Step comes when France is leading a push to recognise Palestinian state after Israel’s unyielding bombing of GazaJason Burke (The Guardian)
*dusts off the Alice in Chains CD*
Everything old is new again... #Grunge is making a comeback! :D elle.com/fashion/trend-reports… #fashion #elevatedgrunge #renegadegrunge
An elevated version of renegade grunge style has emerged from the fall 2025 runways, courtesy of designers like Chloé and Isabel Marant.Alexandra Hildreth (ELLE)
Estes gajos dos CTT são só rir.
"Entrega prevista" da encomenda X "entre as 11:45 e as 16:45".
Tudo bem, diriam vocês. E eu concordaria, se não me tivessem mandado isto às... 17:12.
looool. That's terrifying
The Logic asked Solomon’s office for a copy of the audio file that he used to brief himself.
“I don’t have it and I’m sure it’s deleted after he used it but I’m sure the same podcast is generated with a similar prompt so you could most likely replicate it,” press secretary Sofia Ouslis responded.
Just a reminder - there have been numerous fraudulent accounts created on the Fediverse lately pretending to be Mastodon Security, and asking for your credentials in DMs to you.
DO NOT RESPOND. DO NOT CLICK.
We will never ask you to verify your credentials. Period.
Tell your friends.
In June, we announced HarfRust, a fully safe port of #HarfBuzz to Rust. At that time, HarfRust was 2x to 4x slower than HarfBuzz for a variety of benchmarks, so we have been working on addressing that.
Today, Chad Brokaw and I are pleased to present HarfRust 0.2.0, which is less than 25% slower than HarfBuzz, on both OpenType and AAT shaping benchmarks. We have also addressed all known correctness issues.
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Wasn't allowed to buy 5 IKEA octopi with the Linux foundation gift card thing from the trivia game. Mean.
Nobody can bury the lede like Reuters. From the headline you would have no idea that Facebook created AI-generated CSAM. But hey, make sure the story is about Taylor Swift.
There is a reason hardcore nerds are often against tech like LLMs(AI) and cryptocurrency
We know how the shit works-ish and what the real costs are 🤷
Same goes with "smart doorbell" this and "smart fridge" that, we do not want that stuff
The ideas behind it at the start are sometimes good and fun to play with but it always ends the same way, capitalize over everything else
If you really want tech advise, listen to your nerds 
We live for this stuff, good and bad
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If you want to run a Pleroma server with open registrations and guarantee all users are 18 years of age, configure Paypal as your OAuth Consumer and require users to login with a Paypal account.
Paypal will do the age verification for you. Also makes bans pretty effective too as they can't just sign up with a new account.
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A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!
#214 Managing Tasks
thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/…
Updates on what happens across the GNOME project from week to weekthisweek.gnome.org
Discover The Fediverse: Together United
Understand how businesses have shifted and how the community united together will protect user rights by using Free and Open Source Software (FOSS).
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#blog #FollowFriday #Fediverse #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS
> Nor does it want to use IP address-based blocks, as those would unfairly impact people who were traveling, it says.
I don't think a very convincing or strong legal argument is "I don't want to do that thing that works that I have to do legally, because I just don't like it"
RT: mastodon.social/users/Sarahp/s…
Mastodon says it doesn’t ‘have the means’ to comply with age verification laws https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/29/mastodon-says-it-doesnt-have-the-means-to-comply-with-age-verification-laws/Mastodon
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_…
"#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…
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.
Also
Kernighan and Ritchie: Let's use `\` as an escape in strings in the C language.
Microsoft developers: Let's use `\` as an path separator in DOS, to think different™.
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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.
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…
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsThib (matrix.org)
Analýza: Snaha některých evropských politiků zničit poslední výspu digitálního soukromí nebere konce. Klíčové hlasování v Radě EU se očekává 14. října, Česko je proti – a v menšině.Petr Koubský (Deník N)
Brazil judge orders round-the-clock surveillance of ‘flight risk’ Bolsonaro
theguardian.com/world/2025/aug…
Meanwhile in the USA...
Pre-trial monitoring ordered after police reported former president had drafted request for asylum in ArgentinaTiago 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.
👍🙂
Vid aj napr. marketrealist.com/what-happene…
The companies and the world learned a valuable lesson of vetting email IDs before handing out moneyDeep Das Barman (Market Realist)
The fast food chain is reassessing its use of the tech after a number of errors were shared widely online.Shiona McCallum (BBC News)
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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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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. 💙
🔐 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
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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! 
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