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Die deutsche #Medienaufsicht kontrolliert Inhalte im Netz per "KI". Wie das abläuft, zeigt ein bislang unveröffentlichtes Handbuch. #KIVI

@sebmeineck hat es analysiert netzpolitik.org/2022/interne-u…

und kommentiert: netzpolitik.org/2022/ki-tool-d…

#IFG #netzpolitik


Interne Unterlagen: So überwacht die Medienaufsicht das Netz

Inhalte moderieren wie Facebook, aber bezahlt durch den Rundfunkbeitrag – und mit kurzem Draht zur Staatsanwaltschaft. Das macht die deutsche Medienaufsicht. Wie diese Kontrolle abläuft, zeigt ein bislang unveröffentlichtes Handbuch.
netzpolitik.org
#medienaufsicht #kivi #ifg #netzpolitik @Sebastian Meineck
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fediblock and raspberry pi (we knew thee well)

Raspberry Pi is really proud of hiring "a policeman & it's going really great" who "was a surveillance officer for 15 years" and built covert surveillance equipment. RPi dismisses the very thing they're so proud of as "he built lightsabers [as toys]. Chill."). Dear reader, it must be remarked that the concern is not his rad lightsaber toys (which, to be clear, are rad). The concern is that he's got experience in surveillance equipment, and the company is proud to have hired him for it, and proudly blocking everyone who expresses the slightest concern about it instead of being even remotely willing to listen and understand why people are skeeved out, even people who aren't on the ACAB train and are gently voicing concerns with a surveillance cop potentially having the keys to their hardware/software.

This is not the behavior of a company that's concerned about privacy, security, trust, or autonomy, and I don't think this company can or should be trusted to remain federated with instances that want to be welcoming to marginalized people or anti-authoritarians.

Really hate to say it, because I've used and loved RPis for several years now, but if nothing else, please use a different SBC from now on. There are many options out there that aren't so eager to insult you for having concerns about security.

raspberrypi.social/@Raspberry_…

archive in case they delete
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#raspberrypi #rpi #surveillance #infosec #sysadmin #fediblock #acab #devops #police #sbc #singleboardcomputer

#infosec #acab #FediBlock #raspberrypi #surveillance #devops #sysadmin #police #rpi #sbc #singleboardcomputer
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FS9-BS "Bad Survivor"

fediblock and raspberry pi (we knew thee well)
@hub
Weird, here's another
web.archive.org/web/2022120811…

Raspberry Pi :raspberrypi: (@Raspberry_Pi@raspberrypi.social)

Attached: 1 image We hired a policeman & it's going really great. Meet our #Maker in Residence @TobyRobertsPi@mastodon.social. "I was a #Surveillance Officer for 15 years, so I built stuff to hide covert video & audio gear.
Raspberry Pi
@Hubert Figuière

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The Raspberry Pi thing is a perfect example of why I don't think corporations have a place on the fediverse. I'm still trying to formulate the exact wording for my argument, but essentially there's a form of inconsideration inherent in profit-motivated companies, as consideration doesn't drive up profits. This inconsideration influences their business at all levels: from high-level business decisions, the company culture, hiring decisions, and how they interact with customers/potential customers.

Context: archive.ph/8YQqH

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Hal

I actually feel like corporations will always have a presence on the fediverse and some have already been here for quite a while. They probably should have their own instance like Raspberry Pi did, but that's not what I think happened here.

What I see is someone who was incompetent managing their account and possibly their instance. Their inability to properly engage with people responding to them is a sign of immaturity. We could easily imagine a more constructive discourse having occurred instead. Brands regularly have accounts on Twitter where they don't lash out at their customers. The deliberate blandness of most corporate brands is precisely to avoiding alienating customers.

You might think corporations are incentivized by capitalism to be inconsiderate assholes on any platform, but I think if anything history has shown that corporations are quite good at adopting enough of the culturally acceptable markers to blend in if the payoff is high enough.

I think there will always be people that hate brands on principle and will ban them, but I think enough people unironically enjoy interacting with them or trolling them that many will show up and stick around in some form.

And Mastodon is not special. People used to say Mastodon isn't for celebrities, and yet here they are. The platform quite robustly gives no fucks about any of our cultural values.

Apologies for the long post, I just feel like the future is much more likely going to be about how to avoid brands and not how to keep them off the network.

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Another #folk #metal #music #band from #Germany. I found it by accident a few years ago, and the first song I listened was this. Love it. Listen to dArtagnan
youtube.com/watch?v=LgEHBA6nEq…

Bella Ciao von dArtagnan (deutsche Folk-Version)

'Bella Ciao" von dArtagnan aus dem Album 'Seit an Seit (GOLDEDITION)' Hier laden und streamen: https://dArtagnan.lnk.to/BellaCiaoJetzt aktuelles Album bestel...
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#music #band #Germany #folk #metal

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Introducing Textra, a free + open source OCR tool I created using Apple's new Vision API 🖼️✨📄

Textra runs on the command line and quickly/accurately converts PDF and image files to text (requires Mac OS 13+). Check it out!

github.com/freedmand/textra #opensource

A terminal window showing the text: % textra ~/The-Mueller-Report.pdf Converting the specified PDF file and outputting text at the directory "~/The-Mueller-Report" 16 of 448 [- ] ETA: 00:05:21 (at 1.34 it/s)

GitHub - freedmand/textra: A command-line application to convert images and PDF files of images to text using Apple's Vision text recognition API

A command-line application to convert images and PDF files of images to text using Apple's Vision text recognition API - GitHub - freedmand/textra: A command-line application to convert images ...
GitHub
#opensource

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"Der nächste bundesweite Warntag findet am 8. Dezember 2022 statt. An diesem Aktionstag erproben Bund und Länder sowie die teilnehmenden Kreise, kreisfreien Städte und Gemeinden in einer gemeinsamen Übung ihre Warnmittel."

Schauen wir mal, ob Cell-Broadcast funktioniert. ✌

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Bundesweiter Warntag 2022 Der nächste bundesweite Warntag findet am 8. Dezember 2022 statt. An diesem Aktionstag erproben Bund und Länder sowie die teilnehmenden Kreise, kreisfreien Städte und Gemeinden in einer gemeinsamen Übung ihre Warnmittel.
Warnung der Bevölkerung

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Richtigstellung: Wir haben Krankenhäuser gewinnorientiert umgebaut.
Daher muss der Satz:
"Kinder sterben, weil wir sie nicht mehr versorgen können"
richtigerweise lauten:
"Kinder sterben, weil sich ihre Versorgung marktwirtschaftlich nicht rechnete"

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RSV: "Kinder sterben, weil wir sie nicht mehr versorgen können"

Intensivmediziner schlagen Alarm: Die Versorgung von Kindern mit RS-Virus wird immer schwieriger. Personalmangel führe dazu, dass teils 40 Prozent der Kinder-Intensivbetten außer Betrieb sind.
NDR

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Thunderbird starts and decides (without asking me) to open a web page in my default browser to beg about donation.

Thunderbird being hypocritical again:
- they're saying donations are what keep them alive yet they just bought out K-9
- they're saying they're "privacy-respecting", yet they open a tracking web page at every start of Thunderbird

The funniest: the links, even in the donate page, contains trackers.

Seriously @thunderbird stop acting like the good guys.

#thunderbird #k9 #mozilla

#mozilla #thunderbird #K9 @Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox
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Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

Some facts in response:

1) Yes, donations allowed us to hire the lead developer of K-9 Mail full time (in addition to other developers and engineers). There was no financial transaction or buyout involved.

2) What you call a "tracker" is simply an extended UTM link. This shows us how many people came to the donation page via a certain platform, like Mastodon or the blog. There is zero identifying personal information being tracked.

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Today is the 50th anniversary of the last time humans went to the Moon.

Apollo 17, the final mission of the Apollo program and the last time we ventured beyond low Earth orbit, launched from Kennedy Space Center #OTD in 1972.

Images: NASA flic.kr/s/aHskm64ger
#Apollo50

Color photo of the lunar lander returning to the orbiter above the Moon's surface.
A color photo of the Apollo 17 lunar rover. The sun is just outside the frame, causing long shadows and substantial optical artifacts. An astronaut in the distance is seen in profile. The rover has a large radio dish mounted on the back.
One of the Apollo 17 astronauts standing with the rose. Their visor is a reflective gold color, while copper-colored foil wraps many of the components of the rover. A large, umbrella-like radio dish is mounted on the from of the rover. A large gray hill rises in the background.
A color photo of Earth taken by the Apollo 17 astronauts. The arc of the planet cuts down the middle of the photo, with part of Earth occupying the left-hand side of the frame. There is a great deal of swirling white cloud cover over blue oceans and brown land masses. Madagascar is visible, as well as parts of Mozambique and Zimbabwe.

Apollo 17 Magazine 148/NN

(Color) Earth, LM Inspection, Orbital; NASA photographs; unprocessed 1800 dpi Hasselblad film scans by Johnson Space Center, circa 2005
Project Apollo Archive (Flickr)
#otd #apollo50

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wish I could stop newbies from making the same mistake that often leads to them hating Rust and giving up on it: Learning it through trying various libraries and/or solving specific (often complex) problems **before** learning sufficient basics.

I made the same mistake myself and came very close to giving up on Rust many times in the beginning. I'm so glad I didn't.

While on the subject, let me yet again share this invaluable blog post from my good friends at Ferrous Systems:

ferrous-systems.com/blog/minds…


Learning Rust: Mindsets and Expectations

Berlin based technology consultancy specialising in the Rust programming language. We offer development, implementation, training and long-term support.
ferrous-systems.com

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My first commit (written with antoyo) was merged in GCC! \o/

It allows us to continue improving the GCC backend for the Rust compiler (github.com/rust-lang/rustc_cod…) without needing a custom libgccjit version. :)

github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/comm…

#rustlang #gcc


libgccjit: Fix float vector comparison · gcc-mirror/gcc@d2e782c

Fix float vector comparison and add comparison tests to include float and vectors. gcc/testsuite: PR jit/107770 * jit.dg/harness.h: Add new macro to to perform vector comparisons * jit.dg/test...
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#GCC #RustLang

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Dado mi enganche reciente a la serie de #Miércoles en Netflix y a que hace eones que no me monto un hilo de algo interesante, voy a proceder a dar un breve repaso a #LaFamiliaAddams en sus distintas encarnaciones audiovisuales.

PD: Como siempre, es posible que se me cuele algún gazapo. No dudéis en señalarlos.

#TheAddamsFamily #Wednesday #hilo #thread

Ilustración en blanco y negro de las tiras de prensa originales de La Familia Addams en torno a 1938. De izquierda a derecha podemos ver a la Abuela Addams, Miércoles, Gómez, Morticia, Lurch, Pugsley y Fétido, con la mansión familiar al fondo rodeada por árboles retorcidos sobre un cielo gris y nuboso.
#thread #miercoles #lafamiliaaddams #theaddamsfamily #wednesday #hilo

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Por si algún mastodonte anda en #xalapa o con ganas de viajar este viernes.

Después de una gran ausencia presencial tenemos nuestro primer evento! Tech en Corto con pláticas de 6 minutos (puedes de hecho venir y dar una).

El evento se realizará en el salón audiovisual de la Facultad de Estadística e Informática de la #UV #FeiUV este viernes a las 7 pm.

Habrá ponche y no sé que otras cosas al final!

Cartel del evento con una bonita foto del cofre de perote nevado atrás. 9 de diciembre, 19:00 horas. Sala Audiovisual de la FEI
#xalapa #uv #feiuv

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The Continuity of Splines is now on YouTube!!

it has been a year in the making, goodness ;-;🎉 I hope you'll like it ❤

❱ youtu.be/jvPPXbo87ds

The Continuity of Splines

why are splines? well my god I have good news for you, here's why splines!if you like my work, please consider supporting me 💖https://www.patreon.com/acegik...
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What Will Enter the Public Domain in 2023?

“Newly entering the public domain in 2023 will be:

• works by people who died in 1952, for countries with a copyright term of “life plus 70 years” (e.g. UK, Russia, most of EU and South America);
• works by people who died in 1972, for countries with a term of “life plus 50 years” (e.g. New Zealand, and most of Africa and Asia);
• films and books (incl. artworks featured) published in 1927 for the United States.” publicdomainreview.org/feature…


What Will Enter the Public Domain in 2023?

At the start of each year, on January 1st, a new crop of works enter the public domain. Find our highlights of what lies in store for 2023 here.
The Public Domain Review
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