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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal on choosing someone's mode of execution
#SMBC

Sources: ByteDance has been renting Nvidia's GPUs from Oracle to bypass US sanctions; China Telecom and other Chinese companies are using the same loophole (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ch<…

China’s Nvidia Loophole: How ByteDance Got the Best AI Chips Despite U.S. Restrictions
The U.S. government forbids Nvidia from selling some of its most advanced artificial intelligence chips to customers in China. But it doesn’t stop Chinese firms from buying or renting Nvidia’s chips if they’re used within the U.S. Some big Chinese tech firms have taken advantage of that ...

Well then, this is my weekend sorted out...
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/conspire-2

"New study finds Earth warming at record rate, but no evidence of climate change accelerating"
#Climate #ClimateChange

Earth warming at record rate, but no evidence of climate change accelerating
Top scientists calculate that the rate Earth is warming hit an all-time high in 2023 with 92% of last year’s surprising record-shattering heat caused by humans. A group of 57 international scientists examining what’s behind last year’s deadly burst of heat say that even with a faster warming rate they don’t see evidence of significant acceleration in human-caused climate change beyond increased fossil fuel burning. Last year’s record temperatures were so unusual that scientists have b…

Baking in the heat? Check to see if you are you in a HEAT DOME!
https://thedemlabs.org/2024/06/06/heat-domes-fossil-fuel-donations-fund-republican-efforts-to-fight-climate-change/

Are you baking in a Heat Dome?
Fossil fuel donations fund Republican opposition to efforts to fight the climate change causing Heat Domes and extreme heat.

Going once, going twice. Literary Agents of Change is having its annual auction! ‹ Literary Hub
https://lithub.com/going-once-going-twice-literary-agents-of-change-is-having-its-annual-auction/

Going once, going twice. Literary Agents of Change is having its annual auction!
Do you find yourself in the querying spirit this spring? Or have you, perhaps, a burning question for a literary icon? If yes or yes, consider checking out the second annual auction hosted by Liter…

I don’t understand the outrage over #adobe’s EULA. The new terms are basic boilerplate. Anyone hosting content on the web has the same terms in their EULA.
Am I missing something? Or is this just another hoopla over nothing?

Journalisten und Medienhäuser und Rundfunkanstalten müssen sich überlegen, ob sie Windows wegen Datenaneignung per Recall und nun auch Adobe Produkte verbannen. Aus meiner Sicht ist diese Software unvereinbar mit journalistischen Standards und Ethik.
Ich denke hier ist der Gesetzgeber gefragt, Nutzer zu schützen.
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Change to Adobe terms & conditions outrages many professionals - 9to5Mac
A change to Adobe terms & conditions for apps like Photoshop has outraged many professional users, concerned that the company...

It appears @… started issuing certificates from two new intermediates. They have announced this here: https://letsencrypt.org/2024/04/12/cha

Deploying Let's Encrypt's New Issuance Chains - Let's Encrypt
On Thursday, June 6th, 2024, we will be switching issuance to use our new intermediate certificates. Simultaneously, we are removing the DST Root CA X3 cross-sign from our API, aligning with our strategy to shorten the Let’s Encrypt chain of trust. We will begin issuing ECDSA end-entity certificates from a default chain that just contains a single ECDSA intermediate, removing a second intermediate and the option to issue an ECDSA end-entity certificate from an RSA intermediate.

Does Representative James Comer remind you of a shitty weed dealer? https://newrepublic.com/post/182272/james-comer-import-chinese-weed-biden

Idiot James Comer Helped Import Chinese Weed
The House Oversight Committee chair has repeatedly hounded the Biden family for business ties to China.