Follow these steps to delete your 23andMe account, but be aware that some personal and genetic data may still be stored by the company.Jess Weatherbed (The Verge)
In a blog post this week, software engineer Andrew Rossignol (my brother!) detailed how he managed to run generative AI on an old PowerBook G4. ...Joe Rossignol (MacRumors.com)
Apple accessories have a certain reputation for being a little on the pricey side. For example, $129 and up for...Ben Lovejoy (9to5Mac)
'The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.'
Fellow Canadians: if you've moved or would like to vote by mail for the April 28th federal election you can do so at Elections Canada's website. Its pretty easy!
elections.ca/content2.aspx?sec…
All you need to know to register to vote in the Canadian federal election, 2025.www.elections.ca
Our library has access to a book published by Springer, _Advanced Nanovaccines for Cancer Immunotherapy: Harnessing Nanotechnology for Anti-Cancer Immunity_. Credited to Nanasaheb Thorat, it sells for $160 in hardcover: link.springer.com/book/10.1007…
From page 25: "It is important to note that as an AI language model, I can provide a general perspective, but you should consult with medical professionals for personalized advice..."
None of this book can be considered trustworthy.
(h/t @peterpur )
This book discusses how nanomedicine can be used for better drug delivery, to overcome resistance and to boost anti-cancer immunity.SpringerLink
I'm ... I mean ... No, really. Uhm.
US officials up to the Vice President discuss the planning and execution of the attacks in Yemen on a Signal group and added a journalist to that group.
#oopsie doesn't even come close to.expressing what I think right now.
So. Uhm. Well. I think if Signal is safe enough for that, you can use it too :)
“Can generative AI write contextual text descriptions?”
tetralogical.com/blog/2025/03/…
Huge improvements from a few years ago, but even with context these need help. A good example of genAI only as a tool, not as a solution.
In 2025, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLM) like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and DeepSeek are being used for everything. Writing emails. Generating code. Even applying for jobs.TetraLogical
The European Accessibility Act (EAA) is quite long, and, honestly, hard to digest.
@tink it down and explains in clear terms which digital products and services must meet accessibility requirements and exactly what businesses need to do to comply. Please, if you design, develop, or sell digital products or services in the EU, read this article, it’s still shorter than the actual act, and very well explained!
tetralogical.com/blog/2025/03/…
The European Accessibility Act (EAA) requires that products and services made available to citizens of the European Union (EU) are accessible.TetraLogical
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⚠️ Belangrijke info voor Bluesky-gebruikers:
In verband met dat #Bluesky hetzelfde kapitalistische verdienmodel heeft als Twitter/X en Meta, stoppen wij binnenkort met het doorzetten van dit kanaal. Wees welkom om ons direct vanaf Mastodon te volgen: joinmastodon.org.
Learn more about Mastodon, the radically different, free and open-source decentralized social media platform.joinmastodon.org
Don't miss this fantastic article on the improved GitHub signup experience! I’m grateful to have played a small role in this, but the real credit goes to the a11y designers and devs who made it happen. Thanks for making our account creation process more inclusive 💖
annebovelett.eu/designers-your…
Sorry, dear designers, your excuses are officially dead. GitHub just proved you wrong with the rebuild and redesign of their home page.Anne-Mieke Bovelett (Anne Bovelett)
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Google announced this morning that its Drive client for Windows 11 on Arm is out of beta and generally available to all users.Paul Thurrott (Thurrott.com)
@helpers Hello, I'm new to fediverse hosting. Recently started a small Friendica instance for me and my friends.
System: YunoHost 12.0.12 on VPS bought online
App: Friendica 2024.12-1~ynh1
URL: kedralife.cz
I have huge problems with the worker queue, it periodically gets stuck for a very long time, processing nothing for hours or (more often) days (so far the maximum was 11 days) when it just grows a processes nothing. This means that my friends can't send each other private messages, public posts don't federate and any sort of permission-restricted posts get stuck on "pending" for days.
I tried running the worker.php with crontab very 5 minutes in addition to the friendica deamon, but it does not seem to help.
Friendica-deamon log:
paste.yunohost.org/ixukovuzuz
mysql log:
paste.yunohost.org/ezezaqebeg
Worker settings and worker queue:
Welcome to today's thread - #CrossChannelRail Day 8 - 24 March - Delémont - Bern - Zürich - München
On the agenda today:
Stations
München Hbf
Companies
SBB
Today's routes on the routes map: umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/c…
Draft route for Jon Worth's #CrossChannelRail project in spring 2025. Dates for each leg of the trip are shown on each layer. Route colours alternate each day - yellows one day, purples the next, each train with a slightly different shade.uMap
![Darth Fader [image of a sound mixing console with various sliders and knobs, Darth Vader figurine head and arms affixed to one of the sliders as if flailing arms]](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/652599 "Darth Fader [image of a sound mixing console with various sliders and knobs, Darth Vader figurine head and arms affixed to one of the sliders as if flailing arms]")
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If you are trying to delete your 23andMe data and get an obnoxious reply asking for ID, tell them no, that's what your password is for, and they will do it. And if they then send you an obnoxious reply saying they will delete everything except the stuff they are required to keep by law, check out this article by actual lawyer @AugustB
bourniquelaw.com/2024/10/09/da…
Many of 23 and Me’s former customers are asking to have their data and samples deleted or destroyed out of concern that they may be sold during the company’s looming collapse and likely bankruptcy …Law Office of August Bournique
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Sneak Peek 👀 🎉 Soon your Tuta Mailbox will have an optimized conversation view!
What does this mean?
🌟 A cleaner, more organized mailbox 👉 Emails can be grouped by conversation
🌟 Organizing and deleting emails is quicker 👉 Emails can be deleted in email groups
Tag 22 im Fediverse - Schau was flattert da in mein E-Mail-Postfach.
Ich oute mich jetzt hier: Ich habe bislang ziemlich viel zu Google Maps beigetragen, weil ich ein großer Fan davon bin, meine Erkenntnisse, Fotos und Informationen mit anderen zu teilen. 🙈
Künftig möchte ich auch hier etwas neues ausprobieren. Gerade habe ich die App "StreetComplete" entdeckt, mit der ich wohl ziemlich einfach zu OpenStreetmap beitragen kann. Gibts im Playstore und auch bei F-Droid.
Ich schaue mal noch, wo ich Renzensionen, Fotos etc. jetzt hinpacke, bin noch am Einarbeiten in OpenStreetmap und freue mich auch auf vielleicht ganz andere Dienste, die da noch auf Ihre Entdeckung warten.
Habt Ihr spannende Tipps, wo ihr etwas beitragt?
nicht mehr ganz so #neuhier
#OpenStreetmap
#StreetComplete
#UnplugTrump
TIL that because the FFmpeg project has gained so much experience in hand-writing assembly code to provide huge speedups, they now are putting together a series of lessons for learning assembly:
Vibe coding is fun and all, but this is probably a better use of time!
FFMPEG Assembly Language Lessons. Contribute to FFmpeg/asm-lessons development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Community Notes in real life.
Buying a Cybertruck was a way to show the world you supported “anti-woke” Elon. Can’t walk it back now.
Co takhle něco veselýho po obědě, ať to pindělí není taková pruda? 😉
**Hale a Pace: poprvé za barem**
#HaleAndPace
P. S.
Občas si takhle připadám i dnes s některou obsluhou. Bohužel.
youtube.com/watch?v=v_xtZD82hP…
@archos
Jooo! 🤦♂️🤣🤣🤣
Nějak si nemůžu vzpomenout na nemlich takovou historku, kterou jsem někde zažil. Lidi jsou někdy fakt marný!
#HaleAndPace
Tak ještě jedna moje oblíbená do šňůry:
youtu.be/TEDrREtbZDc
I did this I'm using a curl multi to to some http request, but I noticed the socket function is being called with weird socket fd=0 while fd 0 is not even managed by curl. I enabled trace with debu...GitHub
#Abschied von #SocialMedia - ! - ? -
Kommenden Mittwoch gibt es dazu 20 Uhr einen #LiveTextChat im #Matrix 💬 Raum der @onlinekirche@kirche.social
mit @rockToamna@mastodon.social von dem @eulemagazin@mastodon.social
Bin gespannt auf den Austausch zum Thema!
#digitaleKirche und SocialMedia.
onlinekirche.net/matrix/
#FediKirche #SakristeiLeaks
Ein Projekt der OnlineKirche/ Evangelische Kirche in Mitteldeutschlandonlinekirche.net
Today #Bustle was accepted into #GNOMECircle. Bustle lets you visualize and analyze D-Bus activity with detailed sequence diagrams. Congratulations!
Learn more on the Apps for GNOME website: apps.gnome.org/Bustle
Visualize D-Bus activity – Bustle draws sequence diagrams of D-Bus activity. It shows signal emissions, method calls and their corresponding returns, with time stamps for each individual event and the du...apps.gnome.org
We've just released v0.12.5 with an important privacy fix.
⚠️ Please update your instances as soon as possible!
github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/r…
Added Add app register email verify resends (dbd1e17) Add AVIF support (7ddbe0c47) Features WebGL photo filters (#5374) OAuth Fix oauth oob (urn:ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob) support. (8afbdb03) Upd...GitHub
Against all odds and with far too many rewrites, I’ve launched a story on Royal Road: Phoenix Academy.
Genre: soft sci-fi, school drama, strategy, weirdly emotional power struggles.
Set in an elite girls’ academy where loyalty is weaponised, pressure is curriculum, and hierarchy is destiny.
Think: “game theory with feelings,” but also girls holding hands ominously.
I’d be grateful if you gave it a look, or passed it on if it seems your thing:
royalroad.com/fiction/109929/p…
#AmWriting #RoyalRoad #WebFiction #SciFi #SchoolDrama #PowerDynamics #EmotionalDamage #GirlsLove #DarkAcademia
Vor 120 Jahren starb Jules Verne.
Seine Romane sind bis heute weltberühmt – auch, weil der Autor technische Ideen seiner Zeit aufgriff und visionär fortentwickelte. #podcast und Skript
swr.de/swrkultur/wissen/jules-…
Die Romane von Jules Verne sind bis heute weltberühmt – auch, weil der Autor technische Ideen seiner Zeit aufgriff und visionär fortentwickelte.SWR Kultur
It is finally here: The first episode of Long Way Home, a series in which I am trying to go home but get distracted every single time.
I was supposed to go home. This is the story of what I did instead.YouTube
Fifteen million people participated in Turkey’s opposition CHP primary on Sunday in a show of support for ousted Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu. His detention last week, seen as politically motivated, triggered mass protests across the country.FRANCE 24
LOCAL LLMS ON MOBILE ARE A GIMMICK—FOR NOW
callstack.com/blog/local-llms-…
Can local LLMs replace cloud-based AI? We analyze performance, limitations, and the future of on-device AI models in 2025.www.callstack.com
U.S. border: Eggs seized more often than fentanyl ctvnews.ca/world/article/us-bo… “In the first two months of 2025, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) seized fentanyl on 134 occasions, down from 197 seizures in the same time frame in 2024. Meanwhile, CBP intercepted egg products on 3,254 occasions this January and February, compared to 1,508 occasions in the first two months of 2024.”
We need an egg czar! Now!
U.S. President Donald Trump has made stopping fentanyl at both the northern and southern borders one of his administration's top priorities, but American law enforcement data shows that another commodity appears far more often in seizures: eggs.Tammy Ibrahimpoor (CTVNews)
@archos
Tady se podívej ke @GuloGulo 😁
A @KaterinaGloserova už jde pomalu obědvat. 😁 Teda, aspoň já jsem dneska ve tři nevstával, podle koncertu to ale vypadalo tak na pět. 😄
Jiří Eischmann
in reply to Jan Wildeboer 😷 • • •