Windows 95, arguably the first PC gaming OS, is still being used... to sort eggs in Germany
"...For one thing, it may not surprise you to learn that egg-counting software is actually pretty niche, or that the programmer that originally built the software is no longer around to provide updates compatible with later operating systems. So, unless some young upstart wants to bring chicken farming into the modern age, hen farmers like Huber have few options but to stick with Windows 95..."
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Crown Royal bottler closing down Ontario plant, moving operations to U.S

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The C- in London probably didn't read the room.

→ We Are Still Unable to Secure LLMs from #Malicious Inputs
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“This kind of thing should make everybody stop and really think before deploying any AI agents. We simply don’t know to defend against these attacks. We have zero agentic AI systems that are secure against these attacks.”

“It’s an existential problem that, near as I can tell, most people developing these technologies are just pretending isn’t there.”

#AI #LLMs #stop #agents #secure #attacks #problem

This stupid move, plus the nasty fact that they recalled bottles due having GLASS inside of them? No thanks no more #CrownRoyal in this house. 🚫⛔️ #BuyCanadian
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@CStamp Ontario now has wine, beer and coolers in grocery and convenience stores, and I absolutely do not see the need. As an example, there are many small communities in Ontario which *do* have an LCBO (which also has beer, including a great selection of Canadian craft beer), and *don't* have a grocery store or convenience store. Alcohol was already very readily available in this province, but our boneheaded premier is obsessed with it. @hub @Lynnd @Chigaze @jace

Ha, thanks to Hungarian radio, song stuck in my head that I cannot knock out with any other catchy song for now. Excited to travel to New York Sunday though, taking today and Friday off work just to be in the right mental space.
When Do I Get to Sing "My Way" - Sparks:
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Greenland: US tells Denmark to 'calm down' over alleged influence operation

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How about Fuck and You.

If only we did the same here. Canadians have done more than the Canadian Government to resist against the US fascists.

Discover the World’s Oldest Surviving Cookbook, De Re Coquinaria, from Ancient Rome

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"Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome" at PG

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It is essential in 2025 that blind people lead the organisations that are representing us. However this has to extend across the organisation, throughout senior and middle management as well as staff overall. I have personally seen major organisations be led in the completely wrong way due to a tiny number of blind people within the organisation. And that’s up to the blind leaders to implement. I’ve equally seen a blind person get into high office in an organisation only to pull the drawbridge up behind them to ensure their own viewpoint is heard and to allow them to dismiss all others. One blind person’s opinion is just that - one opinion. As they say, it takes a village. And that village needs to be full of blind, low vision and sighted people, with a blind leadership team. caneandable.social/@JonathanMo…

Сегодня у кошки Сони день рождения. 28 сентября 2013 года она появилась у нас в доме. Была слабенькая, голодная, только ела и спала, за что и была названа Соней. Потом-то мы, конечно, поняли свою ошибку. Но первые дни она была Соня Соней. Вот как первом своём фото, которое тут оказалось третьим - где она совсем мелкая на оранжеваом пледике лежит.
Маленький пушистый котёнок черепаховой расцветки сидит на коврике, привалившись к голубому резиновому тапку. Совсем маленький пушистый котёнок черепаховой расцветки лежит на оранжевом пледе.
Маленький пушистый котёнок черепаховой расцветки лежит на спинке кресла рядом с плюшевым медведем.

Thunderbird 142.0 has a host of exciting features and bug fixes. From improving the PDF experience to better support for quiet time, learn what's just landed in our recap of the newest monthly release.

#Thunderbird #OpenSource #Email

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Microsoft just pulled a classic bait-and-switch tactic by ending free #Office licenses for NPOs. 😡

Don't let Big Tech lure you into their platforms with their "free" offerings. Open source alternatives like Linux + Tuta put YOU in control. ✊

Because you deserve better. ❤️

Read more: 👉 tuta.com/blog/microsoft-office…

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One of our newest contributors, Jan, discovered how to interpret the timecode signal on the Traktor MK2 Control Vinyl and has created the first implementation we're aware of to decode it. Soon, DJs will be able to use their Traktor vinyl on another system for the first time!

Read his analysis of the code in our latest blog post: mixxx.org/news/2025-08-27-dvs-…

Re: last boost (sauropods.win/@futurebird/1151…), this whole thread is worth a read. I have used an LLM as a validation machine before, and it has led me to do a few things that I mildly regret, even within the past month. Yes, despite my earlier critical posts on LLMs, I have broken down and used one for personal purposes quite recently. Maybe now I will actually stop.


You may have seen this tragic story about a teenager who committed suicide and used chat GPT to plan and work up the nerve to go through with it. If you are skeptical that an LLM could really be responsible the details of this case will challenge you.

With LLMs "the user is always right" they are validation machines and will reinforce and validate any idea presented in a prompt.

Any idea, no matter how bad, can be refined, amplified.

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I have shared ideas and feelings with an LLM in order to have a semblance of conversation, without the vulnerability of sharing things publicly or the feeling of imposition that comes with dumping those thoughts on an actual individual human. But of course, the responses I got aren't from someone with their own thoughts, and LLMs are optimized to reinforce whatever the user says, perhaps with a few specific guardrails.
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Yeah, that's sadly something all those management people seem to ignore when pushing AI down hard on everyone.

They aren't gonna take responsibility if one of their employees will run into such issues.

The "it's just a tool" excuse doesn't work, some people are just more likely to accept that fact that than others.

It doesn't help that LLM players already manipulate their models to push their own narratives/agendas and who knows with what goal you'd get manipulated while "chatting".

You may have seen this tragic story about a teenager who committed suicide and used chat GPT to plan and work up the nerve to go through with it. If you are skeptical that an LLM could really be responsible the details of this case will challenge you.

With LLMs "the user is always right" they are validation machines and will reinforce and validate any idea presented in a prompt.

Any idea, no matter how bad, can be refined, amplified.

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#Fliegen MUSS bezahlbar bleiben! ✈️ Zu hohe Kosten belasten unseren #Luftverkehr. Wir wollen die erhöhte #Luftverkehrsteuer zurücknehmen & müssen klären, welche Steuern, Gebühren und Abgaben wir zusätzlich reduzieren können. Schau Dir jetzt das Video von Verkehrsminister Patrick Schnieder hierzu an. 👀

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We have started the tedious and destined-to-always-lag-behind work of documenting #curl's view of the OpenSSL forks: github.com/curl/curl/wiki/Open…
#curl

Update verfügbar: #58 - Deine #Mails, dein digitales Zuhause

Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik
Der Dreh- und Angelpunkt in unserem digitalen Leben ist unser #EMail-#Account: Über diesen melden wir uns beim #Onlineshopping oder bei Apps und Websiten an.

Und wir hinterlegen ihn, um Benutzerkennwörter zurückzusetzen.

Genau deshalb sind E-Mail-Accounts ein beliebtes Ziel von Hackern.

Wie diese vorgehen und welche #Schutzmaßnahmen es gibt, darüber sprechen Schlien und Hardy mit dem #BSI-Experten Alexander Härtel in dieser Folge von #UpdateVerfügbar.

Ihr erfahrt, wie die neuesten #Phishing-Methoden funktionieren und wie ihr überprüfen könnt, ob eure eigene E-Mail-Adresse missbraucht wurde. Dazu tauchen Schlien und Hardy tief in die dunklen Ecken ihrer eigenen E-Mail-Postfächer ein.
So könnt ihr leicht nachvollziehen, wo die Stolperfallen liegen. Überzeugt euch selbst!

Webseite der Episode: update-verfuegbar.podigee.io/6…

Mediendatei: audio.podigee-cdn.net/2082392-…

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@mailbox_org
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The Register wrote a story about a single maintainer open source project, I think it's shameful and upsetting. So I wrote a blog post about it

An absolutely ridiculous amount of open source is one person projects. I have the data to prove it

opensourcesecurity.io/2025/08-…

‼️"Babiš byl agent Bureš, předal 15 udání, zlo jsme nepojmenovali a tak tu žije dál", říká badatel Schovánek.
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🗳️ *Když kampaň, tak kampaň, hajzle.*
#KampanHajzle
#volby2025

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*Měli být potrestáni lidé, kteří způsobili jiným újmu, zlo má být potrestáno. Po roce 1989 měly být podle něj přijaty retribuční zákony podobné těm přijatým po druhé světové válce a třeba někteří agenti StB měli být souzeni.*

❗A celý ÚV a další komunistický svině měly viset, dodávám já.

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@paulos já to s tou bezpečností vnímám podobně a vůbec nerozporuji ty jejich požadavky, naopak mi přijde v pohodě, že na nich trvají. Vadí mi ale to, jak k tomu přistupují. Prostě jako já, když mi bylo 20...

Místo neustálého kopírování jedné odpovědi o tom, jak je Fairphone hrozný a je úplně k ničemu a nemá o nic zájem by bylo dobré dát alespoň ostatním šanci, na Fairphone zatlačit. To, že o nic nemá zájem vychází prostě z jednoho šlápnutí na kuří oko a kdoví jestli ne ještě od někoho z komunity, místo přímo ze společnosti.

Prostě nebýt tohodle super negativního přístupu, minimálně já už bych dávno brojil a přemýšlel, jak vzburcovat komunitu, aby příští nebo přespříští verze Fairphonu tyhle podmínky splnila. Jenže proč bych to dělal, když z jejich reakce na 100 % vidím, že oni by stejně řekli, že Fairphone sucks...

Ale stejně, vzhledem k dalším zkazkám o tom, co Google plánuje s Androidem myslím, že budu mít brzo o pár dalších důvodu k přejití na čistě Linux phone :)

@ozzelot @tatageek @archos @l91459

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@Unreed Problém je spíš v tom, že ne každý výrobce je poctivě vydává. A protože si každý ještě ladí vlastní nástavbu, tak se nové hlavní verze systému dostávají k uživatelům hrozně pomalu – někde až po letech, nebo vůbec. To je ten rozdíl oproti Applu, kde aktualizace chodí všem naráz.
@kepi @paulos @ozzelot @tatageek @l91459