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date: 2024-12-11, from: 404 Media Group
This week we talk about the weapon used by the alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO murderer; the sad state of OSINT after a suspect’s name is released; how health insurance companies have tried to scrub leadership from the web; moderation challenges on Reddit; and deepfake apps.
https://www.404media.co/podcast-3d-printed-guns-and-unitedhealthcare/
date: 2024-12-11, updated: 2024-12-11, from: One Foot Tsunami
https://onefoottsunami.com/2024/12/11/snarking-for-safety/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-12-11, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
How Wall Street Billionaires Avoid Paying Medicare Taxes.
https://www.propublica.org/article/medicare-tax-loophole-steve-cohen
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-12-11, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Luigi Mangione is an anarchist.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp9nxee2r0do
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-12-11, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Time's 2024 Person of the Year, finalists: Kamala Harris, Kate Middleton, Elon Musk, Benjamin Netanyahu, Donald Trump. Some say it's truly Trump, but I think it must be Musk.
https://www.today.com/news/time-2024-person-of-year-shortlist-rcna183210
date: 2024-12-11, from: The Markup blog
A first-of-its-kind study highlights the stark gender disparity in AI-generated nonconsensual intimate images — and puts into focus the evolving risks for women in politics and public life
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-12-11, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
The Kind of Love That Makes People Happiest.
date: 2024-12-11, updated: 2024-12-11, from: Chaos Computer Club Updates
Eine Arbeitsgruppe der EU-Kommission fordert allen Ernstes Zugriff auf jede Ende-zu-Ende-verschlüsselte Kommunikation und obendrauf eine neue Form der europaweiten Massenüberwachung von Telekommunikations- und Internetdaten. Wenn diesem gefährlichen Unsinn nicht Einhalt geboten wird, kann Europa einpacken.
https://www.ccc.de/de/updates/2024/gegen-uberzogene-eu-uberwachungsplane
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-12-11, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Death by a thousand substacks.
https://mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/death-by-thousand-substacks
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-12-11, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Krugman’s last column. This bit got me thinking. “billionaires who don’t feel sufficiently admired.” Will write more about that tomorrow.
date: 2024-12-11, from: Redox OS News
The Redox team has received a grant from NLnet to develop Redox OS Unix-style Signals, moving the bulk of signal management to userspace, and making signals more consistent with the POSIX concepts of signaling for processes and threads. It also includes Process Lifecycle and Process Management aspects. As a part of that project, we are developing tests to verify that the new functionality is in reasonable compliance with the POSIX.1-2024 standard.
https://www.redox-os.org/news/posix-conformance-testing/
date: 2024-12-10, from: Michael Tsai
Brett Terpstra: Suspicious Package has been around for as long as I can remember. It’s been steadily updated over the years, and runs perfectly on the latest macOS (Sequoia). It makes inscrutable Package Installers scrutable.[…]This tool will give you a Quick Look extension, so you can just select a .pkg file and hit Space to […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/12/10/suspicious-package-keeps-on-tickin/
date: 2024-12-10, from: Michael Tsai
Alexandre Colucci (Mastodon, Hacker News): iOS 18 contains 6800 binaries, up from 6030 in iOS 17. That’s 770 new binaries. […] Unsurprisingly, the number of apps adopting SwiftUI continues to grow this year. Notable mentions include:The new Passwords appThe Siri.app which now uses SwiftUIThe Calculator app, which received a notable overhaulThe new Journal app introduced […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/12/10/apples-use-of-swift-and-swiftui-in-ios-18/
date: 2024-12-10, from: Michael Tsai
Skype (via Hacker News): Skype Credit is no longer available. For new purchases, check out the monthly subscriptions or make a free Skype call to anyone anytime. This a shame, as I liked to keep Skype around as a backup way to make calls and for devices that don’t have cellular plans. I was happy […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/12/10/skype-credit-is-no-longer-available/
date: 2024-12-10, from: Michael Tsai
Simon Willison: What’s wrong with calculating the exact UTC time the event is starting and storing only that? […] It’s surprisingly common for countries to make decisions about DST with very little notice. Turkey and Russia and Chile and Morocco are four more examples of countries that can often cause short-term chaos for software developers […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/12/10/storing-times-for-human-events/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-12-10, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Why is Meta adding fediverse interoperability to Threads?
https://fediversereport.com/why-is-meta-adding-fediverse-interoperability-to-threads/
date: 2024-12-10, from: Howard Jacobson blog
Here’s a short light piece I wrote for the Guardian some time ago.
https://jacobsonh.substack.com/p/hyderabadi-lobster-jhinga-no-thanks
@Chris Coyier blog (date: 2024-12-10, from: Chris Coyier blog)
Chris Coyier and Dave Rupert join Adam and Jerod for a ShopTalk & Friends conversation on the viability of the web, making content, ads to support that content, CodePen’s future plans, books, side quests, and social networks devaluing links. ShopTalk & Friends
https://chriscoyier.net/2024/12/10/11791/
date: 2024-12-10, from: 404 Media Group
The ritualized rifling through old internet accounts usually muddies the story more than it informs the public.
https://www.404media.co/luigi-mangione-played-among-us-breathes-air/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-12-10, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Ozempic Killed Diet and Exercise.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/12/diet-exercise-ozempic/680909/
date: 2024-12-10, from: Dave Karpf’s blog
AI is real, but the hype is manufactured. A dose of skepticism is helpful for seeing how this story goes.
https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/weighing-in-on-casey-newtons-ai-is
date: 2024-12-10, from: Liliputing
Scrcpy is a free and open source utility that lets you mirror the display of an Android device on a Windows, Mac, or Linux computer so that you can interact with your mobile apps on your laptop or desktop. Up until recently that meant whatever was on your phone’s screen would show up on your […]
The post scrcpy 3.0 adds a virtual Android display to your Windows, Mac or Linux PC appeared first on Liliputing.
https://liliputing.com/scrcpy-3-0-adds-a-virtual-android-display-to-your-windows-mac-or-linux-pc/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-12-10, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Musk bankrolled shady pro-Trump PAC named for Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
date: 2024-12-10, from: 404 Media Group
Pornhub’s Year in Review report for 2024 reveals a search for something very mindful, and very demure.
https://www.404media.co/pornhub-year-in-review-modesty-tradwife-milf/
date: 2024-12-10, from: Liliputing
Earlier this year AOOSTAR launched the AG01 external graphics dock that allowed you to connect a desktop graphics card to any laptop, mini PC, or handheld with a 64 Gbps OCuLink connector. Now the company has replaced the AG01 with a new model called the AOOSTAR AG02. It’s up for pre-order for $219 and expected […]
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date: 2024-12-10, from: 404 Media Group
Congress is asking Apple, Google, Microsoft, and other big tech companies why they can’t get their deepfake problem under control.
https://www.404media.co/congress-pushes-apple-to-remove-deepfake-apps-after-404-media-investigation/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-12-10, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Yesterday I did a podcast about why it's important to choose humble names for groups of developers working on open formats.
https://shownotes.scripting.com/scripting/2024/12/09/weAllOwnAndNoOneOwnsPodcasting.html
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-12-10, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
The social web is much bigger than ActivityPub.
https://socialwebfoundation.org/2024/11/01/fosdem-2025-social-web-devroom-call-for-participation/
date: 2024-12-10, updated: 2024-12-10, from: One Foot Tsunami
https://onefoottsunami.com/2024/12/10/golden-artches/
date: 2024-12-10, from: 404 Media Group
Fog Data Science is a location tracking company that takes data harvested from smartphones and makes it accessible to cops. A document obtained by 404 Media shows the company explicitly says it will use doctors visits to unmask a target if needed.
https://www.404media.co/location-data-firm-offers-to-help-cops-track-targets-via-doctor-visits/
date: 2024-12-10, from: Liliputing
The M8S Twin Lake mini PC features a 6-watt Intel N150 quad-core processor, 12GB of LPDDR5-4800 RAM, and an M.2 slot for solid state storage. It also features plenty of ports, including two Gigabit Ethernet ports, two HDMI ports, and a DisplayPort, allowing you to use the computer as a networking device, digital signage system, or multimedia PC, […]
The post This 3.4 inch mini PC has an Intel N150 processor, 2 LAN ports, and supports 3 displays appeared first on Liliputing.
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-12-10, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
The creator of ChatGPT's voice wants to build the tech from 'Her,' minus the dystopia.
date: 2024-12-10, from: O’Reilly Radar
Alibaba’s latest model, QwQ-32B-Preview, has gained some impressive reviews for its reasoning abilities. Like OpenAI’s GPT-4 o1,1 its training has emphasized reasoning rather than just reproducing language. That seemed like something worth testing out—or at least playing around with—so when I heard that it very quickly became available in Ollama and wasn’t too large to […]
https://www.oreilly.com/radar/generative-logic/
date: 2024-12-10, from: Gary Marcus blog
Exactly as I warned in February
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/sora-still-appears-to-have-trouble
date: 2024-12-10, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog
A typeface of people sillhouettes, to make it easy to build web graphics featuring little people instead of dots.
https://github.com/propublica/weepeople?tab=readme-ov-file
date: 2024-12-10, from: 404 Media Group
In what might be the first assassination in the United States using a 3D printed weapon, multiple people told 404 Media an image of the weapon found on the person of interest in the shooting of the UnitedHealthcare CEO looks like a specific design of 3D printed Glock.
https://www.404media.co/unitedhealthcare-shooting-person-of-interest-had-3d-printed-glock/
date: 2024-12-10, updated: 2024-12-10, from: Tom Kellog blog
Yesterday I posted here about becoming an AI Engineer and made a statement that prior ML experience is often a liability for transitioning into AI engineering. That turned out to be quite the hot take! In this post I’ll incorporate feedback and try to expand that into a more balanced take. I’ll expand on the perspective of it being an asset, as well as where it’s a liability.