Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org
Joined Dec 2022
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#openvpn 2.6.0 released
https://openvpn.net/community-downloads/
most interesting feature: Data Channel Offload (dco)
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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/
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Connecticut asked for evidence to ban TikTok. The FBI offered none
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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.
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"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/
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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
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"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.
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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/
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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/
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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
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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"
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that's not to say there's no potential security risks at all, just that they're not singularly specific to TikTok, and the people hyperventilating the loudest about this are bad faith bullshit artists with an abysmal track record on consumer privacy and protection
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Turns out that integrating hooks into shell-scripts is really darn simple …
# on fail do default action
run_hook() {
[ -n "$1" ] && bash -c "$1"
}
export VARIABLE_WHICH_IS_USEFUL_FOR_HOOK="something"
run_hook "$HOOK_COMMAND" || default_action
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It’s sometimes easy to forget that audio data is a thriving area of innovation, with both researchers and industry players making major strides in the ways we understand, process, and create sound.
This week, we set aside textual and visual data and turn to the world of audio and music to highlight projects and workflows our authors have recently explored. Contributors include Robert A. Gonsalves, Dorien Herremans, Max Hilsdorf, and Aleksandra Ma.
https://towardsdatascience.com/audio-data-takes-center-stage-21b32366abcd
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the TikTok hysteria is a manufactured moral panic by a bunch of self-serving Republicans attempting to force the sale of tiktok to their best friends at Oracle, Facebook, or Walmart
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so we have barely any federal privacy laws in the U.S. but because lawmakers in the 80s were very worried about their 🌽 showing up on a list somewhere we do have one explicitly about *video rental* privacy and now that law is being dusted off to go after tracking pixels because like IT'S ALL WE'VE GOT https://gizmodo.com/chick-fil-a-lawsuit-fried-chicken-privacy-class-action-1850020692
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“It’s like Musk is taking all of the content moderation best practice norms the trust and safety community has built up over the past decade and is trying to set them on fire,” @evelyndouek told us
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In Georgia -- and other states controlled by Republicans -- protest is being turned into a criminal act. This is only the latest attack on democratic values and norms from a party that sees abuse of citizens, with impunity, as a key way of staying in power. https://theintercept.com/2023/01/27/cop-city-atlanta-forest/
