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Bredroll

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Sailing and Software. Long time Debian :debian: user. Maintainer of #Junit2Html #CUnit and #GitlabEmulator

Capitalism doesn't need to be a race to #Crapitalism

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@MNNHNewsEnglish@brands.town avatar MNNHNewsEnglish , to random

TECHNOLOGY: Most encrypted messengers still have a fundamental vulnerability – the recipient could be compromised. Matrix solves this.

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@tante@tldr.nettime.org avatar tante , to random

We should all get used to no longer saying "GitHub" but "Microsoft AI GitHub" just so it's clearer where your code lies and for what purpose.

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@tante Its ShitHub in my brain

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What the actuall fuck? https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/27/mozilla-building-an-ai-rebel-alliance-to-take-on-openai-anthropic-.html

They want to piss away $1.4bn on an AI project??? Holy shit if they have $1.4bn then OMFG that could sustain good, free and fair mozilla for many decades JFC

@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social avatar GrapheneOS , to random

A false narrative is being pushed about GrapheneOS claiming we're ending operations in France due to the actions of 2 newspapers. That's completely wrong. If both newspapers and the overall French media had taken our side instead of extreme bias against us, we'd still be leaving.

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@TheGreatLlama @GrapheneOS the only semi viable way to do it is to be forced to give the authorities a firmware signing key. thats still open to corruption and abuse

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@nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar nixCraft , to random

> What is something the internet has completely ruined?

Privacy

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@nixCraft the future

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@gamingonlinux nice, but the android app doesn't seem to do it

@nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar nixCraft , (edited ) to random

Apparently, there was a weird bug in Ubuntu Linux version 25.10's 'date' command that blocked the automatic software updates check under GUI. However, If you have been manually updating your system using apt or otherwise, you are likely unaffected by this issue.

To enable updates via GUI run:

sudo apt install --update rust-coreutils

Source https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2025-October/009890.html

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@Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

Absolutely obsessed with framing your employees sleeping on the floor as a humble brag

“Look how hard my team works” no dude you’re just bad at project management.

Competent companies ship products without cosplaying being homeless

A tweet by Mark Kretschmann showing two photos of the xAI office on Grokipedia release day. The office is filled with small camping tents set up between desks and along hallways, suggesting that engineers have been sleeping there while working late. The caption notes it’s early morning and the engineers are still in their tents, joking that a good night’s sleep does wonders.
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@Daojoan this cant be real right?

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@Daojoan when i first glanced this image i thought it was people sheltering from some disaster in an underground car park

@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org avatar davidrevoy , to random

The Sword in the Stone

A comic strip in four panels: Panel 1. In darkness, against a background with vegetal notes, through a faint beam of light stands a massive silver sword, finely decorated, embedded in a pedestal that looks like stone. A small warrior mouse and a magician mouse hurry past, hand in hand, but the warrior is drawn to the massive sword. Panel 2. The warrior mouse is already on the pedestal, straining to pull the sword out with all its might. Meanwhile the magician mouse examines the pedestal. Panel 3. The warrior mouse has succeeded! The massive sword is now in its possession; he is happy. Meanwhile, in the background, the magician mouse has managed to pry off a piece of the pedestal with her bare hand: waves of strong smells reach her nostrils. Panel 4. The magician mouse lights the scene with her staff: they are actually both on a cheese platter, and the “sword” was only a knife stuck vertically into a cheese with a gray rind textured like stone. The platter has a piece of Roquefort and Emmental, grapes and a salad in the background. The magician has hearts in her eyes and the warrior is surprised by the discovery.
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@davidrevoy beautiful artwork!

@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu avatar EUCommission , (edited ) to random

Enough talk. Europe's AI plan is getting real.

Six new AI Factories 🇨🇿 🇱🇹 🇳🇱 🇷🇴 🇪🇸 🇵🇱 and 13 new local Antennas across Europe 🇧🇪 🇨🇾 🇭🇺 🇮🇪 🇱🇻 🇲🇹 🇸🇰 🇮🇸 🇲🇩 🇨🇭 🇬🇧 🇲🇰 🇷🇸 have just launched.

What's the deal? 👇

✅ Businesses get massive computing power for faster, smarter AI.

✅ Citizens get better public services, from healthcare to security.

✅ We all get trustworthy, human-centric AI.

The foundation is laid. Time to build the future.

ℹ️ https://link.europa.eu/8xyx8t

A map of Europe shows the distribution of AI Factories and AI Factory Antennas across the continent, along with countries participating in the EuroHPC and AIF Partner Countries. Legend: Existing AI Factories (open circle): Located in Spain (1HealthAI), France (L-AIF, AI2F), Italy (IT4LIA), Germany (SLAIF, HammerHAI), Poland (CZAI), Czechia (AT-AI), Romania (RO AI), and Greece (Pharos). New AI Factories (dark blue circle): Located in the Netherlands (NLAIF), Denmark (JAIF), Sweden (MIMER), Lithuania (LitAI), Latvia (PIAST AI), and Bulgaria (BRAIN++). New AI Factories Antennas (teal circle with a dot): Located in Luxembourg (Gaia AI). Remaining EuroHPC Participating States (purple): Estonia, Ireland, Portugal, Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, Croatia, Malta, Cyprus. AIF Partner Countries (yellow): Norway, Finland, Iceland, United Kingdom, Switzerland, and others in Southeast Europe and North Africa, extending eastwards. The map shows AI Factories or Antennas within the borders of many EU member states, including Spain, France, Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Sweden, Czechia, Romania, Bulgaria, and Greece. The AIF Partner Countries, like Norway, Finland, and Sweden, are highlighted in yellow.
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@EUCommission really leaning into the tech bro fuelled financial crash there

@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , to random

"it isn't just X—it's Y" is by far the most annoying ChatGPTism

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@molly0xfff sounds like its caught the Marks and Spencer advert phrase from the UK for the last 10 years or so. "Its not just roast chicken, its m&s roast chicken"

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@georgetakei "if you hold it like this it reminds me of a bad thing" well. yeah ok, if it were my product I'd just pull it and say, "hmm yeah ok, well fix it" but really, its realy not a hidden signal to telegraph support for nazism. This is the Trump era, you simply throw out repeated seigheils on stage instead.

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@georgetakei bonkers

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@georgetakei also, even if not spelled wrong it would read "When Labour negotiatiates, Britain loses Kimi Badenoch"

@pluralistic@mamot.fr avatar pluralistic , to random

I am an environmentalist, but I'm not a climate activist. I used to be - I even used to ring strangers' doorbells on behalf of Greenpeace.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/11/cyber-rights-now/#better-late-than-never

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A field of utility scale solar. Behind the mountains on the horizon line loom two logos: the original EFF 'clenched fist and lightning bolt' logo and the first Earth Day logo. They are reflected in the solar panels. Behind them roils hellish red-shot smoke.
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@pluralistic omg how can you write so much??

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    @vkc now webrings is a blast from the 90s! yes i think you might be right

    @arstechnica@mastodon.social avatar arstechnica , to random

    Everyone but China has pretty much stopped littering in low-Earth orbit
    "In their rush to move quickly, they are adding to the long-term collision hazard."
    https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/10/everyone-but-china-has-pretty-much-stopped-littering-in-low-earth-orbit/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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    @arstechnica stopped? starlink?

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    @vkc i think it's only old school because it graduated, got a job and supports its family and community.

    I bet it lives next door to tar and regularly plays doubles with ssh. Doesn't see much of rexec now though.

    @TechDesk@flipboard.social avatar TechDesk , to random

    Anyone not wearing smart glasses will someday be at a “cognitive disadvantage,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says. All those brainy ideas will come at a hefty social price, though. Read more from @WIRED:

    https://flip.it/02yQH-

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    @TechDesk @WIRED

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    @JessTheUnstill the two classes are firmly 'i am not upset by the idea that i might get thier germs' and 'im not concerned that they might get my germs'

    @pluralistic@mamot.fr avatar pluralistic , to random

    "AI psychosis" is the pop-psych diagnosis in a recent string of horrible and horrifying cases in which vulnerable people were lured by chatbots into harming themselves and others, including a murder-suicide:

    https://futurism.com/man-chatgpt-psychosis-murders-mother

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    https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/18/automating-gang-stalking-delusion/#paranoid-androids

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    Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
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    @pluralistic I think part of the problem we all face is that for many jobs, "worse but cheaper" vs "human" is a choice some businesses are happy to spend less on.

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    I'd pay for a high-quality handmade sketch (a good one, not some stick figures) that depicts what I desperately want to ask AI to devise just because I like the idea of asking it to imagine its own demise: I'm picturing a scene where the data centers have been overgrown with dangling vines and weeds creeping out of server cabinets, which have long ago been stripped for scarce parts in the battle against the machines. I'd settle for a more gently apocalyptic theme as well.

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    @briankrebs i saw this comic not 15 mins ago

    @JazzCatArtist@mastodon.art avatar JazzCatArtist , (edited ) to random

    Courtyard at New Town Hall in Munich, watercolor and colored pencil 18x24.

    This painting is inspired by a visit to Munich many years ago. Lots of drawing and painting in watercolor. I've always loved working in detail.

    Fine art prints 🎨 https://1-elizabeth-kennen.pixels.com/featured/courtyard-at-new-town-hall-munich-elizabeth-kennen.html

    Watercolor painting of the entrance to a courtyard at New Town Hall in Munich. Large decorative iron gate, walkway, inner courtyard, grand courtyard, painted with lots of detail.
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    @JazzCatArtist This is astounding! I spent a good few minutes just looking at the frog!

    @dangillmor@mastodon.social avatar dangillmor , to random

    An accurate headline: "In win for infectious diseases, Florida to end all school vaccine requirements" -- https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/09/in-win-for-infectious-diseases-florida-to-end-all-school-vaccine-requirements/

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    @dangillmor holy crap!

    @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , to random

    Newsletter: President Trump’s deregulatory agenda emboldened prediction markets to push boundaries around permitted event contracts. Now sites advised by his son are allowing bets on his death.

    https://www.citationneeded.news/trump-death-bets/

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    @molly0xfff sooo
    .. if wagering reaches a critical point, someone might actually do it??

    @nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar nixCraft , to random

    What is the biggest bait and switch tactic you have seen in the tech industry?

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    @nixCraft walled gardens, iphone app store, unrootable androids,

    @ProPublica@newsie.social avatar ProPublica , to random

    She Pushed to Overturn Trump’s Loss in the 2020 Election.

    Now She’ll Help Oversee U.S. Election Security.

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    Heather Honey, a high-profile denier of Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election (and a protege of lawyer Cleta Mitchell, who tried to help overturn those election results), has been appointed to a senior position in the Department of Homeland Security in which she’ll help oversee election security.

    https://www.propublica.org/article/heather-honey-dhs-election-security?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-mastodon-post&utm_content=8-26

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    @ProPublica now that direct election rigging is enabled it means that your democracy is gone. the only recourse to get it back is to take anti-democratic action to eliminate all the elements that have sought to lock power away from fair voters

    @jensorensen@mastodon.social avatar jensorensen , to random

    Latest comic: It's hard to imagine another country doing more damage to the US than what is being done from within

    Government or Foreign Invader? DISMANTLING ENTIRE AGENCIES THAT PROTECT AMERICANS Scientist being kicked out of office BOOT! LOOTING THE TREASURY Moneybags labeled BILLIONAIRE TAX CUTS BILLIONS IN GOVT CONTRACTS TO DONORS TROOPS OCCUPYING U.S. CITIES Man looking fearfully at masked officer in flak jacket ROLLING OUT THE RED CARPET FOR OUR ENEMIES Putin arriving in Alaska walking on red carpet CLAP CLAP ©2025 Jen Sorensen
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    @jensorensen sadly the rot is deep, the racism and cruel greed have been embedded for generations, but Trump now lets them be proud of thier disgusting attitudes

    @randahl@mastodon.social avatar randahl , to random

    There is war in Europe. People are dying. And Donald Trump wastes European leaders‘ time showing them his collection of China made MAGA hats.

    The things intelligent people have to endure, because some US voters elected a fool…

    Future generations will not believe their own history books.

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    @randahl books will be banned, or pay-per-page by then

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    @randahl OMFG its real isnt it...

    @mcc@mastodon.social avatar mcc , to random

    I guess it just feels weird to me that the precise people who were calling us "NPCs" not too many years ago are the exact same people who are really excited about having their posts and emails written by an AI

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    @mcc who is calling who NPCs? I only came across the term outside of games yesterday when i heard "NPC music" to describe some generic tiktok backing song

    @Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de avatar Codeberg , to random

    We apologize for a period of extreme slowness today. The army of AI crawlers just leveled up and hit us very badly.

    The good news: We're keeping up with the additional load of new users moving to Codeberg. Welcome aboard, we're happy to have you here. After adjusting the AI crawler protections, performance significantly improved again.

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    @Codeberg yeowsa. this feels like an arms race that is going to get harder :(

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    @Codeberg @woozle that basically sounds like homomorphic encryption :(

    @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , to random

    When we throw up our hands and say none of it matters, we're doing the fascists’ work for them. They don't need to hide their corruption if they can convince us it's pointless to look. They don't need to silence truth-tellers if we've already decided truth is meaningless.

    https://www.citationneeded.news/it-matters-i-care/

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    @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , to random

    “If I supply you with a tool to remove DRM (like some versions of Calibre), then I commit a felony and Amazon can have me sent to prison for five years for giving you a tool to move my book from the Kindle app to a rival app like Kobo. ... [E]ven though copyright law says you can format shift your books, music, videos, games, [etc.], DMCA 1201 (a ‘paracopyright law’) makes this an imprisonable felony if you have to break DRM first.” – @pluralistic

    https://lifehacker.com/tech/you-can-remove-drm-from-your-digital-books-but-its-probably-illegal

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    @molly0xfff @pluralistic but if i want to feed it into my 'AI' as training data that's fine right?...

    @NewtonMark@eigenmagic.net avatar NewtonMark , to random

    At a get-together last night I had to explain to a restaurant table full of professional software engineers what RS-232 was because none of them have ever seen a modem or a dumb terminal, and I don’t think I’ve ever felt so old.

    I guess if you were born in 2000, your earliest memory of using the internet would be ADSL and everyone in your house had cellphones, so you might have gone through your entire life without ever encountering the POTS PSTN and might never have had a need to use an RS-232 serial port.

    Get off my lawn.

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    @static @NewtonMark my friends back then called that "baud barf"

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    @static @NewtonMark not that long ago I remember being amazed and in awe as one of our founders sat with me and a PCI bus analyser, where he was able to capture a trace and read out the actual binary message from the oscilloscope trace.

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    @peteorrall @gerrymcgovern planned obsolescence driven by vanity and FOMO

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    @gerrymcgovern I have a bit of a problem with these "uses x amount of water" comparisons. Its not like farming or industrial processes. Yes, it is probably a frivolous use of the energy used to get, use and drain the water, but the water isn't gone. In probably all cases its simply warmer.

    On the back of this you could pair up with an industrial process that needs the heat.

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    @gerrymcgovern yuk, that is pretty bad. Still my main problem with it is the frivolity of the energy use in the first place rather than the mitigations or greenwashing they've not done :(

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    @CatHerder @gerrymcgovern it's not just energy, it's the general waste that they get to produce for free without any cost to them. Same should be true for the billions of tonnes of trash that come from cheap shit products that are so crap you expect them to break almost instantly so just bin it. The kind of junk that Temu splurts out to the world.

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    @gerrymcgovern that says more about government that sells its people out than anything else

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    @gerrymcgovern I rather think it is the massive imbalance in consumption in very rich nations and not the size of earth's population

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    @gerrymcgovern the techno-cleptocracy is the biggest driving force in the Western world, pushing fir climate denialiam and normalising toxic consumerism with endless "buy latest gizmo" and profit driven race to the bottom. Controlling population growth on a macro scale isn't going to happen to rich people. The only thing that will hit effectively is making the cost to repair the environment included in the cost to sell the worst products and services.