please can we stop calling it the 'Epstein Ballroom' that is very disrespectful to the people who have donated to it - for their sake let us at least call it by its proper name, the "Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, Meta Platforms, Apple, Coinbase, Comcast, T-Mobile, Google, Blackstone, YouTube, Booz Allen Hamilton and Lockheed Martin present the Epstein Ballroom".

Thank you.

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Tech Giants Are Trying to Cover Up the Environmental Impacts of Their Data Centers

Silicon Valley is using legal loopholes and NDAs to keep the public in the dark about the water and energy being consumed by generative AI.

"A new Microsoft data center in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, will require more than eight million gallons of water each year to operate, according to records that Microsoft did everything in its power to keep hidden from the public."

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Great Intelligence2 episode with @pluralistic

open.spotify.com/episode/2DoEu…

I loved his call for #DigitalSovereignty. It is great how #FOSS provides countries to provide a viable alternative. Interoperability & being able to reverse engineer the products is key.

open.spotify.com/episode/2DoEu…

This would do so much for innovation, too. The whole focus on printer ink is such a great example, as is the nursing one. Monopolies are anti-capitalist & anti-innovation. Lots I hadn't considered for #privacy

Hey, did you know that Movim allows you to link your #Discord, #Telegram, #WhatsApp and #Matrix accounts to your main XMPP one and chat with all your contacts in one integrated platform? 🤩

We are working hard with @nicoco to ensure a perfect integration with the Slidge gateways project slidge.im/ 🥸🤝🥸

Message synchronization, reactions, stickers, GIFs, chatrooms, invitations, file transfer... you can now find all those exciting features fully working across all your linked accounts in Movim ✨.

Now you can move to #XMPP while staying in contact with all your friends. 👌

Try it out on mov.im/ or by deploying your own instance 😸!

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V posledních měsících se projekt MinIO (S3-compatible object storage) začal uzavírat komunitě. Pro komunitní verzi už nehostuje dokumentaci, nejsou Docker image, nedistribuuje binárky a ze zdrojáků zmizela web console. Dokonce poslední komunitní verze zůstala s nějakou závažnou bezpečnostní chybou.

Alternativy jsou, ale pokud už máte postavený cluster přes fyzický HW, tak jste dost nahraný. Placená verze vychází podobně jako S3 v AWS.

github.com/minio/minio/issues/…

github.com/minio/object-browse…

in reply to Keev

Ted prevazne kodovani Unreleased. Delam 2-3 sessions paralelne ~8 hodin denne.

Kombinuju praci na platforme (unreleased.art, admin.unreleased.art + nastrojich kolem toho), praci pro konkretni umelce (e.g. unreleased.art/apolonio5year, unreleased.art/@bennett) a iOS appku pro fanousky.

Tam se kod moc nemerguje, tak to jde celkem v pohode.

Politiker wollen unsere Chats kontrollieren – wir schreiben Code, der das verhindert! 🔐

Komm in unser Team und kämpfe für Privatsphäre & Open Source.

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#ChatControl #Privacy #OpenSource #Jobs #Hiring

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Hello people of the Fediverse. I have a minor problem I'd like to pick your brains for any solution, regarding #xmpp / #jabber calls over AT&T wireless mobile, in the US.

Simply, xmpp calls over #att data fail, audio or video doesn't matter, texts get through just fine. Calls over WiFi are fine. I have tried the aTalk and the c0nnect pro apps, same result. Using chatterboxtown.us as a server, in case that matters. All devices are Android.

Looking for clues, knowledge or experience. TIA

in reply to dcatoffm

Please do not use c0nnect. This is an outdated fork of #Conversations_im with several severe security issues (simply due the fact the developers haven't kept up with fixes I made to Conversations over the years.)
These days Conversations and aTalk are the only actively maintained Android clients that aren't just bad copies of something else.

In terms of calls not working this does depend on your server (and network situation)

Try conversations.im (the server) for example.

in reply to Daniel Gultsch

@daniel I agree.
I had serious trouble getting the TURN server included with the OpenFire XMPP server working behind NAT, even though it's direct 1:1 NAT and all relevant ports were open.

Messages and attachments would work. Voice and video calls would dial, but the other end could never be able to pick up.

In the end, I had to set up the TURN plugin on my firewall instead.
Now it works fine :)
I have no idea what server software your host is using I'm afraid.

I have been using @monocles and conversations.im for clients on android.

in reply to Daniel Gultsch

@daniel
I did try the conversations.im server (w/ aTalk) about a month ago, it locked me out within a couple hours with no explanation. That's why I went with another server. 🤷‍♂️

I am absolutely double NAT at the house but that's not where I have an issue.. it doesn't work cell to cell either, it only works WiFi to WiFi.

I suppose I can try the conversations app as well, and see if there's a way to test the stun/turn at CBT (it definitely strikes me as a hobby server). Thank you.

Yet another recent example of AI assistance in mathematics: my colleague Ernest Ryu here at UCLA was able to solve an open problem in optimization theory (roughly speaking, an asymptotic convergence result for a certain class of ODEs) in large part through an extended conversation with a large language model, serving both as a "rubber duck" and a stochastic generator of proof ideas. x.com/ErnestRyu/status/1980759… Many of the ideas generated were not usable, but a non-trivial fraction of them did contain some viable strategies that had not been immediately evident to Ernest. There was a significant pruning process to isolate the small number of useful ideas and discard the larger set of non-useful ones, but even so, the tool provided a net time saving in reaching a working argument, which Ernest then polished by hand into a two-page proof. (1/2)

I have had multiple persons tell me recently that they truly hesitated and made really sure they didn't submit slop before they filed their first security reports to #curl.

Meaning: public shaming seems to at least partially work. Banning, taunting and ridiculing the fools works as a reminder for people to maybe think again and make sure.

== less wasted time for us.

#curl
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right or wrong, a response is at least useful. The person can decided whether it's worth their time doubling down constructively, and if they really are honest they likely will because they care (it's kinda like human greylisting) . Importantly, the burden and onus is not on you.

I've submitted many bugs in closed source software (mostly Microsoft) and hear literally nothing back.

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Lily Allen opens up about ‘bitterly disappointing’ reality of dating at 40: ‘The world doesn’t portray women of my age as being desirable’
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in reply to Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ)

@neal thanks, this is useful.

Someone filed a librsvg bug where they set up a responder on a "malicious" host, and got librsvg on Windows to contact it.

So my thinking was, if your shitty ambient authority leaks info to any old host, how is that *my* problem? What's the legitimate use here?

But yeah, your explanation works. I think they are fishing for CVEs.