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best advertisement for turning to Linux distros is Microsoft itself
#Microsoft #Windows #Linux #Tech #Technology #FOSS #OpenSource
best advertisement for turning to Linux distros is Microsoft itself
#Microsoft #Windows #Linux #Tech #Technology #FOSS #OpenSource
The Department of Justice and Texas software-maker RealPage announced this week that they have reached a settlement in a case involving price-fixing allegations in some of the nation’s largest rental markets.
#News #DOJ #Rent #Law #Antitrust #Technology #Tech #Software
A 2022 ProPublica investigation showed RealPage was helping landlords decide rents in a way that legal experts said could result in cartel-like behavior.
In case you missed it:
https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-rent-increase-realpage-rent?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
The Department of Justice and Texas software-maker RealPage announced this week that they have reached a settlement in a case involving price-fixing allegations in some of the nation’s largest rental markets.
#News #DOJ #Rent #Law #Antitrust #Technology #Tech #Software
Cities are building “digital twins” to map roads, buildings and utilities — but most still overlook the people who use them.
A new study shows how faked synthetic data can add realistic human behavior to these models while protecting #privacy.
https://theconversation.com/from-concrete-to-community-how-synthetic-data-can-make-urban-digital-twins-more-humane-268847
#data #technology
I'm reading a New York Review of Books article about the Internet and the World Wide Web. The article discusses recent books by Tim Berners-Lee and Cory Doctorow. This paragraph caught my eye. Berners-Lee is the "he" at the start of the passage. Hurrah for Mastodon, I say. #Mastodon #Fediverse #Technology #Internet #SocialMedia #OpenSource
I'm reading a New York Review of Books article about the Internet and the World Wide Web. The article discusses recent books by Tim Berners-Lee and Cory Doctorow. This paragraph caught my eye. Berners-Lee is the "he" at the start of the passage. Hurrah for Mastodon, I say. #Mastodon #Fediverse #Technology #Internet #SocialMedia #OpenSource
Lightcone is the rationalist org that runs LessWrong these days and runs totally not race science conferences for the rationalists.
Sam Bankman-Fried of FTX donated $6m to Lightcone. Then FTX in ch 11 wrote demanding a clawback (cos it was stolen customer funds).
Lightcone ... just ignored it! This went badly for Lightcone. They had to sell a conference space to raise the funds. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jun/16/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-eugenics-scientific-racism
this is Oliver Habryka, CEO of Lightcone, on his thinking on this issue:
> "Oh man, we are being sued by FTX. I should hire a bankruptcy lawyer to prepare our defense." WRONG. I mean yes, of course go ahead and hire a bankruptcy lawyer to prepare the defense. But in-parallel use language models to prepare a defense yourself, then run the defense by the lawyer you hired until you think you understand reasonably well what the core constraints are. Then work together with the bankruptcy lawyer on the defense.
Habryka wrote this a few years *after* Lightcone completely fucked this one. Well done, Oliver.
https://www.lesswrong.com/s/cegJvyiP2dBkhDh2K/p/rSCxviHtiWrG5pudv
@davidgerard I just started reading Adam Becker's new book More Everything Forever, in which David is briefly quoted. It's clear that tech billionaires KNOW they're right. Sam Altman is more deluded and morally corrupt than I had suspected (by page 7).
Amid concerns over the Biden administration's regulation of the crypto industry, billionaire tech investor Marc Andreessen, a longtime Democrat, donated more than $5 million to groups supporting Trump ahead of the 2024 election.
Since then, he's gotten what he called for: a hollowed-out Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-cfpb-marc-andreessen-silicon-valley?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Technology #Finance #Business #Trump #SiliconValley #USPolitics #Tech
Amid concerns over the Biden administration's regulation of the crypto industry, billionaire tech investor Marc Andreessen, a longtime Democrat, donated more than $5 million to groups supporting Trump ahead of the 2024 election.
Since then, he's gotten what he called for: a hollowed-out Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-cfpb-marc-andreessen-silicon-valley?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Technology #Finance #Business #Trump #SiliconValley #USPolitics #Tech
Hackers are launching mass attacks, exploiting websites using outdated WordPress plugins. WordPress security firm Wordfence says that it blocked 8.7 million attack attempts against its customers in just two days, October 8 and 9.
#Tech #InfoSec #Wordpress #Computing #TechNews #Blog #Science #Technology #News #CyberSecurity #Business #Engineering #Markets #USA #EU #Asia #Africa #SocialMedia #Mastodon #Fediverse
Hackers are launching mass attacks, exploiting websites using outdated WordPress plugins. WordPress security firm Wordfence says that it blocked 8.7 million attack attempts against its customers in just two days, October 8 and 9.
#Tech #InfoSec #Wordpress #Computing #TechNews #Blog #Science #Technology #News #CyberSecurity #Business #Engineering #Markets #USA #EU #Asia #Africa #SocialMedia #Mastodon #Fediverse
Looking forward to this one
Looking forward to this one
"The world's governments have all signed up to "anticircumvention" laws that criminalize reverse-engineering & modifying US #tech products. This was done at the insistence of the #US Trade Rep... using the threat of #tariffs
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getting rid of anticircumvention laws only requires that governments control their own behavior – unlike taxing or fining companies, which only works if governments can control the behavior of companies"
- @pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/01/redistribution-vs-predistribution/
A space for Bonfire maintainers and contributors to communicate
![A quote from an article in the New York Review of Books: "He [Tim Berners-Lee] urges us to walk away from Facebook and X in exchange for “something pro-human”—decentralized platforms like Mastodon, a user-controlled, open-source alternative in the so-called Fediverse. One virtue of the Fediverse, as [Cory] Doctorow also emphasizes, is that users can move freely from one server or community to another without losing their friends and followers.](https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/115/562/142/000/099/640/original/6ad7b5e4b49e3f74.jpg)
