Notices by pettter (pettter@mastodon.acc.umu.se), page 3

Also notable that neither 'Israel' nor 'Palestine' appears in the index. Can't do a full-text search since I'm reading it as a physical book.

@mewbassprr @khobochka I've been meaning to look for something comparable to Glaze/Nightshade for LLMs but haven't gotten around to it.

#reading Mark Coeckelbergh's 'Why AI Undermines Democracy and What To Do About It', and while it's on the whole a good read, I would have liked it more if it had a less western-centric perspective. There's a bunch of scaemongering and othering of 'authoritarian' countries 'like Russia and China' which I find a bit overblown considering what's been happening in many western countries.

@servelan @fivetonsflax @nazokiyoubinbou @justafrog @clayote

Amazon's prices are NOT good. Everything has shipping costs built in... and other padding. I didn't realize how bad it was until I quit using them.

@projectgus @baldur to be clear: this tendency goes all the way back to the Spinning Jenny, and this was exactly what the Luddites were fighting.

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@th Jurre is on the fediverse as well!

#38c3 remote day two: reliving bunnie's talk on in-situ inspection of silicon https://streaming.media.ccc.de/38c3/relive/39

My new coffee machine wants to be connected to the internet. I am not letting it connect to the internet. If it’s bored, it can read a book.

@dave most people in the west don't see Arabs in general and Palestinians in particular as being human.

@samuel det bästa vore såklart att utöka pliktexemplar och dylikt till att gälla alla publicerade verk och inte bara trycksaker

@maswan Jag har ibland haft koll på linuxljud, men måste erkänna mig besegrad av kontinuerliga och inkompatibla uppdateringar. Jag kör JACK allt som oftast men har sällan igång flera saker på det viset numera. Reaper har jag ingen erfarenhet av alls. Jag skulle eventuellt kunna kolla lite på saker åt @livs_ord när jag är åter i stan dock om meriterna ovan räcker :)

The new HTS atrocities regime of Syria versus the now persecuted Alawites, here seen at a village near Tartus.

CW for the video: shooting, distress

@LupinoArts @tante https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452292924000493. 'With this approach, good lives can be achieved for all without requiring large increases in total global throughput and output. Provisioning decent living standards (DLS) for 8.5 billion people would require only 30% of current global resource and energy use, leaving a substantial surplus for additional consumption, public luxury, scientific advancement, and other social investments.'

N.b. resource use, not labour time though.

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @dentangle @librecast @onepict

My understanding is that OTA updates for Android phones can take 6 months to roll out, because each device checks for updates but isn't allowed to download it until it wins a lottery or something (random number generator on the server?).

RTP would be a likely protocol to carry video and audio, the only difference being it would be sent to a multicast address instead of your individual desktop.

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @dentangle @librecast @onepict

When sent to a multicast destination, a single self-contained IP camera could send its stream out and be received by say 10,000 viewers. Let's call it a watt of power consumption. When 10,000 people watch it on YouTube, a server must send a separate copy to every viewer. Suppose it's a 3Mbps stream. One camera, one watt, vs a cluster of servers capable of on net originating 30 Gbps of stream to the 10,000 viewers. Maybe that's 30 servers

You know about disposable vapes?

many brands are powered by the same lithium-ion cells that are used to make huge battery packs for electric cars or ebikes

but with vapes, they're just ... thrown out

Chris Doel got 130 dead vapes, took the batteries out, and used them to create a new rechargeable battery pack for his ebike

It worked *great*

His question: "Why they hell are they being thrown away after one use?"

Item #6 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter: https://buttondown.com/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-28-neolithic-octopuses-weeping-trees-and/

The new ruling gang HTS reportedly systematically persecuting Alawites and political opposition in Latakia also today.

CW for the videos: dead seen at distance

@loke we have a studio to do that at the department, but I've never used it.

@StevenSavage Yes but also make sure to move the funds out of US jurisdiction and set up the structures and plans to continue the project from elsewhere when the fascists inevitably try to take it down using serious legal and executive muscle.