fruitywelsh @fruitywelsh@social.cleverlibre.org

The FBI director continues to raise concerns about national security risks posed by #TikTok. The latest, as reported Friday by the AP: China could use TikTok to "influence operations" in the U.S. as well as for espionage.

https://apnews.com/article/technology-china-united-states-national-security-government-and-politics-ac5c29cafaa1fc6bee990ed7e1fe5afc

#socialmedia #nationalsecurity #tech

Ok, fourth server setup and adopted into my #proxmox cluster. I used #kubeadm to install #kubernetes on four VMs and I have a k8s cluster running. Now to get #nginx ingress working and install #helm. It's all coming together. Is anyone else running their #mastodon instance on k8s via a helm chart?

Intrepid does not exist #TerranTradeAuthority #AIArt #StableDiffusion

Not going to pretend I know anything about #Linux filesystems, but I do know that #Btrfs has a bit of a reputation.

Why not read up about some of the neat things it can do?

"Subvolumes allow for the partitioning of a Btrfs filesystem into separate sub-filesystems. This means that you can mount subvolumes from a Btrfs filesystem as if they were independent filesystems."

#Fedora Magazine :: Working with Btrfs – Subvolumes
https://fedoramagazine.org/working-with-btrfs-subvolumes/

Cory Doctorow Wants You to Know What Computers Can and Can’t Do

A conversation about the “mediocre monopolists” of Big Tech, the weirdness of crypto, and the real lessons of science fiction.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/cory-doctorow-wants-you-to-know-what-computers-can-and-cant-do

"these companies are not built by super geniuses … They are regular, venal mediocrities who use their access to the capital markets to buy everyone who might threaten them. If there's merger scrutiny, that just stops happening."

#tech #culture

Yet again I've found myself researching #QubesOS. The whole #compartmentalization aspect is awesome. With the ability to spin up new #qubes as needed and tearing them down again when done.

I would like to hear from those of you who are using it on a regular basis. Is it your primary #OS or a secondary one for specific security-related tasks?

Which templates are you using?
Are you using #Whonix? Have you enabled system/template updates over #Tor?

On what hardware are you running it on? I've been warming to the #NitroPadT430 along with a #NitroKey.

Kindly boost to get a good discussion going. Thanks!

#infosec #operatingsystems #security #NitroPad #Linux

Driverless Electric Robot Tractors are Here, Powered by NVIDIA AI Chips

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/22/12/04/0356236/driverless-electric-robot-tractors-are-here-powered-by-nvidia-ai-chips?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

#ai

My Tech Hot Takes!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2mUpkApObk

Routing webhook events based on the payload content

https://getconvoy.io/blog/introducing-subscriptions-filtering/

DIY Repair Stand Holds Your Bike and Weighs it

https://hackaday.com/2022/12/04/diy-repair-stand-holds-your-bike-and-weighs-it/

#bicyclerepair #weighingscale #repairstand #straingauge #ToolHacks #loadcell

@freemo Sounds very much like the GNU Social Axis.

Just a reminder, as I get this a lot, but joining the United Federation of Instances doesnt require **any** time contribution of the part of its admins or instances. Any voting is totally optional to participate. As long as your instance follows our code of ethics you can join, nothing else required other than to federate to other UFoI instance.

DM me if you want to talk more, are are at over 200,000 members and will be open to more over the next week or so before membership will become harder and more formalized.

all intances welcome, from single user to large instances.

#UFI #UFoI @ufoi

@Emmacox What they are is denoisers. Trained on taking images, adding in static, and seeing how well they can clean them up, undo the damage. Until they get so good that you can feed them pure static and they'll clean it up until they've basically "imagined in" an image.

You can do this yourself. Look at some static, imagine you're seeing shapes in it, and bit by bit move/tweak the static until you've formed an image.

The textual guidance guides the static-cleanup process.

@Emmacox People have this weird notion that AI art is copying pieces of existing artwork. It doesn't work that way. The entire checkpoint of StableDiffusion is 4 gigs. It was trained on 6 billion images. So unless you think one can fit an entire image in less than 1 byte, obviously, it is not storing images.

An easy test is to look up an image label (say on LAION) and type that exact label. Odds are it won't even resemble that image.

everything changes: hands feet eyes the face of storm, all composition of the Literary Olympics, to restore literature, specifically poetry, as a fine artist in a variety of media.

🎥 Forging a Christmas gnome - Torbjörn Åhman
#Blacksmithing #Christmas ☃️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtMYMt9dba0

Been obsessed with carnival rides recently for some reason... #Carnival #AIArt

PFC bans are going to change the face of all waterproof garments

https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/pfc-bans-are-going-to-change-the-face-of-all-waterproof-garments/