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Dude, I can assure you: no on watches your fucking podcast.

If it ain't broke, I can fix that 💥⁠

It will not surprise people, but at the same time some of the testimony does…

Microsoft's Director of Applied Science, Dr. Brent Hecht, was quoted in the news plaintiffs' 92-page combined brief as saying: the case was about “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions." Indeed, it was possibly the “largest theft of labor in human history

https://www.theregister.com/columnists/2026/09/27/big-ais-content-problem-take-the-work-keep-the-money/5299007

#AI #Theft #IP #Writing #Literature #Art #Music #TheRegister

@LoganFive I just shared this with someone the other day.

https://www.opentools.studio/

This is an article for men. Women already know this.

A few months ago I wrote an article titled “Women are not safe around men” and I got 100s of messages from angry men chewing me out.

This week a woman filed a civil suit against 7 men at Cornell University for drugging, trafficking, and raping her. Zero have faced any criminal charges. Men throughout the societal ladder are complicit. Women are not safe around men. And the data is devastating.

https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/cornell-university-systemic-sexual

@aral What I mean is, I cannot find my name here. Also, my name was not mentioned among the campaigns that received the least support today.

@LariscusObscurus adequate so far. It get my step count - but only as one block, no progress through the day.
Heartrate works fine.
Notifications are a bit finickity, but I'm still playing around with it.

@aral https://mastodon.ie/@modris/117342670861716013

Bonjour,
une amie Femme Trans et racisée ne parvient pas à trouver de #logement stable à #Paris et la région parisienne, vous auriez des plans (même temporaire)? Parce qu'elle va se trouver à la rue Mercredi.

Vous pouvez boost et si vous avez des pistes pouvez vous me DM que je puisse vous mettre en contact?

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@Wen/117347646675359243

“Microsoft allegedly knew what it was doing when it was importing the internet willy-nilly.”

Come on, really? Which one of us hasn’t downloaded the whole Internet by accident every now and then?

https://www.theregister.com/columnists/2026/09/27/big-ais-content-problem-take-the-work-keep-the-money/5299007

#microsoft #AI

@randahl

as long as no golf course belonging to crazy Donnie is hit, he doesn't care at all !!

Why are vertical scrollbars on the right side of windows?

In the earliest PARC window systems, Smalltalk and Interlisp-D, scrollbars were on the left, then the ViewPoint and GlobalView environments of Xerox Star workstations moved scrollbars to the right.

These late 1990s papers explain why but the first one has an inaccuracy: on Interlisp-D scrollbars couldn't be made to appear on the right.

https://alandix.com/academic/papers/scrollbar

https://www.alandix.com/academic/papers/scrollbar/scrollbar2.html

#gui #smalltalk #interlisp #retrocomputing

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/115224426322699372

So like a whole year ago I was ranting about how corporate red tape was preventing us spending a few thousand euros in hardware upgrades and causing untold tens of thousands in euros in cascading technical issues

Soon after I made that post, the price of ram skyrocketed. So obviously we never got sufficient upgrades. And people are currently posting in the technical group chat about how no-one can log into the shared server they need to do their job because the system is deadlocked under ram shortage.

The moral of the story is "corporations are penny-wise pound-foolish to a tragicomic degree", I guess

37 Prozent aller Kinder unter acht Jahren lesen selten oder nie mit ihren Eltern Geschichten.

Die Lesekrise der 15-Jährigen beginnt also lange, bevor Pisa sie misst.

Wie tief das reicht, haben Lea Schönborn und Bent Freiwald recherchiert:
https://krautreporter.de/kinder-und-bildung/6541-pisa-studie-et-boum-c-est-le-choc?shared=06a5df9e-1f9c-401d-a8a2-58954a4edbc3&utm_campaign=share-url&utm_medium=social-media&utm_source=mastodon.social

@Gina

I've had two e-mail / data / internet companies fold and four social media platforms fold, that forced me to start from scratch. I lost a lot of personal data, contacts and correspondence as well as docs, photos & links.

I consider it house cleaning now - especially with all the data center sifting going on now.

Sucked at the time but all is good now. I've killed more accounts in recent years than I've kept.

Maybe not quite your situation but disrupting nevertheless.

Sun will rise.

🚨🇪🇺 The #ChatControl trilogue starts on Tuesday & the EU Council is trying to pressure Parliament into giving up its opposition. We must stop them once again! 💪🏼

And the proposed compromise isn't targeted policing, it is mass surveillance!

Because no matter the framing, the truth remains the same: There's no backdoor for the good guys only!

We at Tuta will continue to fight for your right to #privacy. Make your voice heard as well, today is the day!

➡️ https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

@anon_opin
It's a bit more complicated than that. In Canada we have a lot of song birds becoming extinct thanks to outdoor cats. These owners like cats because they can let them out and forget about them. Meanwhile, the cat is burying its poop in YOUR garden and it's dangerous to your health.

Donald Trump unpopular? Finally! How could this have happened? We may never know. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/sep/28/donald-trump-is-becoming-increasingly-unpopular-surely-it-must-all-be-over-soon

"It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state."

~ Bruce Schneier