Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org

Column — I was Florida’s professor of the year, but my classes would now be illegal

#DeSantis #Florida #censorship

https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2023/01/26/i-was-floridas-professor-year-my-classes-would-now-be-illegal-column/?outputType=amp

Julian Khater, the man who assaulted United States Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick with pepper spray on January 6, 2021, was just sentenced to 80 months — nearly 7 years — behind bars. Officer Sicknick died the following day. Sicknick's mother, Gladys, told the insurrectionist, "You attacked my son like he was an animal. You are the animal, Mr. Khater. How does it feel to be headed to jail because of a bald-faced lie?"

"Not only is it easy to support Democrats these days because Republicans show such little respect for our Constitution and our sacred institutions; and behave as if they’re on a celebrity TV show instead of actually doing something to improve the lives of Americans.

It's easy to support Democrats because they stand for something.

They know how to get the job done, and they don’t just do it for the 1%."

- former Republican (anonymous)

So #Ubuntu Pro is now available to anyone who wants it - offers 10 years of security updates to LTS releases https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/01/ubuntu-pro-general-availability

Our society far too often indulges ignorance. Those with hate in their hearts play dumb and we say they don't know better. They then pass laws banning history lessons. And why? So they can give the hateful the excuse of ignorance en masse.

#Holocaust #HolocaustRemembrace23 #HolocaustRemembrance #Jewish #politics #uspol #uspolitics #education #desantis #ignorance #racism #sexism #holocaustdenial

Apple needs to make this easier for users.

Apple's Mac security is so good, it's sending used M1 MacBooks to the scrap heap https://www.macworld.com/article/1485237/mac-security-t2-chip-macbook-activation-lock.html

#Apple #Mac #Security #M1 #MacBooks #T2 #InfoSec #TechNews

#openvpn 2.6.0 released

https://openvpn.net/community-downloads/

most interesting feature: Data Channel Offload (dco)

Now THIS is a good article about the Fediverse.

Not only is it a good explainer for what the Fediverse is, it's technically accurate and explains everything in plain language.

Also, I'm yoinking the phrase, "There’s no *center* of the Fediverse" for future use.

https://tidbits.com/2023/01/27/is-your-future-distributed-welcome-to-the-fediverse/

Connecticut asked for evidence to ban TikTok. The FBI offered none

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2023/1/26/a-us-state-asked-fbi-for-evidence-to-ban-tiktok-it-declined

Welcome to Twitter

Where free speech means you ban any left leaning activists, like Chad Loder

and reinstate literal Nazis like Nick Fuentes, Andrew Anglin, and (convicted murderer and arsonist) Burzum.

Anyone still on #Twitter is literally funding the alt-right with their interactions and data.

I have zero respect for that.

"Emboldened by their political donors & legislative allies, some state court judges have refused to remove themselves from cases in which they have clear conflicts of interest. This is the opposite of the fair or impartial. It’s a total failure of ethics."
https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/state-courts-stepped-up-in-2022-to-protect-our-freedoms/

Feminist Daria Serenko, Little Big frontman Ilya Prusikin, and the Dalai Lama's envoy Telo Tulku Rinpoche finally have something in common: they (and several other individuals and organizations) have just been added to Russia's "foreign agent" list.
https://meduza.io/en/news/2023/01/27/russian-justice-ministry-names-new-foreign-agents-including-the-dalai-lama-s-envoy-and-little-big-frontman-ilya-prusikin

"Mastodon seems to be winning the open-source, decentralised version of Twitter. People seem to be going there"

It's worth reading when Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter says this about Mastodon.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jan/27/elon-musk-doesnt-seem-like-right-person-to-own-twitter-says-co-founder

#OpenSource #Mastodon #Fediverse #decentralization

The Ohio GOP knows that voter fraud in Ohio is extremely rare. It’s rare everywhere.

By the Ohio Secretary of State’s own account, all of 27 cases of voter fraud in the 2020 general election were referred for prosecution. Ohio voters cast a total of nearly 6 million ballots. The fraud rate is all of 0.0005%.
https://www.ohiosos.gov/media-center/press-releases/2022/2022-02-01/

But the GOP will never miss an excuse to disenfranchise voters.

It’s important for Ohio voters to know about these changes and for everyone to follow state election legislation.

It’s also going to be important for anyone who can to help people get voter ID. Here’s a good organization to that end.
VoteRiders: Voter ID Help-https://www.voteriders.org/

The Ballot Bulletin: Ohio governor signs bill amending election laws-
https://news.ballotpedia.org/2023/01/26/the-ballot-bulletin-ohio-governor-signs-bill-amending-election-laws/

The Onion is ALWAYS on point 👇🏾

Today's dumbest, most annoying story is that telco lobbyists have successfully fed a completely bullshit story to right wing rags about how Gigi Sohn supports "sex trafficking" because she's on EFF's board, and EFF is (correctly) against FOSTA (which a court is likely to declare unconstitutional) https://www.techdirt.com/2023/01/27/new-dumb-attack-against-gigi-sohn-tries-to-shame-her-for-being-on-the-effs-board/

Google researchers detail MusicLM, an AI model that generates high-fidelity music from text descriptions trained on a dataset of 280K hours of music (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/27/google-created-an-ai-that-can-generate-music-from-text-descriptions-but-wont-release-it/
http://www.techmeme.com/230127/p11#a230127p11

Was JUST thinking about this earlier today.

Scripts popping up that allows one to "interact with the #terminal in plain English using GPT-3".

https://github.com/dylanjcastillo/shell-genie

Example: "find all json files in the current directory that are larger than 1MB"