xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

_C++ is Officially Dead (And the US Government Just Pulled the Plug)_

FTA: In a landmark report published by the White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD), the federal government made an unprecedented intervention into software engineering practices. They didn’t just suggest a change; they demanded an industry-wide purge of C and C++.

Here is the exact phrasing that sent shockwaves through the defense and tech industries:

We, as a nation, have the ability — and the responsibility — to reduce the attack surface in cyberspace. Creators of software and hardware can better secure the building blocks of cyberspace by migrating away from memory-unsafe languages like C and C++, and transitioning to memory-safe programming languages. — US White House Office of the National Cyber Director

https://medium.com/the-tech-notes/c-is-officially-dead-and-the-us-government-just-pulled-the-plug-6ad4b6629eaf

now that the game is 99% done (just need to work on network and database stuff) any suggestions for color scheme?

this graphical style is just the silly one i was using while i developed the game
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I had the distinct honor of participating on the Independent Media Alliance panel Drawing the AI Line in the Sand

I really appreciate that I was able to add some thoughts, but definitely think my essay is worth revisiting for it.

There's a balance between being social and having privacy. Privacy does not have to mean that everything you do is cloaked and no one knows who you are. It means that not everything you do, say, or think is being watched and recorded without your permission.

This post is NOT private! I am publishing for all to see (though only a small number of people will see it).

If I want to communicate details of something to a friend or a business client, I would use an encrypted messenger so that those details are not published for all to see.

Privacy is taking the steps limit the broadcast of information about your activities. No law can accomplish that. Only you.

#privacy

I don't know if anyone has done this before, but I'm incorporating total introspection and control of FRUTE VM through an MCP socket so that an LLM can control and debug it. It grants structured access to all onscreen windows and ui widgets, the Scheme REPL, and can inject mouse movement, drags and clicks, as well as keystrokes. it can snapshot the screen.

the window construction already lets you add semantics to the widgets and windows. the mcp can read it. the llm doesn't have to scrape anything.

When people think Flock, they think cameras...

It's more than that. It's an entire surveillance ecosystem that listens, watches, and tracks you, built quietly in your neighborhood without consent, under the banner of 'safety.' Welcome to the panopticon.

#TheFreeThoughtProject

Nextcloud is a great gateway drug to self hosting. You set it up thinking it's just a file server, but then you add Talk, and Recipes, and News, etc. And a whole new world opens up. But then after a week or two you start noticing all those add-on apps aren't very feature rich. You do a little web searching see if you can do anything, and you see all these other RSS reader apps that are way more featureful. But you think to yourself "I don't know anything about running an RSS reader". But then you think to yourself "it can't be any harder than setting up nextcloud". And before you know it you have a full arr stack feeding jellyfin. I've seen it 1,000 times. ...well, maybe more like 100 times — okay, it was one time. It was me, alright, that's how I started my homelab. You got me.

In a few days I'll delete my Baraag accounts. The reason I haven't posted anything here is because there are a lot of people involved in the "MAP" movement here, and it seems like people don't care. So, for me, this site isn't an option anymore.

I know not everyone is like that and some are against it, but no, I don't want to be associated with a site that allows this kind of thing as if it's nothing.

Same with the servers I am in.

To make the page not completely insane to load I put the effort into two things:
1) Creating a new "GIF" shortcode that waits for a rollover event to start playing the video, which means only a fraction of the video loads (preload=metadata).
2) I compressed the images heavily and they link to the higher-quality versions.
Pretty happy with the result all things considered. This is definitely the kind of thing I want the CMS I'm working on to do for me out of the box.

Law enforcement agencies have moved beyond specific investigations to use license plate readers and surveillance networks for virtually any whim.

Read More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/government-surveillance/more-license-plate-reader-mission-creep-school-residency-verification-background-checks-and-noise-complaints

#TheFreeThoughtProject

@xianc78 @coolboymew

These days you habe to comb yourself. HN
https://news.ycombinator.com/
Is still a good site to dip toes into the stream. By now I still find one page/day on HN which was worth my time. Sadly, other sites have a even worse ratio.
Try to use niches like gemini or lemmy with a useful filter. The fringe is much more "smart-free" oriented.

@steinarb yeah, I left active Rockbox development a long time ago: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2014/10/01/good-bye-rockbox/

An Iron Dome for blasting Bill Gates's Flying Monkeys.
I am definitely buying one of these when they start shipping...
https://photonmatrixlab.com/

fuck it, 3d teapot in a window in a lisp machine in an emulator in wasm in a browser

try it here: https://shipoclu.com/frute/vm.html#graphics-3d-teapot-demo