Every day, thousands of women and children are victimized by people on X using the Grok chatbot to generate scantily clad and naked photos of them.
It’s time for governments to take action. Elon Musk’s X should have been banned long ago. They don’t have an excuse to delay any longer.
disconnect.blog/elon-musks-x-m…
#tech #socialmedia #elonmusk #x #grok #twitter #everythingapp #deepfake
Elon Musk’s X must be banned
Regulators need to stop cowering before the richest man in the worldParis Marx (Disconnect)
With xAI's Grok generating endless semi-nude images of women and girls without their contest, it follows a years-long legacy of rampant abuse on the platform.
404media.co/grok-ai-sexual-abu…
Grok's AI Sexual Abuse Didn't Come Out of Nowhere
With xAI's Grok generating endless semi-nude images of women and girls without their consent, it follows a years-long legacy of rampant abuse on the platform.Samantha Cole (404 Media)
@Em0nM4stodon Yesterday I left the X app for Android a single star review in the Play Store which read "This app contains an AI tool that can generate child pornography."
Today I got an email from Google to say that they removed my review because it "contains obscene, profane or offensive language. Or your review appears to harass, bully or attack others."

I've been elected to FESCo! 🎉
[1]Thanks to everyone who voted for me. Feel free to reach out if you want to have a chat.
If you did not vote for me, feel free to reach out as well if you feel confortable sharing why.
Now back to the work to make Fedora and all the Atomic variants awesome!
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Fedora Linux 43 (F43) election results – Fedora Community Blog
The Fedora Linux 43 (F43) election cycle has concluded. In this election round, there was only one election, for the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo). Congratulations to the winning candidates.Justin Wheeler (Fedora Project)
I dont understand others anti-triggering thing. If you have triggers, make filters. I made filters for the posts that ask for money.
I dont know your triggers. I cant remember your triggers. If I filtered for every trigger, then I would have nothing to say.
Please, if you have triggers, add a filter to your account.
I have published the 2025 Financial Report.
Copyright without years
Like so many other software projects the curl project has copyright mentions at the top of almost every file in the source code repository. Like Copyright (C) 1998 - 2022, Daniel Stenberg ...daniel.haxx.se
Well that’s a nice self pay-it-forward Happy New Year. Having one less thing to do at the start of the year sounds great to me.
That said, it opens up a whole game of trying to find the oldest curl version in active deployment. Finding ©️2014 in your car infotainment system is like finding the exp2014 aspirin in the office’s medical bag.
Reasons are, as so often, historical. Computer software form and best practice does in many ways originate in the US during the 1970s and 80s - right the time US copyright switched from requiring a full notice of (c) symbol, year and author to not doing so. So it comes mostly by continued practice. Mostly as US law is still case law for most parts, which means that having a classic notice may give a better standing. Then again, the year itself may only once the item gets past any of the thresholds - which are quite long by now.
So for all practical reasons, it would have been sufficient to only note the year each file was created first - removing the need for yearly updates. This gives a minimum duration of 50 (Berne) or 70 (EU/US) years after your death. That's as of now something like 2076. Sure, libcurl may be still in use by then - if we still use computers and not clay tablets again - I would think any possible dispute has been solved already :)
On a side note, the EU still recommends the use of a copyright notice: europa.eu/youreurope/business/…
Copyright in the EU: How to get copyright protection - Your Europe
Learn more about EU copyright rules. See how you can obtain copyright protection and protect your work for 70 years after your death in Europe.Your Europe
The auto industry Doug "deal" Ford want to protect is the one that close factories when they see fit. Look at Stellantis closures in 2025, following Anus Tangerinus TACO.
This is not an industry.

"Apple's Solution: Licensing and Porting: Rather than trying to run the old 32-bit version through emulation (which would only be a temporary solution), Apple made a deal with Code Factory and Nuance, the companies that owned the rights to the voice. As part of this agreement, a full, natively 64-bit version of the Eloquence engine was developed specifically for integration into Apple's VoiceOver accessibility features."
That's right. 64-bit Eloquence. On Mac and Apple devices. All thanks to Code Factory. Ha ha. Heh heh. Sure, as likely as a JAWS for Mac OS appearing.
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(Doug) Ford warns Carney not to cut tariffs on Chinese EVs as PM looks to repair ties with Beijing
cbc.ca/news/politics/ford-carn…
Elbows up.
As I said the tariff is not to protect Canada. It's to protect a US industry that don't give a fuck about Canada.
Edit: Added in the headline that it is the drug dealer, not the car manufacturer.
btw I expect the PM to do absolutely nothing to open that market. NOTHING.
Also hat tip to CBC for writing headlines ambiguously. It read like it was Ford the automobile lobby while it was in fact Ford, the drug dealer.
I think this is the best one I've seen in a long time.
Automatic translation:
AGRIBUSINESS = AGRIBUSEMENT
Agribusement?!? It's not even a word lol
Tehran, Babol, Mashad, Hamadan, Kermanshah...and many more cities: There are masses on the street tonight all over #Iran. At the same time the regime has once again shut down the internet in order to prevent information to get in and out of the country. We know from previous protests that they kill the people in silence and darkness. Please be the voice of the brave Iranians- they are risking their lives for freedom.
#Iranrevolution #internetblackout #betheirvoice #BarayeAzadi
It never fails,
It makes me wanna wag my tail,
When it comes I wanna yell,
"BRAILLLLLLLLLLLE!”
If any of you don't yet know about the Scottish gritters - zoom in and enjoy: traffic.gov.scot/gritter-track…
My favourites both sound like Carry On film names or characters:
- Spready Mercury
- On Her Majesty's Slippery Surface
More names can be found here: scotsman.com/news/scotland/sco…
Scotland Gritter Names: The full list of Scottish gritter names and how to track them as severe weather hits Scotland
Here’s how you can track Scotland’s gritters – including a full list of Scottish gritter names.Lauren Jack (The Scotsman)
"Haben Sie denn mal Knochenleitungskopfhörer ausprobiert?" - fremde Leute, die eine gebärdete Konversation im öffentlichen Raum mitbekommen.
(Eine Person vokalisiert teilweise beim Gebärden - manche Schwerhörige oder Ertaubte tun das - und erzählte, dass sie demnächst mit ihrer Nichte in ein Kindermusical geht.)
A: Das ist übergriffig.
B: Es ist wie mit allen Behinderungen, nur weil eure Verwandschaft "das auch hat" wisst ihr nicht (!), was andere Personen brauchen.
It will never, ever stop annoying me that #SQL has "LEFT" and "RIGHT" joins.
These keywords' names are horribly inaccessible for those with Left–right confusion, which is A REAL THING that affects MANY MILLIONS OF PEOPLE.
Including, yes, myself.
In general, any usage of the words "left" and "right" in computers is at least a yellow flag, or even a red flag. Anywhere. User interface strings, help pages, visual design documents, programming language keywords, and so on. It's a likely #accessibility problem for people with Left–right confusion and a likely #localization problem for people who read right-left (#RTL) languages. I happen to belong to both groups.
Die Deutsche Bahn mag wohl keine Tandems und Liegeräder? Oder denken die dass das sowieso niemand nutzt?
Die sowieso schon homöopathisch klingende Mitnahmeregelung ("Ausnahmsweise können ... in besonderen Zügen... sofern im Einzelfall ausreichend Platz vorhanden
und die sichere Unterbringung gewährleistet ist.") wird gestrichen zum Fahrplanwechsel.
#fahrradbubble #bahn #bahnbubble #tandem
Beförderungsbedingungen der Deutschen Bahn AG
Laden Sie hier die Beförderungsbedingungen der Deutschen Bahn AG sowie Informationen über länderübergreifende Beförderungsbedingungen und Vertragspartner herunter.www.bahn.de
LOL
mastodon.social is blocked at work for "malicious website" heh
Then it stopped reading text at all in the Thunderbird composer, so I restarted it again.
Then my alt+tab stopped working, so I restarted Explorer.
I'm not exaggerating when I say that I feel like I can't do a single thing on any one of my computing devices without encountering an accessibility or usability problem. I feel like I'm going insane.
Welcome to the RB family, Presents 🥳
apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.l…
Presents is an app that helps you keep your wishes organized, and instantly share them with all your friends. Its developer having identified and fixed the final culprit keeping it from being reproducible, it now is 
#IzzyOnDroid #ReproducibleBuilds
„Presents - A Desired Surprise“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository
The ultimate wishlist app to share your wishes with all your friends!IzzyOnDroid Repo Browser
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Tom's Hardware (@tomshardware@mastodon.online)
Attached: 1 image Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says robots are 'AI immigrants' that can address labor shortages — can 'do the type of work that maybe we decided not to do anymore' Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, said that a wave of robots will serve as "AI…Tom's Hardware (Mastodon)
@lain @feld Every day I wake up with the fear of getting replaced by robots and then I remember that a robot cannot put tiny fibers through conduits and rack up servers half my weight.
Every day I wake up with the fear of getting replaced by AI when writing code and then I see it write code that does X and say it does Y and Z.
And that's when I say, not yet.
Thank you.
Get off the fucking Internet you sun of a bitch!
I know that you are here to stalk us, please stop with this!
I know you are not going to listen to me at this point.
For everyone else, please make sure that your Mastodon profiles are locked for next time.
This is what you get,Ramon Salazar!
Ramón (R) requested to follow you. Totally blind pro-life conservative from Miami, Florida who's a firm believer in The Lord God The Father Alone, God of all gods, God The Father, Father of all fathers and mothers, Lord of all lords, King of all kings and queens, who's Above all, over all, through all, beyond all, around All, between all, in all, in me, in you, in himself too in no one indescribable God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob through Yahusha HaMessiach., 42 seconds ago.
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No matter how secure a system is in theory, it must be put into practice. After all, information security is not a value in itself, but is intended to protect people from unauthorized access to their data.
Find out which aspects are key in this guest article by @nwalfield of the @sequoiapgp project: prototypefund.de/en/blog/zentr…
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you 6 updated and 2 added apps:
* WiFi Password Manager: uses Shizuku to manage WiFi passwords 🛡️
* PlaneSpotter: shows aircrafts for your locations 🛡️
RB status: 786 apps (61.2%)
1 #Magisk module has been added at apt.izzysoft.de/magisk
* Auriya: a performance tweaker written in Rust
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repository 
IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).IzzyOnDroid App Repo
TIL: "If the last entry in a crontab is missing the newline, cron will consider the crontab (at least partially) broken and refuse to install it."
It does so silently. I didn't know that.
May this piece of information save you time.
Time for a midweek tease of the current Other People's Music! This thread offers the first line of each of this week's reviews, along with links to the music, socials and full review.
Don't need a tease? Read the whole thing here:
Orago – Stasis
A tight little EP that strips the best parts of chillwave, vaporwave and synthwave to build an inviting, lo-fi trip into retro electronic joy.
orago.bandcamp.com/album/stasi…
@orago.bsky.social
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