Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

98GiB of CDC datasets have been uploaded to Internet Archive, before they were taken down from CDC's website to comply with Trump's executive order:
https://archive.org/details/20250128-cdc-datasets

This means that the @internetarchive will quickly become a target for the fascists currently running the US government.

Now would be a good time to start thinking how can we help protect it and help out.

Donating is the simplest thing we can do right this moment:
https://archive.org/donate

#CDC #InternetArchive

There's a "Signal deanonymized" thing going around:
https://gist.github.com/hackermondev/45a3cdfa52246f1d1201c1e8cdef6117

Stay calm. Deep breaths.

👉 while this is a real consideration, the only thing the attacker gets from this is a very rough (kilometers or tens of kilometers radius) location

👉 other communication platforms that use any kind of caching CDN to deliver attachments are just as affected

👉 you almost certainly should continue to use Signal, unless you specifically know that this is a big problem for you.

#Signal #InfoSec

anti-trans, uspol

We need for community-run, ethical, well-moderated communication platforms more than ever.

I'm sure this is one of the reasons why many folks are joining fedi today. Welcome, glad to see you here! 👋

However:
👉 infrastructure is not free
👉 moderation is hard emotional labor
👉 managing a server takes time and effort

Please consider getting engaged and contributing, if you can. Help moderate your instance. Support your instance financially. Help make fedi sustainable.

#NewHere #TikTokRefugee

Are you fucking kidding me?

Jack Dorsey is a main track speaker at FOSDEM this year:
https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4507-infusing-open-source-culture-into-company-dna-a-conversation-with-jack-dorsey-and-manik-surtani-block-s-head-of-open-source/

🤮

I am at a loss of words. I also owe sincere apologies to everyone flagging issues with FOSDEM over the years, whose concerns I often somewhat minimized. I am sorry, you were all right and I was wrong.

FOSDEM is now explicitly platforming AI/blockchain bro fascists. 🤬

👉 Edit: Drew DeVault is organizing a sit-in, and explains why: https://drewdevault.com/2025/01/16/2025-01-16-No-Billionares-at-FOSDEM-please.html

#FOSDEM #FOSDEM2025

2025 is the year:

19% of Linux on the Desktop
6% when fetch happens
10% Half Life 3 is confirmed
64% we stop giving Big Tech the benefit of the doubt

156 Stimmen, bis Di 14.01.2025 19:50:25

Dear #Fediverse I am trying to find a thing.

It is a screenshot I remember seeing a couple of times of an Xitter post from some dudebro talking about their #AI startup that focuses on training an LLM to do math.

The tweet contained a heatmap of how "good" their "AI" is in multiplication. For small operands it was like 95% and up "accurate", for operands larger than 5 it quickly dropped off.

It was hilarious and a great illustration of AI hype. Can't find it though. Help?

In case you missed it, the hackers who reverse-engineered DRM on Polish trains got sued by the train manufacturer…

…multiple times.

You can donate to their defense fund:
https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2024/das-ist-vollig-entgleist

Context:

Their original talk from last year
https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-12142-breaking_drm_in_polish_trains

My piece about the first lawsuit against them
https://rys.io/en/175.html

#Newag #38C3 #DRM #Trains

New HTTP header just dropped:

X-Twitter: no

Ruszyła kolejna fala migracji z X/Twittera, więc dziś w #OkoPress przyglądam się alternatywom:
https://oko.press/ucieczka-z-twittera-przyszlosc-mediow-spolecznosciowych

Co ciekawe, wszystkie – Fediverse, Bluesky, Threads – przynajmniej w jakimś stopniu twierdzą, że są zdecentralizowane. Mówię więc "sprawdzam", razem z @cwebber , @blaine i @ben .

Nie będzie dla nikogo zaskoczeniem, że #Bluesky i Threads mocno naciągają to "zdecentralizowanie." Ale sam fakt, że wszystkie realne alternatywy dla Twittera promują się decentralizacją jest znaczący!