I'm so grateful and proud that the EU MEPs voted yes to amendment 5 and thereby narrowed the #chatcontrol extension down to something surprisingly reasonable.
Now, we just need to ensure that the scope for the permanent law is similar, and doesn't include #privacy invasive #ageverification or #idverification mandates.

My takeaway on the current state in Canada is:

- An OS can mandate age collection (as long as it stays on device)

- Mandating such collection will face issues.

- Deployment of an OS that mandates age collection could be an issue

- Any attempt to use that collected data will face issues (especially if developers are required to be deemed to have collected it)

There's just a few days left to apply for LibreLocal funding: https://u.fsf.org/4ar #FSF #FreeSoftware

📣 PyCon US Travel Grant applicants: notifications have been sent! Please check your inbox and respond by March 20th, 2026, to secure your grant- no reply means an automatic decline. Don't miss your chance to join us! #PyConUS
https://us.pycon.org/2026/accounts/dashboard/

I tried to walk like an Egyptian but now I need to see a Cairo practor.

Interested in a low-cost computer or microprocessor? Many have doubled in price over the last few months due to RAM shortages. https://spectrum.ieee.org/ram-shortage-price-increase?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Mastodon-Daily-Pipeline

僕はたまーにSonyの古いノイズキャンセルヘッドホン (WH-1000XM2) で音楽を聞くと、今まで知らなかった音が聞こえてきてうれしいことがあるよ。

​​ ​​

"If you want to improve the model's output, you can write skill files with more specific instructions!"

"Oh wow so like a file that tells the computer to do exactly what you want?"

"Yep!"

"You're never gonna believe this."

📣 PyCon US Travel Grant applicants: notifications have been sent! Please check your inbox and respond by March 20th, 2026, to secure your grant- no reply means an automatic decline. Don't miss your chance to join us! #PyConUS
https://us.pycon.org/2026/accounts/dashboard/

But: If you have any chance to speak to unions/workers from different domains and organizations do so.
It's fascinating how
a) different organizations are and operate
b) they all end up with the same handful of structural problems

Another Sony banger:

This is a reversible USB-A to reversible micro-usb cable.

Where is your god now.

AltStore 2.3 (81)

NEW

Social Web
• Discover apps and sources on our explore page https://explore.alt.store
• Developers can opt-in to have their sources federated to explore page
• View all likes on federated apps, app updates, and news alerts in-app
• Sign in with your Mastodon or Bluesky account to like federated items directly in-app
• Share links to federated items with others or view them in system browser

Liquid Glass UI
• Updated design to fit at home on iOS 26
• New Liquid Glass app icon

Source Collections
• Redesigned Add Source screen makes discovering sources easier than ever
• View all featured sources, or view specific source “collections”

FIXED

• Fixed unreadable text in light mode for some news alerts (thanks @partyknightsdev!)
• Fixed My Apps tab badge count showing incorrect number of app updates
• Fixed showing empty text view for updates with no description
• Fixed Apple’s system download button not being accessible with VoiceOver
• Fixed difficulty accessing app banner button when VoiceOver is enabled
• Fixed category cells not being accessible with VoiceOver
• Fixed AltStore incorrectly thinking an updated failed when it succeeded in background
• Fixed false-positive errors due to installed version (temporarily) not matching expected version

https://altstore.io/source/marketplace.altstore.io?app=io.altstore.AltStore&version=2.3.7

#Update

Show HN: Vanilla JavaScript refinery simulator built to explain job to my kids

Link: https://fuelingcuriosity.com/game.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47338091

RE: https://explore.alt.store/@altstore/116210899682565583

The wait is over! Today we’re officially joining the fediverse 🚀

AltStore PAL 2.3 is now available and makes it easier than ever to discover new apps from across the social web 🌐

Even better — we’re also launching some awesome fediverse apps on AltStore to celebrate!

Learn more 🧵

今日は涼しいのでバランスボール椅子が沈下しています。気圧足しとくねｼｭｺｼｭｺ

But: If you have any chance to speak to unions/workers from different domains and organizations do so.
It's fascinating how
a) different organizations are and operate
b) they all end up with the same handful of structural problems

Which was really fucked up to see: These folks actually want to protect their organizations from burning a lot of resources on bullshit instead of fixing actual problems that help the workers _and_ the organization. And they have to actively fight management who got their brains ruined on linkedin.

But it was super fun to lead them through a "this is how you can force reasonable evaluation on 'AI' projects which kills most of them" framework and see how they felt empowered and able to actually do their job again.

Spend the day talking to workers council members about "AI". And it's kinda wild hearing their stories from the wild: Management is 100% in fantasy "AI" can do everything land and makes huge plans for how to use "AI" to cut workers when real projects that supposedly can do 50% of a specific task end up being able to do 8%. And they still go live. It's fucking bonkers. CEO's are really not okay.

A commish for @cabbidachi.gay@bsky.brid.gy!! 🌈

Hello!

For example, I want to delete all tags that are on the forum. I do this centrally in the admin panel.
The problem is that after I delete all the tags, the forum topics still remain tagged.
The opposite situation also occurs.
A tag may exist in the admin panel list, but will not be linked to any of the topics.
The second option is acceptable. What should be done about the first?
How should tags be handled correctly?

This is a reversible USB-A to reversible micro-usb cable.

Where is your god now.

eddy burback loves making videos like "I drove to the forest, threw myself down a hole, and was stuck for 9 days. what this means about society? you be the judge"

Set up my MacBook Neo and, after login, iCloud sync wiped 300+ shortcuts from the Shortcuts app.

All gone.

Thankfully, I have a backup, but…ooof.

Gotta rethink how much I trust iCloud these days.

[StS 2 Fan Comic] What drew them to the Spire?

I love the regent cuz all the other characters have tragic backstories and what not and Regent is like "me bored :D". I also love how he plays and his epochs are fantastic. The fact that he's pompous without being mean is also really endearing. 10/10 character. love him.

Cameras embedded in glasses introduce all sorts of new privacy problems. Here's a framework for thinking about them. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/think-twice-buying-or-using-metas-ray-bans

Hang out with us tonight in San Francisco! Come meet Eelco Dolstra, creator of Nix, chat with other Nix at work users, have a drink, and see the latest features in Determinate Nix. More details and RSVP here: https://luma.com/onng7h4c

Grammarly says it will stop using AI to clone experts without permission https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/893270/grammarly-ai-expert-review-disabled

バーターでスクランブルエッグ作ると最高に香ばしくておいしいよね。

あかん変な目の覚め方した

​​​​​​​​

I'm writing this in English.

Not because English is my first language—it isn't. I'm writing this in English because if I wrote it in Korean, the people I'm addressing would run it through an outdated translator, misread it, and respond to something I never said. The responsibility for that mistranslation would fall on me. It always does.

This is the thing Eugen Rochko's post misses, despite its good intentions.

@GargronEugen Rochko argues that LLMs are no substitute for human translators, and that people who think otherwise don't actually rely on translation. He's right about some of this. A machine-translated novel is not the same as one rendered by a skilled human translator. But the argument rests on a premise that only makes sense from a certain position: that translation is primarily about quality, about the aesthetic experience of reading literature in another language.

For many of us, translation is first about access.

The professional translation market doesn't scale to cover everything. It never has. What gets translated—and into which languages—follows the logic of cultural hegemony. Works from dominant Western languages flow outward, translated into everything. Works from East Asian languages trickle in, selectively, slowly, on someone else's schedule. The asymmetry isn't incidental; it's structural.

@GargronEugen Rochko notes, fairly, that machine translation existed decades before LLMs. But this is only half the story, and which half matters depends entirely on which languages you're talking about. European language pairs were reasonably serviceable with older tools. Korean–English, Japanese–English, Chinese–English? Genuinely usable translation for these pairs arrived with the LLM era. Treating “machine translation” as a monolithic technology with a uniform history erases the experience of everyone whose language sits far from the Indo-European center.

There's also something uncomfortable in the framing of the button-press thought experiment: “I would erase LLMs even if it took machine translation with it.” For someone whose language has always been peripheral, that button looks very different. It's not an abstract philosophical position; it's a statement about whose access to information is expendable.

I want to be clear: none of this is an argument that LLMs are good, or that the harms @GargronEugen Rochko describes aren't real. They are. But a critique of AI doesn't become more universal by ignoring whose languages have always been on the margins. If anything, a serious critique of AI's political economy should be more attentive to those asymmetries, not less.

The fact that I'm writing this in English, carefully, so it won't be misread—that's not incidental to my argument. That is my argument.

일단 오늘은 여까지

Where do you meet the people who move the Open Social Web forward? All without traveling? At #FediForum of course!

Join us April 28-30, 2026, online, scheduled so people anywhere from central Europe and Africa to the Americas can participate without losing too much sleep.

https://fediforum.org/2026-04/

よいし

(upstream/main) Use bundler version 4.0.8 (#38150)
Disable `use_multi_json` for json validator / match_json_schema (#38151)
Collection editor: Format topic as hashtag (#38153)
Ingestion of remote collections (#38144)
Profile editing: Always show field buttons (#38152)
Refactor collection editor state handling (#38133)
Profile editing: Add warning for links (#38148)
Profile editing: Fix bug with reordering (#38147)
Update dependency rspec-rails to v8.0.4 (#38146)
Convert attempt IP from EmailDomainBlock history tracking to string before recording (#38137)
Use `around_action` to set locale in admin/notification mailers (#38140)
New Crowdin Translations (automated) (#38143)
Update dependency fastimage to v2.4.1 (#38135)
Update `RemoteIp` patch with Rails 8.1 changes (#38139)
Change HTTP signatures to skip the `Accept` header (#38132)
Add fallback to `Object` intent for FEP-3b86 in remote interaction helper (#38130)
Prevent hover card from showing unintentionally (#38112)

Commercial social media is one of the biggest sources of data exploitation. By staying active there, we continue to indirectly support this invasion of privacy.

🌱 Learn more on how you can minimize your presence and slowly build better social networks.

🧰 Check our Privacy Activist Toolbox tip to Improve Your Social Media: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/activism/toolbox/tip-improve-your-social-media-and-build-resilient-communities/

#PrivacyGuides #Activism #PrivacyActivistToolbox #Privacy #Mastodon #Fediverse

It was on this day
six years ago
that the WHO
officially declared
COVID-19
a global pandemic.

So it is on this day
six years later
that all of us
officially enter
the seventh year
of this pandemic.

WHAT? We’re hosting a launch party for Privacy’s Defender, a new book by EFF’s Cindy Cohn!
WHEN? Thursday, March 12 at 6:30 PM.
WHERE? Ciel Creative Space in Berkeley, CA. RSVP Today! https://www.eff.org/event/privacys-defender-book-launch-party

이번달에 쓸 지능 다 쓴 기분임 진짜루 눕진다

Commercial social media is one of the biggest sources of data exploitation. By staying active there, we continue to indirectly support this invasion of privacy.

🌱 Learn more on how you can minimize your presence and slowly build better social networks.

🧰 Check our Privacy Activist Toolbox tip to Improve Your Social Media: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/activism/toolbox/tip-improve-your-social-media-and-build-resilient-communities/

#PrivacyGuides #Activism #PrivacyActivistToolbox #Privacy #Mastodon #Fediverse

Python community need data normalization lol

How should we keep track info like this person using Mariatta's personal email address is the same Mariatta that uses Python Core email address and also the Mariatta that uses PyLadiesCon email address and the same Mariatta that speaks at event ABC or XYZ that also sometimes goes without her last name? I'm sure this is not problem that is unique to Mariatta? 🤣 Also I don't wanna hear it if the answer is in the form of spreadsheets 🙉

마리 한 박스 묘닝.

WHAT? We’re hosting a launch party for Privacy’s Defender, a new book by EFF’s Cindy Cohn!
WHEN? Thursday, March 12 at 6:30 PM.
WHERE? Ciel Creative Space in Berkeley, CA. RSVP Today! https://www.eff.org/event/privacys-defender-book-launch-party