יתרון (יחיד, בשבילי) להצפת העיר בעובדים זרים ממזרח אסיה - חנויות חדשות של מוצרי מזון בשבילם שעכשיו אני לא צריך לנסוע לעיר הגדולה כדי לקנות.

Now that the CEO of Flock has called deflock.me a terrorist organization, I'd hate for other people to know about these other flock watchdog groups.

Please don't go on these websites, I beg you.

https://Alpr.wtf - Every U.S. jurisdiction using ALPR, plus how to file info requests.

https://EyesOnFlock.com - Crowdsourced map of Flock cameras and city contracts.

https://Deflock.me - Nationwide ALPR map tracking Flock deployments, removals, and resistance.

https://HaveIBeenFlocked.com — Quick check to see if Flock is watching your neighborhood.

https://DontGetFlocked.com — Plots your route, counts ALPR/Flock cameras, and suggests surveillance-free alternatives.

#flock #surveillance #uspol #police #politics #ai #noai #facialrecognition

@catsalad fixed it

Meanwhile in Times Square...

https://youtube.com/shorts/sHTyRehFrww?si=7yCNlhASPEQhQ3Hh

#mastodonfc

D'accord avec Clément Viktorovitch dans son analyse du discours du candidat #EdouardPhilippe : lui comme #GabrielAttal ont été au pouvoir ces dernières années, ils ont pu impulser des politiques et arbitrer des choix budgétaires aux conséquences concrètes... Mais ils font tout, dans leurs discours, pour tenter de faire oublier leurs responsabilités. Ils n'ont rien fait, ils ne sont comptables de rien, avec eux ça ca changer. Marqueur réthorique de la #Macronie finissante.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFSCwSg1QD8

@neil Why is his beard in a field?

The Free Software movement never escaped from its origins: the early ‘80s MIT AI Lab. Two things were true in this environment:

• Back when most computers had tens of KiBs of RAM and 1 MiB was a huge amount, programs were simple. Very few programs were so complex that one person could not completely understand them.
• The AI Lab was full of some of the most talented programmers in the world.

This meant that the only obstacles for these people being able to fix bugs and add features to any program were access to the source code and the legal rights to modify it. Once you have those, any program was understandable by that group and they could modify it however they wished.

For the next 40 years, the FSF focused on these two things. The world around them changed. These two prerequisites were never enough for most people (what do 90% of computer users do if you give them even a modest 10,000 line C codebase and tell them they can change it however they like?) and now they aren’t enough even for competent programmers.

When Linus says ‘fork it’ to folks who don’t want LLM-extruded code in their kernel, he knows full well that it is almost impossible to fork a 40 MLoC C (and Rust now) codebase that averages more than one CVE per day and have something useful.

The Free Software movement is struggling now because it obsessed over licenses, which was never a path that would succeed, and ignored the hard problems:

• How do you design environments that enable end users to modify their software?
• How do you engineer software so that it is cheap and easy for a random user to maintain a fork that meets their specific needs?
• How do you foster communities where people want to share improvements, so forks don’t proliferate even when it’s easy?
• How do you create an environment where everyone sees the benefits of user-modifiable code to such a degree that trying to sell anything that doesn’t come with these rights is commercially impossible?

Instead of tackling any of these problems, they created more complex and restrictive GPL variants. And well-paid lawyers found loopholes in them that allowed corporations to keep doing what they wanted (and even pick licenses like AGPLv3 to control ecosystems, because they give the copyright owners so many more rights than everyone else that it’s hard for anyone else to compete). They said ‘don’t worry about the complexity of the licenses, you only need to understand the legal details if you’re creating and distributing derived works’ while completely forgetting that making it possible for anyone to create and distribute modified versions of the programs was the entire point of the Free Software movement.

EDIT: Lots of people are reading this as if it’s about the kernel. I would say that the kernel is the least important part of a system for this. The layers on top, especially anything that directly interfaces with the user or controls their data, are far more important to build around these principles.

@randahl truth isn't real so hypocrisy doesn't matter

On parle beaucoup de l'adresse à la Nation de #Trump de ce jeudi, qui laisse planer le doute sur une possible interférence de son camp avec les élections de mi-mandat (voir ex. Le Monde). Mais c'est tout simplement le comportement attendu d'individus rationnels.

Car cela fait des mois que les cercles autour de #Trump disent que s'ils perdent les élections, ils iront en prison (ex. Steve Bannon fin 2025 ⬇️). N'importe quel groupe d'individu rationnel tenterait de minimiser risque de prison en interférant avec le processus électoral pour garder le pouvoir. Le plus probable est donc que cela se produise

@ilkama @heartbaby @lislegaard

Hello Vilde 👋

Welcome to the better part of the Internet.

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@pancake ara hi ha una llei espanyola avalada per el TJUE que avala la llibertat, per això penso que el moment ideal seria tornar ara mateix si és que Puigdemont vol lluitar contra la corrupte justícia espanyola.

@freyfogle Oh yeah I saw that. An Ian Dees project! @ian It's looking a bit US-centric at the moment. D'you want some international / EU SOTM shirts on there?

@avuko @anneoneam - It's absolutely fair to say "i told y'all so". In which case this is just further evidence.

There have been lots if "he's been like this forever, and it doesn't look like he's changed. This is bad"

Heck, I even mention all of that in my conclusion in the original post.

But the response here seems to be designed as a conversation ender, not a response that is furthering the conversation (I may be absolutely wrong here which is why I asked for clarification).

Fork It or Walk Away // Tara Tarakiyee

｢ Don't let anyone use "fork it" as a euphemism to point at the door. We don't live in the fucking Omelas and we don't bow to kings and lords. ｣

https://tarakiyee.com/fork-it-or-walk-away/

#opensource #linux #noai #torvalds

@manum I haven't read the specifics but its interesting to me how targeted the press releases are.

I'll look it up later, but I wonder if the law is more generic; that it does / should / could read that 'any hardware-based shortcut key to an first-party Assistant should be reboundable to third-party assistant apps'

So even if Apple says their AI-based Siri isn't available in the EU, their existing shortcut to old Siri should be changeable...

@greenpeace my hope is that this time major governments that are not involved (europe, canada, japan, etc..) learn and then adapt by making policies that incentivize the production of energy inside their borders. Ideally and almost mandatory that energy production will be renewable. Complete uncoupling from fossil fuels and uncertainty

Trump claims Biden would only subsidize American chip manufacturers if they hired transgender people to run the company (a lie).

At this point, I just think he saw the word "transistor" and thought that had something to do with being trans.

@laribral welcome to the fedi lari!

@spla retratada enessimament i no passaria re com sempre. Tristament veig tot el que vam viure durant el referendum molt lluny, tant social com politicament, no crec que la nostra generacio vegi de nou el que vam viure aquells dies