:corteximplant: age verification (with AI* ✨)
👉 How old are you?
* No AI present, we just wrote it down to keep the shareholders happy!
@JenJen We need to get you one of these t-shirts made one of these days
UT paid Hubbard a $700,000 settlement to go away after he *sued three undergraduates for libel* when they protested his particular mode of "theorizing" rape in class, including allegedly requiring students to write about their own assaults.
thedailytexan.com/2026/02/10/f...
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ozma3timm5c32fa7bimb4zaj/post/3mek7ctekqc2p
Former professor requested tho...
@evan To truly experience Shakespeare, you must read him in the original Klingon.
“With minor tweaks, Ring’s tool to search for lost dogs could be used by law enforcement to track people,” EFF’s Mario Trujillo told Metro. “Homeowners don’t have to participate and privacy regulators can investigate.” https://metro.co.uk/2026/02/09/ring-wants-use-doorbell-camera-surveillance-help-find-missing-dogs-26796216/
Do you want to start a permacomputing collective? 
In the past months, and with support from @Error417 we have developed a small score/guide/recipe that can hopefully inspire you to get started with this topic.
https://brewing.permacomputing.net
The text of the guide was written by anna andrejew (https://annaandrejew.com), @praxeology and @latentspace based on interviews with @anmeisel (London Permacomputing Club), https://archipielago.uno, @colm (Wilderland permacomputing group), @cmos4040 and @decentral1se (rotterdam.permacomputing.net), @praxeology (Berlin Permacomputing Meet Up), @michal (Node9), @sister0 (Autoluminescence Institute), @freebliss (permacomputing Vienna), and Steve McLaughlin (Philly permacomputing + solar punk meetups at @iffybooks hosted together with Dave Slinger).
Copy editing and advice by @l03s and myself. Design for the dedicated website and PDF by @doriane with illustrations from @raquelmeyers
The first job of #copaganda is to narrow our conception of threat. Rather than the bigger threats to our safety caused by people with power, we narrow our conception to crimes committed by the poorest, most vulnerable people in our society.
Alec Karakatsanis, Copaganda: How #Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
Ring has announced a new “Search Party” feature that could eventually bring mass biometric surveillance to our streets. It’s on by default. Shut it off.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/no-one-including-our-furry-friends-will-be-safer-rings-surveillance-nightmare-0
@eff oh boy the future is bright!
More snow again ❄️❄️❄️
i was able to limit myself to a discussion of two paragraphs on the regularity of the cosmic microwave background as justification for the "universe's" bias towards encoding distinct and important context. lz77 is, like much research, developed back to front, where the authors identify their desired hypothesis and work very hard to disprove the alternative
the key thing i had immediately noticed is of course their derogation of statistical distributions by invoking the incantation a priori ad nauseam. they write it with a medium oblique slant and slightly bolder than the surrounding text every single time. they also demonstrate a very impressive degree of conviction that their description of block coding does not rely upon said a priori distributional assumptions
S/o to this joke I played on our lab tech sometime in 2019 while he was on vacation
That's helpful to know.
@lowqualityfacts and a jpeg of a four leaf clover protects your hard drive.
@strypey @futuresprog @lightweight @puck @Niall @essjax @stephen @oseiler @Kay @bob @yunohost You can buy a Synology box from any number of Aotearoa New Zealand retailers and provision it with whatever hard drives you choose (thankfully Synology pulled back from their plans to limit this).
Apart from the remote access feature there's no operational off-shore dependency, and you don't have to use that feature; you can set up Dynamic DNS or get a static IP address.
The mobile apps that give you access to various NAS services (video, audio, files) could be compromised if you have a Google or Apple mobile device.
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@leighelse
> thankfully Synology pulled back from their plans to limit this
If the vendors have the ability to deploy software changes that limit hardware choices, without customer permission, means it's not sovereign technology.
> Apart from the remote access feature there's no operational off-shore dependency
In other words, to use it from anywhere outside your homeout-of-the-box, depends on the offshore vendor.
@futuresprog @lightweight @puck @Niall @essjax @stephen @oseiler @Kay
As you can see, sploaf mode allows for streamlined cat propulsion
HA!
Radical Queer posters seen along Smith St in Fitzroy, Victoria during the Midsumma Pride festival.
Here’s the URL of the Web page for those who can’t see it in the lemmy client: brewing.permacomputing.net
The text seems vague in an AI-generated sort of way. Perhaps I’m being too paranoid; they have credited a bunch of authors, after all.
@ManualOverride @Fedop knowing the people involved in the website I would say there is 0 chance there is any AI involved in any part of that website or text
Juvenile bald eagle ejecting an adult one from the top of a tree.
Photo taken last week. I am still going through them but I am also working on other projects so patience is required. :)
#RespectYourElders #photography #wildlife #VancouverIslandWildlife #VancouverIsland #BritishColumbia
i found by about 2-3 wiki hops that the voyager golden record was also "published" in 1977. diffie-hellman's "new directions in cryptography" (an example of a great name for a paper which you know contains the juice) would be published in 1976. roe v wade would be "decided" in 1973
i was able to limit myself to a discussion of two paragraphs on the regularity of the cosmic microwave background as justification for the "universe's" bias towards encoding distinct and important context. lz77 is, like much research, developed back to front, where the authors identify their desired hypothesis and work very hard to disprove the alternative
