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In this wide-ranging but oftentimes shocking interview, Jimmy speaks with Catherine Austin Fitts, the former United States Assistant Secretary of Housing and...
Microsoft wants to take a continuous stream of screenshots of your system. They have been keylogging for a long time. Microsoft has been using Copilot to spy. ( schneier.com/blog/archives/202… ) Storage remains cheap; Microsoft's cluster is way up the list on top500.org. Eating as much data as you can and keeping it around forever in case you figure out how to use it at some point in the future is espoused by Microsoft, Google, Facebook, everyone, all of the large tech companies. Data is considered an asset, active user metrics represent not just ad inventory but also a continued stream of data. AI prompts are part of that data, kept around forever, besides being used to train new versions of the AI. AI image generation tools produce unique images. Image search is old tech. You can build it from scratch in your house: you normalize the image, you adjust color to maximize noise and then you boil it down to a 8x8 1bpp square first so that you have a 64-bit index, and that's often enough for a match, but if you have a lot of really similar images, you can just treat that as a constraint on the search space. It's not exactly CS-101, but it's something you can do maybe two or three years in. Microsoft makes a big chunk of its money from government contracts. PhotoDNA came out of Microsoft Research. AI-generated images are tied to an account: if not a credit card, at least an identity with IP/email/time, maybe a phone number for 2FA. AI-generated images are almost certainly kept around. It is not hard at OpenAI's (i.e., Microsoft's) scale to retain a searchable corpus of all previously generated images. People are using AI tools to make avatars. None of those people are actually anonymous.
Microsoft announced that it caught Chinese, Russian, and Iranian hackers using its AI tools—presumably coding tools—to improve their hacking abilities.
>AI-generated images are tied to an account: if not a credit card, at least an identity with IP/email/time, maybe a phone number for 2FA.
wonder if github pushing mfa on everyone is related to this - the pretense is "security", but if you really think about it, there's no good reason to require a phone number for a service like that, without an ulterior motive.
@icedquinn @genmaicha Oh, yeah, the power bill even. I read this guy's blog, I think he was from the UK but maybe from the US, and he was living in Beijing, and basically slumming it, which made the stories really interesting. So the apartment he was renting, there was a special card that needed to be used to pay the power bill, and no one knew where the card was, so he couldn't use more electricity than the free allotment.
@icedquinn @jae @genmaicha I do! I had written a post about the guy gutting his blog and Wayback not having it, but I decided to see if they'd added it (they have imported a lot of external crawls since the last time I checked) and the history has been restored: web.archive.org/web/2010112020… . Also pretty interesting if kind of a downer: web.archive.org/web/2010112104… . And for the lulz, he has translated some Chinese things: web.archive.org/web/2010112023… .
@jae @genmaicha @icedquinn The "Let's Make a Mac" article is incredibly fascinating, but that's the one that covers a big chunk of logistical problems in Beijing. The reason he has duct-taped the hackintosh is hilarious.
@genmaicha @icedquinn @jae Apparently he's from Detroit; I remembered wrong. I am exceedingly pleased that you asked for a link, I haven't seen these articles in years.
Well, this was interesting: web.archive.org/web/2010112023… . I don't think most of it is news to anyone besides white women. I will say the ex saw the Dalai Lama give some MIT higher-up (I think it was either the dean or Minsky) a prayer mat; left out of the headlines was that this prayer mat was made from human skin, if that gives you an idea of the degree of feudalism in Tibet.
Also of note (depending on what counts as notable to you; cc @mint ), weird coincidence (or not exactly because emu scene was a small world), he was hosting byuu on a subdomain: web.archive.org/web/2007102914…
If you're speaking in general, I'm full of links but topics tend to pop up in conversations.
@jae @mint @genmaicha > tibetan feudalism i have heard the tibet government isn't the nicest, though not predisposed to believe the CCP has anyone's best interests at heart by occupying it.
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To add your icloud email address to any desktop mail client on Linux, enter these parameters:
The server for receiving email is imap.mail.me.com. It uses SSL, and the port is 993. The user is your icloud address, and for the password, you'll need to generate an app specific password.
As per sending email, the server is smtp.mail.me.com, SSL is needed, and the port is 587. The address and password are the same that you entered for email reception.
For contacts and calendars, the parameters to enter are the following: As the calendar address, enter caldav.icloud.com/ . Your user name is your icloud address, and your password is the app password you generated earlier. Same goes for contacts, except the address to enter is contacts.icloud.com/.
You can access Notes and Reminders through the web portal. They only have the basic features. iWork apps, like Numbers, pages and Keynote are also all accessible.
Now for photos, the web interface is serviceable, you get your albums, a list of pictures, you can upload photos manually and have them show up on all your other devices, but you won't be able to edit them from here.
There is no auto upload app that will let you send pictures from your desktop to your icloud photo library either, you'll have to do manual uploads.
There's a command line utility called icloud photos downloader:
As per files stored in iCloud drive, this one will also only be accessible through the web interface, you can't mount it as external storage or auto sync files to a Linux desktop, which kinda sucks.
If you use Apple Music, there's a fantastic Linux desktop client, called Cider. You can install it from flathub,or as a snap, a debian package, and an appimage, as well as from the AUR.
There is simply no way to access your imessages on Linux. No web interface, no app, no third party client. it's a closed source program and protocol, and so unless Apple decides to offer a web interface or to open the protocol, you'll have to keep using your smartphone or tablet to answer these.
Connecting devices
What if you want to plug in a device and grab its contents on Linux, though? Well, that's supported. By default, when plugging in your iphone or ipad, it will show up as a camera device, provided you accept that access on the popup that appears on your device. It will show up with a DCIM folder.
It will be mounted as read-only, so you can't transfer files to it.
KDE Connect lets you sync stuff between a phone or tablet, and a linux desktop. It should be installed by default on KDE desktops, and on GNOME, you can install the GSConnect extension. Don't forget to reboot your computer afterwards, it never worked right after install for me.
On iOS, you can share the contents of the clipboard, send photos or videos, send regular files, use the device as a slideshow remote, run commands, or use it as a virtual touchpad. You can also send files to your iDevice, and they'll show up in the Files app, in local files, in the KDE Connect folder.
In this tour de force essay, Hans-Hermann Hoppe turns the standard account of historical governmental progress on its head. While the state is an evil in all
An operation by Ukraine's #Security Service (SBU) using first-person-view (FPV) #drones smuggled deep inside Russian and hidden inside trucks has hit 41 Russian heavy bombers at four airfields across the country, a source in the agency told the Kyiv Independent on June 1.
The increased rate of global #warming has shocked even the experts. Global temperatures in 2023, 2024 and 2025 so far has shattered previous records, and not by a little. Scientists have long known that #greenhouse gas #emissions are driving global warming, but the recent spike is faster and larger than anyone expected. Something is accelerating climate change, and we don’t fully understand what it is.
https://wmo.int/news/media-centre/wmo-confirms-2024-warmest-year-record-about-155degc-above-pre-industrial-level
There is no question more urgent than the one indicated by that red arrow in the graphic above.
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The very first performance of #RageAgainstTheMachine. October 23, 1991. #TheQuad#CalState#NorthridgeCA Thirty-four years later and their first set is still just as applicable today as it was then.
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Volodymyr Zelensky announced that 117 drones were used in the strike inside Russia that wiped wiped out dozens of nuclear “doomsday” bombers and other aircraft.
@sicp @crunklord420 @pernia @lina @Suiseiseki @akai @dsm @jp @gikobot Well, basically Tails is looking after cream and OC in the park. He grabs his crotch and leads them to a secluded area of the park where he firs gets blow jobs from both. Then Tails escalates to undressing and notices that OC shat his pants and he savors the turd. The entire thing goes on with more hot scat sex. What shit comic from a shit furfag website.
It's what they call themselves. I don't like the term.
> Im 90% sure their cope is
Public information that is independently verifiable, ask someone else: Opal was opposed to the removal of CP from FSE and constantly complained if I did that, if I told pedophiles to kill themselves (something she told other people to do every damn day, but pedophiles are a protected class) or used the terms "chomos" or "diaper snipers", and was very insistent that the spelling "paedophile" is preferred. Opal was open about having participated in "CP raids" of imageboards/forums (i.e., people attempting to get a site taken down by spamming CP) back in the day. A large number of people kicked from NNIA went to anime.website. Pedophiles started posting child models on anime.website, Opal screeched at the people that deactivated those accounts. Opal at some point declared that she would not remove anything, even CP, until specifically directed by a court order, and immediately "WorldMAP" (already deactivated on FSE) started posting hardcore child rape/bondage; after a day or two, she removed the images and announced that she was going to let the anime.website domain expire. A youjo.love user claims that, when challenged by Opal on whether he was actually a pedophile or not, he sent Opal a photo of himself giving the thumbs-up next to his screen, which was displaying child pornography; whatever was done with that image, it is a really fucking strange thing to demand that someone prove they're a pedophile.
You can draw whatever conclusions you want from that. That's all independently verifiable information, so don't ask me. I do not wish to talk about pedophiles for the nth consecutive day. thread_cycle.png
@crunklord420 @pernia @lina @phnt @Suiseiseki @sicp @akai @dsm @jp @gikobot @mint @maxmustermann from the fact that others wanna blanket the whole thing as a cp attack by bad actors not from the instance on their server (this is the third time ive heard this from a pawoo defender) I would not be suprised if they feel like just saying this enought would hide the evidence.
> others wanna blanket the whole thing as a cp attack by bad actors not from the instance on their server (this is the third time ive heard this from a pawoo defender)
Either I'm missing something you're talking about or you've confused two or three things that I was talking about with Pawoo.
I don't know why you're talking about Pawoo; anime.website absolutely was people that lived on that instance and were happy with that instance, not doing an attack, but Opal declared it open season and the guy that posted semi-nude kids started posting hardcore CP. Separate thing, Opal participated in CP raids; that wasn't on fedi (as far as I know).
Whether or not there are pedos hiding out on Pawoo (there are, but there are about a million people on there anyway: fedilist.com/instance/pawoo.ne… ), there absolutely have been attacks from outside Pawoo using Pawoo. There have been plenty of attempts, the biggest one being the guy with the CP avatars that spammed other instances. Details are in the MRF that I wrote to get rid of it: git.freespeechextremist.com/gi… .
> # The first one had the nickname DISABLE_SIGN_UP@pawoo.net and the bio: > # "<p>IT WILL ONLY GET WORSE</p><p>REPORT IT WHEN YOU SEE IT JAPS</p>" > # The second one was named _BLOCK_THE_PAWOO_DOMAIN_@pawoo.net, this bio: > # "<p>I CAN KEEP DOING THIS AS LONG AS PAWOO IS FEDERATED AND ALLOWS SIGN UPS</p><p>WANT IT TO STOP? BLOCK THE PAWOO DOMAIN RETARD</p>"
(Bonus Gleason joke at the end, so you may be able to guess when it was written.)
The MRF in question just ignored Like activities from Pawoo users that had no public posts. The attack was pretty clever: he put CP in his avatar and then spammed Like activities, and no one on the server noticed it because Likes don't show up on the timeline, but people on other servers saw CP-spam from Pawoo. A lot of people blocked Pawoo as a result of that and FSE never had to.
There are terms that they do not like and "pediverse" is not just a term they like, but a term the pedos came up with. I don't think it's the term we should be using, and I don't want to treat the woodchipper-fodder instances as a fixture in the network. The sooner they become afraid of federating with the rest of us, the sooner they move to whitelist federation and they're gone.
palestine · 5 minutes ago What's wrong is that this happens in a context where Russia has 100 times or more the military capabilities of Ukraine. I am wondering what they hope to achieve with this
its all a show to bring in the #NWO of hate and constant #war !
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the mystery of the rough idle deepens. i may need to bench test the idle air control valve and there is another air bypass valve inside the manifold that i should check
wlroots window capture progress: now it works with off-screen windows and popups are handled correctly!
Also added a small hack to render onto a transparent background. Will need a bit more work to clean that up.
Apart from that, the main remaining blocker is fixing interactions with various output-related Wayland events (preferred scale, transform, frame pacing etc).
When this is all over, please give us a list of every university/college that caved to Trump on anything. I want to make sure I know which schools NOT to send my son to when he graduates high school.
Universities quietly negotiating with White House aide to try to avoid Harvard’s fate, source says
Microsoft wants to take a continuous stream of screenshots of your system. They have been keylogging for a long time.
Microsoft has been using Copilot to spy. ( schneier.com/blog/archives/202… )
Storage remains cheap; Microsoft's cluster is way up the list on top500.org.
Eating as much data as you can and keeping it around forever in case you figure out how to use it at some point in the future is espoused by Microsoft, Google, Facebook, everyone, all of the large tech companies. Data is considered an asset, active user metrics represent not just ad inventory but also a continued stream of data.
AI prompts are part of that data, kept around forever, besides being used to train new versions of the AI.
AI image generation tools produce unique images.
Image search is old tech. You can build it from scratch in your house: you normalize the image, you adjust color to maximize noise and then you boil it down to a 8x8 1bpp square first so that you have a 64-bit index, and that's often enough for a match, but if you have a lot of really similar images, you can just treat that as a constraint on the search space. It's not exactly CS-101, but it's something you can do maybe two or three years in.
Microsoft makes a big chunk of its money from government contracts. PhotoDNA came out of Microsoft Research.
AI-generated images are tied to an account: if not a credit card, at least an identity with IP/email/time, maybe a phone number for 2FA.
AI-generated images are almost certainly kept around. It is not hard at OpenAI's (i.e., Microsoft's) scale to retain a searchable corpus of all previously generated images.
People are using AI tools to make avatars.
None of those people are actually anonymous.
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