Orange Site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33446064

discuss

Orange Site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39220528

That is all

And he really did it too 🤣🤣🤣

YouTube is removing the ability for creators to choose where ads show up or whether viewers can skip them pic.twitter.com/HXJgZw2ANO

— Dexerto (@Dexerto) September 6, 2023

https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/xlktl6/opiran_anonymous_hits_iranian_state_sites_hacks/?sort=controversial

Generated from TLDR This:

In the wake of the recent Iranian government crackdown on dissent after Mahsa Amini’s death, the international hacktivist group Anonymous has launched a new operation against the country’s online infrastructure.

It is worth noting that on September 16th, 2022, a 22-year-old Iranian woman named Mahsa Amini died in Tehran, Iran, under Police custody.

Amini was arrested for failure to follow government-mandated forms of the Hijab.

A Google search for the Center’s website shows it was hacked by Anonymous (1) – The deface page left by Anonymous plays a video containing content that shows a message of support to Iranians (2) – Screenshots 3 and 4 show what is inside the database Forensic center’s database. (

JUST IN: In response to a violent police crackdown of protestors and censoring communications, #Anonymous launched #OpIran and have now hacked over 100 Iranian websites, including several belonging to the Iranian government. #

However, it is clear that the group is determined to continue its fight against what it sees as an oppressive regime.

https://ctl.utexas.edu/5-things-know-about-chatgpt

As a first step, learning about this tool will help instructors gain awareness and know to seek assistance when issues related to ChatGPT arise. In addition, the release of ChatGPT encourages us to revisit the best ways to assess student learning in a variety of instructional contexts (5). It invites us to ask important questions, such as:

• Why and how do we best equip students as strong writers?

• What other ways can students demonstrate learning in addition to written papers?

• What is the best way to solicit student writing that is meaningful and authentic?

• If students rely on ChatGPT as a source of information to answer factual questions, how will that affect their development of research skills?

This focus on the relationship between students and instructors and the educational mission of the university fits with broader efforts underway to reinforce the importance of the process of learning, including making and correcting mistakes. The university is in the process of refreshing our honor code and honor code affirmation to renew our commitment to supporting students in their journey to master complex knowledge and skills.

With these types of questions and issues in mind, we have gathered a variety of suggestions you can pick and choose to incorporate in your teaching practice if students’ use of ChatGPT is relevant for you. Incorporating 1-2 of these approaches may help ease concerns and challenges that could arise with the introduction of the ChatGPT tool.

Beginning of the semester:

• Be clear on what you want your students to know and be able to do or demonstrate by the end of the course and why that knowledge is valuable to their lives. (See this resource for assistance in developing learning outcomes for your course.) Help students see that the ways you are assessing their learning are key to understanding what they are gaining from the course and where they may need extra coaching and support. (6)

• Talk to your students about how relying heavily on this tool may interfere with achieving the learning outcomes you hope they will achieve in this course (e.g., problem solving, developing an authentic writing voice, etc.).

  • In particular, “If you can explain to students the value of writing, and convince them that you are genuinely interested in their ideas, they are less likely to reach for the workaround.” (7)

• Have an open discussion with your students about the ethical implications of ChatGPT and the value of authentic learning for students’ lifelong development as learners. This may include having conversations around digital literacy and bias in research and scholarship, as AI writing tools like ChatGPT are limited to the public source material they have access to on the internet.Don’t feel you have to have all of the answers, as this is a continually evolving issue. (6)

Assignment design:

• Ask students to reference and/or cite class materials, notes, and sources (particularly sources that are behind firewalls such as JSTOR articles) in their written assignments. This instruction is valuable because ChatGPT draws on text models from public websites.

• Require students to reflect more deeply and critically on course topics. This tip is always a good assessment strategy and ChatGPT currently performs better on more superficial and less detailed responses.” (8)

• Use in-class time for students to demonstrate knowledge and understanding in a variety of ways through low-tech, low stakes in-person activities like freewriting and live presentations.

• Craft an assignment where you generate a ChatGPT output based on a prompt and ask your students to critique the response, indicating where it did a good job of articulating key points and what nuances it missed. (For 10 other ways to creatively use ChatGPT in course assignments, see “Update your course syllabus for ChatGPT”; keep in mind that asking students to engage with ChatGPT may generate privacy concerns, so it may be better practice to provide them with a copy of ChatGPT responses that they can use.)

• Focus on critical skills that artificial intelligence struggles with. NPR education correspondent Anya Kamanetz describes three of these areas as:

  • Give a hug: empathy, collaboration, communication, and leadership skills;

  • Solve a mystery: generating questions and problem finding; and

  • Tell a story: finding what's relevant in a sea of data or applying values, ethics, morals, or aesthetic principles to a situation. (9)

• Carefully scaffold assignments with time and space for students to complete each step along the way, and consider whether the number of time-intensive tasks might require more bandwidth than students have to spend. Students are more likely to utilize a tool like ChatGPT when they are short on time. (6)

• Treat ChatGPT as a tool that some students may want to use to help get started writing. For example, students who have difficulty starting writing assignments might be encouraged to generate a paragraph with ChatGPT as a stub that enables them to continue writing. As long as the student ultimately adds significant new material and thoroughly edits or ultimately eliminates the output from ChatGPT, they are producing a document that reflects their own work.

Classroom Climate:

One way to help encourage students to make better decisions about using tools such as ChatGPT is to design your classroom climate to engender mastery approaches to learning, which involve a focus on deeply understanding the knowledge and skills rather than simply achieving a particular score on an assessment. In a mastery-oriented classroom, students are more likely to engage in strategies that will help them truly learn the material rather than for the goal of performing a task and receiving a grade for their work.

Three simple tips for encouraging mastery approaches in higher education classrooms include:

1. offering flexible evaluation design: consider providing opportunities for students to revise and redo specific portions of assignments;

2. focusing feedback on process and effort: offer feedback oriented toward student effort and their learning processes rather than on high grades and performance relative to others. When possible offer elaborative feedback rather than feedback based simply on correctness.

3. building a sense of belonging: discuss, emphasize, and model that making errors and mistakes is part of everyone's learning processes rather than something that only poor performers or people who "don't get it" do

holy FUCK.

Windows Snipping Tool is vulnerable to Acropalypse too.

An entirely unrelated codebase.

The same exploit script works with minor changes (the pixel format is RGBA not RGB)

Tested myself on Windows 11 https://t.co/5q2vb6jWOn pic.twitter.com/ovJKPr0x5Y

— David Buchanan (@David3141593) March 21, 2023

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35249971

Yes, it requires save-crop-save, which is probably not the predominant use-case but I think it's still gonna be frequent.

This also applies to the "Snip & Sketch" tool in Windows 10.

Note that this doesn't apply to the windows 10 snipping tool.

You should probably download the things you want to save, but I don't care about the IA after what they did to the Farms.

My Linux user boss is evangelising Linux to me and I plan on dual booting soon

I have zeroed in on KDE Plasma as the DE, but don't wanna use KDE Neon because it is based off of (((Ubuntu)))

My boss uses Fedora, so should I get the Fedora spin with KDE? How does it compare to other distros running KDE?

Orange site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32938589

Google suffered a significant loss Wednesday when a European court denied its appeal of an antitrust decision and issued a fine of 4.1 billion euro ($4.13 billion), a record penalty.

Driving the news: Google had challenged an earlier EU ruling that said it used its Android mobile operating system to stymie rivals, but Europe's second-highest court upheld it.

Why it matters: The hefty fine and ruling is a win for top EU antitrust official Margrethe Vestager, who has aggressively prosecuted Big Tech companies, and could set a precedent for future European antitrust rulings covering tech giants.

What they're saying: "The General Court largely confirms the Commission's decision that Google imposed unlawful restrictions on manufacturers of Android mobile devices and mobile network operators in order to consolidate the dominant position of its search engine," the court said.

• The court did find in Google's favor on one point regarding revenue-sharing with mobile device makers and carriers and slightly reduced the penalty.

The other side: "We are disappointed that the Court did not annul the decision in full. Android has created more choice for everyone, not less, and supports thousands of successful businesses in Europe and around the world," a Google spokesperson said in a statement.

Flashback: This is Google's third EU antitrust fine. Previously, the search giant was fined in a shopping case and an online advertising case.

The big picture: The company is also facing a slew of antitrust suits and inquiries in the U.S.

• A judge Tuesday allowed a lawsuit to move forward against Google that was brought by 16 states and territories, led by Texas, over its advertising technology.

What's next: Google can appeal the ruling to the EU Court of Justice, Europe's highest court.

https://www.axios.com/2022/09/14/google-loses-appeal-eu-antitrust-ruling

Fricking bloat!

I'm trying to find a distro that fits entirely in the 8gb so I can fit it entirely in ram on an old dell I fixed so I can use it as a snappy little streaming box (because I don't have a spare harddrive and am too lazy to buy one).

Ubuntu mate (A supposed "lightweight" distro!) BASE install is much too fat to fit (remember I need to fit the whole OS, all installed programs plus firefox/chrome/MPV into 8gb of ram).

Antix is nice at 750mb, but it doesn't include the display drivers out of the box and doesn't include any easy way to install them (and to boot lshw on my dell returns many weird and some outright wrong infomation)

Neither ubuntu or antix managed wifi drivers, or even to detect the card.

My point is devshits have pissed away 10 years of hardware advancement and could u plz recommend a distro

Great thread from Kathryn Tewson about how rslurred this thing is

Based AI telling employer to take worker's tips lmao