#privacy

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Someone Was Arrested at a Public Meeting For the Crime of Anti-Data Center Clapping

https://gizmodo.com/someone-was-arrested-at-a-public-meeting-for-the-crime-of-anti-data-center-clapping-2000791608

i’ve said it before and i’ll say it again; you’re not a network engineer unless you’ve moved a ceiling tile to trace a cable and had a small netgear switch fall on your head

The funny thing about Mullvad is that a VPN product is a promise to keep you safe. Protect me, don’t let the state or some corporation see what I’m doing.

Then the cofounder funds a fascist party into the mainstream; and not small money, but enough to move them from the fringe to somewhere on the national scene.

The blog response this week: “We need a diversity of voices”

Like. Please. Stop. That’s something you say on a panel or podcast, not as a way to keep supporting the kind of people who want to surveil, deport, and punish the kind of people your product claims to protect.

When the rubber hits the road, their morals are as soft as everyone else’s and no one sees the irony. Maybe not a good decision, they say, but “diversity of voices.” Case closed. Please move on.This is upsetting us at HQ! We’ve had to think about this for three weeks already!

Their marketing sold a spine that the business clearly does not have. It’s disappointing, but a business isn’t its marketing, it’s what the money does when nobody’s watching.

And nobody was going to do anything. It’s private, there is no board to vote him out, or any structure to enforce any consequences.

That move is up to you and your wallet.

So: good product maybe, bad business. Not run on principle, run on plausible deniability.

A bit sad but spend thirty minutes and find something else, go do one of @JulianOliver’s courses when they open up.

Orbital AI datacentres come with latency issues. If they're in LEO, they will have moderately low latency to a moving point on Earth, but for a fixed client the latency will increase as more relays are needed to account for curvature, so the jitter is high. If you put them in geostationary orbit, the latency is fixed, but large.

The solution to this is to put not just the AI datacentres, but also the AI bros in orbit. If you put an AI bro and a small radio in LEO, in the same orbital trajectory as an AI datacenter, they will have very low latency - indeed, significantly lower latency than ground-based routing if both they and the datacentre are on the ground.

Importantly, AI bros have a lot less mass than datacentres. As such, they are much cheaper to launch. As a pilot programme, to assess feasibility, I recommend launching a test constellation of AI bros into LEO. Note that, unlike datacentres, AI bros are made out of non-toxic (at least, in the chemical sense) substances. The environmental impact of uncontrolled atmospheric reentry is significantly lower, making the risk from the failure of a pilot deployment significantly lower.

RT: @MarkRuffalo Hello @ElonMusk. This is how you are perceived. Not too late to course correct but it’s getting pretty late. You certainly have the extra money on hand to really help the people of the world instead of the hellbent road of chaos and destruction you are ludicrously barreling down. Put down the Ket straw. 🤪

In other words, try to act Canadian.

Trump's own declassified docs confirm Russia ran the Burisma/Biden smear with US officials to help Trump win in 2020.

He released proof he was the beneficiary of foreign election interference. In a speech about foreign election interference.

#ArrestTrump #IndictRepublicans #USPol

I hope Ossoff runs for president in ‘28. Newsome likely will but he’s such a lightweight and a trust-fund nepo baby.

https://www.wonkette.com/p/jon-ossoff-leaves-permanent-mark

https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/meta-ai/articles/meta-ray-ban-smart-glasses-184756379.html

"Count #Binface has committed to donate 50% of his proceeds from the sale of this merchandise to the homeless charity Shelter."

#UKPol

https://www.binfaceshop.co.uk/

If you fly from the ridiculously-renamed West Palm FL airport with its new airport code DJT, to Sioux City, your routing will be DJT-SUX.

Or, from Fukuoka, Japan: FUK-DJT.

Not that these routings are even possible but do with that what you will. #Trump

RE: https://social.heise.de/@heiseonlineenglish/116914138856256964

and so it begins? 🙏

"subprime computing" (who coined that?), how accurate.

In case you missed it, here's Count Binface's appearance on the BBC this morning.

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Sometimes you come across something that fascinates, and you wish you’d written yourself . Here’s one such.
https://thegrimhistorian.substack.com/p/has-america-crossed-the-asshole-threshold?r=pt3y9&utm_id=97758_v0_s00_e0_tv4_a1dennhb6uf2c4&triedRedirect=true

#FlockSafety Credibility Lost as it Repeatedly Lies to City Councils, #Police Departments, and Public Across the Country

The #ACLU documents how an automatic license plate reader company has lied about its operations, signaling a need for reputable governments to avoid working with #Flock Safety.
#alpr #privacy #security #surveillance

https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/tracking-alpr-cameras/flock-safety-credibility-lost-as-it-repeatedly-lies-to-city-councils-police-departments-and-public-across-the-country