Calibre & Handbrake have big new releases
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The AI bubble is now upon us!
First snowfall of the season.
How to change media sync options on iPhone & iPad to make more storage available
If youâre trying to use a Mac to update iOS on iPhone or iPadOS on iPad, you may see an error message that says something along the lines of âUpdating to iOS 17.1 requires at least 975.2 MB of free space on your iPad. Please change your media sync options to make more storage available.â ⌠[Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2023/10/28/how-to-change-media-sync-options-on-ip ⌠â Read more
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How Cameron Wilson is growing vines in a district better known for grazing and spuds
During a stint as a rural reporter for the ABC, Cameron Wilson became interested in grape growing. Fast-forward 15 years, heâs now a winemaker tending vines in two states. â Read more
Found another example of Google stealing something Iâve written and putting it in a âfeatured snippetâ.
Whatâs super annoying about this one is that the source is a course page at Tufts University, not the official page of the publication theyâre taking this text from. I know the professor who taught that course and Iâve guest lectured for them before on this topic. They put this publication in their course readings, and I guess thatâs where Google picked it up.
@prologic@twtxt.net laughs.. Iâm in danger. 
https://www.stremio.com/ media center
Whelp. The suckification of social media is continuing to expand. Twitter only allows 600 tweets per day unless you pay and then its 6k per day.
An official FBI document dated January 2021, obtained by the American association âProperty of Peopleâ through the Freedom of Information Act.
This document summarizes the possibilities for legal access to data from nine instant messaging services: iMessage, Line, Signal, Telegram, Threema, Viber, WeChat, WhatsApp and Wickr. For each software, different judicial methods are explored, such as subpoena, search warrant, active collection of communications metadata (âPen Registerâ) or connection data retention law (â18 USC§2703â). Here, in essence, is the information the FBI says it can retrieve:
Apple iMessage: basic subscriber data; in the case of an iPhone user, investigators may be able to get their hands on message content if the user uses iCloud to synchronize iMessage messages or to back up data on their phone.
Line: account data (image, username, e-mail address, phone number, Line ID, creation date, usage data, etc.); if the user has not activated end-to-end encryption, investigators can retrieve the texts of exchanges over a seven-day period, but not other data (audio, video, images, location).
Signal: date and time of account creation and date of last connection.
Telegram: IP address and phone number for investigations into confirmed terrorists, otherwise nothing.
Threema: cryptographic fingerprint of phone number and e-mail address, push service tokens if used, public key, account creation date, last connection date.
Viber: account data and IP address used to create the account; investigators can also access message history (date, time, source, destination).
WeChat: basic data such as name, phone number, e-mail and IP address, but only for non-Chinese users.
WhatsApp: the targeted personâs basic data, address book and contacts who have the targeted person in their address book; it is possible to collect message metadata in real time (âPen Registerâ); message content can be retrieved via iCloud backups.
Wickr: Date and time of account creation, types of terminal on which the application is installed, date of last connection, number of messages exchanged, external identifiers associated with the account (e-mail addresses, telephone numbers), avatar image, data linked to adding or deleting.
TL;DR Signal is the messaging system that provides the least information to investigators.
On my blog: Why Care about Free Culture? https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/06/25/free-culture.html #rant #freeculture #media
I never paid a lot of attention to Ben Shapiro before, but what he says is so transparently asinine it boggles the senses. You really have to have a Fox-addled mind to believe that the search for the submersible was completely faked and that the powers-that-be knew the entire time that it had imploded. To believe that a vast conspiracy among hundreds, thousands (?) of people from several countries and spanning several days was orchestrated to lie to the public in order toâŚ..uh, achieve what exactly? âUndermine institutional credibilityâ? What does that even mean?
This is âthe moon landing was fakedâ levels of conspiracy theory.
These billionaires are profoundly without intelligence or depth. Itâs astonishing to see so many shallow, empty fools parading their bad opinions publicly without shame. Let no one ever again fall under the illusion that tech oligarchs are anything more than your racist uncle at Thanksgiving but with more money.
Speaking of men getting owned, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, an expert on authoritarianism who wrote the book Strongmen, regularly calls out and degrades wannabe dictators like Elon Musk and itâs cathartic to witness.
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Jordan Peterson likes to mansplain at women when he knows nothing about the subject. Probably because he thinks women should be property of men instead of free individuals.
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Also, what a douchebag using the title âDr.â in his twitter handle. As a general rule, a white dude who isnât a medical doctor putting âDr.â in their social media title is a gigantic flashing red flag.
Jordan Peterson likes to mansplain at women when he knows nothing about the subject. Probably because he thinks women should be property of men instead of free individuals.
Letâs be clear here. Daniel Penny allegedly choked a black man, Jordan Neely, to death on a subway car. Neely was being loud, but he was not physically threatening anybody and did not have a weapon. In any other context, this would be called âmurderâ, at the very least, âmanslaughterâ if one were being gracious. Because of the USâs history, a white man murdering a black man in sight of the public is oftentimes, and rightfully, called a âlynchingâ. It has a public, political purpose amounting to terrorism.
Daniel Penny was allowed to go free for awhile after this event. He is only now facing accountability, having been recently indicted (arrested and charged with a crime) as he should have been day of. And here is racist right-wing toadie Ben Shapiro saying that Daniel Pennyâthe white alleged killerâis the one being lynched. Not the black man who was allegedly murdered by Penny in view of the public, and who is now dead. Penny himself, who is still very much alive.
@prologic@twtxt.net, I donât know how you go on defending Ben Shapiro, but in the context of US society, what Shapiro is saying is reprehensible and unacceptable. Heâs a right-wing troll with disgusting, not to mention flat out stupid, opinions.
Interesting thoughts about multi thread vs single thread performance.
Social media trap
reddit going dark (a protest action by many subreddit moderators over some planned API changes) reminds me that I should probably stop scrolling through Reddit so much. Reddit is a social network, and as such it attracts you with new content almost every time you visit. Which can be addictive. I once had a profile that I deleted because I wanted to leave all social media. But I fell into the same trap again. â Read more
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How Ukraine's dam collapse could become the country's 'Chernobyl' | Time
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Looks like they edited the headline, but hereâs a receipt from twitter (well, nitter):
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Russia blowing up the Nova Kakhovka dam is an incomprehensible war crime. Among other things, it drains water from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, water that is needed for cooling. They are trying to generate a widespread disaster.
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I found this to be a good thread on the subject of how the media is covering the dam explosion. The author, Timothy Snyder, is a history professor at Yale and has consistently good commentary on the war in Ukraine.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de @prologic@twtxt.net you think we could get media cards to show youtube previews?
**RT by @mind_booster: This is why libraries need to be able to own digital media. https://www.battleforlibraries.com/
#DigitalRightsForLibraries**
This is why libraries need to be able to own digital media. battleforlibraries.com/
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 a price to be paid for this convenience.
Exactly prologic, and thatâs why Iâm negative about these sorts of things. Iâm almost 50, Iâve been around this tech hype cycle a bunch of times. Look at what happened with Facebook. When it first appeared, people loved it and signed up and shared incredibly detailed information about themselves on it. Facebook made it very easy and convenient for almost anyone, even people who had limited understanding of the internet or computers, to get connected with their friends and family. And now here we are today, where 80% of people in surveys say they donât trust Facebook with their private data, where they think Facebook commits crimes and should be broken up or at least taken to task in a big way, etc etc etc. Facebook has been fined many billions of dollars and faces endless federal lawsuits in the US alone for its horrible practices. Yet Facebook is still exploitative. Itâs a societal cancer.
All signs suggest this generative AI stuff is going to go exactly the same way. That is the inevitable course of these things in the present climate, because the tech sector is largely run by sociopathic billionaires, because the tech sector is not regulated in any meaningful way, and because the tech press / tech media has no scruples. Some new tech thing generates hype, people get excited and sign up to use it, then when the people who own the tech think they have a critical mass of users, they clamp everything down and start doing whatever it is they wanted to do from the start. Theyâll break laws, steal your shit, cause mass suffering, who knows what. They wonât stop until they are stopped by mass protest from us, and the government action that follows.
Thatâs a huge price to pay for a little bit of convenience, a price we pay and continue to pay for decades. We all know better by now. Why do we keep doing this to ourselves? It doesnât make sense. Itâs insane.
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From my small experience in writing an event database, I am inclined to agree with this.
