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Good morning, everybody! Whether you want one or not.
Indien widerruft Anordnung zur Vorinstallation einer Sicherheits-App
Nach viel Kritik nimmt die Regierung in Neu-Delhi eine Bestimmung zur Vorinstallation einer nicht löschbaren Cybersicherheits-App auf Smartphones zurück.
#Cybersecurity #Datenschutz #IT #Netzpolitik #Smartphone #Überwachung #news
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おはむぎちゃん！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！
Today (December 3rd) is International Day of People with Disabilities - and so I thought I would share this graphic which emphasises that not all disabilities are visible.
This year's theme is 'fostering disability-inclusive societies for advancing social progress'; which on a purely practical level make sense as so much promise & potential is lost when people with disabilities are excluded or suffer prejudice in the workplace & more widely!
h/t Kate Hapin/LinkedIn
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Alpine Linux 3.23.0 Released: apk-tools v3, linux-stable replaces linux-edge via 
@fossddachill https://lobste.rs/s/70rhjl #linux
https://alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.23.0-released.html
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I "love" the way those (ir)responsible for cyber insecurity (time-to-market + profit maximizing fetishists selling closed systems) propose even more closed systems as a cure and even get them mandated as part of cyber "security" directives 😡
Intellectual challenge: Come up with a plausible meaning, any plausible meaning, for the target triple "none-none-none".
Maybe impossible.
My cold got better in the evening, so I finished editing the article about reverse-engineering a rare but historically important operating system VisiCorp VisiOn. A ~10,000-word-long write-up is accompanied by the first-ever third-party application for Visi On, developed by my fiancée, Atsuko.
名優 メジロマックイーン ウマ娘
In 2025, Tor faced some of the toughest censorship yet. Thanks to real-time monitoring & community feedback that helped us improve and deploy new tools, Tor kept people connected when it mattered most. Want to help? Run a Snowflake proxy or host a WebTunnel: https://blog.torproject.org/staying-ahead-of-censors-2025/
As AI wipes jobs, Google CEO Sundar Pichai says it’s up to everyday people to adapt accordingly: ‘We will have to work through societal disruption’ https://fortune.com/2025/12/02/ai-wipes-jobs-google-ceo-sundar-pichai-everyday-people-to-adapt-accordingly-we-have-to-work-through-societal-disruption/
I say tax the fucking robots 🤖
지속불가능한 기적은 필요없다. 나는 불가역적인 필연을 요구한다.
박근혜를 잡아넣은 검사가 극우 내란수괴가 되고, 한 번 끌어내린 트럼프가 재집권하는 따위의 퇴행이 이루어진 걸 보고 나니, 그에 앞서서 몇 가지 상쾌한 이벤트들이 있었던들 그것을 민주주의의 승리라고 섣불리 불러서는 안 되는 것이었다고 생각하게 된다.
2017년 이후의 여러 흐름으로 경험한 것은, 민주주의의 승리를 쉽게 말해서는 안 된다는 사실이다. 아무리 거국적 분위기가 그럴싸해 보여도 차별, 혐오, 증오, 선동이 방치되는 이상 전선은 언제라도 후퇴할 수 있다. 민주주의의 승리는 선거 한두 번이나 악당 몇 명의 처벌로 달성되는 것이 아니다. 나는 견고하고 불가역절인 사회대전환을 원한다. 빠르고 확실하면 제일 좋으나, 둘 모두를 동시에 달성할 수 없다면 확실하기라도 해야 한다.
A short tale from way back when I worked at Apple: My team had a lot of lunchtime meetings and they usually got pizza to feed us lunch while we worked. There were two of us on the team who were vegetarian, so they'd order six or eight pizzas for the team and all of them would have meat except for the one meatless pizza they had for just the two of us. But everyone likes vegetarian pizza, so people would get in line, take what looked good which included the veggie pizza, and by the time I got to the veggie pizza it would be gone and I'd have no lunch (and the other vegetarian had the same problem, of course). They tried to get the non-vegetarian people to stop eating the veggie pizza, then tried to hide it so only we veggies could get it, but nothing worked. So I suggested they order four kinds of vegetarian pizzas and a couple pizzas with meat, and that worked out great and there was much rejoicing.
This is a post about gatekeeping disability accommodations.
I have a small talk on making org-babel reactive in this year's #emacsconf (it's the first talk on 6th). It's honestly not much but hey! if you are hanging around, I would love to discuss and learn your org-babel workflows and tricks.
In a partnership with Mistral AI, CNRS is deploying a locally-hosted LLM chatbot for its employees.
They provide some examples of tasks you can ask the chatbot: summarizing a long text; translating; and writing an outline for an article.
Tasks you'd want to delegate to an assistant because they're beneath you.
And then they decided it would be a great idea to "honor" Emmy Noether, one of the most influential women mathematicians ever, by naming this chatbot Emmy after her.
I cannot fully express how angry that makes me.
Can't be arsed to read something yourself? Ask good old Emmy to summarize it for you, that's right up her alley, she'll do it between proving two major results in algebra or mathematical physics, too bad she's only a website and can't make you a cup of coffee while she's at it.
https://alan-poc.dsi.cnrs.fr/accueil/index.html (in French)
Edited to add: given the URL, looks like it's Turing whose memory they first wanted to "honor" https://mastodon.opportunis.me/@olasd/115656931602686583
@cazencottChloé Azencott bloody daffodils. This is outrageous.
@HydrePreverLe Néandertal sous benzo the name upsets me even more than the tool. Bloody well done.
You might think it's not a priority with all the doom happening around.
But the erosion of privacy rights is directly linked to the erosion of human rights, and the loss of democracy.
Privacy makes it safe for you to discuss, to organize, to resist, and to be your true self. This is exactly why fascists and authoritarians are attacking it.
If we lose privacy, we lose everything else. We have to defend it with all we've got.
Privacy rights are a priority.
@Em0nM4stodonEm 
Also a somewhat distinct right of #anonymity that’s being lost. That you can walk down the street without strangers ID’ing you, likewise surfing the Internet
みなさまおはようございます。
今日もみなさまにとってお健やかに素敵な1日がおとずれますように。
You are broke so we are going to charge you for being broke.
-Bank fees
Tiny Privacy Tip for The Holidays 🎄📸:
Do not forget to ask for consent before posting online a photo including other people.
Data privacy is team work and consent is essential. This is important.
Always ask first ✔️💚
You might think it's not a priority with all the doom happening around.
But the erosion of privacy rights is directly linked to the erosion of human rights, and the loss of democracy.
Privacy makes it safe for you to discuss, to organize, to resist, and to be your true self. This is exactly why fascists and authoritarians are attacking it.
If we lose privacy, we lose everything else. We have to defend it with all we've got.
Privacy rights are a priority.
@Em0nM4stodonEm Privacy and free expression leave your mind outside the purview of fascists. You can still say 2+2=4. This must be defended in order to defend anything else, or we end up with the modern equivalent of the town crier, the bottleneck to control the flow of information.
2.
"The law of war is a delusion designed by great powers by their servant lawyers & diplomats so that it will never hinder their military ambitions."
"There's so much wriggle room... by the major powers... that their own troops will, by & large, not fall foul of it."
Eg, Nuremberg didn't prosecute Göring for bombing civilians, bcz "they were afraid he'd run the 'You did it too' defence."
"Bcz there's no clear law against it."
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/latenightlive/geoffrey-robertson-war-crimes-/106097984
寒っ、寒っ😆
With algorithmic management, bosses have figured out new ways to evade the law and steal from workers https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/25/roboboss/#counterapps
Workers trapped by algorithmic management are stripped of agency and problem-solving opportunities.
"Cloudworkers" and other algorithmically managed workers are relentlessly surveilled.
おはさむ・すぎる
With algorithmic management, bosses have figured out new ways to evade the law and steal from workers https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/25/roboboss/#counterapps
Workers trapped by algorithmic management are stripped of agency and problem-solving opportunities.
"Cloudworkers" and other algorithmically managed workers are relentlessly surveilled.
Intellectual challenge: Come up with a plausible meaning, any plausible meaning, for the target triple "none-none-none".
Maybe impossible.
Has anyone ever done compiler backend work that resulted in defining a target triple for a turing machine. Or lambda calculus, or the SKI machine
Palm!!! - Hirohisa Suzuki
https://macthemes.garden/themes/1a7e8b587d98-Palm
Every astronomer who complains about satellite streaks has heard the same response from techbro-types: "Why don't you just put all your telescopes in space?"
There are an incredibly large number of reasons why that is totally not going to work. But here's another from Borloff et al "Satellite megaconstellations will threaten space-based astronomy"
The accompanying News & Views piece "Even in space, satellites photobomb telescopes" by @merrdiff.bsky.socialMeredith Rawls is excellent!
Here's a lovely space-based telescope image, with 560,000 satellite friends. Thanks, techbros.
You are broke so we are going to charge you for being broke.
-Bank fees
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AI Warning: Google has been caught A/B testing replacing real article headlines with AI-generated substitutes, which are of course sometimes wildly misleading/against journalistic ethics. If you see a blatantly horrible headline in a news aggregator, check whether the site's own page matches before blaming the site! https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/googles-toying-with-nonsense-ai-made-headlines-on-articles-like-ours-in-the-discover-feed-so-please-dont-blame-me-for-clickbait-like-bg3-players-exploit-children/
with or without AI, A/B testing as practiced by Silicon Valley is unethical. It ranges from quiet gaslighting to full-on Stanford prison experiments with no ethics board or informed consent.
函館だって!!
Dass die #CDU allen weismachen will, Walter #Lübcke, der Mord an ihm und dessen Gedenken wäre jedem anderen verboten und als schändlich zu kommentieren, entspringt derselben Gutsherrenart, die auch "verbietet", #Merz für seine #Stadtbild -Äußerung oder seine Mehrheitsbeschaffung mit der #AfD zu kritisieren. Die unanfechtbare Unbelehrbarkeit dieser Partei und der Ton, den sie bei ihrer Abwehrhaltung auffährt, sind eine Schande!
@Life_isC.Suthorn 
Die Asbestplatten!
@quincy Hocheffizienzasbest. @Life_isC.Suthorn
Intellectual challenge: Come up with a plausible meaning, any plausible meaning, for the target triple "none-none-none".
Maybe impossible.
Chris Siebenmann
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