AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified
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Fuck around and find out.
And I'm out of 🍿 because it's made in USA.
Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
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Discussions about digital sovereignty are 🔥
Which countries lead the way?
@nextcloud created an Index ranking countries based on the relative presence of self-hosted tools across key application areas.
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Discover the Digital Sovereignty Index (DSI): a global snapshot of visible, self-hosted infrastructure. Is your country digitally autonomous.dsi.nextcloud.com
😡 "A Canadian company is providing the muscle for a new Florida detention centre dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” — & the Canadian govt isn’t ruling out working with the security giant in the future. …
Quebec-based GardaWorld, which has reportedly been awarded a US$8-million contract for work on the U.S. detention site, has also been awarded > $100 million in Canadian government contracts since Carney won the Liberal leadership in March …"
- Rachel Gilmore in @thetyee
mstdn.ca/@thetyee/114993478472…
“This wishy-washy stance when it comes to jaw-dropping cruelty tied to the U.S. is yet another stroke in an increasingly clear portrait: one of PM Mark Carney with his elbows firmly planted to his sides when it comes to big business.”@r.gilmore’s first column with The Tyee.
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The Canadian Company Staffing ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ | The Tyee
Carney’s government awarded GardaWorld millions in contracts and isn’t ruling out more.Rachel Gilmore (The Tyee)
“This wishy-washy stance when it comes to jaw-dropping cruelty tied to the U.S. is yet another stroke in an increasingly clear portrait: one of PM Mark Carney with his elbows firmly planted to his sides when it comes to big business.”
@r.gilmore’s first column with The Tyee.
thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025/08/08/…
Carney’s government awarded GardaWorld millions in contracts and isn’t ruling out more.Rachel Gilmore (The Tyee)
Hardly a day goes by without President Donald Trump boasting about the record tariff revenue the US government has been collecting since he ratcheted up taxes on almost every imported good.apple.news
Google calendar can be poisoned with invisible, malicious Gemini prompts:
darkreading.com/cyberattacks-d…
Do I have to stop clicking on calendar invitations? What are the alternatives?
If Google can't get security or "AI" right, what hope is there that anyone will?
ICYMI: earlier this week I wrote a blog post disclosing my tech stack… arguing that anyone who writes about technology should be transparent about the tools they use.
TL;DR: I’m doing well on the software front. Hardware? Not so much: 🍎
🔗: news.elenarossini.com/technofe…
Well, a few hours after publishing it, Tim Cook’s latest capitulation to the Authoritarian-in-Chief made front page news everywhere.
I can safely say my next laptop will be from @frameworkcomputer
Let's normalize sharing the tech we use - and the platforms we purposefully avoid. I'm sharing my tech stack in this post to let you judge for yourselves if I'm "walking the talk" when I discuss resistance to Big Tech.Elena Rossini
My week: lists.haxx.se/pipermail/daniel…
HackerOne, negative DNS, Happier Eyeballs, c10kday, %time, not simple, blogging, complexity, Ubuntu, 1400 authors, FrOSCon
I'm just waiting for the bus to go home... it's late but it's #FursuitFriday
Be careful outside! If you need someone I can here for you! 🤗
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#furry #furryfandom #fursuit #fursuiters #furrycommunity
Your inbox should be as private as your practice.
We had the privilege to chat with Matthias Baenz, a seasoned tax lawyer about why secure communication is non-negotiable in the legal field, and why he chose Tuta to protect his clients’ confidentiality.
🔐 Read the full story: tuta.com/blog/interview-why-ta…
#Tuta #LegalTech #PrivacyFirst #SecureEmail #ClientConfidentiality
An interview with tax lawyer, Matthias Baenz about security, responsibility, and client trust.Tuta
Pivovar Svijany hlásí kvůli pandemii ztráty v desítkách milionů korun, jeho majitel Tomáš Kučera ale věří, že v dlouhodobém horizontu je to jen „malinkatá etapa“.Renata Kalenská (Deník N)
Now that my one joke post about how there are only seven posts on LinkedIn has comfortably done better numbers than everything else I'd ever put on that godforsaken cringe factory of a website combined, I can only conclude that what people really want from LinkedIn is a momentary respite from LinkedIn.
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There are only seven Linkedin posts: “My pre-literate child accidentally microdosed on an adversity. Did they react like a normal human infant? No! They said something suspiciously adult. Here’s what it taught me about b2b sales.Mastodon
my uneducated guess is that people want to get some form of recognition they don’t get at work (or elsewhere?) and treat LinkedIn praise as transactional. If I like their post, surely they will like mine?
There’s also the fact that your boss is in the room. They will see who and what you like, and what you write.
LinkedIn has the same vibe as the watercooler in the company of The All Seeing Eye or Sauron.
The fascinating part of the dynamic is that (1) your boss is in the room and (2) your HR department, because recruiters are paying for access to the data, can see who at your company is updating their profiles and CVs, and when.
It's pretty incredible, and no wonder people both feel like it's required to engage with them and desperate for escape.
🧵/ Right-wing extremists like Libs of TikTok and Charlie Kirk totally concocted the Sydney Sweeney "outrage."
The supposed left-wing outrage at Sweeney never happened. Republicans made it up.
Republicans have been inventing people to rage against for decades…
#GNOME #Desktop #a11y:
Über Fortschritte bei der #Barrierefreiheit berichtet @ktn@social.heise.de von der @gnome@floss.social Konferenz.
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#OpenSource #Linux
Trotz prekärer Finanzlage organisierte die Gnome Stiftung ein Entwicklerinnen- und Entwicklertreffen in Italien, um über die Zukunft des Projektes zu beraten.Keywan Tonekaboni (heise online)
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400 years to Proxima Centauri means velocity of roughly 1% of c. To accelerate to that, then decelerate, takes energy on the order of 1-2% of the ship's rest mass.
Ship is 36 miles (50km) long.
So it obviously masses many gigatonnes (1 cubic kilometer of water—0.15 the density of steel—masses 1 billion tonnes). Conservatively this masses 10-100gt.
Fusion bomb yield is about 2% of the payload mass. Our current 10,000 H-bombs probably contain 1000kg of fuel.
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spacey.space/@nyrath/114992789…
https://www.livescience.com/space/space-exploration/proposed-spacecraft-could-carry-up-to-2-400-people-on-a-one-way-trip-to-the-nearest-star-system-alpha-centauriSpacey Space
@nyrath Upshot: I think this thing will take 100-1000 years of our current worldwide civilizational energy budget to propel.
And at the other end? Congratulations: a colony of 2400 people is at least 3 orders of magnitude too small to sustain a self-training technology base able to service an autonomous space colony. (Because resupply with finished products is impossible at that range.)
TLDR: magic wands or scientific breakthroughs required.
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This is what 5 years of reforestation looks like ✨
Once cleared for a palm oil monoculture, this forest is now lush and diverse again.
Together with Leuser Conservation Forum, we’re restoring the Leuser ecosystem in Indonesia — supporting natural regeneration and planting native trees with local communities.
5 years of progress, powered by the Ecosia community 💚
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Love LibreOffice development? Want to turn your passion into a paid job? We are The Document Foundation (TDF), the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice.Ilmari Lauhakangas (The Document Foundation)
I nominate docs.openssl.org/3.3/man3/d2i_… as #OpenSSL's worst man page. And there's fierce competition for that award.
And in the end it does not even mention the weird behavior: it stores errors in an internal queue which mysteriously makes the *next* invoked function fail...
@malwareminigun Point is that those are really quite generic functions. d2i_<TYPE> all behave the same way, for each type. Same goes for i2d_<TYPE>.
Would it be better to generate one manpage for each d2i / i2d pair, all looking the same except for the name?
Just read @glyph's latest: blog.glyph.im/2025/08/the-best… and this part triggered a thread on my own experiences of reading with low vision:
> when you read a block of text, you are not consciously moving your eyes from word to word like you’re dragging a mouse cursor, repositioning continuously.
1/?
Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.blog.glyph.im
"…but the children!" they scream, and claim they want to protect them from e.g. Transgender folks. Now, someone run stats on a full year of child abuse cases. Interesting that those who scream have a pretty high number of cases – while those they want to protect them from, seem to have none at all.
Projection? "Every accusation is a confession" shows pretty clearly there.
(unfortunately, that site depends on several Google services to show the graphs 😢)
Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.blog.glyph.im
> when you read a block of text, you are not consciously moving your eyes from word to word like you’re dragging a mouse cursor, repositioning continuously.
When I read visually, I have to get my head close enough to the screen or page that I do in fact move it continuously back and forth. Or if I were to use a screen magnifier at a zoom level high enough that I could lean back, I would in fact be literally moving the mouse back and forth, or perhaps doing equivalent keyboard commands.
today is the one year anniversary for wcurl moving in with the curl project!
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The curl project welcomes its newest sibling into the family: wcurl. I already wrote about wcurl. I will try to not repeat myself too much here, but starting now wcurl has its new home under the curl organization umbrella.daniel.haxx.se
HTTP is not simple
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I often hear or see people claim that HTTP is a simple protocol. Primarily of course from people without much experience or familiarity with actual implementations.daniel.haxx.se
It was designed to be stateless and handle one-shot requests, but was mated to HTML, which may require multiple requests to retrieve the complete contents of a page. That right there was a step 1 design fail.
It lacks message IDs, which are common best practice and are used by every protocol underneath it, for many good reasons. That glaring lack, and the lack of well defined message lengths, has hindered all subsequent progress. Another step 1 design fail.
@hyc and yet HTTP has conquered the world and while you say it "hindered all subsequent progress" HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 have sprung out from version one and they too are used more than most other protocols on the web.
So I'm not totally agreeing with you.
@hyc In the last 30 years I've implemented several HTTP servers and HTTP clients for various purpose and I always considered it a simple protocol.
If you want to do something fancy, client and server can agree to do it. But for my rather simple applications, code just didn't need to care for these special cases and was simple.
Compared to that: Try to implement SMB, CIFS or ADS...
my theories are mastodon.arch-linux.cz/@Suspic…
edit: facts
who the hell got an a idea during the evolution to go sleep? i have tip, CATS!
I sent some ❤️ towards #GNOME
Learn how to use the timeout command in Bash scripts to prevent infinite loops when waiting for a service to come online.sk (OSTechNix)
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I agree with you that documentation needs help. It's something that came up time and again in 
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