Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org

New by me: By coming up short in its cyber attacks on Ukraine, Russia has shown the rest of the world how to defend against it. Non paywalled version: https://archive.ph/tlUaf

However long Jimmy Carter has left now that he has entered hospice, it has been such a gift that the best person to hold the office, certainly in the 20th century and possibly ever, is also the longest lived. What a life. What a better country and world we would be if we had more like him.

Gotta say — I miss nothing from #Birdsite. On the contrary, my timeline is an absolutely fantastic mixture of #Apple / #iOS / #macOS and #Linux / #UNIX / #OpenSource with a little sprinkle of #Python. Tags are such an amazing feature, I discovered tons of amazing content and people 🙌🏻

Professional liar and fraud Tucker Carlson elevated Trump's false claims of a "rigged election" to his easily conned #FoxNews audience while privately acknowledging that they were bullshit. #GOP https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/02/25/business/media/fox-news-dominion-tucker-carlson.html

Experts caution the proliferation of unmanned aerial vehicles is driving militaries in Ukraine and beyond toward automation, creating a dangerous slippery slope (Morgan Meaker/Wired)

https://www.wired.com/story/ukraine-war-autonomous-weapons-frontlines/
http://www.techmeme.com/230225/p12#a230225p12

#caturday Tip

The skirmishes over generative AI show how tech companies have become political lightning rods, as even efforts to steer AI away from politics can appear biased (Nitasha Tiku/Washington Post)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/24/woke-ai-chatgpt-culture-war/
http://www.techmeme.com/230225/p11#a230225p11

None dare call it a regression, but I was once able to use /me in iMessage on MacOS and it would handle that as IRC servers do, turning it into a reference to myself in the third person.

/me misses that feature

would become, in italics, centered:

pwinn misses that feature

I’m not afraid of MacOS becoming “too iOS-like,” because I think Apple correctly recognizes the differences between them. But I am sad that when they standardized the code base between the two platforms, MacOS lost /me handling, rather than iOS gaining it.

#blog #nerdery #MacOS #irc

Just gonna leave this here.

Today my partner commented that:
"Democrats fall in love and Republicans fall in line."
There is truth to this notion, as Dems want to ensure & expand on freedoms while the GOP strives to control & restrict freedoms. Fundamentalist religion is the authoritative, fear-based, judgmental piece of the puzzle that threatens to destory American democracy. #atheist #nullifidian #criticalthinking #ReligiousTrauma #reality #politics

Tipping culture is getting out of hand #github #gitlab #opensource

lol

I'm quoted a couple of times in this piece by @drewharwell about prompt engineering https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/25/prompt-engineers-techs-next-big-job/

Quite pleased that I got "if you mispronounce them, demons come to eat you" in the Washington Post :)

🚨ICYMI:
A must read
Where the F**K are @FBI @DOJ et al?
This % has increased even more in 2 yrs while our government has done NOTHING since 2006:
FBI details threats of #WhiteSupremacists infiltrating police, military & politics
1-
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/nation/fbi-white-supremacists-in-law-enforcement
2-
https://twitter.com/jackmjenkins/status/1628790522318934016
STOP #Christofascism

In Ohio, families are crowdfunding to leave the area of the Norfolk Southern derailment. In Atlanta, activists are fighting to block an environmentally destructive “Cop City” training ground, of which Norfolk Southern is a $100,000 donor:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/norfolk-southern-pissed-off-environmentalists-in-atlanta-before-east-palestine-train-derailment

I’m probably having feels about this because of watching AHS NYC. I don’t know what it’s like to be a gay man in NYC in 1981, but some of the specific pains explored in episode 9 are resonating with me.

I love my life, my family, and who I am…. but it still hurts that the Reagan era American dream my parents and Christian churches raised me on feels like such a distant lie as a #queer #polyamorous #exvangelical in 2023.

A major outage has taken down Dish Network's websites, apps, and customer support systems; remote employees have been cut off from accessing their work systems (Mitchell Clark/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/24/23613737/dish-outage-internal-system-issue-boost-mobile-genesis
http://www.techmeme.com/230225/p3#a230225p3

GNOME 44 release is coming soon. Here's what you can expect:

https://news.itsfoss.com/gnome-44/

#gnome