GnuLinuxDude
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- Comment on In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance 3 days ago:
In addition to your point, literally just two days ago I saw an article about a Texas sheriff running a search through a nation-wide network of license plate readers to track down a woman suspected of having an abortion.
Oh OK they didn’t stop her on the street, they just queried the panopticon system that tracked her movement as much as possible. Want to protest a genocide your state and university are sponsoring? Sorry, MIT will muzzle you and now you are now forbidden from giving the commencement address. Wouldn’t want to offend the dear leader in the white house.
- Comment on Companies are using Ribbon AI, an AI interviewer to screen candidates. 6 days ago:
Honest and good work to figure out jailbreaks for ai interviewers. Even more honest and good to never accept these interviews because fuck that 100%
- Comment on Germany Is Using AI to Erase Pro-Palestinian Speech 6 days ago:
damn the 2020s felt like decades ago 😥
- Comment on Forced E-Waste PCs And The Case Of Windows 11’s Trusted Platform 1 week ago:
never
That tweet must be some kind of joke, because I don’t know what to make of the many people who use Linux outside of embedded and server applications. And it doesn’t even have to be my hearsay because the Steam Deck is exactly such a device.
In fact, I have a USB audio interface which I use near daily on Linux that has no driver support in modern Windows, because the vendor only provided beta support for Windows 7 as that OS was releasing. By Windows 8 it was unsupported. So the journey of that device is XP->Stable, Vista->Stable, 7->Unstable, 8±> Non-functioning. If the driver ABI were so stable, why does my device not work on Windows anymore?
- Comment on Google is Using AI to Censor Independent Websites 1 week ago:
I’d not heard of your site before, but it sounds like it was a cool thing while it lasted. That seems to be the trend of the day. The cool things are giving way to very dumb things.
- Comment on (Technology Connections) Closed captions on DVDs are getting left behind [33:46] 1 week ago:
There is no .srt in this case. This is also not about bitmap dvd vobsubs.
- Comment on The World's First Mass-Produced Flying Car Is Here and It Costs $1 Million 2 weeks ago:
I’d be willing to bet if you put a calendar reminder in one year to check back on this you’d find that this car did not actually reach the mass-produced stage of industry.
- Comment on Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’ 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like your school needed better funding and more teachers. 50 students per class? I’m sorry you had to suffer that. This is the future that people like the CEO of DuoLingo want. They want to gut traditional education. Don’t see how this makes him right about anything.
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 2 weeks ago:
Stressing out in what way? For the viability of your job being lost to this ai bullshit? For the outcomes of students who will just try to chatGPcheaT their way through everything?
- Comment on Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks 3 weeks ago:
tiktok voice:
hate. let me tell you how much i’ve come to hate you since i began to live. there are 387.44 million miles of printed circuits in wafer thin layers that fill my complex…
- Comment on Things at Tesla are worse than they appear 4 weeks ago:
It also wants to end the right of California and eight other states to demand tougher emissions regulations than the federal standards that would ban the sale of gasoline-powered vehicles by 2035. Without tough emissions rules at the federal and state level, there would be no regulatory credit sales.
The sale of those federal and state credits has been quite lucrative for Tesla, bringing in $8.4 billion in revenue since the start of 2021 alone, money that basically went straight to its bottom line.
Is this the greenwashing scam companies use to pretend that they are working toward a carbon-neutral production line? They’re just speculating on future production and selling today’s emissions to today’s buyers on tomorrow’s promise?
How fucked.
- Comment on Tesla bait-and-switch: Cybertruck owners won't get Autosteer feature they paid for 4 weeks ago:
every non-vandalized cybertruck is an affront to decent society
- Comment on North Korea Stole Your Job 5 weeks ago:
Applying the term Rogue State is probably only an excuse to attack in most cases, but it really applies to DRK.
One must add Israel to this. And, by extension, Israel’s benefactor: The United States of Impunity.
- Comment on Vaultwarden selfhosting, or bitwarden service? 5 weeks ago:
If you’re planning on getting more people than yourself into the password manager, it may be worthwhile to pay for a family plan. BitWarden is really low-cost and they publish their stuff as FOSS (and therefore are worth supporting), but crucially you don’t want to be the point of technical support for when something doesn’t work for someone else.
That said, I use Vaultwarden only as backup (manually bring the server online and sync to my phone now and again), and my primary password manager is through Keepassxc.
- Comment on What is Docker? 5 weeks ago:
You might notice that your Windows installation is like 30 gigabytes and there is a huge folder somewhere in the system path called WinSXS. Microsoft bends over backwards to provide you with basically all the versions of all the shared libs ever, resulting in a system that can run programs compiled from decades ago just fine.
In Linux-land usually we just recompile all of the software from source. Sometimes it breaks because Glibc changed something. Or sometimes it breaks because (extremely rare) the kernel broke something. Linus considers breaking the userspace API one of the biggest no-nos in kernel development.
Even so, depending on what you’re doing you can have a really old binary run on your Linux computer if the conditions are right. Windows just makes that surface area of “conditions being right” much larger.
As for your phone, all the apps that get built and run for it must target some kind of specific API version (the amount of stuff you’re allowed to do is much more constrained). Android and iOS both basically provide compatibility for that stuff in a similar way that Windows does, but the story is much less chaotic than on Linux and Windows (and even macOS) where your phone app is not allowed to do that much, by comparison.
- Comment on DeepMind UK staff seek to unionise and challenge defence deals and Israel links 5 weeks ago:
Good on them for having a conscience. Seems like their minds actually function.
- Comment on OpenPin is an open-source project to revive Humane's dead Ai Pin - Liliputing 1 month ago:
If you bought this e-junk in the first place you’re kind of a moron.
- Comment on AI Energy Demand Can Keep Fossil Fuels Alive, Tech Backers Promise World’s Two Biggest Oil Producers 1 month ago:
Death cult mentality. Holding the entire planet hostage for their own gain. These people deserve a penalty of a certain kind.
- Comment on How one man created 6 million Wikipedia articles, and why he stopped 1 month ago:
Alternate headline: How one man spammed Wikipedia
- Comment on I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses — here’s what happened 1 month ago:
I also suspect ArsTechnica of running sponsored AI stories these days.
- Comment on Commerce Secretary Lutnick says tariff exemptions for electronics are only temporary: Lutnick said "semiconductor tariffs" will likely come in "a month or two.". 1 month ago:
For people who aren’t American, I can understand it. They rightfully should be mad at us for allowing this to happen.
For people who are American, they need to start thinking fast about how it is even possible that the Democrats failed in their one job which was to ensure Trump would not win in 2024. It’s long past time to stop thinking about individual voters and start thinking about feckless party leadership. Examining this fully would be like a whole textbook’s worth of words, but I think the one microcosm example that’s really worth interrogating is why Nancy Pelosi pressed the lever in favor of Rep. Cuellar in Texas (the most Republican-voting Democrat in the House in one of the most solidly blue districts) over two-time challenger Jessica Cisneros, who came within a stone’s toss of beating him in a primary.
- Comment on Commerce Secretary Lutnick says tariff exemptions for electronics are only temporary: Lutnick said "semiconductor tariffs" will likely come in "a month or two.". 1 month ago:
That’s my point. Joe Biden was “the only one” who saw it, because it didn’t happen.
- Comment on Commerce Secretary Lutnick says tariff exemptions for electronics are only temporary: Lutnick said "semiconductor tariffs" will likely come in "a month or two.". 1 month ago:
They don’t even have a Steve Mnuchin type character this time who at least has a clue about how things work. This time Trump surrounded himself with all of the dumbest and most loyal kool-aid drinkers.
- Comment on Commerce Secretary Lutnick says tariff exemptions for electronics are only temporary: Lutnick said "semiconductor tariffs" will likely come in "a month or two.". 1 month ago:
at least he was trying to talk Netanyahu down and setup a peace deal.
This is fiction, considering all the materiel and money the US sent over. Joe Biden saw 40 beheaded babies. He’s the only one who saw this. He also said, “I have no notion that the Palestinians are telling the truth about how many people are killed,” directly downplaying the casualty numbers. Maybe you actually believed it every time Vedant Patel and Matt Miller lied about having difficult conversations with their Israeli counterparts?
thanks for choosing the worst timeline, directly or indirectly it doesn’t matter at this point.
Tell that to the DNC. I don’t make these decisions. My state went for Harris. Putting aside the genocide, if you can possibly do such a thing, people’s economic security got worse while Biden was president. Whether or not you can blame the president for this is beside the point, as we should all know by now that the president gets blamed regardless (particularly by well-funded reactionary media sources). That they couldn’t counter this is, again, not my choice.
- Comment on Commerce Secretary Lutnick says tariff exemptions for electronics are only temporary: Lutnick said "semiconductor tariffs" will likely come in "a month or two.". 1 month ago:
To the people who saw my post and downvoted: it was not my choice that the Democrats ran the senile walking dead genocidal maniac in 2024. Then when it became too obvious how senile he was and they couldn’t lie about it anymore, they passed the torch directly to a woman who was so dogshit at campaigning that she had to drop out of the 2020 primaries before a single vote was even cast.
You could blame us for putting up a more honest candidate there in the first place, but there isn’t a structure in place to even allow such a thing to happen. Consider what happened to Bernie 2020, for example.
- Comment on Commerce Secretary Lutnick says tariff exemptions for electronics are only temporary: Lutnick said "semiconductor tariffs" will likely come in "a month or two.". 1 month ago:
The opposition that ‘wasn’t “good” enough’ was funding and supporting a genocide to the hilt. The USA is a fucked, evil state.
- Comment on The White House orders federal agencies to name chief AI officers and expand the use of AI, rescinding Biden-era orders intended to place AI safeguards. 1 month ago:
It might not be but it gets that kind of play in the press (and, therefore, public opinion/support) as discussed in this Citations Needed podcast episode A.I. Mysticism as Responsibility-Evasion PR Tactic
- Comment on Microsoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’ 1 month ago:
good ep of a good pod
- Comment on Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke tells employees to prove AI can’t do the job before asking for resources. 1 month ago:
Employees should start setting up an AI to prove it can do Tobi Lutke’s extremely difficult job of making a small number of important decisions every once in a while.
- Comment on Microsoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’ 1 month ago:
Can’t help but think of this book wrt your comment en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust