@farah
I love this pic. You look adorable.

@tom It doesn’t. It’s the browser in charge of doing the password-to-passkey upgrade.

Belgian journalism cooperative Apache is going to be testing Bonfire as a space for its readers, inspired by #Jacobin work in Germany.
Independent media building community spaces where readers and journalists can meet, participate, and connect across the fediverse. This is the kind of social web we want to support.
Their ongoing diary of leaving big tech is worth a read (in Dutch): apache.be/vaarwel-big-tech

Belgian journalism cooperative Apache is going to be testing Bonfire as a space for its readers, inspired by #Jacobin work in Germany.
Independent media building community spaces where readers and journalists can meet, participate, and connect across the fediverse. This is the kind of social web we want to support.
Their ongoing diary of leaving big tech is worth a read (in Dutch): apache.be/vaarwel-big-tech

@catsalad @Ashedryden On fedi, we have chat j'ai pété

@mastodonmigration Just FYI, AP News has had some coverage (no paywall)

https://apnews.com/article/albania-protest-kushner-trump-rama-a5fd528fe90f515ffe0f0712304c39a5

video = https://apnews.com/video/protest-against-kushner-linked-coastal-development-held-near-albanias-parliament-f09c4305bc7548f3a37a5aa1d5463826

about AP News:

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FOSDEM 2027 Call for Main Track talks

Proposals for main track talks for FOSDEM 2027 can now be submitted!
FOSDEM offers open source and free software developers a place to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Renowned for being highly developer-oriented, the event brings together some 8000+ geeks from all over the world.
The twenty-seventh edition will take place on Saturday 30th and Sunday 31st of January 2027 at the usual location, ULB Campus Solbosch in ...
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https://fosdem.org/2027/news/call-for-main-track/

@apLundell 1) First by directly burning gas to use the brightness of the flame as a light source, later by burning (a different, cheaper) gas to heat some material that becomes bright when incandescent (modern gas lamps used for camping work that way). 2) Yes. 3) Also yes.

Wise words from a wise man.

Mal ernsthaft: Wer öffnet auf seinem MacOS- oder iOS-Produktivsystem seine Daten und Dateien für agentische KI von Meta oder ChatGPT? Seid Ihr denn total verstrahlt?

17:30: En Galatea. Compro libros. Me invitan a un cocktail que se realizará a las 18, ofrecido por la revista Sur. (Me alegro, pues quiero conocer a V. Ocampo, quien según me dicen «se acostó con todos los escritores argentinos».)

- Alejandra Pizarnik, Diarios

"Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman"

In a word Sam? No. In several more words? "Get in the fucking sea you fascist maggot."

@RussellsBarbershopQuartet And at least a decade or two of history, under their belts! Maybe even more than three!

@lowqualityfacts if it goes through AI, that seems about right

Une cinquième illustration pour le #InktoberVénère avec comme thème « Cocktail ».

Je ne voulais pas le dessiner comme ça, mais l’actualité m’a particulièrement énervé aujourd’hui.

Donc voilà… Première fois que je dessine ce genre d’outil et au vu de la situation actuelle, pas sûr que ça soit la dernière.

Une grosse pensée à tous les lycéens qui se font massacrer juste parce qu’ils veulent pouvoir étudier dans les meilleures conditions possibles.

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