George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽President Biden should invite Rep. Zooey Zephyr, the trans legislator silenced in Montana for speaking truth to power, to the White House. Just like he did the #TennesseeThree
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Gayle J. Greenlea 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️B/c it was not enough to silence her voice on the House floor, #Montana Republicans have banished Rep. #ZooeyZephyr from the state legislature for the rest of the session. She will not be permitted to represent her 11,000 constituents who elected her to speak for them. GOP lawmakers misgendered Zephyr & accused her of violating decorum by opposing their anti-trans bills & saying they would have “blood on their hands”. Protesters who supported her were arrested. This is what #fascism looks like.
Claudius LinkQuestion to the #Mastodon community
After my negative experience with #DropBox
https://infosec.exchange/@realn2s/110200718918101674
Any recommendations for a (self-hosted) alternative? For a self hoste version I would really like the option to (securely) mirror it offsite (e.g team up with others and safe the data of each other. Ideally with E2E encryption)
@nextcloud looks most promising. But I don't know how the mirroring could be accomplished. The status and functionality of Open Cloud Mesh could be interesting.
#Boost is welcome
Claudius Link (@[email protected])
Everything is fine now. Backup was restored successfully (AFAI can Know). Contrary to all rumours, it took somewhere between 3 and 4 hours. Nevertheless, it didn't feel too good that i had to depend on my backup 😬 Takeaways #Dropbox wasn't restored successfully. And Dropbox files are NOT on disk when Dropbox isn't working 😖. I bet the files will be somewhere but I consider this (intentional) bad UX. IMHO this is a kind of user-lock-in. If you uninstall Dropbox your files are gone 🤬
LaffyMcCurtain Gazette-News releases entire audio of county leaders talking about killing reporters, lynching Black residents
The #Oklahoma sheriff boasted about physically confronting the local district attorney and threatening to “whoop his ass,” newly released audio revealed.
Newspaper releases full audio of alleged conversation made by Oklahoma officials
Earlier this week, a newspaper released portions of disturbing and racist audio recordings of comments allegedly made by an Oklahoma sheriff and three county officials. NBC’s Steven Romo has more on how the newspaper recently publicly released the entire recording that includes even more threats.
How long until legislators require schools to do sentiment analysis online for their district to monitor for threats or pay some company to do it for them funneling more tax dollars away from students towards corporations
BobThe man does have some odd priorities. #Oklahoma #Education
Ryan Walters seems more concerned about Bud Lite ads and “Protecting Girls Sports” than sexually abusive teachers. https://thelostogle.com/2023/04/18/ryan-walters-more-concerned-about-bud-lite-ads-and-protecting-girls-sports-than-sexually-abusive-teachers/
Ryan Walters more concerned about Bud Lite ads and "Protecting Girls Sports" than sexually abusive teachers… - The Lost Ogle
Last week, a couple of all too familiar stories involving Oklahoma educators sexually abusing students hit the local news wire. On Thursday, Cody Barlow – a youth minister who served as the principal of Wewoka Middle School – was charged with two felony counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child under the age […]
botwiki.orgOh crap.
"Tech companies have grown secretive about what they feed the AI. So The Washington Post set out to analyze one of these data sets to fully reveal the types of proprietary, personal, and often offensive websites that go into an AI’s training data."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/ai-chatbot-learning/
via @benbrown
Chris TrottierPeople are genuinely surprised, but it's true: you can turn your Android phone into a web server.
Digital Ocean actually has a tutorial on how to do this.
So if you want a fun little Sunday project, here it is:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/host-a-web-server-on-android
Natanox 🇺🇦🇵🇸First #RaspberryPi earned a shitstorm by hiring an ex-cop specialized in hidden surveillance.
Now they accept an investment by Sony for their propr. AI engine to be included in the next Pi. Which "only sends metadata to the cloud".
Edit 2024: They went IPO.
Here's a list of alternatives:
- https://beagleboard.org/
- https://www.banana-pi.org/
- https://www.hardkernel.com/
- https://www.friendlyelec.com/
- https://www.olimex.com/
- https://rockpi.org/
- https://libre.computer/
- https://www.starfivetech.com/en
Jan Wildeboer 😷
Bitcoin/crypto miners will soon switch to LaaS. LLM (Large Language Model) like ChatGPT as a Service. Because these models need loads of compute for learning and also for running them. More energy wasted in times where the climate is burning. Le. Sigh.