Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented Big Brother as a cautionary tale
Tech Company executive Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on," Larry Ellison said, describing what he sees as the benefits from automated oversight from AI and automated alerts for when crime takes place. "We're going to have supervision," he continued. "Every police officer is going to be supervised at all times, and if there's a problem, AI will report the problem and report it to the appropriate person."
We've already had two external contributions to Thunderbird Appointment after just a short time of the repo being public (also already 178 stars)!
Written in Python, we'd love to have more contributions. Come and join us. Jump in - the water's fine!
I just added Live Recognition to the VO rotor. Very interesting.
Yeah, #Boeing employees are on strike in union plants (non-union ones are still working).
However, what is interesting is that Boeing’s quality issues started around 1997 after an acquisition/merger with a problematic company. Great article by @NPR!
👉🏾 The Boeing Strike: 4 moments the company fractured its bond with workers npr.org/2024/09/16/nx-s1-51116…
As I have abandoned Android and am now daily-driving Gnome mobile / PostmarketOS on my OnePlus 6, I feel the urge to contribute to filling the app gap. Nobody seems to have asked for an app to record push ups and track progress, but that's what I want to accomplish now. Here are some first impressions of my Libadwaita app, which I call "Pushup Sessions":
#Oneplus6 #linuxmobile #PostmarketOS #GnomeMobile
A billionaire dumping waste in the river: "This is just the way I act when I'm free to do as I choose. Others are free not to drink from the river or to get into a shoot out with my private army."
An all white town lynching the only black family: "This is just the way we act when we're free to do as we choose. They're free to buy more guns to defend themselves against us."
A small town refusing service to the only trans person: "They're free to move somewhere else."
“A billionaire dumping waste in the river” is enabled by the coercive state.
“An all white town lynching the only black family” is enabled by the coercive state.
“A small town refusing service to the only trans person” is enabled by the coercive state.
It’s easy to imagine people already powerful in our society acting with impunity, because they already do right now, under the status quo of the coercive state. This is the antithesis of what anarchists are talking about when we discuss and advocate for freedom, which includes the freedom to resist these depredations.
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@bagder what are your thoughts on providing dedicated `curl_easy_setopt` method for the value types it supports?
Languages like Swift don't support the macro, so folks have started writing shim files to work around this. Wonder if maybe this would be better to be a part of the API itself.
It appears that Mozilla's recruiting marketing is finally acknowledging the demographic that really runs the internet.
The jobs in question, in case anyone feels, ahem, senior enough (sadly, US only): mozilla.org/en-US/careers/posi… mozilla.org/en-US/careers/posi…
@brainblasted The only thing that looks off to me is the index finger. Is that a fingernail or a toepad?
What makes it so clear to you?
Yes, I am turning more and more into a #nerd...
📣 Join us Tomorrow! Explorer Town Hall: Meta Ray Bans Integration
Tuesday, September 17th | 5:00 PM PDT
Where: In-app, Zoom, Youtube
Join Aira's Meta Ray-Bans Glasses Town Hall to get the latest updates on our integration progress, upcoming beta launch, and Aira's continued commitment to exploring innovative smart glasses solutions. All explorers are invited to attend and will have access to this event through the Aira Explorer app (“more,” “events”) or directly via zoom.
Zoom link: aira.zoom.us/j/88931260595#suc…
*Event recording to be posted on our YouTube channel*
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By popular request, #Voiceover no longer reads phone numbers of #WhatsApp group participants who aren’t in your contacts, and just reads the push name. You can still read the phone number on their contact info page, or by swiping up to the “message <phone number>” option in the actions rotor. This should make catching up with your groups much faster and more efficient! Thanks so much for your feedback, please keep sending it.
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I'm not trying to criticize, just asking, but... why didn't this happen earlier?
What was the actual reasoning behind keeping it the way it was for so long? What were the blockers for this change?
I usually don't believe in the "people are stupid and don't know what they're doing" excuse, so there had to be something to it, right?
"[...]it turns out, we want computers that go with us everywhere. That’s the iPhone, [...]"
Not it's not. Because the iPhone can't be used as a computer. It's just an app runner where the applications are "curated".
(Android isn't better either).
developer.mozilla.org/en-US/do…
Shout out to AccessNow folks and @Xeniax who helped to convince Meta to unblock #deltachat invite URLs in Facebook. Previously delta invite-links on Facebook were marked as "dangerous" and didn't work.
sidenote: if you send someone an invite-link, they can click it directly after they installed Delta Chat because they will be guided through the "create-profile" flow automatically and then be dropped into a chat with the inviter.
Some of the best advice I've gotten in recent years: "Don't wait to feel confident to do something new/scary. Instead, prepare. And then strive to be PRESENT when you do the new thing. And by doing that, you will build confidence."
For me this has been so true. I don't feel confident when I'm outside of my comfort zone; I earn confidence by going there. And I have the best experience outside of my comfort zone by being present and not worrying about how it's going.
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#migrationspolitik #grenzkontrollen
Danke an Prof. Tobias Singelnstein (Strafrecht und Kriminologie):
tagesschau.de/inland/innenpoli…
THe whole idea of varchar types with a max length in SQL has always been really uncomfortable to me.
I get why we're doing this, but is it really the right thing to do for user-supplied data like real names, addresses, usernames or emails?
No, but there's nothing stopping you from using a very long limit in your own apps (like 32768). Or just using a text type, although some database UIs and web framework integrations will render those as multiline inputs by default.
Note that in SQLite, the max length is required, but ignored. And in Postgres, omitting the length gets you a text field, which may fool your web framework of choice into treating it like a char field even though it isn't one.
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The push for an "age verification" requirement on the Internet is 1% aimed at protecting children and 99% aimed at controlling speech. It effectively bans anonymity, for starters.
It is a license to speak, and read.
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