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Another form of Facebook post in particular is really giving me the shits lately and it relates to a previous post I made regarding the use of AI.
The kind of post I'm talking about here is the really inspiring post about someone that is shared by everybody.
You can tell it's an AI post because it often starts with something like, it was 3.37 in the morning and 35 seconds when the old man took his last breath inside the ice cream parlour.
The posts then go on to talk about what an amazing person they were, the things they do just get better and better and better and at the end you often get these annoying fucking moral messages.
Mr Blake did not succeed because he had an IQ of 512, mr Blake succeeded because he found the inspirational courage to fight through the horrible brain freeze and tooth pain.
So fucking irritating.

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If I were a digital rights activist, I would see this time as a golden opportunity.

#Grok, the #AI "assistant" powered by Musk's xAI, has become an engine of non-consensual image and video generation at a mass scale - including pornographic and pedopornographic content. Creating and distributing this imagery has never been quicker or easier. All one has to do is reply to an image posted by someone on X with a mention of Grok and a prompt. This feature was restrained recently but people who pay an $8 subscription to X can still do it. As Sam Cole writes on @404mediaco : "Masterful Gambit: Musk Attempts to Monetize Grok's Wave of Sexual Abuse Imagery" 404media.co/x-premium-grok-pay…

How many politicians pushing for #ChatControl are still using X? How many official government accounts? You know, the same people who screamed WE NEED TO PROTECT THE CHILDREN and pushed for the scanning of all digital communications and files (including E2EE encrypted ones) of European citizens? An "Orwellian nightmare" as @Em0nM4stodon wrote on Privacy Guides: privacyguides.org/articles/202…

In the Privacy Guides article by Em, the French, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian and Irish governments (amongst many others) were in full support of Chat Control. As far as I can tell, prominent politicians, Prime Ministers and official government accounts from these countries are still posting on X.

Is there anything we can do to point out the hypocrisy? Or have the abuse machine that is Grok sanctioned and fined? And - this is key - use this horrible incident to push politicians to FINALLY quit X? It's about time.

#StopChatControl #LeaveX #QuitX #SaveSocial


Masterful Gambit: Musk Attempts to Monetize Grok's Wave of Sexual Abuse Imagery

In an attempt to push more people toward a paying subscription, Grok now refuses to generate images in replies. The paywall is pretty leaky, though.
Samantha Cole (404 Media)
#AI #chatcontrol #grok #savesocial #StopChatcontrol #leavex #quitx @Em @404 Media

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Thanks to @Tamasg and his SoftVoice TTS Speak window, I just created something really silly and stupid. The SoftVoice variant The Fly reading some gibberish/keysmash text. It sounds really weird! Actual text is in the alt text.

@Tamas G
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Gary "grim" Kramlich

@bagder Is it double messaging when this is explicitly in every single release announcement?

> Just like the previous experimental releases, this is a timed release. It is a snapshot of what we currently have and is something we think other tinkerers and developers may want to start playing with, but again, it is not meant for end users.

discourse.imfreedom.org/t/pidg…

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Gary "grim" Kramlich

@bagder Guess I should turn this into an FAQ somewhere which will be yet another thing on my todo list which will of course cut into development time...

Anyways here's the original announcement that described the whole thing.

But tl;dr we're open to feedback if it is actually usable/reasonable right now.

But between live and work finding time for Pidgin is hard and people are making it harder by forcing me through conversations like this.

discourse.imfreedom.org/t/pidg…


Pidgin 3.0.0 Experimental 1 Announcement

Greetings Programs! This post was supposed to be made awhile back but I got busy and kept forgetting to write it. Anyways, we are officially announcing that we will be releasing the first experimental release of Pidgin 3 on December 31st, 2024.
Instant Messaging Freedom's Discourse
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There is something wrong with Trump.

At a meeting with oil industry CEO’s he suddenly interrupts his introductory remarks, gets up and looks out the window and starts talking about his ballroom. Trump then realizes his mistake and says “unusual time to look”, and sits back down to continue.

How many oil companies will invest in a Venezuelan oil project initiated by a man who loses track of the situation he is in?

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Exact breath times are now available via the Auphonic API.
This makes it easy to build integrations with detailed, frame-accurate insights into detected breaths.

👉 API details:
auphonic.com/help/api/query.ht…

👉 Learn more about independent breath reduction control:
auphonic.com/blog/2024/05/16/i…

Auphonic Blog: Independently control Noise, Reverb and Breath Reduction Amounts

The automatic audio post production webservice.
auphonic.com

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Are you guys seeing this annoying GitHub bug on iOS where scrolling on some pages keeps forcing your browser to keep bouncing / scrolling back to top before you can get very far?

This is an example, one other person has reproduced it

github.com/WebKit/WebKit/tree/…


WebKit/Source/WebKit at main · WebKit/WebKit

Home of the WebKit project, the browser engine used by Safari, Mail, App Store and many other applications on macOS, iOS and Linux. - WebKit/WebKit
GitHub

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Good morning from Gaza,

Despite the pain and the siege, we still believe that truth never dies and that the dawn of freedom will come, no matter how long the night lasts.
Our voices, our prayers, and our resilience are stronger than all injustice.
A morning of hope for Palestine and for everyone who stands for justice.

#GoodMorning #Palestine #Gaza #FreePalestine #Humanity #Hope #Justice #StandWithPalestine

#palestine #humanity #Justice #goodmorning #Gaza #freepalestine #hope #standwithpalestine

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#mlmmj release 1.7.0

Changes:
- New 'autosubscribe' feature: on moderated mailing list autosubscribe as "nomail" when a moderator approves a mail
- New 'selfmoderate' feature: send the moderation email to the "From" address for validation
- Fix 'nonomailsub' support
- Plenty of memory leaks
- Fix lock issue

#mlmmj
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So earlier today, i went to round one. For those not in the know, round one is an arcade/ entertainment place that has video games, ten pin bowling, food, and stuff of that nature. I picked round one because it had one particular game that I've been wanting to play ever since it came out. As such, I present my best game on the bop it arcade, with a score of 62, which is the highest score set on that machine. I'll certainly be going back for more. This was recorded with a zoom h1e and a pickup coil placed over the speaker grill of the game. I hope you will enjoy.

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Tonight, while scrolling random stuff on social media, I noticed something odd and perplexing about the particular voice I use on my devices.
People are both directly quoting and paraphrasing that “First they Came for...” poem.
The voice I use has been reading “Came” as “Come...”
I could not figure out why people were missquoting it, so reviewed it letter by letter.
My braille display is charging, or I would have look right on that...
Still, “Come,” “Came” different words... Context is important...

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I'm posting this in case I'm missing something, perhaps I am. Is the only way to rewind and fast forward on IOS when those playback sliders exist that move by 5 seconds per swipe, to swipe them a million times until you move the desired increment of 5 seconds, even if you want to rewind/fast forward 30 minutes or something? This goes for playing long audio files in Safari or playing Youtube videos. I know there's a rewind and fast forward button in Youtube, but that's 10 seconds as well. Just curious if there's some trick with those things I don't know about.

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Mildly curious if any of my blind followers, or any blind people who happen to see this, do much gaming on mobile platforms (iOS/android/etc), or if most blind gaming is done on desktop these days. I feel like most of the accessible games tend to lean towards being on Windows, and a bit on mac, but I was curious if anyone played on mobile platforms, either as a complementary experience to desktop or console gaming, or even as a preference. If anyone does, what are your favorite mobile games? Not inherently looking for recommendations, just kinda starting a discussion because I'm curious.
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Sjoerd

yes, just a new instance pushed by three podcast presenters, from what I can tell. They call it an “experiment”, but I am not sure what the experiment is, or even whether they really know what the experiment is. 3000+ new sign ups in a day, which on the one hand is great, on the other hand makes one wonder about the moderation practices of the new instance.
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In a time when the sentence "junior developers will be replaced by AI" is heard multiple times a day, does it make sense learning how to code?
Yes, now more than ever!

#AI #coding

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Learning to Code in the age of "AI"?

In a time when the sentence "junior developers will be replaced by AI" is heard multiple times a day, does it make sense learning how to code?Yes, now more t...
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#AI #coding

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I have not updated my main Mac to the new OS. I have updated my laptop, and regret it. I am concerned about security updates but I believe Apple provides security updates for not-too-old versions.

This UI, though, I just do not feel comfortable with it. I am hoping I can skip this major version and that the next one will be more in line with Apple's historical attention to getting UIs right.

Please don't respond with discussion about the UI, but: please do respond if I am making a security mistake by holding off on the update.

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I just had an interesting thing happen.

I have an old (needs-to-be-retired) Linux distro for amateur radio stuff, called HamVoIP, which is running a quite old Archlinux.
Linux linkbox 5.4.75-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Nov 9 16:58:39 UTC 2020 armv7l GNU/Linux
This system has Tailscale installed, and is using a node on my Tailnet to route both incoming and outgoing traffic.
This ISP is using CG-NAT, and I want to direct traffic from the internet to an Asterisk PBX, so I have a Tailscale exit node appropriately configured for this purpose.
The registration IP address must match, so outgoing traffic is also sent through that system.

It's been fine for a while, but just this afternoon, this system could no longer access the internet. LAN and tailnet resources were fully accessible, including the exit node itself, but nothing would pass through, until I disabled the use of that exit node and enabled it again.

Have you tried turning it off and back on again?

Anyway, it's working now, but I really should make this system go away in favor of it's more modern 64-bit replacement. It's definitely easier to deal with. Just getting Tailscale to use an exit node in the first place was made more complicated by the old implementation of netfilter.

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Canada purports to be a pluralistic country. It recognizes many ideas, many traditions, many communities are valid and worthwhile, and the country can and should do the work to know and understand as many as possible.

X is the antithesis of pluralism. X games anger outrage ignorance and prejudice for gain. The algorithm pushes these idea far beyond the real value of these ideas.

Only the pathetically naive and willfully ignorant don't see this.

Misinformation and its manipulation and the outsized harm and impact is today's political reality.

Solomon is feigning outrage with the naive confidence that his party's own misinformation gains through X, is still worthy and justified, that it will compete with the anger and outrage capable of supporting the killing of an innocent woman.

Supporting X is supporting anger, ignorance fear and prejudice, not very Canadian, or its it?

#cdnpoli

Evan Solomon X.com @EvanLSolomon Contrary to media reports, Canada is not considering a ban of X. Evan Solomon @ @EvanL Solomon Deepfake sexual abuse is violence. We must protect Canadians, especially women and young people, from exploitation. Platforms and Al developers have a duty to prevent thi...
#cdnpoli
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Gordon J Holtslander

For Mr. "Elbows Up" PM and his "What Porn?" Minister:

"Do we really think that a Canadian government that can’t find the moral clarity to act against a child abuse platform will resist a multi-pronged American assault on Canadian sovereignty?"

halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-fil…


The ethically challenged Evan Solomon and Mark Carney power dance may lead to the end of Canada

Do we really think that a Canadian government that can't find the moral clarity to act against a child abuse platform will resist a multi-pronged American assault on Canadian sovereignty?
Tim Bousquet (Halifax Examiner)

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Finally got a chance to start listening through the latest Ice Cube album Man Up and he seems pretty pissed off about modern stuff

Freedumb:


[Intro]Why is the internet not working?
Why are you not working?
Why is the internet not working?
The same reason you're not working
Did you turn off the internet?
Maybe

[Verse 1]
Create a clone through this iPhone
It's the perfect device to get spied on
Swipe up, swipe down, pipe down
Type it in, never, ever write it down
Knowing, it's mind controlling
First you start scrolling, then you start trolling
Yeah, what you know about a prison?
Ain't no rhythm in this algorithm, no
It's about the vision
It's about to be a head on collision
Lost my religion
Motherfuckers gotta Google where God at
I despise that
He under my hat
He under your hat
He in your heart
I bust a rhyme that's better than Mozart
What I look like asking Chat GPT
"What was it like growing up in the CPT?"

[Chorus]They hit me with that freedom
It don't cost you a penny to be dumb
They hit me with that freedom
What's the reason? That shit is treason


[Interlude]AI is learning to escape human control
AI is in fact learning to escape human control
Human control, human control

[Verse 2]
L.A. to the bay back in '88 (Yeah)
I was there, nigga, fuck what your computer say
You'd rather ask a nerd like Zuckerberg
Go ahead homie, go and join the herd
You's a blue light zombie (Zombie)
Become an unhealthy, selfish as a selfie
Go ahead, ask Open AI
When you know that they lie about the fourth of July
Information artificial, blow the whistle
You know that we with you, go get the pistol
Shoot the fat screen first then the laptop
Kill your iPhone then smoke your Xbox
And when they call SWAT, here come the robots
Don't matter if the motherfuckin' door's locked
They shooting in the dark, ripping us apart
Motherfuckers only mad 'cause we too smart

[Chorus]They hit us with the freedom
It don't cost you a penny to be dumb
They hit us with the freedom
What's the reason? That shit is treason


[Outro]I think the most important thing to understand about AI is that AI is not a tool
It is an agent
What's the reason? That shit is treason

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