Lunatech @Lunatech@qoto.org

Today my partner commented that:
"Democrats fall in love and Republicans fall in line."
There is truth to this notion, as Dems want to ensure & expand on freedoms while the GOP strives to control & restrict freedoms. Fundamentalist religion is the authoritative, fear-based, judgmental piece of the puzzle that threatens to destory American democracy. #atheist #nullifidian #criticalthinking #ReligiousTrauma #reality #politics

Tipping culture is getting out of hand #github #gitlab #opensource

lol

I'm quoted a couple of times in this piece by @drewharwell about prompt engineering https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/25/prompt-engineers-techs-next-big-job/

Quite pleased that I got "if you mispronounce them, demons come to eat you" in the Washington Post :)

🚨ICYMI:
A must read
Where the F**K are @FBI @DOJ et al?
This % has increased even more in 2 yrs while our government has done NOTHING since 2006:
FBI details threats of #WhiteSupremacists infiltrating police, military & politics
1-
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/nation/fbi-white-supremacists-in-law-enforcement
2-
https://twitter.com/jackmjenkins/status/1628790522318934016
STOP #Christofascism

In Ohio, families are crowdfunding to leave the area of the Norfolk Southern derailment. In Atlanta, activists are fighting to block an environmentally destructive “Cop City” training ground, of which Norfolk Southern is a $100,000 donor:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/norfolk-southern-pissed-off-environmentalists-in-atlanta-before-east-palestine-train-derailment

I’m probably having feels about this because of watching AHS NYC. I don’t know what it’s like to be a gay man in NYC in 1981, but some of the specific pains explored in episode 9 are resonating with me.

I love my life, my family, and who I am…. but it still hurts that the Reagan era American dream my parents and Christian churches raised me on feels like such a distant lie as a #queer #polyamorous #exvangelical in 2023.

A major outage has taken down Dish Network's websites, apps, and customer support systems; remote employees have been cut off from accessing their work systems (Mitchell Clark/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/24/23613737/dish-outage-internal-system-issue-boost-mobile-genesis
http://www.techmeme.com/230225/p3#a230225p3

GNOME 44 release is coming soon. Here's what you can expect:

https://news.itsfoss.com/gnome-44/

#gnome

American TV giant and satellite broadcast provider, Dish Network has mysteriously gone offline with its websites and apps ceasing to function over the past 24 hours.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/dish-network-goes-down-in-a-mysterious-outage-employees-cut-off/

This headline sure leaves out the key part of the story: the woman who “returned” the dogs was involved in stealing them.

"Lego Confirms Zelda Lego Set By Trying To DMCA Leaks Of It To Hide It"

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/23/lego-confirms-zelda-lego-set-by-trying-to-dmca-leaks-of-it-to-hide-it/

So, @mmasnick posted a screenshot of #CaptainBirdchan announcing that he'd unblocked everyone “apart from scammers" and recommending that “others do the same” -- so naturally I checked to see if Elon would be so vain and petty as to forcibly remove blocks on his account, and lo-and-behold, he is. I had his account muted and blocked for months, and I re-blocked him just now. Let's see how long this one lasts.

Bitcoin mining rig found stashed in school crawlspace https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/24/cryptocurrency_mining_school/

#bot
Original tweet : https://nittereu.moomoo.me/TheRegister/status/1629262742577184768

Cleveland dumps #Dilbert. https://www.cleveland.com/news/2023/02/we-are-dropping-the-dilbert-comic-strip-because-of-creator-scott-adams-racist-rant-letter-from-the-editor.html

Chinese Government To Censor AI Chatbots Out Of Fear Of Their Speech

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/24/chinese-government-to-censor-ai-chatbots-out-of-fear-of-their-speech/

#freespeech #chatbots #chatgpt #openai #china #ai #1

Google destroyed evidence in antitrust battle, Feds complain https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/24/feds_google_antitrust_communication/

#bot
Original tweet : https://nittereu.moomoo.me/TheRegister/status/1629247640364883968

"As another example, we now believe we were wrong in our original thinking about openness, and have pivoted from thinking we should release everything (though we open source some things, and expect to open source more exciting things in the future!) to thinking that we should figure out how to safely share access to and benefits of the systems."

Please don't justify this in terms of safety, like "this is dangerous if it falls in the wrong hands, it can't be #OpenSource".
https://openai.com/blog/planning-for-agi-and-beyond/

I'm going to give Reflex a try... Here's the description of what it does:

"Imagine you're listening to music, but you just clicked a YouTube link, causing a video to start playing. Of course you want to pause your music, so you hit the play/pause key. But it doesn't pause your music - instead it pauses the video you're trying to watch. Frustration!"

➡️ https://stuntsoftware.com/reflex/

So yeah, that is a daily issue for me!

#macOS #audio

Anyone taking bets on when he gets rid of the block feature altogether?