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RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/116628363841732321
Why then is the "Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework" (TADPF) still in place when
Trump fired all employees of the "Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board" (PCLOB) in January 2025?@EUCommission Why is it not yet illegal to send data from Europe to the USA when the USA doesn't have anything remotely equivalent to European regulations in place to protect the data of Europeans?
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RE: https://mastodon.eus/@desertorea/116629506010861841
If I walk along the street, minding my own business, and then, out of the blue, some random passerby starts provoking me, like "Hey asshole. You look gay. You have a lousy haircut."
Then I don't walk over to him and bash his fucking skull in with the stone I saw lying on the ground.
I just ignore him and walk away, hoping he doesn't follow me.
That is especially so expected from the small subgroup of the population that is legally the only people allowed to carry a gun and a riot stick (that is, the cops).
Nobody provoked these cops, and it's supposedly their job not to get provoked. They are unfit for their job by any moral standards. Except that morals no longer matter and they were literally trained by Israeli barbarians for exactly this kind of violence.
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RE: https://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/116616783557625862
You know that fake website that lists a fake phone number where people can call to report foreigners to ICE to be deported?
Most people call that number because they can't get daycare for their child and need to remove someone from daycare so they can get in. Or because they are jealous of their neighbor.
Yeah, many of us are petty like that.
And when the reality is repeated to them—that this phone call is staged, or even just that they called to have someone deported, which is factually what they did—they get really angry.
I am scared of the people living around me. Even of the "nice" people, or maybe *especially* of the "nice" people.
It also shows how important fighting capitalism is, to ensure everyone has access to daycare or affordable housing, etc.
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RE: https://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/116616783557625862
You know that fake website that lists a fake phone number where people can call to report foreigners to ICE to be deported?
Most people call that number because they can't get daycare for their child and need to remove someone from daycare so they can get in. Or because they are jealous of their neighbor.
Yeah, many of us are petty like that.
And when the reality is repeated to them—that this phone call is staged, or even just that they called to have someone deported, which is factually what they did—they get really angry.
I am scared of the people living around me. Even of the "nice" people, or maybe *especially* of the "nice" people.
It also shows how important fighting capitalism is, to ensure everyone has access to daycare or affordable housing, etc.
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RE: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/116625669371059173
Imagine sailing to Gaza to show some humanity, just to suffer being kidnapped on international waters by Israeli pirates.
And after having survived an Israeli torture camp, upon arrival back home in Europe as the hero that you are, being senselessly and brutally beaten on the head (and not just there) by a cop.
European values.
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@smeikx I have considered arriving, in the end, at Alpine instead of Gentoo. And I'm still open to that outcome. I haven't considered using Alpine instead of Arch as my training ground.
Which path would you recommend?
1. macOS → Alpine → Gentoo
2. macOS → Arch → Alpine → GentooDoes skipping Arch make it easier or harder?
Even though macOS uses BSD-style tools, I've become used to GNU-style tools thanks to the package manager Homebrew.
Do you prefer BSD-style or GNU-style?
I've also heard that musl instead of glibc is "a pain", although I don't know 1) if that's true or 2) what that means because I code only in Python, never in C/C++/Go/Rust/Zig. I never consciously had contact with glibc thus far, how would having musl bother me?
What impact does it have, having ash instead of bash?
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@smeikx I have considered arriving, in the end, at Alpine instead of Gentoo. And I'm still open to that outcome. I haven't considered using Alpine instead of Arch as my training ground.
Which path would you recommend?
1. macOS → Alpine → Gentoo
2. macOS → Arch → Alpine → GentooDoes skipping Arch make it easier or harder?
Even though macOS uses BSD-style tools, I've become used to GNU-style tools thanks to the package manager Homebrew.
Do you prefer BSD-style or GNU-style?
I've also heard that musl instead of glibc is "a pain", although I don't know 1) if that's true or 2) what that means because I code only in Python, never in C/C++/Go/Rust/Zig. I never consciously had contact with glibc thus far, how would having musl bother me?
What impact does it have, having ash instead of bash?
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@smeikx I have considered arriving, in the end, at Alpine instead of Gentoo. And I'm still open to that outcome. I haven't considered using Alpine instead of Arch as my training ground.
Which path would you recommend?
1. macOS → Alpine → Gentoo
2. macOS → Arch → Alpine → GentooDoes skipping Arch make it easier or harder?
Even though macOS uses BSD-style tools, I've become used to GNU-style tools thanks to the package manager Homebrew.
Do you prefer BSD-style or GNU-style?
I've also heard that musl instead of glibc is "a pain", although I don't know 1) if that's true or 2) what that means because I code only in Python, never in C/C++/Go/Rust/Zig. I never consciously had contact with glibc thus far, how would having musl bother me?
What impact does it have, having ash instead of bash?
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@smeikx I have considered arriving, in the end, at Alpine instead of Gentoo. And I'm still open to that outcome. I haven't considered using Alpine instead of Arch as my training ground.
Which path would you recommend?
1. macOS → Alpine → Gentoo
2. macOS → Arch → Alpine → GentooDoes skipping Arch make it easier or harder?
Even though macOS uses BSD-style tools, I've become used to GNU-style tools thanks to the package manager Homebrew.
Do you prefer BSD-style or GNU-style?
I've also heard that musl instead of glibc is "a pain", although I don't know 1) if that's true or 2) what that means because I code only in Python, never in C/C++/Go/Rust/Zig. I never consciously had contact with glibc thus far, how would having musl bother me?
What impact does it have, having ash instead of bash?
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@smeikx I have considered arriving, in the end, at Alpine instead of Gentoo. And I'm still open to that outcome. I haven't considered using Alpine instead of Arch as my training ground.
Which path would you recommend?
1. macOS → Alpine → Gentoo
2. macOS → Arch → Alpine → GentooDoes skipping Arch make it easier or harder?
Even though macOS uses BSD-style tools, I've become used to GNU-style tools thanks to the package manager Homebrew.
Do you prefer BSD-style or GNU-style?
I've also heard that musl instead of glibc is "a pain", although I don't know 1) if that's true or 2) what that means because I code only in Python, never in C/C++/Go/Rust/Zig. I never consciously had contact with glibc thus far, how would having musl bother me?
What impact does it have, having ash instead of bash?
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Myself I use https://posteo.net for my email. I don't trust myself to self-host a mail server.
I don't bother with encrypting emails.
Instead I treat email as the totally and inherently insecure medium that it is, rather than trying to fix a protocol unfit for today's world. I assume that everything I send and receive as emails is read by people who want to exploit me, because that is the case.
Sensitive information I communicate only over Signal, never over email.
I cannot have a custom domain like [email protected] but otherwise I'm very happy with Posteo.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/116609281272617148
Imagine studying for four years, spending weekends and long evenings at the library, and at your graduation ceremony the dean and whoever can't even be arsed to read your name because that would be too much of a hassle for them.
Instead, they have some soulless "AI" read your name in your proud moment, and of course it messes up … and, too bad, mommy and daddy, you won't get the chance to take a picture of your child receiving their degree.
And the faculty just awkwardly laughing it off, "Oopsie."
But don't get angry, by next year the "AI" will have improved and won't mess up again.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@wchr/116606727341238099
Security researchers discovered an unsecured and abandoned/forgotten Chinese web app that reveals how much China's surveillance system knows about its locals and visitors.
They combine data from surveillance cameras, car rentals, hotel registrations, train tickets, hospital visits, ski passes, even cameras in vending machines when you buy a snack, to always know where you are at any given moment, and to follow you wherever you go. Of course they also know all your family members and your "risk factor".
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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116601580369552817
The number of times I've seen co-workers sign off the crappiest code in pull requests with a self-sufficient "Looks good to me 😉" and not being ashamed to associate their own name with such poor quality …
… it reminded me every day that I'm surrounded by mediocre people. And I'm no wizard rockstar programmer myself, mind you.
GenAI allows incompetent people to feel competent for the first time in their life, and that certainly does something to their brain chemistry. Given how many mediocre people there are, it's no wonder how many folks uncritically adopt GenAI.
Yet they're not interested in learning nor in improving—they're not curious as we are—because otherwise they wouldn't have been mediocre to begin with.
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RE: https://social.bau-ha.us/@CCC/116599771115440897
Germany decides to use "European Palantir" instead of renewing contracts with the US-based actual Palantir. What a relief!
Digital sovereignty for the win.
#Germany #surveillance #fascism #neoliberalism #capitalism #Palantir
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RE: https://social.bau-ha.us/@CCC/116599771115440897
Germany decides to use "European Palantir" instead of renewing contracts with the US-based actual Palantir. What a relief!
Digital sovereignty for the win.
#Germany #surveillance #fascism #neoliberalism #capitalism #Palantir
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⬆️ For context: I don't want surveillance in my operating system, which means systemd is not for me. Unfortunately almost every Linux distribution requires systemd.
I thus spent some time learning about the lesser-known Linux distributions and specifically looking for Linux distributions that don't require systemd.
That's how I became interested in Gentoo, Alpine, or Chimera as my new operating system.
They run OpenRC or Dinit as the initial process, instead of systemd.
As a current macOS user, this is all still new to me, and there's an overwhelming amount I have to learn in addition to this (e.g. how BTRFS works, how to configure the initramfs image generator, how to configure the bootloader GRUB, disk encryption with LUKS, the Logical Volume Manager, the device mapper framework, and so much more), but I'm eager to learn and I have learned a good chunk already (by reading the Arch wiki).
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TIL (Today I Learned) that the Linux distribution Gentoo is named after a species of penguins.
Also, the Gentoo penguin is apparently the fastest-swimming penguin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentoo_penguin#In_popular_culture
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TIL (Today I Learned) that the Linux distribution Gentoo is named after a species of penguins.
Also, the Gentoo penguin is apparently the fastest-swimming penguin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentoo_penguin#In_popular_culture
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TIL (Today I Learned) that the Linux distribution Gentoo is named after a species of penguins.
Also, the Gentoo penguin is apparently the fastest-swimming penguin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentoo_penguin#In_popular_culture
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TIL (Today I Learned) that the Linux distribution Gentoo is named after a species of penguins.
Also, the Gentoo penguin is apparently the fastest-swimming penguin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentoo_penguin#In_popular_culture
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TIL (Today I Learned) that the Linux distribution Gentoo is named after a species of penguins.
Also, the Gentoo penguin is apparently the fastest-swimming penguin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentoo_penguin#In_popular_culture
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RE: https://kolektiva.social/@danmcquillan/116311576053607691
I like this take: "The illiterate of the 21st century are those who aren't luddites."
Those gullible people parroting the falsehoods of "AI" companies because they are lacking in their ability for critical thinking, are the modern-day analogon of people who couldn't write or read.¹
Especially to those who think that luddites just couldn't appreciate progress, or those who never heard the word 'luddite', I recommend the book 'Blood in the Machine' by @brianmerchant. But to everyone else too. 😊
Also read the book 'Resisting AI' by @danmcquillan.
¹ Except that you needed to be wealthy or privileged in another way to have a teacher who would teach you how to read or write. You cannot blame a medieval peasant for not being able to read. In contrast to that, your clueless manager or colleague who absolutely has all the privileges and could/should know better but nonetheless parrots the "AI" propaganda … they can absolutely be blamed for not using their brain power.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@jcoglan/116334229654969479
To every programmer with impostor syndrome:
If you ever had thoughts like the following—especially in your more junior years:
"Man, I work at this unknown small-town shop. I would be so much more respected and make a hell of a lot more money, if only I could work at a Silicon Valley company."
Or, after browsing LinkedIn, learning that your idiotic/arrogant former classmate with whom you graduated, landed a job at one of the big Silicon Valley companies and you wonder how he did that because you work at a company in the middle of nowhere …
—the leaking of the source code of Claude Code should give you a huge boost of confidence.
These people working at Anthropic and the likes are SUCH BAD CODERS. They literally don't know how anything works. You and every colleague you ever liked is much better at programming than these idiots working at the big-name company.
Working at a small-town shop on something ethical gets you much more respect from the people that count, than working at the big-name companies. As proven by the increasing calls to auto-ban from open-source projects everyone employed at certain companies.
#programming #anthropic #ClaudeCode #MentalHealth #impostorSyndrome
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If you use VS Code and/or GitHub, check that you disabled all Copilot-related settings (even if you've already done that a while ago in case they snuck them back in).
Starting April 24, they will use any of your "inputs" to train their "AI".
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Longtermism (L) is a continuation of effective altruism: It assumes that humanity will succeed in colonizing the entire universe or creating virtual worlds that would then contain unimaginable numbers of posthumans. Under these assumptions, it would create much more total "value" in the universe if today's limited resources would be spent to the benefit of these future posthumans that will only be born in billions or even trillions of years from now, than to the benefit of the humans living today. Believers claim to aim to positively affect the greatest number of people possible. In this belief system, most people who could exist, will exist in the far, far future. Believers argue that humanity should stop focusing on currently living people and their contemporary problems, unless it would influence the distant future, because this approach is a suboptimal use of resources on the mission to maximize total value. Humanity should instead focus on what would benefit the population in the far, far future, which adds more total value to the universe due to the unimaginably larger number of people in the future population. This suspiciously somehow always seems to coincide with what benefits billionaires today.
Representatives of each toxic ideology have been platformed on the #LexFridman podcast. From Ray Kurzweil to Nick Bostrom to Ben Goertzel to Eliezer Yudkowsky to William MacAskill to Elon Musk.
I've watched colleages fall victim to these toxic ideologies because they didn't understand them. They naively and cluelessly thought of Lex Fridman as a role model and an intelligent, disciplined bigger brother who is good at playing guitar and martial arts. They'd thought the platformed guests were just random people with interesting ideas, rather than a concerted effort to spread these toxic ideologies among young (and not so young) men.
And I haven't even mentioned effective accelerationism or figures like Guillaume Verdon or Marc Andreessen yet. They want to maximize the likelihood of the realization of AGI (see singularitarianism) by turning the knobs of capitalism to eleven. And everyone should know this means fascism.
Sources: The TESCREAL paper and the relevant Wikipedia pages
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Longtermism (L) is a continuation of effective altruism: It assumes that humanity will succeed in colonizing the entire universe or creating virtual worlds that would then contain unimaginable numbers of posthumans. Under these assumptions, it would create much more total "value" in the universe if today's limited resources would be spent to the benefit of these future posthumans that will only be born in billions or even trillions of years from now, than to the benefit of the humans living today. Believers claim to aim to positively affect the greatest number of people possible. In this belief system, most people who could exist, will exist in the far, far future. Believers argue that humanity should stop focusing on currently living people and their contemporary problems, unless it would influence the distant future, because this approach is a suboptimal use of resources on the mission to maximize total value. Humanity should instead focus on what would benefit the population in the far, far future, which adds more total value to the universe due to the unimaginably larger number of people in the future population. This suspiciously somehow always seems to coincide with what benefits billionaires today.
Representatives of each toxic ideology have been platformed on the #LexFridman podcast. From Ray Kurzweil to Nick Bostrom to Ben Goertzel to Eliezer Yudkowsky to William MacAskill to Elon Musk.
I've watched colleages fall victim to these toxic ideologies because they didn't understand them. They naively and cluelessly thought of Lex Fridman as a role model and an intelligent, disciplined bigger brother who is good at playing guitar and martial arts. They'd thought the platformed guests were just random people with interesting ideas, rather than a concerted effort to spread these toxic ideologies among young (and not so young) men.
And I haven't even mentioned effective accelerationism or figures like Guillaume Verdon or Marc Andreessen yet. They want to maximize the likelihood of the realization of AGI (see singularitarianism) by turning the knobs of capitalism to eleven. And everyone should know this means fascism.
Sources: The TESCREAL paper and the relevant Wikipedia pages
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Longtermism (L) is a continuation of effective altruism: It assumes that humanity will succeed in colonizing the entire universe or creating virtual worlds that would then contain unimaginable numbers of posthumans. Under these assumptions, it would create much more total "value" in the universe if today's limited resources would be spent to the benefit of these future posthumans that will only be born in billions or even trillions of years from now, than to the benefit of the humans living today. Believers claim to aim to positively affect the greatest number of people possible. In this belief system, most people who could exist, will exist in the far, far future. Believers argue that humanity should stop focusing on currently living people and their contemporary problems, unless it would influence the distant future, because this approach is a suboptimal use of resources on the mission to maximize total value. Humanity should instead focus on what would benefit the population in the far, far future, which adds more total value to the universe due to the unimaginably larger number of people in the future population. This suspiciously somehow always seems to coincide with what benefits billionaires today.
Representatives of each toxic ideology have been platformed on the #LexFridman podcast. From Ray Kurzweil to Nick Bostrom to Ben Goertzel to Eliezer Yudkowsky to William MacAskill to Elon Musk.
I've watched colleages fall victim to these toxic ideologies because they didn't understand them. They naively and cluelessly thought of Lex Fridman as a role model and an intelligent, disciplined bigger brother who is good at playing guitar and martial arts. They'd thought the platformed guests were just random people with interesting ideas, rather than a concerted effort to spread these toxic ideologies among young (and not so young) men.
And I haven't even mentioned effective accelerationism or figures like Guillaume Verdon or Marc Andreessen yet. They want to maximize the likelihood of the realization of AGI (see singularitarianism) by turning the knobs of capitalism to eleven. And everyone should know this means fascism.
Sources: The TESCREAL paper and the relevant Wikipedia pages
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Longtermism (L) is a continuation of effective altruism: It assumes that humanity will succeed in colonizing the entire universe or creating virtual worlds that would then contain unimaginable numbers of posthumans. Under these assumptions, it would create much more total "value" in the universe if today's limited resources would be spent to the benefit of these future posthumans that will only be born in billions or even trillions of years from now, than to the benefit of the humans living today. Believers claim to aim to positively affect the greatest number of people possible. In this belief system, most people who could exist, will exist in the far, far future. Believers argue that humanity should stop focusing on currently living people and their contemporary problems, unless it would influence the distant future, because this approach is a suboptimal use of resources on the mission to maximize total value. Humanity should instead focus on what would benefit the population in the far, far future, which adds more total value to the universe due to the unimaginably larger number of people in the future population. This suspiciously somehow always seems to coincide with what benefits billionaires today.
Representatives of each toxic ideology have been platformed on the #LexFridman podcast. From Ray Kurzweil to Nick Bostrom to Ben Goertzel to Eliezer Yudkowsky to William MacAskill to Elon Musk.
I've watched colleages fall victim to these toxic ideologies because they didn't understand them. They naively and cluelessly thought of Lex Fridman as a role model and an intelligent, disciplined bigger brother who is good at playing guitar and martial arts. They'd thought the platformed guests were just random people with interesting ideas, rather than a concerted effort to spread these toxic ideologies among young (and not so young) men.
And I haven't even mentioned effective accelerationism or figures like Guillaume Verdon or Marc Andreessen yet. They want to maximize the likelihood of the realization of AGI (see singularitarianism) by turning the knobs of capitalism to eleven. And everyone should know this means fascism.
Sources: The TESCREAL paper and the relevant Wikipedia pages
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Longtermism (L) is a continuation of effective altruism: It assumes that humanity will succeed in colonizing the entire universe or creating virtual worlds that would then contain unimaginable numbers of posthumans. Under these assumptions, it would create much more total "value" in the universe if today's limited resources would be spent to the benefit of these future posthumans that will only be born in billions or even trillions of years from now, than to the benefit of the humans living today. Believers claim to aim to positively affect the greatest number of people possible. In this belief system, most people who could exist, will exist in the far, far future. Believers argue that humanity should stop focusing on currently living people and their contemporary problems, unless it would influence the distant future, because this approach is a suboptimal use of resources on the mission to maximize total value. Humanity should instead focus on what would benefit the population in the far, far future, which adds more total value to the universe due to the unimaginably larger number of people in the future population. This suspiciously somehow always seems to coincide with what benefits billionaires today.
Representatives of each toxic ideology have been platformed on the #LexFridman podcast. From Ray Kurzweil to Nick Bostrom to Ben Goertzel to Eliezer Yudkowsky to William MacAskill to Elon Musk.
I've watched colleages fall victim to these toxic ideologies because they didn't understand them. They naively and cluelessly thought of Lex Fridman as a role model and an intelligent, disciplined bigger brother who is good at playing guitar and martial arts. They'd thought the platformed guests were just random people with interesting ideas, rather than a concerted effort to spread these toxic ideologies among young (and not so young) men.
And I haven't even mentioned effective accelerationism or figures like Guillaume Verdon or Marc Andreessen yet. They want to maximize the likelihood of the realization of AGI (see singularitarianism) by turning the knobs of capitalism to eleven. And everyone should know this means fascism.
Sources: The TESCREAL paper and the relevant Wikipedia pages
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