Mastodawn

Hot diggity dog.

The briefing concludes that standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, depend on mass invasions of privacy by design, and are fundamentally incompatible with [International Human Rights Law]. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems, including where such systems are identified as exacerbating existing inequalities or creating new forms of discrimination.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/pol40/0996/2026/en/

Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI - Amnesty International

This briefing examines how standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, are in conflict with international human rights law (IHRL) and standards through their design, development and deployment. While these technologies promise sophisticated automation and efficiency, they rely on data collection and model training practices that abuse privacy rights, enable discrimination, and threaten […]

Amnesty International

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Mark Bryant 14h ago

What they really mean is that they can’t afford to loose this marketing platform.

Man, I am so tired of being witness to their ongoing Internet war. I have no idea what this is about this time, and I frankly don’t give a damn.

Time to use the tools provided and unfollow this account. Hope it isn’t causing too many issues for our admin-and-chief.

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Axel Rauschmayer 16h ago

Can long-range cellular data be an alternative to Starlink? Options (from worst to best, with the numbers from the video = one very specific example):
• Cell phone, cellular Wi-Fi hotspot: Down: 27 Mbps, Up: 3 Mbps
• Omni-directional cellular antenna: Down: 210 Mbps, Up: 3.3 Mbps
• Directional cellular antenna: Down: 411 Mbps, Up: 11.9 Mbps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPIrEWn6yeE

The Alternative to Starlink You Never Knew Existed

YouTube

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Alexis M 1d ago

Signal without smartphone

A Desktop application to register an account with Signal and link it with Signal Desktop, all without requiring a smartphone.

https://github.com/almet/signal-without-smartphone

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Jeremiah Fieldhaven 2d ago

So my systems recently updated to rsync 3.4.3, and as soon as that happened my backup system - which does incremental backups using multiple --compare-dest= arguments - started to fail on anything but a full backup.

Revert to 3.4.1 and it works.

So I go look at the source in GitHub to see what might have changed, because there doesn't seem to be anything relevant in the changelog.

Since 3.4.1, 36 commits by "tridge and claude"

Oh for fuck's sakes.

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Dennis Faucher

1d ago

Love this:

A security lead at a large enterprise* told me last week, when I asked whether they had any interest in Grok: "The revenge porn edgelord LLM? Yeah, imagine that; our bank wants nothing to do with it."

AWS reportedly to tuck Elon Musk's Grok into Bedrock, despite zero enterprise demand

https://www.theregister.com/ai-ml/aws-grok-corey-quinn/5248821

#AWS #Bedrock #Grok

AWS reportedly to tuck Elon Musk's Grok into Bedrock, despite zero enterprise demand

The energy drink of frontier models

theregister

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The Calyx Institute 1d ago

Bitwarden CLI has been compromised as part of the newly discovered and ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign. Bitwarden confirmed the incident and said it stemmed from the compromise of its npm distribution mechanism following the Checkmarx supply chain attack, but emphasized that no end-user data was accessed as part of the attack. #privacy #password #Bitwarden #checkmarx #hacker #breach https://thehackernews.com/2026/04/bitwarden-cli-compromised-in-ongoing.html

Bitwarden CLI Compromised in Ongoing Checkmarx Supply Chain Campaign

Bitwarden CLI 2026.4.0 was compromised via GitHub Actions in Checkmarx campaign, exposing secrets and distributing malicious npm code

The Hacker News

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Show thread

:: Asta ::2d ago

@amydiehl this “deep acting” demand/job requirement is especially disgusting while Starbucks continues to engage in union busting. According to the company, a barista must realign their internal feelings so they can “authentically express” a positive feeling (and be fired if not), but they’re not allowed to unionize? They’re not allowed to feel their own feelings about working conditions? They must manipulate themselves psychologically but cannot ask for better pay?

Forced to care about random customers, but not allowed to care for themselves or their coworkers?

Starbucks is disgusting.

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eta 1d ago

today at the hackspace: @russss brought along a C-ITS receiver, we contributed data to https://opentrafficmap.org, and I got a pcap of my car driving backwards and forwards

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Genode 1d ago

#Genode 26.05 completes our migration from GitHub to @Codeberg!

Technically, we reshaped #SculptOS into re-usable building blocks and improved our driver base by fine-grained DMA-buffer accounting, MSI/MSI-X support, Linux 6.18 driver sources, QMI/MBIM LTE, I2C HID, as well as an Intel HDA/SOF audio. Also, Qt6 was updated to 6.8.3, a libslirp-based NIC driver de-privileges networking on Linux, and Goa is now on par with Sculpt OS 26.04.

https://genode.org/documentation/release-notes/26.05

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