Amazon launched a generative AI recap video system, to help viewers catch up with TV shows.

It launched with Fallout, its own TV show.

…however, Amazon have had to delete the video after viewers pointed out it got almost every detail wrong. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3r77j…

Amazon pulls AI recap from Fallout TV show after it made several mistakes

The errors included getting dialogue wrong and incorrectly claiming a scene was set 100 years earlier than it was.

^{Liv McMahon (BBC News)}

⚠️ Scam alert: if anyone ever asks you to "temporarily change" the email address on your Mastodon account, DO NOT DO THIS.

There is currently a scammer posing as a server admin telling people to temporarily change their Mastodon account's email to an address supplied by the scammer. This is a scam, don't do it.

Real admins will NEVER ask you to do this.

You can see examples of this scam in the thread at ohai.social/@redsad/1157080301…

(Thanks @markwyner for the warning about this! 🙏 )

#FediTips

captain acab :antifa: (@redsad@ohai.social)

Attached: 1 image is this for real? someone said they accidentally reported my account and said to contact this person now they say they want me to change my email address edit: confirmed scammer. do not respond to a text like this

^ohai.social

SonOff WLAN Schalter

Voll funktionstüchtig. Mit Tasmota Firmware geflasht.

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The next time I have someone from a weed control company ring our doorbell, I am going to tell them that unless they can find any weeds that are triffids, we aren't interested.

#Ottawa

Note: the update to Gaai which was shortly visible, has been rolled back, so don't search for it. It unfortunately introduced a load of proprietary components, tracking, ads, etc. (dev has been informed, we're hoping for a FOSS build flavor).

This action allowed the update to LaundryNotes to ship, which was just declared OK: if you have this app installed, you need to uninstall and re-install, as the signing key has changed (which caused it to be "quarantined" until clarified).

"We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works..." A Microsoft employee quotes Douglas Adams while dealing with a catastrophic Teams failure during a live webinar.

You can't make this up.

What we really need is Time Cher.

You only get Cher two weeks per year.

#totp

RE: mstdn.social/@mtlgazette/11570…

The expert is full of shit. This project has a business case. And is essential.

So, Québec lost all those doctors this year... for what?!?!?

CAQ scraps the bulk of Bill 2 in tentative deal with REMAINING doctors: cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/fa… #polQC #QCpoli #assnat #CAQASTROPHE

This is the first I've heard that Alto is going to be a wholly owned subsidiary of Via, which is fantastic news.

Ignore everything after that, it's mostly just some curmudgeon they found in Toronto moaning.

montrealgazette.com/news/canad…

Ottawa-Montreal first up for high-speed rail link, but money could be better spent, expert says

The corridor represents about 25 per cent of the total length of track needed to build the entire Toronto-to-Quebec City network.

^{Jason Magder, Montreal Gazette (Montreal Gazette)}

Trying #DeltaChat for a few days. But it cannot fulfill one mandatory use case for me : synchronization on more that 2 devices.

Sorry @delta, but for now, I'll remain with @signalapp and @session (and XMPP of course 😉) !

Good job for your work anyway. It's promising.

Ich habe gestern einen Gastbeitrag von Kristina Schröder auf WELT online gelesen. Darin geht es um den Sozialstaat – und um persönliche Assistenz für behinderte Menschen. Und ehrlich gesagt: Er hat mich tief getroffen.

Denn wenn über Assistenz als „nicht mehr tragbare Kosten“ gesprochen wird, dann geht es nicht abstrakt um Haushaltszahlen. Dann geht es um mein Leben.

Assistenz ist für mich kein Luxus. Kein Extra. Kein Wunschkonzert.
Assistenz ist das, was mich morgens aufstehen lässt. Was mir erlaubt zu arbeiten, Verantwortung zu übernehmen, mich einzubringen, selbstbestimmt zu leben.
Ohne Assistenz wäre mein Leben kleiner. Abhängiger. Fremdbestimmt. Vielleicht sogar institutionell verwahrt statt frei.

Ich brauche Assistenz 24 Stunden am Tag, weil Behinderung keinen Feierabend kennt. Weil Notfälle keine Bürozeiten haben. Weil Würde nicht um 22 Uhr endet.

Wenn Politik und Medien darüber diskutieren, ob Menschen wie ich „zu teuer“ sind, dann erzeugt das Angst. Die Angst, dass meine Freiheit an einem Verwaltungsakt hängt. Dass mein Leben jedes Jahr neu infrage gestellt wird. Dass ich mich rechtfertigen muss, warum ich so leben darf wie andere ganz selbstverständlich.

Dabei zeigt die Geschichte etwas anderes:
Stephen Hawking, Helen Keller, viele andere – ihre Leistungen waren nur möglich, weil Assistenz und Unterstützung ihnen Zugang zur Welt gegeben haben. Nicht trotz Assistenz. Sondern wegen ihr.

Ja, Assistenz kostet Geld.
Aber die eigentliche Frage ist: **Was kostet es uns als Gesellschaft, wenn wir anfangen, Menschenwürde zu kürzen?**

Ich bin keine Kostenstelle.
Ich bin ein Mensch.
Und mein Leben ist kein Sparposten.

Quelle: Kristina Schröder, „Sozialstaat: Was wir uns künftig nicht mehr leisten können“, WELT, 11.12.2025.

#Inklusion #Assistenz #Selbstbestimmung #Behindertenrechte #Teilhabe #Menschenwürde

Getting you ready for tomorrow, HKC Radio now airs the 2024 Gala Presentation of that year's OSARA Christmas album, Traveling Stars. Find this and every OSARA Christmas album here:

christmasreapers.com

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Christmas Reapers

An annual fundraiser for software that makes music production accessible to people who are blind and vision impaired

^{www.christmasreapers.com}

Your chat profile/identity: a tar file.

Your social web app: a zip file.

chatmail.at and webxdc.org are spearheading ever new and more fun ways to deny power to servers and platform billionaires.

Unlike classic email servers, #chatmail relays do not store user identities which solely live on end-user devices.There also is no encrypted value on the server like with Proton Mail or Signal. There are only relays, endless federating networks of relays to onboard safely :)

So, given WP is willing to sell all its users down the river for some quick "AI" buzz, what fedi-enabled alternatives exist for human-centric websites? therepository.email/wordpress-…

I know of write.as, plume. They're to ascetic to match the brief. ClassicPress could be an option, provided the WP-ActivityPub add-on works with that.

#wordpress #ActivityPub #CMS #noAI #fediverse
cc @davidgerard

WordPress AI Team Outlines Vision for AI as a “Fundamental” Part of WordPress

The AI Team has published a series of posts laying out a vision to make AI as fundamental to WordPress as the database, calling on developers and hosts to adopt…

^{Rae Morey (The Repository)}

If Trump threatens to stop all federal funds, including road paving, to reliably conservative Indiana, because it didn't do his political bidding, what makes any other conservative state feel safe the whimsical and demented Don won't do as much or more to it?

The folks along its northern insterstate, its principal cross-state thoroughfare, along the banks of the Ohio River, and those calling Tornado Alley home, should be the first to call out Trump's extortion and harm to their daily lives.

Some worry this might set a precedent.

I hope it does.

Every regime that invades another country, committing countless mass atrocities, should have their foreign assets taken & handed to their victims.

This might get all would-be invaders to think twice.
euractiv.com/news/eu-greenligh…

EU greenlights indefinite immobilisation of Russian assets

The move comes a day after Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever openly questioned the legality of the European Commission’s proposal to permanently freeze Moscow's funds

^{Martina Monti (Euractiv)}

It's finished!

@Derek, @nick, and Gianluca just put the finishing touches on this year's OSARA Christmas album, Christmas Through the Years. Here from old favorites like Kevin Reeves, @JessicatheVIArtist, and Abby Hips, as well as new friends like Árpád Király, and Jessica Thierjung of Lyriel fame. The Gala presentation is tomorrow at 2 PM EST, right here on HKC Radio!

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