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"The Mastermind Box Cover: What the Hell Were They Thinking?"
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If you write for a living, for studies, or even as a hobby, you should consider Emacs. It could be just what you need in an environment of enshittifying word processors and AI garbage.
Emacs For Writers (Video Series)
If you write for a living, for studies, or even as a hobby, you should consider Emacs. It could be just what you need in an environment of enshittifying word processors and AI garbage.
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Released June 1979 on label Alternative Tentacles (US)
Fast Product (UK)
Songwriter(s) Jello Biafra & John Greenway
Producer(s) Dead Knds
LYRICS
I am Governor Jerry Brown
My aura smiles
And never frowns
Soon I will be president...
Carter Power will soon go away
I will be Fuhrer one day
I will command all of you
Your kids will meditate in school
Your kids will meditate in school!
California Uber Alles
California Uber Alles
Uber Alles California
Uber Alles California
Zen fascists will control you
100% natural
You will jog for the master race
And always wear the happy face
Close your eyes, can't happen here
Big Bro' on white horse is near
The hippies won't come back you say
Mellow out or you will pay
Mellow out or you will pay!
California Uber Alles
California Uber Alles
Uber Alles California
Uber Alles California
Now it is 1984
Knock-knock at your front door
It's the suede/denim secret police
They have come for your uncool niece
Come quietly to the camp
You'd look nice as a drawstring lamp
Don't you worry, it's only a shower
For your clothes here's a pretty flower.
DIE on organic poison gas
Serpent's egg's already hatched
You will croak, you little clown
When you mess with President Brown
When you mess with President Brown
California Uber Alles
California Uber Alles
Uber Alles California
Uber Alles California
Happy 55th Oregon Blew Up A Whale Day for those who celebrate!
Also: if you're afraid of doing something because you're worried you'll look like a jackass if you mess up, PLEASE know that you will never look like as much of a jackass as the State of Oregon did as chunks of rotting whale blubber pelted onlookers.
They caught the whole debacle on the evening news.
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The blubber chunks were ... everywhere.Caroline Delbert (Popular Mechanics)
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Seriously, for God's sake: they used HALF A TON OF TNT.
1,000 pounds.
453 kilograms.
THEY FLATTENED A CAR
WITH FALLING BLUBBER
No matter how badly you fuck up, you will never, ever fuck up this badly. I promise. Do The Thing.
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No matter what I do in life, I will never be THAT AWESOME.
Half a ton of TNT.
Expecting that seagulls will eat eight tons of whale.
Covering EVERYONE for a quarter mile around with bits and pieces of whale.
This is ART.
@pandora_parrot Whale blubber is apparently the same approximate density as a bowling ball
So
That's how
(psst, yesterday was the 55th anniversary 💥🐋)
Florence now has a park dedicated in honor of that event.
this is the first viral[1] video[2] I remember seeing on the internet!
[1] to the extent anything could be considered viral on the internet in those days
[2] to the extent anything of that resolution could be considered a video, also. But it took a very long time to download.
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Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.KATU News (YouTube)
The minor league #baseball Eugene Emeralds have an alternate identity: the Exploding Whales
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On November 12th, 1970 in the city of Florence, Oregon, a 45-foot-long, 8-ton sperm whale washed ashore on the Oregon coast and was 'removed' with dynamite. Buy all your Exploding Whales merch here 54 years later!Eugene Emeralds
How could I have missed it? Here's the footage so you don't have to wade through the blubber of the article.
youtube.com/watch?v=V6CLumsir3…
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.KATU News (YouTube)
Falls jemand bis zum 23. November noch in Trier ist, kann ich die Sonderausstellung zu Marc Aurel dringend empfehlen.
Why do I only now discover that Control-0, Control-minus and Control-plus are next to eachother in the qwerty layout. Handy! qwerty, it's not just for easy access to []{} anymore!
By the way, altgr-weur (altgr-weur.eu/) for the win!
“We are all talking constantly about billionaire behaviour (...) but remain too shy to ask whether billionaires should exist at all. (...) We rigorously avoid the logical conclusion: that maybe having a billion dollars in the first place is innately bad.”
We're now running Mastodon v.4.5 which introduces "quote posts". Learn more about how to confirm your personal setting preferences here:
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Quote posts, the end of missing replies, new tools for admins and better emojis. All of these and more, in our latest release.Mastodon Blog
I really do enjoy this show! They show a command line and commands that make sense. No Visual Basic like they did in a show years and years ago. And only one pair of hands typing on a keyboard.
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friendica.world/contact/blocke… is empty too.
I saw an account on the local feed that posted way to many posts to my liking, so I clicked on the three dots to ignore them. That account was NOT in my contacts. It worked as a charm. I got curious and tried to find out where I could find all the accounts I ignored that way, but that functionality does not seem to exist. friendica.world/contact/ignore… and friendica.world/contact/blocke… only work for accounts that are in my contacts.
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I ignored your account, which I don't follow, as a test. You then appear in the list of ignored contacts (here in German).
It works as expected here. The question is why it does not work as expected on your server?
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For the record, I added the account in question and clicked in channel settings to never show posts. In my friendica.world/network?channe… feed I clicked on the More button for the account in question and selected collapse. Friendica shows that the content of this account is collapsed.
friendica.world/contact/collap… however does not show the account.
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In the admin settings is a configuration called 'Posts per user on community page'. When this is set, it will restrict the number of posts per user.
Also the admin could restrict the number of posts that a user can create per hour/day/week.
Funny side note: I created these settings for exactly that user. That account had been on several other Friendica servers before and - I guess - annoyed tons of admins because of this flooding.
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I loved Byte back in the day but Ted Nelson might disagree about 1975 being the dawn of the revolution.
Well, I was thinking more of the date than the parentage. Ted would probably place the date of the dawn a few years earlier with the founding of the People’s Computing Company.
Byte played an important role as a chronicle of the era, of course; but they arrived a little later than the dawn, it seems to me.
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A Wayne Green ism which quickly disappeared
with Helmers as editor.
Byte stayed Byte, Green started a new magazine called "Kilobyte" which became "Kilobaud"
I misread the first feature heading:
Which Microprocessor are you?
🤔😆
In 1975 I was taking computer science and learning to program using routines saved on IBM punch cards.
In 1985 I had an Olivetti luggable 52 pound PC with 640K RAM and a 10MB hard drive running Lotus123 and WordPerfect on DOS 4.2. Fabulous.
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In 2025, I get the best performance and hasslefree productivity by disconnecting from the cloud and running 15yr old desktop software from those tech co’s that have all moved to #enshitification
I think i want to stay in 2010.
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I have fond memories of Byte mag. I discovered it in about 1980, when most computers were huge vastly expensive boxes in aircon rooms, but also we were just getting stuff like the ZX80 et al, that actual people could afford and play with. Byte helped people like me understand that we could do this stuff ourselves, and write our own programs. They published listings in BASIC, as all the new 'personal computers' had a BASIC interpreter.
Happy days.
Edit: I seem to recall that they also featured short fiction from Jerry Pournell? Good fun.
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This email could have been a daydream.
Followed by a nap. And a snack.
”What stands out to me about the conversations on the fediverse is how much focus is placed on the singular fediverse, and how its decentralised nature can be a powerful tool for dealing with government overreach. In contrast, very limited attention is given to the very real problem that this means that there are a large number of server operators who do have to make the challenging decision for themselves: do they comply with Mississippi's Age Assurance Law, block access to Mississippi IP addresses, or ignore it altogether?“
— @LaurensHof in this weeks' Connected Places
This absolutely nails the issues facing the fediverse, especially as we go more mainstream and have to deal with regulations with legal requirements around the globe, especially in countries and states where we have people accessing our services from.
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Reasons for Linux laptops?
- A Windows computer always has a higher price for the Windows license.
- Linux-Computers have been extensively tested for hardware compatibility. You can be sure that Wi-Fi and Bluetooth will work in your system.
- By purchasing Linux laptops and desktops, Linux is indirectly supported. Higher sales indicate a demand for Linux products, and therefore more vendors may be inclined to offer Linux as the operating system of choice.
Here I list some online stores that sell Linux computers or specialize only in Linux systems.
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Looking for Linux laptops? Here I list some online stores that sell Linux computers or sp...public.quodari.com
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To be free people, we don’t merely need to be ungovernable.
We need to become unoptimizable.
Cory Doctorow @pluralistic
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During America’s Gilded Age, the future seemed to pulse with electrical possibility. Iwan Rhys Morus follows the interplanetary safari that is John Jacob Astor’s A Journey in Other Worlds, a high-voltage scientific romance in which visions of imperia…The Public Domain Review
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(Van mijn blog | From my blog)
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I’ve been saying when the #AI bubble pops, it’s going to be so disastrous it will make the dot com bust pale in comparison.
Almost every online platform and SAAS I use has gone all-in on “integrating” AI in some form.
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Recent figures by MIT found that 95 percent of generative AI pilots are failing, with some drastic implications for the spending bubble.Joe Wilkins (Futurism)
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Wow, I never considered the commercial real estate connection! It's going to be a huge mess with a ripple effect far beyond just the tech sector.
What really infuriates me is all the (wasted) billions invested into #AI in the US could've gone into addressing real problems: such as converting former commercial buildings in downtown corridors into affordable housing.
Our society really is screwed.
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@mensrea
The red county in a red Midwest US state in which I live was poised to get a $1 B data center. The proposal carefully never mentioned what it was for. When they had a town hall, public opinion was overwhelmingly negative with people mostly worried about our water (because we all assumed it was for GenAI).
The proposal was withdrawn.
The tide is turning.
That's fantastic news for your community!
I've said elsewhere that "AI" generally is just a category, like "power tools" is a category.
With the arrival of LLMs, Tech Bros said "Power tools for everybody!" and then they hyper specialized in making only drills.
Everybody who found it's hard to cut, shape or otherwise manipulate their material with *just* a drill is now having to wonder whether it was worth billions of dollars for all those drills.
On the other hand In have not seen ai at all, except for Duckduckgo, and I used uBlock origin to edit ai out of their page immediately.
I have visited no ai offering site, knowingly anyway.
Disagree. Lots of companies have largely paid lip-service to this fad. They have either deployed a shallow integration, such as a chatbot and called it "AI" or rebadged some non-generative technique that they were already doing.
IMO very few comapnies are doing any serious work with LLMs b/c they just aren't that useful for most of the data processing that companies and customers actually want to do.
What I'm more concerned about is the overvaluation of the stock market b/c of correlation between a few companies like Nvidia and the wider tech sector.
I do think a price correction is going to happen, perhaps relatively soon, but as always: "The market can remain irrational for longer than you can remain solvent"
@david_chisnall Yes, this is a concern. But I don't know how big of a one it is - although "not as bad as 2008" is a pretty low bar to clear.
I guess we'll see what happens as and when the CoreWeave (aka "WeWork for Nvidia chips") domino falls. Nothing good, I expect!
my previous employer is really hyping up their AI adoption.
I’m not a particularly vengeful person, but I would love it if they stayed true to form and held on to their AI strategy long after everyone else has realised it is a massive folly.
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@njamster have you by any chance played Paranormasight?
It does exactly this but with a different setting. You literally save someone’s life by changing an in-game setting 😆
wait a minute... doesn't this usually just hide the blood, in videogames? So you'd be bleeding invisible blood?! 
Your version is a lot nicer and convenient 
lol
*turned off blood on day 1*
Official homepage of Pepper&Carrot, a free(libre) and open-source webcomic about Pepper, a young witch and her cat, Carrot. They live in a fantasy universe of potions, magic, and creatures.Pepper&Carrot
David, i lost too much Co2... and Methan...
Arg, it will only hack my exposure..? Sorry..
That's so wrong. That's funny.
Reminds me of a film called Last Action Hero. Near the end, Arnold's character was bleeding a lot. Once he was able to return to his fantasy movie world, the loss of blood turned to a flesh wound and a minor scratch.
Ever hear of Toby Fox?
Worth a look.
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@phlash
There's a webcomic called Order of the Stick about D&D characters that regularly talk about XP, going up levels, etc. The best of course was when the party needed a big diamond for something, so the thief character crawled out of the page, went to her own bio webpage on the same site, and 'stole' a diamond from her bio pic. After that her bio pic didn't have a diamond anymore.
As for video games, Metal Gear Solid did stuff like this, such as when one character you are fighting can easily block all your moves because he can 'read your thoughts'. The trick is to plug your controller in the other slot, then he finds that he can no longer read your mind. 😆
DO YOU LIKE TO PLAY CASTLEVANIA
@cy
I haven't played it, no.
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Hey. These are good!
And you're on Mastodon? #Heresy
There's no artist credit on the border of this one (unlike say the amphora of great intelligence).
Is that normal ?
New major update to the private, free and open source office suite! #LibreOffice 25.8 is now available, with:
📝 Navigator improvements in Writer
📊 Many new spreadsheet functions
🚀 Faster file loading
Learn more and download it: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource #freesoftware
The best open source office suite continues to evolve, while maintaining its focus on privacy and digital sovereignty Berlin, 20 August 2025 – The Document Foundation announces the release of LibreOffice 25.8.Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
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Thanks to all who make Libreoffice such a great project and Product
Had a problem.
IT WAS VERY QUICKLY FIXED
Needed and set amd64 deb package translated user interface
German
Spanish
Seems something wrong as download was aarch64 thus not installable,
@muzicofiel
In any module (Writer, Calc, ...) go to menu View -> User Interface...
You can also customise toolbars using menu Tools -> Customize, tab Toolbars. See also help.libreoffice.org/25.8/en-U…
Switching to LibreOffice may be jarring at first, but with a couple of tweaks, you can make it look like Microsoft Office.Anurag Singh (XDA)
Please make it simpler to download and update LibreOffice in languages other than English.
To those unfamiliar with English and/or with difficulties with using computers, the download of an English package, and then the requirement of downloading and installing a "translated user interface" can be quite difficult to understand.
Notice this whole ordeal has to be repeated for every update.
Why don't you do it like OpenOffice or Firefox?
#LibreWolf v142.0-1 is now available!
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No major changes from LibreWolf's end.
See mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/142.… for upstream changes.
## LibreWolf bsys6 Release v142.0-1 - Upstream release, see the [Firefox 142.0 Release Notes](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/142.0/releasenotes/) (Built on GitLab by pipeline [1993020832](https://gitlab.Codeberg.org
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@soop We try! 😁
(codeberg.org/librewolf/setting… for the most recent stuff.
Things that are still in "progressive rollout" state don't get enabled in LibreWolf anyway, but as soon as they veer towards a full rollout, we disable them)
settings - All the settings files that form the core of LibreWolf.Codeberg.org
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Blink and you’ll have never seen it in the first place 🫥
Age verification rules in the UK Online Safety Act are snapping parts of the Internet out of existence.
But it’s not what you think (porn)!
News on conflicts: GONE. Support for sexual health and smoking: GONE.
Watch as ORG’s @JamesBaker shows how censorship works ⬇️
#OnlineSafetyAct #onlinesafety #osa #censorship #reddit #ageverification #vpn #privacy #freeexpression #ukpolitics #ukpol #freedomofexpression
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Teens are left in the dark when it comes to getting support or news online.
Adults have to stay in the soft play area unless they scatter their ID or biometrics across the Internet.
The UK Online Safety Act is a shoddy, dangerous law.
Tell your MP it’s gotta change ⬇️
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#onlinesafetyact #onlinesafety #ageverification #privacy #dataprotection #ukpolitics #ukpol #agegating #censorship #freeexpression
What's the problem? The Online Safety Act has been a disaster. Rather than protect children, millions of adults are facing widespread censorship, and teenagers are having their freedom of expression restricted.Open Rights Group
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It's absolutely not shoddy, because it was never meant to protect children in the first place. So many experts have pointed this out. This is a willful censorship law, it should go completely.
Inability or unwillingness? What would it profit a Parliamentarian who had invested substantial political capital in the project to look behind the label on the tin and discover a can of worms? There was no shortage of people pointing out the design defects in the Bill.
And when it all goes horribly wrong, blame the platforms, blame the regulator; then claim that this was only ever a trial run and we always knew we would need OSA v2.
Peter Kyle is facing mounting criticism over Labour’s online safety crackdownMatthew Field (The Telegraph)
How's it going since the UK Online Safety Act slammed an age gate on the Internet?
Age verification providers with dodgy privacy policies, over-moderation of content, scammers scheming and sites closing down.
Here's a week in the life of an unworkable law ⬇️
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From Friday 25 July 2025 UK Internet users have had to verify their age to use a range of apps and websites – from social media platforms such as X, Reddit and Bluesky to dating apps like Grindr to porn sites such as Pornhub.Open Rights Group
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Reddit, Grindr and Bluesky have chosen age verification providers based outside the UK with concerning privacy policies. Go figure.
❌ You can't choose provider
❌ Platforms don't need to pick certified providers
❌ Providers don't need to meet specific privacy or security standards
✅ Regulate the age verification industry now.
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Age verification goes way beyond porn, impacting everything from Reddit to Spotify to Xbox.
❌ Content is being age gated when it shouldn’t, including subreddits for sexual health like r/STD, for health like r/stopsmoking, or news like r/israelexposed and an X post featuring a speech about grooming gangs by Katie Lam MP.
✅ Limit the scope of the UK Online Safety Act.
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The Online Safety Act is technologically naive and ignorant to privacy risks, so people are finding ways around age verification. But...
❌ Teens could be pushed towards riskier things like the dark web, dodgy free VPNs or scams.
✅ Invest in a public information campaign to help people navigate online safety and learn about the privacy risks of age verification.
#OnlineSafetyAct #onlinesafety #OSA #privacy #ageverification #ageassurance #ukpolitics #ukpol #security #cybersecurity
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Plurality online is being wrecked.
The UK Online Safety Act imposes heavy burdens on small sites, including risk assessments for a broad range of content, the threat of fines or the cost of checking the age of every user.
❌ Many small sites are shutting down or blocking UK users entirely.
✅ Change the categorisation of sites, so small sites and instances are exempt.
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The UK Online Safety Act is a hot mess 🥴
Drunk on boarding up more of the Internet than even the government's paedo test could justify.
Pushing people into riskier stuff online, enabling scammers and walking off with your ID.
Tell your MP to sort it out! ⬇️
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What's the problem? The Online Safety Act has been a disaster. Rather than protect children, millions of adults are facing widespread censorship, and teenagers are having their freedom of expression restricted.Open Rights Group
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So UK 16 & 17 year olds are to get the vote, but are now blocked from informing themselves about issues that may concern them, even posts by MPs? And they can give consent, but not read about sexual health?
#OSA #PalestineAction #ukpol #STD
I work as a dev consultant and all my clients/work recently involves me being a sort of "digital janitor" cleaning up vibe coders/AI's mess. Number #1 clean up? security exploits. AI simply can't do it.
Just look at what happened with the Tea app. I wouldn't trust ANY of these verification providers as far as I could throw them.
The BEST thing the user can do right now is use VPN's. Mullvad, Proton, Self Host Wireguard, whatever. DO NOT GIVE ANY OF THESE PLACES YOUR ID.
@Intellectual_Resistance The idea of a VPN ban was suggested by Heidi Alexander MP, but downplayed by the Secretary of State, Peter Kyle MP. While a ban isn’t government policy atm, they’ve just threatened platforms with fines for promoting VPNs to UK under 18s. It’s a moving situation and this latest announcement does little to dampen rumours of a ban.
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The UK government has warned that online platforms which "deliberately target UK children and promote use" could now "face enforcement action, includingMark Jackson (ISPreview.co.uk)
I don’t even think a private company SHOULD be allowed to run an age-verification service!
Critical matters private personal information should be exclusively handled by the state, with independent security audits mandatory.
You hand that data over to the private sector once, it’s going to be hacked or sold and that’s it, and you can’t vote the fuckers out who fucked it up.
Lights are going out across the Net for UK users.
Age verification is driving sites to shut down, geo-block the UK or restrict features and content.
In trying to tackle to worst of the Net, it's harming the best.
🗣️ ORG Exec Director, @jim
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@david_colquhoun Again, this won't protect children in the first place because it's trivial to circumvent. It will, however, give criminals a new opportunity to trick people into giving them sensitive information. I've already seen malicious replies on Mastodon telling people they need to verify their accounts.
Please: if you see one of these, don't take it at face value. Be similarly cautious if something like it pops up anywhere else.
@david_colquhoun Far-right conspiracy? You really have got it arse about face haven't you?
It's about SURVEILLANCE. Porn is just an 'Oh won't somebody think of the children' tag line, that The DM and it's brethren scream about, all the while showing a 'hot' woman in a skimpy garment, or sharing the details of a gay footballer's antics in a hotel room.
The far-right would like ALL internet traffic monitored and controlled. CCTV in the streets with facial recognition, allowing someone in a uniform with highly polished boots to march up to you and say 'Papers please!'
The porn has always been there - always will be.
We need parents to educate their children and take a bit of responsibility.
We need MSM to stop objectifying women and promoting people like Tate or programmes like Love Island.
We need people like you to wake up before you sleepwalk into a remake of 30's Germany.
and if you have a problem with this law the Technology Minister will call you a 'paedo'
The language of the Playground, how apt.
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Alright, I've been thinking.
When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these?!
Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am?!
I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down!
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The AI model is not your therapist and the company behind it can't necessarily keep it secret. Sam Altman thinks that's 'very screwed up.'Jon Reed (CNET)
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"Según artículos periodísticos, la maestría en derecho (LLM) está reemplazando a terapeutas, asesores, abogados e incluso médicos en algunos casos. Pero, ¿sabes qué? No se aplican las protecciones habituales. Si tu chat privado puede ser citado, no hay acuerdo de confidencialidad. No hay obligación legal ni ética. A los gobiernos les encanta esto. Algunos profesionales humanos no cederán tus datos y te protegerán, pero ¿cómo se supone que vas a protegerte de las codiciosas empresas de IA? Este es otro peligro. Así que ten cuidado con lo que compartes con estos chatbots."
AI seems to be intended to grow a two-tier society.
The 1% get real doctors, lawyers, therapists, teachers and other expertise.
The 99% get AI bots, with a built-in 20% error rate, as doctors, lawyers, therapists, teachers instead.
The fossil fuel industry's obsession with investing in AI, when seen in the context of defunding public education, higher education, libraries, literacy & numeracy programs, research institutions, newspapers, & broadband can only be ...
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And this
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There are plenty of things this AI chatbot is good at, but it's not appropriate for everything.Nelson Aguilar (CNET)
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btw, what's the purpose of this:
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And, I am not able to get my [A] OpenPGP subkey verified.
📣 Is "disable" the same as "uninstall"? We do not believe it. Google does.
Under the DMA, the FSFE with a coalition of civil-society organisations prompts the @EUCommission to open proceedings to investigate Alphabet's (#Google) regarding the uninstallation of pre-installed apps in Android.
Uninstalling is completely removing the app, not just disabling it! This is key for #DeviceNeutrality!
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there is a way to remove pre-installed applications, but you either have to root the phone, or remove them via Android Debug Bridge (adb).
Both of these approaches require technical knowledge, and for people to know of their existence, which most do not.
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I understand this shouldn't be the way to deal with this but here's a great guide for anyone looking to permanently remove apps that only allow disabling. You can also use an app like MalwareBytes to view system apps and get their names for removal.
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Google has released a feature that allows Gemini to access third-party apps, such as WhatsApp, even if you've turned off Gemini Apps Activity. Here's how to prevent that from happening.David Uzondu (Neowin)
another issue with not being able to uninstall is that code stays there, with all its security flaws, indefinitely. It only gets patched/updates if it's enabled.
For the non-technical folks that means it might be able to allow someone who's gotten a toe hold on the device to then use that code to escalate privileges.
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it'll be fine they said
: Under oath in French Senate, exec says it would be compelled – however unlikely – to pass local customer info to US adminPaul Kunert (The Register)
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in reply to jendefer • • •Juho Mäntysalo
in reply to jendefer • • •I had the same edition of mastermind as a kid, and if I recall correctly*, my mind went through similar streams as listed in the article. I stared at the artwork for hours.
I later found out that there were various versions of the mastermind cover pose, and I thought they were all delightful.
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* Which is doubtful.
Cunning and Logic: The International Imagery of ‘Mastermind’
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in reply to tweak • • •"Let the box look like it could pass a doctoral defense and start a coup d’etat at the same time."
Hahaha 🤣
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in reply to tweak • • •And they got the psychology 100% correct
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in reply to tweak • • •so, like...I NEVER played this game, but let me tell you, in childhood, I wanted to play this game, just because of that cover picture. like. how could this game not rival chess?
(I'm guessing the game is not nearly as impressive is chess in reality ~Chara)
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Well, impressive and impressive... It's about the only commercially sold US-made boardgame worth playing.
It's pretty fun, still. If you want to try it, there's probably a computer version on your phone's app store. Or playable online with flash or something*.
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in reply to Juho Mäntysalo • • •Juho Mäntysalo
in reply to Kris Dreemurr (they/them) of the Pnictogen Wing • • •Hadn't thought of that, but your housemate is probably right! Well suitable for something like that. Also a very good simulation for electonic lockpicking.
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