Red Hat CEO says "Al needs to be everywhere", purchases Al company.

After laying off 30% of their staff, Mozilla Foundation flies to a Zambian resort to promote Marxism & anti-Capitalism. It is just as ridiculous and hilarious as it sounds.

4 Months After "Purge", NixOS Team Continues to Discriminate & Alienate Contributors.

Want to participate in NixOS discussions? First you must agree to their extreme political agenda.

Ads are filling the entirety of the Web -- websites, podcasts, YouTube videos, etc. -- at an increasing rate. Prices for those ad placements are plummeting. Consumers are desperate to use ad-blockers to make the web palatable. Google (and others) are desperate to break and block ad-blockers. All of which results in... more ads and lower pay for creators.

It's a fascinatingly annoying cycle. And there's only one viable way out of it.

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Those in power with openSUSE make it clear they will not allow me anywhere near anything related to the openSUSE project. Ever. For any reason.

Well, that settles that, then! Guess I won't be contributing to openSUSE! 🤣

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#AI #Copyright #Music So apparently, you can make some music and post it to youtube. Then someone else can use it to make an AI version of your music, register it, and finally your music can get flagged as a copyright violation by youtube as it is too similar to the AI version. Good times.

Another commentator realises modern tech is working against him. He throws out his always-on, always-listening "assistants". He now has to physically get up to change the song playing, and has to actually turn his head to see what the time is. It turns out he doesn't mind. :)

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Well, I came up with a scheme for backing up data onto paper... digitally: using gzip to compress the data, openssl to encrypt the data (since unencrypted text data ought to compress fairly nicely, vs the compressed data that amounts to noise), base64enc to convert the binary data into a text format that would play nice with QR codes, split to break the files up into 2002 byte chunks, qrencode to convert the data into large QR codes, and a bit of python to wrap all the pieces together to quickly generate an HTML file (that then gets turned into a PDF) containing all of the data in sequence.

I then tested and confirmed that I could scan that data from the paper back in (I used an MFP to rapidly scan all the pages in), converted the PDF I scanned in back to PNG files), converted the images of the QR codes back into text using zbarimg, used the "truncate" command to remove a newline that got tacked onto the end of each chunk of text, combined the text with cat, decoded using base64enc, ...