The ai companies keep arguing that the law needs to change, but that's like a burglar arguing that the prison sentences are too long, because if I steal 1000s of items, I'll go away to prison for the rest of their life.

We need to keep these damages because we need to reign in corporate exploitation.

> mastodon.social/users/Richard_…

Richard Littler

2025-08-27 14:08:05

"#Anthropic Settles Major AI Copyright Suit Brought by Authors"

Precedent set?
Both of my #Scarfolk books were downloaded and pirated from the LibGen 'shadow library'.
Compensation would be nice.
Anyone aware of other class-action lawsuits I can join, or have any other legal pointers?

news.bloomberglaw.com/class-ac…

#AI

Anthropic Settles Major AI Copyright Suit Brought by Authors (3)

Anthropic PBC told a pair of courts in July that a judge’s order approving class-action status for authors’ copyright lawsuit over millions of pirated books put “inordinate pressure” on the company to settle a case that could kill the company.

^{Annelise Levy (news.bloomberglaw.com)}

One weird trick to make your Usenet indexer faster

blog.feld.me/posts/2025/08/cac…

Caching Newznab API Requests – Makefile.feld

If you've been a Usenet consumer for downloading binaries you have probably encountered the need to subscribe to an indexer to find quality content. This is not so much different from a private tracker for torrents.

^blog.feld.me

FML. I forgot how ugly the Win32 API is and why I hated using it almost 30 years ago.

It's 2025 and it still doesn't know about UTF-8.

If you want to see a horror show of an API design, here you go. Newznab will return HTTP 200 responses for errors. You have to parse the XML to figure out if there was an error or not.

inhies.github.io/Newznab-API/e…

Widget updates, a bot SDK getting two releases, and Multi-SFU in Calls. That and much more happened This Week in Matrix!

matrix.org/blog/2025/08/29/thi…

This Week in Matrix 2025-08-29

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

^{Thib (matrix.org)}

Brazil judge orders round-the-clock surveillance of ‘flight risk’ Bolsonaro

theguardian.com/world/2025/aug…

Meanwhile in the USA...

Brazil judge orders round-the-clock surveillance of ‘flight risk’ Bolsonaro

Pre-trial monitoring ordered after police reported former president had drafted request for asylum in Argentina

^{Tiago Rogero (The Guardian)}

Temer ctyri dekady jsem zil a vubec nechapal, proc je vytezovani faktur tak velky byznys. Proste firmy si mezi sebou posilaji faktury, ty si pridas do ucetnictvi, zaplatis ... vsecko v cajku.

Pochopil jsem, az s prichodem na americky trh.

Borci poslou fakturu:

Invoice
To: Martin
Pay $3700

92.7% faktur je potreba doresit. Kam poslat penize. Ze maji fakturovat na Unreleased Ltd. Za co jsou to penize. Jestli je to zaplacene.

A to se nebavime o malych castkach.

#money #us #it

Open AI re-enabled Chat GPT 4O for paid users after complaints that GPT 5 wasn’t warm andfriendly enough.

Is caring that much about a computer program which is completely incapable of experiencing emotions or friendship emulating these things weird to anyone else? Or is my neurodiversity just showing? People also have AI significant others and spouses, so I guess I shouldn’t be surprised.

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#FediAdmin #MastoAdmin #MastodonSupport #Scam #Moderation #Report #Mastodon

Today, we celebrate the close of the June 2025 Outreachy Internship round!

Congratulations to our interns on their amazing contributions and growth.

We sincerely thank and appreciate our mentors + community coordinators for their support and collaboration.

This isn’t the end, it’s the start of many more contributions to the open source ecosystem. Together, we continue to build a more inclusive tech future. 💙

#Outreachy #FOSS #OpenSource

🔐 Tuta Mail introduces key verification to strengthen end-to-end encryption and defend against MITM attacks 👥
Users can now verify contacts’ public keys via QR code or manual comparison.
If skipped, Tuta defaults to TOFU (Trust On First Use) for seamless encryption 🧩

@Tutanota
🔗 tuta.com/blog/key-verification

#Encryption #CyberSecurity #Privacy #Tuta #Tutanota #TutaMail #EmailSecurity #OpenSource #FOSS #E2EE #PGP #Email #Mail #TechNews #DataProtection #Crypto #DigitalRights #OnlinePrivacy

Tuta introduces key verification | Tuta

Key verification makes your encrypted mailbox even more secure, enabling you to prevent monster-in-the-middle attacks.

^Tuta

Hey everybody, I've been playing the alpha of a creature collecting roguelite with accessibility for blind and other disabilities, there's also a demo on steam. The dev is trying to fund more development of the game so that it doesn't have to released with anything missing as the planned release date was September. If you like indie devs, roguelikes, and accessibility in games, please consider backing!

kickstarter.com/projects/zeinm…

a reminder that the language you use matters and "sideloading" is a term made up by the enemy

it's called installing software

1/ A new EU plan could expand access to personal data for US immigration and law enforcement.

This proposal document (see article) was released without a press announcement or much mention at all, yet it contains alarming plans.

Under the US's Visa Waiver Program (VWP), countries whose citizens can travel to the US without a visa already have to let US agencies search their police databases to see whether travellers have been involved in terrorism or serious crime.

According to Google, #Conversations_im is now also collecting users’ email addresses.

Pretty much the exact same thing that happened to Quicksy about a month ago¹ is now also happening to Conversations.

An app update I submitted ~48 hours ago passed review without any issues. A subsequent update just now, which contained very minor bug fixes, was rejected because I failed to declare that I’m collecting email addresses.

I’m so tired of this bullshit.

¹: gultsch.social/@daniel/1149546…

Daniel Gultsch

2025-08-01 17:11:11

Someone or something at Google started to hallucinate that #Quicksy is collecting the user's email address and would not approve the app update until we declared that in our data policy.

The sign up process in Quicksy hasn't changed in 7 years. I don't even know where the user would enter their email address and I'm not aware of an API that collects this automatically.

Moved a customer from AWS to a rented bare-metal server, from Elastic Beanstalk to FreeBSD+ZFS+Jails, from S3 to Minio.

Somehow now they're paying 1/3 the price and got 4x better performance.

Imagine if they were on-premis for the same yearly price.

#Cloud #Unix #SysAdmin