"Expanding age verification will entrench the dominance of large tech companies and harm small and volunteer-run services who may not be able to afford to comply.”

The UK must address structural causes of online harms like "surveillance-driven advertising models and the dominance of a small number of Big Tech platforms."

🗣️ ORG's @JamesBaker on the statement from 19 organisations.

https://www.neowin.net/news/tech-giants-and-civil-rights-groups-warn-uks-age-verification-plan-threatens-the-open-web/

#ageverification #onlinesafety #privacy #ukpolitics #ukpol

Onze collega’s hebben iets moois gemaakt: code.overheid.nl. Hét codeplatform voor de Nederlandse overheid, waar we onze broncode kunnen publiceren. Uiteraard hebben wij meteen onze code hier ook vindbaar gemaakt. Op naar meer open source code binnen de overheid! https://code.overheid.nl/Kiesraad/Abacus

@cibersheep mentida podrida. Quan més llengües parlis (que és molt bo saber-ne) més ajudes a fer desaparèixer la teva pròpia.

wtf ado rgg

@SuePChicken ich glaube da hatten die ihr follow up. Schoen mit Aquavit :)))

@TheBreadmonkey First shalt thou read our manifest O. Then shalt thou read our manifests 1 to 3, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt read, and the number of the reading shall be three. Four shalt thou not read, neither readest thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then thou shalt be finished and despaired.

Io non vedo l'ora che ci siano queste minchia di elezioni nel regno unito perchè Zack Polanski mi ha un po' rotto i coglioni.

"Smetti di seguirlo, deficiente!" diranno i miei piccoli amici. E hanno financo ragione.

Lo seguo finchè non ci sarà l'effettiva trasformazione in New Labour. Poi lo droppo. Promesso.

@pallenberg Anno Kartoffelkrieg haben wir damals in so einem Kontext auch gern mal Buxtehude erwähnt.

@hundhamm es kommt immer drauf an was du machen willst und wieviel Unified Memory du hast.

Dann weisste auch was fuer Modelle du fahren kannst. Das kann von nem kleinen Mistral gehen, bis zu nem 70b Qwen oder Deepseek.

Well that's me voted this morning in the Scottish Parliament elections.

Google Chrome Team: We are disabling RTTI in our builds because it adds 10-20% to the size of the final binary and that overhead is too much. Download times and installed disk space are really important.

Also the Google Chrome Team: We’re going to bundle an LLM with the install. Sure, it’s ten times the size of the whole of the rest of the browser, but I’m sure it’s fine.

Raising teenagers is always interesting. Why, for example, wouldn't a pot lid be a better and more environmental option than plastic wrap for a watermelon?
#innovation #WatermelonPictures

@spla Deien que sa via és xerrar més de dues llengües, però ja vos dic ara que tampoc. A Palma se'n parlen moltíssimes i es català es perd...

Het is Digital Independence Day, en dat betekent dit keer: alternatieven voor platforms waar je video's kunt hosten en publiceren.

Met onder andere: Kaltura, MediaCMS, PeerTube, OPENCast en meer! Deze diensten zorgen ervoor dat de privacy van jou én jouw kijker wordt gewaarborgd.

Lees al onze aanbevelingen en tips op: https://publicspaces.net/2026/05/03/digital-independence-day-stap-over-naar-alternatieve-videoplatforms/

#DiDay #opensource #video #bigtech #wegmetbigtech #did #doeidag

@dexter yep, in an OCI jail, this is sufficient to build:

- world & kernel
- base system packages
- OCI containers

I will turn this into a post in the near future, and see if my list of unnecessary packages is indeed correct.

## gimme container

doas podman run -it --rm \
--volume /tmp:/usr/obj \
--volume /usr/src:/usr/src \
ghcr.io/freebsd/freebsd-toolchain:15.0 /bin/sh

## gimme build

#!/bin/sh -eu
umask 0022
NCPU=3.0
NOW=$(date -u +%Y%m%d-%H%M)
QUIET=' -s'

time make TARGET_ARCH=amd64 TARGET=amd64 -j${NCPU} buildworld ${QUIET}
echo DONE BW

time make TARGET_ARCH=amd64 TARGET=amd64 -j${NCPU} buildkernel ${QUIET}
echo DONE BK

PACKAGER="time make TARGET_ARCH=amd64 TARGET=amd64 -j${NCPU}"
${PACKAGER} update-packages ${QUIET}

echo DONE PKG

cd release && \
time make TARGET_ARCH=amd64 TARGET=amd64 WITH_OCIIMAGES=yes ${QUIET} oci-release
echo DONE OCI

echo DONE ALL

We're thrilled to announce our opening keynote speaker for the PublicSpaces Conference 2026 on June 5: @robin!

Robin Berjon is a technologist specialised in strategy and governance, whose work focuses on digital sovereignty, issues of power in the digital sphere, and bringing democracy to the internet.

Few people are better placed to open a conference about technology and democracy. We can't wait to hear what he has to say!

Join us June 4–6, Amsterdam ➡️ https://conference.publicspaces.net/

#pubconf2026

To my #SSH folks:

Is there some documented process of moving SSH from one machine to another transparently?

I get that I can copy the server-keys from $OLDSERVER to $NEWSERVER, but my understanding is that SSH will still notice the IP address (they connect via name, and DNS will point to the new IP address) changing and still raise alarms.

Short of also migrating the IP address too (not an option here since they're owned by different orgs), is there a least-painful route?

The current/painful option is just "sorry, suckas, IP changed, host-key & its fingerprints changed, and all your automated SFTP tasks break until you accept the new host key" which I'm trying to avoid ☺

Thanks for any recommendations!

@FabMusacchio beautiful analysis.