ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

Mastodon Flock is an excellent Twitter-to-Mastodon friend finder: all the functionality of Movetodon (before Twitter killed it today), but open-source and with a delightfully retro interface. https://mastodon-flock.vercel.app/

IBM, Circa 1979: “A computer can never be held accountable, therefore, a computer must never make a management decision.”

Judges in 2023: “Let’s let AI write our judgements and also decide if someone should be released on bail!”

#AI #Ethics #news #howCouldThisGoWrong

https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7bdmv/judge-used-chatgpt-to-make-court-decision

This is the best way to respond to mean comments online.

First, buy a harp. Second, program strings to correspond to letters. Third, type your comments on the harp.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=weLqPllcbzo

My guess? That's the 100th luftballon.

fyi, since many people don't know this exists:
Almost all computer screens made in the last decade support DDC/CI. (The Display Data Channel Command Interface).
You can use it to control stuff like the backlight brightness without fiddling with the awful screen buttons and OSD.

On Linux once you load the ddcci kernel module the screens appear in /sys/class/backlights and can be controlled like a laptop screen.

I made a tool for exploring JSON APIs interactively!

It's been invaluable to me for figuring out how #ActivityPub works. It's surprisingly satisfying to just click around, pretending this was some sort of client! :D

I encourage you to paste the URL to your own #Fediverse profile into the input box, and see how far you can get!

🕵️ https://json.blinry.org 🕵️

For every meeting, you need a designated buddy who is also in the meeting that you can message to vent about the meeting.

Not what I'd call a "blockbuster", but interesting if you're into #DNSSEC and how to protect keys, here for the root zone.

Root KSK Ceremony 48, recorded on 2023-02-01. Agenda, script, and logs at https://www.iana.org/dnssec/ceremonies/48

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ0nhRRoM5o

To sum up where the Fediverse is right now:

1. @EU_Commission backs it
2. The @w3c backs it
3. @fsf backs it
4. @eff backs it
5. Twitter Co-Founders @ev and @biz back it
7. Web browsers like @mozilla and @Vivaldi back it
8. Prominent 3rd party client devs like @paul backs it
9. @gruber and @davew back it
10. @georgetakei backs it

Am I missing anyone?

Oh yeah, YOU back it!

A few months ago, we warned that malevolent people were buying Google ads leading people to fake #GIMP websites to trick them into downloading malware.
Apparently this is still continuing to this day (as were reported to us). Google is still not blocking these fake ads despite the many reports and articles which happened for months now. 😓

Be careful and always make sure where you download your software from. Also the GIMP project doesn't buy ads!

https://floss.social/@mithrandir@defcon.social/109773987578181949

The carbon footprint of NFTs on Ethereum wasn’t looking great before The Merge, but it was nothing compared to on-chain Bitcoin NFTs

Yesterday Bitcoin mining company Luxor mined the largest block ever, containing almost exactly 4MB of data. Only 63 transactions could fit into the block, as the NFT used up the rest of the available space

The carbon footprint: ~888 metric tons of CO2, equivalent to the per passenger carbon footprint of taking a flight from New York to Tokyo and back - 466 times

Tonight was the closest pass. Got this then clouds came in. I will get another chance in 50,000 years.

Will you play #FOSDEMgeddon this year? https://gist.github.com/bagder/91312bc0a45f657da1db291d8e5f3cf4 🤠

Elon shutting down the whole entire twitter api to prevent people from finding their followers on mastodon……. Whew!

I Am Not A Lawyer, but I'm pretty sure this isn't how #GDPR works... 🤡
#privacy #dataPrivacy #IANAL

Too bad they didn't announce the new TwitterDev 2.0 animated logo along with this change.

from the time that we reported a scam app impersonating Brave and stealing cryptocurrency, it took 16 days and escalation to multiple Google employees for Google Play to take it down. the app had been up since Dec 19(!) and had over 1k users :(. https://community.brave.com/t/brave-wallet-app-scam-on-google-store/463774

curl 'https://groundhog-day.com/api/v1/predictions?year=2023' | jq .predictions | sqlite-utils insert day.db groundhogs - --flatten

sqlite-utils convert day.db groundhogs groundhog_coordinates --multi '{"latitude": value.split(",")[0], "longitude": value.split(",")[1]}'
datasette install datasette-cluster-map

datasette day.db

Groundhogs on a map!