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🇩🇪✅ GESCHAFFT: Verpflichtende #Chatkontrolle durch die Hintertür verhindert!🎉 Ein Riesenerfolg & DANKE an alle! 🙏

Aber ⚠️: Geplant sind weiter anonymitätszerstörende Alterskontrollen & freiwillige Massenscans. Der Kampf geht nächstes Jahr weiter!

chatkontrolle.de

Das Bild zeigt einen kurzen Textausschnitt aus dem neuesten Verordnungsentwurf des EU-Rats zur Chatkontrolle. Der Text lautet: "(17a) Nothing in this Regulation should be understood as imposing any detection obligations on providers." Übersetzung ins Deutsche: "(17a) Nichts in dieser Verordnung ist so auszulegen, dass sie den Anbietern Aufdeckungsverpflichtungen auferlegt."

Chatkontrolle

🇫🇷 Französisch: Traduction du dossier Chat Control 2.0 🇸🇪 Schwedisch: Chat Control 2.0🇳🇱 Niederländisch: Chatcontrole Inhalt der Seite: Die Abschaffung des Digitalen Briefgeheimnisses Hilf jetzt mit die Chatkontrolle zu stoppen…
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#Chatkontrolle
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Patrick Breyer

🇪🇺✅ SUCCESS: We've prevented mandatory #ChatControl through the back door!🎉 A big win & THANKS to everyone! 🙏

But ⚠️: Anonymity-breaking age checks & "voluntary" mass scanning are still planned. The fight continues next year!

chatcontrol.eu

The image shows a short excerpt of text from the latest Council draft regulation on "Chat Control". The text reads: "(17a) Nothing in this Regulation should be understood as imposing any detection obligations on providers."

Chat Control: The EU's CSAM scanner proposal

🇫🇷 French: Traduction du dossier Chat Control 2.0, stopchatcontrol.fr🇸🇪 Swedish: Chat Control 2.0🇩🇰 Danish: chatcontrol.
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Wizard of the Other Oz (ft. Pierson) - Studio C

"Dorothy (Pierson) finds herself in the wrong Oz, one where the wizard (Dalton) and witch (Aleta) only speak in Aussie slang."

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Wizard of the Other Oz (ft. Pierson) - Studio C

Dorothy (Pierson) finds herself in the wrong Oz, one where the wizard (Dalton) and witch (Aleta) only speak in Aussie slang.Please enjoy this sneak peek sket...
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LES PETITS TRACAS DE PIERRE-ÉDOUARD STÉRIN : DETTES, NUL EN AFFAIRE, DÉTESTÉ DU GRAND PUBLIC, SON EMPIRE RÉACTIONNAIRE S'EFFONDRE

La rentrée 2025 est rude pour Pierre-Édouard, qui voit ses Nuits du Bien commun chahutées, sa villa envahie, et son business en grande difficulté.

Notre article à lire ici : contre-attaque.net/2025/11/14/…

Pierre-Édouard Stérin se prend la tête : à force de faire monter le fascisme, il va finir ruiné. Pas de bol.

L'empire réactionnaire de Pierre-Édouard Stérin s'effondre-t-il ?

La rentrée 2025 est rude pour Stérin, qui voit ses Nuits du Bien commun chahutées, sa villa envahie, et son business en grande difficulté.
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#PPOD: This new JWST picture features a cosmic creepy-crawly called NGC 6537 — the Red Spider Nebula. Using its Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam), JWST has revealed never-before-seen details in this picturesque planetary nebula with a rich backdrop of thousands of stars. Planetary nebulae like the Red Spider Nebula form when ordinary stars like the Sun reach the end of their lives. Credit: ESA, NASA & CSA, J. H. Kastner (Rochester Institute of Technology)

#space #science

A planetary nebula. The nebula’s central star is hidden by a blotchy pinkish cloud of dust. A strong red light radiates from this area, illuminating the nearby dust. Two large loops extend laterally away from the centre, formed of thin ridges of blue dust. A huge number of bright, whitish stars cover the background, also easily visible through the thin dust layers.
#science #space #PPOD

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I live in a house with large open spaces carved up by some alcoves, columns and protrusions. I'm told on occasions that it looks quite attractive.

but as I, a #blind person, miscalculate while bending down to pick something up and yet again catch my head on another bit of pointless wall, I'm reminded how truly subjective design preferences are.

#blind
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@jakobrosin Now that you mention columns, there's a canteen of an arts university near my workplace where I sometimes like grabbing my lunch. Because its the university of fine arts, there's a mandatory clash of a human with the art, in a literal way. The stairs to the entrance are divided into sections, each odd section leads indeed to one of the entrance door, every other ends with a huge stone columnade in, if I'm not mistaken, corynthian style. It's fun to touch if you've never observed ancient Greek architecture, otherwise quite disappointing if you made it the couple of steps up only to realize there's no way in so you have to go back and climb again at another spot.
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Today's discovery: The Victor Reader Stream (second generation) has a micro SD card under the battery. It acts as internal storage but also has the operating system on it. And that operating system is ... Linux, from 2010, with Busybox.
I'm very interested to try and get SSH running, but I don't think the binaries are there. It looks like there is support for serial of some kind. The OS partition is 100% full. I'll reimage a second micro SD card at some point and find out how much I can tinker with it before it breaks. If anyone wants a dd dump of the entire card, let me know.

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The assets of Radio Free Asia on the auction block: rasmus.com/auctions/galIdtyncH…

International Television and Radio Network Broadcast Production Editing Newsroom and Corporate Headquarters Independent Shipping Available

A Washington DC based international television and radio broadcast network is making a significant reduction in its operations and will make a complete liquidation of all excess television, radio, studio production, field production, switching, broad…
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I remember my own experiments with “AI” a long time ago. It could be fun (AI Dungeon, anyone?) even if it couldn’t produce reliable results. But it was also extremely inefficient. Like: even on a GPU, producing a single moderately long response would occupy the entire GPU for seconds! Meanwhile my web server can handle thousands of parallel requests on much cheaper hardware and with a fraction of the power usage. So surely nobody would attempt this at scale…

I clearly underestimated the industry’s dedication to burning money and resources (often enough literally) while chasing the newest fad. investor.nexteraenergy.com/new…


NextEra Energy and Google Announce New Collaboration to Accelerate Nuclear Energy Deployment in the U.S.

Duane Arnold Energy Center restart to strengthen American energy grid resilience; Iowa's only nuclear facility is targeted to be fully operational by the first quarter of 2029 Project expected to create approximately 400 direct, high-quality full-tim…
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So OpenAI managed to lose $11.5 billion in just one quarter. Not quite unexpectedly given how expensive it is to improve and simply run their machinery and how little money it brings in. theregister.com/2025/10/29/mic…

And that is totally fine of course as long as this still counts as a huge success, so that even more investor money flows in. And OpenAI (just as everyone else in AI) keeps raising the stakes to justify their need for more money. Now if that isn’t a Ponzi scheme…

At this rate it cannot be long until the bubble bursts. You cannot bring in an investor with pockets as deep as Microsoft’s every few months.


Microsoft just revealed that OpenAI lost more than $11.5B last quarter

updated: Satya has also delivered Sam most of the cash he promised
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Wladimir Palant

I’m pretty sure that all those AI companies hold a meeting somewhere and brainstorm bad ideas to outperform each other. Burning massive amounts of power? Nah, too trivial. Let’s support it by building new nuclear plants! No, been there. We can shoot data centers into space! That will take too long. Why don’t we involve AI when military decisions need to be made under extreme pressure?

Well, we have a new contender.

“Microsoft and nuclear power company Westinghouse Nuclear want to use AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants in the United States.”


Sure, why not put a bullshit generator in charge of designing something that could contaminate a huge chunk of land for the foreseeable future if done wrong?

404media.co/power-companies-ar…


Power Companies Are Using AI To Build Nuclear Power Plants

Tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AIs massive power demands and they're using that AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants.
Matthew Gault (404 Media)

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"Remember when you thought age verification laws couldn't get any worse? Well, lawmakers in Wisconsin, Michigan, and beyond are about to blow you away.

It's unfortunately no longer enough to force websites to check your government-issued ID before you can access certain content, because politicians have now discovered that people are using Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to protect their privacy and bypass these invasive laws. Their solution? Entirely ban the use of VPNs.

Yes, really.

As of this writing, Wisconsin lawmakers are escalating their war on privacy by targeting VPNs in the name of “protecting children” in A.B. 105/S.B. 130. It’s an age verification bill that requires all websites distributing material that could conceivably be deemed “sexual content” to both implement an age verification system and also to block the access of users connected via VPN. The bill seeks to broadly expand the definition of materials that are “harmful to minors” beyond the type of speech that states can prohibit minors from accessing—potentially encompassing things like depictions and discussions of human anatomy, sexuality, and reproduction.

This follows a notable pattern: As we’ve explained previously, lawmakers, prosecutors, and activists in conservative states have worked for years to aggressively expand the definition of “harmful to minors” to censor a broad swath of content: diverse educational materials, sex education resources, art, and even award-winning literature."

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#VPNs #AgeVerification #CyberSecurity #Privacy #DigitalRights


Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They're Doing

It's unfortunately no longer enough to force websites to check your government-issued ID before you can access certain content, because politicians have now discovered that people are using Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to protect their privacy and…
Electronic Frontier Foundation
#privacy #cybersecurity #digitalrights #ageverification #vpns

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I’ve been testing a theory: many people who are high on #AI and #LLMs are just new to automation and don’t realize you can automate processes with simple programming, if/then conditions, and API calls with zero AI involved.

So far it’s been working!

Whenever I’ve been asked to make an AI flow or find a way to implement AI in our work with a client, I’ve returned back with an automation flow that uses 0 AI.

Things like “when a new document is added here, add a link to it in this spreadsheet and then create a task in our project management software assigned to X with label Y”.

And the people who were frothing at the mouth at how I must change my mind on AI have (so far) all responded with resounding enthusiasm and excitement.

They think it’s the same thing. They just don’t understand how much automation is possible without any generative tools.

#AI #LLMs

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