I swear someones just using it as a harder drive at this point

transcription: need a relationship where we arent dating but im devoted to you and your devoted to me in your own way ans were in love but were best friends but id die for you but were…

And I love you all 🩷
In a completely platonic, non-sapphic way because I’m into men. Sorry girls 😭

transcription: me sleeping while being a disgusted pervert

My school has provided us some emails with a custom domain (not @gmail.com but @myschool.smth) and we as students are only able to login via gmail, however i obviously do not want that. What can i do to prevent that? I tried logging into the email via Thunderbird but i get blocked because my administrator doesn’t allow that.

My feeds have been flooded with it over the past 24 hours, and even some prominent privacy groups have been amplifying the hysteria. The panic claims everyone is about to lose full phone access unless they submit to digital ID checks.

While the actual situation stems from recent Westminster pressure on tech giants around device-level age controls and online safety, the viral framing is completely overblown. There’s no law turning every adult’s phone into a brick tomorrow.

That said, the underlying trend of pushing age-verification and filtering hooks deeper into OS-level infrastructure is still a massive red flag for encryption and digital sovereignty.

Tired of misleading cookie banners? The EU Commission has finally proposed a solution: set your privacy preferences in the browser once, and never see another banner. Unfortunately, the tracking industry is pushing back – and so far, they’ve been successful. We need YOUR help to #KillTheCookieBanner!

by Yu-y

Source・Danbooru

cross-posted from: ani.social/post/36762722

Sauce: www.deviantart.com/doyora/art/10-731185512

Lore: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granblue_Fantasy

We really, really need to talk about venture capital. Because it’s not “venture capital” anymore.

There’s a huge disconnect between what most people think of VC, where an investor has a big fund and cuts checks to help a founder build a company, and the current reality, where a handful of billionaire extremists use the cover of “VC” to advance an outrageous agenda where they’re accountable to no one.

I’m gonna explain this from a standpoint that almost never gets articulated: I’ve personally raised tens of millions of dollars in venture capital funding as CEO of startups, and been directly involved as a board member or advisor in raising hundreds of millions more. I’ve sat in board rooms, across the table from the people I’m talking about here, or been at the industry events that they frequent. So this isn’t sour grapes because these VCs wouldn’t cut me a check, or some chip on my shoulder about these investors due to a business deal. This is what I know about these bad actors because I’m part of the community of creators and inventors who build the things that they used to invest in — back when they still cared about innovation.

Many of the trends in society and politics that people are most angry about, from data centers being forced down everyone’s throats, to all of our favorite apps and services being enshittified, to politicians being paid to ignore the will of the people, are all being supercharged by these cancer capitalists. They have warped the structure of venture capital into a form of oligarchy that answers to no market, no regulators, and no voters. So it’s worth understanding exactly how they did it.

What kind of pre-enshittification tech do you all use? Stuff where ppl look at you like you’re an alien b/c nobody does it that any more.

Me ->

Oldschool offline mp3 player rather than Spottify or other streaming or phone app, to use when running.

Paper books rather than e-books.

DRM free games I buy on GOG to avoid rootkitting my own comp.

Wired speakers rather than smart speakers.

Old ass pre-connected car.

Prob more but I can’t think of it all rn.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Privacy is surveillance

even more blanket posts. great, right? we have all been waiting for another blanketpost, can’t get enough of em.

felt like making a “this or that” type post for a whiiiiile. this dates back about 2 years when i looked at some of em and thought “this is fun!”

i’d love to hear about your picks!

my picks areee ummm… this is difficult. lemme think.
okay, my picks are: B-A-A-A-A …
yea, apparently i drew put all my favorites first. whoops. in question 2 i would love B but that doesn’t work with position B. oh well.

i wish you a wonderful day where you chose your own adventure.

Artificial intelligence is creating new career opportunities while also changing the skills employers need. As AI becomes increasingly integrated into the workplace, millions of workers may need to adapt and develop new digital and technical skills to remain competitive The impact of AI is not only about job displacement. It is also creating new roles and changing how people work across different industries

What skills do you think workers should focus on as AI continues to reshape the job market?

I’m posting this in case it’ll help anyone else out that may have access to some of the old Datto switches.

I work for a business that previously used Datto extensively (before they were sold to Kaseya) and we had a lot of old Datto hardware because of that. We’ve since moved on to other hardware solutions for clients but we kinda got stuck with this old hardware and I ended up taking some of the switches we had (an S24 and a E48) - I took them with the expectation that I’ll just use them as dumb unmanaged PoE switches. My employer tried to give these away for free through facebook marketplace and other similar sites just to get them out of their hair and would get people asking about them but nobody ultimately took them.

Well I did use them as unmanaged switches for a bit; I blocked internet access for them on my firewall just in case it was reaching out to the cloud, so nothing could potentially be modified suddenly. I recently spent some time looking into the console access on them to see if there’s anything there. After a bit of searching I found that if you factory reset them and prevent access to the cloud, they have a default openmesh password ( 0p3nm3$h! ) on the admin account which you can use to gain full access to the CLI and thus some level of management of the switch.

I then examined the running config and discovered they have a local web interface (and ssh and telnet) which is disabled by default and you can enable, you can also create other users on it for management. So, through the console I obviously enabled those to see if they function and to my surprise they indeed do function. So now I have proper 24 and 48 port managed PoE switches at my disposal which made me pretty happy.

Anyway, if anyone happens to stumble upon these switches (at least the S24 and E48 models) and you can use them, know that you can now fully manage them on your own if you so desire. The console connection requires a baud rate of 115200 and then you can just login with username admin and password 0p3nm3$h!. From there you can use the contextual help (?) to figure out the commands. To enable the web interface, after logging in you can do this:

configure  
ip https  
exit  
save  

then you can simply access it in a browser at https://{ip-address-of-switch} using an existing user account. For reference, to create an account you can use a command like this:

configure  
username {USERNAMEHERE} secret {PASSWORDHERE}  
exit  
save  

I did verify that changes made via the web interface do actually work and change the configuration, I half-expected it wouldn’t work but was pleasantly surprised it does.

cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/75347625

Among the many recent controversies around AI, there is the claim that to solve a longstanding mathematical problem, OpenAI stole the work of the New York University mathematician Tristan Buckmaster and a colleague, Levent Alpöge, who also is a researcher for Anthropic. I have no ability to assess the validity of the claim, but as I understand it, the argument is that OpenAI had access to work done by Buckmaster and Alpöge. It then built on this work to quickly rush ahead and find a solution, which also had a $1 million prize attached to it.

Insofar as that accurately describes what OpenAI did, this seems like it would be equivalent to having a professor doing a seminar for colleagues and then having one of the attendees do a few additions and claim the work as their own. This would not be viewed as very collegial behavior in a normal academic department.

I’m not sure what claim a professor would have against a colleague under such circumstances. I suppose if their work was properly cited, there would not be a claim of plagiarism. (OpenAI’s work did not directly cite the work of Buckmaster and Alpöge, from my understanding.) I suppose there could be a basis for disputing rights to the million-dollar prize. But the problem seems much greater.

If AI can effectively steal the work of others, and claim it as its own, then it undermines the practice of openness in science that has allowed for enormous progress for centuries. This practice depended on norms, whereby scientists would properly credit the work of their peers.

In the seminar scenario I described, if one of the attendees listened to the presentation and realized the one or two additional steps needed to get over the goal line, they would be expected to raise the issue with the presenter. Assuming the additions were correct, the presenter would finish the paper, acknowledging the contribution or possibly adding the attendee as a co-author, if their contribution was sufficiently important.

But that relies on norms. If the owner of the AI doesn’t share those norms and can freely scrape scientific work wherever it finds it, and then take credit for the product, it will threaten the longstanding practice of openness in science. With the risk of having years of work stolen without getting any credit, researchers will likely keep their work closely held until they have a finished paper.1 They would only share it with a small group of trusted colleagues. Posting a working paper, or having an open seminar, would put control over their work at risk.

However, it is important to recognize the villain in this story. It is Sam Altman and his company, not the AI. Altman and the company are the ones responsible for what their AI does. If it did something they disapprove of, it is their responsibility to correct it. However adept AI may become, it is not the active player; it is the individual or company that set it in motion.

This issue applies more generally. There has been a social media mini firestorm over Texas Attorney General and Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton using AI to have his opponent, James Talarico, making a series of outlandish statements that he never said. Much of the outrage seems to be over Paxton using AI, rather than the fact that he is lying about what Talarico said.

The issue here is that Paxton is defaming Talarico; the AI is secondary. The AI presumably makes the defamation more effective, but if Paxton were an exceptionally gifted mimic, he could likely also trick some people into believing that he was speaking in Talarico’s voice when making outlandish assertions. If that were the case, it would be every bit as bad as using AI to accomplish the job.

There were also the claims that the girls’ school in Iran, which was destroyed by the US military on the first day of the war, killing 120 children, was selected as a target by AI. That may be the case, but the important point was that the military did not have a system in place to properly review targets. It doesn’t matter whether or not an AI system identified the target. The problem was that there was no system that ensured the places designated were proper military targets.

It is important to keep our eyes on the ball. The bad actors are those who do bad things with AI, not the AI. This is like the husband who gets drunk and beats his wife and then says the whiskey did it. No one should ever accept that story. In the same vein, if a theft of mathematical work did occur, it was Sam Altman who did it and it was Ken Paxton who libeled his political opponent. The AI is beside the point.

That’s right, another anime watch party on the Fediverse! Each week on Monday nights we’ll gather on OwnCast to catch one episode of Kimagure Orange☆Road followed by three episodes of Oishinbo!

I hunted down the official subtitles for Oishinbo, the ones that were only on YouTube for a very short time, making this a rare opportunity to see this legendary food anime in a language you understand! Hope to see y’all there~

France has been urging the EU to lift sanctions on Russian-Uzbek billionaire Alisher Usmanov

EU diplomats said France had joined Slovakia in calling ​for the lifting of sanctions imposed on Usmanov after Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

I’m a bi guy, ain’t the first time, won’t be the last.

They’re a cool dude though, so we’ll probably still hang out.

Headwear: Marine Combat Helmet (Far Harbor DLC)

Outfit: Courser Uniform (Institute)

Weapon: Handmade Rifle with a suppressor (Nuka-World DLC)

Apparel: Modular Military Backpack (Creation Club)

And you thought i was out of black bars

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