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jerry , 9 days ago to random

This is Onix. The kitten formerly known as Rayquaza

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randahl , 15 days ago to random

The French baguette is burning.

After a shocking defeat in the EP elections, French president Macron calls for a snap national election on June 30.

His party, Renaissance, got just 15.2 percent, while the far-right nationalist populists of Marine Le Pen's National Rally party got 31.5.

I see this as a highly dangerous moment for European security. Marine Le Pen is the exact opposite of Macron — she parrots Putin's talking points, and did not want to send weapons to Ukraine in the beginning.

Wolven , 22 days ago to random

Windows Recall doesn't just screenshot things, it OCR's the shots, and then stores the OCR as plaintext in a local SQLlite database.

I mean what the FUCK??!

I've said it before and I'll say, again, & again, & again, that jamming "AI" into everything without considering the privacy and security implications is a) going to cause a major breach of at least two US laws, and b) just a really silly and terrible idea which is going to put a lot of people in danger, and this "recall" shit is among the worst of it i've seen.

Windows 11 has just become a complete capture system disguised as an OS. Every keystroke, work session, video call, and downtime window, logged, correlated, and extrapolated. And they're trying to sell it to you as being a SERVICE.

So let me be as clear as possible about this: Fuck That, Forever.

Roll it BACK, microsoft

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/3/24170305/microsoft-windows-recall-ai-screenshots-security-privacy-issues

jerry , 22 days ago to random

Update on my dad...

For background, my mid 70's parents drove from ATL to Michigan on Thursday to attend my neice's high school graduation. Friday morning, my dad wasn't feeling well and he kept feeling worse. After convincing himself that it wasn't just indigestion, he went to a local hospital ER. While there, he started developing intense pain in his chest. The ER docs hooked him up to an EKG and ran an enzyme test to see if he had a heart attack. They came back clean. But the pain was worsening. The doc administered some morphine, which apparently did nothing. They hooked him back up to the EKG and monitored him for a bit. While monitoring him, he had a heart attack.

The docs rushed him into surgery where he needed 3 stents to open up an artery that was 99% blocked.

He was moved out of ICU into a regular bed today and expects to be discharged tomorrow. He has to wear a defibrillator vest for the next 3 months, while he is assessed for futher treatments. My dad describes the vest as a "bra with metal pop-tarts all the way around his chest". I had a chance to talk to him today and he says that he feels better than he has in many years, other than the pop tart bra.

The doctor told him that the only real reason he was able to survive was that it happened while he was in the hospital. Apparently this sort of heart attack is not one that people commonly survive otherwise.

I am immensely grateful to the doctors, nurses, scientists, janitors, clerical staff, and so on, that gave me and my family the incredible gift of more time with my dad.

jerry , 24 days ago to random

Happy start of Atlantic Hurricane Season to those who celebrate

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SwiftOnSecurity , 1 month ago to random

Crazy that 4 years ago this was a super truck and now it’s a normal one

randahl , 2 months ago to random

Has anyone figured out why #Mastodon keeps having this strange development?

While users appear to be arriving in huge numbers, the stats for monthly active users keep declining.

I know the onboarding experience is not perfect, but still… this just seems unrealistic to me.

In fact, from my own experience using Mastodon, it feels like everyone is more active now than one year ago. So what is going on?

luckytran , 4 months ago to random

According to a new study, up to 75% of adults have concealed an infectious disease from others in order not to miss work, travel, or social events. Unacceptable behavior. https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/misc-emerging-topics/three-fourths-adults-have-hidden-infectious-illness-work-travel-or-socialize

Wolven , 5 months ago to random

Reminder of one of my most Edible Temperature Take: Both Steven Pinker and Peter Singer bear large amounts of direct responsibility for the worst turns in contemporary western culture— especially concerning the popular understanding of ethics and society— and should be ostracized from the canon and public intellectualism as a whole 👍🏾

Pinker's beliefs as regards the lived experience of power, oppression, and the social construction of both criminality and suffering excuse the powerful and blame the oppressed. He's largely responsible for the prejudicial stereotype of autistic people as "robotic." He did a large amount of work to rehabilitate Charles Murray in the public view. And he aided Jeffery Epstein's legal defense.

Peter Singer has straight-up advocated for eugenics and the understanding of disabled life as one of inherent suffering and thus less valuable as recently as this year.

Do not heed them. Do not center them. Remove them from your work as much as possible.