US Border agents just shot two people in Portland, Oregon today.
It's almost as if they are intentionally trying to desensitize us to their violence, to make us accept that they will kill whoever they want, whenever they want.
But if we do that, things will only get worse.
All around the country, we must flood the streets to show that we will not be intimidated. We have to build the capacity to defend our communities from the murderers and kidnappers in ICE. How we rise to this challenge will determine the future for all of us.
Smash ICE.
🚨 ALERT
my close SCP friend emotionalentropy has gotten really fucked over by their car and health insurance
they are saying its the money spent on vet bills (read for more info) but knowing em personally its their insurance that's the most problematic
em is also disabled and recently got another job ("recently" like july) it does not pay em enough to pay off this debt
please boost/share/donate! thank you
Thinking of starting a list of popular open source software developed using LLMs and by LLM boosters, along with alternatives that can be tried instead. LLM in FOSS should be socially shunned.
Anyone interested?
Update: https://codeberg.org/gen-ai-transparency/open-slopware alright, it's up. Patches welcome! Please send me your PRs at your leisure.
I remember when Bruce Schneier had a reputable security blog and talked about exploits and botnets in detail. I stopped reading a while back (can't remember how long ago) and it has devolved into some AI policy-wonk bullshit by a white dude that doesn't even use the word "bias" anywhere. Nor actually relavant security coverage! Pathetic.
At least Krebs still actually talks about security topics so I guess I'll be going to his blog instead.
Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods
404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or to their employer.
https://www.404media.co/inside-ices-tool-to-monitor-phones-in-entire-neighborhoods/
please boost!
Mario was recently detained by ICE and is being held at a detention center. He has a hearing on January 13th, and his lawyer is asking for $5,000 up front to represent him.
$3265/5000
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-marios-legal-fight-for-freedom
What really irritates me are the arguments against federated networks that boil down to "but you need to trust some rando and you don't know their intentions" and then go on to suggest as the alternative some tech company's centralized platform instead, even though that tech company is fundamentally also just "some rando" except now it's certain that their intentions are malicious
Let's ask the real question:
Firefox users,
do you want any AI directly built into Firefox, or separated out into extensions?
@firefoxwebdevs
@davidgerard
@tante
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Please do contribute if you can 🫂 .
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Linux woes
KDE wayland bug where left click is stuck down in softeare regardless of what you do. Thankfully touch works, but I'd appreciate being able to use a pointer device without a reboot. What kind of weird input plumbing could even cause this? Things made sense in X11, I just don't get it anymore.
To be clear. This is super rare and I have yet to intentionally replicate it. So it isn't really actionable right now.
People genuinely care about their image unless they are being critiqued by a war reenactor larper weirdo in a costume from last century. Then they don't. Pro tip. Also lose the damn vests nobody listens to anybody in a vest without resenting it.
Thufie
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programming languages?
C++ C MIPS x86 Java Python Rust and a few others :P