I just discovered that Freebsd 14.3 won't boot on may newest machine - because Freebsd isn't sufficiently "Secure Boot" signed.
(Fedora Linux 43 booted up just fine.)
I would have thought that the Freebsd folks would have nudged a proper signing key out of Microsoft by now.
So to boot Freebsd (14.3) I had to disable Secure Boot in the Setup.
Fediverse Punk Month — We can grow something better!
We invest too much of our culture in centralized, for-profit, corporate social media platforms. These platforms enrich billionaires, expand surveillance, and fund the cult of capitalist war, all while trapping us with addictive algorithms that feed us mindless content. […]
— by @…<…
It's a youtube short, but pretty good if you're a Siouxsie-and-the-Banshees and Hello Kitty fan (and who isn't?): https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fn9DxKq-MHw
📢 EU-Parlament ruft wegen Mercosur-Abkommen den EuGH an
Das Europäische Parlament hat beschlossen, das EU-Freihandelsabkommen mit Ländern des südamerikanischen Mercosur-Staatenbunds vom Gerichtshof der Europäischen Union (EuGh) überprüfen zu lassen. Eine knappe Mehrheit der Abgeordneten stimmte in Straßburg für einen entsprechenden Antrag.
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Since the topic came up in the whole "I run models locally so it's all fine" conversation:
"Open Source AI" does not meaningfully exist. It's just openwashing proprietary shit
https://tante.cc/2024/10/16/does-open-source-ai-really-exist/…
Raiders get shocking Fernando Mendoza, Ty Simpson review from ESPN analysts https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/raiders-shocking-fernando-mendoza-ty-simpson-review-espn-anal…
This should be the beginning of the end.
That the corporate press is suppressing it & the Democratic Party isn’t trumpeting it from the hills bodes even worse than things already did. But it is a big crack in the dam, and we should all push. #EpsteinFiles
This week’s #ThursdayFiveList—courtesy of @…—is #ForeignAffairs: songs in a tongue that isn’t my own.
1. Adriano Celentano, “Prisencolinensinainciusol”—