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Iwan Rhys Morus follows the interplanetary safari that is John Jacob Astor’s A Journey in Other Worlds (1894), a high-voltage scientific romance in which visions of imperialism haunt a supposedly “perfect” future: publicdomainreview.org/essay/c…

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Toren van Kasteel De Haar | Tower of De Haar Castle


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Foto van hoektoren van kasteel

Haarzuilens (Utrecht) 2023

(Van mijn blog | From my blog)

Tags: #architecture #architectuur #castle #foto #fotografie #kasteel #netherlands #photo #photography

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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.

futurism.com/ai-agents-failing…

#technology

in reply to Rod Faulkner

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.

in reply to Ben Evans

@kittylyst
I'm most concerned about the impact on the real-estate market. A lot of pension funds mix different risk profiles and so will have some tech stocks as high-risk, high-return things, but they'll also have a load of real-estate funds as low-risk, stable-return things. Unfortunately, a lot of the AI spending has been on datacenter leases, which are being used by the owners to underwrite other investments, so a lot of the low-risk things will also drop sharply in value. That's likely to have a big impact beyond the stock market.
in reply to David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)

@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!

in reply to Ben Evans

@kittylyst
I did the maths about a week ago. If the tech bubble drops in value (proprtionately) as much as as it did when the .com bubble crashed, the US stock markets will lose about as much of their total value as the NYSE did on the first two days of the Wall Street Crash. The secondary effects from margin calls are likely to have a similar effect.
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Settings

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

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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

in reply to LibreOffice

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?

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#LibreWolf v142.0-1 is now available!

codeberg.org/librewolf/bsys6/r…

librewolf.net/installation/

No major changes from LibreWolf's end.

See mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/142.… for upstream changes.

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LibreWolf

@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)

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#CalvinAndHobbes play #chess.

October 10, 1989

Read more: belgianchesshistory.be/cipc-28…

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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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Graham Smith

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.

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@Heidentweet @jim And, of course, blame the previous government even though the Bill had full cross-Parliamentary support: the only complaint from Labour was that it didn’t go far enough. telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/… (£)
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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 ⬇️

openrightsgroup.org/blog/the-g…

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

in reply to Open Rights Group

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.

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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.

🗣️ 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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📣 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!

📎 edri.org/wp-content/uploads/20…

#SoftwareFreedom #DMA

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theregister.com/2025/07/25/mic…

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

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Based on Pepper&Carrot by @davidrevoy

I hear Pepper & Carrot will ending soon. So, I want to draw them before the story end (or just merged). Thanks to David for the tutorials and don't ever get bored provide us with more tutorials

#Art #digitalArt #Krita #PepperCarrot

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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!


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in reply to Random Penguin

Main branch updated to 1.8.1 to fix "Notices" navbar label not using CSS variable. Not an issue for anyone who isn't using Navbar Labels, which are not enabled by default.

If you don't want to wait for the next release the Main branch should always be the most current as people point out things to me and I fix them on GitLab (which should automatically get mirrored to the GitHub repo).

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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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Just sharing a quick doodle of Debby I created as part of my Debian project.

#Art #Anthro #Linux #Debian

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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 🤷

#bitchat #briar

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

instagram.com/reel/DLrD42FThPK…

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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/article…

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


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-Würzburg 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 Cité 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 allée voir le blog de @AudeCaussarieu et j'ai lu l'article sur Facebook (j'ai pas insta). Je suis un peu sur les mêmes interrogations, parce que marre d'avoir des micro agressions sur FB (genre hier, sous un post que j'avais fait en soutien à Harmonie Lecerf qui datait de plusieurs jours : "Mince, les groupies de Robespierrette ont encore perdu" : mais pourquoi ??).
Bref, j'ai créé 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... 🤔

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

Mais si tu me racontes friendica et que ça a l'air chouette, peut être !! (surtout si t'arrives à faire venir d'autres zécolos pas trop pénibles 😆 ou plutôt une team de féministes ! Moi mes copines FB sont toutes des féministes )

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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).

→ blog post: davidrevoy.com/article1074/rel…
→ gallery: peppercarrot.com/en/artworks/m…

#maintenance #creativecommons

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Treffen Sie die #LibreOffice Community auf Veranstaltungen in aller Welt! 🌍 Wir waren zum Beispiel kürzlich auf dem InstallFest 2025 in Prag:
de.blog.documentfoundation.org…
#foss #opensource #freesoftware #fedilz #schule #Verwaltung

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The Truth of Skinwalker Ranch… probably won’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-tru…

#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/be… #debian #trixie #bsp
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📚 Want to support your favorite authors without spending a dime?

It’s easier than you think—just request their books at your local library!

I’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 it’s a powerful way to boost your favorite authors’ visibility and get their work into more hands.

➡️ majorarqueerna.com/support-you…

#SupportIndieAuthors #SupportAuthors #libraries

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

“Today'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 isn’t perfect. It’s old and there’s a lot of room for improvement.”


ohhelloana.blog/in-defense-of-….

Found via brainbaking.com/post/2025/04/m…

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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 #Galène: u.fsf.org/46b #auction #FSF40 #memorabilia

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

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