Mastodawn

tumblefeed Aug 14, 2024

Electronic Frontier Foundation Aug 11, 2024

Hey Resorts World Las Vegas: It's wrong to treat all hackers as dangerous, and to attempt to penalize people just for owning the tools of the trade. These tools have productive uses, as demonstrated by the massive convention of professional security researchers taking place. #DEFCON32 https://www.404media.co/hotel-to-search-rooms-during-def-con-hacking-conference/

Hotel to Search Rooms During DEF CON Hacking Conference

“As you may or may not know, a well-known hacking convention will be held in Las Vegas during your stay,” Resorts World Las Vegas writes. “We will be conducting scheduled, brief visual and non-intrusive room inspections daily,” it adds.

404 Media

tumblefeed Jul 24, 2024

Fesshole 🧻Jul 24, 2024

In my spare time I like to call my friends' employers pretending to be from a rival firm and say my friend has put them down as a reference for a fictional new job. Two have received pay rises and been begged not to leave.

tumblefeed Jul 24, 2024

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Andrew (Television Executive)Jul 17, 2024

As an archivist, let me say clearly:

Modern copyright law is actively harmful to the preservation and study of our culture.

It harms artists by giving undue power to publishers. It harms artists by limiting remixes. It harms preservation and research efforts.

It's broken. It's bad. It should be massively reformed.

tumblefeed Jun 20, 2024

Brewster Kahle Jun 13, 2024

funding for news-- canada tried a link tax (not going well) and now canada trying a tax-- seems more straight forward.

personally I would like to see funding go to open access, non-profit news orgs like propublica.

"Canada Imposes 5% Tax On Streaming To Fund Local News, Diverse Content"

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/06/13/canada-imposes-5-tax-on-streaming-to-fund-local-news-diverse-content/

Canada Imposes 5% Tax On Streaming To Fund Local News, Diverse Content

Canadian Regulators are leaning on new authority built into the 2023 Online Streaming Act to impose a new 5 percent tax on streaming TV and music services like Netflix and Spotify; funding that the…

Techdirt

tumblefeed Jun 20, 2024

BleepingComputer Jun 18, 2024

Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 10 apps will mistakenly display an "How do you want to open this file?" dialog box when attempting to right-click on the program's icon and perform a registered task.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-says-bug-causes-windows-apps-to-display-open-with-dialogs/

Microsoft says bug causes Windows apps to display Open With dialogs

BleepingComputer

tumblefeed Jun 16, 2024

@eff do you have a question box for inquiring minds? Thanks.

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tumblefeed Jun 16, 2024

@attoparsec would be cool to mill it into a lighthouse-style fresnel lens, w led’s inside.

tumblefeed Apr 25, 2024

Liam

Apr 25, 2024

I’ve said before that the most precious part of the Web are the pre-Facebook forums run by enthusiasts of specific domains (say, owners of a model of motorbike). There’ll be knowledge there from crusty old riders that means the difference between success and failure at doing what you want to do.

It’s exactly this kind of specific knowledge, like knowing the right steps and way to adjust the valve clearances on a bike, that is threatened by AI content mills, because an LLM doesn’t know if it’s 0.15mm or 15mm, and doesn’t care

tumblefeed Apr 25, 2024

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Tinker ☀️Apr 22, 2024

THEY DID IT!!!!

My local library built the seed library!

The local Master Gardeners provided a lot of the intitial seeds (oh my gosh we are stocked!!!). They used an old card catalogue to store them. Today's the kickoff!

The idea is you "check out seeds" from the library, plant/grow/harvest, let some go to seed, then "return the seeds" back to the library!

Free seeds for everyone!

Editing to add my library's Seed Library web site: https://www.librarypoint.org/seed-library/

#solarPunk #postScarcity #gardening #mutualAid #seedLibrary #earthDay