Notices by nixCraft (nixcraft@mastodon.social)

Microsoft first violated your privacy and safety with its questionable privacy practices. Now, a Microsoft AI data center is draining water resources from a small Mexican town. After decades of battling water bottling and beer companies, rural communities in Mexico are now also having to compete with Big Tech for water. They are destroying our environment so that Openai and Microsoft can have more money https://www.context.news/ai/thirsty-data-centres-spring-up-in-water-poor-mexican-town

Sudo would be a great name for a dog or puppy 🐶

sudo sit
sudo fetch ball
sudo sleep 8h
sudo killall intruder

#unix #linux

It made me laugh 🤭 https://x.com/venzann/status/1658752826649235456

OpenAI's Mira Murati: "some creative jobs maybe will go away, but maybe they shouldn't have been there in the first place" And you stole everything from creative people who provided free texts, images, forum answers, etc. To date, your company has refused to acknowledge any credit. Rich people truly live in their bubble and have zero sympathy for fellow human or their livelihood.

stop doing “git add .”

haha. can you please stop now?

Remembering Alan Turing, died on 7 June 1954, victim of prejudice and ignorance 💔 He was a mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist and is widely considered to be the father of computer science and artiticial intelligence. He was also homosexual in a time when homosexuality was illegal. After his conviction he was given a choice between chemical castration and prison. He chose chemical castration, and later chose to kill himself.

New update from Google just dropped. YouTube users running an ad blocker can no longer watch a video thanks to Google's latest move. https://9to5google.com/2024/05/27/youtube-skipping-to-end-adblockers/

I asked Google "who ruined Google" and they replied honestly using their AI, which is now forced on all of us. It's too funny not to share!

The real guide to interpreting developer job ads 🤡 EDIT: I believe this is an old image from the bird site https://twitter.com/rundavidrun/status/689165491760316416

Dropbox Sign has been hacked https://sign.dropbox.com/blog/a-recent-security-incident-involving-dropbox-sign Customer's emails, usernames, phone numbers and hashed passwords, in addition to general account settings and certain authentication information such as API keys, OAuth tokens, and multi-factor authentication data leaked. #infosec #security

Don't lie to me: How many browser tabs do you have open right now? 🤔

Oh my

Microsoft says it’s starting to test ads inside the Start menu on Windows 11. The software maker will use the Recommended section of the Start menu, which usually shows file recommendations, to suggest apps from the Microsoft Store. Trillion dollar corporation is so poor. They need more money by selling your data to the highest bidder. wtf? #privacy #security https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/12/24128640/microsoft-windows-11-start-menu-ads-app-recommendations

Why are people from Norway so good at editing files in #Linux?

Their ancestors are vi-kings.

Reporter: "Sir, how do you respond to allegations that you refuse to document your code?"

Developer: "No comment."

Fun fact: VLC video player displays a Santa Hat during the Christmas season on Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD, and Unix from December 18th to January 1st. If you no longer want to see the Santa Hat (or it bothers you), here's how you can remove it from VLC https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/delete-remove-santa-hat-in-vlc-player-in-windows-linux-macos/

thats a movie id go and see it 🤣

The #Linux Kernel version is now officially 666 😈

Linux user trying to convince someone to install a Linux desktop ...