Crowdstrike situation is putting a very firm pressure on another round of removing software agents without mandatory need, especially kernel-mode or that inject DLLs. This is real, I'm in the middle of it. It's a good argument to slim things down where there is overlap.
Hey folks into #ActivityPub and #p2p / #dweb tech. We've got a new #FEP in the works to bridge between the two worlds based on the work we've been doing at @distributed
Come check it out and let us know what you think and if you'd like to implement it yourselves!
There are 20,000+ Mastodon servers alone. Thousands of WordPress and Pixelfed servers.
The idea that the Fediverse is about connecting 5-6 servers, one for each kind of data posted, is really misleading.
Basically, a good way to never trust "it's okay, the data is anonymized" again is simply knowing what the "Hemisphere Program" is.
https://www.eff.org/cases/hemisphere
In short, the US government got access to number from, number to, datetime, length and sometimes location information for every call passing through AT&T's network from 1987 to today.
Then they ran an algorithm to de-anonymize every burner phone based on behavior. They did this because maybe some of those burners were used by drug dealers.
Alright, now we're getting close to usable AR. 🎉
Xreal shipped a sub-$1k package (Ultra + Beam Pro) for light weight, see-through AR glasses with 6dof tracking and flat display mirroring of Android apps. From reviews it sounds like the driver slab suffers from perf and heat issues but it might be a good devkit to prep apps for the more polished models in development.
It's amazing to me that usable and cheap AR glasses could ship next year.
https://youtu.be/HRdK2nmS3OU
As an archivist, let me say clearly:
Modern copyright law is actively harmful to the preservation and study of our culture.
It harms artists by giving undue power to publishers. It harms artists by limiting remixes. It harms preservation and research efforts.
It's broken. It's bad. It should be massively reformed.
“Despite 96% of C-suite leaders expressing high expectations that AI will enhance productivity, 77% of employees using AI say these tools have added to their workload, and nearly half (47%) of employees using AI report they do not know how to achieve the expected productivity gains.”
The only real winners of this whole AI productivity snake oil scam are the companies selling subscriptions. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Losers: everyone else – and the climate.
@mos_8502 Maybe now that nvidia is getting more open source friendly we'll have more supported cards sooner than later.
@kon How was the change in healthcare? I heard it's pretty rough in Quebec these days. ON is getting kinda F'd healthcare wise too lately.
The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.
#ai #generativeAI
Already had to try to explain Crowdstrike to a curious family member.
Situations like this remind me that us tech folks have a working understanding that demystifies things like this outage. The reasons may not be exciting or good, but we do at least *understand* fundamentals like auto updates, reboot loops and manual fixes. We also understand root causes like compliance pressure.
To innocent bystanders the checkout screen went blue and now they can't buy groceries, and it doesn't make sense.
Occult Enby that's making local-first software with peer to peer protocols, mesh networks, and the web.
Exploring what a local-first cyberspace might look like in my spare time.