"Google engineer said he was placed on leave after claiming an AI Chatbot was Sentient"
FYI Interesting. I do feel that bought hardware is owned and should be one's right to modify as they so wish. What do you think?
https://torrentfreak.com/nintendo-nemesis-max-louarn-hacker-rebel-and-wanted-by-the-fbi-220611/
The 'Paper of Record' finally acknowledges what was widely known at the time, that they misrepresented the facts, again!
https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/06/09/the-nyt-acknowledges-the-cias-big-lie-for-gina-haspel/
OpenVPN has long time been the de-facto standard in open source VPN.
But there are new kids on the block.
So which VPN are you using behind your IT infrastructure? Because you are using a VPN, aren't you?
https://www.limevpn.com/softether-vpn-vs-openvpn-which-one-is-better-for-you-and-why/
Opinions & feedback welcome!
#openvpn #softether #vpn
Incredible DALL-E AI is reviewed by Casey Newton:
https://www.platformer.news/p/how-dall-e-could-power-a-creative?s=r
#GeoPolitics We're living in Machiavellian times, my friends!
From the Birdsite Arnaud Bertrand opined, and I agree with his point, to wit:
_Arnaud Bertrand
@RnaudBertrand
Why is the EU so bound on multiplying self-defeating actions?_
_Why is this 🔽 done? Obviously to rally public opinion against China. This will make any cooperation with China toxic in the eyes of the public, leaving the U.S. as the only alternative…_
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3180663/eu-lawmakers-push-designate-human-rights-conditions-xinjiang-genocide
New Tesla hack gives thieves their own personal key (NFC)
#geopolitics Small signs of losing power, but could build momentum.
https://multipolarista.substack.com/p/alba-summit-americas-sacha-llorenti?s=r#details
Another great Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) piece on bogus Christian health insurance and other huge cons with a cool reference to the movie "THE STING" (1973): https://pluralistic.net/2022/06/07/more-than-human/#big-store
FYI
Technique significantly boosts the speeds of programs that run in the Unix shell
Researchers have pioneered a technique that can dramatically accelerate certain types of computer programs automatically, while ensuring program results remain accurate.
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-06-technique-significantly-boosts-unix-shell.html
#Censorship is alive and well. The spooks are doing their thing in shutting down learned opposition.
https://thegrayzone.com/2022/06/07/paul-masons-covert-intelligence-grayzone/
The Handmaid's Tale "special edition looks like any other printed paper-and-ink work, but it is made of nickel wire, stainless steel, aluminum and fire-resistant inks"
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/the-handmaids-tale-unburnable-book-sothebys/index.html
Save time with Awk...
...and give your spreadsheet some vacations after having read that great article by the Free Software Magazine.
http://freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/save_time_awk_print/
Medical Errors now Third leading cause of death in the United States (2016)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31664748
#hackernews #tech
New Replicant 6.0 0004 release announced. Read it, as well as a status update for #Replicant 11, at https://u.fsf.org/3m3 | Interested in supporting their work? You may contribute at https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=19
For shame my country!
#Canada and the Banderites, by Thierry Meyssan
In previous articles, Thierry Meyssan has shown how the Banderites, collaborators of the worst Nazi exactions in Ukraine and Poland, came to power in Kiev, in the young independent Ukraine. He shows here that, for eighty years, Banderite immigrants have been embedded in the Canadian Liberal Party to the point of occupying the number two position in Justin Trudeau’s current (…)
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