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This is how I felt when I discovered a wild amount of Québec government stuff (especially health care stuff) is stored on Azure servers in the USA.

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A-Dub 🥝 (@adub@beige.party)

do you have an official New Zealand digital identity? did you know that our super private details aren't stored on sovereign NZ servers? "The government stores our most important data on US-owned cloud infrastructure, making it subject to US laws.
beige.party

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Big challenge for me on Sunday was helping a local pal learn to use a laptop. This man is older than me and has never used a computer. He uses his smartphone for everything and wants to get a computer so he can, among other things, go to recovery meetings on Zoom (there aren't enough local in-person meetings). I have, as you might expect, many extra laptops. Figured we'd start with the basics (point, click, double click, click drag) and go from there....

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My little brother (lives close to where Renee Good was shot & killed in Minneapolis) has been 3D printing ICE whistles & handing them out to neighbors & giving some to local businesses & churches to hand out. I'm really proud that his response is action, not fear.

The George Floyd protests play a part in this. The local places he knows will gladly hand out whistles are people he knows from 2020. All that commotion was NOT for nothing. A lot of people learned about organizing for the 1st time.

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RE: mastodon.social/@hennavirkkune…

Dear #Mastodon this (quoted below) is the Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy of the European Commission. Who joined today (Jan 13). Great to have someone from the commission here.
🙌 🇪🇺 ✌️

Update/Good news: The mastodon.social account *was* legitimate, and has been migrated to @HennaVirkkunen
All people who were following on mastodon.social have been moved to follow that account. (Thx @dgoldsmith for the update🙏)

& thx @lexinova for keeping an eye out for us 🙏❤️

Henna Virkkunen (@hennavirkkunen@mastodon.social)

X offering the use of Grok to create and share pictures of undressed women and children is horrendous. The EU Commission has already: • taken investigative steps • ordered the company to retain internal documents.
Henna Virkkunen (Mastodon)
#Mastodon @Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️♾️🇺🇦 @LΞX/NØVΛ 🇪🇺 @Henna Virkkunen
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What #Grok generates is non-consensual and abusive. It is not "AI porn", it's AI sexual abuse materials. "#AISAM", let's call it.

Sex work is work, there are plenty of sex workers trying to make a living publishing their own works.

Conflating porn with sexual abuse materials is how we get to a place where independent sex workers get ostracized and lose their livelihood through being banned by payment processors, while a fascist oligarch can materially benefit from sexual abuse materials.

#AI

#AI #grok #aisam
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Simon Jaeger

@blindbat84 It's surprisingly common to find fibre in the middle of nowhere, because lots of the nothinghams and boringvilles had no cable until the 2010s, by which point fibre was yubiquitous enough that companies decided to just build fibre infrastructure. It's harder to justify that in an area where you can already get gigabit cable. Sure, it's not symmetrical, but go survey a thousand Comcast users and ask them what their upload speed is, I dare you. Unless you're a YouTube creator, a tech enthusiast, or someone who relies on good upload for remote work, you don't know and you don't care.
@Sarah Russell
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Borris

@twynn @FreakyFwoof @simon @blindbat84 It won't matter too much. Connectivity outside of Vietnam is super slow. I have a friend who lived there for a while, and he told me that, with a Gigabit connection, the best he could do even to just the rest of Asia was about 2 or 3 Mb/sec. Even worse to North America. Fast inside Vietnam though.
@Timothy Wynn @Sarah Russell @Andre Louis @Simon Jaeger

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Firefox 147 just landed & it's pretty huge in terms of web features:

🎉 CSS anchor positioning
🎉 The navigation API
🎉 View transition types
🎉 Brotli support in Compression/DecompressionStream
🎉 CSS module imports

And more!

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/do…

Firefox 147 release notes for developers (Beta) - Mozilla | MDN

This article provides information about the changes in Firefox 147 that affect developers. Firefox 147 is the current Beta version of Firefox and ships on January 13, 2026.
developer.mozilla.org

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Arresting every ICE employee would get more criminals off the streets then arresting all of the people ICE is targeting. people.com/ice-employee-arrest…

ICE Employee Arrested in Child Sex Sting Allegedly Told Cops, 'I'm ICE, Boys.' The Police Chief Was Not Impressed

An ICE employee was among 16 men arrested after allegedly trying to hire a minor for sex in Bloomington, Minn., police said.
Janelle Griffith (PEOPLE)

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All cops are bastards because when Jonathan Ross murdered Renee Good by shooting her three times in the head, none of the cops present tried to stop him or apprehended him, and because those same cops made sure that doctors could not treat Good before she died, and because cops have helped Ross hide rather than hunting him down and arresting him for murder, and because cops around the country haven’t spoken out to demand the arrest of this fugitive murderer because they think he did the right and justified thing, because all cops are bastards.

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already sorted

Dear #SysAdmin fedi – I need a CLI tool that would canonicalize a DNS zone file. As in: put all the entries in a well-defined order, replace whitespace with a predefined pattern, organize the SOA section in a reproducible manner.

My basic need is being able to tell two zone files are 100% functionally equivalent, even if one uses tabs, the other spaces, and if entries are in completely random order, etc.

Edit: sorted, named-checkzone probably does the trick

#DevOps

#devops #sysadmin
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Despite what some folks might say, I am very aware of what's happening these days. I am not ignorant or turning a blind eye to things, but I'm also in a position where there's not much I can do. Some people might say I should protest, but something like that could be dangerous, even more so for me. I'm not necessarily hiding somewhere and waiting for things to pass, I'm keeping eyes on things, but I also have fragile enough mental health that the constant worrying and reading of the news is going to do me no good and I know that.
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