If "AI" worked they'd be using it, not selling it.
I.E. if it did what they claimed it would be proprietary secret sauce, not "come use this for free so we can figure out what it might be good for". Still, in 2026.
Remember when blockchain was going to have a zillion world-changing uses, real soon now? Same guys, they pivoted.
RE: hear-me.social/@Lacze/11593625…
The "brilliant" minds behind the new social network wsocial.eu forgot to grab related domain names, so I applaud the efforts of the creator of w-social.eu... encouraging people to be social and simply join the fediverse.
Fun fact: yesterday I almost registered wsocial.lol (1 Euro for the first year) and wsocial.wtf.
I guess if I see an article in mainstream media about wsocial.eu I may do it (if the domains are still available).
Journos, you should cover the fediverse!
• Wsocial https://w-social.eu Social media platform, an alternative to X ~ ~ Check, help, and share the link to the platform 😊 _____ #twitter #x #socialmedia #Europe #freedom #freespeech #News #technology #Mastodon #Media #opensource #foss• Łącze (hear-me.social -- Tell us)
Licensing & phonemizer changes This release removes all direct linking against libespeak and other phonemizer libraries. Phonemization is now performed via external command-line tools (preferably t...GitHub
Gmail, Microsoft, Meta, LinkedIn - Big Tech is already scanning your messages. 👀
If you - like us - fight #ChatControl, you must quit these data hungry companies. 💪
➡️ tuta.com/blog/voluntary-scanni…
Voluntary Chat Control is already in place since 2021, named Regulation (EU) 2021/1232. Similar to scanning obligations in the UK and the USA, this regulation allows Big Tech to scan all your data.Tuta
Sucht hier jemand eine Person mit jahrelanger Erfahrung im Testen von Soft- und Hardware? So richtig mit Weiterbildungen und Qualifikationsstempel und so?
Ich kenne da eine Person, die mal nen neuen Job braucht.
Bevorzugt Großraum Stuttgart, mit ÖPNV-Anschluss erreichbar, gerne Teilzeit (25-28h/Woche), gerne was mit Verkehrswende und / oder Energiewende.
(Nein, nicht ich. Keine Angst.)
I am reading Anthropic's new "Constitution" for Claude. It is lengthy, thoughtful, thorough...and delusional.
Throughout this document, Claude is addressed as an entity with decision-making ability, empathy, and true agency. This is Anthropic's framing, but it is a dangerous way to think about generative AI. Even if we accept that such a constitution would govern an eventual (putative, speculative, improbable) sentient AI, that's not what Claude is, and as such the document has little bearing on reality.
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.www.anthropic.com
Interesting that something like this existed. Love that sort of ideas.
Does anyone have a copy of the Minute Marker tape produced by Brayton and Sons Productions in the early 90's? It was a twenty-minute timer on a tape. There were different drum sounds for fifteen, thirty, and forty-five seconds past each minute, then each minute had claps counting the minutes. One side had a tick every second along with all the other sounds, the other side omitted the ticks. I never had or even saw a copy of the tape, all I ever heard was a promo for it he put in Playback Magazine, audio attached.
We just published a new blog post on the state of search and the critical need for open index access. The dawn of a healthier, user-centric web is possible, but it requires structural change:
To je inak zaujimavy napad:
- ucit sa programovat nie pomocou "Hello World", ale pomocou "Fuck (This Kind Of) World".
(a domyslime si tu to "guy in orange jacket" meme)
Hallo Fediverse. Wir sind die Westdeutsche Bibliothek der Hörmedien für blinde, seh- und lesebehinderte Menschen e.V. (kurz WBH) aus Münster für Menschen, die auf Grund von Einschränkungen nicht in der Lage sind gedruckte Bücher zu lesen, die Möglichkeit kostenlos Hörbücher auszuleihen. Wir freuen uns nun hier dabei zu sein.
#neuhier #Bibliothek #Münster #Hörbücher #Ausleihe #blind #sehbehindert #lesebehindert #Hörmedien
🎉 The DI.DAY folder flyers for XMPP are being printed now, in English and German! 🎉
Grab one at the #FOSDEM #XMPP stand in AW level 1!
Huge thanks to @padeluun from @digitalcourage for making this possible, to @jssfr for baking the recipe photo, to @marcuwekling for #DIDay and to everybody who contributed!
High-res version: shop.digitalcourage.de/flyerfo…
Faltblatt zum Digital Independance Day (englischsprachige Ausgabe) Hier: XMPP / Jabber Dieses Faltblatt wurde von Freiwilligen ausgearbeitet, um auf das gute freie ...Digitalcourage e.V. – Shop & Unterstützungsbedarf
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If you have procrastinated on a hotel reservation. I am staying at 'Pestana Brussels Schuman'. One of the few hotels without inflated prices that particular weekend it seems.
"We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports."
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#curl is RFC 9116 compliant
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Heute hatte ich wieder sehr viele sehenswerte Videos ohne Untertitel in der Timeline. Diese like & booste ich aus Prinzip nicht, denn es ist frustrierend, nicht nachvollziehen zu können, worum es geht & was gesagt wird. Das tue ich Follower*innen nicht absichtlich an.
Könnten wir daher bitte auch bei Videos verstärkt darauf achten, dass möglichst alle teilhaben können? Gerade bei offiziellen Statements gibt es in der Regel mehrere Quellen, wählt bitte die mit UT.
We seem to have data that confirms that the #curl bug-bounty has received a steep increased submission rate through 2025, while several other Open Source programs also hosted on Hackerone have not. (There's a graph coming in my pending blog post.)
What could possibly be the reason for us taking more heat and more junk than others? Why oh why?
With the four new ones from my blog post yesterday, we are at 98 graphs on the #curl dashboard.
I think I might go wild and celebrate reaching the mythical 100 graphs with a blog post if we get there.
Kejora dropped last week, and I really don’t want it to fall through the cracks.
This is a hand-drawn narrative puzzle-platformer about a little Indonesian girl who realizes her village is living the same day again and again. Everyone else is acting like it’s normal. She’s the only one clocking the loop. Which is a special kind of nightmare, if you’ve ever been the only sane person in a room.
It starts off deceptively cozy. Early 1990s rural village life. Rice fields. Forest paths. Errands. Kids being kids. Then it pivots into “oh, we’re doing this now” territory. An eldritch-looking monster shows up near the forest and starts hunting children like it’s part of the daily schedule. Suddenly you’re sneaking, solving environmental puzzles, and running for your life through caves and abandoned structures, trying to figure out what the village is burying.
The best part is you’re not alone. You’ve got two friends with you, and it’s basically a party system without pretending it’s co-op. You swap between them and use their abilities to get through obstacles, distract threats, and access areas Kejora can’t reach. It feels like childhood teamwork, except the stakes are “don’t get eaten by whatever that thing is.”
And I have to talk about the animation. It’s gorgeous. Full hand-drawn 2D characters, backgrounds, and cutscenes. It absolutely gives Studio Ghibli vibes, but it’s not Japan doing Japan. It’s Berangin Creative, an Indonesian studio, making something that looks familiar at first glance and then quietly reminds you it’s coming from a different cultural gravity.
This is why I love games as an art form. The art is beautiful, but the real hook is that you get to step inside it. You’re not watching a time-loop mystery in a rural Indonesian village. You’re exploring it firsthand, learning its rhythms, and uncovering what the town is hiding. That’s the magic.
"Jean-Baptiste Fressoz’s dizzying history of energy consumption argues that no energy transition has ever occurred: each generation consumes more of past fuels. Not only are his claims ahistorical but they justify an unwarranted pessimism about the future."
Buenos días desde la Administración Pública.
Todo bien por aquí, salvo los problemas de Outlook. Como me gustaría que me dejasen usar thunderbird.
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.huggingface.co
Spotify won court order against Anna’s Archive, taking down .org domain - Ars Technica
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
#spotify #censorship #decentralization
Lawsuit was filed under seal; Anna's Archive wasn't notified until after takedown.Jon Brodkin (Ars Technica)
Another Trump regime accomplice falls: Lindsey Halligan is out.
Trump tried to use her to prosecute former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, even though Lindsey Halligan had no experience as a prosecutor.
Judges ruled she had to be approved by the Senate or a district court.
She was not. Game over.
We must uncouple our attention from the tech-bro, elitist, narrative-controlling monopolies1 and get back to building individual, independant website presences. The indieweb.
Sites that are shared and aggregated by RSS feeds, collected into like-minded groups by webrings, boosted with decentralised social media platforms such as Mastodon, and cross-pollinated with interlinks and cross site conversations from individual posts.
Subvert, bypass, and starve the big platforms of their attention oxygen. Let them suffocate in a circle-jerk of AI generated slop.
There is now a growing movement of people dumping the scroll-gatekeepers, and building their own cheap, simple (often retro looking) independant websites.
Here is an example: Daryl Sun has a simple site that is packed with information and interesting links for anyone spending a little time to click rather than scroll (just like here).
In the spirit of re-wilding the web and creating interesting tendrils, I have updated my own ABOUT PAGE to let you know far more about me than you ever knew you wanted to know. It is a work in progress and will grow over time.
Another great example is Brennan, who writes some really interesting stuff and has recently begun moving his focus from posting on Medium to growing his independent site.
He always has tons of interesting outgoing links, is a member of a heap of webrings, as well as including a slash page of all his interests and projects.
I am gaining a lot of inspiration from this movement and urge you to consider dropping out of the shittosphere of big social media and spending that newfound scroll time creating your own independent online presence.
Let us tear the whole thing down and rebuild it fit for purpose.
If you already have a indie website drop me a link in the comments….I would love to follow and share.
#blackAndWhite #indieweb #photography #socialmedia
Everything you need to know about me: Who?A little about me.Contact.How to get hold of me.NOW.What I am up to in real time.Zen & me.My practice.Lens.My gear and a few of my favourite pics.AI &a…shojiwax.com
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in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •I was this close to registering a domain name & creating a splash page to expose why wsocial.eu is such a terrible idea.
Why did I stop?
I have a big hunch that their initiative is going to FLOP. Big time.
A fork of Bluesky that requires government ID to post? Bahahahahaha.
Sure you can have rich and powerful friends helping you launch at Davos but getting people excited about a new social network isn't easy.
I will use my limited time in propping up the fediverse instead ✊
W Social
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