Thursday, 3. September 12020
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Das Handbuch Überwachung stellt den rechtlichen und gesellschaftlichen Rahmen polizeilicher Überwachung im sicherheitspolizeilichen und strafprozessrechtlichen Bereich, sowie im Aufgabenbereich des Verfassungsschutzes in Österreich, dar.

Let's remove Google from FOSS.

We're a community working to remove Google trackers from open-source projects and to inform people of corporate spying in free and open source (FOSS) software. Unfortunately, many FOSS projects contain spyware and that must be changed. (…) We've submitted over 100 issues and merge requests, and we don't plan to stop anytime soon.

Thursday, 20. August 12020
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Guide on recovering data in MySQL.

The Museum Where Racist and Oppressive Statues Go to Die.

It is a great mistake to describe the monuments as history or heritage (…) We don’t memorialize every piece of our histories. We pick and choose those men and women whose lives embodied values we want our communities to share.

Moth Dress (via risingtensions.tumblr.com via thecaret.co).

Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy is Killing You.

Dear RECIPIENT,

Fuck yooooouuuuuuuu. Fuck you, fuck you, Fuck You. Drop whatever you are doing because it’s not important. What is important is OUR time. It’s costing us time and money to support our shit, and we’re tired of it, so we’re not going to support it anymore. So drop your fucking plans and go start digging through our shitty documentation, begging for scraps on forums, and oh by the way, our new shit is COMPLETELY different from the old shit, because well, we fucked that design up pretty bad, heh, but hey, that’s YOUR problem, not our problem.

We remain committed as always to ensuring everything you write will be unusable within 1 year.

Please go fuck yourself,

Google Cloud Platform

Monday, 17. August 12020
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Philosophers On GPT-3 (updated with replies by GPT-3).

Nine philosophers explore the various issues and questions raised by the newly released language model, GPT-3, in this edition of Philosophers On, guest edited by Annette Zimmermann.

Selected Research Papers on Technology used in Intimate Partner Violence.

Saturday, 15. August 12020
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Mit Extremisten reden. Oder: Caves all the way down.

Höhlengleichnis.

Der sokratische Dialog, mit dem der Gesprächspartner in Widersprüche verwickelt wird, müsse in der Schattenwelt scheitern, da es dort keine Widersprüche gebe, sondern nur eine Folge von Erscheinungen, deren Vorhersage den Höhlenbewohnern Lustgewinn verschaffe. In der Höhle gebe es weder die Neugierde auf das Draußen noch die Disposition der Belehrbarkeit.

Mais quoi?

Dramatic close-ups capture something percolating and exploding – but what is it?