This guy runs the Windows unit at Microsoft, and he's telling you that the company intends to infiltrate "AI" into every aspect of the operating system.
If you use Windows, this is an injection of a living, self-replicating virus into your digital existence.
Yes I use Linux.
🚨 The EU Commission has secretly set in motion a potentially massive GDPR reform. This could have significant impact on your fundamental right to privacy.
noyb is doing everything it can to prevent this outcome. You can support us by becoming a Supporting Member!! Learn more 👉 noyb.eu/en/support-us
Denmark and other EU governments still pursue #chatcontrol.
They still want to permanently legalize client-side scanning but postponed making it mandatory.
They also want to increase age-verification controls which risk to ruin what little is left of privacy in current digital spaces, taken hostage already by US corps.
Ourselves? We double down on providing the most private, reliable and fun messaging experience, with a growing federating #chatmail relay network across the globe.
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Base48 je brněnský hackerspace a komunitní dílna. Nabízíme prostor, vybavení a komunitu pro tvoje elektro, 3D tisk, DIY a další projekty.base48.cz
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I just submitted a talk for the Geospatial room at #FOSDEM. It's about #OSM. Do you think this would be interesting for the audience?
pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2026…
It started as a simple idea — teaching colleagues how to use OpenStreetMap. A few sessions later, more than a hundred people had learned not just how to map, but why it matters.pretalx.fosdem.org
#Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A tiny human (2?) has spotted Mum's cake on a cafe table.
Ahh...
Mum is distracted talking to a friend.
Hmm...
If he just climbs on this chair...
And then onto the table,
And then SITS on the cake...
She'll never notice, right?
(She notices.)
A woman (60s?) pulls over and offers a lift to an international student walking down her quiet inner city street.
It's bucketing with rain and he at first looks confused and then accepts gratefully.
They zoom off down the hill into town, safe and dry.
A young human (8?) has spotted a shopping trolley parked in a no parking zone.
This is clearly NOT correct.
Scowling, he marches forward and stomps it back to the trolley return before rejoining Mum with a vindicated air.
Not all carpark heroes wear capes.
A tiny human (1?) is sitting on Mum's knee while Mum talks to friends.
Tiny Human is watching the faces around her intently, mirroring their expressions.
First a frown.
Then a smile.
Then a BIG chortle when everyone laughs.
She's getting the hang of this!
A wiry man (60s?) in a plaid shirt, jeans and work boots is waiting in line for coffee, talking on his phone. He says: "Ya right love? Flat tire? Yeah. I'll be there in a minute. I'll get ya a coffee and'll come sort it out. Don't you worry. Love ya."
He hangs up and orders two coffees to go.
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RE: mastodon.social/@bagder/115535…
A landslide win for 1024.
Should the default #curl progress meter use 1000-based units instead of 1024-based ones ?
Bitte spült mir keine Posts in die Timeline, die als Bildbeschreibung "Bild" stehen haben!
Leider können wir uns nicht darauf verlassen, daher würd ich vor dem Teilen immer einen kurzen Blick in die Bildbeschreibung werfen.
Klar gibt's unterschiedliche Vorlieben bezüglich Länge und Detailgrad einer Bildbeschreibung, aber eine Bildbeschreibung zu fälschen und nur ein Wort reinzuschreiben, ist einfach nicht ok.
Parsing integers in C. Aka "bye bye atoi".
daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/11/13…
In the standard libc API set there are multiple functions provided that do ASCII numbers to integer conversions. They are handy and easy to use, but also error-prone and quite lenient in what they accept and silently just swallow.daniel.haxx.se
@siracusa The thought “You two should be in a podcast episode together” popped into my head and I had to write this to get it out. I know it’d be interesting talk, and I have no idea which directions it would go in.
Just leaving that thought here, kthxbye
News from Serbia / novosti iz Srbije :
Trump-tower to replace the building bombed by NATO , a.k.a. a “national monument” - army headquarters of a country that fell apart in series of violent conflicts …
symbolism upon symbolism of globalized capitalism, local corruption, greed, rampant but fake nationalism, disregard for laws or regulations, failure of urbanism & “democracy” within (patriarchal) oligarchy…
pescanik.net/vapaj-za-odbranu-…
&
theguardian.com/world/2025/nov…
Many in Serbia see the site – a former army headquarters damaged in a 1999 Nato bombing campaign – as a tribute to those who diedGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
In August, Google announced that it will require developer verification to install Android apps, including through sideloading. That’s continuing, but Google is working on a solution for “experienced users.”Abner Li (9to5Google)
Palantir kriegt in BaWü freie Bahn. Vertrag zuerst, Recht später, Kontrolle irgendwann. Demokratie als Abo-Modell: 25 Millionen, fünf Jahre Laufzeit, keine Kündigung. Datenschutz? Wird gerade ausgeschrieben. Willkommen im Überwachungsstaat as a Service.
heise.de/news/Baden-Wuerttembe…
#palantir #bw #polizei #rechtsstaat #bullshit #datenschutz #dsgvo
/kuk
In Baden-Württemberg hat der Landtag Änderungen am Polizeigesetz beschlossen, um die Nutzung von Palantir rechtlich abzusichern.Marie-Claire Koch (heise online)
GOOD NEWS!
There are only five more Thursdays left in 2025 after this one. Get ready for the all new Thursday lineup in 2026. It'll be like 2025, but even more Thursday.
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Nestáva sa často, že by som bol kritickejší než tu Ivan, ktorý tento ďalší pokus (koľký už?) o špicľovací zákon rozobral na šróbiky.
Pre mňa je tam ešte jeden červený vykričník navyše (ktorý v článku možno iba tušiť):
Ak už raz budú mať možnosť takto špicľovať, bars aj pod "vznešenou", a možno spočiatku aj úprimnou (byť naivnou), snahou bojovať proti CSAM, čo im, !technicky!, zabráni začať hľadať čokoľvek iné? Protištátne reči, zakázané názory, protiústavné pohlavie...
Na Slovensku o tom už vieme svoje.
abravito.cz/novinky-it/umela-i…
EÚ pripravuje Chat Control: AI má čítať správy pred zašifrovaním. Ochrana detí či zásah do súkromia a základných práv občanov?www.abravito.cz
Digital Accessibility Ethics is a practical guide with an urgent goal: to help end tech exclusion of 1.3 billion people across the world with disabilities.Routledge & CRC Press
When is that bubble gonna burst anyway?
In the span of 5 years we got:
Cryptocurrency
Blockchain
NFTs
Metaverse
AI
All technologies that came up by promising great revolutions and people empowerment and what they do was just boosting criminal activities, environmental catastrophes, and money laundering
Some bubbles take longer to burst than others, and some are simply more in plain sight than others. The 2008 financial crisis was because of a scheme that had been going on for years and years — but mainly bankers and investors knew about it. However, even though it was a slow burner, the scheme was ultimately founded on hopes, wishes and fairy dust.
What makes a bubble is not how long it takes to burst, but its foundations. The focus should be on the consequences of it bursting.
Located in Zhaoqing, Guangdong Province, China,
it is one of only about 200 identified craters worldwide
and is very young in geological years.
Based on measurements of nearby soil erosion,
it likely formed during the early-to-mid Holocene
—our current geological epoch, which began at the end of the last ice age about 11,700 years ago.
With a diameter of 900 meters, it is the largest known impact crater from this era
—far exceeding Russia's 300-meter Macha crater, previously the largest known Holocene impact structure
phys.org/news/2025-11-earth-la…
A newly discovered, remarkably well-preserved impact crater is shedding fresh light on how extraterrestrial bodies collide with Earth.American Institute of Physics (Phys.org)
Buenos días desde la Administración Pública.
No influyendo en la agilización o resolución de trámite o procedimiento administrativo sin justa causa y, en ningún caso, cuando ello comporte un privilegio en mi beneficio por el cargo público del que soy titular o mi entorno familiar y social inmediato o cuando suponga un menoscabo de los intereses de terceros.
Y vosotros, ¿qué tal?
We’re upgrading GPT-5 while making it easier to customize ChatGPT. Starting to roll out today to everyone, beginning with paid users.openai.com
overfull \vbox (19.23pt too high)" "how did you do that with your voice?" "do what?"
Libervia CLI Tip 15:
When publishing a blog or other pubsub based feature, the item ID is often used in the URL when it is rendered for the web (e.g.; Libervia or Movim use something like `https://…/blog/<user>/<item_id>`).
It is then important to have a user-friendly item ID (e.g.; `title-of-my-publication-abc123`), which is usually done by the software from the title.
If you want to change it, you can use `li pubsub rename`.
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in reply to Delta Chat • • •Viktoria D. Richards/Uddelhexe
in reply to Delta Chat • • •"this law will ban minors from installing apps like WhatsApp..."
What?
I am not a fan of WhatsApp, I use signal, but if such a law bans minors from WhatsApp and pushes all end-to-end-crypted messangers out of europe that would mean that no citizen under 18 is allowed to use a messanger service?
Because all alternatives are even more dangerous than WhatsApp and would fall under the same ban.
So SMS is all they have left, or what?
Kerplunk
in reply to Delta Chat • • •Looks like the EU is rapidly digging it own grave.
Who wants an Orwellian society except for Fascists or extreme right.
🌱🏴🅰️🏳️⚧️🐧📎 Ambiyelp
in reply to Delta Chat • • •Is deltachat now considering state threat actors part of their threat model?
If someone wants to hide that they own a chatmail relay from their government what would be the simplest way to do that?
feld
in reply to 🌱🏴🅰️🏳️⚧️🐧📎 Ambiyelp • • •weren't state threat actors always a part of the model? There's been a lot of careful thought into making sure it keeps working for people under hostile governments, and this has largely been successful.
e.g., Russia sued, DeltaChat fought, refused to put in a backdoor to collect keys, so they said they'd block the messenger. That was around July? They've still been unable to execute that threat.
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in reply to feld • • •Kierk or gaanks
in reply to Delta Chat • • •🌱🏴🅰️🏳️⚧️🐧📎 Ambiyelp
Unknown parent • • •feld
in reply to 🌱🏴🅰️🏳️⚧️🐧📎 Ambiyelp • • •agreed about the Snowflake and other traffic obfuscation methods, but they require Tor nodes that run that specific modified version of the software and very few do (and also breaks compatibility with normal Tor IIRC). Plus the ones that exist must not be published on the internet so they don't get blocked directly either.
So now you can theoretically access Tor, but only if someone shares with you a private server to use... preferably by word of mouth to not leave a digital trail of its identity
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Unknown parent • • •🌱🏴🅰️🏳️⚧️🐧📎 Ambiyelp
in reply to feld • • •🌱🏴🅰️🏳️⚧️🐧📎 Ambiyelp
in reply to feld • • •feld
in reply to 🌱🏴🅰️🏳️⚧️🐧📎 Ambiyelp • • •feld
Unknown parent • • •meek is new to me, someone commented this on reddit:
> Meek is actually the slowest option and it does go through the Tor network but it uses a Microsoft Azure server as the entry point in to the Tor network to make it hard to block without also blocking other services that use Microsoft Azure.
makes sense. And well, for situations like Russia I'm sure they are getting close to being pissed off enough at the West to just block all of Azure and deal with the fallout. So that thing only works as long as countries aren't willing to cut themselves off from large chunks of the Western internet I guess
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in reply to 🌱🏴🅰️🏳️⚧️🐧📎 Ambiyelp • • •Venelles
in reply to Delta Chat • • •Delta Chat
in reply to Venelles • • •Venelles
in reply to Delta Chat • • •feld
in reply to Venelles • • •Dr. Cem karas
in reply to Delta Chat • • •