Coalition For Networked Information (CNI) Names Kate Zwaard as New Executive Director https://www.infodocket.com/2025/07/22/coalition-for-networked-information-cni-names-kate-zwaard-as-new-executive-director/ @cni_org #libraries #infotech #edtech
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I don’t know if this is even a bug, or if it’s #Apple being helpful, but I am listening to music off my Linux Mint 22.1 Thinkpad T14, and when I turn my #bluetooth headset off, and then turn it back on, I have to tell #Linux to disconnect and then reconnect the bluetooth connection. Apple just gregariously re-connects all by itself, happy as ya please. It’s not a bug, because I can see how the design is supposed to be and it makes sense, but still. #FirstWorldProblems #YouPoorThing #infotech
A teeny object lesson in heterogeneous computing right now. My #MacBookPro is all sluggo and so I'm running #Onyx on it. So I just looked over to my handy #LinuxMint laptop and it's just as easy to switch over here while the Mac figures out it's foolishness. #infotech #today
I am kinda on the Karmic side of #infotech
If you were lazy ok with corps eating all your data because #privacy was not your concern.
Or worse, were one of those Muppets who espoused "I have nothing to hide, so I have nothing to fear" and accepted ubiquitous #surveillance from your Government without any action on your part...
...you absolutely have no leg to stand on and get all squeally about #ai #generative #llm eating all your precious doodles and unpublishable writings you blogged.
You allowed this to happen by your inaction.
Just because you were unequipped to see the consequences, you were happy to abandon us, who tried to hold the thin red line against the #dataabuse.
I looked over my shoulder, and there was no one behind us.
These things do not happen overnight and if we had strong regulatory regime, we would not be here now.
Instead the public stampeded into the cloud and big data like farm animals to slaughter.
Google has ordered six or seven small nuclear reactors (SMRs) from California’s Kairos Power, with the first due to be completed by 2030 and the remainder by 2035, in order to power its AI data centres in the US.
What could possibly go wrong?
#SMRs #NuclearPower #AI #Google #InformationTechnology #InfoTech
The Guardian · Google to buy nuclear power for AI datacentres in ‘world first’ deal
Over this week I’ll be moving 8.7TB in 4 million files that my 228 coworkers have created and stored on my nearly ten year old #Windows2012R2 server. Then on Friday migrating #AD to a new server. During all of this, all the folks from the branches out there will converge in #Kalamazoo. There will be lots of visits and talk. This is my professional peak for 2024. Migrating servers. #work #infotech #Microsoft
Yo - #Firefox adding PDF edit capability is pretty sweet. How did that not make a bigger splash when 124 came out? SO many people end up at sketchy sites or worse trying to save a PDF form or edit a PDF document. This is such a big deal!
It was only a matter of time before your CPU cooler got a full LCD screen. We're upgrading this for a client.
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lol linus torvalds can be funny in a non-stupid, non-mainstream way. love it. his next comment (same source) explains it a bit more for those open-minded enough to listen:
#quote | «If I didn't have strong opinions, I
wouldn't be in this business. I'd be just another random user using DOS
and windows, I'm afraid».
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Wenn wir wollen, dass der Online-Diskurs in den sozialen Medien zivilisierter wird, müssen wir die großen Plattformen hinter uns lassen.
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Meta Quest: Hackangriff wie im Film "Inception" legt alle Daten offen
Sicherheitsforschern ist es gelungen, Metas Quest-VR-System zu knacken. Sie konnten sensible Informationen wie das Kamerabild abgreifen. Aber nicht nur das.
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Just had a spate of SMS-based attacks, someone posing as the company CFO to at least five of my coworkers. To seal off this avenue of social manipulation attack, we’ve adopted a PIN password company-wide.
I think that everyone should establish either confirmed communication channels like #Signal, or agree on a group PIN that only the in-group would know. #infosec #infotech #today #security #SMS
I despise the algorithm patois that worsens all our language online.
"Comedian EVISCERATES Trump supporters with basic fact"
"Ben Shapiro DESTROYS college student"
"Nancy Pelosi EXPLODES over migrant issue"
We are talking like this to appease machines, not people. It fucking sucks. It's poisonous, escalatory, and needlessly violent speech.
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Hacker untersuchten Software von ausfallenden Zügen in Polen. Sie entdeckten, wie die Züge laut der Hacker "absichtlich" durch den Hersteller lahmgelegt wurden.
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Trials of a Tech Nerd #37
Something just binged! and/or blooped! in the house and you have no idea device is trying to get your attention.
One of my most favorite sci-fi characters has zero bullshit and maximum chill. That character is #Bit, from #Tron. I love him so so much. Especially when he gets really excited. YES YES NO NO NO! 
https://youtu.be/_fGujzulsas
It was Tron that really influenced me as a little kid. Not a big surprise I ended up in #infotech as I have.
Much like #Airplane and #Clue, Tron can do no wrong. They are foundational parts of my upbringing. A part of me. :) #Movies #today #MoreAboutMe
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Hightech und Lowtech: Wie Seoul und Tokio den Halloween-Horror bekämpfen wollen
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Gift für Trainingsdaten: Neues Tool soll Bilder vor KI-Bildgeneratoren schützen
Das Tool Nightshade manipuliert Trainingsdaten, um Werke von Künstlern zu schützen. Das könnte aber der Entwicklung von KI-Bildgeneratoren schaden.
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