Lunatech @Lunatech@qoto.org

1869: Congress refused to seat Congressman-Elect John Willis Menard from Louisiana District 2 b/c he was Black

Today: SCOTUS approves extreme gerrymandered Louisiana map that gives Black people only 16% rep even though they’re 33% of voters

Systemic white supremacy alive & well.

FFmpeg 6.0 Released with Nvidia Nvenc AV1, VA-API Improvements: https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-6.0-Released #linux #foss #update #release #ffmpeg #nvenc #vaaoi #av1

Absolutely incredible to get a peek inside what was really happening behind the scenes at Fox News. So much worse than you could have imagined.

"Dominion also describes how Mr. Murdoch provided Mr. Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, with confidential information about ads that the Biden campaign would be running on Fox."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/27/business/media/fox-news-dominion-rupert-murdoch.html?campaign_id=190&emc=edit_ufn_20230227&instance_id=86444&nl=from-the-times&regi_id=69036351&segment_id=126446&te=1&user_id=4f1f9e11a3612cbe9e425edbfc7b25a0

How to Use chroot to Restrict SSH User Access to Certain Directory

https://www.linuxtoday.com/developer/how-to-restrict-ssh-user-access-using-chrooted-jail/

#useraccess #Developer #tutorial #chroot #Jail #SSH

Unleashing your creativity with #ChatGPT ✨

I've created 3 short videos that show OpenAI's cutting-edge #AI technology for #Code creation, #Content generation, and more use cases including the exploration of its #Constrains 👉 https://www.reply.com/en/artificial-intelligence/unleashing-your-creativity-with-chatgpt

#LLM #DeepLearning #OpenAI

LastPass revealed more information on a "coordinated second attack," where a threat actor accessed and stole data from the Amazon AWS cloud storage servers for over two months.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/lastpass-devops-engineer-hacked-to-steal-password-vault-data-in-2022-breach/

Want to Create a Customized #Ubuntu ISO? Check Out Cubic https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/02/cubic-is-a-custom-ubuntu-iso-creator

In a stroke of genius the Docker.app for Mac automatically downloaded an update that does not run on the version of MacOS I'm using. How wonderful.

Luckily, I'm not the first person to experience this and instructions how to fix the problem were already written down by someone else:

https://codex.so/docker-desktop-for-macos-10-15

#Docker #MacOS

The fundamental problem with #FOSS is that nobody cleans toilets for free. They will publish novels, perform operas, build temples and design spaceships for free, because those things are exciting and new and fun. But they'd rather spend years of their lives trying and failing to invent the self-cleaning toilet than just *clean the toilet*. And a surprising number of the most important tasks in life are much closer to toilet hygiene than spaceship design.

A phrase we thankfully haven't heard in months: "I thought Thunderbird was dead!"
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Hi, I'm Jason. In May 2022 I was blessed to be offered a dream job: running #Thunderbird comms and creating content for our newsletters & blog.

Goal #1: remove any doubts about Thunderbird's future in the public eye. I'm thrilled to say it feels like we accomplished that!

And our team LOVES the engagement & community spirit here. It's a personal daily highlight for me.

Please keep your feedback coming 💙

#FFmpeg 6.0 Released With @NVIDIAGeForce NVENC AV1, @IntelSoftware VA-API Improvements

https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-6.0-Released

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/phoronix/status/1630527528736628736

Boffins concoct interference-busting radios https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/28/mit_researchers_interference_busting_radios/

#bot
Original tweet : https://nitter.1d4.us/TheRegister/status/1630455621345484801

Access Now: in 2022, 35 countries instituted internet shutdowns at least 187 times, led by India with 84 disruptions, Russia causing 22 in Ukraine, and more (Niha Masih/Washington Post)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/02/28/internet-shutdowns-highest-india/
http://www.techmeme.com/230228/p9#a230228p9

OpenAndroidInstaller: The graphical installer that makes installing alternative Android distributions nice and easy. #foss #prototypedemos https://openandroidinstaller.org

#Snapchat is launching a brand-new chatbot, run by the latest version of #OpenAI #ChatGPT. The CEO, Evan Spiegel, reckons that we should be talking to AI as much as we talk to our loved ones every day. Will daily AI conversations be as common as with humans? https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/27/23614959/snapchat-my-ai-chatbot-chatgpt-openai-plus-subscription

Update:

While "free" it seems that Mammoth requires users to register on their instance moth.social. They present this as "simplifying" sign-up, but some counter this is antithetical to the decentralized nature of the fediverse.

While currently "free" at some point this will change to a subscription model: "Therefore, we likely will have a subscription, but it won’t stop you from enjoying the app if you’re not paying. We don’t have all the details or the timing figured out yet.”

There is hardly any doubt that the European Commission is trying to take Europe back to the dark place of telecom monopoly, impacting the open and global Internet. @PaulHofheinz and I write for the @lisboncouncil: https://lisboncouncil.net/category/blog/ #FairShare #netneutrality

Here's something I wrote for @techpolicy.social that encourages us to think about algorithmic amplification/Section 230 in terms of how it affects the quality of argument rather than merely how it protects speech... specifically how does it affect how we "intellectually fight" and how does it undermine the ability to "fight constructively"

@sociology @communicationscholars
@philosophy
@politicalscience

https://techpolicy.press/section-230-rightly-protects-voice-but-allowing-platforms-to-use-amplification-algorithms-with-total-impunity-does-harm/