“Being a woman in tech is insane. We do not work in the same moral system model as most of the people that we interact with daily and we can’t talk about it, because when we do, we are the ones portrayed as crazy or hysterical.”

This is such an excellent piece.

#womeninstem #womenintech #compsci

https://www.sigops.org/2024/the-moral-implications-of-being-a-moderately-successful-computer-scientist-and-a-woman/

Es is ja wirklich nur begrenzt clever, wenn man sich den reminder, das #pgp cert zu renewen, auf den Tag des Ablaufs legt 🤦

Wenn man als IT-Mensch gefragt wird, wieso man denn nicht die neuste HypeApp/Plattform™ nutzt, ist das ein bisschen so, als wenn man Menschen vom Gesundheitsamt fragt, wieso sie nicht mehr überall in der Stadt essen gehen.

#KI und #Eingabefilter als Mechanismus der #Cybersicherheit von damals.

Die 80er wollen ihre Probleme zurück. 😂👌 https://troet.cafe/users/tron/statuses/113084140805349886

Dunkeldeutschland ist auch, wenn das Bundesbildungsministerium das Fediverse verlässt und damit wirbt, ihm doch auf einer rechtsextremen Plattform zu folgen. Anscheinend weht den Herrschaften hier ein Wind entgegen, den sie so gar nicht vertragen.
https://social.bund.de/@bmbf_bund/113079108198680952

So, have you ever thought your devices were listening to what you were saying, and then ads for that thing would show up...and all the pundits kept telling us it was coincidence and we were just seeing patterns because people seek patterns?

Yeah...naw. @404mediaco in their tradition of breaking all kinds of news, would like to tell you that you're not insane, and the pundits were wrong.

404 brings receipts: Cox Media Group (CMG) says it can target adverts based on what potential customers said out loud near device microphones, and explicitly points to Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Bing as CMG partners.

MindSift boasted about targeting advertisements by listening to peoples’ everyday conversations through microphones in their smart speakers.

Here's the deck, read it for yourself: https://www.404media.co/heres-the-pitch-deck-for-active-listening-ad-targeting/

(free signup may be required, iirc, but if you've got spare change, consider subscribing too. They're doing yeoman's work out here on the data front.)
#Enshittification

Impressive what you can pull off with gullible victims that buy internet-of-shit devices.
Imagine someone was to sell you a digital picture frame for 160€$ - yes, expensive - but for just 2€$ per month on top, it even allows you to display your own pictures! What a sweet deal.
Now imagine - if you can - that they cease to offer this feature and decide to display ads instead of your pictures. On your digital picture frame. Which you paid for to have in your home.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/08/amazon-is-bricking-primary-feature-on-160-echo-device-after-1-year/

ja wer hätte gedacht dass auf Kreuzungen, Landstrassen und Autobahnen rumhängen und mit Nazis kuscheln statt dafür zu arbeiten klimafest zu werden auch Konsequenzen hat

Für jedes gerissene Schaf ein Aufstand.

Aber jede ermordete oder halbtot geschlagene Frau ist Privatsache. Ausserdem weiss man ja nie so recht, ob sie nicht selbst Schuld war. (/s)

Und nochmal 😱 : In der #Antarktis hat der #Kollaps des Polarwirbels eine ungewöhnliche #Hitzewelle ausgelöst, die die Temperaturen auf bis zu minus 15 Grad steigen ließ – ungewöhnlich warm für den antarktischen Winter. Dieser Zusammenbruch des Polarwirbels, der normalerweise den #Südpol vor warmen Luftmassen schützt, führt zu einem rasanten Anstieg der Temperaturen und dem Schwinden der #Eismassen.

#Klimawandel #Polarwirbel #Hitzewelle #Klimakrise #globaleErwärmung

https://www.merkur.de/wissen/polarwirbel-kollabiert-sehr-ungewoehnliches-ereignis-in-der-antarktis-ausgeloest-zr-93232648.html

Ich brauche einen neuen Desktop-Rechner.

_schaut durch die verschiedenen Konfiguratoren_
_jammert, dass die alle Glasfenster und buntes Licht haben, was soll denn der Mi...._
_ooooohhh... der da leuchtet blau_ 😍

Nothing says winning business strategy like suing advertisers for not advertising on your platform.

Almost as brilliant as firing all the sales people and unbanning the Nazis then wondering why advertisers have abandoned your platform.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/06/x-files-suit-against-advertising-groups-over-systematic-illegal-boycott/

#CDU 🤮💩🚀🚮

Little girl in Algeria decides she wants to play soccer, gets bullied by the boys because she's a girl.
She takes up boxing, to defend herself from bullies, makes it to the fucking Olympics, only for a demented British children's author to publicly shame her for not being enough of a girl

WHY DON'T GIRLS DO MORE SPORTS BIG MYSTERY WE SHOULD INVESTIGATE THAT

It's really weird how preferences work.

A hundred years ago when I was first taught linux, they gave me a Suse. And though I like the available games, I never really warmed up to #kde.
I don't remember when I encountered #gnome, but for some reason that one was fine with me.

It's now 2024, once again I'm trying to leave windows for good (chances are really good this time!). I decided on #LinuxMint because shit just works. But a friend has #openSuse and is trying to sell me on it, and I have heard good things about it.
So I installed it on my netbook. It was just as easy (though it loses points when having to handle dual boot partitioning). Software I need is there. Yubikey is working, games are working (though since this is a netbook, I haven't tried the triple A ones).
Kde plasma objectively looks good, options are easily findable, it works well enough...

And I still dislike it. No idea why. 🤔

Sorry, opensuse. 🙈

Also nur falls eins von Euch gerade Lust auf eine *hust* interessante Aufgabe hat:
Die AfD sucht „einen Referent IT- und Netzwerksicherheit (m/w)“

#ComputerserviceHahn

Wisst ihr welches Wort ich schon lange nicht mehr gehört hab „Technikfolgenabschätzung“. Wohl nicht mehr so en vouge bei AI.

If you're aged 30 or more, then 50% of all human fossil fuel emissions happened during your lifetime