Dear fellow Healthcare workers in hospitals:
If you don’t know (*absolutely, clearly, KNOW*) what your hospital’s policy is with respect to ICE wandering the halls, ASK now. Find out.
My health system has us redirect ICE to non-patient waiting areas, call security and admin, and not disclose anything about patients.
The PAM Duress is a module designed to allow users to generate 'duress' passwords that when used in place of their normal password will execute arbitrary scripts.
This functionality could be used to allow someone pressed to give a password under coercion to provide a password that grants access but in the background runs scripts to clean up sensitive data, close connections to other networks to limit lateral movement, and/or to send off a notification or alert (potentially one with detailed information like location, visible wifi hot-spots, a picture from the camera, a link to a stream from the microphone, etc). You could even spawn a process to remove the pam_duress module so the threat actor won't be able to see if the duress module was available.
#security #Linux #Arch #Debian
A Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) which allows the establishment of alternate passwords that can be used to perform actions to clear sensitive data, notify IT/Security staff, close off sensit...GitHub
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One useful addition to this would be a password that does an immediate wipe.
There are situations where that is indeed what you want, while that is extremely conspicuous, if the wipe is irreversible, there isn't much that your captors can do about it afterwards, and it's an option that should be available to users.
For systems that store their disk encryption key in a TPM, you could do this by just destroying the key (though I'm not sure whether PAM would even run in an encrypted disk scenario, I know far too little about how this works on Linux specifically).
I think AI music usage falls into a few different camps.
1. The people that give a random prompt, hit generate and say 'I wrote a thing.' No. No you did not.
2. The people that spend time crafting lyrics and sculpting the AI the way they want, and get amazing results just the way they imagined.
3. The other group of people (me included) who feed it my own music and get it to remix/reboot/reimagine whatever you want to call it, my music in entirely different ways.
Sometimes I'll then take that back to Logic and replay the bits I like and change the bits I don't.
AI in the case of numbers 2 and 3 is a tool then, not a 'be all and end all' bandaid. It should not be that.
The people that hate AI hate it because all the number oners break it for the rest of us, those who care about what we're doing, our craft, our joy, and our care and attention to detail.
That, at least, is my take on it.
Happy to be told otherwise.
"Furious AI Users Say Their Prompts Are Being Plagiarized."
Even if we set aside that this is a complaint about plagiarizing the use of a technology that is LITERALLY MADE OF PLAGIARISM, consider:
Say I write up how I made a cool piece of art in some app; if you follow the same steps, do I somehow own your output? And hell, that's not even what this is—it's more like someone posted their Google search terms or sandwich order, and are now mad others are using them.
futurism.com/artificial-intell…
A self-described AI ambassador is in shambles after she says other AI prompters have been plagiarizing her instructions.Joe Wilkins (Futurism)
People complaining about AI prompt plagiarism:
"I enjoy ordering a Jimmy John's BLT with no mayo."
[someone else orders a BLT with no mayo]
"How dare you! THIEF!"
"Max, that's not fair. Writing a good AI prompt takes real work."
Yes, I agree. When you use AI you are taking real work.
Sexual deepfakes on X show need for Canadian online regulator, advocates say
cbc.ca/news/politics/x-deepfak…
Our Minister of Slop is an incompetent twat. And up the food chain the one that keep him in that unneeded position.
Evan Solomon says NO to sexual deepfakes, UNLESS they're on X... then, it's A-OK?!?!?
WHO DOES EVAN SOLOMON WORK FOR?!?!?
Consider Amira Zairi, a self-professed “AI educator” and “ambassador” for Adobe, LeonardoAI, and TripoAI, who posted a scathing rant this week on X-formerly-Twitter to her 49,000 followers. Her complaint? Other people were “plagiarizing” her unique AI prompts.
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A self-described AI ambassador is in shambles after she says other AI prompters have been plagiarizing her instructions.Joe Wilkins (Futurism)
In 2021 people on the right screamed about freedom and bodily autonomy.
They refused to wear masks. Refused to get vaccinated. Said it was “tyranny”.
In 2026 they’re urging “complete compliance” with unidentified masked men who are shooting people in the streets.
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#doDo en #tierraNietos
Tercera semana de verano 2026
05/01/2026 al 11/01/2026desarrollar/mejorar sistema electricidad isla de 12v+20v herramientas portátiles, espacios productivos y mesas de trabajo ***bitPickup*** \* arreglos interior | limpieza parcial de piezas ***IT*** \* desarrollo presencia y publicaciones web
Desarme de placas solares en el techo de quincho.
Armado inicial de placas sobre un palet.
Diseño de uso de enchufes schuco para carga de 12 y 24 voltios.
9/10 y 11 de enero #ciclónExtratropical.
Pagina originaria con actualizaciones de este tema, sus respuestas, correcciones y ademas comentarios desde el resto del #fediVerso:
I'm having too much fun drawing little ghosts and adding them to my tutorials just because they're cute and no one can stop me
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Because we're in late stage capitalism, and line must go up?
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced early Wednesday that its FSD technology will only be available on a subscription basis after Feb. 14KIT NORTON (Investor's Business Daily)
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When does a “criminal-immigrant crackdown” become a “full-spectrum terror campaign”?
As soon as it’s conceived.
В Петербурге рабочие из Индии столкнулись с суровой реальностью — снегом и бытом по-русски.Многие из них приехали из регионов, где никогда не видели снега, поэтому не понимают, как его убирать. Параллельно всплыли и другие сложности: они не знают как переключать воду в душе, почему нельзя ставить металл в микроволновку и как вообще жить в общежитии зимой.
Эксперты предлагают делать простые инструкции на хинди — иначе повышен риск потопов и пожаров. В Россию уже приехали более 70 тысяч работников, а в 2026 году ждут ещё минимум 40 тысяч.
Don't use rc.local. It has been obsolete since 1983. #FreeBSD has actually discontinued it twice in its history.
FreeBSD has had Mewburn rc for most of this century. It's what #NetBSD uses and #OpenBSD has a similar but NIH system. At minimum, use Mewburn rc scripts.
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The rc(8) manual page has an example script. There's tutorial doco as well.
If you look around you should still be able to find Luke Mewburn's paper on #MewburnRC .
Similarly, what Linux people erroneously call "sysvinit" is actually van Smoorenburg init+rc created (by Miquel van Smoorenburg) for Minix in 1992.
It's not from #Unix System 5 at all, as that had obsoleted R3's init+rc system years before 1992 and gone on to the AIX SRC, and the SAF, SAC, ttymon, SMF, and stuff still in #Illumos today.
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Frequently Given Answer explaining the Service Access Facility that Unices have.jdebp.info
RE: mastodon.world/@somecanuckchic…
The worst part is that Frankie Legs is staying on until a successor is found...
We have a Deputy Premiere, right? Pass it over to Geneviève Guilbault and let her shit the bed until a successor is chosen.
#polQC #QCpoli #assnat #CAQASTROPHE
Frankie Legs talking about how he'd taken the last month to think about the future of the CAQ and his role in the CAQ... I saw him at a Habs game in Montréal...somecanuckchick (Mastodon)
Autsch:
Nach dem umstrittenen Ausschluss der Fans des israelischen Fußballvereins Maccabi Tel Aviv von einem „Europa League“-Spiel gegen Aston Villa in England hat der zuständige Polizeichef jetzt eingeräumt, dass die Entscheidung maßgeblich von einer KI-Halluzination beeinflusst worden war. Demnach hatte eine mithilfe von Microsofts Copilot erstellte Risikoanalyse der Polizei für den Stadtrat von Birmingham auf ein vorheriges Match von Maccabi bei West Ham United Bezug genommen, das es nie gegeben hat.
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Der Ausschluss israelischer Fans von einem Fußballspiel in England hat sich zu einem Skandal ausgeweitet: Die Risikoanalyse enthielt eine KI-Halluzination.Martin Holland (heise online)
RE: mastodon.world/@somecanuckchic…
GOOD F*CKING RIDDANCE! #polQC #QCpoli #assnat #CAQASTROPHE
A resignation should not take 20 minutes... What was François Legault permitted to go on and on about his misogyny, xenophobia, anti-science, language weaponization, overseeing the largest exodus of doctors and nurses in the history of Québec, etc.somecanuckchick (Mastodon)
Bon débarras
I thought we were going to have to wait another year or so to really see Trump's mental state decline to this point, but those speeches yesterday were insane. The slurred words, the non-sensical sentences, the complete lack of focus. All things he's been exhibiting for years now, but to an extent that no one could hand wave away.
And making fun of a cancer victim? Jesus.
Bandcamp is banning AI-generated music and won’t allow its content to be used for training AI models.Terrence O'Brien (The Verge)
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Self-driving cars have been just 2–3 years away since 2003.
The car industry should be happy that the tech industry replaced it with a new grift (AI).
Me: Hmm, this whole thing of buying a derelict chateau or mountain cottage and fixing them up sounds really appealing!
Also Me: what? a plumbing job and a shelf need attention? – Ugh, do I HAVE to?
#DIY
Excellent stance by #Bandcamp on AI.
"We reserve the right to remove any music on suspicion of being AI-generated."
Bandcamp’s Mission and Our Approach to Generative AI
blog.bandcamp.com/2026/01/13/k…
We’re articulating our approach to generative AI so musicians can keep making music and fans can trust the music they find on Bandcamp.Bandcamp Updates
The lost 213th issue of Techno-Mage
"ON THE FRONTIER"
finally haphazardly assembled after 2 years!
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#unix_surrealism #technomage #comic #linux #penguin #openbsd #gentoo #slackware #ubuntu
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