FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

Men allt verkar vara hemlighetsstämplat. Dagens ETC får inte svar på sina frågor. Och:

"Polismyndighetens insynsråd, som är politiskt tillsatt, har inte informerats om samarbetet med det kontroversiella AI-bolaget.

– Vi har länge misstänkt att polisen använder sig av den typen av program men när nämnden tidigare frågat Säkerhetspolisen har vi inte fått något svar, säger riksdagsledamoten Gudrun Nordborg (V)."

Hur ser det ut i Sverige?

"Utvecklingen i våra grannländer väcker frågan om svenska myndigheter gått samma väg. Använder svensk polis Palantirs övervakningsprogram för så kallad prediktivt polisarbete? Hur många svenskar övervakas i Palantirs system – och lagras den känsliga informationen på servrar i USA?"

Men en ljusning:

"Men det finns stater som gått en annan väg. I Norge plöjde polisen ner 100 miljoner i ett Palantir-projekt som till slut lades ner. I Tyskland använder tre delstater Palantirprogrammet Gotham. Men dessa samarbeten börjar nu ifrågasättas efter att landets federala författningsdomstol slog fast att programvaran strider mot författningen eftersom den anses hota medborgarnas personliga integritet."

Polisen och Försvasmakten samarbetar med spionbolaget Palantir. Samma företag som samarbetar med ICE i USA. Och:

"I somras pekade en FN-rapport ut Palantir som medskyldiga till Israels folkmord i Gaza eftersom deras analysverktyg ska ha använts för att döda civila palestinier."

https://www.etc.se/story/dagens-etc-avsloejar-polisens-hemliga-samarbete-med-spionbolaget-palantir

i just saw a screenshot of some linux distro. i was like. what window manager is this? what UI theme? it looked kinda like one of those fancy "we're easy to use!" linux distros you see. yknow where they make it look kinda like Mac OS. but there's always some small, telltale signs: odd text alignment, unclear, monochrome icons, an overall lack of polish. you can tell it's not a *real* Mac because of those. anyway i looked a bit closer, and it actually was Mac OS. thats what a Mac looks like now

windows 11 also gives me this feeling whenever i catch a glimpse of it. its very odd. it looks like a linux distro from the 2010s. the kind people would recommend because it "works just like Windows" and i would take one look at it and be like "no it doesn't? that doesnt look anything like Windows? i cant, in good conscience, recommend this to my grandma can i? she's going to be really perturbed by it" etc. but now it seems that microsoft themselves want to perturb my grandma

This was designed 20 years ago.

Mojang takes a step forward to make Minecraft Java Edition even easier to mod by committing to release the game with no obfuscation of its code. There will be a transition period for modding toolsets to prepare for the upcoming change.

https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/removing-obfuscation-in-java-edition

#Minecraft #Modding #MinecraftMods

A parallel universe where the concept of a "key board", be it a piano or a typewriter keyboard, never got popular. Most people are using fretted lute / guitar input with their computers; people who mastered chords can type faster than those who cannot. Some countries prefer violin/shamisen style of input, and thus in the 40 years of computerisation their spoken languages have changed to incorporate legatos and pitch changes. The biggest coder flame war of all times is not vim vs emacs but plectrum vs bow. A few historians uncover a long-forgotten prototype of a computer controlled by percussion.

listen, I think we need to hear this guy out

Inside you are two wolves

One is overstimulated by the fireworks and wants to go home

The other is overstimulated by the fireworks and wants to become a firework

You have combined autism and adhd

#foxesInLove #comic

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MFW the website I run on a raspberry pi sitting in my living room has better uptime than two of the planet's largest cloud providers

randomly reminded of the time xscreensaver's Pac-Man module gave me Pac-Man's Existential Nightmare

cc @jwz

The shit I pull in OpenSCAD.

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