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• Post #4463291

  @jupiter_rowland Thanks. That makes sense. Context not shown by the pixels are thus best put to the post text instead, I take it. There still is the issue of character limit. For a sufficiently visually complex image, that does still necessitate prioritizing which details to describe. For each of my two hypothetical posts, is a visually impaired person better served by being told the colour of a particular cabin air filter, or in one case the end of a bicycle handle bar being in frame, and i...

• Post #4389991

  If anyone knows any #drone designers, builders, or pilots in #Ukraine, I have an idea I hope at least some will take up: One way Ukraine could raise more funds is to start designing and producing fire-fighting drones for small just-started #wildfires and for structure protection ahead of wildfires, for rapid deployment before large assets can arrive, and developing training for their use, then selling these to aligned countries such as #Canada. For example, the BC #Wildfire Service could use a...

• Post #4389068

  From #GamersNexus: “It’s Time to Poison AI.” Steve reports on the necessity and means of #dataPoisoning to impose negative value in defence against nonconsensual LLM data scraping. Thanks, Steve. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WP6kEO3i8g #noAI

• Post #4178746

  @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org The music from my youth was almost entirely devoted to a particular worldview I was raised in and no longer hold. I never listen to it anymore, and I’ve cut ties with nearly everyone I know who still does.

• Post #4172130

  From #GNCA and @mgeist@mas.to: “Forcing VPN Companies to Become Palantir | Canada's Data Harvesting Law” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj7x6mWvIJs #cdnpoli #BillC22 #surveillance #GamersNexus

• Post #4076855

  From #MattBernstein: “Lindsey Graham Died In The Closet” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnD6vjUV-ko #LindseyGraham was a case-in-point example of what #HunterBiden means by the #closetocracy. Self-hatred is a deadly drug, but it's deadly to many others before the self-hating. Pride is therefore vital for us all: LGBGIA+, cishet, or otherwise. #uspol

• Post #4003287

  RE: https://mastox.eu/@jacobin/116961529223048803 A hilarious case of “be careful what you wish for” is exhibited in this latest meltdown from the homophobic far right. #uspol #movies #Odyssey

• Post #3997341

  Great to hear Kay Dean of #FakeReviewWatch discussing fake review with #rightToRepair and #rightToOwn advocate #LouisRossmann today. I’m looking forward to seeing what else WeRecoverData will have brought upon themselves. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGe3zC6_iro #fakeReviews #business #ethics #fraud

• Post #3973193

  RE: https://scicomm.xyz/@dantheclamman/116954518144682511 We’re going to need some legal word smithing on the order of the #GPL and the #CreativeCommons licenses to make a false statement an offence in as many ways and jurisdictions as possible (any ideas, #lawFedi folks?), some #EXIF and #ID3v2 and #PNG and comparable metadata tags for carrying legal statements attesting to non-use of media synthesis (mislabelled as #genAI by GPT vendors and NPU/TPU manufacturers), some apps to interview and e...

• Post #3972849

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@Viss/116954935964450700 @hak5@infosec.exchange You up to selling an #HDMI version of the #RubberDucky?

• Post #3950040

  RE: https://federate.social/@mattblaze/116949865230742008 “The medium is the message.” Every argument must first be applied to itself. If your HOA post insisting on a CW could itself reasonably be foreseen to warrant a CW, your hypocrisy has defeated your standing to make your argument. If you argue for an asymmetrical standard (one which conveniently makes an exception for yourself), or if you do not abide by the standard for which you argue (or a rephrasing thereof in symmetrical terms), then...

• Post #3894422

  From #LouisRossmann, for anyone concerned with #surveillance and #faceRecognition: The image recognition component of #Google #Gemini insists that multiple contemporary photos of American repair technician and #rightToRepair advocate Steven Rhine are definitely photos of an (obviously long-dead) #Sep11 hijacker. As is said in the video, “what the #flock!” (Yes, it’s a different image matching program returning a false positive, but Flock warrants becoming a curse.) https://www.youtube.co...

• Post #3888811

  From #GamersNexus: “DO NOT BUY: LG’s Spyware TVs, Monitors, and Wiretapping Concerns” It’s long been established that LG TVs spy on their owners: reporting what’s on screen, and reporting about what’s in attached file systems. Now, LG monitors exploit the Windows driver installation system to install #spyware and #adware. As well as expanding #surviellance from TVs to monitors, the #malware is currently primarily advertising subscription software from supposed anti-malware company McAfee. Th...

• Post #3838971

  Somehow, the #Microslop C suite thought that #Copilot OS would be a good idea. #LLM induced cognitive decline is evidently in effect there. Imagine thinking forcing all interaction into slopware is something anyone would want. Imagine your computer “upgrading” itself overnight to Slop OS, and shudder. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psWcdE1pieA #Microsoft #genAI

• Post #3831074

  RE: https://infosec.exchange/@jlamoree/116919274987031722 As someone who provides paid home tech support for non-technical clients, I concur. The OS should not make it necessary for me to persuade clients to let me lock them out of the terminal on their own computer.

• Post #3813230

  RE: https://mastox.eu/@jacobin/116919286129929244 Foreign policy the #left should promote in the #US: be the world’s paramedic, not the world’s cop.

• Post #3664289

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@brouhaha/116881656576039261 Some democracy needs to start a Chip Fab party: like the Pirate Party, but RAM and SSDs. Policy priority: Have the federal government buy a bunch of ASML kit and create a #PSE program to train operators while building a factory exclusively for PC and laptop RAM, exclusively for sale to direct (i.e., non-cloud) users of computers, not for resellers of computing services, with major quotas reserved for individuals, healthcare, education,...

• Post #3642074

  RE: https://vis.social/@kristinHenry/116877201233209336 The #Fediverse may soon need a social vouching system. “Who on our #Mastodon instance or one with which we federate would be willing to confirm that you’re a human?” (There's probably better wording for that question, but still….)

• Post #3407301

  RE: https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/canada-1akomc2pz/-/a-iV98VnHOTuCOulvDJOoOQw%3Aa%3A107108217-%2F0 The #Conservative Party of #Canada published an #AI generated ad about #poverty and #recession, despite the AI industry being both one of the leading drivers of #unemployment and one of the leading drivers of #inflation and increasing costs of living. “The medium is the message,” as McLuhan wrote. The use of a poverty-generating technology to produce the ad reveals the real message: The CPC is...

• Post #3315348

  What do #Poilievre, #Carney, #Farage, and #Trump have in common? Among many other things: an affinity for policies of #socialMurder. Here's that exemplified in the UK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5rV92Y9NPM Feel free to reply with other examples from the venal illiberal democracies, with their legalized corruption, around the world. #cdnpoli #ukpol #uspol

• Post #3315347

  Hi @pluralistic. I've noticed your process for selling ebooks and audiobooks through #Kickstarter has improved with each book you've sold there. Have you ever written at length about insights from the process of using Kickstarter effectively for that purpose? Asking for someone doing important work who's not yet on this network.

• Post #2119266

  The #quisling caucus and their Russian and US oligarch backed activists breached the #PII of all Albertan voters. If you're an Albertan voter, #NaheedNenshi wants to know what you want to know about the breach. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s7XqCdqE6I My suggestions: Which of the perpetrators will face criminal prosecution for identity theft (Criminal Code of Canada § 402.2 (1)), trafficking in identity information (§ 402.2 (2)), identity fraud (§ 403), unauthorized use of a computer (...

• A missing and important #security feature for : add a per-subscription option for whether each subscription is allowed to use trusted filters, and make it default to unchecked for all

  A missing and important #security feature for @ublockorigin: add a per-subscription option for whether each subscription is allowed to use trusted filters, and make it default to unchecked for all non-default subscriptions. As it stands malicious compromise of any filter subscription allows arbitrary code injection into any or every page, using, for example, trusted-replace-node-text on any script element. It’s the same #supplyChain threat model as malicious Python/Ruby/Node/R/etc. packages or m...

• RE: https://xoxo.zone/@Ashedryden/115952812145125212

  RE: https://xoxo.zone/@Ashedryden/115952812145125212 Helping people install a full-featured web content blocker, such as @ublockorigin, was already necessary for #infosec. Now it’s necessary for #resistance. Likewise, helping people set up a VPN from their phones to a non-logging network ad- and tracking-filtering server is resistance. Likewise, helping people migrate off technofeudalist social media, onto @signalapp for DMs and federated social media for everything public, is resistance....

• Post #1867973

  @Zitron of the #BetterOffline podcast joins Isaac Pound of #TheTechReport YouTube channel, where they discuss the financial reality of the #genAI super-scalers and their partners in circular finance and wishful speculation. There does not appear to be any possibility of the GPT-based #AI industry (such as #LLM services) to ever not run at a net financial loss while retaining enough customers to cover their sunk costs. If the CEOs aren't aware of this and wilfully conducting a fraud orders...

• Post #1701771

  RE: https://ecoevo.social/@benlockwood/116456613752192158 Dr. Lockwood has a sound point. Mastery-based #education has been shown to be more effective: Instead of holding fixed the duration to learn and varying the #learning outcomes (an inherently and irremediably classist and ableist colonial norm), vary the duration to learn and hold fixed the outcome of topic mastery. Learning only happens on the output side, but grade-based learning doesn’t promote learning: It promotes playing the sys...

• Post #1545174

  If you or anyone you know has shares in #WarnerBrosDiscovery, whether directly or through a pension plan, it is essential to vote against the acquisition by #Paramount and the fascist #EllisonTakeover. Talk to your people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKEh83wrnvU #uspol #investment #freedomOfSpeech #freeSpeech #censorship #oligarchy

• Post #1545006

  What are more accurate and emotionally resonant names for the propagandically misnamed proposed laws which would compel all operating systems to force users to present their ID to attain permission from the US government and its designated corporations to use any computer (including a cellphone)? It is not #ageVerification, despite the Orwellian misnomer. #idVerification gets closer, but still doesn’t communicate the fact that it would let the the worst people in the world decide which individua...

• Post #724744

  It was the gas cutoff due to the Russian war of aggression against #Ukraine which finally got the #EU and most of the rest of #Europe to finally start catching up with #ParisAgreement obligations by accelerating the transition to energy efficiency and #renewableEnergy. They could no longer keep dragging their feet once their own citizens were freezing in the dark. How might the #Trump and #Netanyahu war of aggression against #Iran paradoxically affect global demand for #fossilFuels? Will those...