Notices by Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social), page 2

@agnieszka szkoda, że @UODO takich informacji nie wrzuca. 👀

"I'm sure your new AI is great, Meta! But do you have any updates on that cryptocurrency of yours, Diem, formerly known as Libra?"

Very tempted to start digging into old hype by huge tech companies and following up on it. Trying to get them to admit it was a failure.

Whenever Meta opens its PR mouth about anything "AI" related (or whatever hype they'll be pushing next year), journalists should respond with:

"That's great. How's the Metaverse going though?"

:blobcatcoffee:

@rejzor we can criticize both Mozilla and Google for their bad decisions. We can try to convince them to modify their priorities, directly or indirectly. We can write extensions and publish guides on how to disable the most annoying features.

We can, finally, try to fork Firefox, which will require a huge support structure and funding, but is not impossible – XFree86/Xorg and OpenOffice/LibreOffice are good examples of huge complex projects that got successfully forked.

@kuba

Sigh. Mozilla decides it is time to change the perfectly serviceable, and pretty damn good, logo.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/08/mozilla-new-logo

Minister Gramatyka:
> jeśli możemy teraz bezpiecznie korzystać z systemów bankowych, a to dotyczy naszych pieniędzy, to myślę, że spokojnie też zaakceptujemy głosowanie przez internet

Systemy bankowe:
> Klienci banku, zaniepokojeni widokiem konta z miliardowymi stratami, zasypują infolinię PKO BP telefonami. Niektórzy mogli przeżyć szok po zalogowaniu się rano i zobaczeniu na koncie kilkuset miliardów złotych na minusie.
https://wiadomosci.onet.pl/kraj/awaria-w-pko-bp-miliardowe-straty-na-kontach/sf0fcxn

(spokojnie, to tylko tymczasowa awaria)

#Polska

Tydzień temu PAP opublikował depeszę, w której wini "hakerów" za blokady newagowskich Impulsów.

Napisałem o tym w sobotę w OKO.press:
https://oko.press/pap-bezpodstawnie-wini-hakerow-w-aferze-z-impulsami

> Depesza PAP dotycząca bulwersującej sprawy blokad w pociągach Impuls bezpodstawnie insynuuje, że to specjaliści wynajęci do zbadania tej sprawy sami modyfikowali oprogramowanie w pociągach Newagu. Nie ma to potwierdzenia w faktach ani w cytowanym stanowisku prokuratury

#Polska #Newag

Wczoraj komunikat w sprawie opublikowała Prokuratura:
https://www.gov.pl/web/pr-krakow/17062024-sledztwo-w-sprawie-nieuprawnionych-zmian-zapisu-danych-informatycznych-w-systemie-sterowania-pojazdow-serii-impuls-produkowanych-przez-newag-sa

> W związku z treścią depeszy [PAPu] z dnia 11 czerwca 2024 roku oraz powielającymi ją publikacjami w przestrzeni medialnej z których wynika, iż „Prokuratura Regionalna w Krakowie prowadzi postępowanie przygotowawcze w sprawie zainstalowania *przez hakerów* oprogramowania wywołującego blokowanie pociągów Impuls” wskazuję, iż taka informacja nie została udzielona przez Rzecznika Prasowego tut. Prokuratury.

@robryk @kuba
yup, that's what my Fasada nginx config does:
https://0xacab.org/rysiek/fasada/-/blob/master/services/etc/nginx/sites/example.com.conf?ref_type=heads#L38

This has been battle-tested in production as well. I should really write it up. 😉

Dear #Blind community, would you mind a question?

For a long while I had an ASCII-art hacker glider emblem in my profile bio. It was this:

. ۬. :

At some point I realized this might be a problem for people using screen readers. So I removed it from my bio.

I am still somewhat fond if it though, and wonder if maybe it wasn't in fact that big of a deal?

And more generally, what do you think of small ASCII-art bits like this? Are they extremely distracting? Are they acceptable?

Thank you!

Telegram[1]:

> Q: Do you process data requests?
>
> (lots of hand waving)
>
> To this day, we have disclosed 0 bytes of user data to third parties, including governments.

Indian court[2]:

> Telegram has filed an affidavit dated 6th October, 2022, deposed by Major Lakshmiraj Rathore, as Authorized Representative, confirming that the data as directed by the Court has been filed

🤡

[1] https://telegram.org/faq?setln=en#q-do-you-process-data-requests
[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20240314185143/http://164.100.60.183/writereaddata/orderSan_Pdf/pms/2022/1669618366215_31241_2022.pdf

#Telegram

Telegram in 2020[1]:

> Q. Will you have ads?
> No.

Telegram in 2024[2]:

> Q. Will you have ads in my private chats and groups?
> No.

…but also:

> In 2021, Telegram launched Sponsored Messages – minimalist, privacy-conscious advertisements that can appear in certain public channels.

Hey, but at least they still promise not to sell your data, so that's fine. I'm sure they would never go back on this one. 🤡

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20200229080907/https://telegram.org/faq#q-how-are-you-going-to-make-money-out-of-this

[2] https://telegram.org/faq?setln=en#q-how-are-you-going-to-make-money-out-of-this

#Telegram

I am now verifying a @QubesOS installation ISO I am going to use very soon, and I need a trusted source of their master signing key fingerprint.

/me looks at the 10-year anniversary t-shirt I physically got from QubesOS team at #38C3 :blobcateyes:

Right. :blobcatcoffee:

#JustNerdThings #QubesOS

Fun fact:

👉 HTTP site on a .int domain is an "unsigned int".

👉 HTTPS site on a .int domain is a "signed int".

If #DNS is so great, why is there a .int, but not a .float, .char, or .double? 🤔

Okay, so, podcasts are great but sometimes I prefer to read instead of listen. 🤔

So what if – hear me out – there was a thing like podcasts, but for text! 🤯

It would still be distributed via RSS, you could still follow them and automagically pull them to your device. But instead of audio, there would be text. ✏️

👉 We could call them: textcasts!

And get this: I already have one! It was super easy to set up, actually. You can find it here:
https://rys.io/en/feed.rss

@arek @lukaso666 Panowie tu pitu-pitu, a linków do muzyki nie widzę.

FuckFuckNo. 🤦♀️

I just want a search engine that works. I have zero need for a godawful "AI" hallucinating mansplainer in my results. Just… no.

Time to move off of DDG. What else is out there?

Edit: yes, it seems to be for real:
https://www.reddit.com/r/duckduckgo/comments/1adxgy4/give_duckduckgo_ai_chat_a_spin/

#DuckDuckGo #AI

Here's a half-formed thought I need to mull a bit on:

Somehow, algorithmic (and especially "AI-driven") decision making tends to only be proposed in contexts where it can only — or mostly — affect those with the least power in the system.

Migrants and asylum seekers.
Prisoners.
Families using any form of state support (child benefits, foodstamps, etc).
Palestinians in Gaza.

It somehow never gets proposed for use-cases where it might affect the wealthy and powerful.

One wonders why. 🤔

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