Trying to find some new spaces other than the Bad Place. Follow me here!

Heads up, if you're on Linkedin you've been automatically opted in for generative ai training - on everything you have ever posted, including personal data!

Opt out: www.linkedin.com/mypreference...

Them: women in tech are TOTALLY respected and treated as equals! we have no idea why women complain!

Also them:

On the same morning, the Court said:

1) We should not presume to know more than small town mayors regarding complex, technical questions like whether to arrest people for being poor.

2) I don't see why a "PhD" in "nuclear physics" should have any latitude to implement ambiguous energy rules.

So Windows Recall takes screenshots every few seconds, OCR's them, and then stores all that in plaintext in a SQLlite database. It's impossible to understate how much of a security issue this is. Easily compromised spyware installed by your OS!

The wolf really is at the door, man

time.com/6972021/dona...

The FTC is shutting down non-compete clauses.

Lina Khan is bringing antitrust back.

And the Department of Transportation is forcing the airlines to knock off the hidden fees.

Folks... Having a functional administrative state fucking RULES.

www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/t...

Friends in the US: If you know someone who is considering a third-party candidate or has decided not vote in Nov., please take time to speak with them about Project 2025. This isn't politics as usual, and these people are telling us exactly who they are and what they want to do. We should listen.

Your fancy new AI assistant can be used to steal your personal data and infect other AIs with malware. It's as though letting LLMs execute code was a bad idea all along.

#LLM #AI #GenAI

Walmart is buying Vizio so it can feed ads to people and then spy on them.

At what rate are we creeping into a Philip K. Dick novel each day?

Surprise! Trump doesn't have blanket immunity.

@lizdye.bsky.social I'm reading the DC immunity opinion. Is the mid-sentence font changing normal?

@jsellenberg.bsky.social I'd love to hear your opinion on this:

HP bricked printers and Cummins cheating emission scandals are not just companies gone wild, they represent an ethical crisis in the software development industry.

ground.news/article/engi...

If you are still using Chome as your browser I recommend switching to Firefox. Google is turning its browser into ad spyware:

"Chrome, a browser built by an advertising company, has positioned itself as the gatekeeper for in-browser privacy tools, the sole arbiter of how they should be designed."

As a frequenter of home improvement stores I *used to* find myself at the local Home Depot a handful of times a month. The recent Bernard Marcus revelations gave me pause. Now I hear that Home Depot may be using facial recognition *and* sharing the data they collect with others! I'm done.

GnuPG 2.4.1 causes Emacs to hang when writing an encrypted file. Emacs waits for GnuPG to say it's ready, which it never does. Instead it starts reading from stdin, leading to a deadlock.

The solution: pin GnuPG to 2.4.0 until 2.4.4 comes out. I love how easy nixpkgs and Home Manager make this!