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From Clawdbot to Moltbot: How a C&D, Crypto Scammers, and 10 Seconds of Chaos Took Down the Internet's Hottest AI Project
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From Clawdbot to Moltbot: How a C&D, Crypto Scammers, and 10 Seconds of Chaos Took Down the Internet's Hottest AI Project
The 72-Hour Unraveling of Open Source's Fastest-Growing Star Three days ago, Clawdbot was...Sivaram (DEV Community)
I wish I wasn't so irrationally irritated with the folks who pick out my github username from gods know where and ping me in random issues or pull requests for random "Fix this!" or "Merge that!" reasons.
It's often not even my own project. Used to happen with Godot for a while, at a point when I hadn't merged any PRs in like 5-6 years. Often I don't even have merge rights on the project.
It's wrong, sure, but idiots gonna idiot whether or not my blood pressure spikes about it.
Just seems so entitled, though. "Hey random person! Do my thing now!" Fuck off.
For These Women, Grok's Sexualized Images Are Personal
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But our ( 
) Minister of Chatbots say there is nothing they can do.
Apple and Google can't remove the app from their appstore because it is allowed to break the policies in place. (that would leave the website, but the point stands)
VISA and Mastercard still accept the payments because they have a double standard in censorship. One is about puritanistm, the other one is about allowing to break the law.
For These Women, Grok's Sexualized Images Are Personal
Elon Musk’s AI image generator has been used to create non-consensual intimate images on X. Meet some of the women affected by it.Ella Chakarian (Rolling Stone)
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RE: social.vivaldi.net/@LonM/11596…
UK PEOPLE: this is REALLY IMPORTANT. If the government bans under-16s from using VPNs, then logically they must intend to REQUIRE AGE VERIFICATION FOR ALL VPN USE. Which will affect adults too!
*Your* privacy and right to anonymous web browsing is at risk!
LonM (@LonM@vivaldi.net)
@gamingonlinux@mastodon.social You might be interested in giving this petition opposing the motion a signal boost: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/754408LonM (Vivaldi Social)
I've read this quote multiple times, over the years:
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: there must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
It turns out it's from a comment on a blog post moaning about liberals: crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l…
The rest of the comment is a lot more interesting than the pithy quote, because it cuts through a lot of the usual noise in leftist discourse.
Thanks for sharing the origin. I had a Crooked Timber phase, but drifted away from it a few years before the quote you cited.
@jzb went through that with the "atheist is a negative" phase, then realised that being the negation of something bad is still a good thing
Как говориться, быстро зарелизил — быстро и багфикс готовь!
Fun fact, there are 120 settings to tweak which are language related in NV Speech Player. Yeah, no more settings for sure. We're done. Let's either (A) tweak the settings we have, or (B) actually use them well in language packs. LOL. This is a bit insane to find out. 120 settings.
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Hey when I'm finished with the formant stuff from praat, how would I send em to you to ad into nvspeechplayer?
In our journey to #DigitalSovereignty, here's where we are:
- Domain registration: TransIP and Prolocation 🇳🇱
- Email, calendar, collaborative writing, and more: mailbox.org 🇩🇪
- Document store: Tresorit 🇨🇭
- Critical infra hosting: Hetzner 🇩🇪
- Discourse hosting: Communiteq 🇳🇱
- Security: 1Password.eu 🇨🇦/🇪🇺 and Yubico 🇸🇪
Next up: GitHub —> Codeberg 🇩🇪
To-do: Slack —> Zulip, Matrix, Mattermost?
#OpenSource #DNS #BGP
Wondering. Ice and border patrol don't wear uniforms / show their faces apparently because of doxing. Why do police show their faces, have badges with their names on them, etc., and don't worry about doxing? Is it mostly that police actually being reasonable people? I just figure that Ice might be respected more if they acted human. Did Ice have badges in the past? I know masking is new. Doesn't make sense at all.
Les pubs vont arriver dans Whatsapp cette année en Europe.
Il est temps de passer à la version Premium qui:
- n’a pas de pub
- n’a pas d’IA intégrée obligatoire
- ne vous espionne pas et ne récolte pas vos données
- améliore grandement votre sécurité et votre vie privée.
- permet de discuter exclusivement avec les autres utilisateurs Premium.
Et le meilleur c’est que cette version Premium est pour le moment gratuite (le paiement est facultatif).
Alors installez-la !
Elle s’appelle : "Signal"
Y a plus punk que Signal quand même, un truc qui paye son CEO à 7 chiffres avec vos dons, est basé aux USA, et dans lequel on a aucun moyen de participer... ha si, avec des dons.
: ah mais oui, clairement, y’a plus punk. Mais Signal reste pour le moment pour moi le juste milieu entre "utilisable selon mes critêres éthiques" et "utilisable par mon entourage" (effet réseau, toussa… ]
Pour Briar, ce sera la prochaine migration 
Les migrations de gens pas passionnés par l'informatique étant compliquées, je préfère éviter de recommander un silo duquel on devra encore s'échapper quand il se merdifiera, soit parce qu'il devra devenir rentable, soit pour se plier à la législation du pays qui l'héberge et se fascise à vitesse grand V. En plus, j'aime bien les trucs qu'on peut bidouiller et s'approprier, plutôt que ce qu'on me donne à utiliser sans possibilité de participer à sa gouvernance.
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@tivasyk Je suis d'une autre paroisse, mais deltachat ça m'excite déjà un peu plus que signal, oui. Décentralisation, protocole ouvert, pas d'hostilité aux clients alternatifs, autohebergeable, pas de nécessité d'avoir un smartphone avec OS mainstream... Je punk-valide, du haut de mon autorité de wannabe-punk (en fait je suis plutôt un quinoa-bobolchevique, mais c'est un secret ne me balance pas).
just a test from FastSM.
Fonant
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •It's impossible to restrict access to VPNs.
They could perhaps persuade some of the big providers to add access controls, but that would only result in more people using smaller or even self-hosted VPN services.
You can't un-invent encryption algorithms.
David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)
in reply to Fonant • • •Self-hosted VPNs already have age verification. I know 100% of the people who use my own WireGuard tunnel (i.e. me) and all of them are over 18.
The same is true of corporate VPNs: credentials are given only to employees and they are over 18 for various existing legal reasons.
Fonant
in reply to David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) • • •But it's almost impossible for a government to detect a VPN service that doesn't have age restrictions. Unless it's one of the big well-known ones.
A foreign entity could set them up, or someone aged less than 16 for themselves (and perhaps also their mates).
You need:
1. A cheap server, anywhere in the world, connected to the internet.
2. VPN server software, available for free from lots of places.
3. Some instructions, easily available.
Charlie Stross
in reply to Fonant • • •David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Unless I misunderstood the proposed law, it's the VPN operator that would be prosecuted in this case. They may lose their ability to take money from people in the UK.
If I'm over 18, it is not illegal for me to use the VPN, so someone would have to prove that I am using it but no one checked that I was over 18. If I am under 18, then the provider is at more legal risk but they could claim that they did age verification and this user managed to bypass it somehow.
The simplest way of doing age verification is to require a payment from a credit card in your name. The easiest way of bypassing this is to use a parent's credit card. If a company takes payment for VPN use via credit card, and makes a minimal effort to not accept debit cards or pre-paid cards for folks in the UK, they're probably okay.
Which doesn't mean that this is in any way a sensible law.
Fonant
in reply to David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) • • •The government has to discover that there is an illegal VPN being used in the first place.
It is quite possible for millions of VPNs to be made available to UK children, hosted all over the world. Perhaps hosted by children, sharing the small monthly server costs. Quite secret, extremely difficult to find.
The proposed law could only ever hope to apply to a few big VPN companies. Which just moves the VPN usage by children underground, where other dangers lurk.
HighlandLawyer
in reply to Fonant • • •History has proven both are always true until they aren't.