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The things in this article were pretty well known in both the physics community and in Cambridge. And they weren't new. My father met Hawking as a student and talked about his hobby of trying to get engineering students to say something incorrect about physics and then mercilessly mocking them in front of his acolytes.
@david_chisnall wow such a nice guy. Ugh
The enemy is not -- the enemy is ; it's not the machines that are to blame, it's not the machines that are to blame, it's who owns them.
@pluralistic
Fantastic essay!! I'm so excited Lena Khan is part of Mayor Mamdani's team. We need her to be in charge on the national level again! 😍
@sohkamyung Good grief. I guess no one is an angel. But seriously.
The things in this article were pretty well known in both the physics community and in Cambridge. And they weren't new. My father met Hawking as a student and talked about his hobby of trying to get engineering students to say something incorrect about physics and then mercilessly mocking them in front of his acolytes.
"I’m European. The whole continent is assumed to have a Google and a Meta account.
This is frightening. We are putting all our eggs in the same basket. And our milk, our water, our house, our furniture and our loved ones. In an electrical-auto-closing basket remotely controlled by a foreign entity that openly spies on us and wants to extract as much money as they can. For some reason, it is considered weird not to like the basket."
Are you a sustainability manager who focuses on non-digital products? The Sustainable Web IG has some simple questions about how you will handle digital sustainability.
Please share with your colleagues. You do not need a W3C account to respond.
https://www.w3.org/wbs/1/SustainabilityQuestions/
#WebSustainability
I took this picture in a residential area in Harwich because I feel it perfectly encapsulates the policy towards cycling here.
This is a place you'd expect children to play, but instead it's a car's playground where responsibility to avoid tragedy is shifted onto the most vulnerable road users, and public space is ceded to the latest Child Crusher 3000 ™️ model.
Why would anyone want to live like this?
EuroBSDCon is not a traditional conference, but a family gathering. The kind of family you like, the one you choose, the one that always makes you feel at home.
As soon as we landed, we dropped our bags off at the hotel luggage room and rushed straight to the conference venue.
It was fantastic to meet old and new friends again, with that kind of welcome that only BSD conferences can give you.
I've only had the chance to talk to a fraction of the people I'll meet over the next few days, and to me, that's fantastic.
#EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2026 #RunBSD #BSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DragonFlyBSD
I might eventually channel the output/garbage generation library back into NSoE, once it stabilizes, too.
The reason I want them separate for the time being, is because the output generation library will be a lot more experimental than NSoE. I do not want to inflict a highly volatile library onto regular users.
With the module system, I will be able to keep them separate. I technically could have done the same with iocaine3 too, but... setting it all up would have been a pain in the ass, the kind of pain I do not like all that much.
An additional feature of iocaine4's NSoE will be that it will let you configure separate templates based on its confidence about the bot detection.
For example, bots that identify themselves will have a 100% confidence. Faked browser detection has the highest chance of producing a false positive, so the confidence level there will rarely reach 100%1. If the confidence is low2, it will be possible to configure NSoE to serve a different template.
In practice, this means that for known bots, iocaine will serve cheap garbage with no indication who to contact about false positives, no explanation why garbage is served. But in case where a false positive might be in play, and the signals aren't strong enough, one could display a different template, that explains to the falsely trapped human why they're seeing the garbage, and where to seek help.
@mattmay@mstdn.social big companies spend $300-500M yearly on marketing, OpenAI is not different, they throw $22M, plagiarized mathematicians, and brute-forced the solution to install in people mind that chatGPT has surpassed the smartest human in Math, one of the foundational disciplines to understand the universe. It was a really good marketing move, work of the devil, as most marketing is...
Doncs ja van 2 dies q el transportista no em deixa un paquet al veí pq no m'entén en català. "Que les hable en español"... serà que no, noi.
@mariusmm 💪🏼
RE: https://venera.social/display/85a863ed-156a-9f56-5acd-840629392151
"Google Play 'Automatic Protection'" ? In #FDroid we already have that at home... we build from source.
So we don't need to inject anything into our packages that make apps crash. 🤷
@fdroidorg ah. I think this explains some stuff about why i can't use certain apps.
@jackielovescompchem32 I have no strong opinions about Castro at this point, but I am not at all just making that up for comedic effect.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/07/hhs-report-trans-support-authoritarianism
Another sponsor for DHH's pet pile of configuration scripts, to the tune of $3 million.
I have a few (rhetorical) questions here:
- Why is money leaping out of the woodwork for this when there are so many other good open source causes that actually *need* the money for real development, etc.?
- From the start DHH basically said that they got more money than planned; why is even more arriving?
My guess is that this money is going to get laundered into sponsorships for major FOSS events to shove the Omarchy brand in people's faces. That's going to be a barrel of fun when an event either accepts the funding and becomes a lightning rod for criticism, or turns down the money and ... becomes a lightning rod for criticism.
Edit: I'd be happy to accept sponsors for my collection of configuration files on top of CachyOS. For the low annual sponsorship fee of $250,000 your company or organization can be a platinum tier sponsor.
All of the proceeds will go to supporting quality Linux writing, spoiling my cats, maintaining my book/music habits, and fine Scotch. Inquire within.
@jzb sure sure, but are you a racist fascist supporter?
I won't throw my millions at just any old FOSSer. Nearly said FOSSil but that would be cruel and I'm not cruel, often. 🤣
RE: https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/@chris/117237606592878766
“ And I think that's something Canadians know now and we understand it better: We are dealing with people who don't believe we should exist," Rae said. “
Canadians have an advantage of understanding the nature of the war being waged on them we in the US do not sufficiently understand that billionaires are waging war on us from the White House. The US Federal government and a lot of state governments are out to kill people.
“And I think that's something Canadians know now and we understand it better: We are dealing with people who don't believe we should exist," Rae said. “
What a horrible state of affairs. But let’s be clear, it is the US Administration only, that has brought this on. They clearly want to break up Canada or take us over completely. Also Greenland/Denmark and Iceland.
So ya... new world order folks. This is it. We're in it until they stop.
#CanPoli #CdnPoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/livestory/canada-u-s-retaliatory-tariffs-dollar-for-dollar-9.7331632?id=9.7331632.15858
Digital Ocean has gone full mask off. Time to consider migrating anything you can off of their services.
Sorry @VeilidNetwork but all the nodes I was hosting on their services have been pulled. I've closed my account on DO effective immediately.
I'll build and host my own nodes from now on.
Dear Digital Ocean: YOU DONE FUCKED UP.
RE: https://ohai.social/@dramypsyd/117204654609286694
Update - turns out this guy was lying for attention (on the internet? NO!) and launched a meme coin for people to "bet" on the fight. Scammers gonna scam I guess.
@dramypsyd Not on the internet too!! My fragile trust of ppl 😭
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