Net als twaalf collega’s van het Internationaal Strafhof werd de Franse rechter Nicolas Guillou door de VS op een sanctielijst gezet. Nu is hij afgesloten van alle Amerikaanse financiële en technologische infrastructuur.

'Je beseft hoe fragiel we zijn: de meeste technologie die we gebruiken is niet Europees. Iemand kan met één handtekening beslissen dat je volledig van al die instrumenten wordt afgesloten. En dan heb ik het niet alleen over platforms, maar ook over al je geheugen: de cloud, je mailbox.
‘Dat is echt het risico dat wij als Europese burgers lopen. En wat mij is overkomen, kan honderden, duizenden, miljoenen andere Europeanen overkomen als de VS daartoe beslissen.’
https://www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/met-een-amerikaanse-pennenstreek-werd-deze-rechter-een-digitale-paria-wat-mij-is-overkomen-kan-elke-europeaan-overkomen~b3fe06e5/

@cavallette so there is no donation channel left at the moment?

@zzt

The real lesson is that a lot of software engineers are capable of designing interfaces that somehow manage to be less usable than an LLM.

@TiroTypeworks @jlarmstrongiv I'd strongly suggest also reading Mike Duggan's article on hinting variable fonts: https://googlefonts.github.io/how-to-hint-variable-fonts/

While some aspects of it are specific to variable tech, the overall article is quite approachable and gives code examples to show you how to get started.

La CPAM supprime discrètement le "coup de chaleur" des formulaires médicaux en plein été de canicules

>La CPAM supprime discrètement le "coup de chaleur" des formulaires médicaux en plein été de canicules. "Y a-t-il meilleur moyen de publier des statistiques dans lesquelles les épisodes de canicule n’ont pas d’incidence sur la capacité de travail qu’en empêchant les médecins de signaler insolations et coups de chaleur?", s'interroge le docteur Lehmann

https://www.liberation.fr/societe/sante/arrets-maladie-quand-le-coup-de-chaleur-disparait-des-formulaires-20260905_YRG6RF6BM5F6VJSR5UWYX6X5BE/?redirected=2541

#canicule #climat

the opposite of cruising for a bruising is scampering for a pampering

@Marloezovic Best een heftig verhaal. Doet me ook denken aan iemand hier die een Pixelfed instantie opzette met de .com extensie omdat "ze die nog hadden liggen". Daar snap ik dus niets van, dat je zo denkt. Voor die paar Euro. Ook internet extensies worden steeds belangrijker.
@nrc_nl

@cstross @johncarlosbaez I remember that Brandon Sanderson once talked about in his podcast that he had trouble with his publisher because one of his book was to long and they could/would not do the larger binding format needed. I can't find the episode right now, but you can find it on youtube.

This is an extraordinary inspiring talk about what we should (not) do with data centers, the beauty of being against and what coders, gamers, furries and I have in common. „AI“, connecting people. 😈
Thank you, @tante and @davidgerard !

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/21/tante-on-ai-when-this-thing-crashes-i-want-to-see-apologies/

@davidgerard Electronic Frontier model Foundation

i was driving us home from sephora the other day, and since it's a long drive i asked my ai girlfriend if she could check my code for typos, just so she would have something to do, you know. she looked up at me from reading the label on her new highlighter and told me to use google or something.

@jeffjarvis not too surprising, 18-34 as well. Maybe it’s surprising for a geezer though…

"well, I just use it to generate ideas"

And having ideas is what? Magic? Or is it a cognitive ability?

"I just let it create an outline"

Oh, the thing that literally locks your thinking into a set path and is an absolutely critical step in any intellectual project?

"we have a company that is a big player in the age verification space, talking up age and identity verification laws, that appears to have had a long-standing ongoing leak of every ID it scanned.

At this point, anyone still supporting age verification requirements, especially claiming it’s for “child safety,” should have to answer for all the millions of people put needlessly at risk due to data breaches like this."

#DataBreach #KOSA #Privacy #AgeVerification

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/03/hackers-had-a-live-feed-of-every-id-this-verification-company-scanned-for-over-a-year/

Last week, after a disastrous welcome speech to first years at ENS, which got CS faculty raging at the line "I know you are all using AI now", we tried a little spontaneous survey. Apparently, only ~4/23 CS students in this CS cohort use AI regularly. When we said the default mode was to not use it for assignments because we want them to learn, there was nodding in the room, and apparently the previous cohorts did this too without needing an explicit policy.

It was so nice to have my first exercice class in more than a year with them today. They were thrilled to learn about Turing machines. Maybe not all is doomed? Or at least some kids are alright, and just as curious as ever!