Before book-banning wave, the #fbi spied on people’s library activity
The FBI's secretive #library #surveillance Program monitored people's reading habits amid #coldwar fears. Then came public outrage.
New Mac Mini Reviews: Performance Boost Makes This a 'Mac Studio Junior' https://www.macrumors.com/review/mac-mini/
Apple Mac mini (M2 Pro) review: terrific performance, many ports, Wi-Fi 6E, and Bluetooth 5.3, but no front ports or SD card and a tricky peripherals setup (Chris Welch/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/23566070/apple-mac-mini-m2-pro-2023-review
http://www.techmeme.com/230123/p14#a230123p14
Trump's upcoming return to Twitter, and abandonment of the "Truth" Social sinkhole, has one redeeming feature: a reminder that the birdsite is not a place we should support in any way. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/donald-trump-ditch-truth-social-for-twitter-facebook-1234665307/
OpenAI announces a "multi-year, multi-billion dollar" investment from Microsoft, following 2019 and 2021 investments, to build "safe, useful, and powerful" AI (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-23/microsoft-makes-multibillion-dollar-investment-in-openai
http://www.techmeme.com/230123/p13#a230123p13
Starting today, ChatGPT and AI systems are no longer welcome as tools to write answers when helping people. Intentions are good, the results are not.
More info 👇
https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/01/23/help-others-leave-ai-at-the-dor/
The Florida thug-ocracy isn't just banning books -- it's forcing teachers to shutter classroom libraries. https://popular.info/p/florida-teachers-told-to-remove-books
1. Florida teachers are being told to remove all books from their classroom libraries OR FACE FELONY PROSECUTION
The new policy is based on the premise that teachers are using books to "groom" students or indoctrinate them with leftist ideologies.
🧵
https://popular.info/p/florida-teachers-told-to-remove-books
Opensnitch, application level interactive firewall, heading into Debian: https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Opensnitch__the_application_level_interactive_firewall__heading_into_the_Debian_archive.html #linux #foss #update #firewall #opensnitch
RT @RBReich@twitter.com
The next time you hear Republicans in Congress complaining about increasing IRS enforcement, remember that the richest 1 percent of Americans evade as much as $163 billion in taxes each year.
#Opensnitch, the application level interactive firewall, heading into the #Debian archive
India asks Twitter and YouTube to remove videos and tweets of a BBC documentary on 2002 religious riots in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state of Gujarat (Ashutosh Joshi/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-21/india-blocks-social-media-posts-on-bbc-documentary-on-2002-riots
http://www.techmeme.com/230123/p3#a230123p3
It's interesting the things that a "totally ordinary" user program can do that will just absolutely WRECK the current user session on #MacOS.
Obviously, just running the system out of swap memory or VM space will do it, but there are some other resources that are much more limited.
The latest version of this I ran into was running the system out of file handles. All of the apps I had running got into unrecoverable states, I couldn't even log out...
925,000 #norton #LifeLock Accounts Targeted by Credential-Stuffing Attack - Slashdot https://it.slashdot.org/story/23/01/23/0435227/925000-norton-lifelock-accounts-targeted-by-credential-stuffing-attack?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
#CredentialStuffing
As hate speech against gays and Jews surged on Twitter in recent months, real-world attacks did as well. Some of the antisemitic attackers cited rapper Ye, who tweeted virulently anti-Jewish sentiments after Elon Musk welcomed him back. Tweets with variations on the word "groomer," which previously had been classed as hate a term, rose just after shootings and intimidation, researchers found, normalizing violence against victims. Our story: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/01/18/hate-speech-antisemitism-antigay-twitter/
I guess "How to lie about you boss paying off an adult film actress for sex" will be in the curriculum.
RT @MarkJacob16@twitter.com
Sarah Sanders says she’ll force Arkansas schools to teach religion, violating the constitutional separation of church and state. #Christofascism