Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org

I used to live in Texas. I would get so mad at dudes I knew that downplayed the confederate flag, until I realized that their textbooks literally lied about the reasons for the civil war!

Showing them the articles of secession blew their mind. Some stopped rocking the flag. 👍🏿

Imagine how much less racist the US would feel if 10% of all confederate flags just disappeared. Disappeared!

So, DoNotPay's one big claim to "success" is that it gets you out of subscriptions where companies make it hard to cancel. Except... it turns out that DoNotPay has made it next to impossible to cancel its own service for some users! (Again, with thanks to @kathryntewson ) https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/01/donotpay-promotes-itself-as-helping-you-get-out-of-subscriptions-but-keeps-charging-customers-after-telling-them-their-own-accounts-are-closed/

Black History Month begins with Republicans disbanding the subcommittee on civil rights and civil liberties.
They never miss an opportunity to tell you EXACTLY what they are.

OpenAI released a tool which purports to detect AI-generated text. At the highest end of detection, it labels text "possibly" or "likely" AI-generated. 21% of human-written text falls under "possibly" and 9% of "likely" does. That's 3 in 10 students being defamed and/or harmed.

Just like other providers of academic surveillance software, OpenAI states that their detector "should not be used as a primary decision-making tool".

It will be, though. And harm will follow.

https://openai.com/blog/new-ai-classifier-for-indicating-ai-written-text/

#GoodRx Leaked User Health Data to #Facebook and #Google , F.T.C. Says

The popular drug discount app deceptively shared details on users’ illnesses and medicines with ad firms, regulators said in a legal complaint.
#ftc

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/01/business/goodrx-user-data-facebook-google.html

Oh lord Netflix's account sharing policies are going to explode in their face.

"How Will Netflix Know if You’re Not in Your Home/Primary Location?
Netflix uses information such as IP addresses, device IDs, and account activity to determine whether a device signed into your account is connected at your primary location."

"Traveling users who want to use Netflix on a hotel smart TV, company laptop, etc. can request a temporary code from the service when signing in."

Drug discount app GoodRx agrees to pay $1.5M after the FTC said the company wrongfully disclosed intimate health information to Facebook, Google, and others (Natasha Singer/New York Times)

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/01/business/goodrx-user-data-facebook-google.html
http://www.techmeme.com/230201/p28#a230201p28

A supermarket in #Illinois has to pay about $400,000 after they stole wages from 49 of their workers. Nobody will go to jail for this theft and nobody in the media gives a shit. This is the real crime wave in the US.

Does anyone use a #MacMini for their #Plex media server?

>> I am looking for opinions on optimal configurations for running Plex with Apple Silicon?

ex: I currently run a 2012 Intel i5 Mac Mini with 16gb RAM and it runs decently... was thinking of upgrading to a new M2 Mac mini and hoping I could get away with just 8gb RAM this time.

Boosts appreciated!

A vast majority of Americans are concerned people could face criminal penalties for abortion

https://19thnews.org/2023/01/americans-concerned-possibility-abortion-crime/

The new #MacMini dropped network packages on ethernet and as I really didn’t feel like troubleshooting this and had some time as I was watching gigabytes if data run trough a pipeline I decided to reach out to #Apple chat support.

This was a quick, easy to follow and super friendly experience. I never expect something like this from tech support but I’m pleasantly surprised when it happens!

NEW: I'm calling on the SEC to investigate #GeorgeSantos for violating federal securities law.

Mr. Santos illegally operated as a broker without a license, raising funds from unsuspecting investors for Harbor City Capitol, a 17 million dollar Ponzi Scheme.

Incredible improvements in the Twitter app lately. It once struggled to take up even half this much system memory

I was shopping around for a M2 Pro Mac mini and almost got a heart attack.
460€ for 16gb of RAM. What a deal.

Over at @dailydot I wrote about how TikTok hysteria is a manufactured moral panic by unserious politicians who don't actually care about privacy, and a distraction from our multi-decade failure on consumer protection:

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/tiktok-bans-republicans-colleges-china/

What a disgrace the "nonprofit" College Board has made of itself -- "strips down" the Advanced Placement program in African American Studies to satisfy racist critics. (AP courses are a BILLION-dollar revenue item for this outfit...)

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/01/us/college-board-advanced-placement-african-american-studies.html

“Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time.” —  Linus Torvalds, the creator of #Linux.

It’s essential to practice our Linux commands.

#opensource #FOSS

Tell me your billion dollar business is a sham with no intellectual integrity without telling me your billion is a sham with no intellectual integrity.

"By using digital surveillance to enforce rules, we focus our attention on an apparent order that allows us to ignore the real problems in the industry ... But under the actual order, the problem in trucking is that drivers are incentivized to work themselves ... to death."

Karen Levy on trucker trackers: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/surveillance-and-the-loneliness-of-the-long-distance-trucker?mc_cid=adccaf6bf5&mc_eid=94ccaa1b3c