Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

Raspberry Pi Foundation seems to be collecting serial numbers/MAC addresses during the first boot of Raspberry Pi OS?

Take a look at the following function inside `piwiz`, their first boot wizard:
https://github.com/raspberrypi-ui/piwiz/blob/master/src/piwiz.c#L2381-L2393

That app either reads the OTP registers 64-65 which contain the MAC address, or the serial number reported by CPU. Then, they use Chromium first_run_tabs preference key to send a SHA256-hashed MAC/SN to their server (hxxps://welcome.raspberrypi.org/raspberry-pi-os?id=SHA256SN)

Does bisexual mean "every other sexual" or "twice per sexual", I can never remember

also it's fucking 2023 why on earth am I getting union emails sent to an inbox that is owned both by the bosses and by google. why doesn't every union sign up process include an invitation to a freaking CHATROOM. for the love of god it is the most obvious thing on the planet to put you in CONTACT with the other members of your union on a person-to-person basis rather than funnelling everything through stewards and blast emails that no one reads.

garbage infra has freaking consequences!!!!! and they are labor organizing burnout!!!!

Queeractivisten moeten steeds vaker niet alleen strijden voor vooruitgang, maar ook om teruggang tegen te gaan. Deze strijd op twee fronten kunnen wij niet winnen als we alleen staan. We hebben onze ‘allies’ nu harder nodig dan ooit.

Pride in 1969 was stenen gooien. Pride in 2023 is feestvieren.

Misschien moeten we toch maar weer eens stenen gaan gooien?

#pride #PrideMonth

https://arnhemnijmegen.bij1.org/pride-1969-pride-2023/

aippropriation (noun):

Appropriating the work of artists, writers, coders, and other creative folk, or creative output of whole communities, or a corpus of whole languages, by including it indiscriminately into training sets for generative AI models, and benefiting from them by those controlling these models, usually without consent, remuneration, attribution, acknowledgement, nor making these tools freely available to those creatives, communities, or language speakers.

See: mathwashing.

#AI

me: ok so i need a web browser
opera: hell yea here you have one
me: damn now if only i knew where to find predatory loans
opera: you are not going to believe this

this rabbit hole goes deeper than I first assumed

This is extremely bad news. Basically, the US supreme court decided that unions can be held accountable for damages caused by strikes. This means that strikes become somewhat useless, since the whole idea is to inflict losses to demonstrate the importance of the workers for the company.

It's also extremely disappointing that the purportedly progressive judge Sotomayor appears to have sided with the company suing the union in this case.

Union power was one of the few remaining remedies we still had to the rule of the wealthy, so it's not a surprise that moneyed interests are trying to break it.

Supreme Court rules against union in labor dispute, will ‘erode’ right to strike warns dissent | PBS NewsHour

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/447533

In practical terms LLMs turn out to be a kind of idea reinforcement device. The more often an idea is expressed in the corpus, the more likely it is to be expressed by the model.

"Stochastic parrot" is a good shorthand, but parrots repeat verbatim. LLMs are more like a convert, something indoctrinated. Like a wind-up evangelist.

This is the ideal entryway

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"But the harm-reduction model holds that we should keep reviving people who overdose and then do nothing more than hope they come to their senses and opt into treatment."

"nothing more"

who told you this is what the harm-reduction model holds and what was his badge number

why does everyone want to own the libs

as an open source developer i own multiple libs

i would happily pay people to take them from me

you do not want to own libs. its so much work

@elilla
date idea: attach "vegan" labels to all the most obvious vegan things to starve carnists

Reddit is experiencing the VC dilemma.... Your startup is allowed to have core features and limited growth, and the end user experience is generally better that way in the long term...

VCs require infinite growth and that's unsustainable, so once the users run out.. they look to find cash any way they can like the privatisation of the APIs.

Patreon had the same problem. It had one job, then it suddenly started posting about microloans.

VC money, not even once.

#HappyPrideMonth #Pride #LGBTQI

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