Meta’s $17 billion settlement with 52 state attorneys general doesn’t just affect teens. It requires age assurance for Facebook and Instagram users in nearly every state, and normalizes an invasive system that threatens anonymity online. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/09/metas-17-billion-settlement-bad-deal-teens-and-all-social-media-users
@refactoredd I’m actually very glad this happened. It’s useful to know this is a corporate strategy.
@mattiem He’s CEO though he could be like Ill change that policy if I disagree with it. He could’ve just kept it to the Apple company account only.
helping the new person figure out this fedi thing
Who Is John Ternus, the New Apple CEO? https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/09/01/1955204/who-is-john-ternus-the-new-apple-ceo?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
I've just seen this Peter Drucker management quote that I think encapsulates AI perfectly:
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
A lot of people are using AI to automate processes that exist, instead of asking what the process accomplished in the first place.
This is one of the lists I found:
https://slopscan.ava.pet/repo/https%3A%2F%2Fgithub%2Ecom%2FImageMagick%2FImageMagick
@RussSharek 3 out of over 800 commits within that date range honestly doesn't look like a lot.
Also, you can never know how much or little human control a commit that is "co-authored" by an LLM actually contains. Could be totally vibecoded/slopped, or could also just be a stupid rename/refactoring automated via AI. Especially, GitHub Copilot adds itself as a coauthor as soon as you start using the chat in your IDE for a single question...
Dang. Poet Wendell Berry has died. @tellio (if he is still on this network) introduced me to Berry and his poems and other writing via #clmooc, and I always enjoyed Berry's thoughts on the land, on life, on his observations.
https://www.npr.org/2026/09/01/1139228585/wendell-berry-obituary
"Berry's writing is a lesson for the ages on slowing down, noticing, and deeply loving and respecting our surroundings."
The Peace of Wild Things
by Wendell Berry
A Texas university barred a philosophy professor from teaching Plato’s The Symposium as “gender ideology,” and now a federal court has to decide whether Plato is a public menace.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/plato-the-gender-terrorist-vindicated-ca10786c8012
RE: https://mastodon.social/@markgurman/117197677242218132
Companies were never your allies. I hope that is clear now.
https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/cracking-windows-open-porting-radv-to-win32.html
imagine windows GPU drivers so terrible people just start porting the linux drivers
falsehoods programmers believe about a third of the time, but unfortunately that third is in the 1am-5am hours, when they get all their programming done.
... those falsehoods include things like "I'm in a flow right now, I can design this API derived structurally from first aesthetic principles I don't need to test it out" and "this is clear code that will be intuitive when I read it later", and, of course, "now is a good time to be programming".
Tim Cook's new photo on the Apple Leadership page looks like a charismatic Bond villain about to reveal his whole plan to you.
RE: https://todon.eu/@regendans/117197926894259028
* 'rechts-conservatieve' Parool? Nee, extreemrechts!
@joenepraat "vrijmoedig" --> "behoorlijk laf"
If you’re the type to carry an Apple TV when away from home, this might be a better solution for streaming your content to a TV, display, or projector.
https://www.podfeet.com/blog/2026/09/ugreen-transmitter-receiver/
all timer imo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZSM2L5o0JI #np
memehazard if you’re german and your knees hurt https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ISCJTBuBUeQ #np
So, not a surprise that Apple is renaming Lake Ontario to appease the child rapist that occupies the White House.
If you're stuck using an iPhone or other Apple device you don't have to use Apple Maps or their services. For maps download a privacy respecting, open source map app like Organic Maps.
Pull your data out of iCloud and use a service like Proton which offers a package that includes email, cloud storage, documents, Password manager, VPN, etc.
Boycott #Apple #Google #Meta #Amazon #Microsoft and any other #US #Tech that supports fascism.
No one forces you to use or pay for their services. Move your data. Boycott them.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/organic-maps-offline-maps-gps/id1567437057
Can we go back to the early 2000s but keep all of the social progresses we made today? Actually, if anybody has a time travel romance like that, I would love to read it! #Romance #RomanceLandia #Bookstodon
@mar01 l'app web va, ma solo inglese. Il fatto è che sono abbastanza preoccupata, perché al netto di envision, potrebbe essere un precedente su cui le persone con disabilità sono particolarmente vulnerabili: affidarsi a un ausilio basato su AI e cloud, significa che un'azienda può, per ogni ragione, tagliarti le mani e i piedi quanto le pare. E neanche è questione di truffatori vs. super-entusiasmo, il fatto è che questa tecnologia sta gradualmente sostituendo l'off line e questo è un handicap, chiamiamolo col suo nome. Io non ne sto facendo una questione politica ma tecnica: apprezzo la tecnologia quando funziona, ma se non funziona crea disuguaglianze e diventi più disabile di prima. Questo, sta a noi dirlo, non dobbiamo certo aspettare che ce lo dicano dall'alto.
@elettrona
Hai assolutamente ragione. Si complicano le cose invece di facilitarle.
Attraverso l'app inglese non riesci chiedere l'aiuto di cui hai bisogno o almeno delle informazioni in più su quello italiano?
La casa madre non ti risponde?
Non so bene come funziona questa cosa ma se posso aiutarti almeno a trovare delle informazioni lo faccio più che volentieri.
Over at Whatever, a longer-than-a-Mastodon post about winning the Best Series Hugo this year, what it means to me, and whether this means the series is necessarily coming to an end (Spoiler: maybe probably not)
https://whatever.scalzi.com/2026/09/01/as-promised-the-2026-hugo-award-follow-up-post/
weapons grade plutonium email subject 