!pinggrouplovers

Telegram quietly updates FAQ, removing:

"All Telegram chats and group chats are private amongst their participants. We do not process any requests related to them." pic.twitter.com/ajWOOBAAB5

— db (@tier10k) September 6, 2024

Good thing they're not forcing their users to use copilot. Oh wait.

4Chan is going crazy with it and has a lot of examples with jews and stuff https://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/480738477

Okay, so workflow goes something like this:

1. Get on Desktop Computer

2. Go to https://hailuoai.com/video

3. Think of epic idea for 6s video.

4. Go to translate.google.com and turn your idea into Simplified Chinese (Check both ways to make sure it's understandable)

5. Input idea at https://hailuoai.com/video

6. Wait like 5 minutes

7. ????

8. Profit

Blackberry is not happy

A US appeals court has issued an opinion that could have wide-ranging implications for social media platforms, finding that content selected for users by TikTok's algorithms doesn't qualify for Section 230 protection.

In an opinion [PDF] published today, a three-judge panel from the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Pennsylvania decided that, because TikTok presented "blackout challenge" posts to 10-year-old Nylah Anderson on her For You Page of recommended content, the platform deserves to be taken to court for her death that followed.

The "blackout challenge" refers to a dangerous self-asphyxiation "trend" that went around on TikTok several years ago. Anderson attempted to participate in the challenge, leading to her death, but a lower-court judge decided in 2022 that TikTok was protected by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA), which protects social media platforms from liability for content posted by their users.

The Third Circuit court sharply disagreed.

"TikTok knew that Nylah would watch [the blackout challenge video] because the company's customized algorithm placed the videos on her 'For You Page' after it 'determined that the Blackout Challenge was 'tailored' and 'likely to be of interest' to Nylah,'" Judge Paul Matey wrote in a partial concurrence included in the decision.

Matey argued that Section 230's application has evolved far beyond the original intent when Congress passed the CDA in 1996. It is not to "create a lawless no-man's land" of legal liability.

"The result is a Section 230 that immunizes platforms from the consequences of their own conduct and permits platforms to ignore the ordinary obligation that most businesses have to take reasonable steps to prevent their services from causing devastating harm," Matey said.

Judge Patty Shwartz wrote in the main body of the opinion that the Third Circuit's reading of Section 230 is reinforced by the recent Moody v NetChoice decision from the US Supreme Court. In that case, related to content moderation laws passed in Florida and Texas, SCOTUS held that algorithms reflect editorial judgments. Shwartz wrote that it's a compilation of third-party speech made in the manner a platform chooses, and thus merits First Amendment protection.

"Given the Supreme Court's observations that platforms engage in protected first-party speech under the First Amendment when they curate compilations of others' content via their expressive algorithms, it follows that doing so amounts to first-party speech under Section 230, too," Shwartz reasoned.

In short, you can't have it both ways: Either you serve everything, let users sort it out and keep that liability shield; or you make algorithmic picks that surface content, give users what you think they want and take on the liability that comes with being the arbiter of that content.

With the appeal decided, Anderson's case will head back to the District Court in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania to be re-heard.

"Today's opinion is the clearest statement to date that Section 230 does not provide this catchall protection that the social media companies have been claiming it does," Anderson family lawyer Jeffrey Goodman told the Associated Press regarding the outcome.

See you all in the supreme court

But RISC is more efficient. It just is!

Why?

Source on being back: an Intel press release with no specs

People will be like, “generative AI has no practical use case,” but I did just use it to replace every app icon on my home screen with images of Kermit, soooo pic.twitter.com/cOBB5QNXpt

— Damon Beres (@dlberes) September 2, 2024

First I'm sorry if this isn't appropriate for the hole Second I'm not Indian Third I'm not a codecel and I notice that's what rDrama seems to lean towards. I was thinking something like helpdesk or even physical repair shop before looking at cybersecurity or network infrastructure.

How do people feel about comptia certifications anyway? I've heard conflicting opinions including on this very site.

I don't have any IT work experience, just my wagie jobs. I've heard projects are a good substitute but what would be a good project for a non-codecel? Should I set up switches and routers or something? Also what kind of tests should I expect in the actual interview?

Also I've never messed with LinkedIn before. Do I have to go do that?

His README

https://github.com/pythonbrad/afrim?tab=readme-ov-file#features

and docs don't mention which African scripts he's referring to

https://pythonbrad.github.io/afrim-man/

I just opensourced something I have been working on for months.

I call it “super prompt” because it also allows some LLMs (claude) to come up with really novel ideas, (picture is an example the prompt is larger).

Its built in XML agent format btw.

Github in comments. pic.twitter.com/iMZKiAgRzG

— @bluecow 🐮(schizo) (@BLUECOW009) September 1, 2024

!codecels why aren't your projects going viral on Instagram?

The maintainer for the bcachefs filesystem sends a last-minute patch into the upcoming 6.11 tree, claiming that its an important bug fix and it cannot wait to be merged into 6.12. Linus is not happy because the patch is quite large and it also seems to do more than a simple bugfix, adding risk of breaking things into a release that's almost ready to come out.

Here's a phoronix article giving a bit more explaination: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torvalds-Bcachefs-Regrets

Some random people in the Phoronix thread fight each other, discussing if it was right for Linus to scold the maintainer like this: https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/software/general-linux-open-source/1487364-linus-torvalds-begins-expressing-regrets-merging-bcachefs/page17

On a related note, you might have also heard about bcachefs this week because the Debian maintainer for the bcachefs-tools dropped the package, citing that its way too difficult to package now due to Rust: https://jonathancarter.org/2024/08/29/orphaning-bcachefs-tools-in-debian/

🚨🇧🇷 BRAZIL'S MILITARY RELIES ON STARLINK FOR OPERATIONS & SECURITY

A new letter from Brazil's Defense Ministry reveals that Starlink is vital for military operations, training, and strategic readiness across the nation.

Canceling the contract could compromise critical… https://t.co/SmyOPAC1m4 pic.twitter.com/C8CA91BYdp

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) August 30, 2024

!macacos

Here's the pitch: a motivated group of talented Rust OS developers could build a Linux-compatible kernel, from scratch, very quickly, with no need to engage in LKML politics. You would be astonished by how quickly you can make meaningful gains in this kind of environment; I think if the amount of effort being put into Rust-for-Linux were applied to a new Linux-compatible OS we could have something production ready for some use-cases within a few years.

[…]

So my suggestion for the Rust-for-Linux project is: you're burned out and that's awful, I feel for you. It might be fun and rewarding to spend your recovery busting out a small prototype Unix kernel and start fleshing out bits and pieces of the Linux ABI with your friends. I can tell you from my own experience doing something very much like this that it was a very rewarding burnout recovery project for me. And who knows where it could go?

Are you feeling burn out? How about playing eternal catch-up to relax?