Jan Vanvinkenroye
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This is tragic, the fall of Bitwarden: https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-quiet-renovation-at-bitwarden
@Migueldeicaza purged & deleted. Bye @bitwarden
Alex Russell
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If you rely on Bitwarden, they've changed leadership and are now on the PE extract-and-exit track. Start working on your backup/exit strategy as soon as you reasonably can.
Em :official_verified:
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Surveillance Watch now maps 765 entities and over 900 funders powering the global surveillance industry. This is the public record that accountability demands.
Risotto Bias
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We've been working on a new way to fund internet freedom. In partnership with Funding the Commons, we are announcing a new participatory funding campaign designed to support critical digital infrastructure at a moment of systemic funding instability. Find out more here and join us in support! https://blog.torproject.org/fund-internet-freedom/
Roland
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/116601694922879674
"The pattern is always the same: build trust, establish dependency, then quietly renegotiate the terms."
Duuuuuude. When caught having AI-fabricated quotes in your book about the impact AI is having on "truth"... trying to turn that into "well, see here, this proves the point of my book" is just grade A level chutzpah. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/b...
@quixoticgeek Yes, of course they do. But they still need steel for their masts, something for their blades -- and without petrochemicals, we're going to have to come up with a new solution there -- and concrete for their foundations. We're going to have shortages of all these things.
Our current industrial processes for making pure silicon crystals, for such things as solar panels, are enormously carbon intensive, We need new ones.
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@simon_brooke yes. And new ones are being developed. Your pessimistic view is ignoring all the work that is being done to reduce emissions. The logical end point for your level of pessimism is population controls. And that's really really bad.
Steel recycling is well developed and zero emissions when done using electric arc furnaces (like they are converting port toubert)
Billy Smith
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Dear republicans,
If you can get angry about our water turning frogs gay
Then maybe you can also get angry about our water containing GenX, PFHxS, PFNA, and PFBS
洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) :nonbinary:
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みんなHollo使おうぜ！！！！！！！！！！！！！！
Roland
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116601745956928302
Le PDG de #Google essaie de convaincre des étudiants d'aimer l'IA. Il se fait huer.
Ça fait du bien de voir des jeunes dire non et se rebeller. Pourquoi ? Parce qu'un avenir peuplé de bots, d'#IA et de robots ne leur offre aucun emploi. Ils savent que les entreprises d'IA ne pensent qu'au fric et veulent se débarraser de leurs salariés. C'est aussi simple que ça.
Voir l'article ici: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8pqd54qneo
Roland
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RE: https://mastodon.xyz/@privacyint/116602161897692848
“I never thought leopards would eat MY face,” sobs techbro who works for Leopards Eating People’s Faces, Inc.
Tatjana Scheffler
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Anyone else in the fediverse who does fieldwork in #linguistics ? #languages #language #indigenouslanguages #minoritylanguages (if you have suggestions for hashtags that will help me find other field linguists, please add them in a comment to this toot)
@mariyadelano yeah, I used to tell him bedtime stories like that, but it's really hard to make this stuff up on the fly. Plus, I'm trying to encourage him to read
@jenniferplusplus I think it’s wonderful.
The difference between the SP-SC queue and the MP-SC queue reduces to a single compare-and-swap instruction at the end plus the retry loop, to ensure the synchronization of multiple producers. (Larger critical sections may require more sophisticated synchronization.)
i would say "translates to" instead of "reduces"
A more interesting queue (shown in Figure 2) implements atomic inserts of many items (up to the size of the queue). Now we have two problems to consider: the multiple producer synchronization, solved by the compare-and-swap, and the atomic insert of multiple items, which we explain now.
they're absolutely not letting us get away without that explanation!!!
@thomasfuchs Anyways, seems like I'm getting old and nostalgic - but not too old for Brause, of course 😅
@ftranschel interestingly we didn’t have that term in Austria, people would only refer to brand names really (Fanta, Sprite, etc.), possibly using “Cola” as a generic term for anything resembling Coca-Cola
@lauren Considering the builders and biggest boosters of mainstream AI tech are some of the richest and most deeply amoral humans on the planet, I feel like being anti-AI is kind of part-and-parcel of the pro-human position. Currently the way this tech is developed, the way people access the tech, and the way the tech is used cause harms to humanity that far outweigh the benefits. A "pro-AI innovation AND pro-human" position, in my eyes, is only possible if income inequality is dismantled. People who already have an outsized amount of power gatekeep this technology and use it to accumulate more power. Continuing along the path we're on is likely to cause irreperable economic, environmental, and social harms. tl;dr I feel that the pro-human and pro-ai positions are, in our current society, incompatible. Just one fella's humble opinion - I hope to be proven wrong.
@90sScriptKiddiw I openly admit I'm both. BUT, from a political standpoint, it's too easy for the Big Tech Billionaires and their politician slaves to try brand anyone with anti-AI sentiments as a Luddite generally. Pro-human encompasses a much larger field (including housing, health care, etc.) of which being anti-AI is but one (major) aspect. From a political standpoint, I'm thinking this may (possibly) be a superior approach, judging from how I see things shaking out. That's not to say that we can't be pointing out the multitudinous problems with AI at every possible opportunity (and I do so!).
Google I/O
#HackerNews #GoogleIO #2026 #tech #news #innovation #developer #conference
Quixoticgeek
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POLL: Most Americans say AI development is moving too fast and twice as many are AI pessimists as AI optimists
I'm already seeing "No AI used!" becoming a major selling point for goods and services. -L
