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BreakDecks ,

I don't know of any existing project, but this sounds pretty trivial to make with Python using http.server and PIL modules.

Upload file and store in RAM. Delete after first fetch. Optional watermarking for image files using PIL.

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If you care about the planet, please make sure you sit down before you start reading this post about ExxonMobil.

So.

The CEO of ExxonMobil just said this in an interview: "We’ve waited too long to open the aperture on the solution sets in terms of what we need, as a society, to start reducing emissions."

https://fortune.com/2024/02/27/exxon-ceo-darren-woods-interview-pay-the-price-for-net-zero/

Who's the most influential voice on climate change? Who's to blame for inaction on climate change?

According to the CEO of ExxonMobil, it's environmental activists.

No, really:

"Frankly, society, and the activist—the dominant voice in this discussion—has tried to exclude the industry that has the most capacity and the highest potential for helping with some of the technologies."

Oh, and the CEO of ExxonMobil also apparently thinks consumers are to blame for climate inaction:

"Today we have opportunities to make fuels with lower carbon, but people aren’t willing to spend the money to do that."

Gets better.

He thinks unnamed 'people who generate emissions' should pay for it. (Rather than, say, major transnational oil companies.)

"People who are generating the emissions need to be aware of [it] and pay the price. That’s ultimately how you solve the problem."

https://fortune.com/2024/02/27/exxon-ceo-darren-woods-interview-pay-the-price-for-net-zero/

Worth including a quick reminder here that Exxon-Mobil made a US$36 billion profit in 2023: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/exxon-beats-estimates-ends-2023-with-36-billion-profit-2024-02-02/#:~:text=HOUSTON%2C%20Feb%202%20(Reuters),higher%20oil%20and%20gas%20production.

Not gross revenue.

Profit.

So, remind me again. Who knew about climate change before most of the public?

"Exxon was aware of climate change, as early as 1977, 11 years before it became a public issue... This knowledge did not prevent the company (now ExxonMobil and the world’s largest oil and gas company) from spending decades refusing to publicly acknowledge climate change and even promoting climate misinformation."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-climate-change-almost-40-years-ago/

And just who, exactly, stood in the way reducing emissions all these years?

"ExxonMobil executives privately sought to undermine climate science even after the oil and gas giant publicly acknowledged the link between fossil fuel emissions and climate change, according to previously unreported documents...

"The new revelations are based on previously unreported documents subpoenaed by New York’s attorney general as part of an investigation into the company announced in 2015. They add to a slew of documents that record a decades-long misinformation campaign waged by Exxon, which are cited in a growing number of state and municipal lawsuits against big oil."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/14/exxonmobil-documents-wall-street-journal-climate-science

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BreakDecks ,

It's against the rules to call the CEO of ExxonMobil a vile man?

Fuck that. I'll say it myself. Exxon Mobil CEO Darren Woods is a vile piece of shit and if he weren't actively destroying the planet with oil he'd be perfectly suited as a Republican politician given his aversion to truth.

BreakDecks ,

Mastodon users' posts always include threaded usernames.

Nintendo is suing the makers of the Switch emulator Yuzu, claims 'There is no lawful way to use Yuzu' (www.pcgamer.com)

Nintendo is suing the makers of the Switch emulator Yuzu, claims 'There is no lawful way to use Yuzu'::Nintendo of America is suing the maker of the Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu, saying it "unlawfully circumvents the technological measures" that prevent Switch games from being played on othe

BreakDecks ,

You're very disappointing.

BreakDecks ,

It is, an email alias is a redirect. They've just been calling plus codes aliases and didn't know they were mixed up.

BreakDecks ,

It's called an email alias: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_alias

BreakDecks ,

I have one, and it's neat, but it just isn't stable enough to be a daily driver. Used ThinkPads are the golden standard for cheap and friendly here.

Early 2010's MacBooks also make excellent Linux machines.

BreakDecks ,

My biggest complaint is that I can't actually see what slur was removed, and there are some softball words in the list that I honestly don't give a shit about, so I am always hesitant to report one of these posts because I don't know exactly what they said.

"Removed" could be the n-word, or it could just be a rude word, so how am I supposed to make a call whenever I see it?

BreakDecks ,

One AI company throwing accusations at another AI company, and the evidence on both sides is to point their fingers at their own black-box LLMs like they're magic...

BreakDecks ,

Ethics only matters when there's an effort to enforce it. The Hippocratic oath is just a reason your employer can fire you for making risky decisions. It means nothing if nobody holds you to it.

If you're a doctor working for Neuralink, nobody will expect anything of you but to push the project forward as quickly as possible. For years you only work with monkeys, and when they do finally put a human in the O.R. it's someone who signed away all their rights and accepted all risks to install experimental brain chips. At that moment, that human patient becomes the single most important subject in the entire experiment.

Of course you do it. You're getting paid more money than you ever have in your life to do it, and the entire system is designed to protect you so long as you do what the boss says.

BreakDecks ,

Ah yes, the classic "unless you think it will have a long-term benefit to someone else" exception to "do no harm". I always forget about that part. /s

BreakDecks ,

Nobody wants to use Twitter.

Korea slaps $327,067 fine on Twitch for suspending service (www.koreatimes.co.kr)

Korea slaps $327,067 fine on Twitch for suspending service::The Korean telecommunications watchdog said Friday it has slapped a fine of 435 million won ($327,067) on the U.S. live video streaming platform Twitch, which suspended its video-on-demand (VOD) service in the country last year.

BreakDecks ,

Confirmed at the end of the headline, lmao. How is this confusing?

BreakDecks ,

That is what this article is talking about. Korea is fining them for shutting down.

BreakDecks ,

This isn't even remotely true. Everyone knows that if you're trying to do a cheap embedded product, you use SBCs and Linux. Using Windows for these kinds of applications is almost always the result of a company having a contract with Microsoft that leads their development strategy towards Microsoft's offerings rather than the best offerings.

Also, in what universe is a Linux platform more proprietary than Windows?

BreakDecks ,

It's 2024, most people don't carry cash, and the whole world runs on automation. These kinds of vending machines are completely over the top, but it's actually a pretty bad idea to not use computers for this application. Just knowing when machines need to be refilled remotely saves more money than such an implementation would cost.

BreakDecks ,

Why are you caricaturing Canadians as Hillbillies? They didn't even apologize once, this is totally unbelievable.

BreakDecks ,

An IoT SIM costs a whole lot less than sending a technician to every machine to check stock. I'm not arguing in favor of facial recognition, I've already made that clear, but you are dead wrong if you don't think automation at scale isn't economical.

If you're already putting a modem in the box for credit cards, why not collect some telemetry? Sensors are cheap and effective.

BreakDecks ,

Somebody should go ahead and get a dedicated WSB instance going so that they can migrate easily after Reddit bans them. I want them contained because they are a toxic community, but I also want them to short the Reddit stock because it would be hilarious.

BreakDecks ,

If you can RDP, just copy and paste the file from one computer to the other.

BreakDecks ,

This is interesting. This incident resulted in the Video Privacy Protection Act. I wonder if you could apply this to streaming providers who sell your watch history to advertisers.

BreakDecks ,

I love that I can't identify with this. My biological clock is phenomenal. I only use an alarm as a safety net when I have an early morning commitment, but I usually end up turning it off the next morning well before it would go off.

BreakDecks ,

Restore it from the backup that you regularly make rather than relying on a free service to protect it for you for decades?

BreakDecks ,

It's a weird problem actually. There are valid reasons for blacklisting and whitelisting free email providers.

Some sites only allow registrations from private domains. They blacklist all the free email providers, which makes sure that mostly businesses, academics, etc. are signing up for their services, rather than randos who may have little to no value as a user.

However, some sites see the randos as the only valuable users, and sometimes see private domains as a threat since a bad actor could use one to spawn an infinite number of valid email addresses for registering accounts. Free providers make it much harder to create a new address, so they whitelist them.

BreakDecks ,

The point of posting them is either for fun or for profit. Not to grant an open license for a corporation to sell your content for their profit.

Reddit created a website for people to come and share content and ideas with each other, and now claims to have legal ownership over their users' content and ideas. Nobody participated because they wanted Reddit to sell their data. People generally figured that seeing advertisements was how they paid for the site, not by selling their souls.

BreakDecks ,

So the teacher uses an unreliable AI tool to do his job, to teach a student a lesson about allegedly using an AI tool to do her work, and the only evidence he has is "this proprietary block box language model says you plagiarized this assignment". No actual plagerism to cite, just a computer generated response arbitrarily making accusations. What's the lesson here? AI models are so unreliable, when we use them we punish you for things you didn't do, so don't you dare use them for schoolwork?

It has a 1% false positive rate. If you have students turn in 20 assignments each semester, 1 in 5 students will get disciplined for plagiarism they didn't commit. All because a teacher was too lazy to do his job without blindly accepting the results of an AI tool, while pretending that they are against such things as a matter of academic integrity...

BreakDecks ,

Lmao, yeah, that Linux phone is definitely production ready.

BreakDecks ,

Linux is FOSS. Android is based on Linux. Android is not Linux.

More 128TB SSDs are coming as almost no one noticed this launch — another SSD controller that can support up to 128TB appeared paving the way for HDD-beating capacities (www.techradar.com)

More 128TB SSDs are coming as almost no one noticed this launch — another SSD controller that can support up to 128TB appeared paving the way for HDD-beating capacities::Phison quietly revealed an updated X2 SSD platform at CES

BreakDecks ,

That's actually pretty reasonable.

BreakDecks ,

Why does everyone think Jack Dorsey owns Bluesky? He's a largely inactive member of Bluesky's board, because he invested in early development of the AT Protocol. He doesn't even have an account. He's posting about Bitcoin on Nostr every day though, so it doesn't seem that he believes in Bluesky.

BreakDecks ,

His name is John Mastodon.

BreakDecks ,

robots.txt is a 30 year old standard. If we can write common sense laws around things like email and VoIP, we can do it for web standards too.

BreakDecks ,

I think the issue is that existing laws don't clearly draw a line that AI can cross. New laws may very well be necessary if you want any chance at enforcement.

And without a law that defines documents like robots.txt as binding, enforcing respect for it isn't "unnecessary", it is impossible.

I see no logic in complaining about lack of enforcement while actively opposing the ability to meaningfully enforce.

BreakDecks ,

It's wild to me that everyone here talking about how much Android sucks is just airing greivances about the stock apps from Google/Samsung/etc.

The gallery app is not part of Android.
The file manager is not part of Android.
pretty much every app that came preinstalled on your phone is not part of the OS.

You don't hate Android, you hate the bloatware that came on your phone.

BreakDecks ,

Oh, you're a sustainable Apple user? Show me your reflow oven.

BreakDecks ,

People still act like Apple is a privacy-oriented business even after they planned to scan everyone's iCloud files on behalf of the government to "protect the children".

BreakDecks ,

I couldn't imagine a faster way to make our voices useless than to fill our representatives' inboxes with AI spam...

BreakDecks ,

If paying Mozilla, a well respected privacy focused organization, $9/month to assist you in managing your privacy is too much, don't fret, you have a couple of free options:

  1. Spend hundreds of hours tracking down your own info and manually submitting opt-out requests. Here's a starting point: https://github.com/yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-List

  2. Stop caring about Privacy and let data brokers do whatever they want with your information.

BreakDecks ,

I did what you were too busy to do. I clicked the link.

It's about data brokers. It says so repeatedly on the page you didn't visit.

BreakDecks ,

DeleteMe only does data brokers. This does breaches and brokers. It's like DeleteMe and HaveIBeenPwnd rolled into one.

BreakDecks ,

Pretty sure the EU doesn't need a service like this because they actually have privacy laws.

BreakDecks ,

They're a billion dollar org. They can do more than one thing at a time.

BreakDecks ,

This is why you should follow hundreds to thousands of niche, mostly-inactive YouTubers. Every day you'll get a couple new videos that only you and 17 other people will ever see, with content unlike anything anyone else is making, and if you're lucky the video might even be good too.

BreakDecks ,

Imagine thinking taco bell is spicy. I've eaten curries hotter than Diablo sauce.

BreakDecks ,

I mean, yeah. On one hand, you have pretty much all of Conservatism which is empowered largely by religious ideology, and is propelling the West full-speed towards fascism. On the other hand, you have people's freedom to believe in an authoritarian skydaddy who gives them permission to seek dominion over other people without being challenged.

This take sits right in the middle: "Yes, extremism is largely a result of religious indoctrination, but don't hurt people's feelings by challenging their beliefs."

No, sorry. Challenging people's bullshit supernatural beliefs is very method in which we attack extremism. If those beliefs justify cruelty, there is no shame in telling a person that their beliefs are bullshit and their behavior is reprehensible.

BreakDecks ,

I am not going to pretend that your poor experiences with Linux aren't a valid reason not to use it, but if learning how to be in control of your computer is too much work to be worth the reward, complain less that the corporate black box you're using isn't designed with user freedom as a priority.

Digital freedom is going to require some amount of digital literacy.

Microsoft stole my Chrome tabs, and it wants yours, too (www.theverge.com)

Last week, I turned on my PC, installed a Windows update, and rebooted to find Microsoft Edge automatically open with the Chrome tabs I was working on before the update. I don’t use Microsoft Edge regularly, and I have Google Chrome set as my default browser. Bleary-eyed at 9AM, it took me a moment to realize that Microsoft...

BreakDecks ,

People stick to what they are used to, and don't notice the enshittification. Windows users will happily tell you that Windows "just works", and that Linux is "too hard", because that's what they heard for years and never bothered trying for themselves.

Now, Linux overwhelmingly "just works", and using Windows is a constant fight with the OS. Instead of the problem Linux used to have where everything assumed you understood Unix already and new how to make good user decisions, Windows assumes you're a brainless moron and makes decisions for you without bothering to ask you or even tell you.

Even the fact that you have to install Linux scares people, because people are used to Windows coming on their computer, and in many cases don't even realize that Windows and the computer they are running it on are totally different things.

BreakDecks ,

Not quite. Edge and Chrome are both Chromium-based browsers. There shouldn't be any of the Googled parts of Chrome in Edge, just as there aren't any Googled parts of Chrome in stock Chromium.

Of course, you are now giving your data to Microsoft instead of Google, which isn't really a win or a lose. If you're not paying for the software, you're either using FOSS, or the software is paid for by selling access to you and your computer.

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