Une pensée pour tous les Juifs victimes du terrorisme le 7 octobre et leurs proches🕯️. Je pense à cette chanson interpretée par Keren Ann pour le film "Yossi". J'ai eu la chance d'échanger avec elle et elle m'avait appris que c’est une cover d'une chanson de 1973 composée par Mati Caspi. L'amour et la paix...

#Politique #Israel #Hommage #Terrorisme #7octobre #Paix #Guerre

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Matrix has always been about cooperation. Germany's ZenDiS is taking it to the next level by working together with France and the Netherlands to create a cross-border collaboration suite for the public sector.

🇪🇺 Don't miss Alexander Smolianitski's talk at The Matrix Conference where he'll share how to create a more integrated European digital landscape.
🎟️ We have a few tickets left for the conference in Strasbourg next week - grab yours before we run out!

conference.matrix.org/register

in reply to Aaron Caskey-Demaret

@aaron The Matrix.org Foundation is not only run by people who are vocally opposed to Chat Control, we are duty bound by our mission to oppose it much like we opposed the most egregious parts of the Online Safety Bill before the UK signed it into law.

We do some public advocacy, including raising awareness and signing open letters, and a great deal of advocacy behind the scenes.

Now that I'm in the Swiss healthcare system… no wonder Germany has a shortage of doctors and nurses. They're all here! 😂

(My dentist, substitute primary care physician, and psychiatrist are all Germans… only the primary care physician is Swiss… same for a whole bunch of the nurses…)

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I am pleased to announce the imminent launch of my **post-AI chatbot**!

All the misinformation of an AI chatbot without the environmental damage, for just $9.99/month.

I mean, I say "chatbot".

In fact, whenever someone tries to use the service, it just connects them with another person who is also trying to use the service at the same time.

Like ChatRoulette, but with fewer... well, you know.

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If I made a series of videos about something, what would you like?

The Standard Model? Grand unified theories? Clifford algebras? The octonions? Entropy? Category theory? Quantum logic and projective geometry? Visually beautiful math?

These would all be easy, since I've got the material prepared. I don't want to explain something brand new - at least not until I've covered some of these. Each of these topics could take at least 10 videos.

(I've got a drawing tablet now, so I'm ready to make videos where I show slides of stuff and also write while I talk. It will take some practice to do it well. I thank @Garrett for offering to pay for the tablet. It proved unnecessary, but it helped push me into action.)

If you have considered applying for GNOME Foundation membership but were discouraged by our asking for a “full name,” we have news: we’ve updated our process and docs to clarify we don’t require members to submit a “legal name.”

As a diverse and global community, we know that the concept of names is far more complex than many realize. What’s important is that your Foundation membership reflects who you are and how people will recognize you in our community—that’s it.

foundation.gnome.org/membershi…

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in reply to Wattana

@Atirut great question! Membership is how contributors to GNOME can participate in the operation of the GNOME Foundation itself, including the ability to vote and run in Foundation elections for the board of directors, and to propose referenda.

Members also get a handful of other perks like a gnome.org email address and Matrix account, a hosted blog, access to our hosted video conferencing software, etc. You can read about the benefits here:

handbook.gnome.org/foundation/…

mailbox takes a clear stance against chat control

On 14 October, the EU Council will vote on the CSA Regulation – legislation that would require email and messaging services to automatically scan private messages. Without cause, without suspicion.

Together with other European tech companies, we've signed an open letter.

More in our news article: mailbox.org/en/news/chat-contr…

#StopChatControl #DataProtection #chatcontrol #stopscanningme

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EU: „Chatkontrolle!“

Wir: „Alter wir sind gerade mit den BigBrotherAwards beschäftigt.“

Könntet ihr uns nen Gefallen tun und einfach mal eure Abgeordneten anrufen? Wir wissen aus Erfahrung: Das wirkt am besten. Briefpost ist auch nicht schlecht. Aber die muss jetzt schnell raus gehen.

Hier gibts Hilfe: chat-kontrolle.eu/index.php/20…

Wir verlassen uns drauf, dass ihr das jetzt alle macht, ja?

Private Nachrichten scannen heißt: Grundrechte killen, Demokratie schwächen. Und Deutschland ist gerade das Zünglein an der Waage. Jeder Anruf zählt!

#Chatkontrolle #ChatkontrolleStoppen #Überwachung #BigBrotherAwards #Grundrechte

Fixed it for you, @CTVNews !

Fascists united. ctvnews.ca/edmonton/article/qu… #cdnpoli #polcan #caqastrophe #redneckois

The Best Line Length

What’s a good maximum line length for your coding standard?

blog.glyph.im/2025/08/the-best…

#typography #UIDesign #webdesign #reading #readability

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The European Open Source Awards marks a celebration and one of a kind recognition of open source excellence in Europe.

Open Call for Nominations: europeanopensource.academy/ope…

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5.15 Million Dollar Settlement in California Web Accessibility Class Action Fashion Nova website barriers sparks lawsuit that should have settled lflegal.com/2025/10/fashion-no…

#Politics America, I'm not pointing fingers here. I'm sure this post will get a lot of responses thatwill point fingers, further making my point. If Republicans and Democrats don't start both recognizing that both sides are Americans and not waring countries, if some kind of ability to work together doesn't happen, the American empire is as doomed as all the empires that came before it.

This is a fantastic graph the likes of which should be hanging on the walls in schools and offices.

We all _know_ that the media coverage is skewed, and it's all understandable, but seeing a graph like this has the power of actually updating your brain a bit.

ourworldindata.org/does-the-ne…

Je suis sûre que - si vous êtes anglophone - vous aurez bien quelques minutes pour écouter Ursula K. Le Guin vous lire un extrait de son roman "Lavinia" pour votre déjeuner.

kboo.fm/media/5399-ursula-k-le…

L'enregistrement date du printemps 2008, et j'suis toujours très émue de l'entendre, pour ma part.

⚡ Nicht nachlassen: Innen- und Justizminister entscheiden HEUTE über die #Chatkontrolle!⏰😡

Eure Anrufe/Mails kommen "mit großem Schwung im Bundestag an", höre ich - es WIRKT! 💥💪

📞 JETZT MINISTERIEN&ABGEORDNETE ANRUFEN UND PROTESTIEREN:
fightchatcontrol.eu/de/?countr…

Google is Killing Open Source Android Apps

#privacy #fdroid #android

youtube.com/watch?v=wRvqdLsnsK…

I wonder if we should have #GPL 4 that would cover machine learning. Something like "if this code is used to train an LLM, then the code produced by the LLM must be released under the same license". I know there are many challenges, such as effective enforcement, but if this issue remains unaddressed, I believe LLMs may become a way to evade license virality.

#freesoftware #OpenSource #licensing

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in reply to Miroslav Suchý

@mirek that is very curious, i'm wondering how familiar the lawyers were with the actual technology.

i don't use llms too much, so i'm not familiar myself -- but to me it looks like some creative work goes into writing the prompt?

i don't use these tools too much, but just a few days ago i ended up using one and it turned out that a good way to avoid shit output is feeding in pseudocode or commanding it to make the very same sort of edits as one would otherwise make manually. it'd be surprised if someone considered this not a creative process?

in reply to Jiří Eischmann

Copyright licenses are not a magic spell. If LLMs are adjudicated to be derivative works of their inputs, no additional license is needed; existing GPL (or indeed, even Apache or MIT, given the lack of license text reproduction in LLM output) is fine. If LLMs are adjudicated to be fair use, no additional license will help.

Focusing on licensing is fighting the last war. Public communications and movement-building is what is needed now.