Notices by nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social), page 6

A law should tax these AI data centers heavily, making it impossible for them to build anywhere when you find out it is creating environmental damage and issues for local communities. I guarantee these AI companies spend lots of money lobbying to buy power to abuse copyright laws and damage the environment. Ultimately, job losses are also caused by these corporations. I hate everything about this timeline.

@mttaggart there is hope 👍

Microsoft first violated your privacy and safety with its questionable privacy practices. Now, a Microsoft AI data center is draining water resources from a small Mexican town. After decades of battling water bottling and beer companies, rural communities in Mexico are now also having to compete with Big Tech for water. They are destroying our environment so that Openai and Microsoft can have more money https://www.context.news/ai/thirsty-data-centres-spring-up-in-water-poor-mexican-town

A male emperor penguin, named Gus, stands on a scale after being discovered on a beach near the town of Denmark in southwestern Australia, thousands of kilometres from his home on Antarctica. An emperor penguin has never been reported in Australia before, and this is possibly the furthest north that the species has ever been seen

Photograph: Miles Brotherson/AP https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2024/nov/15/week-in-wildlife-in-pictures-a-very-lost-penguin-cloned-baby-lemurs-and-a-mystery-mollusc#img-1

g) :(){ :|:& };: : ...some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

If you could describe yourself in one #Linux command, how would you do it?

a) sudo rm -rf /* - Destructive person.

b) grep -r "answer" / - Searching for answers and information about the universe.

c) cat /dev/random - Thinking about being creative with unexpected outputs!

d) man {command} - Always try to explain things when asked.

e) ls -l /dev/null - Nothing of value contributed to society.

f) fortune | cowsay | lolcat - Add random wisdom, but mostly nonsense, to the conversation.

What your coffee says about the average #Linux user ...

Thomas Kurtz, Co-Creator of Computer Language Basic, Dies at 96 https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/company-news/2024/11/14/thomas-kurtz-co-creator-of-computer-language-basic-dies-at-96/

@JoyOfLiving lol. fix the typo. sorry about that and thanks for the heads up!

@nazokiyoubinbou yes, that makes sense. customisable value (or even random time) would be more suitable. Pixel phone may get such feature soon and I hope other vendor will port it out their older firmware too.

@jotak why do you even need AI? How often do you fly out? LOL. They guy is just trying out things because he knows it is not possible to build AGI in his shity lifetime.

Apple has introduced a new security feature in iOS. While it may not be entirely new to those in IT, it functions similarly to rebooting a device to resolve issues. This feature automatically reboots iPhones after three days of inactivity if the device has not been unlocked for 72 hours. This measure helps prevent attacks, such as attempting various combinations to unlock the phone or attempting to install remote backdoors by actors. That's my guess on its purpose. More https://www.404media.co/police-freak-out-at-iphones-mysteriously-rebooting-themselves-locking-cops-out/

Sama was promising AGI by the end of 2024. Lmao. The guy is a perfect case of Narcissism. Most of his staff have already left the OpenAI because they are sick of his games. He hides abuse under the NDA by forcing everyone to sign it up. Too much money and ketamine dosage fried these tech bros' brains. There is so much hype around it.

*boo hoo* OpenAI, Google and Anthropic are struggling to build more advanced AI https://archive.ph/2024.11.13-100709/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-13/openai-google-and-anthropic-are-struggling-to-build-more-advanced-ai AI companies and billionaire jackasses are slowly finding out that bending the laws of nature and physics is not that simple. These guys watch too much sci-fi, and the next day, they think they will roll out an advanced AI model while collecting billions from investors. The kama is real.

This is what Google says: The AI detection model and processing are fully on-device, which means that no conversation audio or transcription is stored on the device, sent to Google servers or anywhere else, or retrievable after the call.

Scammers steal over $1 trillion dollars (WTF?) a year from people, and phone calls are their favorite way to do it. Now, Google rolls out call screening feature to fight scammers. New intelligent, real-time protections on Android to keep you safe https://security.googleblog.com/2024/11/new-real-time-protections-on-Android.html

@csgraves That sucks. I hope you and your loved one will be safe. I can’t even imagine such a feeling. Stay strong, my friend.

@gardiner_bryant sarcastic post

A sneak peek from my upcoming book 🫣 would you read it?

In 2030, a rogue AI program named "0x0" successfully infiltrated the global banking system by disguising itself as a routine security update. It remained undetected for many months, siphoning off micro-transactions until a human analyst noticed an unusual pattern of recurring transfers of $0.03. The incident led to the development of the "Turing Test for Security," a mandatory check for all security software to prove its human origin.