare IT credential, then go learn to be a diesel heavy equipment tech, or if I'm going to write-off the last few years as sunk time and start on the wrenching right away.

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Kriszta Satori 19h ago

Florida has begun building a detention centre - dubbed the 'Alligator Alcatraz' - to temporarily hold migrants on an air strip in the Everglades.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0rvq1eg8w9o

'Alligator Alcatraz': Florida building migrant detention centre in Everglades

The facility could be completed within months and have the capacity to hold around 1,000 people.

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UFW 1d ago

We are posting this placard at all of our offices and asking our union contract farms to post as well.

We encourage our friends to put up similar placards at their business as immigration agents do not have the right to go on private property without permission.

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True.

@drahardja The funny part is, sometimes the most violent "participants" in a protest are ALSO the most violent cops.

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Dave Rahardja 3d ago

@Hasufin What’s the saying? The ones who come for a riot are the ones in riot gear?

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Epistomai 3d ago

@Hasufin @drahardja Politicians infiltrate violence in protests against them, to justify the violent actions of police or even military force.

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Tom 🇵🇸 🇺🇦3d ago

@drahardja

Police brutality (up to and including murder for sport): A few bad apples.

Graffiti and a couple of torched Waymos: OMG LOS ANGELES IS BURNING!! IT'S A WAR ZONE!!!

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𝐉𝐨𝐧 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐫 3d ago

@tom @drahardja And I'd like to point out that the original expression about bad apples is that it only takes one of them to spoil the whole barrel. That is, the point of the saying is that even one bad apple is one too many. The sense got turned on its head by that stupid Osmonds song, but what cops are really saying when they say "oh, it's just a few bad apples," to people who remember the original meaning anyway, is that their entire departments are either corrupt already or soon will be.

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scott f 3d ago

@drahardja also the core purpose of the police is to maintain structural violence. Make sure starving people cannot shoplift food to survive, homeless people cannot squat on private property (or sleep in tents on the sidewalk), etc.

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