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AI assistants are the archnemesis
of data privacy.
Because AI models are inherent
data collectors.
They rely on large data collection for training, improvement, operation, and customization.
More often than not, this data is collected without clear and informed consent (from unknowing training subjects or from platform users). This data is then sent to and accessed by a private company with many incentives to share and monetize this data.
By using these platforms, we are encouraging them to collect even more nonconsensual data on everyone. This is an important social responsibility to consider. Choose carefully.
AI is the excuse companies use for surveillance. The more people using it as it’s implemented, the more information they have to pinpoint more specifics about a person’s digital footprint.
No warrant necessary
コンビニ行くか…？？
My message to Ursula von der Leyen in The Guardian this morning:
America’s bet on AI is now so gigantic that every MAGA voter’s pension is bound to the bubble’s precarious survival. If she grabs Trump where it hurts, Europe will win this fight.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/17/europe-donald-trump-ai-bubble-us-economy-eu
AI ruins everything [uni]
Going to uni a few years ago was like being a sponge. Constant information coming at me and I had to absorb as much as possible.
Now it's like being the work experience kid at Legal Aid. Staff present you with bullshit, you expend a bit of effort finding both the real information and a paper on why that particular type of AI is unsuitable for use in education. They blow you off, repeat.
ｵﾌﾄｩﾝにいると眠たくなる ネマシュ
I'm reaching the age where people don't believe that the things I vaguely remember from my childhood ever existed.
Please reply if you have ever seen one of these in real life:
Can we all take a moment to admire that they thought to give these cats buttholes.
Statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, UK
Link: https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-de/aktuelles/statement-by-denmark-finland-france-germany-the-netherlands-norway-sweden-and-the-united-kingdom-2403016
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46669945
boost if you’re queer or a vampire. no one will ever know which one
This is the last nap for these goofballs on my window hammock. They move into their new apartment with their mom and dad tonight 😢
Once they’re out, I have to start the “de-gnocchification” of my house, which is mainly repairing or replacing and repainting the door trim that Gnocchi has shredded. (Gnocchi is the gray/brown/black one in the picture - he is a super sweet boy that has a scratching problem)
#CatsofMastodon #Mastocats #Cats #CatsofFediverse #Sunday
Happy Sunday from Felix! It was 21F this morning, but it's warmed up to the 50sF now. Very sunny. He's still glad he's an inside cat.
This is the last nap for these goofballs on my window hammock. They move into their new apartment with their mom and dad tonight 😢
Once they’re out, I have to start the “de-gnocchification” of my house, which is mainly repairing or replacing and repainting the door trim that Gnocchi has shredded. (Gnocchi is the gray/brown/black one in the picture - he is a super sweet boy that has a scratching problem)
This lazy boy got to lounge on the warm bed all morning while I was riding my bicycle 14 miles (22.5 km) to the next town over in 15°F weather (-9°C) in order to buy a bag of rocks (as well as some groceries). Fortunately the cold temperatures meant I had the trail mostly to myself 
In the summer I would have been having to weave back and forth through pedestrians the whole time.
I'm migrating from another instance, so it's #introduction time again!
I'm Fabio, a software developer originally from #Brazil based in Toronto. I work mostly with #Ruby and #Javascript but I'm always trying new languages and stacks.
I'm very much an #AI skeptic – borderline hater when it comes to AI "art". Yes, I know the tools, hence my opinion.
I make music sometimes using #Ableton, #DirtyWaveM8, #PolyendTracker and I also play live #drums
I'm openly #queer, #bisexual and #AntiFascist
Morgen Abend Düsseldorf Japaner für vier Pers. Hat da meine TL Meinungen/Empf.?
Spent the last couple of days making a bunch of improvements to my website. The sort of stuff that isn't big and flashy, but which makes everything feel a lot more polished.
And I learnt some interesting things along the way which I now want to blog about, so it's a double win!
A small discovery I made along the way:
a) There are still cases where modern browsers (and RSS readers) will request favicon.ico from your website: You can offer something nicer like a PNG in your HTML, but if the user loads something that isn't HTML (an image, an RSS feed, etc.), how would it know to look?
b) The .ico format is just a container, the image inside can be in various formats
c) Most programs that work with .ico files insist on converting the contents to an old-school uncompressed BMP image :(
After trying and failing for a while to get ImageMagick to do what I wanted, ffmpeg came to the rescue: the command
ffmpeg -i favicon.png -c:v copy favicon.ico
does pack the input PNG into a .ico container without conversion! Hooray!
RE: https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org/115915708283055909
Spain could have been a scientific superpower; but the Reconquista brought them intellectual & infrastructural ruin.
did you know that after the fall of Granada in 1492, the inbred monarchy and royalty of Spain spent the next 406 years getting rid of the people who built the physical & intellectual infrastructure that made them an imperial power? the last big expulsión was in 1898, right before the break of the Spanish-American war.
xenophobia makes people, and whole nations, dumb.
This lazy boy got to lounge on the warm bed all morning while I was riding my bicycle 14 miles (22.5 km) to the next town over in 15°F weather (-9°C) in order to buy a bag of rocks (as well as some groceries). Fortunately the cold temperatures meant I had the trail mostly to myself In the summer I would have been having to weave back and forth through pedestrians the whole time.
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad/115909606321546819
Darth Baker wants to play too!
A free and open-source rootkit for Linux
Link: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1053099/19c2e8180aeb0438/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46666288
Trump now tariffing EU if Greenland is not ceded. Macron is now rightly pushing to deploy Europe’s Trade Bazooka. As I wrote in The Guardian months ago this is long overdue.
My call in October —> https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/09/the-eu-has-a-secret-weapon-to-counter-trumps-economic-bullying-its-time-to-use-it
“In a creative market dominated by five publishers, four studios, three labels, two mobile app stores, and a single company that controls all the ebooks and audiobooks, giving a creative worker extra rights to bargain with is like giving your bullied kid more lunch money.” - 
@pluralisticCory Doctorow
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/18/tech-ai-bubble-burst-reverse-centaur
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad/115909606321546819
Darth Baker wants to play too!
Sometimes when I see programming experts trying to help new learners I imagine what would happen if we were a driving school:
"The gas pedal makes the car go, right?"
"Well, only if the engine is started, and not if you are out of gas, and not if the car is in neutral, and not if the car is parked against a wall, and not if the parking brake is on, and it shouldn't be called a gas pedal in an electric car, and, and, and...."
Sometimes when I see programming experts trying to help new learners I imagine what would happen if we were a driving school:
"The gas pedal makes the car go, right?"
"Well, only if the engine is started, and not if you are out of gas, and not if the car is in neutral, and not if the car is parked against a wall, and not if the parking brake is on, and it shouldn't be called a gas pedal in an electric car, and, and, and...."
RE: https://badgefed.org/grant/badgefedorg_135_8_81bd973ba9611087987c50769193a675
Thank you 
@fajferDamian Fajfer for helping me troubleshoot badgefed in #k8s
🛠️ Code Contributor – Badgefed was issued by BadgeFed to Damian Fajfer
You've rolled up your sleeves and made the fediverse a better place—one commit at a time. This badge is awarded to those who improve the BadgeFed project's source code, squash bugs, or add new features.
badgefed.org
Link author: 
BadgeFed@badges@badgefed.org
Gaussian Splatting – A$AP Rocky Helicopter Music Video
Link: https://radiancefields.com/a-ap-rocky-releases-helicopter-music-video-featuring-gaussian-splatting
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46670024
Trump is now implying that Canada is dependent on the USA acquiring Greenland in order for it to gain “protection” under the “golden dome”.
It is time for Canada to end its participation in the Golden Dome and NORAD until the USA once again becomes a trustworthy global nation.
We cannot be dragged into complicity with international crimes.
It is time for Canadians to have a very very deep discussion about our military, our own expectations, and our neighbour. The days of “the longest unguarded border” are gone.
We need to consider a much more European stance. A much more Ukrainian stance.
#canpoli #cdnpoli #usa #nato #norad #russiaUkraineWar #theAmericanFascist
https://www.trumpstruth.org/statuses/34583
@chrisChris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 Most of the EU borders are unguarded. In fact, in some places you cross the street and you're in another country!
You know what?
*Unshrimps your shrimp scampi*
Trump is now implying that Canada is dependent on the USA acquiring Greenland in order for it to gain “protection” under the “golden dome”.
It is time for Canada to end its participation in the Golden Dome and NORAD until the USA once again becomes a trustworthy global nation.
We cannot be dragged into complicity with international crimes.
It is time for Canadians to have a very very deep discussion about our military, our own expectations, and our neighbour. The days of “the longest unguarded border” are gone.
We need to consider a much more European stance. A much more Ukrainian stance.
#canpoli #cdnpoli #usa #nato #norad #russiaUkraineWar #theAmericanFascist
https://www.trumpstruth.org/statuses/34583
Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, new data shows https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/18/threads-edges-out-x-in-daily-mobile-users-new-data-shows/
Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, new data shows | TechCrunch
Threads’ daily mobile usage has quietly surpassed X as Meta leans on cross-promotion, creator tools and fast feature rollouts — even as X faces fresh controversies
techcrunch.com · TechCrunch
Link author: 
Sarah Perez 💙@Sarahp@mastodon.social
My comments are littered with folks asking "why is it a problem if your blocklist is public on Bluesky?"
I'm glad you asked.
"Who you block" is a reasonable indicator of your personal alignments. If you block TERFs, you're likely trans-friendly, if not trans yourself. If you block white supremacists, you're likely in support of multiculturalism.
If you block government entities, well, you know how this goes.
Do I trust Bluesky to handle that information with care? Hell no.
망고스틴부리또 주문하신분 찾습니다 부드럽고 실합니다
If you keep claiming that it's necessary for your country to invade neighbouring countries for "national security," where do you draw the line?
Does this keep growing until you've eaten the whole world?
How far are you willing to let your government eat the whole world for supposedly "national security"?
Do you really think this kind of mindset is going to make you safer? Has invading other countries in the past ever made you safer?
고려사항 신라사항 백제사항
Sometimes when I see programming experts trying to help new learners I imagine what would happen if we were a driving school:
"The gas pedal makes the car go, right?"
"Well, only if the engine is started, and not if you are out of gas, and not if the car is in neutral, and not if the car is parked against a wall, and not if the parking brake is on, and it shouldn't be called a gas pedal in an electric car, and, and, and...."
Programming is about understanding computers.
Teaching is about understanding people.
One of my fave things about the BBC is that a bunch of old stories are still rendered in the original UI from the time they were published. The site's a living museum of every CMS they've ever run. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2220725.stm
Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, new data shows https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/18/threads-edges-out-x-in-daily-mobile-users-new-data-shows/
Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, new data shows | TechCrunch
Threads’ daily mobile usage has quietly surpassed X as Meta leans on cross-promotion, creator tools and fast feature rollouts — even as X faces fresh controversies
techcrunch.com · TechCrunch
Link author: Sarah Perez 💙@Sarahp@mastodon.social
@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
@maxleibman I just wonder which Linux version he’s recommending.
@adriano @catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) Based on the body language, probably RHEL.
The future of Rust isn’t hypothetical. It’s taking shape in real codebases, real teams, and real decisions right now.
We’re inviting #rustconf talks that reflect that reality.
CFP open — but only until Feb 16 ⌛ https://sessionize.com/rustconf-2026/ #rustconf26
The grab list: how museums decide what to save in a disaster
Link: https://www.economist.com/1843/2025/11/21/the-grab-list-how-museums-decide-what-to-save-in-a-disaster
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46616077
“In a creative market dominated by five publishers, four studios, three labels, two mobile app stores, and a single company that controls all the ebooks and audiobooks, giving a creative worker extra rights to bargain with is like giving your bullied kid more lunch money.” - @pluralisticCory Doctorow
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/18/tech-ai-bubble-burst-reverse-centaur
My comments are littered with folks asking "why is it a problem if your blocklist is public on Bluesky?"
I'm glad you asked.
"Who you block" is a reasonable indicator of your personal alignments. If you block TERFs, you're likely trans-friendly, if not trans yourself. If you block white supremacists, you're likely in support of multiculturalism.
If you block government entities, well, you know how this goes.
Do I trust Bluesky to handle that information with care? Hell no.
An interview with Ketino, a member of the 
@blackrose_rosanegraBlack Rose / Rosa Negra, about the US relationship to the rest of the hemisphere, anarchism, anti-Imperialism, Capitalism and Internationalism
Wasm-Mutate: Fast and Effective Binary Diversification for WebAssembly https://lobste.rs/s/woqh3d #pdf #testing
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.07638
洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)
洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) 
@reiver ⊼ (Charles) 
