Olives @olives@qoto.org

https://reason.com/2023/07/31/fbi-made-inappropriate-use-of-foreign-surveillance-program-to-spy-on-americans/ Another article on the FBI's abuse of Section 702 and calls for reform.

https://reason.com/2023/08/01/mayorkas-pressed-over-dhs-labeling-protesters-domestic-violent-extremists/ What do you think of this?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/01/uk-intelligence-spy-agencies-relax-burdensome-laws-ai-data-bpds No, no, no, that is a bad idea. #ai

https://reason.com/2023/07/31/police-watched-as-a-man-drowned-and-discouraged-bystanders-from-helping-lawsuit-claims/ Apparently, the police in Tennessee stood by as a man drowned and stopped any bystanders from helping.

https://torrentfreak.com/sci-hubs-alexandra-elbakyan-receives-eff-award-for-providing-access-to-scientific-knowledge-230728/ Sci-Hub's founder Alexandra Elbakyan to receive award from EFF for helping open science (even if it's in a way that the big publishers really don't like).

When you've seen so many anti mass surveillance posts alongside English ones that you start to learn German words, lol.

This feels so strange.

Surveillance cameras.

Counter proposals of GPS tracking devices inside cars

o.O

How's the xeeting going on X?

Well, to be accurate, she's the supervisor. A couple of others are collecting the data.

https://swanseachhs.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_43hbSnzUa3WfEma
https://www.swansea.ac.uk/staff/liadh.timmins/
Psychologist Dr. Liadh Timmins from Swansea University in the United Kingdom is doing research into how social stigma impacts the mental health of asexual people.

She is looking for people to participate. #lgbt

Also, someone is going to be released sooner or later.

Being locked up in solitary all the time is going to make it even harder to adapt, especially if they have some kind of mental disability.

They're already being punished and serving their time by being in the prison.

Noting that if someone runs an AI themselves, it means it won't be run in a data center with limited possible water sources (a concern someone brought up?)

I think that when Ylva was handed a Big Brother Award from the Dutch civil rights group, Bits of Freedom, she showed up and took it with pride.

The Dutch authoritarian didn't. Didn't show up.

The difference between Stack Overflow and Wikipedia is that Wikipedia is an actual non-profit, therefore you can give them a bit of a pass for not having the best decorum.

They not only have a vast quantity of content, they also provide a very important service without having to resort to a for-profit model.

Stack Overflow shares a lot in common with the jerks who moderate Wikipedia where someone can be brought up on all kinds of silly technicalities and arcane insider rules.

They rely on there being a free labor force who is willing to put up with all these jerks.

Stack Overflow is probably the way it is by design. Harsh gatekeeping.

They figure that there will be someone out there willing to jump through all the hoops, so that everyone else who comes along will just see the final answer.

I can see why it's going down. If someone doesn't have to ask questions there, why would they?

It's not as if it's pleasant to navigate the pedantic set of rules, the internet points system (which is where you get the middle finger for giving this site free labor), the incorrectly applied rules, or the bizarre decisions of which questions are worthy of allowing someone to answer.

It's not just that Stack Overflow is filled with patronizing and pedantic jerks. One of the creators is like that.

To be fair to Stack Overflow though, their predecessor (Experts Exchange, their previous competitor) had problems of it's own, from a humorous URL (the least of it's problems) to a huge paywall.

Stack Overflow was successful because it was an easy and free resource.

It wasn't because it was a particularly pleasant site (you never have to deal with that, if enough people have already asked the right questions).