🇪🇺 "I am surprised and concerned that the GDPR is being reopened and weakened at its core […]"
💬 Read the full article, including comments from Max Schrems and Markéta Gregorová, who is a European Parliament negotiator on the issue 👉 brusselstimes.com/1835654/secr…
According to leaked documents, the EU is proposing changes which take aim at every element of GDPR that could limit AI usage.www.brusselstimes.com
So last night, I tried Fedora 43. Fedora-Workstation-Live-43-1.6.x86_64.iso. The installer is now web based, making it really nice to use, even with just Tab and Shift + Tab. I was able to install it with no problem.
Now, first time setup had just one big issue, the timezone selector. It's keyboard accessible, and works like this: you start typing a city name, like Chicago, and then down arrow through suggestions and press Enter on the one you want. But Orca doesn't speak that there are suggestions available, and does not read which suggestion you select until you press Enter.
Other than that, Gnome desktop looks pretty good these days! The settings are much better, and that's about all I had time to test so far. Orca starts if you hit Alt Windows S at the installer and first setup, then starts after first setup is complete. The overview panel where you type to search doesn't read when it opens, but basically you just hit the Windows key and start typing what you want, and Orca reads what you hand on, and you can arrow through results. Notifications read too, and I'm thankful Gnome supports notifications.
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Mozilla announces more AI in Firefox, still failing to understand that at this point their market share is made of tech savvy people who do not want that.
Mozilla, please. Stop chasing the fads. Get your own values.
People use Firefox to get access to an open web, use a sturdy browser, and not to be tracked. Build in that direction and that direction only.
Nobody from your current user base will recommend Firefox with AI to their friends.
blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai…
AI Window is a user-controlled space we’re building in Firefox that lets you chat with an AI assistant and get help while you browse.Kristina Bravo (The Mozilla Blog)
PEOPLE: we would not like ai in our browser it serves no useful purpose and is destroying our world
MOZILLA: brrrr brrr here comes the yummy ai airplane open wide brrrr hey why aren't you opening your mouth for this yummy ai? ok here it comes again brrrrr brrr...
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Do you enjoy using Suno? Have ideas on how we can make it even better? Want early access to new features and the chance to shape our future? If your answer is yes, you're in the right place! By filling out this form, you'll be applying to join Suno's…Google Docs
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My T-Mobile #RayHunter device just went red again this morning over by the Colorado Springs airport. The web UI still shows no warnings.
New recording uploaded: hardenedbsd.org/~shawn/rayhunt…
#EFF
Still struggling to find a secondary hosting provider in the UK who meets the following criteria:
1. Dedicated hosting (i.e. a server to ourselves)
2. Managed hosting (OS-level security updates, monitoring for disk use, failure etc.)
3. Enough members of staff to be resilient (not a one-person business)
4. Front-line staff who answer tickets know what they're talking about
5. Small enough to care about fellow SMEs
6. Not Mythic Beasts (because they're the primary provider)
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Added a simple example to how --limit-rate and --max-time could be used together for controlled transfer windowGitHub
RE: mastodon.social/@chris22smith/…
Definitely agree with @chris22smith here!
Just learned about public.monster from @dk that lets you make websites like it's the 90s again. (With a few quality-of-life improvements.)
I think that signing up for @piccalilli@front-end.social's emails has been one of the best things I've done this year. High quality, human curated content that interests me is underrated and hard to come by. https://piccalil.li/the-index/Chris Smith (Mastodon)
Neat but the article was at least partially written by AI too.
> We didn’t just replace a model. We replaced a process.
That phrasing ... 🫠
The only important take-away from Anthropic's hype piece about an "AI-orchestrated" cyber attack:
Tech company valued at over $180 billion still can't make their product not do things they don't want it to do.
> They broke down their attacks into small, seemingly innocent tasks that Claude would execute without being provided the full context of their malicious purpose. They also told Claude that it was an employee of a legitimate cybersecurity firm, and was being used in defensive testing.
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@miki the fact is LLMs are not better nor more useful than humans, research shows. We just keep falling for the hype.
> After completing the study, developers estimate that allowing AI reduced completion time by 20%. Surprisingly, we find that allowing AI actually increases completion time by 19%
arxiv.org/abs/2507.09089
> For an organization of 10,000 workers, given the estimated prevalence of workslop (41%), this yields over $9 million per year in lost productivity.
hbr.org/2025/09/ai-generated-w…
Despite widespread adoption, the impact of AI tools on software development in the wild remains understudied.arXiv.org
Santé Québec IT project derailed by series of mistakes, government audit finds
cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/sa…
1. water is wet
2. the same crooks that did SAAQClic.
Google is starting to retreat on its "developer government ID verification" plan, thank goodness.
But the devil will be in the detail, and Google's positioning that wanting to install software on your own device makes you a "power user" is concerning.
The notion that you need to be an "experienced user" to use @fdroidorg, for instance, is nonsense.
But still: keeping up the pressure appears to be working. A little.
android-developers.googleblog.…
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.Android Developers Blog
I learned on this trip that a little pouch full of SMA antenna adapters looks like a baggie of bullets to TSA - they got flagged both coming and going😀
Killing time at the airport in Milwaukee now - have a bit of time before my actual flight
padla pizza celá.. nemohol som ju ani odfotiť lebo mlha ale keďže každý deň niečo nemám žiadne výčitky ne-ľu-tu-jem
edit: nohy mám viete kde? cítim ich cítim
my week: lists.haxx.se/pipermail/daniel…
Feature window, RTMP, MQTTS, 1000 vs 1024, CVE, IBB, integers, strict torture, FOSDEM talk, Polhem Prize
Apple removed Launchpad in macOS 26 Tahoe. Miss it? Here’s how to restore Launchpad using Terminal, plus the pros and cons of ditching the new Spotlight.Ravi Teja KNTS (iGeeksBlog)
Das Tilo Jung Interview mit Jimmy Wales (Mitgründer von Wikipedia) ist wirklich Peak Jung & Naiv.
Absolut sehenswert. Aber unbedingt Zeit mitbringen!
youtube.com/watch?v=uswRbWyt_p…
Please support our work ► http://www.paypal.me/JungNaivJoin our forum ► http://forum.jungundnaiv.de/Our guest in the studio: Jimmy Wales, American internet e...YouTube
Last year the Geospatial devroom only had half a day at FOSDEM, and we still ended up with a packed room and a queue down the corridor.
This year we have the whole of Saturday to ourselves, so if you have something geo-flavoured to share, whether it is maps, data, tools, clever hacks, fieldwork tech, city projects, OSM magic, climate work or anything else, now is the moment to submit a proposal.
The CfP is open until 1 December:
lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fos…
#FOSDEM #Geospatial #GIS #OpenStreetMap #OpenData #Cartography #GeoTech #OSM #FOSS4G #Maps #Devroom #OSGeo
I have a really good strategy for this I think: just make it free.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd679x…
Dedicated fare evasion teams in stations would help reduce evasion on TfL services, Conservatives claim.Harry Low (BBC News)
I want an AI Window and all this other AI crap in my browser as much as I want cesium-137 in my shrimp.
blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai…
[🗃️ Web Archive]
AI Window is a user-controlled space we’re building in Firefox that lets you chat with an AI assistant and get help while you browse.Kristina Bravo (The Mozilla Blog)
Pre State of The Map EU nature walk route
strava.com/activities/16446212…
@SK53 @ultrazool @zverik @millerdl @gregorymarler
View Philip Barnes's hike on November 13, 2025 | StravaStrava
Lastly @trigpoint mapped most of the benches we saw.
A plea to all #OpenStreetMap folk: please map benches. Knowing where they are can help people like me with COPD and other breathing conditions. Benches make all the difference as to whether a walk is pleasant or not, and sometimes whether one is possible at all.
I find hat still being able to walk 8-9 km walk sustain nmy mental health. Any infrastructure which helps is invaluable.
10/10
@ultrazool @zverik @millerdl @gregorymarler
And adding pictures to benches also helps! (Can be done with @MapComplete for example)
mapcomplete.org/benches
"If you're not on board with AI you're going to get left behind"
Boost if you'd like to be left behind and would consider paying extra for a life without this bullshit.
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oh fuck you YouTube. I check my "subscription" page to see the new stuff. To have your shitty algorithm show me "relevant" stuff. No one asked for that crap.
Fuck you YouTube. A Fuck the project manager that thought it's a good idea. May you be replaced by a chatbot at the next round of layoffs.
Chatmail Rust Core library, used by Android/iOS/desktop apps, bindings and bots 📧 - chatmail/coreGitHub
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As a link creator, you can scan/click your own link to disable it.
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If you have more questions please post to the support.delta.chat forum.
Cat's out of the bag:
FEX, an emulator I've been working on these past 4 years, is going to be part of the Steam Frame to bring x86 Windows games to an ARM Linux VR headset! 😊
youtube.com/watch?v=OmKrKTwtuk…
Really happy to have been part of the journey and of the team that got FEX to where it is today. Can't wait for the release and community reception!
Learn more and wishlist now: https://steampowered.com/hardwareAnnouncing new Steam Hardware from Valve: Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and Steam Frame are ...YouTube
Reminder that EVERYTHING Anthropic or OpenAI announce in public is propaganda designed to boost their market cap when they hit the IPO they're aiming for.
It's marketing, folks. There is no intelligence behind the artifice, it's just spicy autocomplete and hucksters in $5000 suits trying to pick your boss's pocket.
mastodon.social/@arstechnica/1…
Attached: 1 image Researchers question Anthropic claim that AI-assisted attack was 90% autonomous The results of AI-assisted hacking aren't as impressive as many might have us believe. https://arstechnica.Ars Technica (Mastodon)
@menelion "An autocomplete would never suggest new names, new implementation and architectural ideas, and so on, and so forth."
Why? Autocompletes often make changes I do not want and that are out of context with bad parameters.
LLMs are basically large scale autocomplete, running on GPU, with a grain of stochastic variablity put on top.
@menelion @Enthalpiste
In the past few months AI has wasted far more of my time than it could ever possibly save.
One of the things I do in my day job is proof-read, re-word and fact-check matters of local history. I spent days trying to unpick a batch of information that simply didn't add up and couldn't be referenced. In the end it became apparent that someone had searched the internet for some background and believed the first things they read on those wretched AI overview search engine results.
Digital sovereignty, or the ability of nations, organisations and individuals to control their own digital destiny, is a fundamental issue of the 21st century.Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
Healthcare In America:
Doctor - I see that your gscsttigom isn't working as well as I'd like. I'd like to start you on pjehhdntpf instead.
Patient - Okay, do you know how much that's going to cost?
Doctor - Sorry I've got no idea.
Patient - What do you mean? Like give me a ballpark. Is this a $20/month? $100/month? $500/month? Refinance my house for a month's supply?
Doctor - Well, it's probably not "refinance your house" level.
Patient - Umm ... Okay ... That leaves a lot of room in there still.
Doctor - You'll just have to talk to your insurance.
Patient - ... Okay
Later
Patient - Hey insurance, my doc wants me to start taking pjehhdntpf, can you tell me how much it is going to cost?
Insurance - Sorry, I have no idea.
Patient - What do you mean no idea?
Insurance - well, we won't pay anything until your doctor gets a pre-authorization. And then how much we cover is based on the diagnosis codes, your deductible, the specifics of your plan, whether you get it from an in-network pharmacy or not ...
Patient - fine, so give me a best case
Insurance - free if it's approved and in network and you've hit your out of pocket maximum of $100,000
Patient - ... Really not helping here. So assume it gets approved and I've hit my deductable
Insurance - which pharmacy?
Patient - idk ... Umm the CVS down the street
Insurance - Okay that's going to be $5000/month
Patient - ... Wait, WHAT?
Insurance - turns out it's on our exclusions list so we don't cover it unless you get it waved onto the formulary upon appeal
Patient - but.... I have insurance. Why aren't you helping me pay for my medicine?
Insurance - we don't allow that medicine on your employers' plan. You should use gscsttigom instead.
Patient - I'm on that one right now. It doesn't work.
Insurance - well you'll have to appeal it, but you can't do that until after you get a formal denial.
Patient - and how long does that take?
Insurance - well, if your doctor does the preauth paperwork, they'll make a decision about it within 14 business days, unless they need to come back to your doctor for more information. Then they'll mail you the decision within another 7 business days from (insert the location farthest possible away from you in the continental US). Depending on the decision you can appeal the decision, which the appeals process can take a maximum of 180 days, after which you can appeal it again which takes a maximum of 365 days.
Patient - and if I need to start taking the medicine now?
Insurance - well you're free to do that out of pocket and file for reimbursement later.
Patient - at $5000/month?
Insurance - no it'd have to be at the out of pocket price. For that CVS, it looks like it'd be $15000/month
Patient furiously googling "how to move to a civilized country"
Googles "pjehhdntpf price in Mexico" - $12.50 for a 90 day supply.
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in reply to Marco Zehe • • •Ja, wenn ich meinen Windows ME Laptop rauskrame, lad ich das da mal drauf.