The new Apple Watch features Audio Intelligence: it constantly listens, transcribes & analyzes everything around itself, including on Apple's servers. Here's what that means for privacy

Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/techaltar-the-alwayslistening-apple-watch
YouTube: https://youtu.be/GyxYEYsNUn4

🆕 blog! “How to get a DOI for your blog posts”

Each new post on this blog now has a Digital Object Identifier. This post looks at the how and the why of getting one, whether it is useful, and any issues you might experience if you go down this path.

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Background

A few years ago, I documented how to to get an International Standard…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/09/how-to-get-a-doi-for-your-blog-posts/
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#academia #citation #DOI #HTML #WordPress

Doubletap live! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZP7qwCEOfA&si=X6c1B3Q57kbF0wwG

"I asked everyone I know at the BIG TECH HUMAN CENTIPEDE ROUNDTABLE, and we all agreed that UNCONTROLLABLE SHIT-RAIN IS USEFUL AND GREAT, and that EVERYONE WANTS IT. Also, that it was IN RETROSPECT A GREAT IDEA TO PUT EVERYTHING ON COMPUTERS."

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/we-must-create-the-shit-machine

September 16th:

134. Palm warbler

@evan

The US has become an unreliable trading partner, and this will continue to be the case long after orange man is buried. Canada needs functional trade relations; the EU is the best fit values-wise.

@zackwhittaker But you will feel comforted to know that Linux has unveiled a new type of sandbox to put around the other types of sandboxes, so things are gonna get secure!

/s

Normal news: Trump wants to invade the moon to fight AI doomers

I've been working on a FEP draft for the past few days: FEP-22cd Attributing translations.

Hackers' Pub already machine-translates articles, but I want authors to be able to publish their own translations too, and let organizations split the work across members. Once you do that, Activity Streams doesn't give you much to work with. attributedTo names an author, not a translator. Nothing distinguishes a language a human translated from one an AI produced. And nothing says whether a translation still matches the current text or was written against an older version of the article.

Schema.org already has translator, translationOfWork, and inLanguage for exactly this, so the FEP mostly reuses those instead of minting new vocabulary. I had to decide whether to give each language its own object, linked back to the original, or keep everything on one object the way contentMap already does. Splitting it looked cleaner at first, but it also means spreading replies and reactions across separate posts for each translation. I don't want adding a translation to split the conversation.

I kept everything on one object, using contentMap for the text in each language. The draft adds a translations property to record who translated each version and whether it was translated by a human, generated by a machine, or generated by a machine and reviewed by a human. A timestamp lets you tell whether a translation still matches the current text, without publishing the server's private edit history.

You can discuss it on SocialHub or in the draft PR. If you run anything that touches multilingual content, I'd like to hear where this breaks.

RE: https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fep-22cd-attributing-translations/8897/1

I was unfortunately reminded that Elon Musk still exists, so tonight's Low Quality Ad is T-shirt depicting Indiana Jones punching him in the face. I like to think it is something Harrison Ford would actually do, in or out of character.
https://collabs.shop/24vpoh

Please don't put important downloadable files on your website with filenames like "book.pdf". I know from your point of view, it's THE book, the book that you have on your website, but from the reader's point of view it's the 189th book I've downloaded this year and the 17th one named book.pdf, please pre-fill a meaningful filename that says what book it is so people don't lose track of it

#CoOperatives & #Collectives to follow:

CO-OP ORGANISATIONS
@workers_coop - Federation of worker-owned co-operatives
@institutcoop - Institute for research of co-ops, based in Canada (in English & French)

FOOD CO-OPS
@index - USA food co-op news

BOOK CO-OPS
@firestorm - Queer feminist bookshop in North Carolina, USA
@outsidercomics - Queer co-op in WA, USA selling comics, graphic novels, art

SCIENCE CO-OPS
@planetary_research_cooperative - Non-profit for planetary science

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I noticed while poking around my Stream 3's firmware that it's running a whole embedded Linux/Buildroot stack (kernel 5.10, U-Boot, BusyBox, BlueZ, etc.). Sent an email to HumanWare support requesting the GPL/LGPL source packages, and Mathieu Paquette, product manager for the Stream 3, happily turned around and sent over the link with zero hassle in a little over an hour. If anyone wants to dig into the packages under the hood, including HumanWare's .patch files:
https://humanware.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/victor/GPL/legal-info-packages.zip
I said this when I got the evolve's NVDA source code, and will say it again. Massive props to HumanWare and its product managers, Mathieu in this case, for actually handling GPL compliance properly and quickly without making people jump through a million hoops. Love to see it!

The fact the new Gemini models haven't even shown up on the Hacker News fronpage is enough as an alone-standing fact. They release to often and it's not worth talking about. Their model introductions feel mandatory rather than like something genuinely new worth talking of. I would like to see longer release cadences again.
Edit: Not to downplay that they have a great life mode now apparently.