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Three of my cartoons have been released as prints by @theguardian.com@bsky.brid.gy. They are an open edition in two sizes and are available for two weeks only. Get one here:www.guardianprintshop.com/pages/tom-gaulds-best-cultural-cartoons-of-2025
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Le fichier TES (pour « titres électroniques sécurisés ») centralise les photographies et empreintes digitales que nous donnons pour faire nos titres d'identité et lutter contre les faux documents. Il n’est censé servir qu’à cela. Pourtant, nous révélons aujourd'hui que la police se sert allègrement dans cette base de données pour identifier des personnes lors de ses enquêtes, en violation du droit. laquadrature.net/2025/11/24/la…
La police détourne le fichier des passeports et des cartes d’identité
Fournir sa photographie et ses empreintes quand on demande son passeport ou sa carte d’identité est plus lourd de conséquence que ce qu’on imagine.La Quadrature du Net
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Depuis toujours, le fichier TES est massivement critiqué pour les risques de fuites, d'abus ou de piratage qu'il crée. En centralisant au même endroit les liens entre données biométriques et identité civile de la quasi-totalité de la population, il permet à quiconque y accédant de pouvoir identifier une personne à partir de son visage ou d'une empreinte digitale.
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Pendant des années, on nous a promis qu'au grand jamais le TES ne pourrait être utilisé pour identifier des personnes et qu’il y avait suffisamment de garanties pour éviter les abus. Nous venons de transmettre à la CNIL des preuves démontrant pourtant que ce risque s’est bel et bien concrétisé.
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La police judiciaire ne dispose d’aucun accès direct au TES sauf dans les cas de terrorisme. Pourtant elle contourne cet interdit en exigeant, via des réquisitions judiciaires, que les administrations chargées de la fabrication et de la délivrance des titres leur transmettent les informations du TES. Elle s'arroge ainsi le pouvoir d'identifier toute personne, à partir de ses données biométriques, ce qui lui est normalement interdit.
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Aussi bien l’ANTS qui gère la partie informatique que les agents des préfectures qui instruisent les dossiers transmettent ainsi des photographies et empreintes à des policiers. Ceux-ci peuvent ensuite comparer la photo du visage à d’autres images, notamment de vidéosurveillance, pour confirmer ou infirmer leurs soupçons sur l’identité d’une personne.
Cette pratique d’identification s’est développée et a été tolérée pendant des années. Pourtant, elle est totalement contraire à l’esprit du TES et aux positions du Conseil constitutionnel, du Conseil d’État et de la CNIL. Nous demandons donc que le ministère de l’Intérieur rende des comptes et soit sanctionné.
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Cet exemple n’est malheureusement qu’un seul symptôme du développement tentaculaire du fichage aujourd’hui en France et de l’augmentation inouïe des moyens de collecte et d’accès aux informations sur la population. Votre soutien pour combattre ce système nous est précieux, alors si vous le pouvez, n’hésitez pas à faire un don ! laquadrature.net/donner/
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fait, mais vous devriez réfléchir à changer de banque, vu tout ce qu'on apprend de la Bnaque pop...
#CuveÀPisse va devoir rendre des comptes
à.chaque.fois.
à croire que quel que soit le fichier, c'est pas un bug mais une fonctionnalité.
@bituur_esztreym on nous prend simplement pour des c... pour des endives.
tu veux dire on nous prend pour des ch'tits cons ? #8¬/D
et ça fait longtemps..
et ça fait longtemps..
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@f4grx @bituur_esztreym "pour des c... Endives" --> ce raccourci marche en "belge" : endives se dit chicons 😎
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je me basais là-dessus pour faire mon jeu de mots, mais ne relançons pas la guerre. ce serait trop con ;-P
je me basais là-dessus pour faire mon jeu de mots, mais ne relançons pas la guerre. ce serait trop con ;-P
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ça m'a donné l'occasion de réouvrir la vieille chronique- euh, la page de discussion : fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?t… un monument, il faut en convenir. qui mériterait d'exister comme page en soi.
ça m'a donné l'occasion de réouvrir la vieille chronique- euh, la page de discussion : fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?t… un monument, il faut en convenir. qui mériterait d'exister comme page en soi.
Du coup je me demande si on peut se faire retirer de ce fichier ?
@bohwaz De souvenir, on peut demander via un formulaire à ce que nos données soient effacées du fichier un certain temps après avoir renouvelé sa carte CNIe, et qu'elles ne soient stockées plus qu'au format papier.
J'avais fait la démarche en espérant justement que cela limiterait un usage abusif, en rendant plus pénible l'obtention et la consultation de mes données personnelles.
À confirmer pas La Quadrature du net (et à voir si cela couvre toutes les données personnelles ou non), et à vérifier si ce droit est bien toujours respecté.
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En fait c'est l'inverse tu ne peux pas supprimer une fois que c'est dedans (ce qui me semble incompatible avec le rgpd mais bref) mais tu peux refuser que les empreintes y soient stockées : europe1.fr/technologies/fichie…
Je l'avais fait en 2019. Déjà normalement on est censé te demander ton accord et ça n'a évidemment pas été le cas et quand j'ai demandé on m'a fait comprendre que je faisais chier, qu'il fallait aller dans le bureau à côté pour chercher la procédure papier.
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Fichier TES : il est possible de refuser l'enregistrement de ses empreintes
Chaque demandeur de carte d'identité peut désormais demander à ce que ses empreintes digitales ne soient pas versées au fichier TES.Grégoire Martinez (europe1.fr)
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La CNIL semble dire que ce n'est plus possible : Lors de l’enregistrement, il n’est plus possible pour la personne concernée de refuser la numérisation de ses empreintes digitales pour la délivrance d’une carte d’identité.
En revanche, il est possible pour la personne concernée de demander à ce que l’image numérisée de ses empreintes ne soit pas conservée dans le traitement au-delà d’un délai de quatre-vingt-dix jours.....
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Une copie papier est conservée.
Le fichier des titres électroniques sécurisés (TES)
Entre le 15 mars et le 2 août 2021, une carte nationale d’identité électronique (CNIe) va être mise en place progressivement dans un certain nombre de départements pilotes.www.cnil.fr
et donc des vices de forme en pagaille dans les procédures ?
Quand on constate en #France les mêmes pratiques que dans les #USA de M. #Trump , on peut dire qu'on a un (très) sérieux problème :
> « US states give some federal agencies unlimited access to their drivers license records - and now these agencies may be using them for facial recognition, disregarding laws and human rights »
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Twinning in the sun 🌞 with my favorite mug from this collection. I did not consciously dress like the mug but considering the fact that I mostly wore neutral tones before I started working with #WildClay sig, it’s safe to say that the clay is speaking through my outfits these days. The pink, orange and olive green on the exterior are all natural clay tones. This mug is going to a home in Gainesville, Florida. A few pieces are left: www.potterybyosa.com
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Twinning in the sun 🌞 with my favorite mug from this collection. I did not consciously dress like the mug but considering the fact that I mostly wore neutral tones before I started working with #WildClay sig, it’s safe to say that the clay is speaking through my outfits these days. The pink, orange and olive green on the exterior are all natural clay tones. This mug is going to a home in Gainesville, Florida. A few pieces are left: www.potterybyosa.com
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"...I did not consciously dress like the mug.." 😁 😊
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The handful of you who also follow my gardening account @PermaSolarPotter know that I’ve begun #spinning native cotton. I love plants in the hibiscus family and was given permission to gather some seeds from a plant at the community garden last spring. I started off spinning the fiber with a pencil and then got my neighbor to make me a spindle from scrap wood. The two ceramic whorls I made just came out of the kiln and my neighbor fashioned some dowels to fit them. #FiberArts
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The handful of you who also follow my gardening account @PermaSolarPotter know that I’ve begun #spinning native cotton. I love plants in the hibiscus family and was given permission to gather some seeds from a plant at the community garden last spring. I started off spinning the fiber with a pencil and then got my neighbor to make me a spindle from scrap wood. The two ceramic whorls I made just came out of the kiln and my neighbor fashioned some dowels to fit them. #FiberArts
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Those are so cool and beautiful.
oh my! You just became my favourite potter! I was so fascinated to look at the massive variety of whorls displayed at historic museums in danmark of viking and bronze age. And I knew I could make some, but I'm not equipped for pottery.
What you and your neighbour did, is just so beautiful.
And you got the seeds from a community garden. This little post of yours just gives me so much happiness.
@mamsell Comfort content for you! ^^
yes, they also have pottery in the museums. But I was busy looking at the textile artifacts and wood construction. I must admit that I don't remember much of the pottery.
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TGIF! I just finished writing up my newsletter that will go out tomorrow and I started it by mentioning that my pieces for this month’s collection had to share kiln space with a fair number of pieces by kids & students as well as my larger sculptural vessels—and also a lamp commission. Life feels varied and full at the moment, just like that kiln load. Off to an art show now. Have a relaxing weekend, everyone. #pottery #ceramics #art
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TGIF! I just finished writing up my newsletter that will go out tomorrow and I started it by mentioning that my pieces for this month’s collection had to share kiln space with a fair number of pieces by kids & students as well as my larger sculptural vessels—and also a lamp commission. Life feels varied and full at the moment, just like that kiln load. Off to an art show now. Have a relaxing weekend, everyone. #pottery #ceramics #art
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I see the photo first and think, "hooray, more beautiful pots from Osa!"
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Given the current temperature in Glasgow, I figured it's worth posting this plaque I came across on Westbank Quadrant about the origins of Lord Kelvin's ground-breaking research into absolute zero while he was a professor at Glasgow University. None of it is remotely true, but it's an amusing tale nonetheless, and with the current cold snap, it feels quite plausible!
#glasgow #glasgowtoday #keepglasgowweird #lordkelvin #absolutezero #sciencefriday #glasgowhumour
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Some things should be true and this is one of them.
Interestingly, this post cropped up on my feed this afternoon. The true story is almost as weird, although it was James Dewar who fell into the river: damninteresting.com/absolute-z…
Absolute Zero is 0K
Victorian scientists struggle to reach and understand the vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly cold universe at Absolute Zero.Alan Bellows (Damn Interesting)
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Maths Puzzles for Conspiracy Theorists. One of the cartoons from my new book 'Physics for Cats'. In good bookshops now and online in English, French, German and Spanish editions.
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Site officiel du Festival BD Colomiers. Pour tout savoir sur le festival : dates, animations, infos pratiques, etc.www.bdcolomiers.com
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It’s very suspicious that Susie was so keen to give the fruit to others, yet didn’t eat any herself. Maybe she ate hers in the way to school? Or did she perchance have a malign smirk on her face as she watched her classmates bite into their Cox’s Pippins?
I was feeling mean one day and tormented the algebra teacher: "All these word problems are bullshit. We both know the train doesn't depart the station at 40 mph. It takes five minutes to get to 40 mph..."
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A poll of US children found that they would rather see other children in physical presence, without constant adult monitoring, and it's because that is not allowed that they talk via online dis-services instead.
Want Kids to Spend Less Time in the Virtual World? Give Them Back the Real One! - Free-Range Kids
Are kids on their phones all the time because that’s what they love the most? An explosive new Harris Poll finds that actually, what kids 8-12 REALLY want to do is hang out together in real life – with no adults hovering, and no screens.lskenazy (Free-Range Kids)
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Today's a perfect day to post some beautiful blue glass!
A gorgeous #Roman flask in the form of a shell, mold-blown from dark blue glass. It was used to hold perfume. Dating 1st century AD.
On display at British Museum.
📷 me
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magnificent work! 😍
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I used to be surprised by the internet looking immune to the hype cycle.
In recent years, I realized we have just been on the 1st slope and we're approaching the "Peak of inflated expectations".
Once it's a repository of mostly fake generated stuff, we'll quickly reach the "Trough of disillusionment".
Imho, we're not far off.
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RSS never tracked you.
Email never throttled you.
Blogs never begged for dopamine.
The old web wasn’t perfect.
But it was yours.
Email never throttled you.
Blogs never begged for dopamine.
The old web wasn’t perfect.
But it was yours.
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Yep, I've noticed that lately I've been regressing my tech a bit, and it feels great. Also, old models with new tooling makes for a better experience, as long as that tooling isn't made by the corps that got us in the current mess.
I still use RSS daily.
Email is my primary work communication medium.
I still host blogs and microbloging software.
Some would say I live in the past, but I'm enjoying myself.
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@Andres they can have my RSS reader when they pry it from my cold dead hands
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I even follow a few Bluesky accounts via RSS 😛
I even follow a few Bluesky accounts via RSS 😛
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Thanks, i'd never thought of doing that; Schema/syntax for rssing blusky accounts:
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@patrick_h_lauke noticed how they never measure engagement with family and friends? Set KPIs for mental wellbeing and sleep cycle? It's like they work for big psychiatry!
it's still there, I'm convinced we've just collectively forgotten how to surf the web
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Now that's some nostalgia I can get behind.
A friend of mine got a bill from Telekom for replying to a mailing list - each recipient was billed separately, and only 200 e-mails per month were included.
But that was maybe an even older web
But that was maybe an even older web
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my Dragonball Z angelfire fan page with an endless scroll of stolen gifs however did beg for dopamine
As always, it's what happens to a good thing when money grabbing capitalists abuse it for monetary gain.
Even these got ruined nowadays. RSS feeds often don't have the full article text. Email contains tracking pixels and links. "Blogs" have texts behind paywalls and cookie warnings. We need the old web back.
@forst Problem with that is - we often paywall our stuff these days so that it isn’t all just scraped and summarised by a smorgasbord of bots. It’s such a balancing problem
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hello I've been following your post for a while most say you are part of the reason I'm still on here
Old web gave serotonin. Mmmm.
this is just euphoric recall - at least nor/xor you have total recall
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I wish the major browsers would bring back built in RSS!
Tracked you? Hmm, they all left logs. I processed logs in the 1990's to see where people where located. I mean, no cookies, but they did everything they could to track you then. Yes, we throttled email, but they came through after a day or two. Server could not handle the volume.
+1.
There's something like 30k people signed into Libera at any moment - and all the old names like EFNet, DALnet, etc are still there.
I blogged in the 00's on #politics and now I'm blogging again on #Creativity #music and #Psychology but I have tracking cookies disabled on my site. And no ads.
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@temptoetiam sorry but blogs ALWAYS begged for dopamine.
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US ultra capitalism perverted it into a dystopian hellscape.
I was so sad a couple weeks ago when the SMBC feed removed the content. I'll only see it now when it gets shared by copy/paste.
And it still is ❤️🔥
the internet has changed significantly, now it the time to take it back!
The old web was perfect. The browser showed you when a page was loading and you knew when it was done loading. Now I never know if the element I'm about to click on is going to change or if the whole page is going to shift.
Yeah! 👍
The old web is still there.
I use RSS with fluent-reader
I use email with #deltachat
I use a blog with own domain
You just have to ignore the commercial Social Media and advertising with f.e. uBlock, then you'll see it 🙂
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@mdx minor clarification: email tracked you, though
To me, they are just passive web, much unlike the active web now.
They will never die, unlike the companys.
They will never die, unlike the companys.
Usenet news groups stayed on topic!
They were organized by topic.
I keep wondering why we abandoned that idea.
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(Well yes, it's still there and one can still use it. But so much of it has been taken over by robots pushing spam. 😢 )
@JeffGrigg pathetic penis pill pushing profiteers. Not just the placebos, but mostly.
@jamesb192
As a moderator I always said,
"If you can explain how that helps a person do 'refactoring - improving the structure of code without changing its function' then I'll allow it, ruling it 'on-topic' for this group. Otherwise, you're 'off-topic.' And banned."
And well, …
It was *always* the banned thing. 🙄
@lisamelton Hell, now most people use a browser that’s spyware from a marketing company. Dark times.
yes! Agreed!😊
You clearly never owed Email money. 🤣
Gemini and Gopher are still a thing fwiw. Check out Lagrange
is it really the old web? What's the new Web then?
I'd argue that the same proponents that label these technologies old, are the same ones trying to break the Web and other open standards. RSS, Email, blogs and other internet technologies are still the current open internet. We never had successors to them.
there are individual RSS feeds that track you, you know? There‘s even a wikipedia page on RSS tracking
back then the only tracker was a php-generated image counting the number of visitors and incrementing it on every new session, and it was awesome
It still exist. You just have to use it.
Yes, this! This is why I stopped writing on Medium and started focusing on my own blog, on my own domain. Email is also my preferred way of communication. Email, however, could probably benefit from a more modernised protocol.
I can't confirm this, but I do get a sense people are "moving back" to their own spaces on the web. Perhaps I'm wrong. But I actually much rather read and follow your blog on your domain than follow you on a big platform.
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this is why I’m moving off every cloud ☁️ and putting things in my basement 😇
Most of these deserve the effort to grt them running.
@peteramthor When FTP and Newsgroups like alt.something were "all the rage" ( who can forget ftp.funet.fi ) and "anonymous" ( user ) 😊 ? Ah yes and still in use today IRC .. we can't live without IRC ..
Email not throttling did end up being a bit of a design flaw…
Yes, so true. I'm blissfully using RSS to this day, no noise, to-the-point curation with many optiona to expand.
Imho it takes a little effort to setup but there are so many, intelligent options to regain control and denoise 'your' internet 👍👍
Imho it takes a little effort to setup but there are so many, intelligent options to regain control and denoise 'your' internet 👍👍
idk a lot of blogs keep begging me to sign up to newsletters to this very day
@mitsunee I think that’s partly due to the broader decline in rss use
if that decline started like 15 years ago yeah sure
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I used to be surprised by the internet looking immune to the hype cycle.
In recent years, I realized we have just been on the 1st slope and we're approaching the "Peak of inflated expectations".
Once it's a repository of mostly fake generated stuff, we'll quickly reach the "Trough of disillusionment".
Imho, we're not far off.
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Don’t think I ever got spam on USENET.
fond memories of gopher, newsgroups and irc!
...and for that, it was perfect to me... 😁
The old web also mostle worked without a need for JavaScript. You know, when companies actually had to develop better so their backends don''t hurt. Nowadays they just make you download 10+ MB of JS crap that your CPU will burn for.
Forgot "forums".
I'm here on Mastodn and elsewhere, but realy missing that web.
I'm here on Mastodn and elsewhere, but realy missing that web.
one of my sayings of late is
"We used to make our own web pages...!"
no tracking on RSS? You wish!
Aside from obvious tracking pixels there are somewhat smart ways: When hitting the subscribe URL do a 301 "Moved Permanently" redirect to a feed URL containing a custom ID, a "good" feed reader will then store that URL and then all links and media references can contain the ID to track. This won't track when exactly you read the feed content, but will track when embedded d images are loaded (smart people block that) or click on a link (to full article?)
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> Blogs never begged for dopamine.
You never sat there hitting F5 on Livejournal or 3dnews.net huh...
> Blogs never begged for dopamine.
You never sat there hitting F5 on Livejournal or 3dnews.net huh...
It was respectful. That is what we traded.
But it wasn't pretty and easy enough for some people. As in, the general public. 😛
Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I wonder — when will we see a new kind of Internet?
One where the citizens control the servers, free from GAFAM and global powers, built to ensure open sharing for society and our democracies — even if it's imperfect.
@martinlentink @peteramthor Usenet was my first love.
I started with a First Class client. Oh, suddenly got reminded of the period PowWow existed.
I started with a First Class client. Oh, suddenly got reminded of the period PowWow existed.
… except for Google mail…
@Monolecte and RSS. Most podcast comes from podcasting platfirms that tracks the audio file download
Email throttles you all the time.
We are all exploited and supplicants in the age of techno-feudalism.
Today RSS is actually tracking you...
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You forgot one point : that old web never disapparead, it was just hidden below the "web 2" adds, but it exists, it works, and it's still better.
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#TakeTheInternetBack !!! Self host and stop selling your self
#TakeTheInternetBack !!! Self host and stop selling your self
I first came on Internet in my youth when, in France, the famous Skyblogs were declining and seen as "has been".
For years, I thought it was not worth having a blog: what could I say on there to keep readers engaged?
Well, when I finally set up my blog, I decided I wouldn't care about readers' engagement. Heck, I don't even have analytics (well I do, but I have to skim through Nginx's logs). I write what I feel like writing about, when I feel like writing.
Truly liberating.
Just wanted to boost this. Did already weeks ago.
BBSs never drowned you in BS.
*Data harvesters and Advertisers and their grifters all looking at this scornfully*
Thankfully it's all still there. I can't for sure that life is better without Instagram or TikTok, as I've never used either, but I can tell you I still enjoy the many blogs I read, the forums I frequent, and the emails I exchange with good people.
Completely agree, back then we were there for genuine user engagement and demand, not some algorithmic mission to the top
the Internet didn't change itself. People have the power to regulate the Internet. Unfortunately too many of us are suicidal racists.
IMHO it was perfect 😀
and it is still - I still mostly use RSS and email 😀
however: "Email never throttled you." -- yes, you could have been blocklisted ;)
I remember greylisting being a pita...
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Rev. Michael Woolf, senior minister of Lake Street Church of Evanston, was shot in the leg with a pepper ball by state police while protesting outside the Broadview ICE facility, Illinois. He writes for Religion News Service about why he continues to show up at Broadview, the atmosphere at protests there, and religious leaders' obligation to resist tyranny. "It is important for my neighbors who were abducted to know that we will not stop fighting for their release," he writes. "By my estimation, our country is somewhere in 1930s Germany. Fascism is growing in power, but we still have opportunities to resist."
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(RNS) — For people wanting to experience God, we are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church.Michael Woolf (RNS)
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Before I can switch gears and begin on my smoke fired pots, I’ve got to finish up this last batch. It’ll be a mixture of smaller sized tableware, a couple of lamps and some larger pieces for an upcoming show. I’m in the carving and decorating phase of the cycle now. Next comes the bisque fire, glazing and then firing one last time. The pottery cycle reminds me of the cycle of the moon. My next online sale will be on Saturday, November 22nd. #pottery #ceramics #WIP
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Before I can switch gears and begin on my smoke fired pots, I’ve got to finish up this last batch. It’ll be a mixture of smaller sized tableware, a couple of lamps and some larger pieces for an upcoming show. I’m in the carving and decorating phase of the cycle now. Next comes the bisque fire, glazing and then firing one last time. The pottery cycle reminds me of the cycle of the moon. My next online sale will be on Saturday, November 22nd. #pottery #ceramics #WIP
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this is beautiful!
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Last year, I sent some #clay that I collected to the University of West Georgia Archaeology Dept and they just sent me the results of their experiment. They tested how the addition of sponge spicules (or fired sea sponge) affects the strength of the fired clay. This method of tempering clay isn't common but evidence of its use can be found in pottery shards throughout the world, including here in SW #Florida. Anyway, how cool to be able to assist in scientific #research.
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Last year, I sent some #clay that I collected to the University of West Georgia Archaeology Dept and they just sent me the results of their experiment. They tested how the addition of sponge spicules (or fired sea sponge) affects the strength of the fired clay. This method of tempering clay isn't common but evidence of its use can be found in pottery shards throughout the world, including here in SW #Florida. Anyway, how cool to be able to assist in scientific #research.
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Here is the original #clay. We found it in a construction site in Venice, just south of us. They were digging a retention pond beside a new road. The construction is now complete and the pond is filled with water, but for a moment the site was kind of like a playground for fossil hunters and clay diggers.
I've had a pretty difficult time working with this clay and incorporating it into my work, so I'm glad it could successfully serve another purpose. #wildclay #Florida
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Love the texture
Ooo, that's neat! It's interesting to see what different ah, the bits, the...grog? I think? does to the clay. I do not remember much from my classes, clearly.
Might be worth chatting with Jane Sidell and Fiona Haughey, as their work on Neolithic pottery techniques on the Thames claybeds would match with this. 😁
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#Raytracing avec #Povray de la famille #Hexacone, voici le #commit du matin.
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@SeaFury the font is technically only slightly different but somehow the original reads as much more wild.
I think it's in the difference between the slender and wide parts of the letters, in the old one it's more dramatic.
@SeaFury the only use I can see a full stop having in a slogan is to add or change meaning.
A graphic designer doesn't get artistic license to add/change meaning of historical political slogans.
@SeaFury on closer inspection I suspect you're right, the full stop wasn't added by a graphic designer, it was by a copyright lawyer.
Just a wild guess: I reckon they couldn't get the exclusivity rights over it without the full stop.
[It's time] is possibly too universal, while [It's time.©️] just scrapes through.
@SeaFury it's probably actually ®️ rather than ©️, but same argument. I reckon they were trying to skirt around issues with [unique and recognisable, not in common usage] type criteria.
I need a little tank top that says Gough Did It Better with a huge screen print of his face across the tits
Does anyone know if you can get a good recreation of the It's Time tshirt?
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One of the cartoons from my new book 'Physics for Cats'. In good bookshops now and online in English, French, German and Spanish editions. I am in Spain this week launching the book - come along! www.tomgauld.com
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Having myself learned physics from Looney Tunes, this is of particular interest.
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je suis abonné, mais pourquoi dire que c'est en accès libre s'il faut donner son mail et s'inscrire automatiquement à la newsletter pour voir l'article et la vidéo ?
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The PSF applied for a $1.5M grant from the US National Science Foundation (NSF) to make innovative improvements to packaging security—and we were recommended for funding! But as a condition of funding, we were asked to affirm that we wouldn’t undertake any diversity, equity, and inclusion work, whether or not we used the government funds to do so.
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The PSF simply couldn’t agree to that statement, as facilitating “the growth of a diverse and international community of Python programmers” is written directly into our mission and core to our values, so we withdrew our application. In the end, it wasn’t a hard decision for the PSF to put our community and our values first, but it does mean we lost out on this large funding source.
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You've made the right decision. Thank you for upholding our community's values!
seems like a worthwhile investment to pick up the tab on this @sovtechfund 👀
the donation form is timing out, i hope that’s a sign of popularity and that you’ll be making up the shortfall quickly 💸
just became a member! Was already on my list after going to great talks at PyBay. Glyph gave you all a huge shoutout that got me interested
Thank you for making that decision. We'll become a sponsor.
Thank you! One more reason to use python! I have no millions, but i will search for a few bucks.
thanks for doing the right thing!
I have signed up as a supporting member (with automatic renewal). Thank you for holding fast to your values.
in one hand, is sad because we know how many great things is done using this money....
But i agree with this positiion, stay strong
Thank you for holding back our great community
Thank you for doing the right thing. It’s rare. 💕
thank you!!
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Well done! donation made, thank you.
thank you for standing behind the community! 
Since 
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thanks for doing the right thing
could not feel more confident in the python community following this. thank you
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Thank you!
Could you also please ask Deb or someone else to get back to @Teckids concerning the parts of the community currently locked out from PyPI after being cancelled by the adultist terms in the PSF's new terms of use?
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thanks for that, I really appreciate it, it was the right decision, well done. 💜
thank you for doing the right thing PSF
#TrumpRegime funds must never be used to do good.
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@the5thColumnist no. use them to do good, then they cant be used for evil. but do not compromise on your values to do so.
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Thank you !
Thank you for doing the right thing, sorry that it sucks 🙁
How about moving @ThePSF out of a fascist country 🤔
Thank you for not bowing to political pressure and standing up for what's right.
thank you for standing for the community!!! 🥰
Next steps: Getting PyConUS out of America, into a place like Canada
@JessicaTegner why not Europe?
@Frantasaur
1. Because it is called PyConUS - so keeping it in the americas would be better.
2. Because we have EuroPython, which is just as amazing
1. Because it is called PyConUS - so keeping it in the americas would be better.
2. Because we have EuroPython, which is just as amazing
Thank you for making the right but hard choice. ♥️
Thank you for making me proud of the PSF, and glad to have invested my time in the Python ecosystem. Onward!
Thank you ❤️
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Epic subtoot.
You are leading in a world where so many are following out of fear and greed. Thank you!
start having a look at European funding? ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tend…
Bureaucratic nightmare but not fascist.
Bureaucratic nightmare but not fascist.
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@keirFox Honestly, I’m tearing up a little reading this. Thank-you for standing up for your values in such a difficult situation. That kind of commitment is not to be taken for granted, especially these days.
Wow, did they really try to sneak in the phrase "discriminatory equity ideology"?! thats not the same thing at all, thats equivocating and literally lying on a contract. I can't believe they thought you'd fall for this.
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I do not use python myself, but this step demands nothing but respect for your integrity 👍 👍
Thank you! 👏👏👏
Thank you.
I dearly wish this wasn't noteworthy, but it is, so you get kudos for it.
the PSF should stick to Python and software and value people solely on merit and our shared humanity. They should NOT discriminate against *anyone* based on gender, sexuality or race/ethnicity. DEI programs unfortunately often seem to do that.
MLK made clear in his "I Have A Dream" speech he wanted his kids to grow up in a world where they were judged by the content of their character not by the color of their skin. He literally said that and we should take him at his word. I do. So should you. But regardless of whether you agree with MLK or not the PSF should stay *out* of gender, sexuality, race/ethnicity/color and stay out of politics. Stick to Python. This should be obvious, I think.
Thankfully I've moved on from the Python community. Too much immature self-inflicted drama. Software *engineering*, folks -- focus on that.
@synlogic4242 are you claiming that various industries and professions have historically been dominated by white males because white males are just “better based on merit”? If not, what exactly do you think has going on in the world up until now?
@synlogic4242 Community health, and therefore things that some would call politics, is an inseperable part of open source. You're asking the PSF to "stay out of" these things, when that is exactly what opens the doors to bigotry and discrimination. In fact, this "should avoid politics" argument is often used exactly by bigots, with the hope that they'll be allowed to be bigoted in more communities.
This has become so crystal clear to me that, in the absence of very strong anti-discrimination rules, i mentally translate "no politics" policies to actually mean "queerphobes and racists welcome".
I can't know whether you are aware of this, but i hope this was ignorance, not malice.
Not talking about politics is extremely political. Not caring about oppression and discrimination is extremely political. It's high time the technical people leave their bubble and take a look at the real world, beyond their little individuality
thank you for standing behind the community.
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Unfortunately, anyone that relies on US government funding to do anything at all useful to civilization--whether as an organization or as an individual--needs to find alternative sources of funding as quickly as is possible.
Thank you! ❤️
👏 this is (just one of the many reasons) why Python is the best programming language!
Thank you for having a backbone.
Thanks for sticking to your principles! Sadly, I can't donate from here, but if you ever make a european-based non-profit, you can be sure that I'll donate! That might also allow you to request a grant from @nlnet, btw.
thank you for remaining sane as NSF succumbs to the current fascist regime. i am increasing my $$ support.
this is actually amazing.
Thank you for not folding like so many others — big rich companies especially — have.
You did the right thing and I have no doubt that the community will support you.
If you find yourself moved and asking, how can I be part of this organization?! One answer is joining as a Supporting Member: psfmember.org/civicrm/contribu…
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it is not working. The “Review your contribution” button turns black and doesn’t proceed. I have signed up as a member and logged in (from UK)
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@piofthings Ahhh I'm so sorry! It's doing that for me, as well. I've sent out the question to our tech person, but it might be too late to get a response sorted out tonight 🙁
@lorenipsum I think some of the mandatory details are not coming up as mandatory. I think I missed out Line 1 of address. Finally was able to donate from the desktop but without logging in.
@lorenipsum Never mind... worked finally!
I've just made a contribution to PSF; if others do the same we can make up for the loss of that money.
hey Ruby, this is how you do it.
There's far too many open source foundations and maintainers that should learn from this. Thanks for doing the right thing PSF!
Many groups claim to have all sorts of values, but living them when it means inconvenience? Not that common, kudos to the PSF! 💜
Thank you, but also a smart choice—even if you thought you could accept those terms, the potential of a clawback would be an unacceptably massive risk!
Donation coming your way!
On organization standing up for their (good) values?! Donation made.
I encourage other people making bigtech salaries to do the same if you use Python. The work the PSF does helps me make a good living, I can throw some back to them! If you can match at your employer, even better.
Also, you should be a member, too.
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@joelle THANK YOU! The support means so much. The $$ is important but seeing the community support our decision and values has been just as valuable<3
"discriminatory equity ideology"
George Orwell, your time has come!
@jay You think the right answer to receiving money on the condition of being fascist to to pretend to be fascist? That is.... Painfully short sighted. It would drive away contributors and make the terms and conditions seem acceptable to organisations. Plus the foundation would eventually lose the money anyway due to the clawback clause. Better that everyone turn down the money and show themselves to be better people.
There are more important things than money.
Well done, you are fighting the good fight! 👏
It would be great if you can provide an additional donation option for European people (or even better a European association or via an European Association, such as alasca.cloud/en/). Europe has a very efficient high-speed (less than 10 seconds you have it) bank transfer system (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_E…) at much lower costs than credit cards/paypal.
With a European entity you could also apply to @sovtechfund for grants without sacrifying your values.
@jornfranke @sovtechfund Thank you, Jörn! I honestly don't know how involved that would be, but I agree we should look into it. I don't know if this helps at all, but fwiw Stripe check out is coming soon...
Bravo. I had let my subscription lapse, just renewed it.
Thank you for taking a stance.
"promote DEI, or discriminatory equity ideology"
That is some "creative" re-framing they got going on there...
accepting those terms would be cutting off your nose to spite your face, given progeamming's demographics. Proud of you for being smarter than a 5th grader on this one. 😄
you've just gained a new paying member!
have sent donation, with absolutely no restrictions from me on how you spend it
Thank you for demonstrating that some organisations can stick to their principles and put their communities first, even in an increasingly hostile environment ❤️🐍
The clawback clause is *nuclear* too. Not only would they lose 1.5million they already spent if they did the "take the money and do it anyway" plan, they could actually lose the money they got from every OTHER government grant they ever took before signing that thing.
You don't play stupid games with the US government, even this one. They can make sure you win VERY stupid prizes.
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Speaking as a professional Python dev since 2.1 and as someone whose identity is personally under attack by these US policies: Thank you for standing up for me and for the strength of the community.
Doing the right thing you “lost out on this large funding source.” But know that people doing the right thing never lose anything. For them it is a win-win because it is the right thing to do especially because it is the right time to do the right thing!
The upside is that we as part of the PSF community, we appreciate your bravery and will support you however we can!
You can't cower every time a bully gets in your face either. I think there's a place for clever ingenuity at times like this that exists under the umbrella of those good guiding 'principles'.
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That's awesome, thank you for taking a stand 🫶
@jay They're not giving up, they're sticking to their governing principles.
Taking your approach is dishonest and breaks trust with their community.
Also, I'm guessing you're not familiar with legal matters. If the organization was found to be intentionally breaking contract, they'd not only need to pay back the money, they'd also have legal fees and possible penalties, and interest to pay back too. They'd be further behind financially than they are now.
You don't let us down, we don't let you down. I donated $50. 💸🐍
Thank you for doing this. It's the right thing to do, and I appreciate that the PSF is sticking to its values.
My company is pretty much built on #Python.
We just made a significant donation to the PSF in recognition to their great work on the language, of which a small but important part is their commitment to fairness (or "DEI" as USians call it).
If you can, you can donate any amount at psfmember.org/civicrm/contribu….
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@foxylad Thank you SO much, friend. These gifts really make a difference for us and help us keep going.
Thank you for stand up and doing the moral thing and refusing to accept money from an unhinged administration.
Thank-you again for taking this stand. I've just signed up as a monthly sustaining donor to help as best I can.
Thank you! ❤️
Good for you! I’m sorry it’s come to this, but it’s the right call.
This is the way.
ily python ;__;
@Nentuaby @distrowatch @jay
There also exists the likelihood that the US government in its present state would make up a reason to trigger that clawback clause -- and it doesn't have to be a good one. The $1.5m offered is tied to a leash and collar, and that collar is rather noose-shaped.
Even setting aside the Python Foundation's commitment to what these clowns call 'DEI' and the rest of us call 'human fucking rights', from an organizational perspective, it's better not to give any political organization, but particularly the current US federal government, the ability to simply wipe the group off the map at a whim.
thanks.
more power to you all.
Donated.
I'd be inclined to interpret this provision as saying that you can't run any DEI programmes that break the law and then insist that your programs don't break the law, but with that clawback provision it's just not safe. You could even have them review and OK your programmes, but you could never trust them not to blackmail you later.
I appreciate the tough decision the Foundation has been forced to make here. Thank you! I donated a little to help - hopefully others do too, and as a community we can do what the U.S. government won’t.
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I am not a Python developer but this is how I feel the entire development community is: open, warm and welcome to whoever whats to help. (And in my option, this is how every human being should be)
this is obviously a bigger example than normal, but the people in @ThePSF are routinely working hard to make Python a welcoming community. I really appreciate it, and I know others do to!
finally a place in tech with morals and a backbone.
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Thanks for having a spine. I hope my $100 contribution can help, and that others will also help.
It requires the intake of a significant amount of drugs to understand, how promoting diversity, equity and inclusion is violating an anti-discrimination law for being considered some discriminatory equity ideology.
Understanding #fascist and #populist rhetoric requires oneself to ignore the established meaning of words making communication useless and solely focus on the sounds they make. It's like apes grunting at each other.
Thanks for standing up for the community.
Hell yeah. Thank you!
If your mission isn't to make good software, then you shouldn't be getting *any* funding at all. You are a software foundation not a PAC or NGO. You've lost the plot.
thank you for showing what really matters to our community!
thank you PSF
Congratulations for this decision! I wrote this blog post about it (in French) zdnet.fr/blogs/l-esprit-libre/…
La fondation Python renonce à une subvention de 1,5 million de dollars plutôt qu’à ses valeurs - ZDNET
Pour obtenir cette somme, la fondation devait s’engager à ne mener aucune action en faveur de la diversité, l’égalité ou l’inclusion (DEI), une des exigences politiques de l’administration Trump.Thierry Noisette (ZDNET)
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This is a valuable lesson for any manufacturer: never awaken the nerd sleeping inside your customer, because his wrath shall be terrible.
In this case the warning was quite literal.
The company annoyed a buyer enough to push him into full blown nerd mode. He tore the product apart, reverse engineered every part, and then published a step by step guide showing exactly how to disable "kill switch" that prevented the use of the product without the vendor spying on the user.
What started as a minor grievance became a public, technical exposé that left the maker exposed and embarrassed.
Moral of the story: underestimate your users at your own peril.
The Day My Smart Vacuum Turned Against Me
Update: This post seems to have struck a nerve and went very wide. As I will not be able to answer every comment, I want to add a few points:
- The linked article was not written by me. It came to me on a different channel (Discord). I only wrote the post on Mastodon.
- The top image in the article looks AI generated. It is no a good image, but in my view less irritating than an advertisement (which is far more common).
- Some people suggest the article itself is AI generated. I don't think this is the case. I wouldn't rule out he author wrote the text in a different language and used AI for translation assistance.
- The claims in the article are not fully backed by the linked repo, but the general statement is correct and IMHO important.
The Day My Smart Vacuum Turned Against Me
Would you allow a stranger to drive a camera-equipped computer around your living room? You might have already done so without even realizing it. The Beginning: A Curious Experiment It all started innocently enough.Harishankar (Small World)
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My wife bought one of these smart vacuums and it didn't even make it out of the box. Nope. Nuh-uh. Had to put my foot down there. And my dog/CSO wasn't wild about it either.
@briankrebs My vacuum cleaner is very dumb, but it still works. It was built around 1960, and I inherited it from my grandmother.
An Electrolux, if you want to know.
@c_merriweather @briankrebs Mine is dumb too. A Hoover PAWS Wind tunnel purchased in 2008.
My parents gave us their off-brand Roomba thingy from 2018ish. No camera, and we can't get it to work right. It just goes back and forth in a weird diamond pattern and won't do anything else. 😆
@courtcan @briankrebs I am surprised that someone has not some has not put an RC controller on a "roomba" so it can be operated with a joystick.
Just sittin' there on the Lay-z-Boy, feet up, directing the vacuum cleaner around the room.
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@c_merriweather @courtcan @briankrebs I believe they intrinsically could be. Stories of people playing frogger with them are teasing at my memory. Yes they put it in a costume. My first one definitely had a remote. I suspect to get it out from under the bed.
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@c_merriweather @briankrebs My spouse knows electronics extremely well, and I am going to ask him if he can make this happen for me. It would increase my life satisfaction exponentially! 😄
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I imagine throwing bits of puffy Cheetos on the floor and commanding the robot to sweep it up.🧹🍠
I imagine throwing bits of puffy Cheetos on the floor and commanding the robot to sweep it up.🧹🍠
@Wheels @c_merriweather @courtcan @briankrebs I know exactly which Cheeto I would like to throw down first!
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One of my favourite mods from long enough ago this thing could vote:
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One of my favourite mods from long enough ago this thing could vote:
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Wiimote+Roomba=Wiimba !
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@briankrebs My smart home is isolated from the Internet and when I test new devices the "Who do they talk to" is an important part of the evaluation.
But alas, the days have become dark and difficult. Everything wants to talk to the world.
@briankrebs I had to revoke my thermostat's permission to access the internet after it wanted my name and address before it would let me connect it to an app. I will adjust it by hand twice a day instead, thanks.
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Smart home tech (or any) shouldn’t require manufacturer apps, internet connection or accounts to work. If a product mandates anything like that, that’s just a hidden fee, paid with data. There are enough products using industry standards that work offline, across apps and hubs (if needed).
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I'm starting to play with HomeAssistant and smart devices that don't call home aren't that easy to find.
Try devices that use either Zigbee or Matter over Thread. They will work offline, are interoperable between manufacturers and work with HomeAssistant.
Some might require an app and internet for firmware updates, but those are optional. No need to use them or even keep them installed in daily use.
Popular brands include IKEA Tradfri, Philips Hue, Eve Home, Sonoff, Aqara or Xiaomi, but there are a myriad of companies in this field.
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"I'm sorry Martin, that brand of bread is not authorised in this toaster. Would you like to upgrade your bread subscription details?"
And if you liked that, then you really should read Cory Doctorow's compilation called _Radicalized_. Four short-ish stories, and the very first one is called "Unauthorised Bread". And the third one is kind of predicting Luigi Mangioni, but on steroids.
Have a nice evening!
why use slop for illustration on a technical article?
Also I'm pretty sure this whole article is also slop.
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@f4grx Don't ask me that..
It is an absolute slop fest. Horribly obvious ChatGPT writing including the classic "This isn't X; it's Y" all over the place and a claim that ADB was open... on a Linux based device?
It's a shame too because it's a genuinely interesting situation, but the AI slop writing is horrible to get through and makes the story look much more involved and long than it actually is.
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how is this a lesson for the manufacturer?. They are not gonna lose a significant amount of buyers from this.
If this story were to make it to mainstream media, they would at max need to rebrand this device another couple of times and that's it.
Stuff like this needs tough consumer-protection laws and enforcement.
If this story were to make it to mainstream media, they would at max need to rebrand this device another couple of times and that's it.
Stuff like this needs tough consumer-protection laws and enforcement.
my comment sounds so negative. Thanks for sharing this interesting story. Also good warning for consumers. I just don't believe in companies being "embarrassed".
@tildeMtilde No offense taken... I am aware that I won't teach humanity through my Mastodon account.
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Also, don't sue users who explain that your security sucks, fix your security. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him. Bad idea.
It’s still legal to pick locks, even when you swing your legs.Nate Anderson (Ars Technica)
I never trusted Henry either
I really want to give the content a go, but it’s all edited and riddled with that annoying GPT accent that instantly devalues the article in my own subjective experience. Too bad.
Never buy from China... the ccp actively works at stealing every single peace of data it can. And one day, that data will be linked to AI to create chaos in the rest of the world
@lies_das in other countries, the data is not used to select who to silence, arrest, disappear or execute
@luupies @lies_das Laughably naive. Inform yourself about the work of DOGE, Palantir and ICE and the purchases of data by the US govt which is doing exactly what you accuse the Chinese govt of doing.
The US has, of course, a history of overthrowing democratically elected governments it doesn't like as well as a long history of assassinating people and committing war crimes. See eg, the book Dirty Wars by Jeremy Scahill. Micah Lee's Defcon 33 talk on YouTube about bombing Yemen etc etc
@samueljohnson @lies_das I'm not interested in "history", especially one that is written to fit a narrative. Otherwise we can talk of mao starving 70 million chinese to death while executing massive amounts and destroying their culture, econonmy and everything
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When we were looking at vacuum robots I said I didn't want anything that needed to connect to WiFi to do its job because I remembered the babymonitors that used WiFi and griefers had "hacked" to terrify toddlers. So we got an Ecovacs Deebot and it'll go around in a frustratingly random way and not "see" things just next to it, but it gets the job done.
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Remember how, back in September 2015, researchers revealed that virtually every "smart" baby-monitor they tested was riddled with security vulnerabilities that let strangers seize control over it, spying on you…Cory Doctorow (Boing Boing)
@nazokiyoubinbou @lbnvds I think the image at the top is most likely AI generated. AI may have been used to work on the text, but it doesn’t seem prompt generated.
I think the story behind it is true and that is the most important point in my book.
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there's sooo much nope in that article, holy fucking shit, to run the entirety of Google Cartographer on a full Linux machine, sending all of that back, receiving remote kill commands when the telemetry stops, this is all beyond insane
And I also see a lot of opportunity for lawyers to step in, because if that's running a full linux distro, people are entitled to the sourcecode for one. And the entire telemetry crap seems like something a GDPR lawyer would have an absolute field day with
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imagine how much engineering effort is uselessly spent treating your paying customer as an adversary, that can't then be spent making the product better in some useful way. My own experience is in building a software product that had a complicated and fragile licence key management infrastructure that was always trivially bypassable.
By way of appetiser:
"It was a marvel of cheap engineering, but also a privacy nightmare waiting to happen. ... I discovered something shocking: Android Debug Bridge (ADB) was wide open — no password, no authentication. And it was running a version of Linux.
In seconds, I had full root access. No hacks, no exploits. Just plug and play...
The manufacturer had the power to remotely disable devices and used it against me for blocking their data collection"
"It was a marvel of cheap engineering, but also a privacy nightmare waiting to happen. ... I discovered something shocking: Android Debug Bridge (ADB) was wide open — no password, no authentication. And it was running a version of Linux.
In seconds, I had full root access. No hacks, no exploits. Just plug and play...
The manufacturer had the power to remotely disable devices and used it against me for blocking their data collection"
The P in IoT stands for privacy.
Hmmm, interesting... *opens the link* *sees the AI header image* *closes the page immediately*
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I have elite pattern recognition due to how my brain is wired. I can’t help to notice it. The author can decide to use whatever tools they want. I can decide to read (or not read) whatever I want.
I have elite pattern recognition due to how my brain is wired. I can’t help to notice it. The author can decide to use whatever tools they want. I can decide to read (or not read) whatever I want.
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Stopped reading after seeing the AI slop that is the head image.
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Ms. Dadmin wanted one of those as well. I refused and told her that she already has the smartest vacuum in the world:
Me! 😁
*Kissed* 😘
@nazokiyoubinbou @lbnvds I wish this wasnʼt the case, but statistically, if slop outnumbers human writing and Google et al. make no effort to downrank it, then we should be suspicious. From January to September 2024, a minimum of one “AI” BS piece went up about me each day, sometimes three a day. Iʼm not famous. I fought them most nights, from authors in different countries. They vastly outnumbered anything legitimately written about me by humans. This story has similar hallmarks to the fakes.
On the unmodified device, if the kill switch requires a remote command to be sent, blocking ALL networking (no open wifi and not giving in the passphrase) should block the command from being received. This won't work if a timeout on communications with the robot's true master is also included.
I would expect most users who block networking to block ALL of it, especially given the long history of updates that are downgrades (such as new DRM antifeatures and lockouts) in commercial devices of all types.
ANY device you cut off from the vendor needs to be cut all the way off including firmware updates. Hard for a 3ed party to exploit an offline device, so should be safe to stay with a "known good snapshot" firmware.
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An oversharer, who failed to live up to his potential.
What an interesting man, & sad story.
Very interesting, James is s very interesting character, maybe a bit sad but really very lucky to be alone. Stay strong James, you're ok mate!
He's mistaken. I am THE Could Have Been Man. He's scampering in my shadow.
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Even as I create larger statement pieces for upcoming shows, my functional ware is still the most important aspect of my work because of the way it exists in people’s homes and everyday lives. Here are a few pieces that have come out of the kiln over the past few weeks. #pottery #ceramics
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Even as I create larger statement pieces for upcoming shows, my functional ware is still the most important aspect of my work because of the way it exists in people’s homes and everyday lives. Here are a few pieces that have come out of the kiln over the past few weeks. #pottery #ceramics
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these are so lovely, the forms and colors.
So pretty! Love them.
these are utterly beautiful.
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Wow. Your pottery looks amazing.
Very envious of your skill, makes me want to get back to amateur pottery again!
🤩 Beautiful work!
Forgive me, but I've been replaying the Myst game series and these look very "Rivenese" to me at the moment! I'm sure they referenced the same cultural motifs when they were doing art for the game.
Anyway, I love the form of that tea pot and the patterns and colors here are fantastic.
you are an amazing artist 💞
Thanks, that sounds interesting! Not sure I have time this weekend sadly (family birthday), but I hope that goes well!
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Those pieces are wonderful! Just looking at them makes me feel calm and happy. My fingers are imagining the textures.
I will check out your website.
I notice that the website said that you have a solar powered studio. How much power do you need to do that? (I imagine an electric kiln can draw a fair amount of power.)
I've recently discovered the Japanese practice of Kintsugi ('golden repair') and am saving up to be able to preserve a vase beloved by my late mother.
I love your designs, colour choices, and clean decorative lines by the way!
lovely work, I love the jug.
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I can understand why you are selling-out, your work is really nice.
I noted that tea pot - the handle made me think of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. I particularly liked that "earth tone vase". I've spent some time over the last couple of years in the hills west of Sedona, Arizona, so those colors look familiar.
I look forward to what you create next. I may buy some.
As a kid I tried ceramics - but I wasn't any good. More recently I put my hand to a fireplace using arts-and-crafts tiles. Here's a link to a photo...
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Nous soutenons l'initiative de l'APRIL #AdieuWindows qui organise et rassemble les personnes souhaitant quitter Windows à l'occasion de la fin du support de Windows 10.
C'est le moment de passer à Linux en étant soutenu et bien entouré!🐧
Adieu Windows, bonjour le Libre ! - Quittons ce système d'exploitation privateur
Trouvez de l'aideprès de chez vous pour installer un système d'exploitation libre !Adieu Windows, bonjour le Libre !
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J'ai commencé à vraiment utiliser Linux l'année dernière, quand j'ai sauté le pas sur un PC vieillissant. J'ai remplacé Windows 10 par Linux Mint. D'abord en double-boot, au cas où... Puis en simple boot, quand j'avais pris mes marques et migré mes données perso... Et maintenant j'installe Linux Mint sur toutes les machines que je récupère. C'est simple, efficace, rien à redire ! Seul mon PC de travail est encore sous Windows 10 (pas le choix) mais ça changera sûrement un jour. ^^
J’ai longtemps eu un double boot WinDOS/Ubuntu LTS, jusqu’en 2020, par là. Je passais tout mon temps sur Ubuntu. Et puis ma carte graphique n’a plus été prise en compte par les dernières versions de Ubuntu LTS ; je restais sur Ubuntu de 2016. J’ai donc laissé carrément tomber le PC − hors de question que je retourne sous WinDOS − pour un Raspberry Pi sous Raspberry Pi OS (Debian). J’avoue que j’ai été soulagé quand le Rapsberry Pi 5 à 16 Go est sorti.
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mon seul frein pour utiliser linux sur ma machine principale (j'utilise déjà mint sur une autre machine) c'est d'avoir l'assurance de pouvoir bien faire tourner pro tools et ableton live, ainsi que d'avoir des drivers stables sur ma carte son.
Ça ne fait pas mal !!! Ça fait même du bien sans risquer de creuser le trou de la sécu parce que c'est gratuit !!!
Si l’on a un pc pas trop pourri, il y a moyen de mettre Windows 11 dessus. Linux, c’est bien, le soucis peut être les applications que l’on utilise, il faut qu’il y ait des alternatives.
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When Alice Gooblar-Perovic, Aahana Gupta, and Lydia Cruce were freshmen at Iowa City West High School, they learned that thousands of books, including "The Handmaid's Tale" and "Nineteen Minutes," were going to be pulled from classrooms across their state. This was in order to comply with Senate File 496, which said books and school materials must be "age appropriate." So they started a Banned Book Club. Two years later, the club is still going and growing, and the law is in trouble — the part of it that affected school libraries was temporarily blocked by a federal judge, while enforcement of book restrictions remains frozen under a second temporary injunction. @npr's Iowa Public Radio spoke with the three girls, who are now juniors, about how their goals have changed, and the community they've built.
#Books @bookstodon #BookBans #Iowa #TheKidsAreAlright #HighSchool #Children
When books were being pulled from Iowa classrooms, these teens started an after-school club to read them
Three Iowa City West high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023.Josie Fischels (Iowa Public Radio)
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This vase was a custom order for a couple’s 9th wedding anniversary. They wanted something they could pass down to future generations and thought a ceramic piece would make a good commemorative heirloom. They mentioned their love for terracotta amaryllis, a variety I’d never heard of. Terracotta literally means “baked earth” so I was excited to render the flower in clay tones using a mixture of pink Alabama #clay and a clay called Newman Red from California. #pottery
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This vase was a custom order for a couple’s 9th wedding anniversary. They wanted something they could pass down to future generations and thought a ceramic piece would make a good commemorative heirloom. They mentioned their love for terracotta amaryllis, a variety I’d never heard of. Terracotta literally means “baked earth” so I was excited to render the flower in clay tones using a mixture of pink Alabama #clay and a clay called Newman Red from California. #pottery
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I love the detail in the petals and leaves, and especially the wavy opening!
Gorgeous.
Beautiful and specially like the colours.😊
stunning work! Just absolutely gorgeous!
Fabulous! Great job.
It's beautiful! 😍
@Avloky So beautiful! Wow!
Lovely. I took pottery for a few years at a local art school but was never close to be able to throw a piece like that.
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That's really beautiful 😍
This is absolutely stunning!
Oh my. That is absolutely lovely. A true work of art.
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Last pot of the year! I made a second version of the terracotta amaryllis vase at the request of a neighbor. He and his wife are also craftspeople—she makes #pottery and he fashions highly polished wood lids to fit her vessels. This will be her Christmas gift. I offered to deliver it to their home so that I can peek inside their studio.
Since this is the second iteration of this design, I tweaked a couple of details. Iteration is so how potters make progress. Can you spot the differences?
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The pot is absolutely stunning, but your photography skills make it even more outstanding. The photo itself is a piece of art. Beeeautifullll
That’s stunning!
omg its gorgeous
that's a voluptuous pot
I can spot the differences. I love the narrowing of the neck. It makes for an even more beautiful shape. And the larger aqua shoulder bands really add a je ne sait quoi, but whatever it is, it works. Is the color a bit different too, because the contrast seems greater. The amaryllis pop more in the new piece. Beautiful as always. I’m sure they will treasure it.
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All the skill AND pot luck!
This vase is gorgeous! Fantastic work as always 
@dilmandila Your pots give us so much joy!
what a lovely gift!! With clay from the Earth. You are so talented. Without going back to see, I think I remember another diamond of Terra cotta? Idk it's gorgeous!
mmmm, I had to do multiple looks here butttt:
- the lid now has three little bumps around it
- the pattern about the blue area has changed a bit
beautiful work Osa! it baffles me that you can just about recreate the same pot!! so cool 
gorgeous.
oh, my that is gorgeous! I am still at least 6 weeks from being able to work on the wheel again, but i might try to do a bit of handbuilding this week.v
@virtualbri Absolutely spectacular ❤️
yeah, you have a way of showing off your work that is so attractive.
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John Oliver's Last Week Tonight mentions #Mastodon and #PixelFed as alternatives that are "not as desperate to fall in line with trump".
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#JohnOliver has to help, right? Or #StayUpLate ? Haha
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Let us post #JohnOliver being sexy pics. I heard it worked somewhere for something ^_^J
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Yeah but does he have an account?
@malmorrow I think he's waiting for quote toots.
Bluesky is in the list 🙁
If Musk gets his Mastodon hub up, it will be fun. I think it will be good for network quality and the marxists will finally lock everyone out. 😂
@matroskin truth.social 2.0 *fediblocking noises*
It's a good start. But it would be better if he was present here too.
in all fairness to #johnoliver I followed him on X when I was there, he never posts
twitter, fb, instagram already deleted. Unfortunately, its much harder to get rid of WhatsApp since everyone use it.
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the graphics team could have put that in
Okay, he could have dedicated a bit more airtime to those alternatives and also drop Bluesky from that list 😅.
And especially stress that those Alternatives (not Bluesky ofc) are completely different BY DESIGN.
It’s like comparing autocracy with democracy.
That hasn‘t sunk in yet with large parts of the mainstream and would have very much been worth mentioning imho 😅
"Not as desperate to fall in line with trump..."
High Praise?
keep the Maggots out of this platform. 🙂
The biggest Mastodon instance is still gab.com, isn't it?
@fuxoft It has around 100k monthly active users, while mastodon.social has >360k.
they forgot mbin!
It seems that John Oliver has not really understood what is the #Fediverse…
"…that don't not.…"?
What?
Where is the mastodon account of John Oliver or Last Week Tonight?
Around minute 15 (or 25 on the 29-minute version I saw). Brief. Also talks - very briefly - about the lock-in effect, at the same point.
I wish he would have gone into slightly more detail but it’s still more than I’ve heard from anyone else when social media comes up as a topic.
I'd not be surprised when he joined BlueSky... Americans love their bad remakes ;) Hope the British part of his soul wins.
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As a casual TV-watching user, I would have had a hard time reading "mastodon": I would have read "astodon."
The logo has little contrast and the lines of the m and logo blend significantly with each other.
If I compare it to the other lettering it is the least readable.
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If I compare it to the other lettering it is the least readable.
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Still warm from the kiln, covered in warm earth tones—I’m so relieved this piece came out successfully on the other side of firing. I worked on it over the course of a month and remembered to document moments of process which I think I’ll share in a thread.
The most important thing to know is that I consider this pot a collaboration. I coordinated the colors, but I didn’t choose them. Each clay tone was a surprise and a gift, and that’s where my excitement about this piece lies. #pottery
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This is fantastic! Thanks for sharing,
I think I love the extra detail of the dots/bumps and the lovely orange textures.
it’s beautiful!
this is so beautiful. Really amazing work. Congrats Osa.
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This is what it looked like before it was fired. At this point, I’d let it dry completely (we call that bone dry) and then I painted it with dirt water (we call that terra sig.) I love this soft, pastel stage and I also love the color shifting alchemy that happens in a hot kiln. The yellow to dark purple is especially wild.
After this I bisque fire, then apply glaze, then fire again. I work in batches so I was making other pots while I made this. #pottery #clay #ceramics #WIP #artprocess
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Its exquisite!
Your objects always calm me down somehow. Thanks.😊
Due to the way Fedi sorts timelines, I saw these pictures in before-after order. So cool.
looks amazing! How do you make the little bumps so consistently? are they individually placed little balls of clay, maybe blended with a sponge?
love that stage too
this is such beautiful craftsmanship!
so beautiful!
That is really pretty! Love that pattern.
Phenomenal! That must have been a really nerve-wracking firing. Congratulations on having made such careful and patient efforts to see this through.
Okay, that is seriously gorgeous!
Very nice. Both the shape and the ornamentation. I'm just wondering what you'll use this piece for.
i love love love the patterns and colors on this
it's beautiful! Thank you for showing us!
This is incredible ! Beautiful !
A stupendous pot of great beauty. A masterpiece. Award winner.
this is very beautiful and alive. I love how the colors came out.
This is incredible, Osa! Mind-blowingly beautiful.
That is lovely. Thanks for sharing.
oh wow that is beautiful.
wow, that's stunning
what a glorious creation
wowowowow, what a beautiful piece
truly gorgeous!!
That is beautiful!
Breathtaking, @potterybyosa ! Well-done!!! 😍
Absolutely beautiful! 🥰. I love the design and the earth tones contrasting with the light blue interior. Thank you for sharing your art!
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wow. It is gorgeous!!!!!!
Love the colors you got!
wow, that is so beautiful!
Omigosh, that is gorgeous.
Gorgeous pottery !!!!😍
this is stunning!
Congratulations to you and your collaborators
Congratulations to you and your collaborators
that is spectacular!!!
it is perfect
Oh wow, that is a truly magnificent piece. Bravo!
Beautiful! Awesome job.
Just beautiful!
You did a great job! It looks divine
Such a beautiful piece of art! Thanks for posting and talking about the process.
that looks amazing!
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Gorgeous!
Gorgeous!
Beautiful!
And your pot is, too!
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And your pot is, too!
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Wowza! Stunning
Stunning piece of work. A treasure
Wow, how beautiful!
It's beautiful, congratulations that it came through.
, stunningly beautiful all round, thanks for sharing a great piece of art.
incredible Lady Osa. Big up's.
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that is stunning
this is an amazing piece, wow! 😍
I'm completely in awe here. That is sublime.
That's beautiful, and an amazing accomplishment. My mother was a potter for 50+ years and I know firsthand the difficulty in bringing large pieces intact through the firings.
It looks so great, congratulations!
incredible work! Really lovely.
I love your pottery. Death photo you post is a delight, and you teach me, too. 🏅
I don’t know about others, but I came to your post feeling really dispirited by AI in everything and the drivers of “more!” and “faster!” urging it on. Then I saw your beautiful pot, and “a month” and the outpouring of joy in the comments, it was such a profound relief.
I’m so grateful to you and other makers for sharing your work, it’s important at so many levels.
Incredible Osa. Keep on going lady.
YOU ROCK!!!!
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oh wow, the fact that it's a coil pot is also amazing! I know throwing something that large would also be difficult, but it's so beautiful and balanced and symmetrical!!
Gorgeous. Love the link between the earth tones outside and the hot pale blue inside we can just see appear from inside the neck.
@irene That’s beautiful! 😍
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i'd just like to point out that not only is the animal in the photo not a monkey he is not holding any bananas and personally i'd like to know Señor Chimp's perspective on all of this monkey-business.
@jdmcg please get a hobby
as much as I was joking about this, there's an important point to be made about human exceptionalism, and our generalisations about other species.
Chimpanzees are known to hoard resources, particularly if they are of a higher social rank. Scientists *have* studied this, and have made the obvious comparison to human social behaviour. The question, surely, is not so much 'what is wrong with this...chimpanzee/human', but how might we build social structures that constrain the negative effects of this innate behaviour.
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If the starving monkeys would do the rich monkey favours, it would then use some of the bananas to toss them at the helpful monkeys from a high position (like the top of a tree). This is called the ‘trickle down’ effect.
if they could get to it before all the other monkeys beat it to death.
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I still think I'd rather be a cat.
#comicthreads
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I still think I'd rather be a cat.
#comicthreads
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Avec la fin de Windows 10, Vous êtes nouveau.elle sur Linux, débutant.e ou utilisateur pas "geek" ou "informaticien" ? Qu'est ce qu'il vous faudrait comme information/vous manque pour mieux vous approprier votre ordinateur ? Que je sache quoi rédiger comme tutoriel grand public. RT apprécié
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La question du tutoriel est une question importante
Mais je suis persuadé que les primo utilisateurs ont besoin d'une part de présentiel du type install party et d'autres part de "guichets" permanents et professionnels pour répondre à leurs questions au jour le jour
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One of the cartoons in my new book 'Physics for Cats' which is out now in the UK, USA, Canada, France and Germany. Order from your local bookshops or online: www.tomgauld.com/
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#MetropolitanPolice in #London have yet again courageously defended the city against #terrorists with hand-written signs opposing #genocide in #Gaza and supporting #PalestineAction. The arrestees included a #blind man with a cane, and — for the third time — 83yo retired priest Rev Sue Parfitt.
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#MetropolitanPolice in #London have yet again courageously defended the city against #terrorists with hand-written signs opposing #genocide in #Gaza and supporting #PalestineAction. The arrestees included a #blind man with a cane, and — for the third time — 83yo retired priest Rev Sue Parfitt.
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What's needed is a GB-organised protest in Belfast where every second banner supports the UDA
Imagine, "I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action" followed by "I oppose genocide, I support the UDA". Surreal.
Problem is, there's a risk of someone from the UDA showing up and saying "I support killing Taigs, and Palestinians are Taigs".
the actual state of police. The van must look like it's doing a bingo drop-off.
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@Iwillyeah It's not a bad gig for the cops. No extertion, nobody fighting back. Easy money overtime, unless they have a conscience.
@Iwillyeah if they had a conscience they would likely not have a job as a cop.
does nobody remember the proverb? "There are not enough police, not enough courts, not enough judges, not enough prisons to enforce an unjust law". It seems yet again that this government is testing this to destruction.
So brave! Fitting that they are in support of the IDF as they target children, civilians, protesters. Cowardice everywhere you look.
M’lud my client cannot have knowingly committed the offence with the sign in question, being literally unable to have written it or known what someone else may have written. You must therefore dismiss the case against him, being unable to prove intent to the criminal standard.
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@christineburns Excellent!
I wonder if there is any truth in the rumours that the Home Office wants to lose the judicial review of the ban om ##PalestineAction. The whole thing is getting more and more ridiculous, and there doesn't seem to be any better path for a government retreat.
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It’s a reminder that whenever politicians pursue a policy that is neither morally nor logically defensible then everything is twisted trying to maintain an impossible position. It’s like making a law that bricks should float in the air and then trying to hold the policy position by stubborn attempts at levitation.
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@christineburns as you know, throughout the summer, I have been writing to our MPs. Quite a few now see the paucity of the proscription xx
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@Geri @christineburns Mine does, but he's from a teeny tiny party with only 72 MPs so nobody cares.
Makes it hard to be really sarcastic when your MP appears to be very good at their job - engaging with constituents without much recourse to party press releases. Wouldn't be surprised if my last MP was on a commission based on the number of answers in the form of a CCHQ press release sent out.
@spanghero @Geri @christineburns Thev problem with the party of 72 MPs is that it destroyed its credibility in 2010–15, then destroyed it again in 2019 by promising to simply ignore a referendum result. Now it is led by a man whose most memorable stance is farcical aquatic ceremonies.
@spanghero @christineburns they mention Asquith the other day 😆
No argument from me regarding their credibility but that doesn't give the media permission to ignore them because they aren't Reform, Labour or Tory as they are the third largest party in Parliament.
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@spanghero @Geri @christineburns And more broadly, the British mainstream media is an utter sewer. Even the Grauniad is just less stinky than the other waste streams.
Fairness is barely a factor in the UK media so its absence in this case should be no surprise.
It's also worth remembering that the #LibDems made a strategic choice to campaign locally rather than nationally. Even a fair news media would struggle to give national coverage to local issue campaigns.
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@spanghero @christineburns without looking it up. Where do the LDs stand on Trans rights?
@Geri @spanghero @christineburns The UK #LibDems have hidtorically been very good on trans rights, much better than Lab/Con. When I ran the parliamentary lobbying for PFC in the run-up to the GRA2004, several excellent LibDems worked very hard and v effectively.
Now they are still supportive, but less vocally. And they haven't purged their #TERFs 🙁
@Geri @spanghero @christineburns I will never forgive the LDs for enabling the Health and Social Care Act, allowing mass privatisation of our NHS.
@Pamela1960 @Geri @spanghero @christineburns Those are huge crimes, but they did other great horrors too. In my view, the most wicked of all was allowing the Tories to cut benefits in return for introducing a plastic bag tax.
@Pamela1960 @spanghero @christineburns I thought they sold their soul for a chance to have a vote on PR
@Geri @Pamela1960 @spanghero @christineburns No, they didn't.
The #LibDems sold their soul for a chance to have to have a referendum on tte #AlternativeVote system (#AV), which is not a form of #ProportionalRepresentation. In some ways #AV is even worse than the wicked #FPTP.
The #LIbDems soid their souls for a taste of power. The #neoliberal leader was delighted to be in bed with the #ConservativeParty
Did they? Or would the Tories have pushed it through anyway? Same with tuition fees they still get the blame for.
I would say that with LD, the cabinet Cameron was a bit more centered then it would have been with only Tories.
Part of the issue is that people in the UK in general don't know how coalition governments work. In a coalition, manifestos go out the window, the only thing that could is the coalition agreement.
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@wanwizard @Geri @spanghero @christineburns That's not how coalitions should work. It's to take those bits of the manifesto they agree on and ditch those they don't.
@Pamela1960 @wanwizard @Geri @spanghero @christineburns In #Ireland, we haven't had a single-party govt since 1989. Govt formation is a big deal.
Coalition agreements start with things all sides agree on. But they go much further. On some issues there are compromises. Other issues are traded: we do your policy that I don't like if you agree that we do my policy that you don't like.
So e.g. the 2020–24 FF/FG/Green govt did some big #climatechange stuff in return for #neoliberal economics.
@Pamela1960 @Geri @spanghero @christineburns In the Netherlands, the last kabinet with all members from the same partij was the cabinet Kappeyne van de Coppello, in 1877.
@Pamela1960 @Geri @spanghero @christineburns Exactly, with the end result that none of the parties can be held accountable to their pre-election manifesto, and with a more centred government, as these negotiations tend to remove the extremes (which are always in the "policies you don't like" category).
@wanwizard @Pamela1960 @Geri @spanghero @christineburns Not necessarily. The Irish experience of coalitions does not fit that pattern
What did I write that contradicted with what you wrote and I replied to?
A coalition manifesto (the negotiation result) never matches a party manifesto for 100%, and usually the more extreme policies in a party manifesto are the first to go, as they are never acceptable to the other party/parties.
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@wanwizard @Pamela1960 @Geri @spanghero @christineburns I long ago lost patience with apologists for the #ConDem government. This comment doesn't restore my patience.
The #LibDems had to choose which manifesto commitments wee red lines, and which were negotiable. Tuition fees was more than the manifesto; it was a solemn pledge. They could and should have made it a red line.
But instead they caved in. The Tories couldn't do it without support from LibDens, unless Labour abstained. #Scum
@Pamela1960 @Geri @spanghero @christineburns You are entitled to your opinion. I tend to agree with you, but forming a coalition government is always bartering, and the options were limited, as Labour refused to go into a coalition (which would have been a better option).
I can't comment on it, as I don't know the negotiation details, and don't know which Tory policies were scrapped in return (if any).
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@christineburns "Sorry we got it wrong. We'll try to do better in the future."
No charge, UK Government.
Such courage from the institutionally corrupt, misogynist and racist boys and girls in blue. Bless!
way things are going you'd get good odds they charge him with possession of a deadly weapon - the cane.
@lisamelton I'm sure Londoners feel a lot safer now, with him off the street 🙄
@MichaelPorter @lisamelton there is a reason they call these terrorists "boomers" so I'd wager the do feel safer ;p
When the fossil fuel industry funds corrupt politicians to get anti-protest legislation, there are no half measures.
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theguardian.com/us-news/2024/s…
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Revealed: how the fossil fuel industry helps spread anti-protest laws across the US
Lobbyists and lawmakers have coordinated to enact new laws that increase criminal penalties for peaceful protestsHilary Beaumont (The Guardian)
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Netanyahu's genocide is being funded by the fossil fuel industry to get an oil port, Syrian pipeline, and exploit the Gaza Marine natural gas field.
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Meloni’s controversial anti-protest bill becomes Italian law
Security decree gives greater powers to agents of the state and greater protections to police officers.Elena Giordano (POLITICO)
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Pathetic. Surely the police have more important things to do.
blind, 83 years old, with a cane... typical terrorist...its why they are called Boomers...
(Please know im joking)
In France, the blind old man and the retired priest were also reportedly arrested, but only after being beaten, thrown to the ground, and sometimes blinded by a flashball shot to the face.
When you recognize the MET agent beiing your father, brother, husband, granddad or friend I suppose you will be shocked. The current MET has become the British Gestapo. We did not know, we just obeyed orders from Führer Stormer.
@Wen @spanghero @Geri @christineburns They do indeed. Which is why pro-indy Scots rightly label the #LibConLabs as #YellowTories, #BlueTories, and #RedTories
@JimmyB @Pamela1960 @spanghero @christineburns yes, I am inclined to agree xx
I do think David Cameron opened a big Pandora's Box of Nationalism....
That blind guy is under arrest?
In America he'd be on the ground with a boot and/or knee in his neck, bleeding from the face and head as he's zip tied to his cane and then dragged off and literally thrown into the back of a van.
I'm absolutely shocked and the politeness of your police as they enforce this horrendous law you have.
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