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🎉 New episode!
🎁 Apple's new bundle of creative apps
📹 The single-use tech we're bringing into 2026
💣 How often we erase and reformat our devices
♊️ Our hopes for Gemini-powered Siri
👥 With special guests Florence Ion and @stephenrobles!
🔗 relay.fm/clockwise/639

Clockwise #639: I'm Saying Words I Don't Really Know What They Mean - Relay

Apple's new subscription bundle of creative apps, the single-use tech we're bringing into 2026, how often we erase and reformat our devices, and our hopes for Gemini-powered Siri.
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@Stephen Robles

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RE: mastodon.social/@Gargron/11573…

I have to admit, the performance of a Chromium-based browser compared to Firefox is abysmal. I don't have that many tabs but it lags a lot and the browser constantly puts tabs in hibernation to save memory--something I've never needed with Firefox. So all of you Chrome users live like this? No wonder RAM is in high demand.

Eugen Rochko

2025-12-17 23:24:01

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I've finally switched to the @Vivaldi browser. I've been using Firefox for as long as I've been on the internet, but the focus on AI means it's no longer the browser for me. Thankfully unlike Chrome, Vivaldi supports the uBlock Origin extension which is the most important extension for being able to browse the web nowadays.

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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.

github.com/nuvious/pam-duress

#security #Linux #Arch #Debian


GitHub - nuvious/pam-duress: 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 sensitive network connections, etc

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...
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#linux #debian #security #arch

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miki

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).

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I am getting frothy at all this AI hate. Especially where it comes to music. A good song is a good song, if creativity has been used to create it, adn an AI tool has been used to save thousands on production that most of us don't have, what the hell is the problem? Purists and elitism makes me wild! I don't make a living from my music, but if someone has the brains and the drive to do that, why in heck not!
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Andre Louis

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.

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Tamas G

What I'm very curious about is where the nuance between that 1 and 2 lies. Like, how much skulpting of the prompt makes it more of your own and not just "generically-written Suno lyrics" - so far, I've only been trying the first, because it's what most people will unfortunately do, but the more generic code-related songs I generate the more it does become clear that while they're catchy, they don't give substance or a story to what the song is meaning to convey, so catchy doesn't always mean useful. And I think that's what the boundary of #1 and #2 are, because if you can bring it above the slop that the AI generated, then yes, it's more than just an AI song. @GamingWithEars @FreakyFwoof @SapphireRose91 @darren_duff @cary5871 @lulu_bear
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Tamas G

@TheVoiceGuy yeah, from my little experimenting, you do get better results even if you work with GPT first on shaping a bit of lyrics. Suno's own prompt generator is not great at coming up with exact lyrics, or (like it did with my song about speech synthesizers) it takes things literarly: "softVoice" whispers, and "brailab" lets you see things in the world, because it took the words soft and Braille for their meaning. But then again, it wouldn't even research the meaning of "flexVoice" and "softVoice" because its goal is to give you that prompt in a matter of moments, not to actually create something meaningful. That's what's interesting about it.
@Michael Marshall
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Luis Carlos

@Tamasg @SapphireRose91 @darren_duff @cary5871 @FreakyFwoof Good techno! If I may have to do something with it... What people hadn't noticed is that AI music creation is like... Remember George Orwell's 1984? They mentioned a tool to create music... a versificator or something. Are we now using versificators right now? Catch me if I'm wrong
@Marie Elizabeth Bayar @Tamas G @Andre Louis @Darren Duff @Cary ✨

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"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…


Furious AI Users Say Their Prompts Are Being Plagiarized

A self-described AI ambassador is in shambles after she says other AI prompters have been plagiarizing her instructions.
Joe Wilkins (Futurism)
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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.

futurism.com/artificial-intell…


Furious AI Users Say Their Prompts Are Being Plagiarized

A self-described AI ambassador is in shambles after she says other AI prompters have been plagiarizing her instructions.
Joe Wilkins (Futurism)

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Esquema de lista de que haceres importantes y temas a resolver actuales en y para el establecimiento nuestro, "la tierra de nuestros nietos".

#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.

#tierranietos #doDo #ciclónExtratropical

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Politics, Iran, Israel, hamas

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#politics #israel #iran #Hamas

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#РоиссяВперде

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.

#роиссявперде

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@rl_dane @fbievan @amin

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.

jdebp.info/FGA/rc.local-is-his…

The rc(8) manual page has an example script. There's tutorial doco as well.

docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/r…

#rc #MewburnRC

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#OpenBSD #freebsd #netbsd #rc #mewburnrc @Amin Hollon 🖋🏳🌏 @R.L. Dane 🍵 @fbievan (powered by REAL polymaths)
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JdeBP

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.

jdebp.info/FGA/unix-service-ac…

@amin @fbievan @rl_dane

#rc #init

FGA: The Unix Service Access Facility

Frequently Given Answer explaining the Service Access Facility that Unices have.
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#unix #illumos #rc #init #mewburnrc @Amin Hollon 🖋🏳🌏 @R.L. Dane 🍵 @fbievan (powered by REAL polymaths)

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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

somecanuckchick (@somecanuckchick@mastodon.world)

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)
#assnat #polqc #caqastrophe #qcpoli

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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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England: Fehler von Copilot trug zu Stadionverbot für israelische Fans bei

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)

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RE: mastodon.world/@somecanuckchic…

GOOD F*CKING RIDDANCE! #polQC #QCpoli #assnat #CAQASTROPHE

somecanuckchick (@somecanuckchick@mastodon.world)

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.
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#assnat #polqc #caqastrophe #qcpoli
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