Good conversation. Among other things, we resolved the misunderstanding about Twitter potentially being removed from the App Store. Tim was clear that Apple never considered doing so.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 30, 2022

Frogs that are too small to have working vestibular systems but jump anyway, results as expected.

no! it's just a joke! don't actually do those things!

great suggestions king

https://twitter.com/8teapi/status/1706520893621784780

Vicious Self-Degradation

you Google

Quora spots query and id's as frequent

Quora uses ChatGPT to generate answer

ChatGPT hallucinates

Google picks up Quora answer as highest probability correct answer

ChatGPT hallucination is now canonical Google answer

Calibre support high dpi scaling ootb now. Very nice

https://calibre-ebook.com/new-in/fifteen

Since 1919 the IUPAC have been massively important body in standardisation of measurement, units, nomenclature and information sharing as a public forum and avenue for co-operation in research projects. They've been digitising their project archives for several years with the earliest currently dating back to 1981!

It's current state is plastered colours thoughever. Still, it's a very valuable resource as their workshops and lectures by fellows are archived for viewing as well. Enjoy!

https://iupac.org/projects

I thought people only used folx ironically. Love to see it

https://github.com/s-matyukevich/raspberry-pi-os

(tw: anime, chuds, neurodivergency)

Poa.st is a popular Fediverse instance that's essentially the equivalent of Twitter. Poa.st recently gained more prevalence after the great #DropKiwifarms debacle flocked thousands of displaced Kiwis to the site.

What was initially a symbiotic-relationship has since soured over the past few days due to Poa.st's operator, graf, ing at the new clientele; vowing to defederate the Kiwifarms.cc instance as soon as it comes back online.

The linked post contains CrunkLord420, operator of the KiwiFarms.cc instance, leaving Poa.st. A minor slapfight ensues in the replies:

CrunkLord420: I'm moving to [clubcyberia.co] because graf arbitrarily blocks instances and users due to his personal whatever. I'm a hypocrite for even being on poa.st in the first place, I knew this is how it was.

KFcc will probably be back in a week or two anyways.

graf: cya

graf (replying to another user in the thread): I'm not sure what response he wanted after I asked him to not add purported dox imagry to their user emojis and he told me to pound sand so the same can be said here. we had to write an MRF to deal with the spam in the past but if it escalates I will just defed KF.cc

CrunkLord420: no response was expected. I just didn't sub-poast your name.

But since you bring it up: I told you the emoji wasn't doxing, and told you to come up with a definition of doxing for your rule. In the end you agreed it wasn't doxing. Plenty of people have criticized your moderation because you take server-wide actions over your personal disputes. You can say "I can do anything I want it's my server" but don't try to act like your moderation comes from some sort of strict code or policy.

graf: I'm not reading any of this. I don't care at all

Kiwi thread begins discussing here with making a brief appearance: https://kiwifarms.net/threads/poa-st-is-trash.129204/page-3

Null: graf's committed to defederating us for the dumbest reason ever, just fyi.

Also horrible for dramacoin . Hopefully it doesn't happen

Algorithm goes open source at noon Pacific Time

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 31, 2023

5 billion people use the internet.

Less than 1% understand it.

This mega thread will get you up to speed—starting today:

— Misha (@MishaDaVinci) July 24, 2022

Orange site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34327455

It is not uncommon to learn about non-Indigenous entities appropriating Indigenous culture but none of them are as large, prestigious, or well-known as The Apache® Software Foundation is in software circles. They are known for the Apache® Software License, an open-source software license, and the Apache® HTTP Server, which is used nearly everywhere to proxy requests to incoming servers. The nonprofit entity was established in 1999. One of the founders, Brian Behlendorf, describes how he came about choosing the name Apache in the documentary "Trillions and Trillions Served":

I suggested the name Apache partly because the web technologies at the time that were launching were being called cyber this or spider that or something on those themes and I was like we need something a little more interesting, a little more romantic, not to be a cultural appropriator or anything like that, I had just seen a documentary about Geronimo and the last days of a Native American tribe called the Apaches, right, who succumbed to the invasion from the West, from the United States, and they were the last tribe to give up their territory and for me that almost romantically represented what I felt we were doing with this web-server project...

This frankly outdated spaghetti-Western "romantic" presentation of a living and vibrant community as dead and gone in order to build a technology company "for the greater good" is as ignorant as it is offensive. We urge The Apache® Software Foundation to take the necessary steps needed to express the ally-ship they promote so deeply on their website, to act in accordance with their own code of conduct, to "be careful in the words that [they] choose", and change their name.

Indigenous Erasure

Indigenous erasure is the systematic process of opposing, removing, re-framing, and undermining Indigenous presence, past and present, within the broader historical narrative from which they originated and continue to exist. There are several things that Behlendorf says that perpetuate this process in deep and concerning ways. For example, Behlendorf says "the last days of" to frame Apache existence as in the past as opposed to the present. This erasure removes responsibility from the perpetrator of the erasure to acknowledge Indigenous people here and now and reckon with the reality that their actions are an extension of the colonial entity the Apache fought against. There are currently 8 federally recognized tribes that carry on the Apache name and represent thousands and thousands of living, breathing people:

• Apache Tribe of Oklahoma

• Fort Sill Apache Tribe of Oklahoma

• Jicarilla Apache Nation, New Mexico

• Mescalero Apache Tribe of the Mescalero Reservation, New Mexico

• San Carlos Apache Tribe of the San Carlos Reservation, Arizona

• Tonto Apache Tribe of Arizona

• White Mountain Apache Tribe of the Fort Apache Reservation, Arizona

• Yavapai-Apache Nation of the Camp Verde Indian Reservation, Arizona

Organizations that say they support Indigenous peoples while using erasure type language is harmful and counterproductive. This type of erasure undermines the abilities of Native and non-Native people to work together. It also threatens critical rights around Indigenous sovereignty, self-determination, and respect. Ultimately, this undermines the foundation's work to better serve marginalized communities.

Romanticizing Indigenous Cultures

Romanticizing Indigenous culture is another theme in Behlendorf's statement above. Romanticizing is framing past Indigenous societies as pure, reverent, and simple. However, Indigenous societies were, and still are, complex and full of the many contradictions found in modern societies. This stereotype of Indigenous people is harmful. It categorizes Indigenous people within the bounds of the stereotype forced upon them, making it difficult for non-Indigenous peoples to see them differently. It also distances Indigenous people from modern technology, the very thing the foundation represents. In addition to representing a "simpler" time, Indigenous names and imagery are also used to represent the "warrior" spirit. Hence why many sports teams, and countless other colleges and grade schools, use "Indian" imagery as a way to represent them on the "battlefield."

Romanticizing Indigenous cultures is a way of framing them as static rather than dynamic. It also fails to acknowledge years of war, forced assimilation, and other adverse policies embedded as historical trauma throughout the generations and up to this day. Organizations that say they support Indigenous peoples but who lack any real connection to them, instead relying on historical stereotypes, fail to be allies to those they attempt to emulate.

In Their Own Words

Additional information about the name can be found on the foundation's website. The foundation describes how they do things as "The Apache® Way," their logo is a feather, and the company even went so far as to trademark the name Apache®. When reading the About Our Name page, they say:

The name "Apache" was chosen out of reverence and appreciation for the people and tribes who refer to themselves as "Apache"

By not enumerating the Apache nations, they fail to acknowledge and respect the name's provenance and origin, sidestepping any accountability the foundation should have towards them.

On occasion, we have been asked about claims about use of the "Apache" name by the Apache Native American communities. During its twenty-five years of use of "Apache" as part of its name, the ASF has never been involved in any legal dispute with Native American communities or any other party in relation to the use of the "Apache" name.

This assumes any one of the 8 Apache nations wants to give any legitimacy to The Apache® Software Foundation's trademark claim, especially, in a court system that has historically ruled against the sovereignty of Indigenous peoples. Imagining the impact of such a court ruling on the culture, one can understand how risky, not to mention expensive, it would be to dispute it.

We are honored that both The Apache Software Foundation and Apache Incubator logos are listed on the official website of the Apache Nation Chamber of Commerce.

A foundation the size of Apache®'s should be able to demonstrate support beyond one page of a single website offering a rubber stamp. Any indifference towards this fact demonstrates a distorted view of the foundation's relationship with historically marginalized peoples.

Conclusion

Issues of appropriation are nothing new for Indigenous folks in the US and the world. Nonprofits are service organizations. They should be held to a higher standard when it comes to interacting with historically excluded communities. To that end, Natives in Tech is a service-based organization of hundreds of Indigenous Peoples in technology who participate actively in re-imagining this world as a place where Indigenous people's identities are respected, in all realms, including software engineering.

Again, we urge The Apache® Software Foundation to take the necessary steps needed to express the ally-ship they promote on their website, to act in accordance with their own code of conduct to "be careful in the words that [they] choose", and change their name.

If you would like to sign a petition to change the name check out this project we are supporting called "End ASF Mascotry":

https://blog.nativesintech.org/apache-appropriation/

Another link of interest: https://wiki.linux-wiiu.org/wiki/Main_Page

thesemarseysdonotexist.com when?

i dont rly have any use for source releases like these

The TLDR pic:

Technically, that was from the start of May, but i post this now as xe has come for another model on HF.

The previous incedent thread on HF (archive, note that dramapilled-/g/ anons obviously took to posting some comments): https://archive.ph/8Enxm

/g/ thread for previous incedent: https://archived.moe/g/thread/93308999

Ongoing:

The recent sighting on HF: https://huggingface.co/Tap-M/Luna-AI-Llama2-Uncensored/discussions/1

/g/ thread for the ongoing one: https://archived.moe/g/thread/94815872

!codecels discuss