Xbox Cloud Gaming Switches to Monthly Hour Limits https://games.slashdot.org/story/26/09/03/1943208/xbox-cloud-gaming-switches-to-monthly-hour-limits?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
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orgone music for the ancients
https://davidbeardsley.bandcamp.com/album/orgone-music-for-the-ancients
a collection of previously released compositions in the tuning system known as just intonation. Three hours of bliss!
#microtonal #microtones #justintonation
#xenharmonic #ambientmusic
@RussellsBarbershopQuartet *Israeli voice* "What about a piece of paper that says 'we're gonna have a constitution soon, I swear!', dated 1950?"
@RussellsBarbershopQuartet (There are, you know, other reasons why Israel is [SOMEWHAT FLAWED] as to its quality as a democracy, but this is also there and will hopefully be something legal historians can pull up as a "some country did that once" factoid that you can in some contexts take more than a single breath before qualifying it with its immediate impact on the by-that-future-time-no-longer-ongoing genocide & occupation that weird legal configuration is built with & directly relevant to.)
People: AI is going to be the end of <industry>!
Actual AI: Run sudo usermond ...
@wdormann The name is Mond, User Mond.
Every Friday Stretch - Episode 9 - Hip mobility
Et tu peux dormir dedans, ou c'est pas possible en stockage comme ça ?
@nartagnan C'est pas très clair mais oui :)
@Migueldeicaza tmux -CC mode?
@ahornby There is no Tmux specific code here - what is that for?
Note: i am not trying to make it impossible through argumentation.. I could get convinced that that free/libre LLM models, available along with their training dataset (so one could potentially re-train them and to some extent get some reproducibility of the model?), ran on one own's infrastructure (or community-based, mutualised, etc. ie. not owned by some evil billionaire), with a focus on energy-efficiency, frugality maybe, could indeed be used for good, and provide quite some services with some menial/repetitive tasks (boiler plate, transcription, tests, etc.) and others, under strict validation/audit by humans, in free/libre software dev.
Whereas I do respect your approach, and I am sure you try to bring sensical points of view
- no doubt about that in general
But there is this other detail that breaks the constructive flavour of your criticism: "it boils rivers?"
If you were serious, I think you would have indicated some sort of energy cost scale, something more open to discussion than "boiling rivers"
My 2 cents
Troels Thomsen
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Shared infrastructure is how the #Fediverse can grow without recreating enshittified platform silos.
We’re excited to share that Bonfire is working with Mastodon on two critical areas of Fediverse infrastructure: remote media storage and automated content detection.
Built around open Fediverse Auxiliary Service Provider (FASP) specifications, this work will help platforms connect to shared services instead of each having to build and operate the same capabilities alone.
Our aim is to make these capabilities open, interoperable, and available for any federated server to adopt.
A big thank you to @Mastodon@mastodon.social team for involving us in this work. We’re looking forward to building together and sharing what we learn along the way.
Read the full post: bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bu...
#ActivityPub #FASP
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The Free Software Movement is a lot like Libertarianism. It sounds great as long as you don't look at the details.
RE: https://caneandable.social/@Stuart_haxell/117208567996430592
I deeply agree with this podcast, what Meta glasses do for the blind; but we must push forward our needs and interests. I mean: relying just in one company (THIS company) means that Meta makes us dependant on it. This theater already happened in 2015 when they created the AI-driven alt-texts on images, which have improved in time. Meta with glasses, like Apple with iPhone, has significantly changed the way we use our everyday equipment but we shouldn't "sit down" and compliment them, thanking them as they were our savers, because they aren't. They are for-profit companies. And, like they did cutting fact-checking and diversity-inclusion programs, they can one day, all of a sudden, destroy accessibility support. Use our private information to control us, and take advantage of us vulnerable people, to normalize mass surveillance. They talk about free speech, then they ban sexual health and reproductive matters, they ban anti-Israel and anti-trump speech; they allow algorithms to boost haters.
Should I register an account on their app and let my glasses input get examined by them?
My claim is another: Meta, if someone wants to use that aid, they have to. Without being stigmatized for this. But that must not be the only company on the market, producing smart glasses.
I'd like one which keeps information on device. Without sharing to cloud or stuff. Privacy and accessibility can work together.
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MAY COUNTERREVOLUTIONARY #FEMINISM DIE TODAY
know her name: DOMITILA BARRIOS CHUNGARA. she’s the one who radicalized me as a feminist with this little book
»Let me speak : Testimony of Domitila, a woman of the Bolivian mines
https://archive.org/details/letmespeak00domi_0/mode/1up
it’s not just that Domitila looks like my maternal nana. she had the audacity to organize a labor union of wives and STAY AT HOME MOMS of miners in Bolivia to fight against their husbands’ wage slavery & their communities’ lack of social services
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The Free Software Movement is a lot like Libertarianism. It sounds great as long as you don't look at the details.
@rrwo I haven't said that part in this thread, but I've said it out loud a couple of times this week.
The opt-out libertarians of the whole earth catalog became the free software movement.
And they had some great ideas, but they were also wrong.
Rugged individualism is a path to destruction. We need communities.
@louisa_ I keep an A6 Leuchtturm in my pocket (good colours, soft but sturdy cover, bookmark ribbons, add-on pen loop, pocket where you can stick a tracking card). Love it.
I have an A5 spiral-on-top Mnemosyne on my desk that is really nice also. The thick gel pen and paper together feel really velvety!
Did not like Hobonichi (Weeks). Thin paper and stupid quotes.
@henrik thanks, lots of love for Leuchtrum! I'll check them out. (Thanks also for the "don't buy" - as useful as a "do buy" - will avoid!)
I've asked a couple of those folks that insist Proton is a bad choice because they support fascism to suggest alternatives. I have yet to get recommendations.
From now on anyone that jumps to the "Proton supports fascism" argument should be ready to provide a list of alternatives that provide encrypted services:
- Email
- Cloud drive with files that can be shared
- VPN
- Password manager
- Email alias services
My contention is that we have to compare the various companies offering services and their conduct in regards to the Trump regime or other fascists.
Most of these companies are going to have marks against them based on company policy or statements/actions by CEOS/Founders, etc. Some are worse than others.
So, again, compare the FACTS of those policies/actions, weigh them, and make a recommendation that improves the conversation with solutions.
#Technology #Tech #Fascism #Proton #Apple #Google #Microsoft #Amazon #Privacy
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@bss My recollection is that there was one bad contribution for which Proton apologized. This contrasts with Mullvad VPN, where one of the founders made a much larger contribution as an individual to a far right party in Sweden. They then took pains to try and make a distinction between the founder and the company - both he and the company posted that “explanation”. No apologies.
With the world as it is we can only try to use the least objectionable services. Purity is tough to find.
Biason::Julio::new();
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pra quem desenha, vc usa lápis/grafite HB? se sim, com alguma finalidade específica?
@eevee so i mean i guess you would be exactly right then about the algebraic numbers having a lot of meaning. i think my major issue is the conception that that arises from factoring them downwards into simplest form. algebraic roots of polynomials of larger degree have no closed form solution and that's a good thing!!!
if the diffie-hellman approach with the discrete log problem does result in a proof of P < NP, i think it would come from seeing that the problem as stated is essentially underconstrained unless you know the precise input x your target had in mind when they computed a^x (mod p).
in other words, the mind is not just the last safe place, it is also the first, and that's more than enough
@eevee https://sci-hub.st/10.1109/TIT.1978.1055817 i have been trying to understand why hellman (in his 1978 paper with pohlig describing attacks on discrete log and how to fix them) just claimed his little meme formula q = 2p + 1 to choose a prime q given a prime p made any sense at all.
it's literally the least complex formula you could possibly imagine being able to solve that problem (i didn't even know it was possible to deterministically generate an increasing sequence of primes at all before reading the linked paper very recently????).
the reason it's safe against what is still the best algorithm to crack your private keys is also really simple: because it maximizes the size of at least one prime factor of q - 1, which means precomputing all possible generating sets of the prime decomposition of q - 1 is just as hard (particularly in asymptotic memory requirements) as just brute forcing the discrete log problem in the first place.
so instead of some primes being safe and others being iffy, you can just state pretty directly that if you choose a prime modulus q, its strength scales with the size of q........exponentially. which is usually not true in cryptography--one of the worst daniels on the entire planet writes lengthy screeds https://cr.yp.to/papers/safecurves-20240809.pdf trying to convince the reader there's no way they could ever find a safe mathematical construct, and is very clearly uninterested in solving it
the fascist state recognizes that if cryptography were ever allowed to become an engineering discipline like building bridges or rockets where you can get licensed with sufficient expertise so that you get paid to be accountable for others' safety, where nobody's making money by fucking people over, then suddenly the whole mode of colonialist resource extraction looks like the medieval past and not the sci-fi future at all anymore
