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mfioretti.bsky.social@mfioretti.bsky.social |
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@brideoflinux.bsky.social
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Although Sunday will be the last day CentOS 7 will be officially supported, you don’t have to move right away. Use a support services to keep your workloads safe and secure: No Need to Move From CentOS 7 by June 30 If You Have Aftermarket Support buff.ly/3KUoDez
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Today’s vote got postponed at the last minute, but nobody expects it to stay dead for good.
All of these zombie ideas simply boil down to banning math. They won’t work—yet they put #privacy at risk. In #SBBlogwatch, we ponder the futility of it all. At #TechstrongGroup’s #SecurityBlvd:
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@mfioretti.bsky.social
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Just saw this "I once stopped #dating a guy after learning they're ___. People have a right to have their values and ethics align with who they date and closely befriend."
Fill the blanks with whatever idea you hate, then tell: Is this right/wrong/good/bad for individuals & society?
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Twitter, e X, now lets users post, view, and share nudes and sexual content. Has Elon Musk really thought this through? www.computerworld.com/article/2144... by @sjvn.bsky.social
#Twitter's become a #porn site, and that won't be good for business.
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@mfioretti.bsky.social
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#EU electric car tariffs sting #China's #EVs but won’t halt it? (*)
That's even more reasons to just ABOLISH tariffs and go for a winning combination of European regulation of Chinese car manufacturing: /mfioretti.substack.com/p/carmakers-must-die-and-flat-cars'>mfioretti.substack.c...
(*) source: edition.cnn.com/2024...
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#EU threatens #China #EVs with tariffs of up to 38%:
www.bbc.com/news/art...
me, I say #EU tariffs should be ZERO %, but EU should set all standards for said Chinese EVs. Much better deal for both:
mfioretti.substack.c...
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@mfioretti.bsky.social
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Here is a new blog that will likely have lots of readers and contributors. It really should:
gettingajobispainful...
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First World crises are strong these days
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@mfioretti.bsky.social
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First they replaced those who would listen to you with #AI chatbots, bc you did not deserve human listeners.
Now they replace YOU with an #AI clown of you, bc YOU don't deserve to look human when complaining:
www.asahi.com/ajw/ar...
We deserve personal AI chatbots that call all these centers 24/7
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#artificialintelligence by #google Gemini
Check the screenshot, then read the full chat here: ref='https://gemini.google.com/share/e1357114e9ee?hl=en'>gemini.google.com/sh...
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Doctorow's view of "Real #Innovation vs #SiliconValley nonsense" is just great... but doesn't say that there is not enough STUFF to make that innovation happen without serious change at all levels, personal AND political:
mfioretti.substack.c...
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fifth panel, not shown but essential: Everybody else does the same, so Fred feels behind even more, because his AI assistant cannot answer "What's the purpose of the whole rat race, again?"
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@mfioretti.bsky.social
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to be listed in the official #Android store by #Google, all apps must have a #privacy policy.
This "Unlike Google" one, which lists all the privacy violation by GOOGLE itself, is the best:
www.jwz.org/xscreens...
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"Nvidia alone is holding up the universe."
www.telegraph.co.uk/...
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The REAL reason to slow down a race to "God-like AI" isn't that it'd kill us:
mfioretti.substack.c...
It is that we cannot afford to waste all that energy and money, when there is so much stuff to do first (even with AI!), like this:
mfioretti.substack.c...
or these:
mfioretti.substack.c...
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@mfioretti.bsky.social
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"The Secret To Beating Political Disinformation Is Knowing When Not To Fact-Check"
Or, as Queen Elizabeth would have said, "Never complain, Never Explain" (well, almost never)
themarkup.org/hello-...
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If the title is correct, this "god-father of #AI" is just another guy who got things backwards:
#UBI hasn't become necessary because some tech said "ops, I've invented this thing that will destroy jobs, please make UBI to fix my mess".
It's exactly the opposite:
mfioretti.substack.c...
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#artificialIntelligence can:
DO is actually hugely useful stuff like this:
arstechnica.com/ai/2...
OR "empower" everybody to make shitty (and often TOTALLY unnecessary) text or images
One thing should be encouraged, the other must be shut down: mfioretti.substack.c...
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Here's a trend that will (and I would say "MUST") become more and more and more common in the next years:
"surrogate" GRANDPARENTING
Do you agree? Are you ALREADY doing it? Please tell!
www.huffpost.com/ent...
#parenting #family
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Here's a thought (*) that's good, but backwards. It should be:
1, we ALWAYS HAD to return to the most personal... human part of our existence because we deserve it. 2), the electronic age could gives us what finally answers this need
See mfioretti.substack.c...
(*) read.lukeburgis.com/...
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me, I am for EVs, but the REAL split that many try as hard as possibile to not see is the one between mass personal cars and post-car transportation, which is unavoidable. I wrote again about this very issue just last week: mfioretti.substack.com/p/carmakers-...
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6G telecom is one of those cases where I LOVE having been right... until I think to how much money was wasted:
buff.ly/4e9fEn2
Read this to see how right I was: buff.ly/4c531Yi
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"even if you don't use Recall, if you send an email or instant message to someone else who does then it will be OCRd and indexed via Recall: and preserved for posterity.
Now imagine the shit-show when this goes corporate."
#microsoft #privacy #idiocy
-trying-to-commit-.hww'>tml'>www.antipope.org/cha...
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People don't trust science for a reason (see screenshot).
But there would be nothing bad, even if we really weren't smart enough to do more science, or science really had nothing new and useful to offer anymore:
mfioretti.substack.com/p/science-us...
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Esther Schindler
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Four in five CISOs have been told to downplay a potential risk’s severity. securityboulevard.com/2024/06/ciso...
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Vir2ualVibes
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To know these concepts is to better understand them. To better understand them, is to better understand us. To better understand us, is to better understand how we got to this moment. To better understand how we got to the moment helps us make better choices in the moments we have.
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may you elaborate a bit on that, please?
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@mfioretti.bsky.social
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PSA for American Citizens, wherever they are:
You are still in time to use these suggestion to make #USA2024 elections work:
mfioretti.substack.com/p/thoughts-o...
(also valid for EVERY other elections, worldwide, of course)
#democracy
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Are #science and technology really ending? Maybe, but I don't care, and neither should you. Seriously:
mfioretti.substack.com/p/science-us...
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Why does a flash micro-rant mentioning hot actresses and madness get 20 times more impressions than announces of essays that took hours to write?
Prioritizing ephemeral memes and rants over serious content and sharing is what made #Facebook a cesspool, but LinkedIn? Seriously?
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"Is #China’s electric-vehicle industry a threat to the U.S., or something to learn from?", asks J. Cassidy:
y-a-threat-to-the-us'>www.newyorker.com/ne...
My answer, short version: YES
Longer version: mfioretti.substack.c...
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If you have to speak with the devil, do it well:
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#Parents, take note:
"People whose children do not yet have #smartphones or #socialmedia accounts should keep it that way for as long as possible", says @Catherine_Price (*)
Toldya:
mfioretti.substack.c...>
AND <a href='https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/it-doesnt-really-matter-whet'>her-social'>mfioretti.substack.c...
(*) www.theguardian.com/...
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Is MPEG-4 Part 14 format an Open standard or not? #Wikipedia editions contradict each other.
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Do #socialmedia harm kids? It doesn't even matter:
mfioretti.substack.c...
and the REAL problem is #smartphones, and only #Parents must and can solve it:
.substack.com/p/honestly-the-problem-with-children'>mfioretti.substack.c...
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Please suggest YOUR choices for the 5000 words that EVERY European should know! (and ask everybody to do the same)
mfioretti.substack.c...
#EU #Europe
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"Nowadays, #email is more important than phone numbers, yet there is no regulation in sight on moving addresses as one can move phone numbers between telephone providers."
TRUE & important. Refuse#gmail, listen to Migadu: www.migadu.com/blog/...>
also for all THESE reasons: stop.zona-m.net/tag/...
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"new tasks [must be] created where labor has an advantage over #automation"
Problem is, WHY? Why would rational human beings want that, instead of what Dante Alighieri explained seven centuries ago?
Continues here: mfioretti.substack.c...
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America: I feel I'm boldly going where no country has gone before Italy: hold my Berlusconization Not the SAME situation or worldwide impact, of course. But sorry, couldn't resist
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5 reasons why I prefer Perplexity over every other AI chatbot zdnet.com/article/5-re... by @sjvn.bsky.social
I've finally found a really useful #AI chatbot: Perplexity.
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If you DO check their URLs, the articles in this part of CNN's home page are listed newest to oldest, which is OK. But just looking at the titles order, it does seem that life coaching by millionaires, or armpit hair, matter more than wars or politics Which maybe is just what many people feel...
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Dear US voter, please DO listen to @ArickWierson:
edition.cnn.com/2024...
bc it's not just LEADERS. To get how COMMON non-US ppl see #USA2024, see me in 2020
s-of-online-discourse/'>stop.zona-m.net/2020...
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@brideoflinux.bsky.social
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"OpenTofu is absolutely open to 'remerging' (unforking?) with a sufficiently open sourced Terraform, and always has been": Where do Terraform and OpenTofu go from here? www.theregister.com/2024/05/24/o...
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They hit the slightly better (creepy as fuck) explanation under the right to object link, but the form doesn't even work for me so yay..
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Dear Europeans (and everybody else)
pls do NOT make me use #chatgpt to find THESE 5000 words for #Europe!
Pls tell me yours, and tell everybody to do the same! (read the post to know HOW)
mfioretti.substack.com/p/5000-words...
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This is THE creepiest, most depressing thing I've seen online this month. In general, not just about #dating or #marriage
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You mad bc #OpenAI stole Johansson' voice?
Me, I am mad that Altman called #chatGPT's voice *SKY* , as in "talking to (my!) #AI is talking to God"
This man is really off the rails. A new Fra Dolcino tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fra_Dolcino'>en.wikipedia.org/wik...
This story CONFIRMS what I wrote: mfioretti.substack.c...
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Three characteristics of your next car:
1, very likely, it will be Chinese
2, very likely, it will be your LAST car
3, and this will be GOOD, if it happens the right way:
open.substack.com/pu...
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"We are close to what I call #covid19 shipper capitulation"
because of "surprisingly strong market, plus lower vessel capacity due to the Red Sea crisis"
theloadstar.com/moun...
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My "real #smartgrid at HOME"
mfioretti.substack.c...
would ALSO reduce "the black carbon that humans are directly spewing into the atmosphere" as Matt Simon explains www.wired.com/story/...
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