Lunatech @Lunatech@qoto.org

I don't normally like to post from twitter but this one feels full circle.

I’m getting pretty tired of serving files on my #Mac mini. I hardly use that computer for anything else but serving up files and WebDAV on my local LAN, and between the twice-a-week panic reboots, the times it won’t recognize my Thunderbolt 10 GBps Ethernet adapter, and Bonjour failing between it and my MBP16, accessing my files is largely a crapshoot.

I have a strong feeling the Server components of #macOS just isn’t getting any attention any more. A miserable experience.

CodaMetrix, which uses AI to automate the process of translating patient records into codes for health care providers, raised a $55M Series A led by SignalFire (Katie Adams/MedCity News)

https://medcitynews.com/2023/02/mass-general-brigham-born-revenue-cycle-company-snags-55m/
http://www.techmeme.com/230228/p36#a230228p36

Funny how the simple act of updating packages in apt creates a level of fear. But then I remember that it’s not 2005, and Debian, and all Linux systems and pretty much all modern Operating Systems are incredibly robust. Upgrades are not just safe, but expected and required.
#Debian #selfhosted #selfhost #footiMac #mastodonserver

"Fox News is a right-wing talk channel that profits off Republican propaganda. This isn't an opinion. It is a fact laid bare via the hundreds of pages of legal documents in the Dominion lawsuit. And yet, credible newsrooms continue to describe the outlet as a "news" network. This does a disservice to readers ... Fox News' business model is not predicated on informing viewers. It's dependent on feeding them lies that validate their views"

Preach, @oliverdarcy: https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/1677641642131a48fca269f90/raw

Candidate pleads guilty in alleged Florida vote scam

By TERRY SPENCER
August 24, 2021

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A sham candidate for the Florida Legislature pleaded guilty Tuesday to being part of a vote siphoning scheme in last year’s election and will testify against a former Republican state senator who prosecutors say ran it.

Alex Rodríguez agreed to testify against former Sen. Frank Artiles after pleading guilty in Miami-Dade County to accepting illegal campaign donations and lying on campaign documents. He will receive three years probation if he cooperates, including a year of house arrest. He had faced a possible 20-year prison sentence.

Prosecutors charged Artiles in March with felony campaign fraud charges, saying he secretly gave more than $44,000 to Rodriguez so that he could run in the 2020 election to confuse voters and siphon ballots from then-Democratic incumbent, Sen. Jose Javier Rodríguez. The funds allegedly came from a dark money...
https://apnews.com/article/florida-5343b101e96d5c7f42d1ee54da7cc0ce

Last May, YouGov asked Americans if more extremism-linked murders were committed by the left or right. Republicans said left; Democrats right.

The reality? Way more on the right. Almost all, when you exclude radical Islamist actors and all in 2022. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/28/extremism-right-wing-deaths/

Ugh- dow's gonna dow...
Tldr- they set up (another) phony recycling program. This time, they took in a bunch of donated shoes from Singapore that were supposed to be broken down and reused for tracks/playgrounds. Instead they ended going on a journey through 2nd hand stores in Indonesia and elsewhere, before (most likely) getting landfilled or burned when they couldn't be resold.
What an evil company.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/global-plastic-dow-shoes/

Hey, AI hucksters. Dial down the hype. Lots of love, the FTC https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/28/ftc_warns_ai_hucksters/

#bot
Original tweet : https://nitter.fdn.fr/TheRegister/status/1630685647928270849

I think I’ve found my snarky soulmate. Snark-mate?
#Funny #Humor #LOL #Humour

In five days after its unveiling in November the artificially intelligent #chatbot, created by a startup called #Openai, drew 1m users, making it one of the fastest consumer-product launches in history.
#Microsoft, which has just invested $10bn in Openai, wants #Chatgpt-like powers, which include generating text, images and video that seem like they could have been created by humans, to infuse much of the software it sells.
On January 26th #Google published a paper describing a similar model that can create music from a text description of a song.
Investors in #Alphabet, its parent company, are listening out for its answer to Chatgpt.
#Baidu, a Chinese search giant, reportedly plans to add a chatbot to its search engine in March
https://www.economist.com/business/2023/01/30/the-race-of-the-ai-labs-heats-up

Imagine an AGI that advises taxing billionaires at a rate of 95 percent and redistributing their wealth for the benefit of humanity.

Will it ever be hooked into the financial system to make that happen? No. Will those minding the AGI carry out those orders? Again, no 🧵

#bot
Original tweet : https://nitter.1d4.us/TheRegister/status/1630668860880998400

No one with wealth and power is going to cede authority to machine-learning software, or allow it to take away even some of their wealth and power, no matter how "smart" it is.

No VIP wants AGI dictating their diminishment.

#bot
Original tweet : https://nittereu.moomoo.me/TheRegister/status/1630668862269296641

The warning is a stark reminder that Elon Musk’s ownership of Tesla, a business heavily intertwined with China, can clash with his claims of being a champion of free speech. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/chinese-government-linked-paper-lashes-elon-musk-lab-leak-theory-rcna72788

FBI Director Chris Wray says the FBI believes Covid probably originated from a "potential lab incident" in Wuhan, but that the Chinese government has tried to "thwart and obfuscate" the agency's ongoing probe. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/fbi-director-says-china-trying-thwart-covid-origin-probe-rcna72805

Hours after NBC News revealed that at least 92,000 voter registrations had been challenged in 2022, Georgia Republicans proposed changes to make it even easier. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/georgia-voter-eligibility-challenges-easier-new-bill-rcna72691

All told, Carter and his wife built, renovated or repaired more than 4,390 homes. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-23/jimmy-carter-the-president-who-built-houses