Today is the day Mr. Hummelgaard wanted to push through a vote on Chat Control in the EU Council. But he failed! π
However, Chat Control will be back, so let's look at what this law means for everyone, not just here in Europe:
#ChatControl is nothing but a Trojan Horse for citizens and businesses in Europe. Why?
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For all the Mouse's deep flaws, the mass transit system at Walt Disney World is sterling proof of just how good our cities could be if we stopped worrying about keeping the nice services away from the brown people.
The parks are super walkable, and getting anywhere across the southern part of the property (Epcot/Animal Kingdom/Hollywood Studios) Just Worksβ’ in a way that most municipalities could easily replicate if they didn't have to fight property owners for every cent of taxes.
You are a 16 year old in 1993, which of the following would you get if money was no object?
But really, who are we to judge?
For our lives as well are often spent in pursuit of the virtual instead of the real
Happy International E- waste day.
...Also happy Microsoft end-of-life for Windows 10 day.
It's estimated that 400-600 million computers still run Windows 10, and many of those don't meet the higher specs required for Win 11, which in addition to more RAM and a faster CPU includes having UEFI bios.
For those with some level of tech literacy upgrading to Linux is an obvious workaround, but the sad truth is that enormous volumes of ewaste will be generated by this unnecessary act of corporate greed.
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![a screenshot from a Wired article, which reads: "Altman is aware, however, that some people might not like this. "I've spoken with environmentalists," he said. Then, he offered a suggestion. "Maybe we put [data centers] in space," he said. "I wish I had, like, more concrete answers for you, but like, we're stumbling through this." Now, the idea of hurling data centers, the largest of which can cover over a million square feet, into orbit may seem impractical. But Altman's not alone in considering it. Jeff Bezos and Eric
Schmidt are also betting on the idea."](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/713180 "a screenshot from a Wired article, which reads: \"Altman is aware, however, that some people might not like this. \"I've spoken with environmentalists,\" he said. Then, he offered a suggestion. \"Maybe we put [data centers] in space,\" he said. \"I wish I had, like, more concrete answers for you, but like, we're stumbling through this.\" Now, the idea of hurling data centers, the largest of which can cover over a million square feet, into orbit may seem impractical. But Altman's not alone in considering it. Jeff Bezos and Eric
Schmidt are also betting on the idea.\"")
jackhopkinsnow.com/p/hold-the-β¦
Hold the F*** On!
The Hidden Clause That Could End Checks and Balances in America
The Jack Hopkins Now Newlsetter #595: Monday, October 13th, 2025.
this was written by AI. This is exactly how it phrases these "wow, shocking!" type of conclusions to things
edit: there's at least one stanza on each page that is 100% a clear sign of this being AI even if you ignore the obvious "AI bolded this for emphasis"
Jack isn't doing his best work, or any work at all I guess
LMAO this is AI too
I guess if you're paying to subscribe to this Substack you're wasting your money
I don't care where the screenshots came from, Jack didn't write that. Some AI model did.
I know. I use them too. This is exactly how they phrase things.
If you want to know where Microsoftβs head is at,
theyβve added Copilot usage into their Connect (yearly performance review),
told sales people their performance is only being based on how much Copilot they sell,
and added Copilot usage to Viva Insight so companies can see how much Copilot usage there is in the org and how it compares to industry peers
Basically, only KPI that matters for orgs now: how much you feed the Copilot god.
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/10/13/micβ¦
Microsoft Viva Insights βhelps people and businesses thrive with data-driven, privacy-protected insights.β Itβs workplace spyware for your boss. [Microsoft; Microsoft] Viva Insights now has an exciβ¦Pivot to AI
I found the solution to global warming.
If we just turned everyone into the Incredible Hulk we donβt need cars to travel and people can carry cargo vast distances at enormous weight.
That will dramatically reduce carbon.
From My Blog:
30 Days With Dolphin Screen Reader:
Day 0; Introduction
davidgoldfield.wordpress.com/2β¦
A few weeks ago, I learned that Dolphin Computer Access is offering a 50% discount on their Supernova products for users who have a JAWS, Zoomtext or Fusion license who are willing to switch from tβ¦Thoughts from David Goldfield
Every time I try to use an LLM, it always gets things terribly wrong. Nvlist binary format is undocumented. Ask an LLM for it and of course it gets confused with OpenZFS similarly named nvpair, and talks about that (don't know if it's correct or not, but probably isn't from what I briefly saw).
I really don't understand how anyone uses this stuff for work.
@feld
I expect it to have FreeBSD's source code from anytime in the last 10 years in its corpus.
If I have to hunt down and provide source/docs for it, I might as well look at them myself to understand it and not depend upon an LLM to do so.
I even tried a 120b model, and it still gave me the incorrect response.
> If I have to hunt down and provide source/docs for it, I might as well look at them myself to understand it and not depend upon an LLM to do so.
yeah true, but when it's something without good docs or really confusing docs without examples, or projects where I have no idea what the structure is I find it very useful as it can read and find what I'm looking for faster than I can by grep-guessing
Do I know any people who know #rust pretty well? Do you dare speak up?
Why do I get the numbers I get here?
github.com/Spindel/tokio-timeoβ¦
Comparing tokio's timeout vs. other solutions. Contribute to Spindel/tokio-timeout-compare development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
FreeBSD src tree (read-only mirror). Contribute to mekanix/freebsd-src development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
I was thinking we need to get more people active on the FreeBSD wiki too so at least examples, gotchas, and best practices are *somewhere* associated with the project and not just on random blogs and web comments, like this one from the other day:
More metro Phoenix home sellers have grown tired of demands from buyers and have given up.The number of canceled home listings is on the rise in the Valley as buyers continue to insist on lower prices, expensive remodel projects and interest-rate buydowns.
Trevor Halpern of Halpern Residential at eXp Reality said 35% to 40% of his sellers are pulling their listings if buyers won't give them the price they want.During the past few months, about 30% of Phoenix-area homes listed for sale were called off by homeowners, according to the Cromford Report.
hahahahaha good
A colleague is asking how many #Neuroscientists are here on Mastodon / Fedi. If you are one, could you make yourself known in this poll? Also, more specific comments about your field welcome! π§
please boost around if you don't mind
#Neuroscience #Academia #AcademicChatter
Chris McCausland: βI thought my neighbour was ignoring me, and he thought I was ignoring him, until he found out I was blind, and I found out he was deaf.β ...YouTube
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Tuta
in reply to Tuta • • •Once built, such a system isn't just able to scan for harmful content, it could very well be used or abused to look for anything interesting:
π Your credit card details
π Your sexual orientation
π Your businesses' customer lists
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Tuta
in reply to Tuta • • •In Europe everyone is talking about #DigitalSovereignty - which is great! But we can't have that and undermine our sovereignty by giving law enforcement the key to all encrypted communication. To us at Tuta it's clear:
"There are no backdoors for the good guys only".
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Tuta
in reply to Tuta • • •AI technology designed to detect illegal material cannot distinguish between "good" and "bad" speech. It opens the door for governments, now or in the future, to monitor all messages, photos, and videos. Once the infrastructure for scanning is in place, it can and will be used for other means as well.
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Tuta
in reply to Tuta • • •Ask yourself this: Would you install a camera in your bathroom so the government can "make sure nothing bad happens"? Interestingly, EU governments themselves don't want the AI to scrape their data.
Check whose data the AI will be able to scan:
β Government
β Military
β YOU
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Tuta
in reply to Tuta • • •If we allow this Trojan Horse through the gates, weβll lose the very principle of private communication.
We must say no to Chat Control! Not because we donβt care about safety, but because mass surveillance destroys safety for everyone.
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Tuta
in reply to Tuta • • •Read our Open Letter: π tuta.com/blog/open-letter-agaiβ¦
And learn why #ChatControl must be stopped:
π¨ Undermines Europe's digital sovereignty
π¨ Weakens everybody's security
π¨ Destroys trust in the European tech industry
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Europe's future is at stake: Open letter against Chat Control | Tuta
Tutakaika1975
in reply to Tuta • • •what about the email services ?
Could it be also be scan one day if this step is passed?
Sofia Anatasha
in reply to Tuta • • •Aleksei π
in reply to Tuta • • •hdv1
in reply to Tuta • • •Murray πͺπΊ
in reply to Tuta • • •There's also the system itself. Cast your minds back to the Post Office fiasco in the UK, where innocent people were jailed for fraud because the system had flaws.
Svante
in reply to Tuta • • •When you see Β»couldΒ« here, think Β»willΒ«.
It will be abused, massively. More than it could ever be used for its officially stated goal.
w00p
in reply to Tuta • • •It is impossible to differentiate between legitimate nudes or abusive ones.
As well as it is impossible to differentiate grooming vs flirting simply by the chat content.
#chatcontrol is a huge scam!!
Only practical use-case is mass surveillance and information control.
Kierkegaanks regretfully
in reply to Tuta • • •Miron
in reply to Tuta • • •hey Tuta. I appreciate the work youβre doing fighting for our privacy on social media.
In return Iβll fight to adopt your email services within our company.
Letβs see where this takes us π
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Tuta
in reply to Miron • • •TrimTab πΊπ¦
in reply to Tuta • • •zombiewarrior
in reply to Tuta • • •"no we need to surveil everyone but him"
Debbie Goldsmith π³οΈββ§οΈβΎοΈπΊπ¦
in reply to Tuta • • •Pablo Majster
in reply to Tuta • • •And you know what's worst about all this, after delving even deeper into the subject? That it would de facto be the end of *all* privacy π«π Because, in reality, this law assumes the scanning of everything sent from our device, not just messages, as is usually said. That's the worst part. That this law normally seems bad because it will scan our messages. But the truth is, this law is the devil because it will scan everything
#ChatControl #FightChatControl #StopChatControl
Alexander Goeres π―
in reply to Tuta • • •@Tuta you have to be precise with this: it did not fail! to avoid failure the vote was postponed because somehow surprisingly germany showed some resistance. i don't expect it to stay that way.
the eu commission's president Ursula von der Leyen, a member of the cdu, the actual ruling party in germany, was notorious for using the pretext of fighting child abuse to install internet censorship in germany (dns blocking list aso). thus her nickname in germany: Zensursula, from Zensur (censorship) and Ursula ...
a postponed vote can be added quite quickly back on the agenda and fighting the evil internet is a popular topic in party circles of the conservatives. also, don't count on the german chancellor Merz to keep promises he made ...
Tuta
in reply to Alexander Goeres π― • • •dotoscat
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