Ubuntu, UEFI, Cory Doctorow Leftovers
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Empowering government innovation: a secure path to open source excellence | Ubuntu
The Australian Federal Government is not alone in dealing with challenges like natural disasters, global pandemics and economic uncertainty. Like many governments, they are looking for new and innovative ways to tackle these challenges.
FST Government 2023 is an exciting conference that brings over 200 government leaders together to explore how the latest advances in digital technology can help support better policy outcomes and citizen service delivery. Canonical participated in the 2022 edition and is thrilled to join the conference again this year.
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UEFI is Trash: Part 2 “Destroy the Computer to Continue Using Windows 11!”
UEFI is a security disaster.
Lenovo has patched my UEFI over 30 times and there are still releases like this month’s.
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Commentary by Cory Doctorow: Plausible Sentence Generators
ChatGPT can take over a lot of tasks that, broadly speaking, boil down to “bullshitting.” It can write legal threats. If you need 2,000 words about “the first time I ate an egg” to go over your omelette recipe in order to make a search engine surface it, a chatbot’s got you. Looking to flood a review site with praise about your business, or complaints about your competitors? Easy. Letters of reference? No problem.
Bullshit begets bullshit, because no one wants to be bullshitted. In the bullshit wars, chatbots are weapons of mass destruction. None of this prose is good, none of it is really socially useful, but there’s demand for it. Ironically, the more bullshit there is, the more bullshit filters there are, and this requires still more bullshit to overcome it.
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Eight years of organizing tech meetups
This is a collection of random personal experiences. So if you don't want to read everything, feel free to skip to the end for takeaways.
I write because I'd like to see more high-quality meetups. And maybe my little bit of experience will help someone out.
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The curl-wget Venn diagram
I have contributed code to wget. Several wget maintainers have contributed to curl. We are all friends.
If you think there is a problem or omission in the diagram, let me know and I can do updates.