Yeah, I can see how this might be a problem

noyb.eu/en/chatgpt-provides-fa…

Bahnkunden, die seit Jahren per Lastschrift bezahlen, sollen nun über den Dienstleister Tink ihr Konto verifizieren bzw. ihre Identität nachweisen. Solche Meldungen erreichen mich seit Tagen gehäuft. Meine Meinung dazu: Unverhältnismäßig und datenschutzrechtlich bedenklich. Aber von der Deutschen Bahn kennen wir es ja nicht anders. 😉

#bahn #deutschebahn #tink #datenschutz #dsgvo

Aira Event Alert: Visual Interpreting at the Kentucky Derby!

🎉Join us for the 150th Kentucky Derby with visual interpreting by Aira! Following our successful streaming of the 2024 solar eclipse, which engaged over 500 listeners, we’re thrilled to continue expanding access for the blind and low vision community.

When: Saturday, May 4th, with Aira coverage from 2:30 pm - 4:15 pm PST
Where: Live on the Aira Explorer app (more/events) and via Zoom (access link to come). The event recording will be posted on our YouTube channel for post-event viewing.

Our visual interpreters will be describing everything from race details to jockey silks, symbolism to event history, and horse breeds to competitor profiles. We know the importance of experiencing events to their fullest and our team can’t wait to continue bringing visual interpreting to your event day festivities.

#InclusiveEvents #AccessForAll #OnYourTerms #AssistiveTechnology

While the west struggles to deliver nuclear plants and dreams about novel reactor technologies China is deploying it all: large LWR, SMR and MSR/HTGR. World Nuclear Association China lead Francois Morin joins Decouple to catch us up on recent developments and trends.

decouplemedia.org/podcast/epis…

Listen | Decouple Podcast

Strengthen your knowledge about climate, energy, and nuclear power by listening to weekly episodes of the Decouple podcast.

^{Decouple Podcast}

"šéf premiérových poradcov, Erik Kalinák" čo, kto?

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Newsfilter: Fico doteraz nenavštívil Poľsko, tak tam našu povesť zachraňuje zbierka pre Ukrajinu

1. Občania prispeli na muníciu už 4 miliónmi eur. 2. Špión Garbár pôjde možno predsa len do väzenia. 3. PS a Hlas avizujú, že zachránili kultúru.

^{Denník N}

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Recent events have spurred some great discussion of fediverse safety and the ways that we can improve it. I'm thrilled to see the growing interest in this problem, but there's one specific angle that concerns me. Specifically, the push for allow-list federation.

First, some background information. Federation between instances is usually controlled by restricting which remote instances (identified by domain name) can send or receive messages from the local instance. In the majority of fedi servers, this is implemented with a "deny list" - a list of instance domains that should be blocked. When using a deny list, all unlisted domains can communicate by default.

This is in contrast with an "allow list", which specifies the domains that should not be blocked. When using an allow list, all unlisted domains are blocked and can not communicate. Deny-list federation is open except for specific routes, and allow-list federation is closed except for specific routes. There are other approaches, but these are by far the most common.

Now, moving on to my actual point. I've recently seen some discussion of using allow-list federation as means to improve user safety. This idea, while very well-intended, is unfortunately flawed and could easily cause more harm than it prevents.

This idea suggests that by limiting federation to known, approved domains, then it becomes easier to block sources of abuse, hate, and illegal content. This is actually quite effective, and some instances are already using allow lists to great effect. They experience minimal contact with dangerous instances, and those that slip through are easy to identify and block. It's a great strategy for specific communities. Unfortunately, however, this approach cannot scale.

Allow-list federation works well for a minority of instances, but only because the majority do not use it. This is due to the network effect. Just as a centralized social network can collapse if there are too few connections between users, a federated social network can collapse if there are too few connections between nodes (instances).

With open or deny-list federation, all nodes are connected to all others. This forms a very strong network - so strong that small and even single-user nodes are possible. The open federation ensures that there are always sufficient connections to keep the network useful.

The same is not true of allow-list federation. In this mode, the network nodes are only connected to a limited subset of others. As the percentage of allow-list nodes increases, the number of connections decreases exponentially. The resulting network is weak and unstable enough to collapse under pressure. A bigger problem, however, is not the network weakness but rather the loss of small instances.

In my experience, it's rare to see a federation allow-list with more than 1,000 entries. Fediverse index websites currently show around 25,000 active instances, which means that most allow-list instances are connected with only 4% of others. We can assume that the 4% is biased towards medium-to-large instances because of their increased visibility. After all, an instance cannot allow-list another node until they've encountered it through a mutual. Larger instances have more mutuals, and thus a greater chance to be discovered.

Over time, this creates an imbalance where larger instances benefit from a richer and broader network than smaller nodes, who have limited reach and reduced federation. Any new instance must somehow maintain a user base while faced with network isolation. This becomes a significant barrier to entry for the fediverse.
This barrier effect is bad enough, but there's another angle to consider. Fedi is large enough to have a constant churn of small instances starting up and shutting down. Currently, more instances are forming than closing, which leads to positive growth in the number of nodes - a good thing for network health. But if it was harder to start a new instance? That ratio would drop or even reverse, causing the network to shrink instead of grow. Reduced network size increases the network effect, which expands the inequality, which strengthens the barrier, which decreases the growth, which reduces the network size. A classic feedback loop.

This process would be devastating for fedi. The cycle would continue until there's no new instances at all, by which point we'd have lost the rich ecosystem of tiny communities that make fedi unique. Large instances can never provide a truly safe space, and often foster a community much like Twitter - problems included. The small, diverse instances are what make this network special. If we lose that, then we lose the fediverse.

I can't bear to see that happen.

#Fedi #FediVerse #FediMeta #Federation

Cascading collapse of online social networks - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Cascading collapse of online social networks

^Nature

Oh my god, what have we done?

"""
The crypt_r module is a renamed copy of the crypt module as it was present in Python 3.12 before it was removed.

See PEP 594 for details of the removal.

Unlike crypt, this library always exposes the crypt_r(3) function, not crypt(3).
"""

pypi.org/project/crypt-r/
github.com/fedora-python/crypt…

GitHub - fedora-python/crypt_r: A copy of the crypt module that was removed in Python 3.13

A copy of the crypt module that was removed in Python 3.13 - fedora-python/crypt_r

^GitHub

IGN just posted:

Mario Kart Ride-On Racer Toys Recalled After Multiple Crashes From Stuck Accelerator Pedals

Mario Kart ride-on racer toys have been mass recalled after multiple crashes due to a stuck accelerator pedal.

ign.com/articles/mario-kart-ri…

#gamingNews

My friend and bandmate Barn just posted a cover of a song by a band named "brake". You should check it out!

youtu.be/ztw6-7KkyuY?si=ieuNkd…

Cigarettes & Black Lipstick (brake cover)

You can buy a Hermit The Fraud t-shirt by following this link:https://www.zazzle.ca/hermit_the_fraud_t_shirt-235646952180725692You can buy my fun, fun drinki...

^YouTube

USA: Versicherer gab Millionen Patientendaten an Google, Microsoft und X
heise.de/news/US-Versicherer-g…

Das könnte bei uns ähnlich stehen, wenn man sich die Apps der Kassen, Banken etc anschaut...

#privacy #tracking

USA: Versicherer gab Millionen Patientendaten an Google, Microsoft und X

Eine US-amerikanische Versicherung will Betroffene über einen Vorfall informieren. Daten Millionen Versicherter gingen mittels Tracking-Code an Google und Co.

^{Marie-Claire Koch (heise online)}

I like #Nix, I do not like what has happened to it. #NixOS is an incredible technology and it deserves better. Nobody else has started the process so I guess I have to be the one to do it. We are forking. I would rather try and fail alongside all the people who love Nix but were pushed away from the project than give up.

aux.computer/

Someone launching a nix fork. Which is a good thing.

hachyderm.io/@jakehamilton/112…

@thunderbird es un cliente de correo de #softwarelibre.

Con tu donación mantienes un programa para gestionar tu correo, tus calendarios, tus tareas, tu lector RSS libre de anuncios y sin rastreo de ningún tipo.

I keep forgetting to mention that I am doing a workshop at #AccessU in a couple weeks:
knowbility.org/programs/access…

107 slides (so far), 4 group exercises, 3 hours, pencil and/or paper.

#accessibility #a11y

Anti-socialna politika v praxi:

"Vláda potichu pripravuje návrat herní a kasín do miest, a to tak, že mestám zoberie kompetencie o kasínach rozhodovať, vyplýva to z informácií primátorov aj z vyjadrení hovorkyne Asociácie zábavy a hier Dominiky Lukáčovej na mestskom zastupiteľstve v Banskej Bystrici."

e.dennikn.sk/3966435/vlada-moz…

Vláda môže vrátiť hazard do miest. Potichu pripravuje zmeny, ktoré by obnovili zrušené herne a kasína

Zrušeniu kasín a herní v Bratislave či v Nitre predchádzali veľké občianske petície

^{Miro Kern (Denník N)}

Keyoxide Mobile 2.2.0 is released with two new features, bunch of fixes and improvements. Codeberg release is out and F-Droid & Play Store & App Store should follow in the next days. Boosts are very welcome. Enjoy!

Update details: berkersen.dev/keyoxide-mobile-…
Changelog: codeberg.org/Berker/keyoxide-f…
Download links: mobile.keyoxide.org/

!!! Even tho data migration issue is fixed, please backup (export) your profiles and contacts before updating !!!

#keyoxide #onlineidentity #onlineidentityprotection

Keyoxide Mobile 2.2.0

Hi everyone! This will be a very short one I promise. On this update, I implemented some of the user requested features and I will walk you through two of them.

^{Berker Sen (Berker)}

Tak ja neviem už... Zvyčajne som to ja, kto neustále pindá na nepotrebné, zbytočné a nasilu "smart" tupotiny. Veľmi obdobne na stupídne AI, dnes doslova všade, ktoré sľubuje zázraky na počkanie a nemožné do troch dní - kľudne aj v chladničke... ale v poslednej dobe sa na fediverse (minimálne v mojej en/security bubline) rozoznievajú hlasy, kde si hovorím, že ono je naozaj tenká čiara medzi opatrnosťou a totálnym spiatočníctvom.
Za celé obdobie "smart" ošiaľu, a že už trvá pekných pár rokov, som stretol iba zopár produktov, kde som si povedal - toto je skvelý nápad a dáva mi to plne zmysel - smart TV je jedným z nich. Iste, k dokonalosti to má ďaleko a určite by som sám privítal krásne OSS riešenie, ale to si môžem rovno želať, aby si prezident najbližšie našiel v krabici od šampanského želiezka, alebo, ja neviem, jednorožca čo prdí dúhu. Označovať smart TV za zbytočné a nebezpečné, to už je aj pre mňa moc - určite, treba si vybrať príčetný model, pohrať sa mu s nastavením, pravidelne updatovať, či, pre zdatnejších poškrabkať aj na sieťovej úrovni, ale zrovna tu si myslím, že smart TV naozaj zbytočné nie je. Možno dokonca naopak - v IOT/Smart segmente sa už objavujú kadejaké pokusy o univerzálne domáce centrum pre všetky tie kraviny a ja sa tak zamýšľam - prečo by to mala byť nejaká ďalšia škatúľa alebo nový produkt - TV mi na to príde ako skvelý kandidát... ale to som si už trochu uletel.

Druhým facepalmom z obdobných kanálov bol pre mňa výkrik - prestaňte už prosím cpať tu AI všade... ešte aj do duckduckgo vyhľadávača. Tak ja neviem kde by teda tá súčasná ehm A ehm I mala nájsť uplatnenie, ak už nie vo vyhľadávaní? Myslím si o tejto technológii a jej aktuálnom megapreceňovaní všeličo, ale ak verím, že nejaký technologický segment prepíše od základov, bude to vyhľadávanie. Vyhľadávač bez AI interface skončí ako vytáčací telefón.

From: @dangoodin
infosec.exchange/@dangoodin/11…

There's a mysterious new, undocumented model in the chat.lmsys.org/ arena chat tool called "gpt2-chatbot" - you can access it by selecting "Direct Chat" and then picking it from the big select menu there

It's providing responses that feel significantly more impressive than GPT-4, for both factual-knowledge lookup and logic puzzles. It's possible this is a stealth preview launch of something like GPT-4.5

Lokalne vylepsienie politickeho marketingu: (Zrejme myslia "love z ruzzka".)

#EuroVoľby #EuroVoľby2024