40,000 Cameras, From Bird Feeders to Baby Monitors, Exposed to the Internet

🔗 https://www.404media.co/cameras-exposed-to-the-internet-report/

Activists’ arrests must be reviewed after government drops anti-protest law: Labour has quietly dropped legal fight over unlawful crackdown on protest. But what about those already arrested? https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/protest-law-braverman-overturned-labour-yvette-cooper-liberty-greta-thunberg/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

@BBCRD
I suggest looking into #AutonomiDweb which I'm developing on top of #Autonomi.

These have enormous potential to change the online landscape for the better

@wiredprairie my use is for static sites for deployment on #AutonomiDweb which I'm developing, so yes, purely client and I find #Svelte excellent.

The brutal, daily bombing and murder of innocent civilians, in #Palestine and #Ukraine are signs of a collapsing rules-based world order.

It is not collapsing because of #Russia or #Israel, but because the west, who was supposed to uphold it, chose not to for the simple reason that it was inconvenient.

Today Ukrainians and Palestinians are suffering the consequences. Tomorrow it will be Europeans and Americans.

If you don't stop evil in it's infancy you might not be able to when it grows.

For what it's worth I think Wellnhofer’s position is correct and hopefully the vanguard of a significant cultural shift in free software.

https://socket.dev/blog/libxml2-maintainer-ends-embargoed-vulnerability-reports

So, re: LLMs and the "jury is out on energy usage", I just want to point out a couple of historical things.

When studies came out linking smoking to increased risk of cancer, the Tobacco industry paid for and produced studies that said "nuh uh".

When Obesity and heart disease rates increased in the United States and the problem was linked to sugar intake, the sugar industry produced studies saying it was fats.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3490543/#sec4

@Kierkegaanks

the application of chatGPT into my clinical practice was...problematic.

I used to feel proud of Britain but now I can only feel sad and not at home in such a nasty, small-minded, racist and ultimately stupid - counter to our own interests - culture.

My apologies to everyone who has come here hoping to be a part of what I once thought was a decent society. Particularly all those now being victimised by the #UKLabour #HomeOffice under that nastier than Tory #YvetteCooper.

I feel ashamed. Haven't voted Labour in years now and can't imagine doing so again.

Google's monopoly power rips off consumers, pollutes our information environment, and destroys the news media. A US judge recently ruled that it is illegal.

Now it's time for @EU_Commission to act! #BreakUpBigTech

At today's #PMQs Chris Philp AGAIN says, "Illegal immigrants crossing The Channel'

1 it is not illegal to cross the English Channel

2 They are not immigrants. They are asylum seekers

3 We require a healthy young population to work and pay our increasing pension dividend

4 82% of all claimants are granted asylum

5 Philp is a nationalist scumbag

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The decentralised web is live on #Autonomi accessible from Windows, MacOS and Linux! 🥳

Download dweb at the link below (or `cargo install dweb-cli`) and then:

dweb serve

And in another terminal:

dweb open awesome

That opens a website with some of the first perpetual, versioned websites on the #p2p network that is #AutonomiDweb

It includes apps too, but you can view the websites without any more setup. Download v0.9.1 at https://github.com/happybeing/dweb/releases

Anyone can publish with #dweb

I've posted a Github issue outlining why I'm freaked out at the word "irrevokable" in Mastodon's new TOS IP clause:

New Terms of Service IP clause cannot be terminated or revoked, not even by deleting content

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/35086

It's sort of long (sorry), but several people seemed confused what my problem was earlier, so maybe extra detail will help. I include an outline of my "nightmare scenario", and contrast other site TOSes.

I *will* delete my account over this, and I am not joking.

Russian War Crimes!

A Ukrainian defender of Mariupol — before and after three years in Russian captivity.

Russian captivity is not imprisonment; it's a slow death!
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO

"Reliance on AI systems for brainstorming significantly reduced the diversity of ideas produced, which is a crucial element for creative breakthroughs. The systems tend to converge toward a predictable middle rather than exploring unconventional possibilities at the edges. [...] AI systems are most closely aligned with the values and worldviews of wealthy, English-speaking nations. This inherent bias constrains the diversity of ideas these systems can generate."

https://theconversation.com/is-ai-sparking-a-cognitive-revolution-that-will-lead-to-mediocrity-and-conformity-256940

Financial times editorial board trying to up pressure on labour to decrease taxes in opinion threatening "exodus of wealthy" from the country.

To anyone worried about this: call their bluff, and if they leave, let them. They're the ones stealing from you, not the immigrants they keep trying to scapegoat.

“If you think refugees are a drain on the economy, think again. By allowing Ukrainian refugees to immediately work and start small businesses — after being forced to flee Russian aggression — Poland boosted its GDP by a whopping 2.7 percent in 2024,”
https://www.unhcr.org/europe/news/press-releases/refugees-generated-stunning-2-7-percent-poland-s-gdp-2024-study-shows

THE G7 bloc supporting Israel’s “right to defend itself” amid genocide in Gaza and now unlawful aggression against Iran signals a dangerous expansion of military conduct first tested in Palestine which "threatens humanity," an international relations expert has told The National.

How the G7 has enabled Israel’s new genocide rules to be used in Iran | The National

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25246930.g7-enabled-israels-new-genocide-rules-used-iran/

@leahmcelrath.bsky.social

I'm telling everyone who will listen.

Many of the people are NOT police of any sort.

Trump is using Mercenaries to make these arrests and that's why they cover their faces.

Right at the last minute the UK government have added a power to access to your devices and extract information from any online account, on the say so of a senior police officer, in the #crimeandpolicingbill #cpbill

Really incredibly extreme stuff. No judicial oversight, just hand over your device.