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Dear #Mastodon this (quoted below) is the Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy of the European Commission. Who joined today (Jan 13). Great to have someone from the commission here.
🙌 🇪🇺 ✌️

Update/Good news: The mastodon.social account *was* legitimate, and has been migrated to @HennaVirkkunen
All people who were following on mastodon.social have been moved to follow that account. (Thx @dgoldsmith for the update🙏)

& thx @lexinova for keeping an eye out for us 🙏❤️

Henna Virkkunen (@hennavirkkunen@mastodon.social)

X offering the use of Grok to create and share pictures of undressed women and children is horrendous. The EU Commission has already: • taken investigative steps • ordered the company to retain internal documents.
Henna Virkkunen (Mastodon)
#Mastodon @Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️♾️🇺🇦 @LΞX/NØVΛ 🇪🇺 @Henna Virkkunen
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What #Grok generates is non-consensual and abusive. It is not "AI porn", it's AI sexual abuse materials. "#AISAM", let's call it.

Sex work is work, there are plenty of sex workers trying to make a living publishing their own works.

Conflating porn with sexual abuse materials is how we get to a place where independent sex workers get ostracized and lose their livelihood through being banned by payment processors, while a fascist oligarch can materially benefit from sexual abuse materials.

#AI

#AI #grok #aisam
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Simon Jaeger

@blindbat84 It's surprisingly common to find fibre in the middle of nowhere, because lots of the nothinghams and boringvilles had no cable until the 2010s, by which point fibre was yubiquitous enough that companies decided to just build fibre infrastructure. It's harder to justify that in an area where you can already get gigabit cable. Sure, it's not symmetrical, but go survey a thousand Comcast users and ask them what their upload speed is, I dare you. Unless you're a YouTube creator, a tech enthusiast, or someone who relies on good upload for remote work, you don't know and you don't care.
@Sarah Russell
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Borris

@twynn @FreakyFwoof @simon @blindbat84 It won't matter too much. Connectivity outside of Vietnam is super slow. I have a friend who lived there for a while, and he told me that, with a Gigabit connection, the best he could do even to just the rest of Asia was about 2 or 3 Mb/sec. Even worse to North America. Fast inside Vietnam though.
@Timothy Wynn @Sarah Russell @Andre Louis @Simon Jaeger

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Firefox 147 just landed & it's pretty huge in terms of web features:

🎉 CSS anchor positioning
🎉 The navigation API
🎉 View transition types
🎉 Brotli support in Compression/DecompressionStream
🎉 CSS module imports

And more!

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/do…

Firefox 147 release notes for developers (Beta) - Mozilla | MDN

This article provides information about the changes in Firefox 147 that affect developers. Firefox 147 is the current Beta version of Firefox and ships on January 13, 2026.
developer.mozilla.org

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Arresting every ICE employee would get more criminals off the streets then arresting all of the people ICE is targeting. people.com/ice-employee-arrest…

ICE Employee Arrested in Child Sex Sting Allegedly Told Cops, 'I'm ICE, Boys.' The Police Chief Was Not Impressed

An ICE employee was among 16 men arrested after allegedly trying to hire a minor for sex in Bloomington, Minn., police said.
Janelle Griffith (PEOPLE)

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All cops are bastards because when Jonathan Ross murdered Renee Good by shooting her three times in the head, none of the cops present tried to stop him or apprehended him, and because those same cops made sure that doctors could not treat Good before she died, and because cops have helped Ross hide rather than hunting him down and arresting him for murder, and because cops around the country haven’t spoken out to demand the arrest of this fugitive murderer because they think he did the right and justified thing, because all cops are bastards.

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Dear #SysAdmin fedi – I need a CLI tool that would canonicalize a DNS zone file. As in: put all the entries in a well-defined order, replace whitespace with a predefined pattern, organize the SOA section in a reproducible manner.

My basic need is being able to tell two zone files are 100% functionally equivalent, even if one uses tabs, the other spaces, and if entries are in completely random order, etc.

Edit: sorted, named-checkzone probably does the trick

#DevOps

#devops #sysadmin
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Despite what some folks might say, I am very aware of what's happening these days. I am not ignorant or turning a blind eye to things, but I'm also in a position where there's not much I can do. Some people might say I should protest, but something like that could be dangerous, even more so for me. I'm not necessarily hiding somewhere and waiting for things to pass, I'm keeping eyes on things, but I also have fragile enough mental health that the constant worrying and reading of the news is going to do me no good and I know that.

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Winterdienst in Finnland: "Jeder einzelne Beschäftigte des Räumdienstes muss regelmäßig selbst auf seinen Routen radeln. Wenn die Nutzer besonders zufrieden sind, kann es Boni geben. Die Wege sind breit genug, damit dieselben großen Maschinen darauf fahren können wie auf den Autostraßen."
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Finnischer Stadtplaner über Winterradeln: »Beim Schneeräumen zeigen Städte, wen sie schützen wollen und wen nicht«

Im nordfinnischen Oulu herrschen monatelang strenger Frost und Dunkelheit – trotzdem fahren viele Menschen rund ums Jahr Fahrrad. Stadtplaner Pekka Tahkola erklärt, wie Radfahrer sich für den Winter begeistern können.
Arvid Haitsch (DER SPIEGEL)

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Went to an aquarium supply store last night and was delighted to see the staff in N95 masks and all customers still required to wear masks also. I wish I saw more places still doing this. The sign behind the till particularly got me 😂

“COVID-19 SURCHARGES
$50 If we have to explain about masks
$100 If we have to hear why you disagree”

Anyway if you need any fish-related supplies, go support Aquarium Central. 🫧🐠🐟🐠🐟

#YEG #CovidIsNotOver

One of several printed signs on a cork board behind the cash register; the others are fish-related information or diagrams, but this one reads: MASKS REQUIRED "What about my rights" Our private property, our rights first "Masks don't work" Wear an N95 respirator "It's the cold/flu" Heard of long COVID? Guess not "I have a Medical Excuse" You shouldn't be out during COVID "I've already had COVID" Doesn't stop transmission COVID-19 SURCHARGES $50 If we have to explain about masks $100 If we have to hear why you disagree
A printed paper sign taped to the front door of the shop. Black text reads: AQUARIUM CENTRAL MASK REQUIRED Exemption: Small Children Under 36" tall FREE MASKS INSIDE ON ENTRANCE RIGHT WALL Thanks for your respect Our motto: Keeping fish diseases and mean anti-maskers out since 2020
#CovidIsNotOver #yeg

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Trump says U.S. doesn't need CUSMA trade deal, takes aim at Canada

ctvnews.ca/canada/article/we-d…

So here is what should happen but will not.

Remove tariff on EV from China, the 100% meant to protect the American lobby

Repeal the anti-jailbreak provision of Harper Bill C-11 as suggested by @pluralistic

Make Canada the center of right to repair. This will fuck companies like HP, Apple, TESLA, John Deere, etc.

#cdnpoli


‘We don’t need cars made in Canada’: Trump calls CUSMA ‘irrelevant’ and takes aim at Canada

U.S. President Donald Trump visited a Ford factory in Dearborn, Mich., Tuesday and dismissed the relevance of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, saying the U.S. doesn’t need the trade deal and that “Canada would love it.”
Dorcas Marfo (CTVNews)
#cdnpoli @Cory Doctorow
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ShutterBugged

No surveilence is ok, and there definitely should be privacy laws.

But do you really think chinese cars *won't* come with it? It is a known fact that they surveil drivers in ways that extend beyond those of other automakers.

P.S. and you haven't addressed other points either. What do you say to canadian manufacturing workers on a japanese or european-owned production line?

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EU calls FOSS experts to come and talk about FOSS for the EU. @sesivany Koho zainteresujeme z ceska?

cadeproject.org/updates/europe…

#eu #foss #opensource #consultation


European Commission launches consultation on building open digital ecosystems in the EU - CADE – Civil Society Alliances for Digital Empowerment

The European Commission has published a call for evidence for an upcoming initiative titled Towards European open digital ecosystems, inviting stakeholders to provide input ahead of a planned Communication to the European Parliament and the Council e…
CADE – Civil Society Alliances for Digital Empowerment
#foss #opensource #EU #consultation @Jiří Eischmann
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Hubert Figuière

Even before we knew it was a nazi bar (aka before the c-suite said it was ok they fund nazi writers, which is way before they actually promoted nazi content with spam) it was sketchy. There is that thing I was following that would be in the category of "computing history, first person account". It started revealing all the anti-pattern that prelude enshittification, something medium exhibited.
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