Miscellaneous Tech News
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Tech Tent: Trump versus Twitter
For years, Twitter resisted calls to treat President Trump just like any other user. Then this week, everything changed.
It began on Wednesday. Twitter had been under fire for allowing tweets in which the president shared a far-fetched conspiracy theory about an alleged crime involving a TV presenter and former Republican congressman. But instead of taking action on those tweets, it fact-checked two others - about postal voting under a new policy which seeks to deter content which might suppress voting. Social media expert Chris Stokel-Walker tells Tech Tent that if Twitter thought limiting action to the area of elections was a cautious first step, it was wrong. "As soon as you start engaging in any sort of moderation or comment on politics, you run the risk of potentially alienating 50% of your audience - and given our very politically fractious times, that is more of a risk than ever," he said. Having taken that first step, and seeing President Trump immediately go nuclear and threatening to go so far as to shut the social media platform down, Twitter might have been tempted to go quiet for a bit. -
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Tech Tent: Trump versus Twitter
For years, Twitter resisted calls to treat President Trump just like any other user. Then this week, everything changed.
It began on Wednesday. Twitter had been under fire for allowing tweets in which the president shared a far-fetched conspiracy theory about an alleged crime involving a TV presenter and former Republican congressman. But instead of taking action on those tweets, it fact-checked two others - about postal voting under a new policy which seeks to deter content which might suppress voting. Social media expert Chris Stokel-Walker tells Tech Tent that if Twitter thought limiting action to the area of elections was a cautious first step, it was wrong. "As soon as you start engaging in any sort of moderation or comment on politics, you run the risk of potentially alienating 50% of your audience - and given our very politically fractious times, that is more of a risk than ever," he said. Having taken that first step, and seeing President Trump immediately go nuclear and threatening to go so far as to shut the social media platform down, Twitter might have been tempted to go quiet for a bit.I hope they push Dear Leader to a heart attack. Please, please, please.
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George Floyd: Anonymous hackers re-emerge amid US unrest
As the United States deals with widespread civil unrest across dozens of cities, "hacktivist" group Anonymous has returned from the shadows.
The hacker collective was once a regular fixture in the news, targeting those it accused of injustice with cyber-attacks. After years of relative quiet, it appears to have re-emerged in the wake of violent protests in Minneapolis over the death of George Floyd, promising to expose the "many crimes" of the city's police to the world. However, it's not easy to pin down what, if anything, is genuinely the mysterious group's work. -
Facebook staff anger over Trump post
Facebook staff have spoken out against the tech giant's decision not to remove or flag a controversial post by US President Donald Trump last week.
Mr Trump took to Facebook to repeat a tweet about the widespread protests in Minneapolis, following the death of George Floyd in police custody. Twitter had placed a warning over the content, which it said "glorified violence", but Facebook said it did not violate its company policy. Some staff said they were ‘ashamed’. The president said he would "send in the National Guard", and warned that "when the looting starts, the shooting starts." The post remains untouched on Facebook after founder Mark Zuckerberg said it did not violate the company’s policy around incitement of violence. -
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/raspberry-pi-os-no-longer-raspbian
How many issues will now arise due to confusion just like exists in the Linux world - it's not Linux.. Linux is just the Kernel, stop talking about Linux and talk about the Distro, the fact that it's running a Linux kernel shouldn't matter (except that it can, if the distro has more than one kernel available for it.
Yeah yeah Jared I'll shut the hell up now.
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Facebook's Zuckerberg accused of setting dangerous precedent over Trump
Mark Zuckerberg is setting a "dangerous precedent" by allowing a post by Donald Trump to remain on Facebook, a group of civil rights leaders has warned.
Their statement followed a video call with the social media giant's founder. The US president's post, about the widespread protests following the death of George Floyd, was hidden by Twitter last week for "glorifying violence". Facebook staff also voiced their anger at their employer, with some staging a "virtual walkout". In the post, the president wrote he would "send in the National Guard", and warned that "when the looting starts, the shooting starts". Mr Trump shared the same message on Twitter, where it was hidden behind a warning label, prompting an escalating row between Twitter and the White House. Mr Zuckerberg had previously defended his decision to leave the same post up on Facebook, saying he disagreed with Mr Trump's words but that people "should be able to see this for themselves". -
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/raspberry-pi-os-no-longer-raspbian
How many issues will now arise due to confusion just like exists in the Linux world - it's not Linux.. Linux is just the Kernel, stop talking about Linux and talk about the Distro, the fact that it's running a Linux kernel shouldn't matter (except that it can, if the distro has more than one kernel available for it.
Yeah yeah Jared I'll shut the hell up now.
I would argue that linux is linux and distros don't matter as much anymore.. Though I will say some developers seem to only make their software work for Debian OSes, I see Debian defcato windows replacement in a couple of years as Microsoft is making clear moves to get out of the desktop business and supporting linux more.
Distro hopping is part of the problem with Linux, but most distros have feature parity anymore and things like DevOps have helped push even ubuntu to where it's more accepted in the enterprise than it used to be. We used to only want CentOS or RHEL. Now Ubuntu Server is used in some cases, and even Ubuntu Desktop.
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@thecreaitvone91 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I would argue that linux is linux and distros don't matter as much anymore.. Though I will say some developers seem to only make their software work for Debian OSes
Oddly I just tried Davinci and it doesn't run on the Debian family, at least not easily, and is solely officially built for CentOS, of all things.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@thecreaitvone91 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I would argue that linux is linux and distros don't matter as much anymore.. Though I will say some developers seem to only make their software work for Debian OSes
Oddly I just tried Davinci and it doesn't run on the Debian family, at least not easily, and is solely officially built for CentOS, of all things.
That's because of Davinci Resolve's history before it had the free or software-only versions it was a big expensive $20k package that included a controller and ran on CentOS in big hollywood houses on usually internet disconnected dedicated workstations. and sometimes installed along side Autodesk Smoke and Flame both CentOS only as well.
You might try LightWorks (https://www.lwks.com/) or Flowblade (https://jliljebl.github.io/flowblade/) for Debian. Flowbade being the easier to use.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@thecreaitvone91 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I would argue that linux is linux and distros don't matter as much anymore.. Though I will say some developers seem to only make their software work for Debian OSes
Oddly I just tried Davinci and it doesn't run on the Debian family, at least not easily, and is solely officially built for CentOS, of all things.
This exactly my point.
How much DevOps are we seeing in the desktop space? I mean perhaps we are seeing more of that in places that actually deploy hundreds or thousands of Linux based desktops, but it's also extremely likely that that company is sticking to a single distro, seems highly unlikely that they would try to support multiple Distro unless there was a very specific reason to do so - oh yeah, like software vendor who you for some reason require that doesn't support your desired distro.
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@Dashrender Sure, there is some very specific stuff that is only supported on one Distro, Like Divinci they usually have a narrow market and specific target. But, it's not that hard to repackage sofware for another distro, there's even a premade on for Davinci https://www.danieltufvesson.com/makeresolvedeb
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
How much DevOps are we seeing in the desktop space?
Doesn't really matter which space it's in, the difference between a Linux desktop and a server is just adding a window manager and additional packages.
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George Floyd: Reddit co-founder quits board and asks for black replacement
Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian has resigned from the tech firm's board and urged the company to replace him with a black candidate.
The tech entrepreneur has also pledged to use future gains on his Reddit stock to "serve the black community." In a series of tweets, he said he was doing it "as a father who needs to be able to answer his black daughter when she asks: 'What did you do?'" It follows days of US protests against police brutality and racial inequality. Mr Ohanian, who is married to black tennis champion Serena Williams, said he would be donating $1m (£800,000) to Know Your Rights Camp, a non-profit started by former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick. -
How Bill Gates became the voodoo doll of Covid conspiracies
In 2015, an unassuming-looking Bill Gates came on stage at the TED conference in Vancouver to issue a dire warning.
"If anything kills over 10 million people over the next few decades, it is likely to be a highly infectious virus rather than war," he told the audience. His prescient words picked up some coverage at the time, including from the BBC - but largely went unheeded. But now, the video of this talk has now been viewed more than 64 million times - with many people more interested in the reasons behind that speech than the talk itself. Some accuse of him of leading a class of global elites. Others believe he is leading efforts to depopulate the world. Still more accuse him of making vaccines mandatory, or even attempting to implant microchips into people. -
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BBC News - Letter from Africa: Why Nigerians are muting their mothers on WhatsApp
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-52927678
