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Dr. WiFi. Linux kernel hacker at Red Hat. Networking, XDP, etc. He/Him.

Inspirational Skeletor💀

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Someone asked me if I was ready for the fall and it took me a minute to realize they meant autumn and not the general collapse of society.

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the punishment is a bit medieval but i appreciate the enthusiasm

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AI, university nonsense
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I (and my whole department) just got an "urgent" email request to let our dean and provost know "how we plan to infuse genAI into our teaching and curriculum" (we are a writing, rhetoric, and human communication department). 😑🤦

Anyway, here's what I sent back:

"Encourgaging students’ Own Voices and standing against linguistic homogenization are two primary concerns of writing studies as a discipline, and these concerns are especially important both to first-year college writing courses and the pluralistic goals of technical and professional writing environments. There is also a substantial and growing body of research that demonstrates that using genAI and similar applications as instructional tools, “tutors,” or “collaborators” results in cognitive costs that degrade students’ working memory, accelerate user deskilling, undermine students’ development of higher order thinking skills, and decrease student motivation for learning.

For these reasons, not to mention for reasons of concern regarding environmental cost and ethical provenance, I am participating in the movement to Refuse GenAI in writing studies. While in my writing courses students are certainly invited to engage in discussion of important issues surrounding both AI adoption by the academy and workplace and AI refusal as a principled response to such breakaway adoption, I do not integrate any AI into my writing curriculum or my students’ writing practice."

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As a consoling thought, when you look outside of the so-called "Western World", it becomes clear that have already lost.

The surge in around here is in part a last-ditch effort to prop up a failing business model. This might "work" for a while, but it can only delay the end of the Fossil Fuel Age, not stop it.

Which doesn't make fighting fascism unimportant, of course. Any harm we can stop, we should. But they _will_ lose this, in the end.

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Finding a business model for an open source projects is really hard, but "pay us to remove the catgirl pictures if you want to look professional" is one of the coolest attempts I've seen so far:
https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/botstopper

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Why use a URL shortener when you can use a phishy URL extender?

https://phishyurl.com/

Keep your security people alert and awake, generate phishing-looking redirecting links

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Divers keine Angabe An An sam neocat_box

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The Amphora of Great Intelligence (AGI)

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SIGNAL - PRIVACY ALERT

Seems that Google are up to their AI tricks again with Android. Gboard is caching typed content by default and Gemini Assistant, and one assumes by extension Google, apparently has access to chats. Samsung not innocent on this either apparently.

So from what I understand about current outrage it's best to goto Signal - Settings - Messages and set to 'No name or message' to prevent Android from reading notifications

AND

Goto Signal - Settings - Privacy and enable Incognito Keyboard. But make sure you use a keyboard that respects this setting.

These really should not be the default settings on a privacy product like @signalapp

PS. I de-Googled my life a decade ago and feel much better for it. ;)

#Signal
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I've been following this "mutual safety standards recognition" stuff out of the US/EU talks. This could be really, really bad.

It would mean that US vehicles, like those giant dangerous SUVs and pickup trucks, could be freely imported into the EU in volume without having to pass EU vehicle safety standards (like pedestrian safety).

I haven't seen any organised resistance to this. Does anybody know any other organisations that are fighting this?

https://etsc.eu/etsc-mutual-recognition-deal-with-u-s-will-cost-lives-on-europes-roads/

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@GrapheneOS @jawsh ohh, hadn't thought about the exploit mitigation thing, will check that out - thanks!
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@matttbe thanks! I was already on LineageOS with micro-g, so I do have some experience with non-stock Android. The biggest hurdle initially was figuring out how to install the non-foss apps I use. A bit annoying, but a mix of Aptoide, and a couple of manual downloads from apkmirror, have me all set so far :)
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@jawsh @GrapheneOS yup, looking good so far. There are a few apps with missing functionality, and some that crash entirely due to the lack of play services. But none that are essential so far. I may end up installing the sandboxed play services in a secondary profile if it gets to be too annoying, but want to see if I can do without even that :)
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Toke Høiland-Jørgensen

Bought a second-hand Pixel 9a and installed @GrapheneOS on it. Very smooth process. Going to see if this can be my daily driver without any of the Play stuff installed...
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The Norwegian Government has made a new tourism ad, and it's surprsingly honest and informative! 🇳🇴

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYjooTz_1lA

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Debian Linux was officially founded by Ian Murdock on August 16, 1993. That's 32 years of stable, free, and opensource computing. From a single kernel, it has grown to parent some of the most popular OSes in the world. Cheers to the one that started it all! Happy 32nd birthday to the beloved mother of all distros!! 🥰 🍰

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@asynchronaut Yeah, will tag one just as soon as I'm satisfied that I didn't break anything with the latest batch of changes 🙈
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