Cross-posted from "What 𝘚𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘰𝘯 𝘝𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘺 Knew About Tech-Bro Paternalism" by @[email protected] in [email protected]

Last fall, the consumer-electronics company LG announced new branding for the artificial intelligence powering many of its home appliances. Out: the “smart home.” In: “Affectionate Intelligence.” This “empathetic and caring” AI, as LG describes it, is here to serve. It might switch off your appliances and dim your lights at bedtime. It might, like its sisters Alexa and Siri, select a soundtrack to soothe you to sleep. The technology awaits your summons and then, unquestioningly, answers. It will make subservience environmental. It will surround you with care—and ask for nothing in return.

Affectionate AI, trading the paternalism of typical techspeak for a softer—or, to put it bl

Elon University is a private university in Elon, North Carolina, United States. Founded in 1889 as Elon College, the university is organized into six schools, most of which offer bachelor's degrees and several of which offer master's degrees or professional doctorate degrees.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_University

Cross-posted from "This is what resistance to the digital coup looks like" by @[email protected] in [email protected]

Sunday morning I came across a blog post by Jared White bestowing praise on journalist Carole Cadwalladr’s TED Talk: “This is what a digital coup looks like.”

Cadwalladr’s presentation was phenomenal, filled with brilliant, incendiary quotes against the Broligarchy (in her words: tech bros + oligarchy = broligarchy). I would recommend everybody watch it.

It's filled with memorable, superb quotes about the broligarchy. A must see, to be shared widely. But then I looked up Cadwalladr's online activity. She uses Bluesky for social and Substack for publishing. This is impossibly incongruous after her incendiary TED talk. Honestly, it made me sad. One place is owned by crypto bros, the other is funded by A16Z {Andreessen Horowitz}...

System: Linux Mint 22.1 Xfce, with the following golang files installed.

I'd like to install meme

• https://www.linuxlinks.com/linux-candy-meme-fun-tool-create-memes/
• https://github.com/nomad-software/meme

But when I try the installation instruction from the GitHub page, I get

 go

    
$ go get -u -v github.com/nomad-software/meme
go: go.mod file not found in current directory or any parent directory.
    'go get' is no longer supported outside a module.
    To build and install a command, use 'go install' with a version,
    like 'go install example.com/cmd@latest'
    For more information, see https://golang.org/doc/go-get-install-deprecation
    or run 'go help get' or 'go help install'.


  

When I replace get with install, I get:

 go

    
$ go install -u -v github.com/nomad-so
  

Jami vs Skype: welcome to where your privacy matters

In an era when online communication is dominated by centralized platforms, Jami sets itself apart by offering a freer, more privacy-friendly approach. Like Skype and other similar services, Jami lets you make audio and video calls, one-to-one or in groups, exchange messages, share files and much more. However, unlike Skype, which relies on proprietary servers and collects personal data, Jami adopts a decentralized philosophy. Here are a few key differences that make Jami a unique alternative for users concerned about their autonomy and privacy.

Cross-posted from "A Strange Stain in the Sky: How Silicon Valley Is Preparing A Coup Against Democracy" by @[email protected] in [email protected]

The first, and also the most futuristic techno-utopian one, is the colonisation of Mars. Elon Musk founded Space X in 2002 (Peter Thiel was the first outside investor) with the idea of re-founding humanity. It’s all there: the call to save humanity by turning it into a multi-planetary species, the desire to start from scratch without the legal constraints of Earth, and the will to break with the established order. As you can read, half-hidden, on the terms and conditions page of the Starlink service owned by Space X:

The parties recognize Mars as a free planet and that no Earth-based government has authority or sovereignty over Martian activities.

Cross-posted from "Elon Musk’s xAI allegedly uses 'illegal' generators to power Colossus supercomputer facility" by @[email protected] in [email protected]

Two 19-year-old guys, Phillip Chandler and Marlowe Hammer, have been locked in a bunker since the nuclear war of 1986 but finally break out into the post-apocalyptic world of 2001, armed with little more than their naive horniness and their love of 1940s hard-boiled detectives, and promptly get caught up in a struggle over the keys to the last remaining nuke on Earth. Dealing with girl biker gangs, "disco mutants", cannibals, punk singers and, naturally, femmes fatales.

Fallout meets The Wonder Years meets The Maltese Falcon!

Featuring Michael Dudikoff, star of the American Ninja franchise and 20% of all 90s straight-to-video action movies; but the comic relief here. And John Stockwell (Christine, directed Into the Blue, *Kickboxer:Venge

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28034603

PeerTube is a decentralized and federated alternative to YouTube. The goal of PeerTube is not to replace YouTube but to offer a viable alternative using the strength of ActivityPub and P2P protocols.

Being built on ActivityPub means PeerTube is able to be part of a bigger social network, the Fediverse (the Federated Universe). On the other hand, P2P technologies help PeerTube to solve the issue of money, inbound with all streaming platform: With PeerTube, you don't need to have a lot of bandwidth available on your server to host a PeerTube platform because all users (which didn't disable the feature) watching a video on PeerTube will be able to share this same video to other viewers.

If you are curious about PeerTube, I can't recommend you enough to check the official website to learn more about the project. If after that you want to try to use Peer

cross-posted from: https://rss.ponder.cat/post/153911

A second child has died from measles. And RFK Jr. attended the funeral.

Kennedy said in a social media post that he was working to “control the outbreak” and went to Gaines County to comfort the families who have buried two young children. He was seen late Sunday afternoon outside of a Mennonite church where the funeral services were held, but he did not attend a nearby news conference held by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about the outbreak.

As with most of what comes out of Kennedy’s mouth, his claim that he’s working to bring the outbreak under control is dubious. Kennedy is the same man who has spouted [vaccine skepticism](https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/12/rfk-jr-blames-malnutrition-for-measles-ou

Apologies if this shouldn't be here. I made it thinking of posting in c/Fediverse Memes, but literally when I was about to, I saw this there https://lemmy.ca/post/42004348

Say I'm on the page of a community and I'd like to search for something within that /c.

Looking at the /c's page (in a PC web browser), I see no way to search that /c.

Instead, I have to:

1. click on the search icon
2. find the box titled "Community"
3. click the down arrow at the end of that box
4. start typing the name of the /c
5. pick the right one out of several options
6. and only then finally do my search

Surely there's an easier way?

If not within the existing interface, then maybe... some browser extension or CSS hack?

Original en inglés; traducción automática.

Lecciones de código abierto en el gobierno mexicano

Por Jake Edge 24 de marzo de 2025

La adopción del software de código abierto en los gobiernos ha tenido sus altibajos. Aunque el código abierto parece una «obviedad», resulta que los gobiernos pueden ser sorprendentemente reacios a utilizar el software libre por diversas razones. Federico González Waite intervino en la sesión sobre Gobierno Abierto de SCALE 22x en Pasadena, California, para relatar sus experiencias trabajando con y para el gobierno mexicano. Dirigió varios proyectos para alejarse de las empresas de software propietario, a menudo depredadoras, con cierto éxito y fracaso.

González Waite comenzó señalando que es un mexicano/nuevozelandés («no somos muchos», dijo con una sonrisa), que pasó nueve o diez años en puestos de alto nivel en el gobierno mexicano «promoviendo implementaciones de código a

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/20304106

Local organizers say they have less of a chance at making climate reforms in the majority Black city than Musk does at imposing environmental harms

“There should be no way a $5 billion project can move forward without a single community [meeting],” Pearson said, noting that the decision reinforced the community’s feelings of being ignored and disenfranchised, and confirmed suspicions that official discussions were taking place behind closed doors. “This is literally what corporate colonialism looks like.”

cross-posted from: https://fedia.io/m/[email protected]/t/1997571

TL;DR: Self-Driving Teslas Rear-End Motorcyclists, Killing at Least 5

Brevity is the spirit of wit, and I am just not that witty. This is a long article, here is the gist of it:

• The NHTSA’s self-driving crash data reveals that Tesla’s self-driving technology is, by far, the most dangerous for motorcyclists, with five fatal crashes that we know of.
• This issue is unique to Tesla. Other self-driving manufacturers have logged zero motorcycle fatalities with the NHTSA in the same time frame.
• The crashes are overwhelmingly Teslas rear-ending motorcyclists.

Read our full analysis as we go case-by-case and connect the heavily redacted government data to news reports and police documents.

Oh, and read our thoughts about what this means for the robotaxi launch that is slated for Austin in less than 60 days.

It's still April 1st somewhere...

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27678244

" The team at StonedCode is very proud to present the fork of the future. We have finally developed an operating system intended to be useable at any skill level and levelmof conciousness!

We have used the latest breakthroughs in minimal integrated graphical interfacing technology to ensure our custom open source high-flo software and streamlined operating system is bullet proof."

Seems really promising you guys I’ll post a link to the github soon.!

Maybe if enough people do it, it can make a dent.

Cross-posted from https://lemmy.ca/post/41467887

Lemmy newb here, not sure if this is right for this /c.

An article I found from someone who hosts their own website and micro-social network, and their experience with web-scraping robots who refuse to respect robots.txt, and how they deal with them.