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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 โฌ‡๏ธ

openrightsgroup.org/blog/the-gโ€ฆ

#OnlineSafetyAct #onlinesafety #OSA #privacy #ageverification #ageassurance #ukpolitics #ukpol #freedomofexpression #censorship #netplurality

in reply to Open Rights Group

I donโ€™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, itโ€™s going to be hacked or sold and thatโ€™s it, and you canโ€™t vote the fuckers out who fucked it up.

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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.

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ ORG Exec Director, @jim

#OnlineSafetyAct #onlinesafety #OSA #ageverification #ageassurance #freedomofexpression #digitalrights #censorship #ukpol #ukpolitics

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The Gift of Life

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

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LLM is replacing therapists, advisors, lawyers, and even doctors in some cases, according to news articles. But guess what? None of the usual protections apply. If your private chat can be subpoenaed, there is no NDA. There is no legal or ethical obligation. Governments love this. Some human professionals will not hand over your data and will protect you, but how are you supposed to get protection from greedy AI companies ? This is another danger. So be careful what you share with these chatbots
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It looks like we are under attack, that caused SSH connections to fail. We have deployed mitigations and the situation calmed down. Please let us know if the issue occurs again.
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๐Ÿ“ฃ 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!

๐Ÿ“Ž edri.org/wp-content/uploads/20โ€ฆ

#SoftwareFreedom #DMA

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theregister.com/2025/07/25/micโ€ฆ

go to the cloud they said
it'll be fine they said

in reply to Lit

Thank you so much :blobcatheart:
And don't worry for Pepper&Carrot. True, I wrote an article long ago titled "The end of Pepper&Carrot" with all details about it but it was a mistake that I posted in one moment I felt bad (I should have probably not hit the "post" button that day).
My new ambition: continuing to work on the production of new episodes (in background) while posting short 4 panels comic strip from time to time.
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A shitpost that's been brewing in my head for a while now

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Bookface 1.8 is Here!


in reply to Random Penguin

@Random Penguin This theme's quite cool, really admire it. One thing however:

On my desktops, this double navigation takes way more space than in other themes. Would it be possible, for smaller displays, to somehow merge them into one menu line, or does that require more in-depth changes?

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Have you learned something exciting about #Emacs or used it for something interesting? Share your knowledge at #EmacsConf 2025! Submit your proposal by Friday, September 19, 2025: u.fsf.org/486

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in reply to Simon Tatham

to be fair, this reads like an Onion article. How long has PuTTY been around, and been awesome, for it not to have its own actual domain for a few bucks per year?

putty-term.org? putty.org.uk? Just anything other than someone's tilde account on an obscure subdomain!

> Many search engines list putty.org above chiark.

Of course they do! That's how SEO works.

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Interesting new chat client from the twitter guy. It's called bitchat and connects solely via bluetooth LE

So kinda like Briar can except missing internet connection.

It's iOS only though ๐Ÿคท

#bitchat #briar

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An ancient Nokia device was found in an archaeological dig with 17% power.
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@pluralistic youโ€™ve been enshrined by the team at Wankernomics:

instagram.com/reel/DLrD42FThPKโ€ฆ

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Have an orange cat? (Does it have the shared braincell today?)

Scientists have proven they are mutants (which we already knew).

scientificamerican.com/articleโ€ฆ

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REMINDER TO AMERICANS: Amtrak sucks (and so does your domestic airline service).
cupoftea.social/@moof/11452820โ€ฆ


On this day 35 years ago, TGV unit 325 set the land speed record at 515.3 km/h on the LGV Atlantique.

This beat the previous record set by the same train on the 5th December 1989 of 482 km/h

Both these records managed to surpass the record set by an experimental ICE prototype in West Germany in 1988, which was 406.9 km/h on the Hannover-Wรผrzburg line, thus establishing French engineering as superior to the German, at least on speed.

This record stayed current until 2007, when SNCF topped this with a TGV POS setting the new record at 568 and then 574,8 km/h.

TGV 325 is now decommissioned, and is kept at the Citรฉ du Train in Mulhouse.

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in reply to Charlie Stross

I live in a city that is heavily served by Amtrak, and here's a few thoughts:
1. Cost me $70 round trip to go to a city 2 hours away. Yikes.
2. Regional Rail is in financial straights and their answer is to close all the lines they rent from Amtrak (around 1/2 of them). Amtrak raised the rents because SURPRISE financial straights.
3. This is going to put a) way note cars on over-capacity highways and b) a lot of people out of work.
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Search scope and reliability


!Friendica Support
Hello,
I am having trouble searching for profiles and groups. Sometimes I get a hit, but other times I don't for the same search.
Also, I start to think the search scope might be affected by where I am in the app, i.e. the Network tab or Home or one of the others.
Can anyone explain this and is there a guide to performing the best search for profiles and groups, both Local and the whole network.

Thanks
Dennis

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in reply to ploum

du coup je suis allรฉe voir le blog de @AudeCaussarieu et j'ai lu l'article sur Facebook (j'ai pas insta). Je suis un peu sur les mรชmes interrogations, parce que marre d'avoir des micro agressions sur FB (genre hier, sous un post que j'avais fait en soutien ร  Harmonie Lecerf qui datait de plusieurs jours : "Mince, les groupies de Robespierrette ont encore perdu" : mais pourquoi ??).
Bref, j'ai crรฉรฉ un compte Friendica, qui a l'avantage de faire le lien avec le compte masto. Et vous ?
in reply to Sarah Trichet Allaire

@sarah_trichet_allaire Moi je pense pas aller ailleurs qu'ici pour le moment... ๐Ÿค”

(j'avais pas d'activitรฉ sur Facebook depuis que je suis plus prรฉsidente de l'asso)

Mais si tu me racontes friendica et que รงa a l'air chouette, peut รชtre !! (surtout si t'arrives ร  faire venir d'autres zรฉcolos pas trop pรฉnibles ๐Ÿ˜† ou plutรดt une team de fรฉministes ! Moi mes copines FB sont toutes des fรฉministes )

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Wat ben ik aan het lezen #21


"The Lady's Gift, het eerste deel in de driedelige fantasyreeks "The Chosen Saga" geschreven door de Bruggeling Jarl Versavel. En dit ter voorbereiding van het eventueel aanschaffen van het derde deel dat verkrijgbaar zal zijn op de 9000con SF-Conventie Gent.
Niet bijzonder origineel, maar wel verslavend en zeer vlot geschreven.
#boeksky #fantasy

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Releasing 25 vintage digital paintings I made before 2012 as Creative Commons Attribution (with high-res files).

โ†’ blog post: davidrevoy.com/article1074/relโ€ฆ
โ†’ gallery: peppercarrot.com/en/artworks/mโ€ฆ

#maintenance #creativecommons

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Treffen Sie die #LibreOffice Community auf Veranstaltungen in aller Welt! ๐ŸŒ Wir waren zum Beispiel kรผrzlich auf dem InstallFest 2025 in Prag:
de.blog.documentfoundation.orgโ€ฆ
#foss #opensource #freesoftware #fedilz #schule #Verwaltung

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The Truth of Skinwalker Ranchโ€ฆ probably wonโ€™t shock you

Reality TV show The Truth of Skinwalker Ranch goes heavy on the mystery, but the real truths are far more mundane, and almost certainly not alien

skeptic.org.uk/2025/04/the-truโ€ฆ

#Media #Paranormal #UFOs

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A Bug Squashing Party is being organised near Leuven, Belgium, on 26th and 27th April, to fix as many bugs as possible to help prepare for the release of the next stable version of Debian (Debian 13 - Trixie) wiki.debian.org/BSP/2025/04/beโ€ฆ #debian #trixie #bsp
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๐Ÿ“š Want to support your favorite authors without spending a dime?

Itโ€™s easier than you thinkโ€”just request their books at your local library!

Iโ€™ve put together a simple, step-by-step guide to show you how to request books at your library. It takes just a few minutes, but itโ€™s a powerful way to boost your favorite authorsโ€™ visibility and get their work into more hands.

โžก๏ธ majorarqueerna.com/support-youโ€ฆ

#SupportIndieAuthors #SupportAuthors #libraries

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On the value of legible source code for websites, especially personal ones:

โ€œToday's heavily optimized websites have largely killed the "view source" learning experience. The code is minified, bundled, and often incomprehensible to beginners trying to understand how things work.
I got the ick from my own small optimisation. My personal website is small and it isn't an urgent service. It's hardly ever visited from a mobile phone. Maybe I shouldn't be using the little time I have to focus on that side of front-end development in this instance?
But deep down, all I want for my personal website is to give back to the web. I want anyone, regardless of skill level, to inspect elements, understand the structure, and learn from readable code. And I am fully aware my code isnโ€™t perfect. Itโ€™s old and thereโ€™s a lot of room for improvement.โ€


ohhelloana.blog/in-defense-of-โ€ฆ.

Found via brainbaking.com/post/2025/04/mโ€ฆ

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We are now bidding on auction item number five! Not only does the GNU party by Etienne Suvasa (1993) decorate the cover of Introduction to the Command Line, it is also a fun reminder that computing in freedom is worthy of celebration. Find out a bit more about this lively artwork and bid via #Galรจne: u.fsf.org/46b #auction #FSF40 #memorabilia

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Livre QUE LA FARCE SOIT AVEC VOUS Jello Biafra 24 โ‚ฌ
Dispo et dรฉtail ici: la-petroleuse.com/fr/livres-puโ€ฆ
On adore Jello Biafra (comment ne pourrait on pas?), son charisme, son style et sa voix inimitable. Mais quel punk franรงais a t-il pu apprรฉcier toute la richesse de ses textes en VO ?
Ce pavรฉ contient toutes les paroles (en franรงais donc) de Biafra illustrรฉes par 60 artistes franรงais et internationaux
#livre #book #rytrut #jellobiafra #punk #lapetroleuse #lapetroleusebookshop #librairielapetroleuse

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Finally achieved something I've been wanting to do since the 80s!! I have always wanted to recreate this fantastic display, and today I've achieved it after fixing my poorly Micro vision.

ZX81
16K RAM Pack
Microvision 1B

Absolutely lovely.

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A nice view of Mercury, the innermost planet in our solar system, between Venus & the city lights of Mannheim on this early spring evening ๐ŸŒš

As seen from 566m elevation atop the Teltschikturm on the Schriesheimer Kopf above Wilhelmsfeld in the Odenwald ๐ŸŒฒ๐ŸŒฒ๐ŸŒฒ

Despite the murk, I was able to follow it down to <1ยฐ above the horizon.

Better DSLR photos to follow ๐Ÿ™‚๐Ÿ‘

#Astronomy โœจ
#Photography ๐Ÿ“ท
#iPhonePhotography ๐Ÿ“ฑ

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Replacing tmux and GNU screen with Emacs - Mastering Emacs


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Unfortunately, there seems to be a bug in our recent 136.0-1 release; the LW settings page does not properly reflect the state of the settings. While this does not seem to be a very "consequential" bug (eg. not negatively influencing hardening, etc.), it's certainly not great - we are sorry about that!

We are looking into it and will try to get it addressed swiftly, and update this post with the progress.

/edit: the build process for a fixed version 136.0-2 has started ๐Ÿ˜€

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Why Women Turn Into โ€œCat Ladiesโ€

"Old and alone" are two connotations no one wants to have any associations with. It's negative and hints thats you're washed up and no longer useful to anyone. And no other horrible term defines that as the phrase "cat lady", carrying the stigma that you're "old" because you have no friends but cats and they're the only ones who can fulfill your loneliness.

evenyc.com/why-women-turn-intoโ€ฆ

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Unboosted toot, unexpected behaviour, and now I am curious


!Friendica Support I #boosted a #toot on floss.social this morning and saw it appear in friendica.world one minute later. I then #unboosted that same toot on floss.social. I expected the toot to disappear from friendica, but it still shows, saying that I reshared it. Is this normal behaviour or is my friendica.world instance messing up? I'd expect the toot to disappear, or at least the mention that I reshared the toot to disappear.

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