@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-30 16:30:33
Zhipu AI launches a share sale to raise ~$560M in a Hong Kong IPO at a valuation of ~$6.6B, which would make it the first LLM developer listed in Hong Kong (Themis Qi/South China Morning Post)
https://www.sc…
@whitequark@mastodon.social2025-11-30 04:12:30
someone forgot verilog for an entire 802.11ax core on github https://github.com/OpenEDF/ceva_wifi6/tree/main/RW-WLAN-HW/WLAN_HE_REF_IP/HW/IPs/HW/TOP11ax
@nitpicking@mstdn.party2025-10-01 02:28:40
This is randomly hilarious.
https://gws.sandbox.iam.s.uw.edu/ippa-010054
Someone was putting together a report on pollution regulations, namely "IPPA 010054, or the Industrial Pollution Prevention and Abatement (IPPA) Framework". They apparently let an AI insert illus…
@privacity@social.linux.pizza2025-10-30 09:52:20
Open Webinar IIP – 4 novembre 2025 – Delitti sintetici: legge italiana IA e crimini artificiali
https://www.istitutoitalianoprivacy.it/2025/10/30/open-webinar-iip-4-novembre-2025-delitti-sintetici-le…
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2025-12-30 20:21:23
If you’re rich, I don’t like you. If you’re rich and help the poor, I still don’t like you. If you’re rich and wish you weren’t, I can understand that, but it doesn’t change anything. Giving to the poor doesn’t undo the system that made you rich in the first place. It’s charity dressed up as justice, and it only makes you look generous while the structure that feeds your power stays firm.
If you really wanted to help, you’d walk away from the corporations, the profit, and the comfort b…
@grifferz@social.bitfolk.com2025-11-29 16:47:24
Ah, a free update on the state of the legacy IP address market, from a spammer:
Subject: Spanish IPs ranges available
We currently have a very competitive offer on IP sales, with the following prices:
• €27/IP for ranges from /24 to /22
• €26/IP for ranges of /21 and larger
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-10-30 10:05:59
The fracturing of the Dutch far-right, after Wilder's reminded everyone that bigots are bad at compromise, is definitely a relief. Dutch folks I've talked to definitely see D66 as progressive, <strike>so there's no question this is a hard turn to the left (even if it's not a total flip to the far-left)</strike> a lot of folks don't agree. I'm going to let the comments speak rather than editorialize myself..
While this is a useful example of how a democracy can be far more resilient to fascism than the US, that is, perhaps, not the most interesting thing about Dutch politics. The most interesting thing is something Dutch folks take for granted and never think of as such: there are two "governments."
The election was for the Tweede Kamer. This is a house of representatives. The Dutch use proportional representation, so people can (more or less) vote for the parties they actually want. Parties <strike>rarely</strike> never actually get a ruling majority, so they have to form coalition governments. This forces compromise, which is something Wilders was extremely bad at. He was actually responsible for collapsing the coalition his party put together, which triggered this election... and a massive loss of seats for his party.
Dutch folks do still vote strategically, since a larger party has an easier time building the governing coalition and the PM tends to come from the largest party. This will likely be D66, which is really good for the EU. D66 has a pretty radical plan to solve the housing crisis, and it will be really interesting to see if they can pull it off. But that's not the government I want to talk about right now.
In the Netherlands, failure to control water can destroy entire towns. A good chunk of the country is below sea level. Both floods and land reclamation have been critical parts of Dutch history. So in the 1200's or so, the Dutch realized that some things are too important to mix with normal politics.
You see, if there's an incompetent government that isn't able to actually *do* anything (see Dick Schoof and the PVV/VVD/NSC/BBB coalition) you don't want your dikes to collapse and poulders to flood. So the Dutch created a parallel "government" that exists only to manage water: waterschap or heemraadschap (roughly "Water Board" in English). These are regional bureaucracies that exist only to manage water. They exist completely outside the thing we usually talk about as a "government" but they have some of the same properties as a government. They can, for example, levy taxes. The central government contributes funds to them, but lacks authority over them. Water boards are democratically elected and can operate more-or-less independent of the central government.
Controlling water is a common problem, so water boards were created to fulfill the role of commons management. Meanwhile, so many other things in politics run into the very same "Tragedy of the Commons" problems. The right wing solution to commons management is to let corporations ruin everything. The left-state solution is to move everything into the government so it can be undermined and destroyed by the right. The Dutch solution to this specific problem has been to move commons management out of the domain of the central government into something else.
And when I say "government" here, I'm speaking more to the liberal definition of the term than to an anarchist definition. A democratically controlled authority that facilitates resource management lacks the capacity for coercive violence that anarchists define as "government." (Though I assume they might leverage police or something if folks refuse to pay their taxes, but I can't imagine anyone choosing not to.)
As the US federal government destroys the social fabric of the US, as Trump guts programs critical to people's survival, it might be worth thinking about this model. These authorities weren't created by any central authority, they evolved from the people. Nothing stops Americans from building similar institutions that are both democratic and outside of the authority of a government that could choose to defund and abolish them... nothing but the realization that yes, you actually can.
#USPol #NLPol
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2025-11-30 12:22:38
The Korean National Police Agency National Office of Investigation (NOI) said on the 30th it arrested four people who hacked about 120,000 homecam IP cameras and sold the videos to an overseas site for sexual purposes
https://biz.chosun.com/en/en-society/2025/11/3…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-11-01 02:00:38
as_skitter: Skitter IP graph (2005)
An aggregate snapshot of the Internet Protocol (IP) graph, as measured by the traceroute tool on CAIDA's skitter infrastructure, in 2005.
This network has 1696415 nodes and 11095298 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/as_s…
@whitequark@mastodon.social2025-11-29 18:23:24
abc has commands &if, &if2, &iff, &iiff, &jf, &kf, &lf, &mf, &mfs, &nf, and &of. i think it should also have &yiff. In this essay I will